Twan van den Broek

SAP TechEd in Amsterdam coming up, counting down … 5 days to go. Time to compose an annual SAP TechEd Topic Top 10 . With 955 entries in this years agenda there is enough to choose from.  For the ‘official’ Topics Top 10 I used the sessions download file from the SAP TechEd site and narrowed the list down to cover ‘only’ Lectures and Hands On Workshops, just like I did previously. That list still contained 380 (!) sessions to choose from and to fit in your 3-day agenda ;-) Here we go … (drumroll) … what will be number 1 in 2013? Still SAP NetWeaver ... No, it's HANA. Guess you didn't see that one coming ;-) # Last years Topic # Sessions 1 2, 4, -, -, - HANA 125 2 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 SAP NetWeaver 53 3 3, 3, 7, -, - Mobile (Mobility, Syclo, SMP, Agentry) 46 4 4, -, -, -, - Cloud 43 5 5, 2, 2, 2, 10 Business Objects (Business Intelligence) 25 6 6, 5, 3, 3, 6 ABAP 20 7 -, -, -, -, - SAPUI5 15 8 7, 9, -, -, - Portal 15 9 8, 6, 4, 5, 4 BPM (Process Orche...

Another successful SAP CodeJam in the Netherlands. The ABAP on HANA CodeJam in Eindhoven. Organized by Roel van den Berge and hosted by Thorsten Schneider . I surely recommend attending an SAP CodeJam, a day of serious coding on a specific topic accompanied by SAP experts. It is just like an SAP TechEd HandsOn Workshop, but outside of SAP TechEd season ;-) What do you get: Deep knowledge on the topic Hands on exercises  Support by SAP experts Meet up with fellow enthusiasts Great food!! Roel opening the event. Thorsten kicks off the ABAP on HANA coding. Let the fun begin. Sven van Leuken dressed up especially for the event. Coffee, ABAP Code and Coke - what more can you wish for? FUN! The complete event in pictures at Flickr .

It’s almost that time of the year. A period where you start writing down your wishes in a letter and hope that your wishes get fulfilled … so here we go. Dear Santa, I have been a good boy this year. Please ... (or in business language ;-) Dear SMP Product Owner, SAP TechEd just kicked off today in Las Vegas, so sorry that I can’t join you to hear and learn all about SMP3 now. Glad with the preview blogs by  Jens Koerner  ( SMP3 Launch ) and  John Wargo  ( Kapsel ) and really looking forward to SAP TechEd in Amsterdam. Wish list MDD and its UI Please update the out of the box UI components for all platforms. They are worth investing in and expanding their lifespan. It provides the possibility of having an approach that supports “Build once and Deploy anywhere”, very handy in the enterprise world. The current “Windows 3.1” look and feel is really outdated. With OpenUI coming to the MDD approach (formerly known as Agentry) it will be...

SAP Inside Track Netherlands - #sitNL - turns 5. 2013 is a year of celebrating community milestones. Our own SCN clubhouse for example, celebrates its  10 th anniversary . Well from my part: Happy Birthday dear SCN. Thanks for bringing us together. Clean the carpet, open the doors, as we celebrate another anniversary. This year  sitnl  will turn 5! A 5 th  episode of us SAP NetWeaver geeks coming together on a Saturday, somewhere in Eindhoven ;-) SAP Inside Track NL – The SAP TechEd XPerience Saturday No vember 23 rd , 2013 10:00 – 19:00 Eindhoven, the Netherlands Registration is open, please go to our  Wiki page  to register for the event. Hold on, not sure why you should attend? Maybe a view into history will help: 2012  About Communities and Families 2011  SAP Communities Rock 2010  Community Rules! 2009  The first one Last year’s top valued sessions where: Joris van de Vis  with...

Just like SAP's slogan " Run like never before " - that's exactly what I did ;-) I ran my second half marathon in Eindhoven . As being a "laptop junky" - I am proud with the results . Hurrah, 1:53:29 !! (My own timing on Runkeeper was not as sharp) Why running? It helps me in 'washing off' the results of a busy day at work. And we all know how busy a day can be. Usually I start running being tired and end up being more fit than before ;-)