SAP River App in a Day

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The recipe below shows you how to make a one River Application in one day.

Ingredients:

• 7 x people from companies with ideas for apps
• 2 x River Developers from SAP Israel (freshly imported)
• 2 x River Developers (local variety)
• 1 x HANA box at SP7 running ERP
• 1 x SAP Mentor
• Whiteboards / flip charts / pens
• Coffee / sandwiches and cakes

Method:

1. Introduce all the ingredients to each other and after some small talk get down to discussing the applications they would like to see created.
2. For each application idea discuss how that could be achieved with SAP River, considering where the data for the application will be sourced/delivered to SAP River (SAP HANA) platform and the business logic.
3. Select the application to create based on input from the SAP River developers and the companies, trying to select something that isn’t too hard….but isn’t too easy – we selected Smart Incident Report/Alerting, an application that would tweet patterns it found in incidents reported (e.g lots happening in this location).
4. Design the first cut of the applications and let the developers get to work.
5. Whilst the app is cooking, take the time to explore what SAP River is and where it fits with the SAP innovation toolset.
6. Check on the App every 15-20 minutes with playbacks of the code to the team.
7. After 2 hours start adding more complex features until everyone feels that they have a great understanding of how SAP River fits together. 

Thanks to everyone who took part and I would recommend this recipe to anyone trying to understand SAP River.