Run, You Clever Boy, to TechEd (and See These SAP PRESS Authors Speak)

[sean_fesko]

As I sat down to write this blog I tried very hard to come up with a theme that I could riff on in order to seem sharp and culturally-relevant like my colleague sappress_kg did in blogs past.

Harry Potter? Nope, alluded to that in a SAPPHIRE blog. Star Wars? I’m not as much of a fan as I was, say, eight years ago. Pop music? I heard Drake dropped out of the Hot 100 for the first time in eight years and I got depressed. Doctor Who…Fantastic!

I find this a fitting reference, as I have the opportunity to go to TechEd only because Kelly left SAP PRESS a few months back (we miss you!). And as I took over some of her responsibilities—and TechEd ticket—I couldn’t help but feel a little like the Doctor emerging from regeneration. From one position to another…and as I find my footing in this new role, much like the Twelfth Doctor did following 4.5 billion years away from earth, I too will soon be descending upon the Nevada desert to connect with fellow Whovians and SAP techies alike in Vegas!

Some of the things I’m excited to see? These sessions by SAP PRESS authors:

Author(s)	Session Title	Session Description
carsten.boennen	Getting Started with SAP Cloud Platform and SAP API Management	Learn how SAP API Management provides simple, scalable, secure, and unified access to APIs based on open standards such as REST and OData.
Carsten Bönnen	Road Map for SAP API Management and SAP API Business Hub	This road map teaches you SAP API Management and more importantly, to get informed about the most recent developments and the innovations planned for 2017 and beyond.
Carsten Bönnen	SAP API Management with Cloud Business Application	Learn how to use SAP API Management technology with SAP Cloud Platform. Based on a small, hands-on project, find out how to leverage SAP API Management and SAP API Business Hub to create your own business application in the cloud.
richard.bremer	Data Aging in SAP S/4HANA with Aging Objects	This hands-on session provides the experience to use standard aging objects and develop new ones, create the underlying partitions for the movement of data into the historical part, and thereby “age” the respective records.
Richard Bremer	Options for Scaling and Managing Data Volume and Workload in SAP S/4HANA	Learn about mechanisms offered in SAP S/4HANA to manage data volume and to scale database resources. Find out more about the support for scale-out to scale memory and CPU in SAP HANA, and the active/active read-enabled feature to offload workload.
pravin.datar	Extend Your Corporate Planning and Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects Cloud	Learn about the ways that SAP BusinessObjects Cloud software can connect to and leverage your on-premise investments in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise solutions. We call this integration between cloud and on-premise hybrid cloud.
Pravin Datar	SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP S/4HANA: New Road Map	In this session, learn about the new release introduced on the SAP BW/4HANA solution to take advantage of the innovations available in next-generation data warehouse technology. Learn how the revamped user experience provides a modernized look-and-feel to users, and more.
sven.denecken	Two-Tier ERP Approach with SAP S/4HANA Cloud	Many enterprises adopt a 2-tier strategy that supports a standard ERP in headquarters and a cloud ERP in subsidiaries, effectively creating a 2-tier environment. The ability to use the same product family in a 2-tier deployment, with shared data semantics, APIs, and extensibility platform, supports a high degree of operational integration between headquarters and subsidiaries.
Sven Denecken	SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Differentiators, Road Map, and Strategy	Experience SAP S/4HANA Cloud and understand how both table stakes and the latest innovations define the road map direction in the cloud and differentiate us from the competition.
frank.densborn and paul.medaille	Ensure High Quality Data for Your Data Migration and Go-Live	Give customers hands-on experience using a staging database based on SAP Cloud Platform with SAP Agile Data Preparation to perform initial mapping, quality improvement, and loading of data into SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
volker.drees	Build Transactional SAP Fiori App: ABAP Programming Model for SAP S/4 HANA	Get your hands on the latest ABAP features and build a transactional app with draft and search capabilities. You’ll work with core data services (CDS) and the business object processing framework (BOPF), and expose the data using an OData service.
Volker Drees	Build a List Report SAP Fiori App: ABAP Programming Model for SAP S/4HANA	Get your hands on the latest ABAP features and build a list report app with search capabilities. You’ll work with core data services (CDS) and then expose the data using an OData service.
bfeeb8ed7fa64a7d95efc21f74a8c135	Real-World Example of Preparing ABAP Code for SAP S/4HANA	Hanson Australia has been creating "Z" code for close to 20 years and thus has a very large amount of bespoke functionality. By 2025 it will have to migrate to SAP S/4HANA and converting the Z code will be no small exercise. Walk through the various SAP tools available to analyze systems and draw up an action plan for preparing "Z" code for the transition.
tobias.koebler	Deep Dive: Explore and Work with SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit	SAP developed SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit for the smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA. This new migration tool comes with guided procedures and predefined content.
Tobias Koebler	Overview: New Implementations of SAP S/4HANA Using the Migration Cockpit	As with any major implementation, performing a migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud or SAP S/4HANA running on premise is a crucial task. To run the migration efficiently and to lower project costs, it is essential to have a tool that helps with a guided process, validation steps, and predefined content.
Tobias Koebler	Road Map for SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server	SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server is a proven, real-time data replication technology that is used in different data movement scenarios. This is the official road map session and will describe the future plans of this product.
Tobias Koebler	SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server: Real-Time Replication	Join this session for details about the new version of SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server, its functions, and its road map, and gain hands-on experience for a variety of use cases.
markus.kuppe	Road Map Q&A: SAP Master Data Governance	Discuss SAP’s plans to further support business process efficiency, trusted business analytics, and emerging needs stemming from business networks, the Internet of Things, and cloud deployments.
Markus Kuppe	SAP Master Data Governance: Central Governance, Consolidation, and Beyond	SAP Master Data Governance provides capabilities for many companies on their journey to digital transformation. Look at current capabilities, including process analytics, mass processing, and data quality remediation.
Volker Lehnert	Data Protection with SAP Information Lifecycle Management	Discover how you can benefit from the simplified blocking and deletion capabilities of the SAP Information Lifecycle Management component, supporting corporate compliance efforts.
Volker Lehnert	Data Protection: Processing and Safeguards in SAP Business Suite	Learn about well-known security features such as authorizations or change logging, their importance for data protection and privacy (DPP), and new features dedicated to the support of DPP.
sanjeet.mall	Redesign the Mobile Work Experience with SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS	SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS enables you to quickly develop your own native apps with Swift, Apple’s modern programming language. Along with the SAP Fiori for iOS design language, which includes reusable design components, the SDK also allows you to tap into the services and functions available in SAP Cloud Platform so you can build beautiful, intuitive native applications.
tobias.queck and peter.spielvogel	Building Adaptive Screens with SAP Screen Personas	Learn to build a more intuitive SAP GUI interface using SAP Screen Personas software. The focus of this session will be to create adaptive designs that render on devices with different screen sizes.
gaetan.saulnier	Define, Assess, and Improve Data Using SAP Agile Data Preparation	Come and learn how SAP Agile Data Preparation can accelerate business efficiency with trusted data by enabling data stewards to define, assess, and improve data.
Gaetan Saulnier	Prepare Your Data for Your Analytic Needs with SAP Agile Data Preparation	Come and use SAP Agile Data Preparation to see how you can prepare complex data in just a few clicks, so you can focus on analyzing the results instead of focusing on the data preparation.
Gaetan Saulnier	Road Map for SAP Agile Data Preparation	This session will cover recent new innovations, planned innovations and future strategy for SAP Agile Data Preparation.
Peter Spielvogel	SAP Screen Personas as Part of the SAP Fiori User Experience	See a demo of SAP Screen Personas compatibility with SAP S/4HANA, such as the Belize theme, which provides the SAP Fiori UX for classic transactions. And we will show you how to create similar experiences in ERPs.
steinermatt	A How-to: Microservices on SAP Cloud Platform	Two things are key to achieving the needed level of business agility: flexible software and lean management and processes. Enter the microservice. In this session, we discuss how to develop and operate microservices on SAP Cloud Platform.
Matthias Steiner	Best Practices for SAP Cloud Platform: Proven Architecture Blueprints	Receive battle-proven, real-life architecture blueprints you can use for your own cloud applications.
Matthias Steiner	Production-Ready Programming Model for Microservices	Have a look at battle-tested, proven architecture paradigms (and the respective coding blocks) to develop scalable, robust, fault-tolerant microservices on SAP Cloud Platform.
Matthias Steiner	SAP Cloud Platform: Overview	Get a holistic overview of SAP Cloud Platform for people who are new to the topic. Learn the various usage scenarios, including on-premise and cloud extensions as well as new line-of-business solutions powered by SAP HANA and IoT.
ashok_swaminathan	Deep Learning Using SAP HANA and TensorFlow	This session provides an overview of TensorFlow, developed by Google, explaining what it is and how participants can use it.
Ashok Swaminathan	Processing Services and Special Data Types in SAP HANA	Work through the major processing services of SAP HANA including text; geospatial; linked data, graph, and hierarchies; series; predictive; and JSON documents.
Ashok Swaminathan	R and Predictive Analysis Library in SAP HANA	Look at the the recent innovations in the predictive analysis library (PAL) in SAP HANA and R integration, and focus on our future directions for these technologies.
Ashok Swaminathan	Road Map – Machine Learning in SAP HANA	This session will cover the future directions for machine learning in SAP HANA and highlight some of the recent advancements and future directions.
alisdair.templeton3	What Lies Beneath: Avoiding the Back-End Development Iceberg	Explore various development strategies, the use of layering, and architectures such as "ports and adapters" to successfully build applications in this new world of SAP.

Make sure to check them out and ask good questions! And then stop by our TARDIS—er, booth—located in the Community Clubhouse to say hi and debate about our favorite companions!

Allons-y!