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BeGanz
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert

SAP provides various channels for you, customers, partners and interested professionals, to get an individual approach to the  SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Depending on your specific expertise, needs, business scenario or project phase one channel is better suited than another.

For those who are new to the SAP HANA Cloud Platform (and all the others as this channel is totally new) I recommend the new landing page http://hcp.sap.com with a comprehensive information on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform – „a central location to provide all information needed to learn about the platform“ like steinermatt writes in his announcement blog …. In the SAP Community Network developers can find and share in-depth technical information in the developer center with its blogs, documents and forum discussions.

And at SAPPHIRE Steve Lucas (President, SAP Platform Solutions) spend the whole time of his public press/analyst conference on SAP HANA Cloud Platform! In this video Steve starts at 15:30 min and talks 30 minutes about the Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering and showed various demos of the platform’s functionality. I can only recommend watching this video to obtain a quick impression about the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

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Innovation Projects for Closer Interaction

For closer interaction SAP regularly offers so called ‚innovation projects‘ as part of the SAP Customer Engagment Initiative (CEI), that yield various benefits like a deeper product experience, exchanging knowledge and feedback with SAP HANA Cloud Platform experts (including product owners and experts from SAP) or influencing the future product design and roadmap.

From the newest innovation projects 2014-2 of the CEI many projects address the SAP HANA Cloud Platform from many different angles. To find  projects more easily I have extracted the HANA-Cloud-focused ones with a short description and a link to the detailed project registration site. Simply review those projects interesting for your organization and register for the initial call. After that call, you decide to take the next steps in the collaboration.

Please note that these projects are open for registration until June 13th. After this date you directly need to contact the project lead (named ‚contact customer engagement‘) for a subsequent registration.

Here is the alphabetically sorted list of CEI projects concerning the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

Commercializing Applications and Services on SAP HANA Cloud Platform

We are looking for SAP customers and partners who would like to collaborate with SAP in the upcoming innovation project “Commercializing applications and services on SAP HANA Cloud Platform“. By joining this project you can evaluate and provide feedback for already existing functionality as well as influence evolution of the product design and roadmap. The initial call is scheduled for July 10th and will focus on project details like scope, goals and setup. For further information about the project and registration until June 13th 2014 visit this project page.  For questions contact Ina Ivanova.

Data Replication to HANA Cloud Platform via Cloud Connector's Database Tunnel

See detailed project description … For questions contact Nikolai Tankov

Development Experience on SAP HANA Cloud Platform

With this initiative we would like to engage with customers and partners and to discuss requirements and current needs in all the aspects of application development experience on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. We would like to gain a better understanding for the expected application development experience with the platform.Currently, customers and partners of SAP HANA Cloud Platform can develop cloud applications using different programming models - e.g. Java EE, server-side JavaScript. In addition, it is possible for application developers to incorporate application programming frameworks of their choice (e.g. Spring Framework and the like) and to use all this in Maven enabled local development environment. Yet, a development experience  is more than this.

We are very open to discuss with customers and partners the whole application development experience aspect of the platform. This includes but is not limited to

  • your expectations when exploring the platform capabilities via documentation and examples,
  • your expectations for application services that would work best for your application needs,
  • your expectations for service consumption models that would best fit your application needs
  • and so on.

We are open to discuss in big technical details with customers and partners topics in areas of programming models, runtime capabilities, application service portfolio, development tools, mesh-ups of different services and in general technologies that are required by the application developers to innovate more effectively on top of SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

Improve Documentation and Video Tutorials for SAP Products

We are looking for people with any level of familiarity with SAP’s user assistance (a.k.a. documentation) who want to collaborate with SAP in the upcoming innovation project “Improve documentation and video tutorials for SAP products” of the Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI) 2014-2. By joining this project you will provide your thoughts and reactions regarding SAP’s user assistance via interviews, surveys, and observed interactions with either existing formats or prototypes. Through your participation you can influence the future of SAP’s user assistance and help us create user assistance that really assists the user. For detailed project information and registration until June 13th 2014, visit the innovation project page Improve documentation and video tutorials for SAP products.

Reference/Sample Applications for SAP HANA Native Application Aevelopment and SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Reference/Sample applications are built to educate developers at partners/customers side to develop end to end applications integrating various SAP technologies. We are looking for SAP customers, partners and consultants who would want to collaborate with SAP in the upcoming  CEI project “Reference/Sample applications for SAP HANA Native application development and HANA Cloud Platform”.

We would like to engage with developers to exchange knowledge and understand their needs from an education point of view. We would also offer workshops on how to create simple end to end applications using technologies like SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, BW on HANA and SAP UI5.We want to collect detailed feedback and requirements in an interactive way on reference scenarios and based on the feedback we can invest more into these applications as sources of best scenario examples of the different technologies.

The initial call on July 25th informs about project details including scope, goals, setup, timeline and prerequisites.

For detailed project information and registration until June 13th 2014 visit this innovation project page.

SAP Fiori-like Applications on SAP HANA Cloud Platform

We are looking for SAP customers, partners and consultants who want to collaborate with SAP in the upcoming innovation project “SAP Fiori-like Applications on SAP HANA Cloud Platform” of the Customer Engagement Initiative  2014-2. By joining this project you can test and evaluate functionality and usability of the corresponding SAP HANA Cloud Platform services and infrastructure. Besides knowledge exchange with SAP HANA Cloud Platform experts you can also influence the product design and roadmap. The initial call on July 25th informs about project details including scope, goals, setup, timeline and prerequisites. A 1-2 day hands-on workshop in Walldorf, Germany, is planned for Sept/Oct 2014. For detailed project information and registration until June 13th 2014 visit this innovation project page.  For questions contact Bertram Ganz from SAP HANA Cloud Platform PM.

We are looking forward to your participation in one or another CEI projects about the SAP HANA Cloud Platform starting in Q3/2014.

Best regards, also on behalf of my colleagues who also lead the above CEI projects: Ina Ivanova,  Dinu Pavithran,  Dobromir Zahariev,  Ipsita Mohanty,  Jon Nowland,  Nikolai Dokovski,  Nikolai Tankov and Vijayakumar Udayakumar.

Bertram Ganz