One year after covering the launch of the
SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK at SAP TechEd, one of my first requests was for an update – are partners using it and what else has happened since? The answer was simple. SAP has continued to increase opportunities for partners with a new
innovation program, and many are using the SDK to innovate on top of the
SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
In fact, during our most recent onsite
VIDEO interview at SAP TechEd, Sven Denecken, senior vice president, head of product management and co-innovation at SAP, credited the
SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK with helping partners more efficiently build quality microvertical solutions. Here’s what two partners shared about their experiences.
Cutting development time in half
First up was Leonardo De Araujo, CTO at Beyond Technologies, a long-time SAP partner. His professional services firm is based in Canada, with offices in the United States, France and South Africa. Using the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK, he showed me how Beyond Technologies is building a visual planner extension for SAP Plant Maintenance that reads data directly from SAP S/4HANA.
“SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK has significantly enhanced our development process for extensions on SAP S/4HANA Cloud,” said De Araujo. “Instead of manually implementing all the required code to handle OData services, the toolkit generates them automatically for us. With this, we have been able reduce development time by up to 50 percent.”
On a side note, I actually caught up with Alain Dubois, partner, chief marketing & business development officer at Beyond Technologies, during his roundtable session at last year’s
SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference. During that presentation, he shared how Beyond Technologies is benefitting from its own go-live of SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Driving financial sector innovation
Next up in my video was Helmut Koenigseder, lead IT consultant at msg group
, an SAP partner based in Germany. With over 7,000 employees, msg group is a self-described industry specialist, providing consulting and intelligent solutions for numerous sectors. These include customers in insurance and reinsurance, banking, automotive and the public sector that are turning to cloud-based applications for disruptive growth. He demonstrated the company’s native cloud app that automates processes for reinsurance customers.
“The magic happens around the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK. It’s our point for easily integrating with our customers’ SAP S/4HANA backend systems, giving us run-time and design time advantages,” said Koenigseder. “When we develop an app, we base it on the continuous delivery and deployment pipeline provided by the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK. This is helping us move from
ABAP to a cloud-native solutions powerhouse.”
Some experts have called cloud the launching pad for advances driving
intelligent technologies such as machine learning, IoT, predictive analytics and blockchain. If that’s so, then the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK is the fuel developers need to create apps delivering industry-specific innovation for business value.
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