1. Summary
    1. Great opening keynote from NBC Universal finance transformation on change management, aligning business and IT teams. It’s not about the technology!
    2. BTP use cases show customers on journeys, with SAP's "Customer Success Partners" (CSPs) and max attention playing active roles in deployments. Presentations from Estee Lauder, Dow Chemicals, Suncorp, Corning
      1. Customers are learning via missions on discovery center, customized workshops and getting support from max attention teams
    3. Clean Core and AI (Joule) were strong themes, some developers animosity around non-released APIs and what tooling is available.
    4. Governance and HA topics for BTP still evolving, with numerous planned developments. SAP is has developed a number of governance and guidance support documentation.
  2. Insights
    1. SAP Build Apps
      1. New versions of SAP Build will leverage UI5 Web components - so UX will finally align with S/4
      2. Joule "skills" to be added to the lobby soon
        1. Create Actions by uploading the API specification to connect to SAP and third-party systems without diving into the technical details of the underlying APIs.
        2. Foundation for building reusable "AI Agents"
    2. SAP Build Process Automation
      1. RFC & BAPI consumption through actions in the process editor
        1. Consume BAPIs/RFCs using actions in a process without having to go through automations
        2. Leverage SAP Build Process Automation for native integration with BAPIs/RFCs in support of the clean core concept for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
      2. Trigger processes automatically with business events (SAP Advanced Event Hub)
      3. Model Guided process (multi-step) forms
      4. UiPath add-on for document understanding & task mining & unattended automation available
      5. Signavio Process insights will provide recommendations into SAP Build process automation
      6. Natural language in definition of processes will be possible
    3. SAP Build Workzone
      1. Mobile experiences delivered via sap for me.
      2. Provided guided experiences (built via automations)
      3. SAP can provide a “Digital CoE” template to run SAP Build rollout
    4. SAP Build Code
      1. ABAP environment (Eclipse) available from the lobby
        1. Joule will be available in ABAP Tools
      2. Cloud Application Programming (CAP)
        1. Change tracking plug-in allows change tracking which are displayed automatically
        2. Manage attachments with OOTB support for SAP Object Store, Malware scanning & BTP DMS
        3. Cloud Logging for adding telemetry to your CAP applications
        4. Use BAPIs in Business Application Studio
      3. Build SAP Fiori elements apps faster with SAP Fiori tools and SAP Build Code
        1. Image based SAP Fiori app generation
    5. ABAP Cloud Roadmap
      1. Extension Field Wizard in ADT for adding fields to CDS
      2. Collaborative draft edits - work together on same draft instance
      3. Analytical table for aggregation and grouping capabilities
      4. AI based Input recommendations for input fields
    6. S/4HANA Topics
      1. Launch extensibility wizard "in context" of a business app, to simplify extension creation
      2. Simplify S/4HANA Cloud Private edition extension by consuming a list of Clean Core compliant BAPIs and RFCs
      3. Collaborate with your co-workers in Microsoft Teams
      4. "My home" is new entry point for S/4HANA Cloud
        1. In the future AI recommendations to the content
        2. Generate insight cards and SAP Start with Joule
        3. Smart summarization of content
      5. Choose appropriate path to adopt Fiori
  3. FinOps & Governance
    1. Ensure governance of low-code and pro-code developers is key, SAP providing tooling
      1. Classify BTP tennants
      2. Whitelist destinations in control center lobby
    2. CoE setup
      1. Leverage Cloud ALM & Control tower to monitor processes and apps and resolve issues
      2. Signup for SAP Build Governance Resource Center
      3. Monitoring is possible from the SAP Build Lobby
      4. Governance driven approval workflows
  4. Quotes
    1. Technology is a means to an end, data is the currency of digital transformation
    2. Code is a liability not an asset
  5. Random Observations
    1. Pickleball court inside venue was a hit
    2. Hyperscalars were dominant on show floor
    3. Printing in a cloud world is important
    4. There are over 2800 BTP partners 😳
    5. Soterion giving away airtags was next level "swag"
    6. UIPath was not present at show, was surprised considering the recent Solex announcement
  6. Links
    1. BTP Best Practice Guide
    2. IDC Success Guide for Partners
    3. Application Extension Methodology
    4. Admin and operations in BTP
    5. Admin and Ops for ABAP
    6. Admin and Ops for Cloud Foundry
    7. Security Admin in BTP
  7. Warren Eiserman 18th Nov 2024