Building on the popularity of Mastering SAP Technologies and Cloud, we’re adding even more tech content in 2024.
Welcome to the dedicated Mastering SAP TechX program, supported by SAP ANZ Tech Hub, designed especially for developers and hands-on techies.
Delivered in TechEd-style, the TechX program integrates with, and complements, the traditional Mastering SAP agenda and provides two and a half days of hands-on CodeJam labs, inspirational keynotes, technical customer case studies, roadmap of new solutions and technical explanations of current SAP offerings. We're bringing the X-factor experts to the event including developer advocates, Thomas Jung and Michelle Moudy (travelling from US), while the content helps you stand out from the crowd by developing your own X-factor.
Join with like-minds to explore all things ABAP, CAP, RAP, Integration, UI5, AI, SAP Build, Fiori, SAP BTP, Process Automation, HANA and more.
But don’t dawdle – the hands-on CodeJam labs have limited numbers and are allocated on a first-in, best-dressed basis.
Attendance at TechX is included in your Mastering SAP Collaborate All Access Pass, and isn't available separately.
In today's dynamic business environment, many organisations operate in a rapidly changing landscape, emphasising the crucial importance of adapting swiftly to emerging challenges. SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning & SAP Datasphere empowers every business area to collaborate in real-time by breaking down data silos, unify business data, and streamlining business planning processes.
This session will guide participants through the development of an integrated planning application, harnessing the capabilities of SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud. Participants will engage and learn through practical real-world use case example on how to build planning models, perform data actions, predict forecasts and collaborate with other users in SAP Analytics Cloud. Participants will also get to see how SAP Generative AI is elevating the user experience.
BYO laptop required and pre-registration required for limited places at this 4 hour extended pre-conference session.
Key Takeaways:
- Gain practical hands-on experience on how to seamlessly integrate SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud that forms the backbone of a comprehensive planning application.
- Explore advanced data modelling techniques, leveraging SAP Datasphere, and how to construct planning model and application.
- Apply the session's knowledge in practical use cases, gaining insights into real-world scenarios.
The session emphasizes empowering citizen developers by demonstrating how they can easily automate business processes using no-code tools on SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform). Attendees will gain insights into the user-friendly SAP Build Process Automation, allowing them to take charge of automation projects without extensive coding skills.
Participants will not only receive an introduction to SAP Build Process Automation but will also have the opportunity to engage in a practical learning experience. The session aims to guide them through the process of developing their first automation project, fostering a hands-on understanding of how these tools can be applied in real-world scenarios. Attendees will receive updates on SAP's artificial intelligence offerings and witness live demonstrations on how these services can be seamlessly integrated into business process to enhance and optimize automated workflows within the SAP ecosystem.
BYO laptop required and pre-registration required for limited places at this 4 hour extended pre-conference session.
Key Takeaways:
- Gain insights into SAP Build Process Automation, fostering a hands-on understanding of how these tools can be applied in real-world scenarios to automate processes
- Use a guided approach to build your first automation project using no-code
- Explore the use of SAP AI to enhance and optimize automated workflows within the SAP ecosystem
The ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) is at the heart of the ABAP Cloud development model for building transactional apps and services on SAP BTP ABAP environment and SAP S/4HANA, in the cloud and on-premise.
In this hands-on keys CodeJam, you will learn how to use ABAP RAP features such as late numbering, side effects, and business events to build your own SAP Fiori apps. The session focuses on ABAP development in the ABAP Development Tools.
BYO laptop required and pre-registration required for limited places at this 4 hour extended pre-conference session.
The developer role in the SAP ecosystem if changing rapidly. Never have we seen as much of an explosion in developer tooling, experience improvements, new programming models, and innovations coming from generative AI. Such rapid expansion of capabilities can be both exciting and frightening.
In this session we will provide an overview of these innovations for developers, how they will change the everyday experience and how you can best prepare yourself to take advantage of them to improve your own capabilities. Let us show you that it’s never been a better time to be a developer. We will show how this impacts the ABAP, CAP, UI5/Fiori, Mobile, and Data and Analytics developers.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the latest trends impacting the role of developers
- What impact will generative AI capabilities have on developers
- Keeping your skills and capabilities up to date for the future trends shaping the developer landscape
Learn all about metadata-driven-controls (MDC) can build UIs based on data descriptions. With a deep dive into the UI5 MDC library to discover why it’s the go-to for versatility, you’ll learn what these controls are and how they work in real world examples. Get ready to make your UIs awesome the smart way!
Key Takeaways:
- Get an idea of what metadata-driven development is and why it’s important
- Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of SAP UI5 MDC
- Get an idea of how MDC can be used in real world examples
This session introduces you to the core principles of UI5, an enterprise-ready web development framework used to build apps that follow the Fiori design guidelines. A step-by-step guide explaining how build a frontend web application using UI5. The finished app is a bookshop app, where users can browse and order books. The app sits on top of the well-known bookshop backend application built with the Node.js flavour of the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP).
The session aims to be beginner friendly. If you have never built a (UI5) web app before, you will still be able to follow along. No prior knowledge is required, although it certainly helps to have experience in (web) development.
This will be a hands-on keys session, pre-registration for the limited places and BYO laptop required to take part.
Key Takeaways:
- Get a hands-on introduction to SAPUI5
- Learn how to use different built in features of SAPUI5
- Get an idea of how an SAP UI5 application is built from the ground up
In this CodeJam style session we will learn how to deploy and configure an instance of the SAP HANA Cloud trial, develop a multi-target application using SAP Business Application Studio and SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, and create a service layer and SAP Fiori UI that also includes SAP HANA native artifacts, such as calculation views.
BYO laptop required and pre-registration required for limited places.
Key Takeaways:
- Deploy and configure an instance of the SAP HANA Cloud trial
- Develop a multi-target application using SAP Business Application Studio and SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
- Create a service layer and SAP Fiori UI that also includes SAP HANA native artifacts, such as calculation views
In a world of disparate systems, it makes a lot of sense to run workflows in the cloud. SAP distilled decades of workflow experience into a single SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) service, SAP Workflow Management. Why then is it no longer available? It has been replaced by SAP Build Process Automation (SBPA), but this is no name change or cosmetic revamp.
This session will introduce SBPA and explain how it differs from its predecessor. We will explain how SBPA can be used:
- By business users to design new digital processes (low-code/no-code)
- To integrate off-the-shelf automations and pre-built content
- To run migrated workflows from Workflow Management
- To extend systems like S/4HANA in a clean-core way
Key Takeaways:
- SAP Build Process Automation is not just a replacement for SAP Workflow Management
- Non-technical business users can automate processes, but there are limitations
- Legacy workflows from Workflow Management can be migrated (even from the Neo environment of SAP BTP)
Freestyle Fiori Apps are not mutually exclusive from Fiori Elements Apps. In this session we will explore the “Flexible Programming Model” and build an app with Fiori Elements to start and then add custom controls to ensure the application meets the requirements for the specific business scenario.
Key Takeaways:
- Unlocking Flexibility: Learn how the Flexible Programming Model empowers developers to create Fiori applications that combine the simplicity of Fiori Elements with the flexibility of custom controls, enabling tailored solutions for diverse business needs.
- Practical Application: Observe as we guide you through the process of building an app using Fiori Elements as a foundation, and then seamlessly integrating custom controls to address specific business requirements, demonstrating the practicality and effectiveness of this approach.
- Maximizing Value: Discover how leveraging both Fiori Elements and custom controls in your applications not only enhances user experience and functionality but also maximizes the value of your investment in SAP technology, enabling greater agility and innovation in your organization's digital journey.
If you're faced with Enterprise Portal java systems reaching end of life, inconsistent UI with SAP GUI or complex system architecture that is becoming difficult to support, this session is for you. Andrew will talk though his experience of simplifying a tech environment by removing components and bringing forward UI changes with a Fiori Launchpad, before implementing SAP S/4HANA. Plus how using SAP Build Work Zone for a new launchpad for corporate applications can be built on SAP BTP.
This session will discuss why the process delivers a result as good as it sounds, but also why it can be more difficult than it should be. We'll also unpack the enterprise level decisions that can impact the success of this type of project, and how to navigate them to achieve great results.
Key Takeaways:
- Building and delivering a working prototype
- Achieving UX standardisation across SAP products
- Creating a foundation to allow further BTP development in the future without needing to upgrade the ECC6 back end
With more than 3K SAP Fiori apps delivering the new business value of SAP S/4HANA, adopting SAP Fiori can seem as daunting as conducting an orchestra for the first time.
Compare and contrast the pace of change journey to SAP Fiori based on customer experiences. Learn the major for planning net new Fiori-first or system conversion Fiori-first-steps. Know what special considerations apply to SAP S/4HANA public cloud, private cloud, or SAP Build Work Zone. What watchpoints help you scale and grow towards iterative business improvement with Fiori-forward-motion.
