Day: March 17, 2018

ICYDK: While there may be more racial diversity in large, established companies than in decades past, the influx of new companies—which tend to have far less racial diversity—into the U.S. economy has more than offset any gains that U.S. organizations have made overall. https://goo.gl/6DarAQ #GlobalHR #HRTech

CEOs report that their top HR professionals aren’t able to use analytics to forecast the company’s employment needs, they can’t effectively identify new talent pipelines and sources of talent, and they don’t link employee planning to business planning. https://goo.gl/YuVG8A #GlobalHR #HRTech

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Welcome to the first SAP Inside Track Ribeirão Preto

This year will take place the first edition of SAP Inside Track in Ribeirão Preto – Brazil, join us in a day full of opportunities for learning and networking with the SAP community!

We want to create an opportunity for the SAP community to exchange knowledge about the newest technologies and trends that are taking place in the digital world.

Ribeirão Preto, a city that is also known as “The Brazilian California” (probably due to its approximate 300 sunny days a year) has in its region a network of SAP clients, partners, consultants, and developers interested in updating and sharing their experiences using and implementing these new trends and technologies.

Additionally, Ribeirão Preto is home to several universities, which gives the city and region the potential to increase the supply of education and technology-enabled professionals.

It’s also important to mention that the city has a growing entrepreneurial scenario, with the presence of startup accelerators and incubators.

 
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First Personas Day – Mobile Edition – Hands-on!

We are also announcing the first Personas Day in Brazil, which will take place on Friday, March 23rd. Personas Day will be a full day dedicated to getting to know the latest version of SAP Screen Personas.

We will begin with a brief introduction to the topic of UX (User eXperience) and then we will understand in practice the role of Screen Personas as an SAP powerful tool to adapt, simplify and even merge any ECC or S / 4HANA transactions, whether they are standard transactions or not.

We are going to build a scenario together using SAP Screen Personas and see why this is the easiest and fastest way to do it. You will understand why Screen Personas is the best tool for changing, simplifying and customizing screens in many scenarios, even when compared to ABAP or SAPUI5 (Fiori) development.

The greatest highlight of the recently announced version of SAP Screen Personas is that it now also makes it possible to run transactions on mobile devices (tablets, cell phones, etc) and this is one of the features we will explore in the hands-on exercises this day.

Get ready, bring your notebook and come on and learn by doing, together with the SAP Community!

If you want to know more about SAP Screen Personas events, take a look here:

Personas Day 2017 – UKISUG

UK Personas Training Day 2016

ASUG Webcasts – Going Mobile with SAP Screen Personas – March 14th 2018

If you have any doubt, send us an e-mail at sapitrp@gmail.com

Soon we will make more information available and we will also announce the opening of the registrations in a few days.

Don’t forget to follow this page!
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What is SAP Inside Track?

All SAP Inside Track events are organized by the community and are open to anyone who wants to participate whether you are a customer, a consultant, freelancer or a student.

Whether you are a developer, a functional consultant or a specialist in any business area, the event is fully community-driven and YOU can influence its content and agenda.

Follow up this page for event updates and also our Twitter: @_sitRP and #sitRP. Share the event with your network and friends, join us and bring your contribution!

 When

The SAP Inside Track event will take place on Saturday, March 24th.

The Personas Day – Mobile Edition (see details above) will take place on Friday, March 23rd.

We will have a get-together on the Friday night before the event and another on Saturday night.

 Where

Ribeirão Preto – Brazil

Local: UNAERP – Universidade de Ribeirão Preto

Address: Av. Costábile Romano, 2.201 – Ribeirânia, Ribeirão Preto-SP

 Who

The event will be open to all members of the SAP community and also for those who want to get to know the community.

It does not matter if you are a consultant, customer, student or SAP employee. It also does not matter if you are beginner or experienced, the event is for everyone!

The important thing is that you want to share your knowledge or keep up to date on the latest trends and technology news in the SAP world.

* Share your experience around the subject that most excites you, come and present a session!
* Even if you are not presenting a session, bring all your curiosity and willingness to learn from colleagues who will share their knowledge and experiences.

 
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Session Suggestions (Call for Papers is open!)

Submit your proposal now and become one of the stars of #sitRP!

Share your experience and bring to the other participants the opportunity to be challenged to increase their knowledge.

You will surely find an audience eager to learn through your knowledge and experience, and we are working hard to provide a conducive networking environment.

If this is your first participation in an SAP Inside Track event and you are not sure if your idea of a lecture is appropriate, please contact us and we will review it together and support you.

Come and be a speaker, this is YOUR opportunity to contribute to the SAP community!

You can share your experience and make it an opportunity to create a discussion around a relevant theme for the community so that everyone can gain new insights and perspectives.

We expect each session to last 30 minutes or 45 minutes, including approximately 5 to 10 minutes for questions and answers with the audience: let’s remember that the “IN” of “INside Track” represents an invitation to INteraction between speakers and the audience.

All proposals will be evaluated and we expect to publish the final agenda, with all the selected presentations, until the 9th of March.

If your lecture proposal is approved, your entry to the event is guaranteed!

See below some proposed topics, but it is not obligatory that the theme of your speech is amongst them. So be creative and, if your topic is relevant, don’t be afraid to submit your proposal!

 SAPUI5
 OpenUI5
 Fiori
 SCP – SAP Cloud Platform

 S/4 HANA
 HANA
 Design Thinking
 Machine Learning & AI

 IoT
 Remote Working
 From ABAP to UI5
 SAP Screen Personas

 ABAP
 API integration
 Business Models
 SAP Startup Focus

 UX Design
 Cloud Foundry
 SAP SDK for iOS
 Blockchain

 SAP Build
 OpenSAP
 SPED, TDF, etc
 Others

 

See here the received session suggestions and submit yours:

SAP Inside Track Ribeirão Preto 2018 – Session Sugestions

Title
 Session Description
 Speaker
 Bio 

 From ABAP to SAPUI5
In this session , will share my experience as an ABAP developer facing the challenge of learning SAPUI5, the development technology behind Fiori, using mostly free or low-cost resources such as OpenSAP courses, SAP Press books, etc.
Douglas Cezar

Independent Consultant

Developer

Open-source technologies, going beyond ABAP
Software development with HANA Express Edition, Node.js and OpenUI5
Leonardo Cruz

ABAP Developer

Usina Batatais S.A.

How to do Product Development
Developing products is something that goes further beyond functional specifications and coding.
Thiago Pereira

ABAP Senior Developer

Phoron

Agile Development in the SAP world

Developing software is difficult and risky, as it can result, for example, in high costs, overdue schedules, low quality and even project cancellation for non-viability. More flexible and less bureaucratic, Agile Development is a new approach to software development, which gains more and more space in organizations.

From the Manifesto for Agile Software Development of 2001, new software development methods became known by the term Agile. This manifesto marked the beginning of agile practices and became the basis for improving existing practices, techniques, and frameworks.

In general, it proposes individuals and interactions rather than processes and tools; running software rather than comprehensive documentation; customer collaboration rather than contract negotiation and quick responses rather than following a plan.

We will discuss:

1 – Turning the Technical Leader into a Scrum Master

2 – Use agile methods even in waterfall projects (Hybrid models)

3 – Vision of SAP projects nowadays (Culture, Problems, Advancements)

4 – Benefits from micromanagement (VSTS and Scrum ceremonies)

5 – Change of Culture for Agile Uderson Fermino

Architect

Aché

Laboratórios

Introduction to SAP Screen Personas in mobile devices

A few weeks ago, on late December 2017, SAP announced that SAP Screen Personas now runs on mobile devices, making SAP ERP transactions finally available for smartphones and tablets.

Come and see how to get started and how easy it is to use this fantastic tool to simplify the SAP ECC or S / 4 HANA screens and make users much more productive, whether on smartphones, tablets, notebooks or desktops.

* If you want to get your hands on and get some real action, be sure to sign up for the “Personas Day” event, a hands-on full day with SAP Screen Personas 3.0 SP06 (with mobile support) that will take place on Friday, March 23rd.

Douglas Cezar

Independent Consultant

Developer

*** FINAL AGENDA with the approved sessions will be announced on March 9th ***

 

Session proposals can be submitted through the following link:

>>> SUBMIT Session Suggestion for SAP Inside Track Ribeirão Preto http://bit.ly/2HJ0lRM #SAP #SAPCloud #AI

During my many years of supporting SAP ERP customers, one thing has remained consistent: the need for SAP ERP data to be integrated with innovative edge applications.  And while SAP S4/HANA is built on an architecture to enable innovative use-cases, many SAP users are still using legacy SAP ECC ERP.  So, the big question is: How can I facilitate the innovation the business requires before migrating to S4/HANA?

Well, this blog series will show you an example of how the SAP Cloud Platform can be used to drive agility and innovation with your existing SAP ERP implementation.

The Power of SAP HANA

Much has been said about how the speed and power SAP HANA can turn insights into action.  But to demonstrate the steps to actually make this happen, I would like to cover a real-world scenario that arose from a customer presentation I was recently involved in.

Because it is built on HANA in-memory database technology, S4/HANA can do cool things like the material autocomplete.

Innovate Today with SAP Cloud Platform

The customer I was talking to mentioned how functionality like this could improve order entry speed and accuracy for their call-center order entry staff.  In our subsequent discussion, I sketched out the following high-level architecture showing how SAP Cloud Platform can help realize their quest for innovation.

This solution will leverage an SAP ERP instance on the Cloud Appliance Library (CAL), Smart Data Integration (SDI), SAP HANA Modelling, SAP HANA XS, and an SAP Fiori front-end written with SAP Web IDE using SAPUI5.

The great thing about SAP Cloud Platform is the above architecture can be used for more than just  real-time type-ahead suggestion.

* Enable real-time, ad-hoc analytics on existing ERP data (aka HANA sidecar in the cloud)

* Leverage SAP HANA XS engines with existing ERP data

* Geospatial
* Text Analytics
* Graph
* Predictive Analytics

* Extend SAP ECC implementation through traditional WRICEF requirements

Getting Started

The next entries in this blog series will be a simplified recreation of the steps to required to implement this solution.  This example leverages the free SAP Cloud Platform trial landscape. Note: to limit duplication of existing information, some links below go to relevant existing content.

* Overview (this blog)
* Sign up for SAP Cloud Platform Trial Account (SAP Developer Tutorial)
* Create Instance on the SAP Cloud Appliance Library (by SAP HANA Academy Video)
* Create an SAP Cloud Platform HANA Database for use with Smart Data Integration (SDI) [coming soon]
* Install and Configure Smart Data Integration (SDI) for Cloud Appliance Library (CAL) Instance and SAP Cloud Platform Trial HANA Database as a Service [coming soon]
* Replicate existing SAP ERP data to your SAP HANA instance [coming soon]
* Expose the SAP ECC data as OData [coming soon]
* Create SAP Fiori application to consume SAP ECC data [coming soon] http://bit.ly/2plmPSt #SAP #SAPCloud #AI