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Developing Event-Driven Integrations with SAP BTP 📖

• SAP Press E-Bite: https://www.sap-press.com/developing-event-driven-integrations-with-sap-btp_6021/
• GitHub repository: https://github.com/SAP-samples/event-driven-integrations-e-bite/

Terraform Provider Updates

• Terraform Exporter for SAP BTP https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/may-i-introduce-you-terraform-exporter-sap-btp-christian-lechner-lgzi...
• Terraform Provider for Cloud Foundry 1.1.0 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/terraform-provider-cloud-foundry-v110-whats-new-debaditya-ray-xyxyc/

Report from SAP Insider EMEA 2024

• SAP Insider EMEA 2024 event https://reg.eventmobi.com/emea-2024
• UKISUG Connect 2024 event https://www.ukisugconnect.co.uk/
• SAUG-x event https://www.saug.com.au/WhatsOn/SAUG-x2024

Report from ASUG Tech Connect

• https://www.asug.com/events/asug-tech-connect-2024

CHAPTER TITLES

0:00 Intro

00:07 Report from ASUG Tech Connect

02:47 Report from SAP Insider EMEA 2024

04:10 Developing Event-Driven Integrations with SAP BTP 📖

05:04 Terraform Provider Updates

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[Intro] This is the SAP Developer News for November 14th, 2024.

[Devtoberfest Winners] Hi, I'm Bato. I'm one of the Devtoberfest winners of last year. I'm here at the ASUG and enjoying a conference, doing hands-on labs, doing interesting sessions from SAP and some partners and enjoying the time. Hi, my name is Sebastian. I'm coming from Germany and I'm one of the Devtoberfest winner from 2023. It's my pleasure to be here. It's very nice TechEd conference and I love it to contact a lot of other people and to have fun. My name is Daniel also winner of this year's Devtoberfest. I'm very excited to be here. We learned a lot of new things and I'm also very excited for the disney film tomorrow. Hello, my name is Jarosław Piotrko, I won the Devtoberfest 2023. I would like to greet all programmers from Poland and encourage you to participate in Devtoberfest, because you always have a chance to win and participate in such a fantastic event, and in the journey to the Wolt Adysteia Park. Thank you. Hello, I am Abul Eshtam, the winner of Devtoberfest 2023. Here I am at SAP TechConnect attending this session on AI and different solutions of SAP and about knowing about SAP Joule. A big thanks to SAP Developer Advocate for this opportunity. Thank you. Hi, I am Sandra, I am from Mexico, and I am a winner of Devtoberfest  2023. So, hi developers, I am here in Teques, finally I met the developer advocates and I have learned a lot on the hands-on sessions. See you! Hola, yo soy Sandra de Mexico y soy una de las ganadoras del Devtoberfest 2023. Hi Bablock, I'm finally in SAP TechEd and I met the developers advocates and I've also learned a lot about hands-on. I'll tell you later. See you!

[DJ] Good morning, I'm here in Copenhagen, day three, the morning of day three, the last day of the SAP Insider EMEA 2024 event. As you can see, there's a little bit of a great time happening right now. I'm here in the LEGO area, what's not to like, but basically, it's been a great event. This is one of a number of events that's been happening post SAP TechEd Virtual 2024. We've had three days, well, two and a half days so far, all fantastic conversation, face-to-face conversation, talking about tech, getting to know each other, and also learning from each other in various sessions, lectures, but also hands-on sessions, two-hour hands-on sessions that have been very successful and very well received. We've also had a developer garage staffed by the developer advocates just down there. But anyway, it's been a great event. Look out for more events coming your way. There's one in Birmingham in the UK in early December as part of the UKISUG Connect and also one in Australia coming up next week, I think. Anyway, it's me, DJ, signing off for now from SAP Insider EMEA 2024. Cool.

[Antonio] Hola, SAP developers. Are you interested in learning about event-driven integrations? Well, I've got some news to share with you. Check out the new SAP Press eByte Developing Event-Driven Integrations with SAP BTP. It was released this week. Event-driven integrations are all about systems communicating in real time, reacting to changes instantly, and creating seamless experience for our customers. In the invite, I dive deep into how you can leverage SAP BTP to build event-driven integrations with the different offerings available. There is also an accompanying GitHub repo with code samples and integration artifacts to help you get started. It is a great time to explore how event-driven architectures can transform your integration strategy. I'm including the links in the description. Enjoy.

[DJ] In the infrastructures code arena, Terraform is where it's at and the Terraform Provider for SAP BTP released last year is already a really successful piece of software. This week a new part of the Terraform Provider for SAP BTP was released, the Terraform Exporter for SAP BTP. Now this is a result of lots of customer feedback, the number one wish is to of course be able to start with existing resources on SAP BTP and bring them into the Terraform home. This is a beta release of the Terraform exporter for SAP BTP, there's plenty of information about it from Christian's blog post, the documentation on the GitHub repo and there's also a video. So why not give it a try and let the team know what you think, they're eager to find out. And talking of Terraform, the latest release of the newly written Cloud Foundry provider, the Terraform provider for Cloud Foundry is out 1.1.0. This release brings lots of new features and improvements, so check out the blog post and give that a try as well. Just if you're wondering, just as the BTP CLI is for managing resources on SAP BTP on the command line, and the CF CLI is for managing resources in Cloud Foundry specifically on the command line, so is the Terraform provider for SAP PTP and the Terraform provider for Cloud Foundry. They sort of parallel each other. Anyway, give it a go, and again, let the team know what you think.

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SAP TechEd General

• News Guide: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide.html
• TechEd Watch Live: https://www.sap.com/events/teched.html

Data and Analytics

• Data and Analytics News: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/data-and-analytics.html
• SAP HANA Cloud Sessions: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog?tab.day=20241009&search...

Integration

• Integration News: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/integration.html
• Integration Sessions: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog?tab.day=20241009&search...

New SAP Build Capabilities

• SAP Build Extensibility Wizard: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-build-extensibility-wizard-for-sap-s-4hana-...
• AD105 | Enhance your fusion team collaboration with ABAP Cloud and SAP Build https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog/session/172179117988400...
• AD200 | Extend Joule with SAP Build and develop custom enterprise skills https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog/session/172239488237700...

CHAPTER TITLES

0:00 Intro
0:10 TechEd Intro
1:13 Data and Analytics
2:25 Integration
3:49 New SAP Build Capabilities

Transcript

[Intro] It's a long way from Philly to Heidelberg, but the show must go on. We're late, aren't we? Yeah, we're late. We all know there's nothing like the real thing. Luckily, we've got our best people on the job. Oh, sorry, Josh! Josh, if you pulled your own weight, we wouldn't have to carry you through this place.

[Witalij] There were many extremely interesting announcements related to data and analytics during SAP TechEd Virtual. Some of them are coming in Q1 of 2025, while others are already available. For example, you might have noticed that as technology continues to evolve, we've also brought SAP Analytics Cloud to Apple Vision Pro. We also announced new data lake capabilities for SAP DataSphere. These new capabilities, including Object Store, Spark processing, and SQL on files, will be available starting in Q4 2024. Looking like I'll need to develop new CodeJam exercises and hit the road with them in 2025. I've done a lot of CodeJam focused on getting started with HANA ML capabilities, and I'm already excited that the development of intelligent data apps will become even more efficient with the introduction of the generative AI toolkit for SAP HANA Cloud. I hope you've seen this in the announcements.

Additionally, the new introduced Knowledge Graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud, combined with the accelerated vector engine, will be a powerful combo for building even more impactful AI-based applications using SAP data. So lots of work and fun ahead. Stay with us.

[Antonio] Hola, SAP developers. Many announcements in the integration space as part of SAP TechEd 2024. So we have new integration adapters to easily connect to ANAPLAN, CUPA, HubSpot, NetSuite ERP, Snowflake, and more. We also have a new message status overview monitor. That's the aggregated overview of the status messages, for example, that we had in SAP Process Orchestration that we all love. The migration tool has been enhanced. Now it's possible to do mass migration of integration scenarios. There's a new licensing option for SAP Integration Suite, which is called Starter Edition. This is focused for grow with SAP customers and SAP SuccessFactors customers. Also, we have new generative AI capabilities in SAP Integration Suite. So we can now optimize our groovy scripts in SAP Cloud Integration. And finally, the product, SAP Event Broker for SAP Cloud Applications, was recently renamed to SAP Cloud Application Event Hub. Apart from that, you can check out the documentation in CAP to see how you can easily connect your CAP application deployed to SAP BTP to the SAP Application Event Hub.

[Shrini] SAP announces several improvements to SAP Build. Its comprehensive solution for extending S/4 HANA Cloud and other line of business applications. The most significant updates enhance SAP Build by streamlining S/4 HANA extension developments, introducing new generative AI capabilities, and expanding access to about development tools. A new extension wizard available now lets developers access SAP Build directly from S/4 HANA Cloud Public Edition. With this access, developers can extend custom fields, business logic, and processes, either on-stack or side-by-side. A critical feature of this integration is the knowledge of business context, such as events and objects, when creating business processes and while transitioning between S/4 HANA and SAP brand. This preserves important business information, enabling developers to switch between environments seamlessly without losing crucial context.

In Q4 2024, the extension wizard will let developers create SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications, leveraging the full set of features available in SAP Build. In Q4 2024, new capabilities such as code exploration and documentation search in SAP Build Code will reduce development time for Java and JavaScript developers. Low-code developers and business users will also be able to create user interfaces and automate workflows with assistance from Juul. Joule is SAP's generative AI assistant. In Q1 2025, ABAP developers will be able to generate high-quality code and unit tests with Joule that comply with ABAP cloud development model. Joule will also be able to generate explanations for legacy code, making it easier to modernize legacy code bases and migrate to a clean code. By end of Q4 2024, Joule will also be integrated into SAP Build Work Zone, a low-code tool for creating engaging and personalized business sites. Joule's generative AI capabilities will offer user task automation and intelligent support.

[Sheena] By end of 2024, developers will also be able to use low-code capabilities in SAP build to enhance Joule with new skills, integrating it seamlessly with both SAP and non-SAP applications. This flexibility ensures Joule can be tailored to meet customer-specific business needs. Finally, developers can create applications that feature alternative AI capabilities by taking full advantage of HANA Cloud to ground large language models using its vector engine. Soon, developers will also be able to achieve this S/4 HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine, scheduled for general availability in the first half of 2025. By the end of 2024, SAP Build will include access to ABAP development tools and ABAP development environments for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and SAP BTP. New access from the SAP Build Lobby, the solution's central starting point for all extension projects, will make it easier for multi-disciplinary development teams, also known as Fusion Teams, to build extensions and custom processes across all technology stacks. Developers will also be able to create and monitor their web cloud projects directly from SAP Build. This integration streamlines workflows by reducing the need to switch between different environments, significantly improving development efficiency.

All the latest news from SAP TechEd Day 1

This episode covers UI5 linter 1.0, SAPUI5 Roadmap, Devtoberfest Week 2 Recap, SAP TechEd Virtual, What's New in SAP HANA Cloud 2024/Q3, and SAP Partner ABAP Cloud Partner Certification Academy

Welcome to the Developer Challenge for the month of August. This month we are going to focus on ABAP. We thought it would be good to prioritize a simple and popular topic among ABAP developers.

Yes you guessed it right! – ABAP Core Data Services.

ABAP Core Data Services (CDS ) is an extension of the ABAP Dictionary that allows you to define semantically rich data models in the database and to use these data models in your ABAP programs. CDS is a central part of enabling code push-down in ABAP applications. CDS simplifies and harmonizes the way you define and consume your data models, regardless of the consumption technology.

You can find more information about ABAP CDS in this video and also in this help document :  https://help.sap.com/docs/abap-cloud/abap-data-models/abap-data-models?locale=en-US 

The Challenge:

 The challenge is very simple and can be finished during your coffee break!

Each week, you will explore specific features of CDS and by the end of Week 4, you would have built a full stack Fiori application. Please don’t forget to check this blog post every week to know more about the next week's challenge. We will also make sure to provide all required information to help you finish this challenge.

Noteworthy challenge entries may be showcased in future posts, videos, or live streams by the Developer Advocates and will certainly be appreciated by the SAP Community members.

Sounds interesting…right? So let’s grab a cup of coffee and dig into the world of ABAP Core Data Services.

How to Participate:

To participate in and complete this challenge, simply follow these steps:

• Complete the assigned challenge for each week.
• Submit a screenshot, as specified in the validation section of each challenge, to confirm your successful completion of that week’s task.
• Post the submission on the respective discussion thread corresponding to each week’s challenge.

Quick Links

Please use this separate thread to ask your questions and discuss issues. 

Challenge Timeline

The challenge will span for 4 weeks. To count towards the overall monthly challenge, you must complete and submit each week's task. Make sure to revisit this blog post to discover the upcoming week's challenge!

August 7th, 2024 – Start of Challenge: Week 1 Challenge

August 14th, 2024 - Week 2 Challenge

August 21st, 2024 - Week 3 Challenge

August 28th, 2024 - Week 4 Challenge

Prerequisites

Please note Task 0 is just to prepare everyone for the next 4 weeks and hence we are not maintaining any validations for the task to be completed this week.

Rewards

Upon submitting all required entries by the end of the challenge, you'll earn an SAP Community badge for participating in the SAP Developer Challenge for August. Please ensure to follow all the instructions mentioned in this blogpost or the respective challenge discussions before posting your submissions.

We are very much excited to see your submissions ! 🙂 We hope all of you will enjoy this learning  journey of ABAP Core Data Services along with us. All the Best !!

Solution

The solution to the Tasks above are available here

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