In this episode of the HANA Café NL podcast, hosts Twan van den Broek and Jan Penninkhof celebrate their 20th episode of the year by diving into the VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon with guests Ted Castelijns and Mouade Boussaid from Expertum.
🚀 The VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon
The podcast explores a new hackathon format that spans several months rather than the traditional 24-hour "no sleep" sprint. This allows participants to work on real-world business cases alongside their daily jobs. Expertum is currently collaborating with their customer, Ecotone, to solve a practical integration challenge.
The team is building a solution within the SAP Integration Suite to address a common pain point: the ability for functional users to easily "switch off" or undeploy specific groups of interfaces during system upgrades.
The Tech Stack: The solution leverages SAP BTP, Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP), and the Integration Suite APIs.
AI Integration: They are investigating how AI can assist in filtering and grouping hundreds of integration flows to make the process less error-prone and more efficient.
The guests shared their main takeaways from the recent SAP TechEd event:
SAP Build & Rapid-1: Excitement around tabular-based machine learning and its potential for HANA Cloud users.
Agentic AI: Discussion on the promise of multi-agent systems and the upcoming Joule Studio, envisioning a future where AI "colleagues" collaborate to solve complex tasks.
BTP Maturity: A reflection on how SAP BTP has evolved from its "Neo" days into a mature, solid product that excels in hybrid cloud environments.
The hackathon teams are aiming for a spot at the VNSG SAP Year Event (Sync) on March 12, 2026, where the finalists will present their solutions in a Demo Jam-style pitch on the main stage.
Friday afternoon #SAPBTP talk with Gaurav and Dava on SAP Integration at Rabobank.
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Friday afternoon #SAPBTP talk with Ronald Konijnenburg, Tim Koster on #sitNL 2025 event, our 15th anniversary.ℹ️ More info. 🎓 Masterclass registration:SAP Business Data CloudSAP Joule Skills / Agents 🚀 sitNL registration
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The episode features guest Evert-Jan Scholten, a Senior ABAP Developer at Signify, who has over 34 years of experience in SAP development, starting his career as a consultant in 1989. The main focus of the conversation is the concept of SAP's Clean Core and how a company with significant SAP legacy, like Signify, approaches the upcoming migration to S/4HANA.
ABAP Cloud Developer Day: October 9, 2025
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Your HANA Cafe NL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek
Paul van Os (Oxolution) is senior integration professional and shares his passion on all things integration in the SAP world.
In this episode we discuss:
And Paul also shares his tips on how to become an integration professional.
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Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.
Peter Turien is transformation coach and supports organisations and teams to become agile, scaled agile (SAFe). In this episode we discuss:
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Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.
Join us for an enlightening conversation with Theo Elzinga, Lead Enterprise Architect at Friesland Campina, as he shares his vast experience and strategic approaches in enterprise architecture. Discover how Theo and his team are driving business agility and optimizing costs by aligning IT strategies with business objectives.
💡 From theory to practice covering:
No ivory tower behaviour, bring people together, talk to each other, listen and collaborate!
SAP Transformation Excellence Summit The Hague 2025S010E14Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.
Friday afternoon #SAPBTP talk with Geert-Jan Klaps and David Jacobs from The Value Chain.
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HANA Cafe NL was invited to Amista's SPARK 2025 event. SPARK covered the roots of innovation with SAP Business One, ECC or S/4HANA public cloud as your foundation.
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Vrijdagmiddag #SAPBTP talk met Allitze Faro en Bart Elshout van Ideo.- Adoptie SAP BTP binnen Field Service Management- Klant voorbeelden- Terug naar de standaard, maatwerk vervangen- Waarom Ideo BTP "Be The President" noemtMeer info- Be The President https://info.ideo-nl.com/nl/be-the-president-leiderschap-in-de-digitale-transformatie- 11 juni 2025 SAP BTP Live https://info.ideo-nl.com/nl/sap-btp-liveS010E11Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.
Vrijdagmiddag #SAPBTP talk met Laurens Steffers en Sandor van der Neut van NTT Data Business Solutions.
Meer info
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Friday afternoon #SAPBTP talk with McCoy on Marvin. Speciale gasten waren Robin Siemons en Wessel Friesen.
Road to Supply Chain Excellence, 8 mei 2025
Big Event, 6 juni 2025
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Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek
We welcomed Niels van der Kam to our café and talked on AI and its implications for SAP business:
Onze langste aflevering ooit ... de recap van het VNSG & SAP jaarevent 2025. Met hierin:
We hebben het over: Connecting the dos, verbinden, AI adoptie, SAP security, code remediation, Datasphere in 6 weken, piloten, van ECC naar S/4, angular, harmonizeren factuurstroom, Signavio process mining, AI is the new UI, ...
Een aflevering om eens even voor te gaan zitten 😀
SAP BTP Exploration Workshop, April 16, 2025
https://go4.events.sap.com/nl-btp-exploration-workshop-nl-2025/en_us/home.html?source=sap-ppt-qr
Het voltallige bestuur van de VNSG focusgroep BTP4Integration schoof aan in ons café om bij te praten over ... SAP integratie natuurlijk. Adriaan Beukema, Michel Smid en Jordy Schipper bespraken samen met Jan en Twan:
Een bomvolle aflevering, veel plezier met luisteren.
A great Friday afternoon talk with Vincent Weiss (Emixa) on several SAPBTP topics.
Your regulars Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.
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Recap of the GenAI Hub CodeJam at Innov8ion with:
We discussed the SAP CodeJam, the exercises, uses cases and the impact of Business AI for developers and customers.
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Join the insightful conversation in the latest episode of HANA Café NL, where hosts Jan and Twan are joined by Maarten Stam and Max Willekens from Capgemini to explore the transformative world of Business AI.
Delve into discussions about the newly announced SAP Business Data Cloud and its suite of AI agents tailored for logistics, finance, and HR tasks. Anecdotes and examples of AI's potential, from optimizing warehouse logistics to enhancing HR processes, while also addressing the ethical considerations and the role of consultants in navigating this revolution. Discover how AI is reshaping the ERP landscape, with a focus on user experience, increased efficiency, and the evolving expectations of C-level executives.
Whether you're an AI enthusiast or a business professional, this episode offers valuable insights and practical tips on leveraging AI for future success. Don't miss out; listen to the replay for an enlightening journey into the future of business AI!
Recap of the Advanced Event Mesh SAP CodeJam at The Future Group in Zoetermeer. - Event vibe - Participants feedback with Petra and Vincent - All things AEM with Antonio, Hari and Michel An episode without our regular Jan as he was preparing for an exam.
We were invited to the #Solace Benelux User Group meetup at the Heineken Experience. What a great day with tons on information and customer examples on #AdvancedEventMesh. Tune in to hear about the real-time revolution. Synchronous integration flows are not enough to step into the future. 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:08 Solace Benelux User Group with Annabelle Kraanen, Emil Zegers 0:11:07 Event-Driven Integration at AkzoNobel with Oussama Zoubairi 0:23:11 Rapid Pilot Workshops with Chris Holtfurth 0:33:38 Think events, AI agents, Power of Solace platform with Shawn McAllister, Sumeet Puri Rapid Pilot Workshop - NA timezone https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dedbcf8f-d86b-4976-8e12-8b669c1c94eb@ce001ea4-74b1-40fc-9184-edb4a21a35d5 Rapid Pilot Workshop - EMEA timezone https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/606b2ed2-e75c-44ef-b7c1-3e11c49d7ab4@ce001ea4-74b1-40fc-9184-edb4a21a35d5 #SAPBTP #SAPcommunity
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