Category: SAP Netweaver

The SAP Netweaver Cloud Platform is an excellent choice for building applications that should be available outside of your premises for e.g. your customers, suppliers or employees. Instead of having to add a new layer of application servers, reverse proxies and incorporating specific firewalls to your web applications (https://www.fortinet.com/products/web-application-firewall/fortiweb) in order to expose these new applications to the internet, you could also just start building on the SAP Netweaver Cloud platform. In many scenarios, a connection to your back-end to both retrieve and update information is required. An example of this is an ERP system that manages several aspects of…

During SAP Teched Madrid 2012, I was asked if I wanted to Interview Sam Yen, who has recently accepted the daunting challenge at SAP of improving the user experience. Of course I found this a great honour and couldn’t resist the offer. I was early at the interview location and because there schedule was a little delayed, I had a nice chat with Sam about what he is doing at SAP and have had a personal walk through the user experience booth at Teched, I was impressed by his fashionable taste, he was wearing some pieces from The Fifth Collection.…

On November 11 and 12, I have attended my fourth Innojam. As I’ve never been part of a winning team, it was about time to really my best effort into it, and I think it paid of, as we ended at a shared 1st place. The theme of this Innojam was “Better cities – Better lives”, focusing on urban issues. My team was looking into social aspects in urban environments, in which many people don’t even know their neighbour. In the design thinking session, we have quickly tried to become experts in this area by indulging ourselves into material on…

In my job with Phoqus, I have been exploring to bring some of Phoqus’ solutions to the cloud and have partnered with the product teams of SAP Labs Israel and SAP Labs Walldorf to try to run some of the applications on SAP’s cloud platform and the SAP Netweaver Cloud portal. Although I didn’t expect that we would be recognized for doing something really revolutionary, one day I found an email with the content below in my inbox: Happy to inform you that your solution showcase on Netweaver Cloud has made a great impression on the selection board which was…

As long as I am developing custom software based on SAP, I have always had the need (or maybe desire) to play around with some new functions or try something out that I didn’t want to do in a regular SAP enviroment, either because it would jeopardise operation or just didn’t have anything to do with the current project or business. Previously SAP had several types of licenses available that could meet this demand: SDN Trial licenses SAP Discovery server Netweaver Developer subscription However, there was always a catch: No recent ABAP stack License expirations and the hassle of re-licensing…