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Fiori 2.0 – The future looks bright for SAP users!

As SAP Mentor, I’m with a privileged few that are allowed to join the internal SAP DKOM (Developer Kick-off meeting), which took place in Walldorf, in February this year. During DKOM, product groups get the opportunity to pitch their latest developments to a larger group of SAP developers and get their feedback. At DKOM, I was totally flabbergasted about a video shown by Maricel Cabahug, who is part of Global Design and User Experience, headed by Sam Yen. The video showed an visionary presentation of what Fiori could look like in the future and how applications basically wrap themselves around the user…

HANA Café NL – The inflection point

SAP HANA Cafe Netherlands – a series of podcasts about all the fun things in our life as SAP developers. Roel van den Berge, Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek will start and invite other friends of the Dutch SAP Mafia to join in the coming episodes. We want to address: SAP development (ABAP, HANA, SAP River) User Experience SAP’s platform Integration (Process Orchestration) Mobile Fun SAP stuff 😉 One downside for my international readers – it will be in Dutch… Last week we visited SAP d-code in Walldorf and decided to do a wrap up. Season 1, Episode 1…

Away with the Bozo’s. HP needs to innovate again!

How far my beloved ex-employer has fallen. HP is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet onsmartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday. Is it okay to call it “tragic”? After reading Steve Jobs biography, I’m afraid that HP turned into a company led by, what Steve called “Bozo’s”. People that are doing their best to maximize earnings and profit, but have no clue about products anymore. As mentioned by many, the IT area is changing and many are even speaking about the post-PC area.…

HP in a mess

As a former employee of HP, having worked there for 5 years with much pleasure and motivation, I still feel a quite emotional bond with this company when I hear news about HP in the media. Especially when it comes to cut and job-losses I can still remember the countless numbers of times when I felt insecure about my job myself. The news that has been popping up in the news has exceeded anything I have ever seen from HP before. Previously this kind of news trickled in, but now there’s a huge gush of bad news, that obviously will…