Coffee Corner Radio - the Unofficial SAP Community Podcast

Martin met Karl Kessler and Thomas Fiedler at the DSAG Technology Days. They sat together and talked about the evolution of the programming language ABAP. As usual, it was a casual talk. You find the episode about the Internet Transaction Server here. If you want to support this community podcast, you can buy me a coffee here:https://ko-fi.com/coffeecornerradio

If you want to support the podcast, you can do buy me a coffee here: https://ko-fi.com/coffeecornerradioIn this episode Holger Müller and Martin speak about the latest news from SAP. This means mainly the latest earning and the reaction of the stock market.Furthermore, they make some predictions for 2026. We will see, how good they are ;-)You find Coffee Corner Radio on BlueSky and Mastodon!

If you want to support Coffee Corner Radio, you can buy me a coffee on ko-fi.com!Security requirements and security awareness increased in reasoned years. The technology stack for SAP products changed and the number of attacks increased. In this episode Alexander Zellner (CEO & Co & Founder SmarterSec) discusses with Martin the various aspects and how security for the systems can get improved. Here are links to different documents which were mentioned in the podcast:SAP BTP Security RecommendationsAs part of the cloud shared responsibility model (restricted access), it’s the customers responsibility to determine if any of these recommendations are relevant for the environment and to what extent.Source: SAP BTP Security Recommendations | SAP Help Portal SAP Cloud Connector SecuritySecurity Considerations for SAP Cloud ConnectorSource: SAP Cloud Connector Security – The most common beginner mistakes SAP Shared Responsibility in SAP S/4HANA CloudSource (SAP): https://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/webinars/sap-user-groups-k4u/pdfs/240215_shared_responsibility_in_sap_s4hana_cloud.pdfSource  (smarterSec): RISE with SAP – This is why it’s not sufficient! Mandatory Security Parameters & Hardening requirements for SAP HANA databases in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS)As per SAP Global Security Policy implementing compliant Account & Password policy is the MINIMUM & MUST requirement for securing HANA Systems in Enterprise Cloud Services.Source:  3480723 - Information on mandatory Security Parameters & Hardening requirements for SAP HANA databases in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) | SAP Knowledge Base Article

Holger met Martin at SAP TechEd Berlin 2025 at the evening of day 2. The talked about the event and all the news which were announced!You can support the podcast if you want and pay us a coffee!https://ko-fi.com/coffeecornerradio

Martin talked Ronald Konijnenburg with about the SAP Analytics portfolio, mainly about SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere.Ronald is a real analytics expert and he is working with SAP BW and Analytics products since many years. He is also an active SAP Mentor.Furthermore, they mentioned the great SAP community conference sitNL:All details about SAP Inside Track NetherlandsYou can find Ronald's own podcast here:The Dutch BI PodcastIf you want to support Coffee Corner Radio, you can do this here:https://ko-fi.com/coffeecornerradioThanks for the coffee!

Christian and Martin recorded an episode in the middle of day two of the DSAG Annual Conference 2025 in Bremen.You can find all the keynotes on DSAG's YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dsagev/videosIf you want to support the podcast, we have something for you: https://ko-fi.com/coffeecornerradio

Holger and Martin are back with their quarterly update about what happened in the SAP Ecosystem. Although it was already in May, Sapphire 2025 was the main topic.We are looking forward to feedback, questions, topic suggestions and of course ratings.If you want to buy me a coffee, you can do so: https://ko-fi.com/coffeecornerradio

The two founders of Coffee Corner Radio are back on the show. This time as guests. ⁠Simon⁠, ⁠Jakob⁠ and ⁠Martin⁠ talk about the last seven years. How it all started, episode highlights and even the future!Share your feedback! Let us know how you liked it! We appreciate any kind of recommendation and review!

Martin and his guest Christian had a look back to the three conference days in early April in Wiesbaden. They covered the keynotes, personal impressions and highlighted some of the sessions they attended.Furthermore Martin recapped the third day, DSAG TechXchange - a day focused on hands-on technology experience.You can find the keynotes on YouTube:- Opening- Keynote Sebastian Westphal (DSAG)- Keynote Philipp Herzig (CTO & Chief AI Officer SAP)- Discussion on stage between Sebastian and Philipp- Keynote Silke Müller- Hackathon Pitches- DSAG Technology Days Recap Video- DSAG Press Release

It was more than time to talk to Holger Müller again about all things SAP. Topics Holger and Martin covered:- SAP Business Data Cloud and Business Unleashed- Recent Board Changes- News in the AI area- SAP's 2024 results-revival of SAP Business Suite

Christian and Rui discuss with Martin about the SAP BTP Terraforms Provider. They started with a general introduction to Terraforms and introduction to the SAP BTP Terraforms Provider, discussed different use-cases and how to start the journey from "click-ops" to Infrastructure as Code.Terraform in generalTerraform documentation: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs Terraform tutorials: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials Terraform @ SAPTerraform Provider for SAP BTP: GitHub repository: https://github.com/SAP/terraform-provider-btp Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/SAP/btp/latest Terraform provider for Cloud Foundry:GitHub repository: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/terraform-provider-cloudfoundry Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/cloudfoundry/cloudfoundry/latest GitHub repository Terraform Exporter for SAP BTP Code:https://github.com/SAP/terraform-exporter-btp Documentation: https://sap.github.io/terraform-exporter-btp/ SAP Samples repository: https://github.com/SAP-samples/btp-terraform-samples Learning Terraform on SAP BTPdevelopers.sap.comGet Started with the Terraform Provider for BTP:https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/btp-terraform-get-started.html Automating SAP HANA Cloud Tasks with the Terraform Provider for SAP BTP: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hana-cloud-automation-terraform.htmlFurther HandsOn Sessions:DSAG Betriebstage: https://github.com/SAP-samples/btp-terraform-samples/tree/main/released/dsag/betriebstag2024 TechEd 2024 HandsOn: https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-XP280 "Unofficial" content by Christian (advanced topics)“SAP BTP and Terraform Series” on dev.to: https://dev.to/lechnerc77/series/26908 GitHub Org with further samples for the series: https://github.com/btp-automation-scenarios 

In this episode Martin talked with Peter Müssig (Chief Development Architect SAPUI5 at SAP) and Stefan Beck (Chief Product Owner SAPUI5 at SAP) about the upcoming 2.0 version of SAPUI5. They covered the new features, as well as how to get your hands dirty and how to migrate existing apps. This is the quite extensive list of links with more details about the topics covered in this episode: OpenUI5 Nightly V2: https://sdk.openui5.org/nightly/2/ OpenUI5 Nightly V2 TS Types: https://sdk.openui5.org/nightly/2/-/types.tgz Devtoberfest - Get Ready for OpenUI5 2.x: https://community.sap.com/t5/devtoberfest/get-ready-for-openui5-2-x/ec-p/13794300 Best Practices in SAPUI5 Demo Kit: https://ui5.sap.com/#/topic/28fcd55b04654977b63dacbee0552712 UI5 linter: https://github.com/SAP/ui5-linter?tab=readme-ov-file#ui5-linter TypeScript for UI5: https://sap.github.io/ui5-typescript/ OpenUI5 main branch: https://github.com/SAP/openui5/tree/main UI5 Tooling Workspaces: https://sap.github.io/ui5-tooling/stable/pages/Workspace/

Holger Bruchelt (Microsoft) and I recorded a recap of the DSAG Jahreskongress in Leipzig, a three days event with 5500 attendees. You can also find the video version of this podcast on YouTube.

⁠Martin's⁠ partner in crime ⁠Holger Müller⁠ is back on Coffee Corner Radio. There were a lot of news these summer about SAP, especially about board changes. Furthermore, there is an outlook on the upcoming events: virtual SAP TechEd DSAG Jahreskongress Have fun, share the word and give us feedback!

Martin's partner in crime Holger Müller is back on Coffee Corner Radio. Of course, there is only one topic to discuss: SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Barcelona. Holger was in Orlando, Martin in Barcelona the week after. Have fun, share the word and give us feedback!

Martin talked with Frank Engert about everything related to forms and output management in SAP. Frank is the CEO of Softway AG, a German consultancy focused on output management. Frank runs also a German podcast about output management and forms in context of SAP which you can find here: https://www.softway.de/sap-formular-podcast They started with the history of form technologies like SAPscript and SMARTFORMS. Then they covered also the latest technologies around SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP.

We had a well-known guest in this episode: Jon Reed (diginomica) is a writer and analyst and around in the SAP Community for ages. Jon and Martin talked about how the whole analyst and research business works. Of course, Jon added his extraordinary ideas and thoughts. As usual, we are looking forward to your feedback or reviews!

Thanks Matt Harding for the intro and Volker for pointing to it! Martin met two SAP Mentors, Gregor Wolf and Volker Buzek at the DSAG Technologietage in Hamburg, Germany. It's the first live and in-person recorded episode since SAP TechEd Barcelona 2019. They covered topics around the keynotes by Jürgen Müller (SAP CTO and member of the board) and Sebastian Westphal (DSAG Board Member responsible for technology). You find the recording of the keynotes on YouTube! Furthermore they talked about the upcoming community conferences in June in St. Leon-Rot, Germany: UI5con, reCAP and ABAPconf which all together run under the name Code Connect. Here is the link to the UI5 poll we mentioned: https://forms.gle/LrXk5BWFgBNznJbG6

Holger and Martin are talking about the latest SAP News and results and numbers: - press release board change - press release results 2023 and Q4 - press release financial engineering

Just before the year end, Holger and Martin recorded another episode. As usual, it was also streamed. So therefore they were also talking about the screen and video set-up. Topics covered: - SAP TechEd News - SAP's Case for Cloud - DSAG Technologie Tage - SAPinsider EMEA Copenhagen - ASUG Tech Connect

It's been a while since our last episode! So a lot of topics for Martin to discuss with our partner in crime Holger Müller Constellation Research). We covered these topics: SAP Sapphire 2023 the Q2 results and the earning call DSAG press release & Thomas Otter's post outlook on SAP TechEd 2023 We are looking forward to any feedback!

⁠Holger Müller ⁠and ⁠Martin⁠ are discussing different topics which happened in the SAP ecosystem in the last months: Punit Renjen becomes designated successor of Hasso Plattner as chairman of the supervisor board SAP announced SAP Datasphere SAP announced GROW with SAP DSAG Technologietage

Holger Müller and Martin are discussing their key take aways of SAP TechEd 2022 which took place in a hybrid mode onsite in Las Vegas and virtual. SAP TechEd 2022 Event Website

Jens and Martin talk about the different flavours of ABAP which are available. They focus on the different ABAP runtimes in the cloud, mainly on the new Steampunk environment embedded into S/4HANA cloud. Here are some additonal links:  SAP API Business Hub  Embedded Steampunk Blog Post by Boris Gebhardt  Open SAP Course Introduction to ABAP in the cloud  Open SAP Course Building Apps with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model  ABAP Conf

In this episode Martin talks with a very special guest: Eberhad Wolff is well-known at least in the German software architecture community. Eberhard and Martin talk about different architectural patterns, but not from a SAP perspective. They try to bridge the gap between custom development and standard software.  Here some links: SoftwareArchitekTOUR Podcast Episode about APIs (German)  SoftwareArchitektTour Podcast hosted by heise Eberhard's YouTube Channel Eberhard's Books  Eberhard's Publications on the INNOQ website

Our guest Marian and Jakob (yes, guest today, not host ;-) talk with Martin about last week's hybrid UI5con. You find the agenda of the event here: https://openui5.org/ui5con/germany2022/#agenda# Soon there will also be the recorgings of the all the sessions. It's also worth to check several github repos and sites, e.g.: wdi5 best of UI5 UI5 & TypeScript

Holger Müller and Martin did another State of SAP episode - the first time after a longer break - sorry for that! They covered topcics around - DSAG Technologie Tage (Tech Days) - Sapphire including keynotes, announcements, sustainability, BTP, S/4HANA Cloud & more ;-)

In this episode Jakob have a panel discussion about open source with Lars Hvam, Volker Buzek, Morten Wittrock and Sebastian Wolf about Open Source. Both from the community and also the within SAP.  Please bear in mind this episode was recorded before the christmas break, better late than never right ;-)

In this episodes our guests Matthias Steiner and Holger Bruchelt disucss with Martin about Low Code/No Code platforms, but not about App Geyver in detail. Here are some usefull links: Webinar Neptune Sofware and Microsoft Neptune GitHub Repo Neptune API Factory

We had a casual talk about SAP TechEd 2021! Thanks Christian Braukmüller and Chris Paine for joining. It also was kind of a reunion, as Simon and Martin were hosting this episode. At the end you find a special announcement by Matt Harding. Here is the link to his blog post: https://blogs.sap.com/2021/11/03/take-part-in-the-virtual-unofficial-community-teched-21-jam-song/

Martin talked with SAP Mentor Tammy and Daniela and Rui who are both part of the organizing team about the upcoming SAP TechEd 2021.

Martin talks with Holger Müller mainly about DSAGlive 2021 - esspecially the keynotes Here are some links: DSAGlive Keynotes on YouTube (in German): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLEMkMuuyIPBVzHBekAX2A5Rultr1QcCb position papers regarding the current SAP HCM portfolio from DSAG (in German): position paper deployment options: https://t.co/qXMcBm16uB position paper cloud options for German public service: https://t.co/L5gDtOT4Ar Postion paper SAP cloud strategy (in German): https://www.dsag.de/dsag-positionspapier-sap-cloud-strategie-juli-2021

Martin talks with Holger Müller about SAPPHIRE 2021 - esspecially the keynotes 

In this episode Martin talks with two students, Mar Horbach and Daniel Becker who passed their student's project by publishing their experience as a blog post on the SAP Community: Daniel's Blog Post Marc's Blog Post We discussed together with their Professor Christian Drumm about the projects and how attractive SAP technology is for students

In this episode we discuss the topic of SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (iRPA). My guests Priya, Vijay and Shruti will give us an introduction to iRPA and tell their own stories about how they got interested in the topic, recount their own iRPA journeys and how the SAP community has helped them along the way. So sit back grab a coffee and enjoy! SAP iRPA Community page Open SAP iRPA Course SAP Intelligent RPA 2.0 Tutorials 

Another episode with Holger Mueller, Constellation Research and Martin Topics covered: - SAP TechEd - Board Changes in January - DSAG Survey - Rise with SAP

We had an international call with Matt, Graham, Gregor and Christian and the two episode hosts Simon and Martin and discussed about the first virtual SAP TechEd which took place this week

Gregor Wolf, Wouter Lemaire, Cemal Aslan and Ullrich Platt had a discussion during a watch party right after day one's SAP TechEd. Thanks Gregor for pressing the record button!

Martin had another regular talk with Holger Müller, Constellation Research, about recent news and events in the SAP ecosphere. The mentioned DSAGlive Key Notes can be found here diginomica interview with Christian Klein

In this episode Simon and Martin are discussing with DJ Adams (SAP) and Prof. Christian Drumm about young talents in the SAP.

Matthias Steiner and Tobias Hofmann are talking with Martin Fischer about the current state of SAP Cloud Platform and some room of improvement mainly from a customer and partner developer's perspective.  Here are some links which we mention during our discussion: Coffee Corner Radio Episode about open sourcing openUI with Michael Graf and Tobias Hofmann Tobias' Blog Posts: The change in SCP trial reveals its biggest problem Alternative models for SAP Cloud Platform trial Den Howlett, diginomica: Matthias Steiner, Jelena Perfiljeva and Den Howlett in conversation re: SAP developer licensing Matthias Steiner's Blog Posts on SAP Community

Thanks to Sascha Junkert, Ethan Jewett and Chris Kernaghan to spare their time to talk to Martin and Jakob about Devops in SAP. Make sure to checkout the devtoberfest as announced in the podcast Also if you are curious to see what Jakob was babbling about on the feature switch framework, check our his blog or his blog about devops and Graham Robbinsons response 

Holger Müller and Martin talked again about the recent news around SAP. They covered the news around Jennifer Morgan, SAPPHIRE NOW and the Corona Warn App. Just to name a few...

SAP and Deutsche Telekom develop the German Corona Warn App. In this episode Martin interviewed Thomas Kowark and Sebastian Wolf who are members of the project team about this very special project. Here are some links: Official website of the Corona Warn App Corona Warn App on GitHub UKW 030 Die Corona Warn App - German Podcast about the app with a high level of technial details

This episode brings you the organisers of the first ever SAP Online Track and a bit more depth behind the scenes on how they managed to pull off a 24 hour event all done in their spare time with their passion for the SAP Community.

In this episode Martin (@cyclingfisch) chatted with Volker Buzek (@vobu), Gregor Wolf (@wolf_gregor)and Christian Braukmüller (@cbasis) about the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) and the first virtual community conference about CAP which is called re>≡CAP and took place on May 15th. re>≡CAP website including links to the replays SAP Cloud Application Programming Model Community on github SAP CAP Docs open.sap.com course "Building Applications with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model" DJ Adams' YouTube Channel SAP CodeJam on SAP CAP Exercises on github Insight Cruises Blog Post CAP with TypeScript by Simon Perstorfer SAP Online Track SAP Online Track Agenda German "Corona Warn App" on github

In October 2019, SAP and Microsoft announced project "Embrace" At that time it was not really clear what it means from technical and architectual perspective. Now things are getting clearer. Martin (@cyclingfisch) talked with Holger Bruchelt, Microsoft (@hobru) and Christian Lechner, SAP Mentor Alumni, minnosphere (@lechnerc77) about Embrace and had a look on the technical details.

Martin had the honor again to talk with Holger Mueller, Analyst with Constellation Research, about the "State of SAP". It's the third interview with Holger. Again the topic was about board and strategy changes at SAP. The interview was also published on the Constellation Research youtube channel.

This episode will bring back a few familiar voices to discuss the topic "working from home", which is the new norm because of Corona Virus.

In this episode we speak to Anne Kathrine Petteroe about her presentation from last years Teched about the missing women in the SAP community and diversity.