Learn how the release of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) will impact the SAP development landscape in the days and months ahead.
Key Concept
With a wholly reimagined architecture built on SAP HANA technology, the Fiori user experience (UX), and a host of design principles targeted at simplification, SAP S/4 HANA figures to radically change the SAP development landscape.
What Is SAP S/4HANA?
Foundation Based on SAP HANA Technology
A Fiori-Based User Experience
Flexible Deployment Options
Simplified Rollouts with Guided Configurations
Consolidation within the Business Suite
Better Support for Real-Time Reporting and Analytics
Hasso PlattnerInitial Impacts
Long-Term Outlook
How to Prepare for the Changes to Come
• HCP: As noted earlier, HCP is quickly becoming the center of the next generation hybrid landscape. As such, it’s more than just a quirky little tool customers can use to create some one-off cloud applications. Going forward, you’ll see the HCP used as the platform for rolling out mobile applications, creating extensions to some of SAP’s other SaaS offerings, implementing IoT scenarios, and much more. HCP development requires an understanding of SAPUI5 and one of the platform’s supported programming models (e.g., Java or native SAP HANA). In time, SAP plans to further open up the HCP such that developers can use a “bring your own language” (BYOL) approach to development.
Future for Developers
James Wood
James Wood is the founder and principal consultant of Bowdark Consulting, Inc., an SAP NetWeaver consulting and training organization. With more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer, James specializes in custom development in the areas of ABAP Objects, Java/J2EE, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, and SAP NetWeaver Portal. Before starting Bowdark Consulting, Inc. in 2006, James was an SAP NetWeaver consultant for SAP America, Inc., and IBM Corporation, where he was involved in multiple SAP implementations. He holds a master’s degree in software engineering from Texas Tech University. He is also the author of Object-Oriented Programming with ABAP Objects (SAP PRESS, 2009), ABAP Cookbook (SAP PRESS, 2010), and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration: A Developer’s Guide (Bowdark Press, 2011). James is also a contributor to Advancing Your ABAP Skills, an anthology that holds a collection of articles recently published in SAP Professional Journal and BI Expert.
You may contact the author at jwood@bowdark.com.
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