Infusing ABAP with a cloud mindset

In a coffee corner conversation with Karl Kessler from SAP we discuss the benefits of ABAP and how ABAP is evolving in a cloud world. ABAP is still very useful and is being augmented for use in hybrid scenario where some workloads run in SAP S/4HANA and some in the Business technology platform. We discuss how ABAP consultants should prepare for the future.

Guest:

Karl joined SAP back in the 90’s. Since then he has worked as a product manager for SAP technology.

Today, Karl is responsible for the product management and rollout of SAP BTP ABAP Environment (Steampunk) and S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment (Embedded Steampunk).

Show Notes:

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-kessler-1a9b353/
• https://blogs.sap.com/2021/09/30/steampunk-is-going-all-in/

Hosts:

Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect & Head of SAP data Lab Copenhagen

Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark

Enterprise Architect in the presale area. Focusing on S/4 HANA and The intelligent Enterprise.