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.

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In 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 ;-)

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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 Recommendations

As 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 Security

Security Considerations for SAP Cloud Connector

Source: SAP Cloud Connector Security – The most common beginner mistakes

• SAP Shared Responsibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Source (SAP): https://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/webinars/sap-user-groups-k4u/pdfs/240215_shared_responsibility_in_sap_s4hana_cloud.pdf

Source  (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!

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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 Netherlands

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The Dutch BI Podcast

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Christian and Martin recorded an episode in the middle of day two of the DSAG Annual Conference 2025 in Bremen.

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https://www.youtube.com/@dsagev/videos

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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.

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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 general

• Terraform documentation: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs 

• Terraform tutorials: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials 

Terraform @ SAP

• Terraform 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 BTP

• developers.sap.com

  • Get 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.html

• Further 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