According to the SAP community, the SAP programming language Abap on the SAP Business Technology Platform, BTP, will become the defining ERP strategy.

Why should you take part now? In a contribution by PAC analyst Joachim Hackmann for the DSAG online magazine and Joachim Hackmann will be present in person at the Steampunk and BTP Summit in Heidelberg for questions and answers. Take advantage of this unique opportunity!

Are there BTP supplements and alternatives? There will also be answers to these questions at the SAP Community Summit: SAP partner itmX and representatives from Microsoft will talk about the MS Azure platform; the Scheer Group will present the BTP concept plus its own ERP platform.

The conference language is German.

When: 28 and 29 February 2024
Where: Heidelberg, Germany

Why steampunk / BTP?

The possibilities with the revamped Abap on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) are enormous. The future of ERP beyond S/4 Hana will also be shaped by steampunk and BTP. Options for innovative end-to-end processes are opening up for existing SAP customers and partners.

In the E3 magazine article, Christian Knell, Managing Partner at Snap Consulting, describes the importance of BTP:

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Christian Knell from SAP partner Snap opened the steampunk educational journey on June 1, 2023 in Salzburg at the SAP Competence Center Summit. The first public presentation on this topic was a highlight of the event in Salzburg and amazed everyone in the audience.

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The future of S/4 Hana is still uncertain. SAP guarantees software maintenance until 2040, but until then and beyond? There are already numerous business and organizational challenges that cannot be solved with the standard processes of the S/4 private and public cloud.

Many existing SAP customers are about to transfer their Abap modifications to a future S/4 Hana system. What happens to the innovations from the Z namespace? Neither the SAP Private Cloud nor the Public Cloud provide satisfactory answers to this question. There are still media discontinuities in many SAP business processes and there is a lack of verified end-to-end scenarios. Third-party systems will continue to deliver external data to S/4 in the future. S/4 Hana will become an integrated part of a composable ERP over the next few years. Only with Steampunk and the Business Technology Platform can the successful Abap modifications, the development of new E2E processes and the orchestration of a Composable ERP be rescued.

The Steampunk and BTP Summit 2024 provides the answers regarding an ERP architecture including and beyond S/4 Hana, because after 2040 the ERP world and SAP community will not cease to exist.

For further suggestions and ideas about the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2024, I am very happy to be at your disposal at any time. Please call me at +49/8654/77130-21 or write to me at pmf@b4bmedia.net.

Thank you for your interest and I look forward to seeing you again in Heidelberg,

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger
Peter M. Färbinger
On the road to Hana and S/4 and beyond, questions arise regarding existing Abap modifications and development of new Fior apps and E2E processes. Many of these questions will be answered on February 28 and 29, 2024 in Heidelberg.

Program

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

8.00 to 10.00

Registration, coffee and exhibition

10.00 to 10.10 a.m.

Welcome

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

10.10 to 10.30 a.m.

BTP keynote speech

Joachim Hackmann
Principal Analyst, Head of BAS Practice, PAC

10.30 to 11.15 a.m.

Introductory talk with:

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

Joachim Hackmann
Principal Analyst, Head of BAS Practice, PAC

Dr. Wolfram Jost
Managing Director Scheer Holding and CTO

Moderation:

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

11.15 to 12.00 a.m.

SAP BTP from the perspective of an SAP partner

Dr. Wolfram Jost
Managing Director Scheer Holding and CTO

12.00 to 12.30 p.m.

Discussion round

With Joachim Hackmann, Wolfram Jost and others.

12.30 till 14.00

Exhibition visit and lunch break

14.00 till 14.45

Agrana A~QU~A - SAP BTP, Low-Code and CAP as key components
for a cost-efficient, global solution

For around 3,000 employees at 58 locations worldwide, the Austrian industrial group Agrana needs a modern, group-wide standardized quality management tool. "Steampunk" Christian Knell from snap describes the genesis of the high-performance and globally deployable Agrana A~QU~A solution, which was developed using SAP BTP (CAP) and agile methodology.

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

14.45 till 15.30

Efficient terminal & partner management:
ABAP cloud solutions using the example of airport operator Fraport

In the presentation, valantic explains the use of the ABAP Cloud Environment based on SAP BTP at Fraport AG. The airport operator has developed customized apps for process optimization of terminal and business partner management and seamlessly integrated them with C4C, CDC, SAP ERP and BW.

Sascha Göpfert,
Senior Manager SAP BTP Application Development at valantic
 

15.30 till 16.15

Coffee and exhibition

16.15 till 17.00

SAP Security & Compliance - Understand your Risk!

SAP systems are extremely attractive targets for cyber attacks. Protecting business-critical SAP systems is a highly complex task for SAP, IT security and audit departments. Learn from NO MONKEY how to understand, assess and efficiently minimize the attack surface in SAP.

Jochen Fischer, 
CEO & Co-Founder NO MONKEY

17.00 till 17.45

Microsoft Azure and SAP - The best of both worlds!

Application development, low code and artificial intelligence meet SAP applications in combination with M365 products.

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

17.45 till 18.30

Q&A in the exhibition area

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

Christoph Nagy
Managing Director and specialist for SAP security at Security Bridge

Moderation:

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

18.30 to 19.00

Break

19.00 to 00.00

Evening event

Thursday 29 February 2024

8.30 to 8.45

Welcome

8.45 to 9.30

From the bottom to the top: security in SAP BTP

Christoph Nagy
Managing Director and specialist for SAP security at Security Bridge

09.30 to 10.15

The platform paradigm of the ERP scene

Robert Müller, 
CEO of Scheer PAS GmbH

10.15 to 11.00

Coffee and exhibition

11.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.

Steampunk, BTP & Azure

Holger Bruchelt, 
Program Manager, Architect for SAP at Microsoft

Bernhard Friess,
Sales Specialist SAP on Azure at Microsoft

12.00 to 12.30 p.m.

Azure questions and answers

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

Holger Bruchelt, 
Program Manager, Architect for SAP at Microsoft

Bernhard Friess,
Sales Specialist SAP on Azure at Microsoft

Moderation

Peter M. Färbinger,
Editor-in-Chief, E3 Magazine

12.30 till 14.00

Lunch break and exhibition

14.00 till 14.45

Implementation steps of a RAP app

Ann-Christin Fleischle, M.Sc.
Research Associate | SAP University Competence Center
Technical University Munich, School of Computation, Information and Technology (SoCIT)

14.45 to 16.00

Coffee, farewell and exhibition

Partners and sponsors

Security Bridge

SecurityBridge, founded in Germany in 2011, is an innovative software manufacturer specializing in SAP security. The platform offers holistic cyber security solutions for SAP applications, including threat detection, vulnerability management and patch management. As an SAP-certified solution, SecurityBridge is a trusted partner for global organizations. This platform provides holistic cybersecurity solutions for SAP applications, including threat detection, vulnerability management and patch management.
SNAP Consulting

snap Consulting

snap Consulting - your reliable S/4HANA (onPremises, Public and Private Edition) partner for SAP logistics, pharmaceutical wholesale, maintenance (EAM), healthcare and technology consulting and development (ABAP, RAP, CAP, Fiori, ...). With our SAP best-practice software line - snapWARE - and our experience workshops (e.g. digital signature, CDS/RAP and Fiori), we support you or your employees with know-how and expertise in the transformation to S/4HANA. We are happy to assist you with the implementation of side-by-side applications or integration tasks using SAP CI on SAP BTP.
The Steampunk and BTP Summit 2024 will be accompanied by an exhibition, where participants will discuss individual tasks and challenges with dedicated SAP partners. Steampunk (embedded Abap) and BTP will fundamentally change the development of ERP modifications. With Steampunk and BTP, existing SAP customers and partners will have a powerful tool to shape and guide the development of S/4 Hana. S/4 is not the end of ERP. The entire SAP community is working on the further development of the ERP idea.

In a Composable ERP world, different laws will apply. The tools for this new world will be steampunk and BTP. The system design of a future ERP may be based on SAP components, but its essence will be composite IT solutions. Composability will define upcoming ERP architectures. Platforms will become even more important because they represent homogeneity. Composable ERP also carries a bit of cybernetics. It is about interdependencies of components. Composable ERP therefore does not mean that everyone does what they want, but that there will be a common understanding of context in the SAP community. This composability will be a principle of ERP system design and owned by the community. The discourse about an ERP after S/4 will not be conducted at SAP, but by existing customers in the community with tools such as Steampunk and BTP.

For MarCom questions about the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2024, please contact Ms. Andrea Schramm.
Call us on +49/8654/77130-15 or write to us at andrea.schramm@b4bmedia.net.

Steampunk and BTP Summit 2024

Event

On February 28 - 29, 2024
Event rooms Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg
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Price

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
The ticket price includes admission to all lectures, the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official two-day program. 

Our partners

Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

More information will follow shortly.

Event date

Wednesday, May 21, and
Thursday, May 22, 2025

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Available until Friday, January 24, 2025
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EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

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Wednesday, March 5, and
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tickets

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Available until December 20, 2024

EUR 390 excl. VAT
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