{"id":31477,"date":"2017-11-30T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=31477"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T10:29:18","slug":"paradigm-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/paradigmenwechsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradigm shift"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this year's SAP TechEd in Barcelona, Chief Technology Officer Bj\u00f6rn Goerke was in his element: He presented numerous development tools, praised the mentors present for their commitment and congratulated them on the tenth anniversary of this organization. It was like the good old R\/3 times.<\/p>\n

SAP supplies the world with standard business software, which indirectly means that these \"half-finished tailor-made suits\" still have to be customized and supplemented with add-ons.<\/p>

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Many years ago, this was not a problem with R\/3 (Enterprise) and ERP\/ECC 6.0 - on the contrary: SAP encouraged users, partners, programmers and mentors to make intensive use of SAP's programming language Abap, thus turning ERP into a perfect business management tool.<\/p>\n

I tried to have a licensing discussion with mentors about SAP NetWeaver Foundation for Third Party and the implications of \"indirect use\" - no go: in the end, this topic was completely foreign and incomprehensible to the brilliant system developers and programmers!<\/p>\n

Thus, the problem is SAP's current volatility - the ongoing paradigm shift: Initially, SAP encouraged people to implement Abap modifications and add-ons in the Z namespace (without applying or mentioning optional licensing such as \"indirect use\").<\/p>\n

Then came Hana as a database and platform, and a little later S\/4 - new situation: Many Abap tables fell victim to \"simplification\", which made the ERP system leaner and more powerful.<\/p>\n

In addition, SAP started to transfer many standard functions from the Abap table area to the Hana platform, i.e. closer to the database. This was a good paradigm shift: Hana as a platform thus offers more than the SQL DB functions and the entire system becomes faster (not only due to the in-memory computing component). And already it was echoing through the SAP community: Abap is dead!<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, some Z modifications lose their purpose and meaning with a release upgrade to S\/4. An \"Abap cleanup\" that takes place cannot be denied and in some cases is not a disadvantage.<\/p>\n

At the height of this development, SAP conveyed the image that all system extensions, add-ons, modifications and frameworks would be undesirable and counterproductive - at the very least, they would be subject to the punitive \"indirect use\" tariff.<\/p>\n

Only Hana PAL (Predictive Analysis Library) seemed to have a right to exist. The end of individual programming? The end of the partner community? The end of mentors? A lasting paradigm shift!<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, SAP CTO Bj\u00f6rn Goerke stood on the Sapphire stage in Barcelona and showed a \"new\" developer landscape: Abap is apparently also welcome on the SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) - a rebirth of Abap?<\/p>\n

And Goerke was able to present numerous other software development kits (SDK) to the programmers, developers and mentors present: another paradigm shift?<\/p>\n

Are modifications to SAP's ERP system landscape now socially acceptable again? Or are SAP's existing customers, partners and mentors once again doing the math without the host? See E-3 license column \"A first concession<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAP is always good for a surprise. The \"roadmap\" for add-ons, Z-functions and modifications is schizophrenic. The direction of travel turns like a flag in the wind. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,19171],"tags":[453,65,4186,13033,585,450,517,10801],"coauthors":[19954],"class_list":["post-31477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-meinung","category-mag-1712","tag-abap","tag-hana","tag-indirekte-nutzung","tag-indirekten-nutzung","tag-lizenz","tag-r3","tag-s4","tag-sap-teched","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-400x160.jpg",400,160,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-768x307.jpg",768,307,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-100x40.jpg",100,40,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-480x192.jpg",480,192,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-640x256.jpg",640,256,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-720x288.jpg",720,288,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-960x384.jpg",960,384,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-18x7.jpg",18,7,true],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-600x240.jpg",600,240,true],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

SAP ist immer f\u00fcr eine \u00dcberraschung gut. Die \u201eRoadmap\u201c f\u00fcr Add-ons, Z-Funktionen und Modifikationen ist schizophren. Die Marschrichtung dreht sich wie die Fahne im Wind. <\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Editorial<\/a>, Die Meinung der SAP-Community<\/a>, MAG 17-12<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Peter M. F\u00e4rbinger, E3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/peter-m-faerbinger-e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31477"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}