Key Takeaways from SAP TechEd 2018

Another SAP TechEd 2018 Las Vegas is in the books and it delivered five days of education, training, networking, and fun. Topics included SAP HANA Data Management Suite, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Leonardo, SAP Analytics Cloud, and how real customers are building intelligent enterprises. Following up the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW Conference earlier this year, the main focus was the "Intelligent Enterprise". Expect to continue to hear this term from SAP and it's partners for the next several months and years.

New Cloud Business-Focused Development
SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment, now generally available, makes it easy for ABAP programmers to develop world-class app extensions as well as new apps using the public cloud. SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment, will empower programmers to use existing ABAP programming knowledge and skills to develop and extend critical business applications in the cloud using agile and DevOps methodologies and principles.

The cloud application programming model for SAP Cloud Platform is an integrated framework of tools, languages and libraries for developers to efficiently and rapidly build enterprise business services and applications. It will guide developers with SAP-supported best practices for full-stack cloud business application development so they can focus on their development project at hand. This includes:

• Integrating open source software and SAP technologies into one consistent end-to-end programming model and development experience
• Providing lightweight and modular implementation of core data services, allowing rapid development of persistency, business logic and user experience
• Guiding developers with a set of enterprise-grade tools, languages and libraries, allowing them to stay focused on their domain logic

SAP Data Hub
SAP Data Hub allows customers to build, execute, orchestrate and govern flow-based pipelines, providing the maximum reuse of existing data developments while encompassing digital innovations. Using an innovative metadata catalog and policy management, the solution provides a trusted metadata discovery, refinement and publishing environment. Users can easily extract more information and intelligence from highly distributed, diverse hybrid and multi-cloud environments to make real-time decisions and take immediate action without unnecessary data movement or consolidation.

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