I got some time this weekend to share my experience as a Volunteer with you all about the experience of very first Sap Inside Track of 2024,On February 17th, the SAP Inside Track Bengaluru once again proved its mettle as an unparalleled hub for knowledge sharing and networking. This event extended a warm welcome to over 1200 attendees, 120+ speakers & 35+ volunteers, offering an enriched platform where learnings were amplified and connections were strengthened. It’s been the best SAP Inside Track I’ve been a part of. This wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work and dedication of everyone involved. In this blog post, I will share some personal highlights of the event while celebrating the team that made this successful event possible. So, let’s start here.
Kick-off
As usuall the agenda kick-off started from non other than our known Sindhu Gangadharan (SVP & MD, SAP Labs India), illuminating the pivotal subjects of the SAP Community, Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and more. The event was nothing less than a feast for tech enthusiasts, featuring 56 deep-dive lecture sessions, ~120 speakers, six hands-on, and three interactive ‘Ask Me Anything’ booths. Running on eight parallel tracks, these sessions ensured a wide range of topics covered, providing a comprehensive learning experience for all attendees. I was fortunate to lead the content team, where I aided in strategizing and designing the content and working collaboratively with the team. We had seven tracks of lecture sessions, covering SAP BTP, Application Development – SAP Build, CAP & RAP, Integration, Data Analytics, Automation, SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, SAP UI5, Fiori & Many other functional topics. Check out our agenda here: https://sitblrwebsite.vercel.app/
SAP BTP & Public Cloud at the Epicenter:
The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) found significant prominence at this event. There were a total of 34 lecture sessions from SAP Employees, Customers & Partners on topics ranging from Application Development, Artificial intelligence, Automation, Integration and Data-to-Value, and also four hands-on practical interactions, and two specialized ‘Ask Me Anything’ booths that offered attendees valuable insights from SAP Product Experts. The BTP diamond game, held thrice for customers and partners, made its mark as an engaging highlight.
Some Of the interesting sessions which in the area of Automation, BTP, Intelligence and Public Cloud.
- SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
The SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit facilitates the transfer of business data from an SAP ERP source system to SAP S/4HANA. The SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit uses migration objects to identify and transfer the relevant data. A migration object describes how to migrate data for a specific business object to SAP S/4HANA. It contains information about the relevant source and target structures, as well as the relationships between these structures. It also contains mapping information for the relevant fields, as well as any rules used to convert values that are migrated from source fields to target fields. SAP provide predefined migration objects that you can use to transfer your data.
Session PPT Link – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11DDrBuUpzNqd89DJyTZg7R9IfV_qgrI4/edit#slide=id.p43
- Model Enterprise Responsibilities for a Business User in Cloud – BTP
Come learn and experience how SAP Responsibility Management service in BTP is now helping BTP applications to model enterprise responsibilities for a business user easily. With it’s strong Query APIs and easy modelling of data , the RM service will soon become the central place for responsibility modelling as the need of managing responsibilities for a business user remains the same in Cloud and On Premise.
Session PPT Link –
- The New Age Intelligent Situation Handling in S4HANA
Situation Handling helps your business to run smoothly by automatically informing the right users about any situations that need their attention. This includes, for example, upcoming deadlines, delays, expiring contracts, and so on.
Session PPT Link – https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/10cPbe8TjGR71X9lg6b7vlotKv7P6Qswr
- Memory Consumption Dashboard for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Objects
Growing memory consumption leads to increased subscription costs for our customers when running SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition. Thanks to the enablement of ILM objects for the memory usage reporting, the ILM Advisor provides transparency on the ILM objects that drive the growth of memory consumption. Customers can now take an informed decision on triggering ILM actions to reduce the memory consumption by archiving data. You will learn about ILM Advisor app which provides a comprehensive overview of memory consumption based on ILM objects in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Session PPT Link – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zStXKmC6aQ1R48Xo87zK4UEo7y-H_F4w/edit#slide=id.p40
- Build Extensions with developer extensibility in 3-System Landscape (3SL) using SAP Business Accelerator Hub
Developer extensibility allows you to create development projects in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition solution. It gives you the opportunity to develop cloud-ready and upgrade-stable custom ABAP code on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public edition combining the benefits of custom ABAP code, with the required restrictions for Cloud readiness, and the SAP S/4HANA programming model to build SAP Fiori apps. Developer extensibility is only available in a 3-system landscape. The list of pre-built extensions that are available to be readily used by end-users can be explored on SAP Extensibility Explorer.
Session PPT Link – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jg5EBPFI5OhMbbomzd4mKzVbBeQBSYd-/edit#slide=id.p40
Team Work:
The immense success of the event would not have been possible without the help of all our volunteers dedicated at every step. Their dedication and effort helped us execute one of the best SAP Inside Track events Bengaluru has ever seen. Their invaluable assistance was present at every event stage, from content curation to track management.
Sponsors
A massive thank you to our sponsors, without whom the SAP Inside Track Bengaluru wouldn’t have been possible. Their ample financial and logistical support played a crucial part in the smooth running of the event. Not only did they provide us with the necessary backing to host a profuse range of sessions and interactive booths, but some also contributed their expertise as speakers. Their support was invaluable in making this event a grand success, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to them all. (Primus Techsystems, S2 Integrators, SAP Concur & SAP Press).
Gratitude
I sincerely thank Abhishek Chatterjee and Mahesh Pallavalli for the opportunity and their trust in me to be included in this big community event.
I am thankful to my leadership, Ashwini and Arun, for allowing me to go beyond the boundaries of my day-to-day activities. I also express my deep gratitude toward Sindhu Gangadharan, whose leadership and strategic insights were crucial in expanding the SAP Community’s reach in this region to new heights.