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Las Vegas, Oct 19 - 23

Barcelona, Nov 10 - 12

Boris Gebhardt

Boris Gebhardt

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Agenda
Main platform assets
New business and technology scenarios
Industry 4.0
SAP HANA
SAP Fiori and Mobile

Contribution to SAP S/4HANA

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Main platform assets

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ABAP platform Customers and main assets

SAP Business Suite
SAP Business Warehouse
Partner
Custom Code

SAP NW / ABAP Platform

Database

41.200
8.020
16.400
370
10.000
5,1 million
4,5 million

Rock solid and scalable server

Productive SAP ERP 6.0 systems (NW 7x)

Productive SAP ERP systems on new EHP 7 ( NW 74x)
Productive SAP BW systems
Partner add-ons
Custom ABAP dev. objects per customer system
Registered modifications in SAP code
Registered ABAP developer
- Built for mission critical business systems

Effective programming environment - Built for the complete life cycle of business apps
Continuously extended

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- To serve new business scenarios

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ABAP platform Strengthen main platform assets

Rock solid and scalable application server
Be ready for new application types (Industry 4.0, Fiori,)
High availability (e.g. zero downtime maintenance)
Continuous invest in low cost operation and more flexible scaling
(Prepare server for cloud operation)

Effective programming environment

ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse
Continuous invest in ABAP programming language
Enhanced tool support for
performance tuning
custom code management
security checks

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New business and technology

scenarios
Industry 4.0 SAP HANA SAP Fiori and Mobile

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New scenarios
New event handling and Industry 4.0
Direct communication with sensors
/machines

Sensors / Machines

User Interface

Support native TCP/IP protocols

ABAP Messaging Channel Collaborate

Publish / subscribe infrastructure to exchange
messages between sessions
Data changes are published to subscribed clients
immediately

ABAP
Push Channel

Sub

ABAP Push Channel No more polling

Bi-directional communication via Web Sockets in
ABAP
User interface is automatically updated when data
changes
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Direct TCP/IP
Communication

ABAP
Message
Channels

Pub
Session

User Session

Application Server

Application Server
ABAP System
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New scenarios
Exploit SAP HANA in productive applications
Application logic with
performance relevant coding

Open SQL, Core Data Services, ABAP

Managed Database Procedures

ABAP Managed
Code-Pushdown

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New scenarios
ABAP managed code pushdown for SAP HANA
Mainstream for ABAP code
pushdown

Code-Breakouts

Extended ABAP SQL Interface (DDIC)

New ABAP native SAP HANA Interface

OPEN SQL

ABAP Managed Database Procedure (AMDP)

Core Data Services (CDS)

Table functions (Call AMDPs from CDS)

Exploit native SAP HANA features

ABAP like development, transport, correction and troubleshooting

Easy to learn for ABAP developers

Exploits all native capabilities of SAP HANA

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New scenarios
SAP Fiori apps
Classic GUI based
transactions

Role based SAP Fiori apps

SAP Fiori
Programming
Model

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New scenarios
Effective ABAP programming model for SAP Fiori apps
SAP Fiori shell

One data model for all consumers (CDS)

SAP Fiori App,

UI5 ALV
R

Directly publish CDS views to the UI (OData Service)

OData

NW / ABAP
SAP Gateway

ALV like SAP HANA optimized services for analytic apps (SADL)

Transaction, error and event handling services (BOPF)

Manual Impl.
(ABAP/SQL Script)

GW API

Application
Frameworks
(SADL,BOPF)

*SQL

CDS
View
R

deploy

SAP HANA
CDS
OData
SADL
BOPF

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Core Data Services

Open Data Protocol
Service Adaptation Definition Language
Business Object Process Framework

SQL Engine

SQL
View

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Contribution for SAP S/4HANA

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SAP S/4HANA: The next generation business suite

Internet
of Things

People

Business
networks

Devices

Social
networks

Big Data

On-Premise Edition

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Cloud Edition

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SAP S/4HANA: Transformation and role of ABAP platform

SAP S/4HANA,
on-premise
edition

Business Suite
on Any DB

Business Suite
on SAP HANA

NW / ABAP Platform

NW / ABAP Platform

Any DB

SAP HANA

NW / ABAP Platform

SAP HANA
Real Time Simplified
SAP Fiori
Cloud

SAP HANA

SAP S/4HANA,
cloud
edition

NW / ABAP Platform
SAP HANA

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SAP S/4HANA: Architecture and programming model

Transition to the SAP Fiori programming model

User experience on all devices drives the model

Combine transactions, search and analytics

Common cloud qualities (e.g. extensibility)
Optimized for SAP HANA
Simplify the transition from GUI to SAP Fiori apps
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SAP S/4HANA customer extensions for cloud and on premise

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Key user can do easy changes directly in

the app

ABAP based extensions

and custom code

SAP HANA Cloud Platform for side by side

extensions and cloud integration

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SAP S/4HANA extensibility

Key user extensibility Easy changes & extensions of a SAP Fiori app
UI-Layout-Changes
e.g. hide, move, add existing fields

SAP Fiori UI
Add customer specific logic (BAdI)

Add custom fields

OData Service

Application

Database Table
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SAP LABS PREVIEW

SAP S/4HANA extensibility

ABAP based extensions and custom code
ABAP extensions
Designed for Cloud

Classic ABAP custom code

On-Premise

ABAP extensions

ABAP extensions

No
modifications
use only public
APIs

SAP Standard

SAP objects are modified, enhanced

and used without restrictions

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Public Model / Whitelist

CDS

BAdi

API

SAP Standard

Automated SAP software deployment

needs clear separation of SAP and
custom code

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SAP S/4HANA extensibility

SAP HANA Cloud Platform Side-by-side extensibility

On-Premise

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Cloud

Hybrid

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SAP S/4HANA migration

ABAP custom code migration to SAP S/4HANA

Only whitelisted SAP APIs

No modifications
Adapt SAP S/4HANA
changes
SAP HANA and
Unicode migration

SAP S/4HANA,
cloud edition

SAP S/4HANA,
on-premise edition

SAP Business Suite

powered by
SAP HANA

SAP Business Suite on

any database

Custom code work packages for different target products

(Direct upgrade/migration path to target products is available)
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SAP LABS PREVIEW

SAP S/4HANA migration

ABAP custom code migration Adapt SAP S/4HANA changes Tool support
Analysis System

Task

Simplification DB

Download Simplification
Database from SMP and upload
to analysis system
Customer ERP DEV or Q System

Run Custom Code Extractor and

transfer metadata to analysis
system

Optional: Get usage data to

restrict effort for productively
used custom code

Customer ERP Productive System

Changed/deprecated functionality
Changed/deprecated business processes

&
Custom code metadata
Used SAP objects

Custom Code Extractor

Extended SAP objects

Modified SAP objects

&
Customer specific metadata

Collect Usage Data

Usage data from productive System

=
Result of Analysis

Work on customer specific hits

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Affected custom code

Affected extensions
Affected modifications
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ABAP Platform Reuse of SAP S/4HANA developments

SAP Business Suite
on Any DB

NW / ABAP Platform

SAP Business Suite

powered by SAP
HANA

SAP S/4HANA,
on-premise
edition

NW / ABAP Platform

NW / ABAP Platform 7.5

One NW Development Code Line

Any DB

SAP HANA

Reuse new ABAP platform

capabilities on-premise

SAP HANA

SAP S/4HANA,
cloud
edition

New ABAP platform capabilities

built for SAP S/4HANA,
cloud edition

NW / ABAP Platform 7.6x

SAP HANA

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Summary & Related TechEd sessions

Main Platform Assets
Robust and scalable application
server

DEV163 - Code Better with ABAP in Eclipse

DEV262 - Write less ABAP Using New Language Features for More Concise Code

Effective development environment

DEV201 - Overview of Development with ABAP for SAP HANA

Support New Scenarios

DEV200 - Core Data Services: Next-Gen Data Definition and Access on SAP HANA

Industry 4.0
SAP HANA

DEV261 - Say Goodbye to Polling with Real-Time Eventing Using ABAP Channels

SAP Fiori
DEV265 - Building an End-to-End App from SAP HANA to SAP Fiori via ABAP (HO)

Contribution to SAP S/4HANA

DEV301 - Building an End-to-End App from SAP HANA to SAP Fiori via ABAP (L)

SAP S/4HANA programming model

Extensibility
Custom code migration
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DEV106 - The ABAP Programming Model in SAP S/4HANA

DEV105 - Extensibility Framework for SAP S/4HANA: An End-to-End Scenario
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Further Information
Related SAP TechEd sessions:
DEV105 DEV106 DEV163 DEV200 DEV201 DEV260 DEV261 DEV262 DEV265 DEV301 -

Extensibility Framework for SAP S/4HANA: An End-to-End Scenario

The ABAP Programming Model in SAP S/4HANA
Code Better with ABAP in Eclipse
Core Data Services: Next-Generation Data Definition and Access on SAP HANA
Overview of Development with ABAP for SAP HANA
Building Applications with ABAP Using Code Pushdown to the Database
Say Goodbye to Polling with Real-Time Eventing Using ABAP Channels
Write Less ABAP Using New Language Features for More Concise Code
Building an End-to-End App from SAP HANA to SAP Fiori via ABAP (Hands-On)
Building an End-to-End App from SAP HANA to SAP Fiori via ABAP (Lecture)

SAP Public Web

http://scn.sap.com/community/abap
http://go.sap.com/solution/platform-technology.html
Watch SAP TechEd Online
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