sitMUC Open Space / Marketplace
Core Dev Skills: How to become better in becoming better, Damir Majer
SQL Anywhere - from DBoT to Enterprise IT, Volker Stöffler
RedHat, Peter Körner
SAP Community: Engagement at its best, Svea Becker

Social Darwinism is widely considered a toxic term these days, and it is so for very good reasons. But there are observations from evolution that we can learn from and benefit for our teams, communities or even society. Richard Dawkins, one of the most renowned contemporary advocates of Darwinism and Evolutionary Biology, has dedicated a BBC documentary and a chapter in his first book "The Selfish Gene" to the subject.

This session is about the benefits of and prerequisites for cooperative behavior, the answer to "who are the fittest?" in "Survival of the Fittest", the ratio of effort and gain in competition, the characteristics of non-zero-sum games ("win-win-situation") and the role of diversity therein.

This is a non-technical presentation based upon texts published by Robert Axelrod and Richard Dawkins. Axelrod provides a mathematical foundation for Dawkins' conclusions using game theory.

Book links:
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Selfish Gene
(German) Die Evolution der Kooperation
(German) Das egoistische Gen

BBC documentary "Nice Guys Finish First":
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5syshn

SAP Inside Track

SAP Stammtisch

sitCOUNCIL

Svea Becker

Twitter

Everyone is somehow involved in a community e.g. a sports club, neighborhood, a fan club, etc. Why are you part of these communities? The SAP Community offers a wide range of involvement and engagement opportunities. What are the similarities to your private communities? Join this session and find out what the SAP Community is, how to get part of it and how to actively contribute. After all, bringing people together, is what community is all about.

SAP Community

Svea Becker

Twitter

Damir Majer

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Conrad Donau

Twitter

Mob programming

Remote Mob Programming

Multicloud or a look back from an architect

In this talk I will provide a look back at the last 12 months, share some views on the multicloud topic and what happened in the IT area from an architectural view. 

A wide range of technologies and cloud solutions are available to clients, and they actually chose to make use of them. Which means that you can integrate a wide range of services into solutions. Some of the solutions discussed: Fruit Checker app, some custom UI5 apps, SAP DataHub and native mobile apps running an multicloud. And using a wide variety of tools available: Fiori, iOS, SCP, Azure, K8S, SAP CAP, ML, AI.

Architects, Cloud, Developers, SCP, Azure, K8S, Node.js, mobile, REST, SAP & non-SAP

Tobias Hofmann

Twitter

I want to share in a not so serious talk the challenges I was confronted with last year, even more a challenge as the solutions were not always created in a save - aka 100% classic SAP and ABAP - environment. 

If selected, I may include the story how SAP Stammtisch KA killed SAP's most famous variable.

Vitaliy Rudnytskiy

twitter

Starting from Embedded Databases for the Internet of Things, scaling up to Site or Work Group Level and integrating with Enterprise Level IT infrastructure, SAP SQL Anywhere is a standard compliant and full feature database server.

This session introduces capabilities and characteristics of this unsung hero in the SAP portfolio and shows matching use cases, architecture and topology.

When it comes to container orchestration and deployment frameworks, Kubernetes introduced a paradigm shift in how operators and administrators think about workloads and backing services. By introducing a set of abstractions with well-defined behavior behind them such as pods, replicasets, physicalvolumes, services etc, operators and administrators were able to focus more on higher level details such as the application architecture, dependencies, resource consumption etc, rather than focusing on lower level infrastructure details. However, the developer faced many challenges to develop, test and deploy his application with the need to understand all those different abstractions and write a significant amount of yaml files. 

Knative provides a bunch of higher level abstractions that allow the serverless developers to reach warp speed in productivity. The different abstractions cover the application deployment, scaling, traffic routing as well as a set of eventing abstractions that allows the developers to easily build events based systems, extensions, integration and allows him to easily connect to any events source or event consumers.

In this session we will see give an introduction about the different Knative components with the focus of how it increases developers productivity and show a live demo that demonstrates a typical Knative based development workflow and solution. We will use Kyma (www.kyma-project.io) as our flavor of Knative providers which comes bundled with Knative 0.8 at the time of writing this.

SAP Interoperability Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

Missing interoperability capabilities between ERP systems are a major reason for inefficient B2B interactions between companies. Instead of exchanging purchase orders or invoices fully automated between systems, companies keep using paper or PDF documents. Unfortunately, the Galactic Empire’s systems are no exception, but suffer from the same interoperability issues. 

And here the story unfolds.

A small group of Rebels around service providers, SAP consultants and ABAP developers tries to tackle these interoperability issue by means of ALE, RFC, IDocs and APIs. In numerous small battles during SAP projects they fight in the Galactic Empire’s interoperability traps.

Meanwhile the Galactic Empire itself has introduced a new weapon system, which shall once and for all resolve the interoperability issue – the Galactic Empire’s Death star – or as it is known by its common name – the SAP Cloud Platform Integration.

In this talk we examine the root causes of interoperability gaps between SAP ERP systems from a technical point of view. We examine the technical foundations, which are necessary for seamless system-to-system communication and its potential pitfalls. Furthermore, we critically evaluate new approaches on document mapping automation using machine learning and why these approaches often compare to snake oil vending.

Finally, we investigate how the SAP Cloud Platform Integration is supposed to help to overcome interoperability issues and what technical challenges still need to be solved, when connecting to business partners. 

Philipp Liegl

Twitter

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