HANA Cafe NL

We're welcoming Jorrit van der Sanden and Laurens Steffers from NTT DATA Business Solutions, who recently wrote a compelling piece on one of the manufacturing industry's biggest untapped opportunities: with a mere 5% improvement in machine availability and performance (OEE), manufacturers can unlock up to €25,000 in extra value per machine per year — without new hardware, without overworki...

Ever felt like your enterprise monitoring tools are telling you where an error is, but completely losing the plot on what business process is actually being blocked? In this episode of HANA Café NL, we sit down with Jeroen Bijvank and Tom de Visser from Dutch Railways (NS) to break down how they tackled this exact issue during the recent #VNSG #SAPBTP Hackathon. They created a Business Activity Mo...

We recorded live from the SAP AI Intelligence Event hosted at the stunning Booking.com HQ in Amsterdam — a 3-day community-driven event that brought together SAP developers, AI practitioners, academics, and developer advocates from across Europe and beyond. Here's a taste of what we covered: AI Voice Agents in Healthcare — Ronald van der Looij (Versaia) shared how they're building AI agent...

Many organizations assume that cutting-edge Business AI is reserved strictly for the latest public cloud release. But the team at SOA People just proved otherwise, taking home both the VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon and the global SAP Innovation Award for their work with Promocean . In the latest episode of Hana Café NL, Hans van Peer, Tamas Szirtes, and Thomas Langhout break down Project Alfred —an AI-dr...

Can a hackathon project become a certified enterprise product? In the latest episode of HANA Café NNL , Twan van den Broek and Jan Penninkhof sit down with innovators Arun Krishnamoorthy and Hari Sreenivasalu from Aarini Consulting to discuss the evolution of Prodsphere —a product experience management solution born from an SAP BTP Hackathon. 🔹 The Digital Product Passport (DPP): Learn how they a...

At Solace Connect Benelux 2026 we sit down with Emil Zegers, Kenneth Berckmoes, mayor Hubert Bruls and Jamil Ahmed to discuss: Event-Driven Architecture meets Agentic AI Customer case at Schwarz Digits Agent Mesh by Solace SAP + Solace + Agentic AI Nijmegen as innovation Hub The discussion centers on how businesses can move away from traditional "request-response" models toward an "...

Are we still talking about "Digital Transformation," or has the conversation officially shifted to "AI Transformation"? In this episode of HANA Cafe NL , Twan van den Broek and Jan Penninkhof sit down with Deloitte experts Yves Suiker and Dennis van Klaveren to cut through the marketing noise and look at how low-code and GenAI are actually landing at customers today. Key highlights SAP Build in ac...

Van Excel naar shiny labels met SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, on stack development en een beetje #SAPBTP door Egbert Venema and Thomas Boerstra van myBrand Conclusion.

Vrijdagmiddag #SAPBTP tijd met Dave Verkoelen en Arnaud van den Broek van McCoy. Wat is de relatie van SAP BTP met een aanhanger en dakkoffer? Wat kun je nu met SAP BTP wat voorheen niet kon? Clean Core is belangrijk, waar loop je tegen aan? Wat is McTalent en wat is de Sharktank? Tips van Dave en Arnaud. S011E01 Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.

In this episode of the  HANA Café NL  podcast, hosts Twan van den Broek and Jan Penninkhof celebrate their 20th episode of the year by diving into the  VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon  with guests Ted Castelijns and Mouade Boussaid from  Expertum . 🚀 The VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon The podcast explores a new hackathon format that spans several months rather than the traditional 24-hour "no sleep" spr...

Friday afternoon #SAPBTP talk with Gaurav and Dava on SAP Integration at Rabobank. Key topics: Integration Strategy and Architecture Modernization and Technology Key Challenges Team and Skills S010E18Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.

Friday afternoon #SAPBTP talk with Ronald Konijnenburg, Tim Koster on #sitNL 2025 event, our 15th anniversary.ℹ️ More info . 🎓 Masterclass registration: SAP Business Data Cloud SAP Joule Skills / Agents 🚀 sitNL registration S010E19Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.

The episode features guest Evert-Jan Scholten , a Senior ABAP Developer at Signify, who has over 34 years of experience in SAP development, starting his career as a consultant in 1989. The main focus of the conversation is the concept of SAP's Clean Core and how a company with significant SAP legacy, like Signify, approaches the upcoming migration to S/4HANA. Concept of Clean Core Signify'...

Paul van Os (Oxolution) is senior integration professional and shares his passion on all things integration in the SAP world. In this episode we discuss: BC, XI, PI, PO, CI, IS, EDA AI for IS Monitoring Tools to be used: Figaf by Daniel Graversen, Stylish Studio Paul's wishlist And Paul also shares his tips on how to become an integration professional. S010E16 Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penni...

Peter Turien is transformation coach and supports organisations and teams to become agile, scaled agile (SAFe). In this episode we discuss: What is SAFe How to facilitate collaboration between teams What is different in the SAP ecosystem What is crucial for transformation How to deal with refactoring, standards and governance S010E15 Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.

Join us for an enlightening conversation with Theo Elzinga, Lead Enterprise Architect at Friesland Campina, as he shares his vast experience and strategic approaches in enterprise architecture. Discover how Theo and his team are driving business agility and optimizing costs by aligning IT strategies with business objectives. 💡 From theory to practice covering: Strategic Alignment with stakeholder...

Friday afternoon #SAPBTP talk with Geert-Jan Klaps and David Jacobs from The Value Chain. The Value Chain multitenant solutions on SAPBTP SAP build Code pre beta, blogs by Geert-Jan SAP Inside Track Belgium , September 20 SAP Inside Track Belgium, call for speakers Joule for developers SAP Next Level Build S010E13Your #hanacafeNL hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek.

HANA Cafe NL was invited to Amista's SPARK 2025 event. SPARK covered the roots of innovation with SAP Business One, ECC or S/4HANA public cloud as your foundation. Topics Position SAP Business One within SAP ecosystem (Marc Tiggeler) SAP Business One webclient for more efficient work (Lars Pelzer) Customer innovations using SAPBTP and SAP Business One (Coen Sanderink) Triggers to consider to m...

Vrijdagmiddag #SAPBTP talk met Allitze Faro en Bart Elshout van Ideo.- Adoptie SAP BTP binnen Field Service Management- Klant voorbeelden- Terug naar de standaard, maatwerk vervangen- Waarom Ideo BTP "Be The President" noemtMeer info- Be The President https://info.ideo-nl.com/nl/be-the-president-leiderschap-in-de-digitale-transformatie- 11 juni 2025 SAP BTP Live https://info.ideo-nl.com/...

Vrijdagmiddag #SAPBTP talk met Laurens Steffers en Sandor van der Neut van NTT Data Business Solutions. Hoe zet je SAPBTP in om jouw S/4HANA Public Cloud omgeving te innoveren. Hoe kun je toch jouw specifieke wensen realiseren in een publieke cloud? Lessen met een lach en een traan Cloud Ready ABAP vs old school ABAP "Begin, omarm en doe het" Meer info ABAP Cloud CodeJam VNSG Transform NOW NTT Dat...

Friday afternoon #SAPBTP talk with McCoy on Marvin. Speciale gasten waren Robin Siemons en Wessel Friesen. Uitleg over SAP EWM aan Jan en Twan De fleetmanager van Kinexon als middleware tussen SAP en de robots Verschillende verschijningsvormen van robots in het magazijn Tips voor klanten die het magazijn willen automatiseren SAP event kalender Meer over Marvin Road to Supply Chain Excellence , 8 m...

We welcomed Niels van der Kam to our café and talked on AI and its implications for SAP business: GenAI hype and position in hype cycle SAP Business AI Embedded AI into SAP solutions Grounding AI models to 'understand' SAP context Practical use cases with AI

Onze langste aflevering ooit ... de recap van het VNSG & SAP jaarevent 2025. Met hierin: Ronald Schippers, directeur VNSG Joris van de Vis, SecurityBridge Guido ter Riet & Leticia Locatelli-Vos, KPMG Ronald Konijnenburg, Interdobs Willem-Jan van Tongeren, voorzitter VNSG / CIO PostNL Ronald Heikens, Meubelfabriek de Toekomst Michiel Neefs, Amista Gerben te Woerd, AkzoNobel Roel Houbart, Ex...

Het voltallige bestuur van de VNSG focusgroep BTP4Integration schoof aan in ons café om bij te praten over ... SAP integratie natuurlijk. Adriaan Beukema, Michel Smid en Jordy Schipper bespraken samen met Jan en Twan: Focusgroepen bijeenkomst met product management in Heidelberg AI Edge Integration Cell Security Event Driven architectuur Nieuwe feature Exactly Once In Order Migratie van PI/PO naar...

A great Friday afternoon talk with Vincent Weiss (Emixa) on several SAPBTP topics. Your regulars Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek. Enjoy!