In the previous post, we learned to build a web form in plain HTML with no coding experience. Even though creating HTML web forms is easy, HTML does not give many options when it comes to visualization. In this blog post, we are going to create a tem...
In the previous post, we had a quick look at how to build a web form in plain HTML. Although HMTL doesn't require any coding experience and it is easy to work with, it doesn't give many options when it comes to styles. Styles help with keeping the fo...
Like last year, our SAP Open Source Program Office (OSPO) just published an SAP Open Source Year in Review to share our appreciation for the open source community and highlight some of the work done in 2021. In this blog post I’m looking back at som...
Dear audience, thanks a lot to all who joined our session DEV112, where you could learn about Open Source as strategic task for SAP – live on November 18th or afterwards, by watching the recording! The session material is available online for your ...
Here's the information about an SAP Open Source webinar we held yesterday about the Open Documentation Initiative. SAP's Open Source Program Office has a webinar series with a wealth of interesting talks on open source and standards topics. Yesterda...
In the first part of my two-part series about Open Source Program Offices (OSPO), I explained the general concept of an OSPO as an organizational unit to manage open source software in the enterprise in a holistic manner. This second part focuses on ...
Open Source is an important working model in the software development industry today. It is very inefficient, if not impossible, to develop software without it. There are quite some very successful Open Source projects and many technology areas are e...
From time to time, we (the Open Source Program Office of SAP) are asked by customers how we organized the management of open source software at SAP. Often the reason is that the requesting company is not a traditional IT company, but increasingly nee...
Overview What is a serverless function? Serverless functions are single-purpose, programmatic functions that are hosted on managed infrastructure. These functions, which are invoked through the Internet, are hosted and maintained by cloud comp...
Observations about Women in Open Source Having worked in the SAP Open Source Program Office since 2019, I drive business development, manage communities such as the “SAP Open Source Champions” and engage with different internal and external groups a...
It took us some time to release Fundamental NGX version 0.31. This is the biggest release yet by far 朗. It includes ~20 new features and components and more than 200 improvements, fixes, and documentation updates. Almost all of the new staff wor...
One of the important parts of our development effort is to support various browsers. Ever since we started working on Fundamental Library for Angular we have been supporting Internet Explorer 11 as all other browsers. There were some uneasy moments ...
Do you spent some time on Twitter? Do you want to see a tweet when a new Kyma or Kyma CLI release was published with a reference to the release? If the answer to both is yes, then say hello to the (unofficial) Kyma Update Twitter Bot . Motivation Cu...
In the previous blog post, I introduced Fosstars, an open source Java-based framework, that allows you to create ratings for open source projects. Such ratings help to assess various properties of open source projects such as activity, maintenance an...
This blog post is part of a series outlining the processes and tools that we at SAP apply for a secure handling of our open-source supply chain. If you haven’t read the introductory blog post, you may want to read it first here. Find below the refere...
Run better together with open source! After a year of our successful internal open source webinar series, it is time to share our knowledge and best-practices with external audiences interested in open source insights, projects and SAP’s engagement....
This blog post is part of a blog series outlining on the processes and tools that we at SAP apply for a secure handling of our open-source supply chain. If you haven’t read the introductory blog post, you may want to read it first here. Find below t...
This blog post is part of a blog series outlining on the processes and tools that we at SAP apply for a secure handling of our open-source supply chain. If you haven’t read the introductory blog post, you may want to read it first here. Find below t...
In this blog post series, we will familiarize you with the processes and tools that we at SAP apply for a secure handling of our open-source supply chain. The series will start with an introductory post outlining on agile development stages and prin...
Open source components can extend application’s functionality, save time and reduce costs. The main criteria for selecting open source components are the desired functionality. However, there are other criteria such as project activity, popularity or...
Year in Review This is the fourth and last part of our miniseries: Part 1 – Contributions to Open Source Part 2 – Examples of SAP Open Source Projects Part 3 – Empowering our Developers Part 4 – External Communication about SAP Ope...
Year in Review This is the third part of our miniseries: Part 1 – Contributions to Open Source Part 2 – Examples of SAP Open Source Projects Part 3 – Empowering our Developers Part 4 – External Communication about SAP Open Source ...
Year in Review This is the second part of our miniseries: Part 1 – Contributions to Open Source Part 2 – Examples of SAP Open Source Projects Part 3 – Empowering our Developers Part 4 – External Communication about SAP Open Source ...
Year in Review “Sharing is Caring” 2020 has been a year like no other. All of us have been affected in many ways and to different degrees and had to find solutions to deal with the pandemic. At the same time, this crisis has underlined the si...
On August 7 2019 my son Fabian was born. I had 4 weeks of parental leave planned to support my partner in these often stressful times. Turned out that Fabian was and still is easy going and we were able to enjoy a lot of quality time with him. And I ...
Bayesian Network Builder I’m pleased to announce that Bayesian Network Builder is now open-source on Github! It is a utility I made when I implemented Zefiro – the autonomous driver of purchase journeys – and now, departed from its parent project, m...
Welcome to the third part of my Kyma Hands-On series. This series shares my learning outcomes of exploring Kyma first-hand. It aims to enable anyone interested in Kyma by sharing the steps I took, the lessons I learned, and the tips I gathered. If ...
Welcome to the second part of the Kyma Hands-On series. This series shares the learning outcomes of exploring Kyma first-hand. It aims to enable anyone interested in Kyma by sharing the steps I took, the lessons I learned, and the tips I gathered. ...
In the recent SAP platform discussions, Kyma has become a ?hot topic. Mainly, the announcement that Kyma will be available as a managed service from SAP seemed to gotten everyone's attention. It certainly caught my attention. If you haven't heard of...
Agree, we're going through an unnatural cycle of time, we're home, missing our old fun days, now no more Monday Blues and Friday also don't bring joy of what it was known for. Things changed, so as our online learning platform Open SAP, some of woul...
Open Source is a very dear topic for me, as it brings a culture of openness, collaboration and meritocracy. I was very happy when I started applying this concepts at SAP, and also glad to discover that the practice of applying this concepts for in-h...
Recently, two colleagues and I presented SAP’s open source outbound process at the GitHub Enterprise Roadshow in Munich, Germany. As we received feedback that quite a few companies face similar challenges, I decided to write this blog post to share o...
Some time ago I've posted on github a code of the program which helps to create an ABAP type on a base of JSON structure. Such program is very useful when you work with web-services or web-hooks, as you can automate the creation of the types for your...
SAP is a proud exhibitor of this year's OSCON again. As a strong believer in open-source software, we have a portfolio of ongoing projects to show. If you are heading to OSCON (or there already), please stop by to say hi at our booth. Of special fe...
[tl;dr] Modern software engineering practices require a high-quality mindset. Automated tests such as unit-, integration-, system- or any other tests such as security or performance tests are on the rise. But with more and more automated tests, teams...
The use of open-source software (OSS) is ever-increasing, and so is the number of open-source vulnerabilities being discovered and publicly disclosed. The risks that come from the reuse of community-developed libraries were mercilessly demonstrated...
You certainly remember Heartbleed: Back in 2014, this vulnerability in the OpenSSL crypto library put many TLS-enabled websites at risk. It was an eye-opener demonstrating to what extent we all depend on the security of open source software compone...
Tomorrow morning I'm off to Brussels for FOSDEM - the Free and Open Source Software Developers' Meeting. Some people might wonder what this has to do with SAP, but don't forget that lots of people (including yours truly) combine open source technol...
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