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CarineTchoutouo
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Hey everyone!

Devtoberfest is almost here - and it's Devtoberfest by SAP TechEd in 2024🍻

This year, Devtoberfest, the celebration of SAP technologies, is getting closer to SAP's premiere tech conference, SAP TechEd. The free, virtual event will run from September 23 to October 25, 2024, with a break during the week of SAP TechEd Virtual 2024. All sessions will be livestreamed/premiered on the SAP Developers' channel on YouTube.  

This already seems to be a tradition: Monday is 💚 ABAP & CAP Day. 

You can find a list of all the session content in the SAP Community events area: Devtoberfest Events.

  • Monday: 🟢 ABAP & CAP
  • Tuesday: 🟣 Tooling (for SAP Build Apps and SAP Build Code)
  • Wednesday: 🔴 Integration
  • Thursday: 🔵 Machine Learning, AI, and Data
  • Friday: 🟠 Frontend

ABAP_Cloud_Logo (3).pngABAP Cloud is the comprehensive development model for building clean core compliant, cloud-ready business applications, services, and extensions on both SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP S/4HANA, in the cloud and on-premise. The various ABAP sessions will cover different aspects of clean core extensibility with ABAP Cloud and GenAI - including key user, developer, and side-by-side extensibility - and more.  

Take advantage of this opportunity to interact with your peers and SAP experts - and get first-hand insights into the latest and greatest ABAP features!

Here is a compact overview of the various ABAP sessions at this year's event.

◆ 📅 [CW39] WEEK 1  

  • Clean core extensibility with ABAP Cloud in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 
  • Understand the clean core extensibility options for SAP S/4HANA Cloud 
  • Building partner products on SAP BTP ABAP Environment 
  • Major updates for embedded analytics in ABAP Cloud 
  • Data integration in ABAP Cloud with SQL services and CDS external entities

◆ 📅 [CW40] WEEK 2  

  • Data modeling with the latest features of ABAP Core Data Services 
  • Tools for Clean ABAP 
  • SAP Forms by Adobe 
  • Test double mechanisms with ABAP Unit - Your friend in achieving effective test automation 

📅 [CW41] ABAP Cloud sessions at SAP TechEd Virtual 2024

◆ 📅 [CW42] WEEK 3  

  • What software developers should know about key user extensibility 
  • Gain Development Experience and Efficiency with Joule's ABAP Developer Capabilities
  • Developing and transforming your ABAP custom code for clean core in SAP S/4HANA 
  • How to extend the different SAP S/4HANA editions effectively and clean core compliant
  • Source-side filtering of RAP business events in SAP BTP ABAP Environment and in Advanced Event Mesh via dynamic topics
  • Discover SAP Event Sources for Advanced Event Mesh

◆ 📅 [CW43] WEEK 4  

  • Overview of reuse services in ABAP Cloud 
  • ABAP Development Tools - News and Roadmap 
  • DevOps with SAP BTP ABAP Environment 
  • SAP Business Client & SAP GUI - The Journey Continues

Below is a detailed overview of the ABAP sessions, including abstracts, schedules, speakers, and links. 
ℹ️Click on the session titles to navigate to the respective event pages in the dedicated SAP Community Group, where you can already start communicating with the speakers, your peers, and the event organizers. Indicate your interest in the session in the "Will you be attending?" and use the "Add to Calendar" option to save the date and time to your individual calendar.
🔔 You can also use the "Notify me" feature on YouTube to be notified when livestreams and premieres start!

Enjoy the event! 🍻


WEEK 1

🟢 Clean core extensibility with ABAP Cloud in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 
In this session, we will demonstrate how the 3-tier extensibility model helps you to consume Business APIs (BAPIs) with ABAP Cloud in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA.
Speakers: Manikandan Rajasekaran (SAP), Vignesh Subramanian (SAP) 
Livestream📅 Sept 23, 2024 | 9:00 - 10:00 AM CEST
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🟢 Understand the clean core extensibility options for SAP S/4HANA Cloud 
Understand the difference between the different extensibility options - i.e. key user, developer, and side-by-side extensibility - available with ABAP Cloud for Cloud ERP and see how to use them. The focus of this session is on developer extensibility. 
Speakers: Carine Tchoutouo Djomo (SAP), André Fischer (SAP)
Livestream📅 Sept 23, 2024 | 11:00 - 12:00 AM CEST
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🟢 Building partner products on SAP BTP ABAP Environment  
In this session, you will learn how partners can develop, build, run, and operate ABAP Cloud products on SAP BTP ABAP Environment. Get an overview of the latest features and an outlook on the roadmap. 
Speakers: Ronny Pahlke (SAP), Frank Jentsch (SAP) 
Livestream📅 Sept 23, 2024 | 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
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🟢 Major updates for embedded analytics in ABAP Cloud 
ABAP Core Data Services (CDS) based embedded analytics provides easy-to-use analytical tooling and allows you to drill down, aggregate, and display data from your core solution modelled with ABAP CDS. In this session, we present analytical data modeling basics in CDS as well as the new multi-dimensional analysis generator for building native, multi-dimensional SAP Fiori apps on top of the ABAP CDS-based analytical data model. 
Speakers: Andreas Riehl (SAP), Olivia Baumann (SAP), Stefan Unnebrink (SAP)
Livestream📅 Sept 23, 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
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🟢 Data integration in ABAP Cloud with SQL services and CDS external entities
Data access patterns for ABAP-managed data can be categorized into data federation and data replication, as well as privileged access and business user access. Data federation allows for live access to the source system without replicating the data, while data replication involves replicating the data to a second system for local execution. In this session, we present steps for external data access from an ABAP System via SQL services and ABAP CDS based external entities. Data replication support with ABAP SQL service is also presented. 
Speakers: Arne Harren (SAP), Dr. Harish Bokkasam (SAP) 
Livestream📅 Sept 23, 2024 | 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
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WEEK 2

🟢 Data modeling with the latest features of ABAP Core Data Services  
The ABAP Core Data Services (CDS) framework combines semantic data model definition with the computational power of the SAP HANA DB. In this session, we present best practices for data modeling based on the latest CDS features such as scalar functions, CDS aspects, external entities, and brand-new tool integrations such as the CDS graphical modeler for SAP Business Application Studio.  
Speakers: Matthias Herchenroether (SAP), Katharina Altrichter (SAP)
Livestream📅 Sept 30, 2024 | 9:00 - 10:00 AM CEST
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🟢 Tools for Clean ABAP 
Clean ABAP helps to write readable, testable and maintainable code. While much of this requires human expertise and team discipline, some aspects can be automated. In this presentation we will show you how ABAP cleaner and the Code Pal checks for the ABAP Test Cockpit can help you to easily integrate the Clean ABAP rules into your development process and give you an update on how ABAP cleaner has evolved since its initial release last year. 
Speakers: Björn Jüliger (SAP), Jörg-Michael Grassau (SAP) 
Livestream📅 Sept 30, 2024 | 11:00 - 12:00 AM CEST
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🟢 SAP Forms by Adobe 
Find out how to make the most of print forms and interactive forms using SAP Forms service by Adobe in the cloud and SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe on-premise. We explain the overall strategy, key functions and benefits, continuous improvements and options for the cloud. We will also give an update about the local deployment option based on XSA,  the SAP HANA Extended Application Services, Advanced Version. 
Speakers: Peter Barker (SAP), Sandra Thimme (SAP)
Livestream📅  Sept 30, 2024 | 13:00 - 14:00 AM CEST
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🟢 Test double mechanisms with ABAP Unit - Your friend in achieving effective test automation 
Do you face any of the following challenges while writing automated tests in ABAP?
How to have stable automated tests? How to deal with the different types of dependencies while testing your ABAP code - ABAP classes, database dependencies via CDS, ABAP SQL, RAP BOs, function modules, role authorizations, etc? When to use which test double mechanism while writing ABAP unit tests? 
If yes, then this session can help you a bit!
Speakers: Sunil Bandameedapalli (SAP)
Livestream📅  Sept 30, 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 AM CEST
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WEEK 3

🟢 What software developers should know about key user extensibility
Key User Extensibility is a major pillar of the SAP S/4HANA Extensibility concept. It enables business experts to do last mile extensions by their own. But it also provides a lot of value for developers.
In this session, we provide an overview on the key user tools and will answer the question why developers should care for it. We provide examples for extensions that are realized as combination of key user and developer extensibility. An outlook on how generative AI support will change the creation of extensions will round off the session.  
Speakers: Thomas Schneider (SAP) 
Livestream📅 Oct 14, 2024 |   8:00 - 9:00 AM CEST
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🟢 Gain Development Experience and Efficiency with Joule's ABAP Developer Capabilities
Learn about Joule's ABAP developer capabilities. Dive through specific use cases, delve into the generative AI product roadmap for ABAP, and gain valuable insights on leveraging these advancements to enhance your productivity and experience in everyday development tasks.
Speakers: Dr. Jasmin Gruschke (SAP), Sebastian Baskovich (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 14, 2024 | 9:00 - 10:00 AM CEST
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🟢 Developing and transforming your ABAP custom code for clean core in SAP S/4HANA  
In this session we introduce the new guidelines for clean core ABAP development in the well-known 3-tier extensibility model in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and on-premise and handle transformation options for existing custom code to ABAP Cloud including outlook of future generative AI support. You will also learn how ABAP Test Cockpit will support governance of your clean core developments.
Speakers: Olga Dolinskaja (SAP), Thomas Fiedler (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 14, 2024 |  11:00 - 12:00 AM CEST
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🟢 How to extend the different SAP S/4HANA editions effectively and clean core compliant
This session will explain how to extend the SAP S/4HANA editions effectively following the clean core guidance. This includes the 3-tier extensibility model, ABAP Cloud, CAP, LC/NC tools and how GenAI will support the developer. And we will explain how all this can work for customers who have a lot of legacy custom code in their system.
Speakers: Boris Gebhardt (SAP), Tim Back (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 14, 2024 | 14:00 - 15:00 AM CEST
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🔴 Source-side filtering of RAP business events in SAP BTP ABAP Environment and in Advanced Event Mesh ...
Facilitate source-side filtering of RAP business events in SAP BTP ABAP Environment using custom context attributes comply with Data Privacy and Protection (DPP) and for more sophisticated event dispatching. Use dynamic topics for routing and filtering of RAP business events in SAP Advanced Event Mesh.
Speakers: Tatjana Pfeifer (SAP), Jonas Braun (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 16, 2024 |  9:00 - 10:00 AM CEST
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 🔴 Discover SAP Event Sources for Advanced Event Mesh
SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh is SAP’s market leading event mesh and distributes events in real time in your SAP technical ecosystem and way beyond. Now, what is an event mesh, as sophisticated as it may be, without events? Not much, right? Therefore, we will look into how to expose events from SAP business applications like SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC and SAP SuccessFactors solutions via Advanced Event Mesh. The session will both provide the theoretical and commercial background as well as provide detailed demos of event-enabling the different backends using different approaches.
Speakers: Karsten Strothmann (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 16, 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
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WEEK 4

🟢 Overview of reuse services in ABAP Cloud  
Reuse services offered by the ABAP platform provide general capabilities that are required by multiple services and apps. In this session, we will show how the most prominent reuse services that can be used in ABAP development with ABAP Cloud and which applications are delivered by SAP for monitoring and management of these services.The presentation will cover the use of application jobs, application logs, change documents, number ranges and the email API. 
Speakers: André Fischer (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 21, 2024 | 9:00 - 10:00 AM CEST
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🟢 ABAP Development Tools - News and Roadmap
In this session, learn the latest developments regarding ABAP Development Tools ranging from the ADT actions framework that let’s you extend your development environment with custom actions over new design options and an outlook on our future IDE strategy.
Speakers: Alexander Ritter (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 21, 2024 |  11:00 - 12:00 AM CEST
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🟢 DevOps with SAP BTP ABAP Environment
Learn about git-based customer lifecycle management (LM) on SAP BTP ABAP Environment which aims to combine proven and reliable ABAP LM benefits with the git-based CI/CD approach familiar to many. Watch live demos of our latest features and get an outlook on future developments. 
Speakers: Julie Plummer (SAP),  Dr. Christoph Pohl (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 21, 2024 |  13:00 - 14:00 AM CEST
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🟢 SAP Business Client & SAP GUI - The Journey Continues 
Transitioning users from SAP GUI to SAP Fiori via integrating the SAP Fiori Launchpad into SAP Business Client to launch native SAP GUI for Windows transactions and Fiori Apps in one-single-entry point from local and remote systems. 
Speakers: Sandra Thimme (SAP), Ralph Resech (SAP)
Livestream📅 Oct 21, 2024 |  15:00 - 16:00 AM CEST
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Have I aroused your curiosity? Then attend the various sessions to learn more about the latest and greatest ABAP innovations and best practices.

In the meantime, you can watch the replays of last year's events, SAP TechEd Virtual in 2023 and SAP's Devtoberfest in 2023. You can also check out the ABAP Cloud sessions at the upcoming SAP TechEd Virtual 2024 on October 8-9, 2024

We look forward to interacting with you!