This event will focus on Automation.

Ian Stubbings, Developers SIG Chair will deliver an update on his visit to Walldorf.

Lars Petersen from INVIXO will present ABAP monoliths are bad.

Gartner and others tell us that monoliths are bad, but what does it mean? Should all ABAP be thrown out? Let’s take an opinionated look at what it means, where we are going, and what can be done.

Michael Koch & Mandeep Bhambra from Warwick University will present ABAP Unit – Real World Use.

This session gives insight into how Warwick University have started using ABAP Unit Tests. Michael and Mandeep will provide some ABAP Unit Test background, show some of their own unit test coding examples and talk about their real-world experiences in this area.

Arndt Hoffmann from smartShift Technologies will present With Intelligent Automation to SAP S/4HANA – Fast, Agile, Risk-minimised!

These days, everyone talks about S/4HANA and the adoption path that's best. Be it greenfield, brownfield or another-field, smartShift's automated 3-step approach to S/4HANA adoption will accelerate and de-risk your journey to the digital core. smartShift Technologies brings agility and predictability to enterprise technology. They use unique and patented Intelligent Automation that modernises software systems to ensure they perform optimally in a cloud and big data world. Using concrete examples, smartShift will show you how to analyze the impact of S/4HANA on your system, how to prepare your system today for S/4HANA adoption tomorrow, and how to convert your entire system or just a single business process fast, agilely and with minimal risk.

Finally learn how Intelligent Automation can create a different experience in your S/4HANA roadmap. smartShift Arndt will discuss different conversion scenarios and explain how the use of Intelligent Automation saves time, reduces risk and minimises business disruption. S/4HANA conversions are too complex, risky, time consuming and create massive business disruption? Let smartShift dispel those rumors.