Mateusz Skrzyniarz’s Post

Marketing vs Reality in modern SAP developments. This and many more meaty subjects will be discussed in Birmingham tomorrow, where module 4 - Application Development of the workshops organised by UKISUG will be co-delivered by Basis Technologies and AvoTechs. About to board the plane headed to Birmingham now, who is joining us? David Lees Justin Vaughan-Brown Szymon Kołaczyński Craig Oliver #SAP #SAPCommunity #BTP #S4HANA

Sapphire 2024 in Orlando is done and dusted. But if you've missed the announcements and don't have the time to watch all the sessions, here is a handy website that summarises everything for you, split into the following categories: * SAP Business AI * SAP BTP * Cloud ERP * Industries and Customer Experience * Intelligent Spend and Business Networks * Learning, and SAP Services and Support Pretty concise write-ups! https://lnkd.in/d4aerhYZ #SAP #SAPcommunity #S4HANA #SAPPHIRE

There are so many mangers on SAP projects. But a manager is unfortunately nobody, without the right team of hands-on professionals. So, if you ever join a call where everybody introduces themselves as manager of this and that and you feel like you are the only person in the room who’s “just” going to execute - don’t feel less valuable! In fact, it’s often the opposite - you might be the most valuable person on the team because let me tell you: Many projects wouldn’t fail with 1 or 2 fewer managers on the team But, …all projects would fail without hands-on professionals doing "the dirty work"! #SAP #SAPCommunity #S4HANA #BTP #ABAP

Companies complain about custom SAP solutions - TCO, stability, quality, bugs, user-friendliness, …. what in your opinion is the most common problem with not-so-perfect custom-built SAP solutions? #SAP #SAPCommunity #S4HANA #BTP #ABAP

Building a BTP adoption plan and thinking of outsourcing? Here’s what you should definitely keep in house. 1. Platform Team & Decision Makers - Especially those that will monitor the budget and what’s moved to BTP - there should be an incentive in keeping BTP adoption under control 2. Solution Architects - Technical expertise is relatively universal but getting to know your custom business processes needs time. Try to keep and develop that expertise in-house 3. Business Analysts - Nobody knows your business as well as you do. Don’t try to change it but make sure there’s no resistance to innovation. What’s ok to outsource, though? 1. Technical Architects & Consultants - to help you build processes, decision criteria and designs for BTP applications. Insights from other such projects are gold. 2. Developers - to turn designs into reality 3. Trainers - to up-skill your in-house teams bringing in experience from the outside. But both of these teams must work together. That’s the only way you can build a robust and scalable BTP adoption plan. 1 hour of my consultation recently saved a company 3500$ per month in BTP service subscription costs. Do you want to know how? Let’s have a chat ! Book a 30-minute meeting here so we can talk about your BTP adoption plan - free of charge! https://lnkd.in/eWdD8XUu #SAP #SAPCommunity #BTP #S4HANA

ABAP is not dead. Whoever tells you it is should probably open their eyes and look at how it’s evolved and what codebase S/4HANA is built on. Wanting to get S/4HANA-development-ready? Make sure you bookmark this guide for ABAP-based extensions. P.S., it’s a year and a half since the release of Chat-GPT. Are there ABAP developers out there who already go replaced by AI?? ;-) #SAP #SAPCommunity #S4HANA #BTP #ABAP https://lnkd.in/d_BTmSxg

It’s extremely challenging to establish SAP development processes in large international organisations. Whoever tells you it’s easy has probably never actually been involved in companies running multiple business lines and multiple geographical locations. Different: - Decision makers - Reasons to change - Budgets - Project plans - Implementation plans - Cultures - Skillsets …are just some of the challenges we need to face. Yet I think we are on the right track to close this gap for one of my clients. We are updating and rolling out a process for the activation of standard Fiori apps and configuration of Fiori Launchpads. Wish us luck! What do you think are the benefits of streamlining development processes across big organisations? #SAP #SAPCommunity #S4HANA #BTP

Trying to achieve 0 technical debt in your S/4HANA transformation is a bad idea. Let’s face it - organisations running on SAP have been accumulating their custom code for years and years. Some of it is ok, other might be terrible. But often times we hear that moving to S/4HANA is THE TIME to get rid of ALL OF THE TECHNICAL DEBT and start fresh. I disagree with it and here is why: - Companies that want to make the transformation PERFECT will delay it until they are really ready, but will they ever be? - Reducing the TD down to 0 might end up never really paying off - Trying to make everything perfect might multiply your TCT - Total Cost of Transformation (I’ve just made this acronym up!) - Some TD will NEVER affect your upgrades, system stability, security or even TCO I was initially onboard of this train too but now I no longer am. It’s time to start being realistic. So what to do instead? Categorise and prioritise TD and focus on the one that really does make things worse and not the one that only fancy theories and shiny slides tell you to clean up. The clock is ticking. The longer you wait the less time you’ll have for the move. It’ll never be the perfect time to start and aiming for perfection might end up disastrous. What is your #1 tip for refactoring custom developments to S/4HANA? #SAP #SAPCommunity #S4HANA #BTP

I overestimated my abilities to multitask… Juggling between multiple customer and partner projects, scaling the teams, talking to new potential customers, overlooking the redesign of our website, establishing company processes and also spending enough time with my wife and my 3-month old son - it’s been pretty crazy! Hence, I haven’t been that consistent in posting over the last 2 weeks - you need to forgive me ;-) but writing half-bothered or reused LinkedIn posts just to keep the calendar full isn’t my cup of tea. But let me tell you - we are preparing something cool for you - tech SAP people out there so watch this space - more MODERN technical SAP meat (also suitable for vegetarians!), more interaction, more real problem solving, all coming soon! Have a good Sunday! #SAP #SAPCommunity #S4HANA #BTP #ABAP

Standard S/4HANA Fiori Apps are already there for you! You don't need a magician to use them, you just need to activate them. If you are on S/4HANA and still haven't started the exploration of standard Fiori capabilities - let's talk! We can enable a few apps for you in the sandbox environment so that your business users can start exploring. No development is required! Remember, SAP is dropping support for many SAP GUI apps and besides that - they are not shipping any more innovations into them! Do you think there are many brand new, fresh installations of S/4HANA that still solely rely on SAP GUI-based transactions? #SAP #SAPCommunity #S4HANA #BTP #Fiori