SAP Cloud Platform Products and Services

A lot of new features and updates regarding SAP Cloud Platform have been announced recently. Among them is the Application Programming Model which provides best practices and a set of enterprise-grade tools, languages and libraries to guide you through your application development process. Along with the new Application Programming Model came other updates like advanced support for SAP Web IDE and new tools such as CDS Editors, Code Assists, Outline Views, new Project Explorer, etc. Other updates include fully-managed services that run in a serverless environment such as Messaging as a service, Functions as a service - SAP Cloud Platform Functions (beta), and Backend as a service – SAP Cloud Platform Backend service (beta). For more information about these and other recent news and updates, see links below:

• Introducing the New Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform
• Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform in Action
• Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform – Start Here
• Top 5 Time Saving Benefits of the Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform
• Develop SAP Cloud Platform Applications with SAP Web IDE
• Getting started with SAP Cloud Platform Functions (beta) in a serverless environment
• How to use SAP Cloud Platform Functions and Enterprise Messaging to build agile, responsive applications and "keep the core clean"
• My First FaaS on SCP
• Introducing Core Data Services for VS Code
• The Next Evolution for Extensions – the SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory
• Multitenancy Architecture on SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Environment
• Use the Application Programming Model to create a Full Stack App

Click here to sign up for your free SAP Cloud Platform developer trial. For step by step tutorials to help you get started, click here.

Combining Spatial and Sentiment Analysis Using SAP HANA

Read this blog by IT enthusiast Serban Petrescu and learn how to build a solution to identify complaints and pin-point opportunities for infrastructure improvements. By using SAP HANA and combining native capabilities such as spatial processing and text analysis, as well as some APIs, the solution provides a variety of insights leveraging structured data. The blog covers all the steps, from gathering the data to importing it, geocoding it, extracting results and visualization. For more info about SAP HANA and to get your free download, click here. To explore further, take a look at these tutorials.

Testing Your SAPUI5 Application with OPA5

Learn how to use SAP Web IDE templates to create OPA pages and OPA journeys as well as code completions to create an OPA Action, OPA Assertion, and OPA Test in this blog. In addition, read about OPA5 best practices and discover how to use stable ids to identify elements, the UI Component mode to speed up the OPA5 test runtime, and RegExp to identify elements and match on property values. To get started with SAPUI5, click here

New step by step tutorials and how-to guides

Explore our new tutorials available on the SAP Developer Center:

• How to Add a simple Java app to a Multi-Target Application
• How to Add a User Task and Generic UI to Your Workflow
• How to Add Basic Logging to Your Node.js App
• How to Add Data to Your OData Service
• How to Add a Web Dynpro ABAP Application to Your Supplier Portal
• A Flask application on Azure App Service that queries SAP HANA, express edition
• How to add advanced geospatial processing to your SAP HANA app with Hibernate
• Access SAP S/4HANA Cloud using SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK
• How to Add a Custom Fiori App to a Launchpad Page
• How to Add a Launchpad Page to Your Freestyle Portal Site
• How to Add an SAP Fiori (SAPUI5) App to Your Freestyle Portal Site

Upcoming events:

Events
November 9, 2018
SAP CodeJam Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany

November 10, 2018
SAP Inside Track Netherlands
Noord Brabant, Netherlands

November 15, 2018
SAP CodeJam Vancouver
Vancouver, BC, Canada

November 28-30
SAP TechEd Bangalore
Bangalore, India

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