Welcome to the ABAPConf 2025 Community Day in Mannheim

Feel free to come by. The ABAPConf orga team for Mannheim will be preparing the rooms and running some last (live) tests for the big show tomorrow. If you ever wanted to take a look behind the scenes: this is your chance!

Embarking on an S/4HANA migration with a mountain of custom ABAP code? This discussion offers a fresh perspective on turning that challenge into an opportunity to build a clean, maintainable core. You’ll discover practical strategies and paradigms to reduce technical debt, embrace modern tools and frameworks like CDS, RAP, and Fiori elements, and automate your way to a healthier codebase. Going from a high level and down to details, we will explore together how the wisdom of the past, with the technology of the future, can be combined to make something great.

A look outside the SAP bubble. How are others doing it? What can we learn from them? Or is the SAP world the best? This talk wants to discuss the topics that might influence our future as SAP developers. What should be adopt, what are we doing better?

If you look outside, you'll realise that the IT world is more than just reports. While some of the most successfull companies in the world are using SAP, the inovovation they drive has nothing to do with SAP. Be it UX, mobile, internet of things or now AI: these trends came from the outside. What does this mean for us as SAP developers? Adopt or be obsolete? Or is it them that should start listening and learn from us?