Roadmap

ABAP Platform
CAA800
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Las Vegas
September 24–27, 2019

Karl Kessler

Barcelona
October 8-10, 2019

Karl Kessler

Bangalore
November 13-15, 2019

Srinivasa GV

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Agenda

Product Overview

Innovations
 SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment
 ABAP Platform for SAP S/4HANA

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ABAP Platform
Product description

Key capabilities

ABAP PLATFORM PROVIDES THE TECHNOLOGY AND INTEGRATION PLATFORM

UNDERLYING SAP’S DIGITAL CORE SAP S/4HANA,
SAP Business Suite,
MODERN DEVELOPMENT
SAP Business Warehouse,
Develop SAP HANA-optimized SAP Fiori business apps and services on-premise and in the cloud APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
with first-class developer experience SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP
SAPCP
SAP | PARTNER | CUSTOMER
ABAP Environment
COMPREHENSIVE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT Partner,
Powerful change and transport management, software logistics, (near) zero downtime management Custom Code,
VAST ECOSYSTEM …
Partner solution extensions and broad developer community
ABAP PLATFORM
DELIVER A BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM TO OUR CUSTOMERS
Provide business technology capabilities to turn DATA INTO ACTION
DATABASE
Help customers to continuously APPLY AND USE INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY like Machine
Learning, IoT and analytics in their business processes

Leverage hyperscalers - SCALE APPROPRIATELY WITH INCREASED DEMAND

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ABAP Platform
Product direction

on premise on premise cloud

SAP Business Suite1 SAP S/4HANA On Premise SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP Cloud Platform ABAP
SAP NetWeaver hubs ABAP add-ons for SAP Integrated Business Planning Environment
SAP NetWeaver add-ons SAP S/4HANA Foundation Extensions for SAP S/4HANA
Custom applications Custom applications

SAP NETWEAVER AS FOR ABAP PLATFORM ≥1809 ABAP PLATFORM CLOUD ABAP PLATFORM AS A
ABAP 7.5x
2 (indirect shipment) (indirect shipment) SERVICE

NO STANDALONE ABAP PLATFORM

INSTALLATION RELEASED APIs
CLASSIC ABA LAYER 3
NEW ABA LAYER NEW ABA LAYER NEW ABA LAYER
ANY DB & SAP HANA
SAP HANA ONLY SAP HANA ONLY SAP HANA ONLY

MAINTENANCE
ONE COMMON ABAP PLATFORM INNOVATION CODELINE
CODELINE

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SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment
SAP’s platform-as-a-service offering for the ABAP developer community

Key capabilities

CLOUD-OPTIMIZED ABAP LANGUAGE

with restricted set of language elements suitable
for cloud operation

SIDE-BY-SIDE EXTENSIBILITY
of cloud and on-premise SAP solutions

ABAP RESTful PROGRAMMING MODEL

for the development of SAP HANA optimized
SAP Fiori applications and cloud APIs

EXPLOITING SAP HANA

native capabilities on the ABAP layer

FULL UTILIZATION
of the SAP Cloud Platform services

HIGH DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY

with Eclipse-based ABAP Development Tools

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SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment
ROAD MAP
ABAP Platform for SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment
Product road map overview – Key innovations

Delivered with V1905 Delivered with V1908 V1911 – Planned Q4/20191 2020+ – Product Direction1

ABAP RESTful Programming Model ABAP RESTful Programming Model ABAP RESTful Programming Model Partner Development
 Simplified consumption of remote OData services by  Support for greenfield application development via  Support of metadata extensions  Partners can develop, offer and run applications for their
providing code snippets managed scenario without draft support customers

 Test class wizard for writing OData integration tests  Transport of business configuration content ABAP Language and Development Tools
ABAP RESTful Programming Model
 Release of runtime type information API
 Draft support
ABAP Language and Development Tools ABAP Language and Development Tools  ADT editors for BAdI definitions and implementations  Support of business events
 Dynamic Programming: CREATE DATA, CREATE  Dynamic ABAP SQL  abapGit: Push from cloud to cloud and to on-premise
OBJECT, CALL METHOD, ASSIGN  OData V4 support
 Support new SAP HANA data types in ABAP and DDIC  SQL Trace via ADT & Technical Monitoring Cockpit  Enhanced supportability
 ADT support for Eclipse 2019-03 (4.11)
 Extensibility and verticalization
 Mass enabled object deletion in ADT Custom Code Transformation Custom Code Transformation
 Integration of draft-enabled BOPF business objects
 Support of deprecation status for released SAP  SAP Fiori App: Custom code migration to SAP  SAP Fiori App: Custom code migration to SAP Cloud
objects S/4HANA Platform ABAP Environment ABAP Language and Development Tools
 Support of released objects handling for customer-  Quick fixes to adapt to ABAP language version and to  Support for custom-developed ATC checks
defined objects adapt to released objects Infrastructure
 Conversion exit ALPHA for customer-defined domains  Trial offering Custom Code Transformation
Connectivity & Infrastructure
 Support additional sizing options (SAP HANA memory)  Migration support from CDS-based BOPF to the
Connectivity / Integration  RFC support from on-premise via synchronous RFC ABAP RESTful Programming Model
 Simplified setup of SAP Web IDE integration (SAP delivered communication scenarios)
Released reuse services
 Support an AWS data center in US Data Integration
 Application Jobs
Security  Data replication between ABAP Environment system and
Certifications  Change Documents other SAP S/4HANA system, cloud and on-premise edition
 Instance-based authorization checks using business
roles (w/o custom restriction types and fields)  ISO 27001 and SOC 1 compliance  Parallel Processing
Analytics / Enterprise search
 CDS-based reporting: KPIs & Reports via analytical engine
 SAP Analytics Cloud integration via analytical engine
 Enablement of CDS-based Enterprise Search

Certifications
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.  SOC 2 compliance

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ABAP Platform for SAP S/4HANA
ROAD MAP
ABAP Platform for SAP S/4HANA
Product road map overview – Key innovations
Recent innovations
Development Platform
 Modern and simplified ABAP language
 Support of CDS hierarchies and abstract CDS entities
 Enhanced ABAP SQL, e.g. support of hierarchy functions as data
source in queries and various date/time functions
 Support of scalar functions in AMDP for SAP HANA breakouts
 SAP HANA 2.0 support
 Improved ABAP Programming Model for SAP Fiori
 Real-time events with ABAP channels and ABAP daemons
 Support for enhancements and modifications in ABAP in Eclipse
 Improved ABAP Test Cockpit: automatic email notification after ATC
run and at exemptions, setting last changer as contact person
Custom code adaptation
 New SAP Fiori App for efficient custom code analysis for
SAP S/4HANA incl. scoping based on usage data with automatic
removal of unused code via SUM
 Semi-automatic custom code adaptation for SAP S/4HANA via mass-
enabled ADT Quick Fixes
In-app extensibility
 Custom reusable elements: custom libraries and reusable code lists
 Tracing for Custom Business Objects
(Release 1809)
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
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2019 – Planned innovations1
Development Platform
 Availability of the ABAP RESTful Programming Model for easy
development of UI services and Web APIs
– Brownfield application development based on legacy code
– BO as first-class citizen in CDS and ABAP, incl. BO access APIs
– Integration with WYSIWYG editor for SAP Fiori UI development
– – OData V4 support
Provisioning and consumption of OData V2 based Web APIs
 Support of custom CDS entities
 SAP HANA Graph support in AMDP and CDS table functions
 Support of new SAP HANA data types support in ABAP and DDIC
 ADT enhancements, e.g. new editor for BAdIs, SQL trace support
 ATC enhancements: Improved email notifications and display of ATC
central runs in ADT
 Integration of ATC with SAP Readiness Check tool
 Git-enabled Change and Transport Management for DevOps support
Custom code adaptation
 SAP Fiori App for custom code analysis: improved supportability and
troubleshooting
 New ADT Quick Fixes for SAP S/4HANA findings, e.g. amount field
length extension, next steps for adaption of long MATNR/SFIN
In-app extensibility
 Change documents for Custom Business Objects
 Dependency graph in Extensibility Inventory
 Tracing for BADIs
2020 – Product direction1
Development Platform
 Innovations and enhancements for SAP S/4HANA
 Enhanced ABAP RESTful Programming Model
– Support of greenfield application development
via managed scenario with draft support
– Integration of draft-enabled BOPF business objects
– Enhanced supportability
– Extensibility and verticalization
 Continuous adoption of SAP HANA capabilities
 Enhanced ABAP development tools for on-premise and cloud
Custom code adaptation
 Migration support from CDS-based BOPF to the ABAP RESTful
Programming Model
 Further ADT Quick Fixes for non-source code artifacts, e.g. DDIC
and interfaces
 Enhanced SAP Fiori App for custom code analysis: integration of
effort estimation capabilities, integration of SQLM, enable “set code
back to standard”
In-app extensibility
 Extensibility templates incl. namespace support
– Collect extensibility key user items in SAP S/4HANA on-premise
– Export and import into an SAP S/4HANA Cloud system
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