Dear openSAP community,

If you haven’t already found one of our current courses to complete your learning wish-list, we’ve got four new courses now open for enrollment that might help! You can get hands-on practice with Extending SAP Cloud for Customer with SAP Cloud Platform or get up to speed with blockchain in SAP Leonardo – An Introduction to Blockchain. For those of you interested in running a business that has real social and environmental impact, you might be interested in How Social Enterprises Enhance Corporate Supply Chains to see what opportunities are available to you. And, due to popular demand, Software Design for Non-Designers returns to openSAP, so whether you’re new to the topic or you previously missed out on your record of achievement, here’s your chance to catch up!

Extending SAP Cloud for Customer with SAP Cloud Platform

In this course, you’ll learn how to easily extend your SAP Cloud for Customer solution with SAP Cloud Platform. Topics include extension scenarios, building side-by-side extensions, the SAP Cloud Platform extensibility foundation, and advanced services and offerings. The course starts October 29 and enrollment is now open.

How Social Enterprises Enhance Corporate Supply Chains

Get inspired and learn how social enterprises enhance corporate supply chains while having a positive environmental and social impact. You’ll hear from representatives of both social enterprises and companies who are involved in corporate social partnerships and learn about the benefits for everyone involved. The course starts January 22 and enrollment is now open.

SAP Leonardo – An Introduction to Blockchain

Join us to learn what blockchain is, how it works, and when you should use it. You’ll start with the basics and build your blockchain knowledge one step at the time and see SAP Leonardo Blockchain applied in real-life scenarios. The course starts October 17 and is now open for enrollment.

Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2018)

This popular course aims to explain common aspects of design as a way to improve user experience in software engineering and will provide an introduction to a few basic steps you can apply to your next project. It is taught by Scott Klemmer from UC San Diego and a team of design-driven development experts from SAP. The course starts on October 17, and is now open for enrollment.

Latest courses

Two-Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA
SAP Leonardo IoT for the Intelligent Enterprise
Get Coding with Snap!
Informatik für Einsteiger
Calliope mini erfolgreich in der Schule einsetzen

Current and upcoming courses

Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
Improving Confidence in Sustainability Performance Data
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (2018 Edition)
Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP Cloud Platform API Management
SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP TechEd 2017 Recap

If you’ve missed a previous course on openSAP, you can still catch up as all our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

See you soon on an openSAP course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Digital education and coding is an important life skill in the digital economy. Making coding and programming fun for everyone is key to encouraging people to learn more and get involved. Our latest course, Get Coding with Snap! helps you get started with programming in Snap!, a block-based open source programming language. The course is aimed at beginners as well as those interested in teaching others about programming.

We have two further courses in German language, aimed at a similar target audience. Informatik für Einsteiger is based on a book by Prof. Dr. Eckart Modrow about Snap! and Calliope mini erfolgreich in der Schule einsetzen for teachers and parents.

Get Coding with Snap!

In this course, you’ll get hands-on practice with Snap!, a blocks-based open source programming language. You’ll learn how to write interactive programs in Snap!, save and share projects, write your own blocks, and learn about the concepts of variables, functions, lists, and cloning, and how they work in Snap! There are ten projects to choose from and you’ll have the chance to extend and refine projects in weekly tasks. The course starts October 9 and enrollment is now open.

Informatik für Einsteiger (German language only)

Based on his book “Informatik mit Snap!” Prof. Dr. Eckart Modrow provides a basic introduction into computer science. Illustrative examples will help you to understand fundamental concepts of computer science, such as the structure of algorithms and different approaches of software development. This course enables you to practice what you have learned using Snap!, the popular block-based programming language throughout. The material can be re-used (CC-BY 4.0 license). The course start is October 23 and enrollment is now open.

Calliope mini erfolgreich in der Schule einsetzen (German language only)

The Calliope mini is a small microcontroller that gives schoolchildren from 3rd grade a playful access to the digital world. The voluntary initiative #MitRat&Tat and the non-profit GmbH Calliope, together with experienced pedagogues and openSAP, have created this course for the use and introduction of the Calliope mini in the school. The course is aimed at teachers and educators (especially from grades 3 to 6), but also interested parents, parents’ representatives and school authorities. The material can be re-used (CC-BY 4.0 license). The course is in German, starts on October 9 and is now open for enrollment.

Latest courses

Two-Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA
SAP Leonardo IoT for the Intelligent Enterprise

Current and upcoming courses

Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
Improving Confidence in Sustainability Performance Data
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (2018 Edition)
Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP Cloud Platform API Management
SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP TechEd 2017 Recap

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

This October, we’ve got three new courses starting with a focus on SAP S/4HANA and SAP Leonardo, Two-Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Leonardo IoT for the Intelligent Enterprise. And there’s just a few days left to tell us how you learn with SAP and be in with the chance to win a ticket to SAP TechEd!

Two-Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

In this course, you’ll learn about the concept of two-tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and how organizations can get set for their journey towards digital transformation. This course will highlight the need for two-tier ERP and show how SAP S/4HANA Cloud with its SaaS offering perfectly caters for the requirements and processes of different lines of business, which can be seamlessly integrated. The course starts October 10 and enrollment is now open.

System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA

Join this course to learn how to convert an SAP ERP system into an SAP S/4HANA system. After completing this course, you’ll have a good understanding about the benefits of a system conversion compared to a new implementation, which tools support a system conversion, and what essential changes are required in the Finance and Logistics areas. The course starts October 10 and enrollment is now open.

SAP Leonardo IoT for the Intelligent Enterprise

This course will help you to learn more and experience how the Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling the intelligent enterprise. SAP Leonardo IoT is the combination of intelligent applications, technologies, and innovations that leverage the Internet of Things to bring intelligence to the enterprise. This course also includes an ideation challenge! The course starts October 10 and enrollment is now open.

Win tickets to SAP TechEd 2018!

To be in with a chance to win a ticket to SAP TechEd 2018, create a short video telling us how you learn with SAP. Share your video via a video or file-sharing platform and add it to our discussion forum in the course SAP TechEd Recap 2017. You’ll find all the details and terms and conditions* in the course. Entries close September 3 at 09:00 UTC. Good luck with your entry!

*Travel and accommodation is not included. This competition is not open to SAP employees.

If you’d like to find out more about SAP TechEd, you can do so on the official SAP TechEd website.

Intelligent Enterprise courses

SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA

Current and upcoming courses

Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas
Introduction to SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer
SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management
SAP Cloud Platform API Management
Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation – An Introduction
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (2018 Edition)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Improving Confidence in Sustainability Performance Data
Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
SAP TechEd 2017 Recap
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

See you soon on an upcoming course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Many companies are looking for ways to start applying machine learning and deep learning to their business processes and data assets to realize the vision of an Intelligent Enterprise. As the world’s most relevant enterprise data is part of SAP’s system and business network, SAP aspires to make all its enterprise solutions intelligent and help customers leverage their data. Our new course, SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation – An Introduction, introduces you to SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation, a platform for machine learning and data science. And we’ve got 30 tickets to give away for SAP TechEd 2018 – keep reading to find out how you could win!

SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation – An Introduction
Join this course to get an understanding of the capabilities of this innovative technology, where new business applications and use cases for enterprise machine learning are presented. SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation supports several capabilities for developers and data scientists – from using customizable functional services for text, image, and speech processing, to training and deploying own deep learning models for use in Intelligent Enterprise applications. The course starts September 25 and enrollment is now open.

Win tickets to SAP TechEd 2018!

Along with our colleagues at SAP Learning Hub, we’re giving away 30 tickets to SAP TechEd 2018, 10 per event. To be in with a chance to win, create a short video telling us how you learn with SAP. Share your video via a video or file-sharing platform and add it to our discussion forum in the course SAP TechEd Recap 2017. You’ll find all the details and terms and conditions in the course. Entries close September 3 at 09:00 UTC. Good luck with your entry!

If you’d like to find out more about SAP TechEd, you can do so on the official SAP TechEd website.

Intelligent Enterprise courses

SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA

Current and upcoming courses

Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas
Introduction to SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer
SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management
SAP Cloud Platform API Management
Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (2018 Edition)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Improving Confidence in Sustainability Performance Data
Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
SAP TechEd 2017 Recap
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Having a vision for Digital Transformation in your business isn’t always enough. You need to plan and design your landscape architecture to ensure a successful transformation for everyone involved in your business. SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer provides a user-friendly, collaborative tool to encourage people in a wide variety of roles to participate in the planning and design of the architecture. Our new course, Introduction to SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, is the ideal way for you to learn about the architecture and planning capabilities that SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer offers to model the four key areas of business, data, landscape, and requirements together.

Introduction to SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer

This course will give you an overview of what’s involved. You’ll learn about how SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer involves all stakeholders in planning, designing, and governing the architecture, and makes it easy to capture, share, and understand it visually. And there’s optional system access to get hands-on practice too! The course starts September 25 and enrollment is now open.

Intelligent Enterprise courses

SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA

Current and upcoming courses

Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (2018 Edition)
Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Improving Confidence in Sustainability Performance Data
SAP Cloud Platform API Management
SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management
Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP TechEd 2017 Recap
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Two popular topics return to openSAP this September, and enrollment is now open for Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (2018 Edition).

Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

In this course, we’ll present what SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers to make this integration with multiple other solutions within your system landscape much easier than anything you’ve ever experienced in the past. You’ll learn how you can get started with your integrations, which APIs are available, and you’ll get an insight into the integration lifecycle. The course starts September 11 and enrollment is now open.

Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (2018 Edition)

In this course, we cover all the essentials for building portal sites, starting with why we need a portal, and how to build a site following the SAP Fiori design language or using a freestyle design. You’ll learn how easy it is to customize sites to fit your needs. We also introduce you to advanced topics such as platform administration, and establishing secure, role-based access. The course starts September 11 and enrollment is now open.

Intelligent Enterprise courses

SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise Currently running!
SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk Just started!
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA

Current and upcoming courses

Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP TechEd 2017 Recap
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas
Improving Confidence in Sustainability Performance Data
SAP Cloud Platform API Management
SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

We have three new courses ready for you to enroll in, and there’s something for everyone! Our openSAP Thought Leaders series continues with a new course from the Institute of Management Accountants, Improving Confidence in Sustainability Performance Data. For developers interested in hands-on courses, SAP Cloud Platform API Management is coming soon, and if you’re interested in the CRM world, then you’ll enjoy SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management. Find out more about these courses below.

Improving Confidence in Sustainability Performance Data
In this course, you’ll learn how to improve confidence in sustainability and nonfinancial data by establishing and maintaining effective internal controls. Sustainability is important for our planet, and it’s good for business. More now than ever, reliable integrated reporting is needed to drive business success. This course is delivered by the Institute of Management Accountants and starts from September 4. Enrollment is now open.

SAP Cloud Platform API Management
In this course, you’ll begin by learning API management basics, and gradually progress to master advanced SAP API Management topics. After completing this course, you’ll understand what the API management components are, how to manage the API lifecycle, ways to integrate API management with tools like SAP Web IDE, and how to build and manage APIs ground-up, treat them as products, and monetize them. The course starts September 12 and enrollment is now open.

SAP Business ByDesign Customer Relationship Management
In this course, you’ll learn about all customer-engaging scenarios in marketing, sales, and service, including invoicing, pricing, and cross-topics like analytics. The tight integration with project management, logistics, purchasing, and financials will also be covered. The course will cover the most important aspects of invoicing, pricing, and tax, and will describe the organizational and master data setup and cross-topics like mobility, customer analytics, and integration to 3rd party solutions. The course starts from September 17 and enrollment is now open.

Intelligent Enterprise courses
SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise Currently running!
SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk Starts July 31!
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA

Current and upcoming courses
Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
SAP TechEd 2017 Recap
Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models English | German
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Today we’re bringing a new topic to the openSAP platform, Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing.

Freedom to Calculate with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing

This course is ideal for companies who are struggling with calculating future product costs. The course will cover all the essentials of SAP Product Lifecycle Costing, including use cases, all capabilities, brand new features, business processes, and best practices on implementation. You’ll see how to easily enhance the tool, and gain insights into our plans for future releases. Access to a free system will enable you to practice what you’ve learned during the course. The course starts September 4 and enrollment is now open.

Intelligent Enterprise courses

SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA
SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce
Analytics with SAP Cloud Platform
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
SAP TechEd 2017 Recap
Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models English | German
Analyzing Connected Data with SAP HANA Graph
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

SAP TechEd is the premier SAP tech conference for technologists, engineers, and developers. We’ve added some sessions from SAP TechEd 2017 to openSAP so you can relive the event and catch up on topics that might interest you!

SAP TechEd 2017 Recap

SAP TechEd 2017 Recap is a short collection of sessions from SAP TechEd 2017 along with related information, such as related learning journeys or openSAP courses. SAP TechEd content owners have identified sessions from the following topics to include in this recap:

• Analytics
• Security
• SAP S/4HANA
• UX
• SAP Cloud Platform
  

The sessions from SAP TechEd are typically one hour in duration. To help you navigate through the session, we’ve introduced a new feature under the video, so you can see the slide changes as part of the scroll bar.

The content is available for you to access now. There are no self-tests or graded assignments, no transcripts, and there is no discussion forum. However, we do recommend that if you have questions about these topics, you visit the SAP Community and search there for further information related to the topic you’re interested in. Sign up and start learning immediately with SAP TechEd 2017 Recap.

Intelligent Enterprise courses
SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA
SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk

Current and upcoming courses
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q2/2018)
SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce
Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
Analytics with SAP Cloud Platform
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models English | German
Analyzing Connected Data with SAP HANA Graph
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)
Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Following on from SAP’s announcements at SAPPHIRE Now, SAP’s customer event taking place in Florida this week, we’ve got new courses now open for enrollment to help you get an understanding of the groundbreaking, innovative solutions for the intelligent enterprise: SAP HANA Data Management Suite and SAP C/4HANA. The courses are SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk, Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA, and SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise. We’ve also got two familiar topics returning to openSAP, with a new course from SAP Screen Personas, Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas, and a repeat of the popular Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business.

SAP HANA Data Management Suite - Strategy Talk

SAP HANA Data Management Suite is an open and governed data platform designed to orchestrate and manage enterprise business data within multi-cloud and hybrid environments. This strategy talk covers the challenges that businesses face today, SAP’s solution and strategy for addressing these challenges, and the value that SAP HANA Data Management Suite brings to an organization, as well as covering the most common use cases. The course is expected to begin in July/August but you can enroll today and we’ll keep you up to date!

Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

With this course, you’ll learn how you can benefit from the automation of business processes using machine learning, prepare for the future using predictive analytics, and operate your intelligent cloud ERP hands-free based on natural language interaction. With this course, you’ll learn in detail how innovative technologies such as machine learning, predictive analytics, and digital user experience using SAP CoPilot can be utilized in practice to gain an intelligence edge over the competition. The course starts November 7 and enrollment is now open!

Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA

In this course, you’ll learn about our SAP Customer Experience solutions that help brands build long-term competitive differentiation and brand loyalty through customer experiences that are trusted, simple, personal, helpful, and connected. After this course, you’ll have an understanding of how SAP C/4HANA and its specific cloud offerings empowers employees across all LoBs to better connect with and serve customers. Enroll today and we’ll update you as soon as we publish the start date!

SAP Leonardo - Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise

Join this course to learn and experience how SAP Leonardo is enabling the intelligent enterprise through the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, blockchain, machine learning, Big Data, and data intelligence. SAP Leonardo was announced in 2017 and is SAP’s digital innovation system. This course will walk you through each of the core components that make up SAP Leonardo, and will empower you with the information you need to get started with digital transformation for your enterprise. The course starts July 17 and enrollment is now open!

Building Mobile Applications with SAP Screen Personas

In this course, you’ll learn the skills required to create a mobile application with SAP Screen Personas, including an understanding of the technology behind the Slipstream Engine, designing and building mobile flavors, and deploying your finished app to your users. This course provides an opportunity to get hands-on practice. The course starts September 26 and enrollment is now open!

Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2018)

Sketching helps you to communicate abstract ideas and transform them into tangible artifacts that can be further explored and validated. This course starts with the very basics of sketching. By applying the practice-oriented tips and tricks in this course, you’ll gain the confidence to present your ideas visually. The course starts September 11 and enrollment is now open!

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP Business ByDesign Project-Based Services
Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q2/2018)
SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce
Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
Analytics with SAP Cloud Platform
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models English | German
Analyzing Connected Data with SAP HANA Graph

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

User experience is an important part of software design and development, and the design-related courses on openSAP have proven very popular with you, our learners. We’re happy to announce that Basics of Design Research is returning to openSAP, and you have another chance to earn a record of achievement and digital badge.

Basics of Design Research (Edition Q2/2018)

In this course, SAP’s design research experts will show you how to get the most out of your field research experience. From conducting a field visit to identify users to developing points of view, this course will provide you with a foundation for carrying out design research in a people-centric way. The course starts May 29 and enrollment is now open!

Here are some thoughts from learners who previously attended the course:
"I've really find this course very useful. A good balance between theory and hands on! Really liked the research challenge and the networking session (this confirms nowadays there are no boundaries and remote work is possible and very helpful. Thanks for this professional up to date opportunity." (See original comment – login required)

“I liked… The ability to ask questions that can help you determine design research. The step by step process that goes with interactions involving future clients. And learning what not to do in situation to avoid things going down a different design research path.” (See original comment – login required)

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git
Managing Java Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Climate Change, Risks, and Challenges
SAP Business ByDesign Project-Based Services
Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce
Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models English | German
Analytics with SAP Cloud Platform
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
Analyzing Connected Data with SAP HANA Graph
Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA

Check out our self-paced courses and reactivate a course to earn your record of achievement. If you haven’t already got a reactivation code, you can purchase one at SAP Store.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

It’s time for the next instalment in our SAP HANA Core Knowledge Series 2018, with Analyzing Connected Data with SAP HANA Graph starting June 20. And due to popular demand, Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA is returning to openSAP starting June 6.

Analyzing Connected Data with SAP HANA Graph

This course introduces SAP HANA graph and describes possible use cases, as well as showing you how to expose data to SAP HANA graph via nodes, edges, and workspaces, and much more. SAP HANA graph provides built-in algorithms and programming models to analyze connected data. Graph analysis can be easily combined with other SAP HANA engines, such as full-text search and geospatial analysis, making SAP HANA an ideal platform for multi-modal applications. Enroll today and invest just 4-5 hours in total to learn about SAP HANA graph.

Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA

With this course, you’ll learn how procurement has been transformed with the availability of new digital solutions. You’ll deep-dive into SAP’s latest procurement solution portfolio, and gain insights into the most promising transition paths to move from your current SAP SRM installation into the future. Topics like setting up cloud integration, choosing the right IT architecture, and linking central and local procurement will round off the course. Enrollment is now open and the course is just three weeks in duration.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git
Managing Java Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Climate Change, Risks, and Challenges
SAP Business ByDesign Project-Based Services
Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce
Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models English | German
Analytics with SAP Cloud Platform
Object-Oriented Programming in Java

We’re excited to see machine-translated subtitles included in all our current and future courses in Spanish, French, and German. Our team is working towards adding further languages in the future, so stay tuned for additional announcements.

Check out our self-paced courses and reactivate a course to earn your Record of Achievement. If you haven’t already got a reactivation code, you can purchase one at SAP Store.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

It’s back to business as usual after our fifth anniversary last week and it’s time to open enrollment for the latest course in our SAP Cloud Platform series, Analytics with SAP Cloud Platform. We’d also like to inform you that Object-Oriented Programming in Java by our colleagues from openHPI is starting soon.

Analytics with SAP Cloud Platform

In this course, you’ll get an overview of the different analytics services provided by SAP Cloud Platform. You’ll also see two examples of integration services that enable you to get data from different data sources into your database. You’ll learn what SAP Analytics Cloud is, and how you can use it to build analytical dashboards and gain more insights from any kind of data, as well as additional services SAP Cloud Platform offers to get more analytical insights from your data. You’ll also learn about SAP HANA as a database on SAP Cloud Platform. The course starts June 12 and enrollment is now open.

Object-Oriented Programming in Java

This course is aimed at people interested in getting started with programming. You’ll learn the key concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) as well as fundamental programming techniques. You’ll apply your newly acquired knowledge by implementing hands-on programming exercises in the Java programming language. After completing this course, you’ll be able to model and implement small programs in Java and apply OOP best practices. The course starts June 13 and enrollment is now open.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018)
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git
Managing Java Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Climate Change, Risks, and Challenges
SAP Business ByDesign Project-Based Services
Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering
Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate
SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce
Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models English | German

If you signed into openSAP on Sunday, April 29, you’ll have received a free openSAP reactivation code! Check out our self-paced courses and reactivate a course to earn your Record of Achievement. If you haven’t already got a reactivation code, you can purchase one at SAP Store.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Thank you for sharing our anniversary week with us! We’ve had so much fun releasing our new features on the platform and the poll on your dashboard. Since Monday, there have been over 10,000 submissions in our poll questions.

Here's a list of the features released:

• Digital badges
  
• Audio download
  
• Translated subtitles and transcripts in German, French, and Spanish
  
• Timeline tip
  
• Preliminary score
  

If you haven’t had the chance to check out our new features, you'll find additional information on our five-year anniversary page.

As announced, if you sign in to openSAP on Sunday, April 29 (our official anniversary), you’ll receive a free reactivation code which provides you with the opportunity to earn a record of achievement in a self-paced course.

You can read more about our anniversary and reflect on the last 5 years in our press release, article, blog, and our anniversary video, which stars many of you – our learners!

We enjoyed reading your messages and your innovative drawings on the comment wall and on social media.

The final thanks are to you, our learners; for joining our courses, interacting with peers and experts in the forum, and for providing honest feedback to help us learn and grow openSAP. We look forward to serving you and your SAP innovation knowledge needs in the future!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

As a gift to you on our fifth anniversary, we’re giving away free reactivation codes which will allow you to complete your assignments and final exam to earn a record of achievement in a self-paced course.

All you need to do is sign in to the openSAP platform on Sunday, April 29 (our anniversary date) and you’ll receive a free code to use in a course of your choice!

Check out our five-year anniversary page to see the new features being released this week, and thanks again to everyone who submitted videos – the final video is now available.

Happy reactivating!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

It's hard to believe, but this week, we’re celebrating five years since the launch of openSAP on April 29, 2013. To mark this milestone, we’ll be adding a new feature to our platform every day from Monday to Friday this week, to make your experience with openSAP even better!

Feature of the Day

From today, when you submit a weekly assignment or final exam, you’ll see your preliminary score immediately. You no longer need to wait until the deadline passes to see your personal score. Check out our special five-year anniversary page each day to see the latest new feature!

Thanks to all of you who submitted videos to be included in our anniversary video. Check it out on YouTube and see if you or your colleague/friend feature in it!

As a team, we’re very excited about reaching this milestone. The initial plan was just three courses on the platform, but due to the popularity of the platform in the SAP ecosystem, here we are now, 140* courses later!

Keep an eye on our openSAP social media over the next week for facts, figures, and news from openSAP.

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

*excluding repeat and update courses

Dear openSAP community,

We’re excited to share three new courses with you and announce that you can now prepare for your certification as an SAP HANA developer with existing openSAP courses! If you’re in the retail sector, you’ll be interested in our new course, SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce, or if you’re interested in smart services, our new openSAP Thought Leaders course, Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models, is for you.

Prepare for Your SAP HANA Certification - Development Associate

You can now become a certified SAP HANA Development Associate with openSAP content! In this course, we’ll explain how the exam* works and the “topic areas” that will be tested. You’ll need to complete three previous SAP HANA courses on openSAP to gain the knowledge to pass the certification, but this course will provide you with some tips and tricks and what you should focus on when preparing for the exam. Enrollment is now open and the content will be available from April 24. You can already start work on the required courses, and you can get these courses reactivated free of charge, if you wish. Find more details on the course page!

*You’ll need to purchase access to the certification exam to complete your certification.

SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce

The course will help you understand the possibilities with the connection of digital commerce and physical store businesses, including customer engagement, consistent promotion pricing, stock availability, order management and sourcing across all sales channels. After completing this course, you’ll have a superb insight into, and understanding of the SAP Retail omnichannel innovations and the role of its key components. You’ll learn how the various capabilities fit together to build a coherent suite of innovations. This broad knowledge empowers you to understand, design, and adapt omnichannel scenarios for SAP-powered consumer businesses. Enrollment is now open and the content will be available from May 29.

Smart Service Welt – Data and Platform-Based Business Models

The process of digitization is characterized by the increasing use of sensors and software. This makes it possible to connect people, products, and services. In this course, acclaimed figures from the fields of business and science will guide you through the world of smart services, providing you with a theoretical and practical overview that extends across industries. After a general introduction to the topic, you’ll see the disruptive change processes at work within existing business models. The English course starts from June 19 and enrollment is now open. There is also a German version of this course available on mooc.house, starting April 23.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Getting Started with SAP Lumira
Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5
Writing Testable Code for ABAP
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018)
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git
Managing Java Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Climate Change, Risks, and Challenges
SAP Business ByDesign Project-Based Services
Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode. Earn a record of achievement in self-paced courses with our reactivation option.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

The next course in our SAP HANA core knowledge series, Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering, is aimed at database administrators, data architects, and system administrators.

Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

In this course, you’ll learn how to effectively implement SAP HANA dynamic tiering to scale your SAP HANA system. SAP HANA dynamic tiering is a native Big Data solution for SAP HANA. Dynamic tiering adds smart, disk-based extended storage to your SAP HANA database. Dynamic tiering enhances SAP HANA with large volume, warm data management capabilities. We’ll demonstrate the design and configuration tasks required to extend your SAP HANA system to utilize dynamic tiering, explore the integration at a query processing level to understand the performance advantages of a unified SAP HANA platform, and walk through standard administration tasks to learn how SAP HANA makes it easier to manage aging data. The course starts from May 15 and enrollment is now open.

Check out the previous SAP HANA courses at openSAP.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Getting Started with SAP Lumira
Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5
Writing Testable Code for ABAP
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018)
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git
Managing Java Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Climate Change, Risks, and Challenges
SAP Business ByDesign Project-Based Services.

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode. Earn a record of achievement in self-paced courses with our reactivation option.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

SAP Business ByDesign is SAP’s cloud-based ERP solution for SMEs, and enables you to manage your entire business with a single cloud ERP solution. So far at openSAP, we’ve brought you courses about application development, reporting, financials, and supply chain management with SAP Business ByDesign. Now it’s time for SAP Business ByDesign Project-Based Services.

SAP Business ByDesign Project-Based Services

In this course, you’ll learn about both customer-facing and internal project-based services and their tight process integration within the different areas of SAP Business ByDesign, such as sales, invoicing, purchasing, and financials. Our team of experts will explain how SAP Business ByDesign supports the stakeholders of project-based services, and what business processes are supported. You’ll learn about the project management functionality provided, and about selling project-based services. This will be followed by sessions detailing aspects that you may often encounter: time recording and resource management as well as procurement and expense reporting. To round off the course, we’ll give you an overview of project cost and revenue management aspects. The course starts from May 8 and enrollment is now open.

Check out the previous SAP Business ByDesign courses at openSAP.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Getting Started with SAP Lumira
Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5
Writing Testable Code for ABAP Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018)
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git
Managing Java Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Climate Change, Risks, and Challenges

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode. Earn a record of achievement in self-paced courses with our reactivation option.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

The next instalment in our SAP NetWeaver series starts this May, with Managing Java Systems on SAP NetWeaver. We’re happy to announce our first openSAP Thought Leaders course for 2018, Climate Change, Risks, and Challenges by WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) Germany in cooperation with DKK (Deutsches Klima-Konsortium/German Climate Consortium).

Managing Java Systems on SAP NetWeaver

This course will teach you about the architecture of SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java. The course is aimed at everyone interested in knowing more about the runtime environment for SAP systems that are based on SAP NetWeaver AS for Java. The course will illustrate security aspects of the system, such as the authorization concept and user management and authentication procedures. An important objective of this course is to enable participants to optimize and troubleshoot their applications. You’ll learn about the available system logs, how to interpret them, and which tools are available to diagnose and fine-tune your system. After completing this course, you’ll be prepared to run applications based on this platform in a secure, stable, and performant manner. The course starts from May 2 and enrollment is now open.

Climate Change, Risks, and Challenges

In this openSAP Thought Leaders course, you’ll meet climate change experts who’ll discuss why our environment is changing, how global warming is affecting our world, and what we can do to slow it down. No matter where you are in the world, most likely you’ve been affected by or have seen the effects of climate change and global warming, for example through extreme weather conditions. Learn about the causes of climate change and how we can adapt. This course will explain this and much more. It is brought to you by WWF Germany (World Wide Fund For Nature) and the German Climate Consortium in collaboration with a group of leading German scientists from renowned research institutions. The course starts April 19 and enrollment is now open.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Getting Started with SAP Lumira
Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5
Writing Testable Code for ABAP
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018)
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode. Earn a record of achievement in self-paced courses with our reactivation option.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,

Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

This April, we’ve got a new course, SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git, aimed at developers and you can enroll now!

SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git
The SAP Cloud Platform tool of choice for version control is Git, making Git the backbone for SAP Cloud Platform development. After taking this course, you'll understand and have mastered all the distributed version control functionality exposed by SAP Web IDE Git, and know how to organize your team to use Git in the most effective way for your unique development needs. Before the course begins, you'll learn how to set up a free account on SAP Cloud Platform and GitHub, both of which will be needed to follow along with the course examples. By the end of the course, you should be able to solve most common problems and issues using SAP Web IDE, and leverage the full power of Git for all your SAP Cloud Platform development. The course starts from April 10 and enrollment is now open.

Current and upcoming courses
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q1/2018)
Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform
Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad
Getting Started with SAP Lumira
Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5
Writing Testable Code for ABAP
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018)
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
Object-Oriented Programming in Java

Missed a previous openSAP course? Catch up in self-paced mode. You can even earn a record of achievement in some courses with our reactivation option.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

We’ve got two new courses just opened for enrollment today and you’re invited to sign up! The first is SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics, a follow-on from our nutshell course, SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified. The second is Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018), which previously ran in 2017 and was popular with our learners.

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Basics
This is the follow-on course from SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified, and provides a more detailed view of what SAP Leonardo design-led innovation actually means. With the help of a case study inspired by real customer projects, you’ll gain a basic understanding of how design thinking and doing is practiced during the different phases of an SAP Leonardo engagement. The course starts from April 10 and you’ll have five weeks to earn your Record of Achievement. Enrollment is now open.

Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018)
This course focuses on design testing, also known as user testing, usability testing, user acceptance testing, or validation. The course introduces all the steps, from planning a test through moderating it, with a special focus on asking good questions and taking proper notes. You’ll also learn how to analyze the notes you collected to iterate your designs, as well as the importance of testing your software designs with real users and implementing their feedback early in the design phase. Enrollment is now open.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q1/2018)
Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform
Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad
Getting Started with SAP Lumira
Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5
Writing Testable Code for ABAP
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
Object-Oriented Programming in Java

If you’ve missed any of our previous courses, you can catch up with them in self-paced mode. You can even earn a record of achievement in some courses with our reactivation option.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Did you know that our platform partner is the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI)? Our friends at HPI will deliver a course on the openSAP platform this June, Object-Oriented Programming in Java, and over on their platform, mooc.house, they have a new course, Intrapreneurship, that you might be interested in!

Object-Oriented Programming in Java

This course is aimed at people interested in getting started with programming. You’ll learn the key concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) as well as fundamental programming techniques. You’ll apply your newly acquired knowledge by implementing hands-on programming exercises in the Java programming language. After completing this course, you’ll be able to model and implement small programs in Java and apply OOP best practices. The course starts from June 13 and enrollment is now open.

Intrapreneurship

In this 6-week course, you’ll learn how people with entrepreneurial spirit have changed a company and developed new products. We present you with the intrapreneurship concept and tools to support you in realizing your idea. You can look forward to illustrative field reports (e.g. by Bosch, SAP, AVL List and Signavio), a large tool box containing more than 20 tools—from the Ansoff matrix to the minimal viable product (MVP) and the stakeholder map, and practical exercises where you can directly use your newly acquired knowledge. This course starts from February 26 and is now open for enrollment on mooc.house.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q1/2018)
Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform
Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad
Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5
Getting Started with SAP Lumira
Writing Testable Code for ABAP
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform

If you’ve missed any of our previous courses, you can catch up with them in self-paced mode. You can even earn a record of achievement in some courses with our reactivation option.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

We’ve got three new courses now open for enrollment at openSAP to help you keep up with the latest SAP solutions. There are two courses aimed at developers: one for ABAP developers who would like to learn how Writing Testable Code for ABAP can be beneficial, while Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform will go into details on the app level, the backend and how to offer REST services. If you’re interested in business intelligence, Getting Started with SAP Lumira is ideal for you.

Writing Testable Code for ABAP
This course is aimed at ABAP developers, and will teach you how to write testable code in ABAP. The key to good test automation is learning to write testable code. There are many benefits to following this development approach, such as better quality code in less time, reduced bug analysis and fix efforts, and being more responsive to changing requirements. Learn more about the course and enroll today.

Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
This is an advanced course aimed primarily at developers and application and technology consultants, teaching hands-on the important concepts of developing innovative cloud applications. For the first time, we’ll cover in-depth microservice architectures and the open-source services of the Cloud Foundry environment within SAP Cloud Platform, and how to leverage them to build cloud-native applications. Learn more about the course and enroll today.

Getting Started with SAP Lumira
This course is aimed at customers, partners, consultants & presales, and anyone who’d like to learn about SAP Lumira. You’ll learn how to quickly create simple visualizations using SAP Lumira Discovery, as well as how to use SAP Lumira Designer to create enterprise dashboards and analytical applications. You’ll also get the chance to complete hands-on exercises. Learn more about the course and enroll today.

Current and upcoming courses

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q1/2018)
Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform
Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad
Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode – check them out!

See you soon on an openSAP course.

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

If you’re an application developer, application architect, or user interface designer, then we’ve got a brand-new course for you - Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5.

Maps and 3D Made Easy with SAPUI5

This course is aimed at application developers and designers who want to show 3D or geographical content in their application using standard SAPUI5 controls, without having to understand much about geospatial or 3D technologies, or vendor-specific APIs. From the basics, we go on to explore how you can use data with geographical attributes or existing 3D models in your application. Beyond simple visualization, we’ll show you how to include bi-directional interaction with maps or 3D content in your application and how to use business data to bring 3D content to life.

This course starts from March 13 and runs over a three-week period. You’ll have the chance to get hands-on experience by completing exercises throughout the course. Enrollment is now open!

Current and upcoming courses
SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q1/2018)
Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform
Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad

All our courses remain available in self-paced mode – check them out!

See you soon on an openSAP course.

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Happy New Year everyone! At the start of every year, people make plans for the year ahead; whether it’s a personal or professional goal, we all make them. If you’re planning to develop your skills and learn more about SAP’s latest solutions, then we’re here to help! We have a variety of topics already announced, with much more to come soon. Check out the current and upcoming courses:

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
In this nutshell course, you’ll learn how design-led innovation drives success in SAP Leonardo engagements. You’ll gain the confidence to explain the SAP Leonardo design process, the tools, and the people involved in an SAP Leonardo design project, as well as understand how you could get involved in a project yourself. The course is currently running and enrollment is open.

SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
Join this course to learn about SAP Translation Hub, your one-stop shop for multilingual UI text services. Learn how to prepare texts for translation in different development environments, translate the texts, and incorporate the translations in the development environments. This course starts from January 23 and enrollment is open.

Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA
The goal of this course is to enable you to run your own data migration to SAP S/4HANA, both on-premise and in the cloud. You’ll learn about the rapid data migration to SAP S/4HANA (on-premise solution), and the migration object modeler as part of the SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit. This course starts from January 24 and enrollment is open.

Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q1/2018)
By applying the practice-oriented tips and tricks in this course, you’ll gain the confidence to present your ideas visually. From basic shapes and handwriting to creating storyboards and screen sketches, you’ll be able to use these techniques whether at a flipchart, whiteboard, or at your desk. This course starts from February 6 and enrollment is open.

Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform
In this new advanced course, you’ll learn how to handle cloud-native operations with SAP Cloud Platform through hands-on exercises. You’ll be working with the Neo environment and the Cloud Foundry environment within SAP Cloud Platform, and many of the capabilities and services offered there that make it easy to operate innovative applications in the cloud. This course starts from February 6 and enrollment is open.

Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad
Join this course to discover how the SAP Fiori launchpad works. You’ll learn how to troubleshoot an error when launching a tile and how to diagnose navigation, translation, cache, and transport issues. The course includes demos on how to use the Chrome debugger, translation, replication, transports, and more. This course starts from February 14 and enrollment is open.

Our self-paced courses remain available for you to join and access all the content free of charge. If you’d like to earn a record of achievement during a self-paced course, you can reactivate the course assignments and final exam.

Watch out for new course announcements coming your way soon. Best wishes for 2018, and we hope to see you soon in a future course!

Kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

We’ve just opened enrollment for two new nutshell courses coming to openSAP in 2018! SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified will be the first course to kick-start the new learning year on January 8 and Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad starts on February 14.

SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified
SAP Leonardo brings new technologies and human-centered design services together to help businesses power their digital transformation. This course focuses on the value of using a design-led process when we co-innovate, to identify and solve business challenges. Our proven design process helps teams uncover challenges, work with end users to brainstorm solutions, and iterate to create feasible, viable, and desirable solutions. This is a nutshell course. It takes just two hours to complete, and you can earn a record of achievement up until February 8. You can enroll today!

Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad
This course will show you how the SAP Fiori launchpad works. You’ll be introduced to the diagnostic tools, and you’ll learn how to troubleshoot errors when launching a tile, as well as how to diagnose navigation, translation, cache, and transport issues. You’ll see a live demo from the instructors on how to use the Chrome debugger to troubleshoot SAP Fiori launchpad as well a live demo on how translation works. The course includes additional demos on replication, transports, and more. This is also a nutshell course, takes 3-4 hours to complete, and you can earn a record of achievement up until March 15. Enrollment is now open!

Current courses
Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell (Repeat) – with translated video subtitles
Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017)
Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA

Upcoming courses
SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q1/2018)
Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA

As 2017 comes to a close, we’d like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families all the best for the year ahead. If you’d like to continue learning over the upcoming vacation period, all our courses remain available in self-paced mode. We look forward to seeing you in a live course in 2018!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Our 2018 courses are in preparation, and some are ready for you to enroll. For those of you interested in SAP S/4HANA, the next openSAP course in this series is Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA. If you previously missed out on the popular visual communication course, Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business will return for another run in 2018.

Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA
As an SAP customer or potential customer for SAP S/4HANA, you may be wondering how to migrate your data to SAP S/4HANA. In this 2-week course, we’ll give you an introduction to data migration and where it fits in with respect to the different SAP S/4HANA transition scenarios: “New Implementation”, “System Conversion”, and “Landscape Transformation”. A deep-dive into the SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit and the migration object modeler will upskill you in the latest toolset. The course starts from January 24 and enrollment is now open.

Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business
This course starts with the very basics of sketching. By applying the practice-oriented tips and tricks in this course, you’ll gain the confidence to present your ideas visually. From basic shapes and handwriting to creating storyboards and screen sketches, you’ll be able to use these techniques whether at a flipchart, whiteboard, or at your desk. The course starts from February 6 and enrollment is now open.

Final week of our reactivation sale!
If you’d like to earn a record of achievement in self-paced courses, you can reactivate the assignments and final exam with a reactivation code from SAP Store. All codes are now on sale until December 8 with over 50% off! You can purchase a reactivation code now and redeem it later at openSAP.

Current courses
Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell (Repeat) – with translated video subtitles
Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017)
SAP Transformation Navigator in a Nutshell
Data Science in Action - Building a Predictive Churn Model
Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017)
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One
Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
Enterprise Deep Learning with TensorFlow
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)

Upcoming courses
SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

The next SAP Cloud Platform offering on openSAP is Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform. This course starts on February 6, 2018 and you’re invited to enroll.

Cloud-Native Operations with SAP Cloud Platform
Sven Kohlhaas returns to openSAP with a new, advanced course to support your continued learning with SAP Cloud Platform. You’ll learn how to handle cloud-native operations with SAP Cloud Platform through hands-on exercises. You’ll be working with the Neo and Cloud Foundry environments within SAP Cloud Platform, and many of the capabilities and services offered there that make it easy to operate innovative applications in the cloud. The course will also cover identity management and lifecycle management (basic and hybrid scenarios), and continuous integration and delivery. The course starts February 6, 2018 and runs over a four-week period. Enrollment is now open!

openSAP Reactivation Code Sale – Closing December 8!
Some learners would like to earn a record of achievement for courses which are now in self-paced mode. You can do this by purchasing a reactivation code from SAP Store. All codes are now on sale until December 8 with over 50% off! You can purchase a reactivation code now and redeem it later at openSAP.

Current courses
Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell (Repeat) – with translated video subtitles
Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017)
SAP Transformation Navigator in a Nutshell
Data Science in Action - Building a Predictive Churn Model
Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017)
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One
Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
Extending SAP SuccessFactors with SAP Cloud Platform
Enterprise Deep Learning with TensorFlow
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)

Upcoming courses
SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

It’s hard to believe but it’s time to announce our first course for 2018, SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell. Do you need to create user interfaces in different languages? Do you struggle to find the right resources to fulfil your translation needs, such as budget and translation experts? Now you can translate your UI text with SAP Translation Hub, an SAP Cloud Platform service that enables SAP customers and partners to quickly get translations e.g. for field labels on their application user interfaces from English into various languages.

In this course, you’ll learn about best practices for creating multilingual applications, preparing texts for translation, integrating company-specific language data, and much more. The course is aimed at developers, translation coordinators, business consultants, and project managers. Ideally, you should have some basic SAP skills. The course starts on January 23, 2018 and contains two hours of content. To earn a record of achievement, you must complete the course assignment before February 21, 2018. Enrollment is now open!

Congratulations to the SAP Translation Hub team who recently received the SAP Product Excellence Award!

Current courses
Data Science in Action - Building a Predictive Churn Model
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One
Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA
Extending SAP SuccessFactors with SAP Cloud Platform
Enterprise Deep Learning with TensorFlow
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)
Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017)
SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management

Upcoming courses
Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017)
SAP Transformation Navigator in a Nutshell
Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell (Repeat) with translated subtitles

Reactivation code sale starts Monday!
From November 20 until December 8, all reactivation codes are on special offer to celebrate Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Purchase a reactivation code and earn your record of achievement in selected self-paced courses during our short break between December and January.

If you’re in Germany and interested in learning more about MOOCs and our platform, check out the openHPI Forum on December 6 and 7, Potsdam, Germany.

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

We know that our learners come from all over the globe and we understand that learning in your first language is easier for a large percentage of learners. That’s why we’ve been searching for a scalable solution to offer you video subtitles across several languages. We’re ready to share the results of our machine learning translation in a repeat of our popular course, Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell (Repeat). For the first time at openSAP, learners will have the option to view the video subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French. We’d like to get your feedback on the translation of this course to help us evaluate our progress. You can provide feedback in the forum and in a survey at the end of the course. We look forward to seeing your feedback!

Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell (Repeat)

The objective of this course is to help business decision makers understand the recent advances in machine learning, the basic concepts involved, and how business problems can be solved. When it originally opened in December 2016, learners provided positive feedback and here is just one example (I like, I wish):

I loved this course because of following reasons:
a) It gave an overview of what machine learning is.
b) It explained concept of machine learning in simple language.
c) The examples used were easy to relate and understand.
d) It also explained how Machine Learning can be used in Enterprise space.

The course starts again next week, November 21 and enrollment is now open!

Current courses

Data Science in Action - Building a Predictive Churn Model
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One
Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA
Extending SAP SuccessFactors with SAP Cloud Platform
Enterprise Deep Learning with TensorFlow
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)
Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017)
SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management

Upcoming courses
Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017)
SAP Transformation Navigator in a Nutshell

All our courses remain available for free in self-paced mode and some provide the chance for you to reactivate the assignments to earn a record of achievement.

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

As we come towards the end of 2017, we’re working on additional courses to help you move your organization forward in the digital age. We’ve just opened enrollment for two new courses, SAP Transformation Navigator in a Nutshell and Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Transformation Navigator in a Nutshell
If you haven’t already heard about SAP S/4HANA, where have you been? SAP Transformation Navigator is a free tool available to existing SAP Customers and Partners and it helps guide you towards the right SAP S/4HANA installation for your organization. This course will show you how to use this tool by entering your company’s current IT setup information and provide you with a comprehensive guide to the solutions that would suit your business needs. The course begins November 15 and all of the content will be available from the start. Enrollment is now open!

Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
Procurement has changed a lot in the last decade. Speed, performance, agility, visibility, and control have become even more important and are a priority when designing procurement processes and running procurement IT systems. This course will cover current and future procurement trends, as well as the key aspects of how organizations can manage modern operational procurement processes and the entire source-to-pay process with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba solutions. Topics like setting up cloud integration, choosing the right IT architecture, and linking central and local procurement will round off the course. The course begins November 21 and runs for three weeks. Enrollment is now open!

Now open!
Enterprise Deep Learning with TensorFlow
Unlock Your Digital Business with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
Sustainability Through Digital Transformation (Repeat)
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q4/2017)
Introduction to SAP HANA Administration
Information Security Management in a Nutshell
SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management
Design Your First App with Build*
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy (Edition Q3/2017)

Upcoming courses
Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017)
Data Science in Action - Building a Predictive Churn Model
Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017)
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One
Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA
Extending SAP SuccessFactors with SAP Cloud Platform

All our courses remain available free of charge in self-paced mode. Learn about earning a record of achievement in self-paced courses on our course reactivation page.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

We have three brand new courses now open for enrollment and starting over the coming weeks. We’re revisiting Machine Learning and Data Science with new hands-on courses, Data Science in Action - Building a Predictive Churn Model and Enterprise Deep Learning with TensorFlow. We’re also bringing you the latest updated on our very first course at openSAP with Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017).

Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017)

If you’ve previously taken one of these courses at openSAP or if you’re just an experienced SAP HANA developer, then this course is ideal for you. In this course, we’ll start from the assumption that students are familiar with the basics of the previous SAP HANA courses focused on SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA to develop both HDI (SAP HANA Deployment Infrastructure) and XSA (SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model). This will allow us to dive deeper on key topics from real world applications. We’ll also cover new functionality added in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 0 – SPS 02. This course starts from November 15 and enrollment is now open!

Enterprise Deep Learning with TensorFlow

This is a follow-up to our previous course, Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell. This course provides a hands-on introduction to deep learning for developers and data scientists, using Google’s TensorFlow framework. You’ll learn to build deep learning models for enterprise problems, including when to use deep learning and when not to use deep learning. The course will be presented by SAP experts from SAP Innovation Center Network with special guests from JP Morgan Chase, NVIDIA, Google, and others. The course starts October 23 and enrollment is now open!

Data Science in Action - Building a Predictive Churn Model

Stuart Clarke is returning to openSAP with the next steps in data science. This course includes hands-on exercises so you can experience the complete process from the view of a data scientist! We’ll start by setting the scenario for you with a business case study for a telecommunications company. You’ll learn to prepare the data and create an analytical data set, conduct an initial data analysis, and learn how to encode the data. You’ll develop a churn model, evaluate its performance, and learn how to productionize it. Finally, you’ll learn how to monitor and maintain a model, build a segmentation, and improve model performance. The course starts November 8 and enrollment is now open!

Current and Upcoming courses at openSAP

Check out all our courses on our courses page. It’s not too late to join our current courses, enroll for upcoming courses, or even in our self-paced courses, completely free of charge!

Now open!

SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App (Hands-on exercises)
SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017) (Hands-on exercises)
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools (Hands-on exercises)
Managing ABAP Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios (Hands-on exercises)

Upcoming courses with optional hands-on exercises

Introduction to SAP HANA Administration
Full-Text Search with SAP HANA Platform
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One
Extending SAP SuccessFactors with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management

Upcoming courses

Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q4/2017)
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)
Information Security Management in a Nutshell
Sustainability Through Digital Transformation (Repeat)
Unlock Your Digital Business with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA
Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017)

Our 50% midterm course reactivation sale finishes this Friday, September 22. Don’t miss out!

We look forward to seeing you soon!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

We have just opened enrollment for a brand-new course, Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA, with the chance to get hands-on practice. Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017) is returning to openSAP this November and openHPI is running a new edition of In-Memory Data Management 2017. Keep reading for more details on these courses as well as all our current and upcoming courses.

Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud share a code line that enables you to adapt your solution to meet your business needs in a fast and flexible way. In this course, you will get deep insights on how SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA can be extended to realize their full potential. You will also learn how to accelerate the extensibility capabilities for your business in a cloud-like lifecycle. The course will include an overview of the SAP S/4HANA UX, simple extensions, advanced extensions, and embedded analytics. The course starts from October 25 and will include optional hands-on exercises. Enrollment is now open!

Software Design for Non-Designers (Edition Q4/2017)
This popular, interactive course returns on November 8 and aims to explain common aspects of design to improve user experience in software engineering, and will introduce a few basic steps you can apply to your next project. The course is taught by Scott Klemmer from UC San Diego, and a team of design-driven development experts from SAP, Sam Yen, Andrea Anderson, and Goran Peuc. Enrollment is now open!

If you’re interested in trends in the database and hardware environments or you work with in-memory computing and SAP HANA, you might like to visit our partners at openHPI and join In-Memory Data Management 2017 with Professor Hasso Plattner. To find out more and to enroll, visit the course at openHPI.

Now open!
SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App (Hands-on exercises)
SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017) (Hands-on exercises)
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools (Hands-on exercises)
Managing ABAP Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)

Upcoming courses with optional hands-on exercises
Introduction to SAP HANA Administration
Full-Text Search with SAP HANA Platform
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One
Extending SAP SuccessFactors with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management

Upcoming courses
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q4/2017)
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)
Information Security Management in a Nutshell
Sustainability Through Digital Transformation (Repeat)
Unlock Your Digital Business with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Just ten days left to get a 50% discount on a reactivation code to enable you to earn a record of achievement in a self-paced course. Don’t miss out! Learn more on our course reactivation page.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

To help you continue learning and upskilling for today’s digital economy, we have just opened enrollment for five new courses at openSAP. We’ve got something for everyone, including SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Cloud Platform, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAP Business ByDesign as well as a new openSAP Thought Leaders course, Information Security Management, and Sustainability returns! Let’s look at what you’ve got to look forward to:

Extending SAP SuccessFactors with SAP Cloud Platform
With this course, you’ll learn how to extend your SAP SuccessFactors HCM solution to add functionalities unique to your business requirements. You’ll build these extensions with SAP Cloud Platform. There is a hands-on opportunity to build your first extension application on top of SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite and enhance it with additional capabilities. The course starts October 25 and enrollment is now open.

SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management
In this course, you’ll learn the basics of supply chain management, and how the processes are tightly integrated within the different areas of SAP Business ByDesign, such as sales, purchasing, and financials. Our team of experts will explain how to model your company and how to set up the supply chain. You’ll get insights on how the planning, buying, and selling activities work including additional processes like returns, repairs, and third-party processes. The course starts October 10 and enrollment is now open.

Unlock Your Digital Business with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a fully scalable, secure, and private cloud-based service for both new and existing customers. This is an openSAP nutshell course and will discuss how SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud helps our customers act on their digital strategy as they begin their journey to the cloud and prepare to leverage SAP’s current and future innovations. All the course content will be available from October 16 and enrollment is now open.

Information Security Management in a Nutshell
In this openSAP Thought Leaders course, we welcome Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus, Hochschule Mannheim, to openSAP. This course aims to help business decision-makers understand the steps required to secure information in their organization. You’ll learn about the processes to be considered when implementing and using an Information Security Management System, and understand the legal requirements, and how these can be implemented appropriately. The course content will be available from October 10 and enrollment is now open.

Sustainability Through Digital Transformation (Repeat)
This popular course will run again on openSAP and you’ll learn about the evolution of sustainability within organizations in the areas of integrated reporting, social and environmental impact creation, and responsible investment. You’ll become familiar with recent sustainability frameworks, including the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), and gain an understanding of how digitization can enable companies to become more successful while contributing to the SDGs. The course starts October 16 and enrollment is now open.

Now open!
SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App
SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017)
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools

Upcoming courses
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
Full-Text Search with SAP HANA Platform
Introduction to SAP HANA Administration
Managing ABAP Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q4/2017)
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One

Get a 50% discount on a reactivation code until September 22 and you can earn a record of achievement in a self-paced course. Don’t miss out! Learn more on our course reactivation page.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Once again, this year openSAP is supporting code weeks across the world, with the aim to encourage young people to learn about coding and designing software. We have five courses available for young people including a brand new course, Design Your First App with Build, along with our previous courses, Code Week: Teaching Programming to Young Learners (English and French) and Code Week: Teens Get Coding! (English and French). The courses are not restricted to children and teenagers – no matter what age you are, if you’d like to get started with coding then sign up and take part!

Design Your First App with Build
Starting from October 4, this course will help you to develop your own “Design Thinking”. You’ll learn how to use a free and fun prototyping tool called SAP Build. The course has been especially designed for young people interested in technology, but with little or no development experience. By the end of this 4-week course, your greatest achievement will be that you won’t just be using apps, you’ll be designing them with confidence too!

Code Week: Teaching Programming to Young Learners (English | French)
Starting from September 26, this course is aimed at teachers and parents of pre-teens to help you encourage children to get involved in programming and coding from an early age. You don’t need to know anything about coding to take part! This course will introduce you to Scratch, a free coding system by MIT. You’ll learn how to use the system and how to teach children how to use it and put their imagination and creativity to work. The course is available in English and French.

Code Week: Teens Get Coding! (English | French)
Starting from September 26, this course is aimed at teenagers and young people interested in learning how to code. You’ll learn how to use the free Scratch system provided by MIT. All you need to take part is an email address, a computer, internet access, and a touch of imagination! The course is available in English and French.

Enrollment for all courses is now open!

Now open!
SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App

Upcoming courses
SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017)
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools
Full-Text Search with SAP HANA Platform
Introduction to SAP HANA Administration
Managing ABAP Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q4/2017)
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)
In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One

Interested in earning a record of achievement in a self-paced course? You can get a 50% discount on a reactivation code until September 22. Don’t miss out! Learn more on our course reactivation page.

Calling all learners near Mannheim, South Germany!
Our friends over at SAP Mentors have organized an empathy workshop on September 16 with Seung Chan Lim (Slim). The last few tickets remain available until Friday, including tickets for the sold-out Neil Diamond concert at SAP Arena. Find out more on the official event website!

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

We are happy to bring you the first SAP Business One openSAP course, In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One.

This course is aimed at developers and technical consultants interested in learning about the integration framework for SAP Business One, an ideal ERP solution for small and medium businesses. SAP Business One is a complete, innovative, extensible and flexible ERP solution. The integration framework for SAP Business One is a collaboration infrastructure for the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market. The integration framework integrates business processes that can span different departments, organizations, and companies. This course will give you the chance to learn about the capabilities of the integration framework and to build your own integration scenarios using different data sources. In Action - Integration Framework for SAP Business One begins November 7 and contains four weeks of content with an opportunity to take part in hands-on exercises. Find more information and enroll on the course page.

Upcoming courses

SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App
SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017)
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools
Full-Text Search with SAP HANA Platform
Introduction to SAP HANA Administration
Managing ABAP Systems on SAP NetWeaver
Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q4/2017)
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)

Our midterm sale is now on and you can purchase a reactivation code with a 50% discount! You can access all our self-paced courses free of charge, but if you’d like to earn a record of achievement you need a reactivation code. Learn more on our course reactivation page.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Our series of design courses have proven very popular with the openSAP community and we are happy to announce a brand-new course, Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q4/2017), and a new edition for our popular Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017).

Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q4/2017)
Design testing is often called user testing, usability testing, user acceptance testing, validation, and many other terms. This course will introduce you to design testing and covers the basics, how to prepare, and best practices. One of the most important elements is to test early and test often with the right target group. By testing early, you can identify possible issues early on, find out what’s wrong, and make the necessary changes. This course begins on October 11 and runs for five weeks. Enrollment is now open!

Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q4/2017)
This course is returning to openSAP in Q4 and it gives learners another chance to take part in the group work, where there are a limited number of spaces (required to earn a Record of Achievement). Even if you don’t have time to join the group work, you can still learn about design thinking through the videos and ask questions in the forum. The course is now open for enrollment and you can apply to take part in the group work from October 17. Please ensure that you can commit to your group before you apply for the group work.

Upcoming courses
SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App
SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017)
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools
Full-Text Search with SAP HANA Platform
Introduction to SAP HANA Administration
Managing ABAP Systems on SAP NetWeaver

Starting August 14! Midterm sale – openSAP reactivation codes
As it’s officially midterm break at openSAP, we’re offering a 50% discount on all openSAP reactivation codes purchased between August 14 and September 22. So, if you’re interested in earning a Record of Achievement in a course that is now in self-paced mode, you can avail of this special offer. Not all courses offer reactivation, so please check your required course before making a purchase. Find out more on our course reactivation page and the discount starts from Monday, August 14.

Happy learning!
With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Enrollment has just opened for a new openSAP course, Managing ABAP Systems on SAP NetWeaver, brought to you by SAP Product Support. The course starts from September 12 and will run over a three-week period.

Managing ABAP Systems on SAP NetWeaver will provide knowledge about some of the main components in runtime environments of SAP NetWeaver and the main areas of client/server technology in SAP NetWeaver. The course will focus on optimizing operating system resources, as well as tools to monitor services. You’ll also learn about the web infrastructure solution with the ICM (Internet Communication Manager) Service and SAP Web Dispatcher standalone program. You’ll also pick up tips for monitoring systems. This course is aimed at system admins, technical support staff, and SAP Partners interested in learning about the runtime environment for SAP systems. Enroll now at openSAP!

Upcoming courses
SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App
SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017)
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools
Full-Text Search with SAP HANA Platform
Introduction to SAP HANA Administration

If you’ve missed any of our past courses, the content is still available in self-paced mode - you can access all content at any time, free of charge. If you’d like to earn a record of achievement in self-paced mode, learn more on our course reactivation page.

See you soon on openSAP!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

SAP HANA has been a popular topic with our learners since openSAP started in 2013. Today, we’re opening enrollment for two new courses, Full Text Search with SAP HANA and Introduction to SAP HANA Administration.

Full Text Search with SAP HANA
This course is aimed at data scientists, application developers, and technical business analysts. Full Text Search with SAP HANA will cover topics such as full-text indexing and search via SQL, fuzzy search, and how to use “search rules” for duplicate checks and matching, and much more. The course will also include “SAP HANA enterprise search” and how it relates to and extends “native” SAP HANA search technology. The course includes hands-on exercises with system access. All the content will be available once the course opens on September 13 and there is just one course assignment to be completed before October 12. Enroll now!

Introduction to SAP HANA Administration
This course is aimed at all SAP HANA administrators and will run over a period of four weeks with weekly assignments and hands-on exercises. With Introduction to SAP HANA Administration, you’ll learn about the tasks available to manage SAP HANA systems, with an emphasis on the SAP HANA cockpit web-based tool. You’ll learn about the operations offered for both individual and multiple database administration, including alert checking, resource monitoring, configuration management, backup and recovery, and security. We’ll also explore factors that affect performance, such as analyzing memory usage, SQL statements, and workloads. The course starts October 11 and is now open for enrollment!

Upcoming courses
SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App
SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017)
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools

All our past courses remain available in self-paced mode so you can access all content at any time, free of charge. Some courses also offer you the chance to earn a record of achievement in self-paced mode – learn more on our course reactivation page.

We look forward to welcoming you to a future course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

In May 2017, SAP announced the availability of Cloud Foundry as part of SAP Cloud Platform and in this latest openSAP course, you’ll learn about Cloud Foundry and the latest version of SAP Cloud Platform.

SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017)

This course previously ran earlier in 2017 but includes over 50% new content so whether you previously joined or you’re starting out with SAP Cloud Platform, this course is for you. Topics covered include:

• Introduction to SAP Cloud Platform, its value proposition and use cases.
  
• Architecture, capabilities, and data center strategy.
  
• Applications, persistence, connectivity, and security, with theory and practice.
  
• IoT and Mobile Services offering, as well as the new services for Workflow and Business Rules.
  

Enrollment for SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017) is now open!

Upcoming courses

Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools
SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App
Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios

If you’d like to catch up on any of our previous topics, all content remains available to access at any time, free of charge. Some courses also offer you the chance to earn a record of achievement in self-paced mode – learn more on our course reactivation page.

See you soon on a future course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

For developers interested in learning about improving your users’ experience, either with mobile apps or ERP, we have two new courses with hands-on opportunities. Enrollment is now open for SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App and Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios.

SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App
This course includes optional hands-on exercises, providing you with the opportunity to develop your own native mobile app. To take part in the hands-on exercises, you will need an Apple computer as you need to run Swift. You will learn about the concepts and functionality of the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS and get step by step instructions on how to create this sample shopping cart app, starting with the installation of the SDK, retrieving of backend data, using SAP Fiori for iOS design elements and finally deploying it to your device. For more details and to enroll, check out the SAP Fiori for iOS - Build Your First Native Mobile App course page.

Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
This course will go beyond the basic scenarios presented in the “Introduction to SAP Screen Personas” openSAP course and show a typical, real-world SAP Screen Personas project. The course will also continue to show you how to use the product to improve the SAP user experience, boost productivity, increase data quality, and reduce training requirements for users. There will be hands-on exercises and the opportunity to participate in a peer assessment to demonstrate your knowledge of the tools within SAP Screen Personas. For more details and to enroll, check out the Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios course page.

Upcoming courses
Basics of Design Research (Edition Q3/2017)
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Edition Q3/2017)
Big Data with SAP Vora - Engines and Tools

If you’ve missed any of our previous courses, they remain available in self-paced mode. You can access all content at any time, free of charge. Some courses also offer you the chance to earn a record of achievement in self-paced mode – learn more on our course reactivation page.

We look forward to welcoming you to a future course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Three of our popular courses from earlier this year are returning to openSAP this September and enrollment is now open. If you missed out before, sign up today!

Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business
This course starts with the very basics of sketching. By applying the practice-oriented tips and tricks in this course, you’ll gain the confidence to present your ideas visually. From basic shapes and handwriting to creating storyboards and screen sketches, you’ll be able to use these techniques whether at a flipchart, whiteboard, or at your desk. Enrollment is now open!
"It was a very entertaining course and very helpful. I always thought I couldn't draw, but with the easy to apply tips you gave it's much simpler. Thank you, guys!" (See original comment – login required)

Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy
Over six weeks, you will learn how to analyze specific elements of your business model, challenge the entire business model, test the key assumptions underlying your business model with customers, and finally pick the most appropriate business model from several alternatives – for example, to create a business case and justify an investment decision. Enrollment is now open!
"It was a very interesting course. The support was very good and the moderator was a perfect coach. She taught us the BMI in practice and how I can use it in my job. I learned that BMI is adaptable for any company small or big, old, or new." (See original comment – login required)

Basics of Design Research
In this course, you’ll get an overview from SAP’s design research experts that will help you get the most out of your field research experience. From identifying users through conducting a field visit to developing points of view, this course will provide you with a foundation for conducting design research in a people-centric way. Enrollment is now open!
"I liked the course, especially the "Weekly Challenges" were really cool - kind of "real world" examples, not too easy, not too much work. I also liked the peer assessment, where you got feedback from the other participants." (See original comment – login required)

All three courses are now open for enrollment at openSAP and they begin in September. Keep an eye out for more new courses coming soon at openSAP! Don’t forget all our courses remain available in self-paced mode. If you’d like to earn a Record of Achievement, now you can with openSAP Reactivation Codes.

See you soon on an openSAP course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP Community,

SAP Vora is returning to openSAP and it has lost the “HANA” from its name! That’s not all that’s new though – this year’s course will focus more on data analysis.

Big Data with SAP Vora: Engines and Tools dives deeper into the SAP Vora tools and new distributed analysis engines released in SAP Vora 1.4 for performing relational queries, time series, graph, document database analysis, and disk store. Big Data with SAP Vora: Engines and Tools starts on openSAP from September 6 and runs over a four-week period. You will have the chance to get hands-on experience with our exercises. Sign up today!

It’s an exciting time with so many innovative technologies to provide opportunities for your business to go digital; we have a range of courses to help you keep up to speed with the latest and greatest. Look at what’s on offer in the coming weeks at openSAP!

Upcoming courses

Liquid Legal: Transforming an Industry
Reimagining the Future: A Journey Through the Looking Glass
Touch IoT with SAP Leonardo
How to Best Leverage SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Your Company
Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q2/2017)
Copywriting: Improve User Experience One Word at a Time

Currently running courses

Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP Cloud Platform* (Update Q1/2017)
The Impact of Digitization on Leadership and Work
Spatial Analysis with SAP HANA Platform
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform
Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy (Edition Q2/2017)
Bereit für die Digitalisierung? Digitales Talent Management

If you’re headed to SAPPHIRE Now, have a great week of fun and innovation in Orlando!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP Community,

User experience and design are important elements of software development and openSAP has been delivering a variety of courses by SAP’s design experts to help you improve the overall experience for your end users. We have two design courses now open for enrollment – Copywriting: Improve User Experience One Word at a Time is new to openSAP and Developing Software Using Design Thinking (Edition Q2/2017) returns this June.

Copywriting: Improve User Experience One Word at a Time
The words that you use throughout your app or site are just as important as its interaction and visual design. But the words – or copy – are often an afterthought. All too frequently we use words like “Submit” and “Cancel” on our UIs as if we’re talking to a computer and not a human. We need to bring a personal touch to the words on the screen. This course explains why it’s vital to think about the words as part of your design. You’ll get practical advice on how to write effective and compelling copy that will delight your users, with examples brought to you by Bill Beard, branding consultant and copywriter, and the SAP User Assistance (UA) and UX Design teams. The course begins June 19 and enrollment is now open.

Developing Software Using Design Thinking
If you joined this course in Q1 but didn’t have the chance to take part in the group work, you’ve now got a second chance to apply. Everyone is welcome to enroll and join this course to explore design thinking. To earn a Record of Achievement for Developing Software Using Design Thinking, you will need to take part in the group work, collaborating with your peers in a virtual environment. There is a limited number of spaces available so please ensure that you can commit the required time. The course begins from June 13 and enrollment is now open. You can apply for the group work during week 1 (starting June 13).

Current and upcoming openSAP Enterprise MOOCs
Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP Cloud Platform* (Update Q1/2017) (Optional hands-on exercises)
SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation in a Nutshell
Spatial Analysis with SAP HANA Platform (Optional hands-on exercises)
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (Optional hands-on exercises)
Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy (Edition Q2/2017)
Bereit für die Digitalisierung? Digitales Talent Management
Touch IoT with SAP Leonardo
How to Best Leverage SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Your Company

Current and upcoming openSAP Thought Leader MOOCs (Non-SAP content)
The Impact of Digitization on Leadership and Work
Liquid Legal: Transforming an Industry
Reimagining the Future: A Journey Through the Looking Glass

Don’t forget, if you missed any of our previous courses, all content remains available on our platform.

See you soon on an openSAP course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP Community,

Enrollment has just opened for two new courses starting June 7 at openSAP! The courses may be new but if you’re a regular at openSAP, you might see some familiar faces. Sven Denecken and Bert Schulze return to focus on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, while Bob Caswell and team encourage you to touch IoT with SAP Leonardo.

How to Best Leverage SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Your Company
This openSAP course is designed to show you how SAP S/4HANA Cloud can enable your company to realize its full potential and thrive in the digital economy. You’ll learn how to increase the efficiency of your business processes with increased transparency, automation, and instant insight to action. The course includes a case-study demonstrating the complete onboarding of a company to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, including the technical layers. How to Best Leverage SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Your Company will provide you with everything you need for your SAP S/4HANA Cloud project, spanning from planning and onboarding to ongoing upgrades and operations in the cloud.

Touch IoT with SAP Leonardo
This is a follow-up to the 2016 course Imagine IoT. The course focuses on the latest IoT trends shaping our lives, including related topics such as drones, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, and user experience implications for IoT. During the course, you will get the chance to “touch” IoT directly. Every participant will have the chance to connect and try out SAP Connected Goods, a new SAP Leonardo IoT solution that makes it easy to connect and monitor sensor-equipped products. Touch IoT with SAP Leonardo includes a “prototype challenge” where you can submit your work, receive peer feedback, vote on your favorite prototypes submitted, and have a chance to win prizes!

Enrollment is now open for both courses and don’t forget to spread the word – both courses start June 7!

Current and upcoming openSAP Enterprise MOOCs

Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP Cloud Platform (Update Q1/2017)* (Optional hands-on exercises)
SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation in a Nutshell
Spatial Analysis with SAP HANA Platform (Optional hands-on exercises)
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (Optional hands-on exercises)
Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy (Edition Q2/2017)
Bereit für die Digitalisierung? Digitales Talent Management (German language only)

Current and upcoming openSAP Thought Leader MOOCs (Non-SAP content)

The Impact of Digitization on Leadership and Work
Liquid Legal: Transforming an Industry
Reimagining the Future: A Journey Through the Looking Glass

Don’t forget, if you missed any of our previous courses, all content remains available on our platform.

See you soon on an openSAP course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Next week sees the start of two new courses with a chance for you to get hands-on development experience.

Spatial Analysis with SAP HANA Platform
This course starts with a general introduction to spatial analysis, manipulating spatial data and using spatial content and services. With this course, you’ll learn about geocoding, converting business data into geographic locations to enable geographic analysis, and much more. You’ll get hands-on experience throughout the course with a look at the architecture of spatial applications and how to build them.

Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform
This course covers all the essentials of building portal sites, starting with why we need a portal, how to build a site following the SAP Fiori design language, or using a freestyle design, as well as how to productize your site with branding, translations, and Single Sign-on. You’ll have the chance to get hands-on experience with your free trial account on SAP Cloud Platform.

Both courses start Tuesday, April 25 and are now open for enrollment. Sign up today and don’t miss out!

Current and upcoming openSAP courses
Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP Cloud Platform* (Update Q1/2017)
SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation in a Nutshell
Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy (Edition Q2/2017)

Upcoming openSAP Thought Leaders Courses
The Impact of Digitization on Leadership and Work
Liquid Legal: Transforming an Industry
Reimagining the Future: A Journey Through the Looking Glass

Happy learning!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

The next instalment of our openSAP Thought Leaders series is now open for enrollment. This time, we are welcoming Frank Diana, futurist and thought leader, from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to deliver the course, Reimagining the Future: A Journey Through the Looking Glass and enrollment is now open.

Reimagining the Future: A Journey Through the Looking Glass starts from May 23 and will explore questions such as what will the future look like? How will structures, industries, value, ethics, and business strategies be impacted? How should you prepare your business to remain viable in the future? The course will also discuss why we can no longer predict the future, but instead must rehearse it, as we prepare to address its opportunities and challenges.

Frank Diana is the lead instructor for this course and he will be joined by several futurists and business leaders, including:

• Chunka Mui, Managing Director at The Devil’s Advocate Group
  
• Michele Cunningham, SVP Products and Services at Element Fleet Management
  
• Gerd Leonhard, Futurist, Author, Speaker, and CEO of The Futures Agency
  
• Gray Scott, Futurist, Emerging Technology Expert, Founder and CEO of SeriousWonder.
  
• Bonnie D. Graham, Creator/Talk Radio Producer and Host of SAP Game-Changers Radio
  
• Hassan el Bouhali, CIO at Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP)
  
• K Ananth Krishnan, EVP and Chief Technology Officer at Tata Consultancy Services
  

This openSAP Thought Leaders course is aimed at business and technology leaders, future leaders, senior managers, and TCS associates.

openSAP course in German
Enrollment is now open for a new course, Bereit für die Digitalisierung? Digitales Talent Management, only available in German language. The course looks at the impact of digital transformation on the process of attracting, developing, and retaining employees. This course is aimed at business executives and HR colleagues. Bereit für die Digitalisierung? Digitales Talent Management is brought to you by University of Mannheim, Mannheim Business School, tts GmbH, and SAP Germany. You can find out more and enroll on the course page.

Enrollment is now open for the following courses at openSAP:
SAP Solutions
SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation in a Nutshell
Spatial Analysis with SAP HANA Platform (Including hands-on system access)
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform (Including hands-on system access)

Business topics
Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy (Edition Q2/2017)
The Impact of Digitization on Leadership and Work
Liquid Legal: Transforming an Industry

All our courses remain available for you to access in self-paced mode. As an option, you have the chance to complete the weekly assignments and final exam to earn a Record of Achievement. Find out more on our course reactivation page.

See you soon on an upcoming openSAP course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

In Q1, our openSAP Thought Leaders series provided you with insights about how the cancer diagnosis and treatment can be supported by digital transformation through big data. The next profession to get transformed is legal with the next openSAP Thought Leaders course, Liquid Legal: Transforming an Industry.

Liquid Legal is a vision, capturing the notion of adaptability and agility required for all players in the legal industry to successfully survive. Traditionally, technology was used in the legal industry for document storage, billing, accounting, and other business related functionalities. Since 2011, technology has started to disrupt the practice of law through access to online software to replace the need to consult a lawyer. This provides both challenges and opportunities for the legal industry and for LegalTech companies. Liquid Legal aims to provide a platform for strong and future oriented leaders and their views concerning the legal profession.

The vision was developed by the instructors of this course and editors of the book of the same name:

• Kai Jacob – Global VP Legal Information Management, SAP
  
• Dr. Dierk Schindler – Head of Legal EMEA & Global Legal Shared Services, NetApp
  
• Dr. Roger Strathausen – Author, university lecturer, and conference speaker specializing in the topics of leadership and learning
  

Liquid Legal: Transforming an Industry starts from May 16 and is open to everyone interested in learning about the vision of Liquid Legal and about opportunities for the legal world. The main target audience of this course is general counsels, chief financial officers, contract-handling personnel (including Sales, Procurement, Service), partners and associates in law firms, and lawyers and law students.

If you missed a previous openSAP Thought Leaders course, you can still catch up!

Here are the courses starting this April at openSAP:

Developing Java-Based Apps on SAP Cloud Platform* (Update Q1/2017)
SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation in a Nutshell
The Impact of Digitization on Leadership and Work
Spatial Analysis with SAP HANA Platform
Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform
Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy (Edition Q2/2017)

If you would like to earn a Record of Achievement for a course that is now in self-paced mode, check if it has a reactivation button. With a reactivation button, you have the chance to complete the weekly assignments and final exam to earn a Record of Achievement. Find out more on our course reactivation page.

We hope to see you soon on an upcoming openSAP course!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team

Dear openSAP community,

Three courses with brand new topics have just opened for enrollment on openSAP. Each course offers you the chance to complete hands-on exercises or participate in group work. There is something for everyone!

With Building Portal Sites on SAP Cloud Platform, you will learn how to use SAP Cloud Platform Portal to build engaging business sites to improve your users’ experience and spread a little bit of happiness! You will have the opportunity to build your own portal site, through hands-on weekly exercises. You’ll build your first SAP Fiori Launchpad site, freestyle sites with the chance to build widgets, bring in pre-defined content, and develop your own content, as well as managing your landscape. The course starts on April 25 and enrollment is now open! (Hint: don’t miss DJ Adams starring in the teaser video!)

Spatial Analysis with SAP HANA Platform starts on April 25 with a general introduction to spatial analysis, how to access and manipulate spatial data and how to use spatial content and services. The course will then move deeper into details, such as geocoding; converting business data into geographic locations to enable geographic analysis, and much more. The course will also take a look at the architecture of spatial applications and how to build them. If you’re interested in getting hands-on experience, complete hands-on exercises in a variety of units throughout the course. The course starts on April 25 and enrollment is now open!

Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy will look at all components of Business Model Innovation (BMI). You’ll learn about the business model design, how to analyze and improve, and challenge and change your business model for the best results. Whether you’re a start-up, a well-established business, or any kind of project, your business model today should look different when compared to how it would have looked in the past. You have the opportunity to take part in group work to complete collaborative exercises with your peers on a transformation project for an existing company requiring a redesigned business model. The course starts on April 26 and enrollment is now open!

Check out our variety of current and upcoming courses. Topics include SAP Cloud Platform, Design Topics, SAP Business ByDesign Financials, SAP BusinessObjects Roambi, SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA, as well as design topics, employee volunteering and the impact of digitization on leadership and work. All of the courses are now open for enrollment!

You can still register for courses in self-paced mode and access all of the course content completely free of charge. If you want to earn a Record of Achievement during self-paced mode, you can do so by reactivating the course through the SAP Store.

We hope to see you soon and don’t forget to get involved in the discussion forums!

With kind regards,
Your openSAP Team