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Han Pieter Duyverman / Mendix Expert & Teamlead / MxBlueErno Rorive, Sr. Product Manager Mendix

SAP and Mendix: Maintain business agility and innovation while migrating to S4/HANA

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SAP and Mendix Join ForcesMendix has become a SAP Solution Extension end of 2017

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This is the story why?

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Key SAP Processes Are Customized in ECC Systems

Procure to Pay

Order to Cash

Hire to Retire

Plan to Produce30–50% custom applications will

need adjustments during upgrades

45% report lack of skilled development

resources

64% have application backlog of more than

1 year

47% report difficulties in

integrating with existing systems

50% report high SAP application

development costs

Sources: How to solve the App Delivery Gap, Mendix White Paper based on sponsored research conducted with ASUG, based on SAP DBS (CQC) Solution Transition Assessment and follow-up services

Payroll/Accounting

Sales/Marketing Finance

HRM

Operations/Management

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Data migration

Ability to keep custom processes

Budget constraints

Unplanned downtime

Customer/vendor confusion

Security/privacy

Lack of critical functionality

Lack of quality technical support

Staying compliant with regulations

Loss of efficiency in data communication

Other

67%

62%

51%

45%

32%

31%

27%

26%

22%

18%

10%

71% 66%

47% 66%

41% 53%

41% 43%

24% 30%

18% 31%

12% 28%

35% 24%

18% 21%

18% 18%

12% 8%

Less than$500 million

More than$500 million

Key Concerns of SAP Customers Moving to SAP S/4HANA

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Why Mendix?

Turn S/4 implementation costs to cloud

revenue

Develop apps for Business Suite (ECC)

Accelerate your path to SAP

S/4HANA

Build an intelligent enterprise

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Turn S/4 Implementation Costs to Cloud Revenue

To Future-Proof Extensions

User Interface

Application

Database

User Interface

Application

Database

UI

Logic

DB

Mx App Mx App

Mx App Mx App

*) Source: 2017 Report on ERP Systems & Enterprise Software, Panorama Consulting Solutions

Customized ERP system§ Experiences with ERP implementations*):– Typical implementations are 18 months– 48% of ERP users receive only 50% or less of the expected

benefits. – 52% experience operational disruption– 70% change 10-25% of the core code

§ Extensions calling standard code (no APIs)§ Updates require major effort in custom code

Standard S/4HANA system§ De-coupled, lifecycle-stable extensions§ Clash-free development using whitelisted APIs§ No coding skills needed to create extensions§ App UI can be made consumer-grade without needing UI skills§ 70% lower development cost§ Align business requirements with application delivery

From Costly Customizations

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Custom App Development: “As-Is” vs ”To-Be”

ERP Core

Baseline

Custom Apps

App. Backlog

MIN

. BU

SIN

ES

S R

EQ

UIR

EM

EN

TS

Develop 82%

Retire 8%

Redundant 10%

ERP Core

Baseline

FUT

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E P

RO

OF B

US

INE

SS

ALIG

NM

EN

T

New Platform

S/4HANA

ABAP, webIDE, Fiori § $$$ (50 apps ex)§ Cost Licenses/Services§ Cost Dev/Maintenance

MENDIX§ $$$ (50 apps ex)§ Cost Licenses/Services§ Cost Dev/Maintenance

TraditionalOR

Low-code

Avg leadtime/app

6-10x faster

Time to ValueLicense & Labor CostExisting Platform

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So lets bring this to live!

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Han Pieter Duyverman

Mendix ExpertTeamlead MxBlue

Han Pieter Duyverman

Maker

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Leia the low code princess

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Persona’s

Anjo WolvenSales Director

“Build an engaging Event App for

MxWorld”

Toine PothuizenSAP

consultant/architect

“Keep the core clean”

Leia Low code princess

“Save me!”

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Go make it!

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Very High Level Architecture

SAP S4 SAP S4

SAP S4

SAP Quests

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SAP (S/4HANA)

Open Connectors

External API’s

(non SAP)

Mendix Platform

API Business Hub

API’s ODataRFC/BAPI SOAP

OData Connector

Connectors

DestinationService

ServicesSAP Cloud Platform

One level down – SAP Integration

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21Service discovery api.sap.com

Read metadata Postman Collection

SAP OData Connector Show microflow to call SAP Service

Show result in Fiori

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Go play it!

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Keep IT real !

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1Leverage the power of both platforms

Work side by side with a SAP Consultant

Ask your SAP counterpart for working API samples in Postman

Understand how Odataworks.

SAP OData Connector & Odata model creator are big time savers

Lessons Learned

This all works with standard components

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