{"id":1440,"date":"2012-03-21T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"technology-forum-uk-day-1-a-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Technology Forum, UK, Day 1 – a summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At a time when lots of my Mentor colleagues are at SAP’s internal DKOM events, I had the opportunity to attend SAP’s semi-public UK Technology Forum in St Albans<\/a> on March 21st and spent day 1 there, mainly focussing on information around User Interfaces and Netweaver Gateway. As a regular TechEd visitor, events such as this are not providing you with a raft of new items around SAP products, but instead give you with a gut feel for the local customer and developer community.<\/p>\n

I have yet to see this evening’s Demo Jam, but so far it’s been a worthwhile trip, which is mainly down to networking and chats I had. Here are my key points:<\/p>\n

User Interface and User Experience:<\/strong>\u00a0demos and presentations were around HTML5<\/strong> – either driven by Sybase Unwired Platform or developed straight using HTML5 and CSS3. For example, Keytree demoed an interesting live retail app for iPad that uses HTML5, hooked up to a SAP retail backend via homebuilt RESTful services. CompriseIT demoed a new SAP tool to generate native iOS consumption UIs for Netweaver Gateway services.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>UI5:<\/strong> It didn’t come as a surprise to me, but there were no specific news on SAP’s new UI framework UI5<\/strong> (which is jQuery based). However, according to the SAP partners I spoke to it is something everyone is looking into now. Keytree mentioned they are using\u00a0Sencha<\/a> libraries (a Javascript framework) on top to add touch interface capabilities to UI5 (which currently only is for desktop). Personally, I am excited about UI5 and expect further developments on tooling and framework from SAP later this year.<\/p>\n

Gateway:<\/strong> I liked that most presentations clarified that not just SUP can be used for consumption, which was in contrast to information available during TechEd 2011 in Madrid, where participants often thought SUP is the only way to consume Gateway. I attended two interesting sessions by SAP labs’ very own Yaad Oren, including a Kinect-enabled Gateway solution<\/strong> and a Siri-based prototype called SiPi<\/strong> (using Open Ears<\/a>). In the latter, a video showed a SAP CRM lead being created using iPhone voice recognition and later an image was added to the CRM business partner by searching the person on Facebook, based on facial details. This is a very likely future use-case, yet it still makes me slightly shudder! (Disclaimer: the app is only a prototype!<\/span>). As far as a wider developer engagement<\/strong> for Gateway is concerned, it seems that a reliance on the SAP partnering framework is the chosen path for now. Whether this will hamper the “billion users” ambitions SAP has remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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