From September 29 to October 24, SAP Devtoberfest 2025 brought developers together worldwide for a month-long virtual experience leading up to SAP TechEd 2025 (Nov 4–6).
In this recap, we unpack what made this year’s event remarkable:
💡 Themed Learning Weeks – From ABAP Cloud and Fiori tooling to Integration, Data & AI, and CAP development.
🎮 Gamified Challenges – Hands-on coding contests, tutorials, and leaderboards that turned learning into play.
☁️ Cloud & AI Focus – Deep dives into SAP BTP, CAP, Kyma, and Joule—showing how AI and cloud-native innovation are shaping enterprise development.
🌍 Community & Open Source – A global, open-source-driven spirit that connected developers from the US to Berlin.
🌱 Tech for Good – A strong sustainability message encouraging developers to build code that creates real-world impact.
If you’re part of the SAP ecosystem—or simply passionate about cloud, AI, and enterprise apps—this reflection captures the key themes and lessons shaping the next wave of intelligent development.
For too long, organizations—especially finance leaders—have been forced to choose: an integrated suite or agile, best-of-breed innovation. The choice meant trading seamless data for cutting-edge tools, or vice versa.
SAP is rewriting the rules.
This new article breaks down the strategic trio delivering "both/and": Apps, Data (via the Business Data Fabric), and Embedded AI (Joule).
We explore how this approach provides:
The agility to adopt new innovations instantly.
Confidence in a single, trusted view of data.
Intelligence embedded directly into financial decisions.
If you're currently wrestling with system fragmentation, data silos, or slow innovation cycles, this is a must-read.
Free doesn’t always mean limited—in SAP’s partner ecosystem, free licenses can unlock real strategic value for finance organizations.
In this blog, we break down how SAP’s partner license offerings enable finance teams to experiment, innovate, and test solutions without upfront cost. Whether it’s piloting new analytics, building proof-of-concept automations, or accelerating adoption of SAP’s latest tools, free licenses create a sandbox for value creation.
We explore:
How partners leverage free licenses to co-innovate with finance teams.
The hidden benefits of experimenting without additional license spend.
Why free access accelerates both transformation projects and user adoption.
For finance leaders, these licenses aren’t just “extras”—they’re a way to lower risk, validate investments, and fast-track business outcomes.
Read the full blog to understand how SAP’s partner advantage can work in your favor.
In today's volatile economic landscape, a cash flow crisis is a CFO's worst nightmare. But what if you could move beyond reactive firefighting to gain complete control over your company's cash? This blog explores how modern SAP solutions are transforming treasury management. We'll dive into the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA that provide a real-time, holistic view of your organization's liquidity, moving beyond traditional reporting. Discover how advanced features use integrated data from across the enterprise to deliver precise liquidity forecasting, helping you anticipate and prevent potential shortfalls. Finally, we'll highlight how automation and seamless bank integration are freeing up finance teams from manual tasks, enabling them to shift their focus from mere survival to strategic growth. The future of cash management isn't about crisis—it's about control.
Struggling to make sense of the latest SAP acronyms? You're not alone. The conversation around SAP BTP and SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) can get confusing, with both promising to be the key to digital transformation.
But what if you didn't have to choose?
Our latest blog post cuts through the noise, explaining how these two powerful platforms work not as competitors, but as two parts of a single, integrated strategy. We'll show you how BTP is your engine for operational agility, while BDC is your new foundation for strategic, AI-driven insights.
Read the full post to discover how you can move from a reactive, reporting-based finance function to a proactive, strategic partner.
The Digital Discovery Assessment (DDA) is used in the sales cycle to assess a customer's requirements and match them with the best SAP S/4HANA Cloud solution to fit their needs. This occurs in the Discover phase of the SAP Activate Methodology.
