With the openSAP platform gaining popularity as an SAP learning platform, SAP SE has added four new courses to its roster, focusing on application development and user experience.
The four courses are:
- SAP’s UX Strategy in a Nutshell by Sam Yen (pictured): Led by SAP’s chief design officer, the course provides an introduction to SAP’s UX strategy and explain how products such as SAP Fiori and SAP Screen Personas deliver on this. The course begins August 27.
- Next Steps in SAP HANA Cloud Platform: The graduate level to Introduction to SAP HANA Cloud Platform, this course offers ways to develop and manage native apps for SAP HANA and HTML5 apps, apply advanced security features and develop widgets on the SAP HANA Cloud Portal. The course begins September 3.
- Introduction to SAP Fiori UX: This course introduces the fundamentals of and latest features of SAP Fiori, including product installation, configuration and best practices for extensibility using SAP Rapid Deployment solutions for SAP Fiori. The course begins September 9.
- ABAP Development for SAP HANA: This course will explain the important concepts in ABAP development tools for SAP HANA, including how to detect and analyse the performance of ABAP programming language and which features SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP provides for database-oriented programming. The course begins September 25.
SAP said it is also enhancing social collaboration on the openSAP platform by allowing users to subscribe to discussions of interest in the forum.
“SAP’s goal is to provide users with simple and digestible information that will enable them to make the most out of their SAP solutions,” said Dr Bernd Welz, executive vice president and global head, solution and knowledge packaging, SAP.
“The openSAP platform encourages users to work with their instructors and peers to maximize the efficacy of the program. SAP’s ultimate goal is to help its customers drive tangible business outcomes through the content provided in the courses.”
Since the launch of openSAP in May 2013, more than 125,000 users have registered and course enrollments have totalled more than 320,000.
