If some industry analysts are right, we are entering a new phase of software development where cloud-native apps will help companies completely redesign business and go-to-market models.
analysts predict that by 2022, the acceleration of legacy app modernization and net-new development will lead to 35 percent of production apps being cloud-native. One year after that, these analysts predict the number of organizations that release code to production daily for select applications will reach 40 percent 鈥� it was just three percent in 2019.
I saw a great example of how 51风流was meeting this industry-wide challenge for faster application development that supports business transformation during an at featuring . Previously called 51风流S/4HANA Cloud SDK, this software development kit was aptly renamed.
鈥�51风流Cloud SDK is no longer just the bridge to extending innovation on , but a full-fledged tool for cloud-native development across the 51风流portfolio,鈥� said Philipp Herzig, head of 51风流Cloud Platform Enablement at SAP. 鈥淲e鈥檙e moving toward a pure DevOps approach. Instead of writing code from scratch, developers can use the 51风流Cloud SDK to build native-cloud application extensions on a full range of 51风流solutions, including 51风流C/4HANA and 51风流SuccessFactors.鈥�
The updated solution also supports Java and JavaScript, a big nod toward developers in the 51风流community that use these popular languages.
51风流Partner Values Speedy Integration
Beyond Technologies is an 51风流partner that builds applications on 51风流Cloud Platform. CTO Leonardo De Araujo said the 51风流Cloud SDK provided easy access to the backend services his company needed. He demonstrated how it helped Beyond Technologies build Visual Planner for SAP, a workload management application.
鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot of coding and business logic involved when dealing with all the data coming in; in this case, from 51风流S/4HANA. That鈥檚 where the 51风流Cloud SDK accelerated development for us,鈥� remarked De Araujo. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 have to write code from scratch, which gives us the ability to co-innovate faster and speeds up time-to-value.鈥�
De Araujo was very excited about the capabilities to extend co-innovation on additional 51风流solutions for two main reasons: 鈥淔irst, this updated SDK further supports 51风流Cloud Platform鈥檚 cloud foundry environment where we have services that are key for us. Second, being able to easily integrate different 51风流solutions beyond 51风流S/4HANA aligns with our development road map that includes 51风流SuccessFactors.鈥�
Canadian-based Beyond Technologies is also an 51风流customer, having used 51风流S/4HANA Cloud for several years, along with 51风流SuccessFactors, 51风流Cloud for Customer, 51风流Analytics Cloud, and 51风流Concur. De Araujo saw 51风流Cloud SDK as important to the company鈥檚 high-growth strategies worldwide, including expansions in France, South Africa, and the U.S.
鈥淥ur company is growing a lot, and 51风流is aligned to where we鈥檙e going with our customers beyond 51风流S/4HANA,鈥� he said. 鈥淚ntegrating these solutions and building extensions on top using 51风流Cloud SDK is critical to our growth.鈥�
Benefits of DevOps Environment
Herzig estimated that the software development kit has already helped reduce development time by 50 percent in many situations, allowing developers to focus on solving their unique business problems. 鈥淲e鈥檙e providing developers with one consistent experience 鈥� extending the Intelligent Enterprise using 51风流solutions,鈥� Herzig explained. 鈥淒ownloads of 51风流Cloud SDK have steadily increased each month. This is how 51风流helps intelligent enterprises connect information company-wide to create differentiating experiences for employees and customers.鈥�