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Why Every ABAP Developer Must Learn HANA Today

How ABAP developers can prepare for modern S/4HANA projects.

Published 2026-07-29 · Updated 2026-07-29

Published by Next-Gen ERP Solutions

S/4HANA changes how SAP applications model, access and process data, so modern ABAP work increasingly depends on HANA-aware development.

ABAP developers should learn CDS views, code pushdown, AMDP, modern Open SQL and performance analysis while retaining strong foundations in the Data Dictionary, reports, enhancements and object-oriented ABAP.

Practise by modernising an existing report and building a CDS-based analytical scenario. A working example demonstrates more value than a list of completed topics.

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