To set up an SAP Business Application Studio environment, first we need to have access to SAP Cloud Platform. There are different possibilities to get access, for example:
Here a detailed instruction on how to get an access to SAP Business Application Studio
https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hcp-create-trial-account.html
SAP released SAP Business Application Studio by end 2019 and in Q1 2020. This article aims to introduce briefly “SAP Business Application Studio” to SAP function consultants; it has five parts: Environment preparation, project set up, CDS configuration, Database Explorer, and App implementation.
Business Application Studio help portal:
SAP TechEd 2020 starts in just a couple of hours, we can visit the event with registration at:
https://pages.sapteched.com/sap/sapteched2020/index
or, without registration at Channel 1 stream broadcast with Twitter Live Event
Outlook to the coming decade, three trends of SAP Bank / Banking Services from SAP are in expectation.
1. SAP Bank should transform into a more easy-to-use software. This means the interaction between users and the software becomes more like the interaction between a user and his intelligent assistant, even it appears to be non-logical and non-database software, although certainly it is logical and based on database.
SAP Bank becomes more flexible for customization than ever, this could be reflected through many new BAdIs in IMG. Here some examples. SAP Banking ---- Loans Management ---- BAdIs for Enterprise Services ----- BAdIs for Business Object LoanContract:
SAP introduced “intelligent loans management” in S/4HANA, with this step SAP Bank becomes more intelligent than ever. New customization itemss in S4H 1909 shows SAP is trying to build an “intelligent bank” (The Intelligent Enterprise for the Banking Industry). In the S/4HANA 1909 easy access menu, SAP introduced the following two transactions in the folder “intelligent loans management”.
Definition of hedge accounting
A hedge accounting means designating one or more hedging instruments so that their change in fair value offsets the change in fair value or the change in cash flows of a hedged item.
Regulations on hedge accounting in Germany
HGB §254 Bildung von Bewertungseinheiten; Bilanzrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz (BilMoG)
International financial reporting standard (IFRS) 9 Financial Instruments.
This article tries to provide a overview of the new features of Banking Services from SAP during the past five years — 2016 till 2020 — in S/4HANA 1610/1709/1809/1909/2020 as well in specific banking modules, with comments on its outlook. Overview is organized from the viewpoint of system characteristics or the development trends, not by timeline from year to year, nor by function modules. In this article, “Banking Services from SAP”, “SAP Banking”, and “SAP Bank” these three concepts are equivalent and can be used interchangeably.