SAP and Excel

I like Spreadsheets, but SAP is never going to look like Excel ! Or will it?
So Why don't SAP Integrate with Excel. 

Oh!. They tried it in early 2000. 
But when trying to demonstrate that in class, I clicked on the Cell in Excel to change a value and press Enter, I waited together with the students to see the same changed value to be reflected in the SAP screen, the wait seems forever! It was lucky that the students in that particular class was nice people and they said never mind. So, I proceed to move on to the next topic. After around 60 minutes when it was time for lunch, and the students left the room, I checked if the updating in SAP was succusseful, it did and I was quite excited. But honestly, I was too embarassed to show the updated result in SAP to the students after lunch. Imagine real case scenario of users updating an excel sheet and are told they have to wait for some time for it to be updated to SAP!  That rather embarassing moment in an SAP class was in early 2000! 

Its 2017 now and Ah!. They are going to try again with Hana.
Since Hana is going to be 33 times faster, I bet you just have to go pee in the toilet and return to see the value updated ! Lol! That was just a joke, maybe the updating is really seamless today in the Hana Platform! 

SAP says these are now the exciting times to show the ease and speed of integration of SAP to everything else creating a seamless user experince environment. Honestly I am alreasy too tired to be interested in them. But I do believe they are more possibilities in the current computing times compared to 17 years ago. For example, I am writing this blog post using the S Pen on the Note 8, something quite impossible 17 years on a mobile device. 

I do agree with SAP that these are exciting times!