Episode 118: Become a SaaS provider of multi-tenant applications with SAP BTP
Apr 25, 2025
In the April 2025 episode of SAP BTP Talk, we explore how existing and potential SAP partners can build, run, and integrate scalable full-stack cloud applications using the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) and adhering to the development recommendations set out in the SAP BTP Developer’s Guide.
We would touch upon including an ERP-agnostic design while you are developing the solution that lets you deliver your application as a side-by-side extension to consumers using any SAP solution, such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Business One, and SAP Business ByDesign.
Also in this episode:
Joule is now available in SAP Datasphere for space management and user inquiries. Joule in SAP BTP cockpit has reached general availability, enabling users to manage global accounts and view available runtimes.
SAP Build has introduced Gen AI features to automate process creation and provide UI suggestions, enhancing app development.
Existing and potential partners can leverage Cloud Application Programming model to create and integrate scalable full-stack cloud applications on SAP BTP. CAP documentation provides comprehensive guidance and tutorials for developing multi-tenant solutions, including the Partner Reference Application repository.
The “Poetry Slam Manager” is one ready-to-run sample application within the Partner Reference App repository that includes comprehensive tutorials for development and integration. This creative use case shows how event managers can utilize SAP ERP systems to organize and manage poetry slam events.
Roadmap items for SAP BTP services include Joule capabilities for CAP, letting developers leverage AI for enhanced accuracy and efficiency, and new transport management functionalities.
Learning and enablement opportunities are available through virtual formats (SAP BTP InnoBytes, SAP BTP Garage) and upcoming in-person events like SAP ReCap and SAP Sapphire.
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About Knut Heusermann
Knut Heusermann is a Product Manager and part of the Business Suite Ecosystem team at SAP SE. He drives partner and customer innovations based on the SAP Business Technology Platform by connecting extension architecture, integration capabilities and commercial models.
Christian Böhrer is a Development Manager in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Foundation unit at SAP’s headquarters in Walldorf. He is heading a development team with focus on partner extensibility and ecosystem enablement for the SAP Business Suite that is delivering architecture and engineering guidance for SAP’s partner ecosystem.
Episode 117: Discovering Knowledge Graph within SAP HANA Cloud
Apr 01, 2025
In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Shabana Samsudheen, Senior Product Manager for SAP HANA Cloud. We’re making a deep dive into the new Knowledge Graph engine of SAP HANA Cloud: talking about what knowledge graphs are and what they’re used for, typical use cases of knowledge graphs and why they are so beneficial, and how to put them to use in SAP HANA Cloud.
Interview Guest:
Shabana Samsudheen is Senior Product Manager for SAP HANA Cloud, focusing on the multi-model topic, that covers the spatial, property graph, document store, vector and the recently rolled out knowledge graph engine.
Episode 116: Enhance developer efficiency using SAP Integration Suite and SAP Build for enterprise automation scenarios
Feb 27, 2025
Explore how the enterprise automation framework enhances developer efficiency and streamlines connectivity to underlying data sources.
In the February 2025 episode of SAP BTP Talk, we explore how SAP accelerates enterprise automation with SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite offering a unique and comprehensive AI-powered solution to integrate applications, discover process inefficiencies, and automate processes across heterogeneous enterprise environments.
Discover how SAP helps enterprises integrate everything, improve continuously, and automate completely.
Evegniy Gorbunov is a Product Manager for SAP Build with over 10 years of experience in diverse roles in the IT industry.
Being a passionate enthusiast and evangelist of hyper-automation, Evgeniy is leading various product management, customer adoption, and go-to-market initiatives within SAP.
Episode 115: Develop apps, automate processes, and design engaging digital workspaces with SAP Build
Jan 30, 2025
Get a holistic understanding of how SAP Build accelerates development and automation with low-code, pro-code, and generative AI tools.
In the January 2025 episode of SAP BTP Talk, we explore how SAP Build accelerates development and automation with low-code, pro-code, and generative AI tools. Discover how businesses can build cloud-ready extensions to maximize investments in cloud ERP and their application ecosystems.
Hemant Rachh is a Senior Director, Product Management, SAP Build, with proven success in new business launches, scaling products across geographies, spearheading new initiatives, and managing agile teams. In his current role, he is leading outbound product management of SAP Build across LoBs. Before the SAP Build, Hemant co-founded a startup “Inversation by SAP” funded by SAP.iO. He has overall 20 years of experience and holds a master’s in business administration from NMIMS, Mumbai.
Episode 114: Configure and manage BTP landscape with your AI digital assistant – Joule within SAP BTP Cockpit
Dec 24, 2024
Learn how Joule revolutionizes the way you interact with your SAP Business Technology Platform landscape through SAP BTP Cockpit.
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, December 2024, we will talk about how Joule – the AI copilot from SAP – truly understands your business. And when this intelligence is infused in SAP BTP Cockpit, how it transforms productivity and the way your teams work.
Host Gaurav Dey interviews Kishore Vivekanandan, a product lead at SAP BTP, discussing Joule’s role in making BTP administration more efficient and user-friendly. Our conversation delves into the advancements in AI, particularly interactive AI in business applications, with a focus on the new features of SAP BTP and Joule’s integration. We also touch upon the learnings that the development team had from the beta program and how those insights have shaped the product roadmap.
Kishore Kumar Vivekanandan, Head of BTP Core Experience (Multi-Cloud, AI & Neo), leads the BTP Core Experience organization, overseeing engineering teams responsible for critical foundations such as SAP BTP Cockpit—the central management UI for SAP BTP services and environments—along with the BTP CLI, a developer-focused terminal interface for cloud-native operations, and BTP Neo Core services.
As a visionary leader, Kishore spearheads the strategic investment in integrating AI capabilities into SAP BTP Cockpit. His efforts are driving the evolution of SAP’s administrative interfaces with Joule, SAP’s AI-powered copilot, to transform how users interact with and manage their BTP landscapes.
Kishore’s expertise lies in managing cross-functional teams, delivering complex enterprise-grade solutions, and fostering innovation in cloud computing and AI. He is passionate about enhancing user experience and empowering customers to unlock the full potential of SAP BTP.
Episode 113: Event Driven Architecture with a Power Couple – SAP Integration Suite and Advanced Event Mesh
Nov 29, 2024
In this episode, Niklas Siemer will have a conversation with Gautham Krishna, Product Manager SAP Integration Suite, and Karsten Strothmann, Lead PM Event-Driven Integration, about the world.
As we all know the world is event-driven, right? So, let’s talk about what EDAs are and what use cases have made it to day-to-day life.
Learn how Event-Driven Architecture can be applied to businesses to allow them to benefit from this game-changing approach.
Gautham Krishna Solution Owner | Product Manager, Integration @ SAP
Gautham is a passionate and seasoned product manager with 10+ years of experience, focused on providing entrepreneurial solutions to enterprise integration problems. He is specializing in product strategy, commercialization, go-to-market and technical enablement mainly to encourage customers to modernize and transform their IT landscapes using the latest technologies and services.
Gautham is an active and passionate member of the SAP community and contributes with informative and engaging content on Integration and other related topics.
Karsten Strothmann Lead Product Manager – Event Driven Integration, SAP SE
Karsten is lead product manager and evangelist for event-driven integration at SAP SE in Walldorf, Germany. He has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry. Karsten currently works on event-driven architecture in general, with a focus on extensions and integrations on SAP Business Technology Platform.
During his career, Karsten has applied himself to highly varied roles, from product management, to development, to quality assurance, to consulting. This has given him a holistic view of both software creation and software usage.
Episode 112: Streamlining success with SAP BTP Service Catalog and embedded SAP Business AI capabilities
Oct 31, 2024
Explore how SAP Business AI features along with SAP BTP service catalog and estimator work together to enhance business productivity. Discover how embedded SAP Business AI capabilities can drive solutions to real-time challenges, with hands-on tools and resources available at the SAP Discovery Center.
In the 10th episode of SAP BTP Talk for 2024, we reflect on SAP TechEd, emphasizing innovation and collaboration highlighted by keynote speaker Mohamed Alam. The episode first discusses upcoming SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enhancements, including accessibility via SAP Managed Data Centers and the introduction of ABAP Cloud for efficient extension development. For the main topic, Gaurav Dey is joined by Holger Neuert, Chief Product Expert for SAP BTP Service Catalog and Estimator, to explore the SAP Business AI Catalog, focusing on how embedded AI can optimize processes.
SAP customers now have access to the new SAP Business AI Feature Catalog in SAP Discovery Center, offering a centralized location to explore all AI features. The catalog provides details, visuals, benefits, resources, pricing, and value information for AI offerings within the cloud suite. This resource helps SAP customers identify the most valuable and suitable AI features for their specific SAP landscape. Additionally, a new AI Unit Estimator tool has been added to aid in understanding the AI Units required for different features.
This discussion provides a holistic overview of how SAP Discovery Center embeds SAP Business AI capabilities along with SAP Business AI Feature Catalog and Estimator. Tune in to learn how these capabilities can help you solve real-time business challenges while making the cloud adoption journey easier.
Interview Guest:
Holger Neuert – Chief Product Expert SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP
Holger Neuert is product manager in GLAC Adoption & Commercial Enablement team. His responsibilities are customer and partner facing activities around the BTP Cloud Management Tools, BTP commercialization topics and SAP Business AI Features. This includes managing SAP BTP Estimator, SAP Business AI Feature Estimator, BTP Service Catalog and SAP Business AI Feature Catalog as product owner.
Holger has more than 25 years SAP experience and worked in different areas like consulting, solution management, and development. He is also university teacher for “Agile Project- and Innovation Management” at the Popakademie, Mannheim.
Episode 111: Exploring Clean Core and the Power of AI in ABAP Cloud
Sep 26, 2024
In this new episode, Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Sonja Liénard, Head of SAP BTP ABAP. Together they will make a deep dive into ABAP Cloud and its relation to clean-core.
The use of artificial intelligence-based capabilities for developers will completely influence the world how ABAP developers will work with ABAP Cloud and its ABAP Development Tools. We will talk about upcoming innovations like code explanation and code generation and their potential coming in the near and far future.
Interview Guest:
Sonja Liénard, SVP, Head of SAP BTP ABAP
Her experience within the SAP Universe ranges from the ABAP Kernel to ABAP’s database layer, overall ABAP language as well as ABAP development tools. She enjoys challenges and finding solutions for them and is all in for topics like change management and organizational development.
Sonja has a strong background in user experience and human computer interaction. She brings a Magister (equivalent to Master studies) in Information Science, Business Informatics, and Literature.She is an inspiring leader fighting for diversity as well as bringing visionary ideas into life.
Episode 110: Empower organizations to maintain a secure digital landscape with SAP BTP Security services
Aug 28, 2024
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, August’ 2024 we will talk about SAP BTP Security services portfolio and how enterprises can build applications securely and foster a security-first culture in everything they do. We will touch upon topics like secure user access and connectivity, permissions, communications, and encryption. Our expert will also discuss how compliance is adhered with SAP BTP Security services along with integration to SAP Cloud ALM.
Interview Guest:
Jürgen Adolf is an SAP Product Manager specializing in SAP BTP Security. He helps customers explore and understand the security products and features available through SAP’s technology platform, answering questions about their value and benefits. Jürgen also presents at SAP and non-SAP conventions, leading lectures, and hands-on sessions, while channeling customer and market security requirements back to SAP’s development teams.
Episode 109: Achieve business process excellence with SAP Signavio Process Insights
Jul 30, 2024
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, July 2024, we will talk about SAP Signavio Process Insights which runs on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) delivering data-driven insights into business processes and their usage based on data from one or more source systems. This service helps organizations to achieve business process excellence by helping to identify where processes can be improved, allowing users to drill down to understand root causes, and providing recommendations on how to improve.
We would also touch upon how as a business user such as a process owner, change driver, transformation lead, or decision maker you can leverage this service to navigate through your business process transformation journey from insight to action & maximize process excellence.
Interview Guest:
Diana Veit is a Product Lead for SAP Signavio Process Insights, a process and mining product to kick-start transformation journeys. In her current role, Diana is responsible for driving the product vision, developing roadmaps, and ensuring successful customer adoption. She collaborates closely with a diverse range of customers and partners to meet user satisfaction and business success.
Diana’s expertise lies in transforming innovative ideas into market-ready solutions through user research and prototyping. She thrives in multidisciplinary environments, where she aligns teams towards the shared goal of creating valuable products for customers.
In addition to her work at SAP Signavio, Diana is a Lecturer in Digital Transformation at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, where she shares her knowledge and experience with students.’
Episode 108: Recap of SAP Sapphire and ASUG Annual Conference 2024
Jul 02, 2024
In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Geoff Scott, CEO and Chief Community Champion of the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG).
Together they will make a recap of the impression and announcements of SAP Sapphire and the ASUG Annual Conference. Geoff is sharing his top moments and his opinion on AI in business. To close the interview, Geoff give a little preview on the ASUG Tech Connect in November.
Geoff Scott, CEO and Chief Community Officer of ASUG, believes that the connections we make for our members have the potential to become career-defining relationships that inspire innovation and success for their organizations.
His forward-thinking leadership prioritizes helping our members make the most of their investment in SAP technologies. To that end, Geoff works closely with customers, members, the SAP Executive Board, and the extensive partner ecosystem to amplify the voice of the SAP customer. Additionally, he enjoys the time he’s able to spend with our members at ASUG conferences, events, as well as in informal meetings. Geoff has more than 20 years of leadership and technology experience. including seven years of extensive SAP implementation and operations experience. His background in the automotive, food, retail, and startup spaces brings valuable, broad-based experience to ASUG.
Episode 107: Exploring the use of SAP BTP in Esports at Team Liquid
May 30, 2024
In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Thom Valks, Partnership manager at Team Liquid.
Together they will make an exploration into the world of Esports. They discuss typical Esports tournaments, the game League of Legends and the partnership between Team Liquid and SAP. Team Liquid is adopting technology from SAP BTP in various use cases. Thom will guide us through these scenarios and details and explain the benefits of working with huge amounts of data in Esports.
Interview Guest:
Thom Valks is Partnerships Manager at Team Liquid. He studied Chinese Studies at the University of Leiden and after obtaining a BA and MA worked in the travel industry for six years. He always had a passion for gaming though, and when an opportunity to join Team Liquid arose, he grabbed the opportunity immediately. He has now worked at Team Liquid for the past 3 years. As Partnerships Manager, Thom is responsible for making sure Team Liquid’s sponsors (like SAP) get the most value out of the partnership.
Episode 106: Infuse intelligence in your business applications with SAP Generative AI Hub
May 02, 2024
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, April 2024, we will talk about the new addition made to the SAP Business AI family – ‘Generative AI Hub’. We will discuss: how does it fit into the overall SAP’s Business AI portfolio, the main use cases where it fits for the Generative AI scenarios, and how is this different from other generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and others? We will also discuss how enterprises can accelerate outcomes with instant access to top-rated foundation models from multiple providers, while preserving security and privacy they can supercharge mission-critical processes.
Interview Guest:
Hadi Hares – Lead Product Manager, SAP Business AI, has been working for the SAP BTP services SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad since 2021. The latest addition to these services is the Generative AI Hub capability. He joined SAP in 2018 and drove several customer projects as a business process consultant and data scientist. Hadi holds a Master’s degree in Business and Economics, majoring in Data Science and Computational Economics.
Generative AI Meets Contextual Intelligence
Mar 28, 2024
In this episode, Niklas Siemer is joined by Thomas Hammer, the lead product manager for SAP HANA Cloud, to discuss the newly introduced vector engine feature.
Thomas explains its evolution and multi-model data processing capabilities and focuses on how the new vector engine enhances generative AI applications by improving context awareness. Thomas details its technical features, including new data types and SQL commands, and explores use cases in real estate and audio/image recognition. The conversation also touches on the operational impact, commercial aspects, and upcoming SAP HANA Cloud updates, such as increased storage and cost management tools.
Also in this episode:
SAP BTP is continuously releasing new roadmap updates, including improvements to the API Management user interface, enhanced HTML5 application integration in SAP Build Work Zone, and a namespace concept in SAP Datasphere.
SAP HANA Cloud is the latest evolution of SAP HANA, offering a managed database-as-a-service with a focus on in-memory, real-time data analytics and multi-model data processing capabilities.
The vector engine is the newest addition to SAP HANA Cloud’s multi-model data processing features, providing the ability to store and process vector data, which is crucial for generative AI scenarios.
The vector engine helps address limitations of large language models by infusing business-specific context and more up-to-date information into AI applications, leading to more accurate and relevant responses.
Technically, the vector engine introduces a new “real vector” data type and integrates with SQL and Python, allowing customers to leverage vector data processing within the core of the SAP HANA Cloud platform.
The vector engine can be used for a variety of use cases, such as similarity search in real estate and audio/image recognition, leveraging the semantic relationships captured in the vector data.
While the vector engine may increase data storage requirements and CPU usage for analytics, there is no additional licensing cost for customers to use this feature, which is included as part of the SAP HANA Cloud offering.
Episode 104: Unleash next generation hybrid integrations with Edge Integration Cell
Feb 23, 2024
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, February’ 2024 we will talk about the new addition made to the SAP Integration Suite family ‘Edge Integration Cell’ that was announced as Generally Available at TechEd last year. We will discuss how Edge Integration Cell offers a hybrid integration runtime which enables enterprises to manage APIs and run integration scenarios within their private landscapes.
The Edge Integration Cell enables the processing of data within a private landscape. This allows sender and receiver systems to exchange data without passing through the internet, as the data is hosted exclusively in an on-premise environment. The cloud-based environment of SAP Integration Suite is utilized to design and monitor integration content.
Interview Guest:
Finny Babu – Lead Product Manager, SAP Integration Suite
Episode 103: Exploring SAP BTP, ABAP environment
Jan 25, 2024
In this episode, Niklas Siemer is joined by Frank Jentsch, the project lead for the SAP ABAP environment, to provide an in-depth look at the platform.
The discussion explores ABAP’s history, evolution, and role in the SAP ecosystem, with Frank explaining the “clean core” strategy and how the ABAP environment supports side-by-side development. He highlights key personas, available tools, and integration with BTP services, along with typical customer use cases and the premium engagement model. Looking ahead, Frank previews innovations like zero downtime management, installable products, and automatic scaling. He also shares resources for listeners to further explore and upskill on ABAP.
Also in this episode:
ABAP is a fundamental part of the SAP ecosystem, with around 80% of business transactions worldwide running on ABAP-based systems.
The “Steampunk” initiative aims to bring ABAP development to the cloud, enabling customers to build side-by-side extensions on the SAP BTP platform.
The ABAP environment provides a comprehensive set of tools and frameworks for developers, including the ABAP development tools in Eclipse, Fiori tools, and the ABAP application programming model.
The ABAP environment integrates with various BTP services, such as the identity service, destination service, and application logging, to provide a seamless cloud-native experience.
Customers can use the ABAP environment for side-by-side extensions to decouple their custom code from the core SAP applications, while partners can build multi-tenant SaaS applications.
Upcoming innovations in the ABAP environment include zero downtime management, installable products, and automatic scaling capabilities to improve the cloud experience.
SAP offers a premium engagement model, including common sessions and monthly roundtables, to support customers and partners in their journey with the ABAP environment.
Frank Jentsch is leading the product SAP BTP ABAP environment and is based in Walldorf. Frank has 25 years experiences in ABAP-related development of applications and technology components.
Episode 102: SAP Build Code, enhancing developer productivity.
Dec 21, 2023
In this episode we talk about SAP Build Code, an application development solution that draws on the capabilities of SAP’s generative AI copilot Joule, by embedding AI-based code generation technologies.
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, December’ 2023 we will talk about the new announcement ‘SAP Build Code’ that was made at TechEd 2023. We will discuss how SAP Build Code offers a turn-key environment for coding, testing, integrating, and managing Java and JavaScript application life cycles by bringing together key design and runtime services and tools in a single offering.
Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:
Episode 101: Discovering SAP BTP Guidance Framework
Nov 30, 2023
In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Raphael Schmitz, Chief Development Architect in SAP BTP Engineering, and Konstantin Heine, Product Manager for SAP Business Technology Platform.
You will hear about the new released SAP BTP Guidance Framework: What it is, what the targeted personas are, the motivation for the creation and more. Konstantin and Raphael will give you a deep dive into the content for each persona including further details and recommendations. Don’t miss this episode when you want to use SAP BTP with more guidance and help!
Interview Guest:
Raphael Schmitz is Chief Development Architect. Raphael is based at SAP in Walldorf. Raphael started his professional career at SAP 12 years ago. Raphael had several roles and tasks related to software development across multiple units. Today he specifies the developer guidance that outlines how to implement business applications on SAP BTP.
Konstantin Heine is Product Manager for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Konstantin is based at SAP in Walldorf. Konstantin started his professional career at SAP 14 years ago. Konstantin had several roles and tasks across SAP like Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, and Product Manager for SAP Customer Experience Business Process Integration.
Episode 100: Anniversary Special with Juergen Mueller, CTO and Executive Board Member at SAP SE
Oct 17, 2023
In this episode, Hanna Salamon, Niklas Siemer, and Gaurav Dey are joined by Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Board member at SAP to celebrate 100 episodes!
Jürgen discusses the importance of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) for businesses, sharing success stories and key milestones in BTP’s evolution. Juergen also provides an exclusive look at the upcoming SAP TechEd 2023 conference, highlighting the focus on generative AI and the opportunities for attendees. He shares recommendations for the SAP community to stay up-to-date and engaged with the latest BTP developments.
Also in this episode:
The SAP BTP Talk podcast is celebrating its 100th episode, making it the longest-running SAP podcast since its launch in 2015.
The podcast hosts – Hannah Zalarmon, Niklas Zima, and Gaurav Day – shared personal highlights, favorite episodes, and excitement for the future of the podcast.
Juergen Mueller, SAP’s Chief Technology Officer, discussed the importance of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) in enabling business transformation through integration, extensions, data management, planning, analytics, and AI.
BTP is aligned with SAP’s broader vision of helping organizations become more intelligent and sustainable enterprises through agility and resilience.
Juergen Mueller highlighted key BTP milestones, including the launch at SAP Sapphire in 2019, the introduction of commercial packaging (CPA), and recent announcements like SAP Build and SAP Data Sphere.
Generative AI is a major focus area for SAP, with plans to integrate it into SAP applications and enhance BTP capabilities in this domain.
Juergen Mueller encouraged the community to engage with the SAP ecosystem, provide feedback, and attend the upcoming SAP TechEd 2023 conference, both in-person and virtually, to learn about the latest BTP advancements.
Juergen Mueller is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, leading the Technology and Innovation board area. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO), he oversees SAP’s platform and technology development. He is responsible for innovation efforts related to SAP BTP as well as new technologies.
Juergen contributes to SAP’s vision of enabling every company to become a resilient, sustainable, and intelligent enterprise by providing its technological foundation, SAP BTP. The platform brings together application development, data management, analytics and planning, integration, and artificial intelligence capabilities into one unified environment optimized for SAP applications.
Since joining SAP in 2013, Juergen has held distinct leadership roles, serving as the Head of the Innovation Center Network, Managing Director of SAP Labs Berlin, and SAP’s Chief Innovation Officer. In 2019, Juergen was appointed to the Executive Board of SAP SE as CTO, taking on responsibilities for SAP’s platform and development unit.
Juergen has a diploma in business informatics from the University of Goettingen, Germany, and holds a PhD with emphasis on new applications optimized for in-memory databases from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.
In 2020, Juergen was included on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and joined the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Digital Officers.
Episode 99 – CapGPT, your prompt-based coding companion for developing business apps
Sep 28, 2023
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, September’ 2023 we will talk about how SAP is leveraging generative AI technologies into developing code and writing CAP applications.
This conversation will highlight how SAP is integrating Large Language Models (LLM) into developer tools to generate CDS models for the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model. You will hear how developers are enabled to generate new code using CapGPT, whereby giving prompts they can Generate a CDS model and data for authors and books with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model in less than a minute.
Interview Guest:
David Kunz works as an architect for the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP). Originally, he is a theoretical physicist, but always been obsessed with computers, so it was clear that he wanted to become a software engineer, so after he got his PhD where he calculated the Higgs Boson mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.
He joined SAP in 2015 where he first developed applications for S/4HANA Master Data Governance, using ABAP. Later joined the CAP team, where he is now working as an architect.
He also has a YouTube Channel @devonduty where he talks about software engineering, Neovim and other tools he likes.
Episode 98 - End-of-life for SAP BTP Neo environment
Aug 31, 2023
In the new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Christian Fecht, Chief Product Owner of SAP BTP, Neo Environment.
You will hear about the end-of-life announcement from SAP BTP Neo Environment, the impact on customers and SAP BTP itself. We will also make a small “time warp” into the history and evolution of SAP BTP. Christian will also explain what the motivation for sunsetting SAP BTP Neo environment was. We will sum up the interview with concrete action items for customers which implemented SAP BTP Neo environment.
Interview Guest:
Christian Fecht is a Chief Product Owner of SAP BTP, Neo Environment. Christian joined SAP in 1998 and is responsible for Neo Core, the core platform services in the SAP BTP, Neo Environment. Christian is based at SAP in Walldorf
Christian started his professional career at SAP 25 years ago. Christian had several roles and tasks across SAP like developer and architect in the ABAP language team (implementing ABAP Objects), architect for the SAP NetWeaver AS Java, chief-architect and since 2013 chief product owner for Neo Core.
Episode 97 – Accelerate your digital transformation to the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP & Google Cloud.
Jul 28, 2023
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, July’ 2023 we will talk about Bringing together SAP systems and data with Google Cloud. This partnership unlocks entirely new opportunities for enterprises to derive more value from their full data footprints.
This discussion will highlight how SAP enables enterprises to build an end-to-end data cloud that brings data from across the heterogenous data landscape using the SAP Datasphere together with Google’s data cloud, so they can view their entire data in real time and maximize value from their SAP software and Google Cloud investments.
Interview Guests:
Sangeetha Krishnamoorthy is a Senior Development architect in the Strategic Customer Engagements team of Platform Adoption and Advisory in the T&I board area. As part of her role, Sangeetha helps customers by architecting and building innovative solutions that helps solve their challenging business problems, while helping with the SAP Business Technology Platform adoption. Sangeetha, with her team, also publishes validated reference architectures for Data and Analytics pillar specializing in hyperscaler data integrations for Analytics and machine learning use cases.
She has over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise Software development industry designing and developing production grade software and features, working in 4 different fortune-100 companies before joining SAP in 2017.
Rahul Tiwari is a Product Expert in the HANA Database & Analytics Cross Product Management Team. He has 18+ years of industry experience in business intelligence, data platforms, analytics and specialized applications including 12+ years at SAP.
In his current role, Rahul is responsible for driving the collaboration with marquee partners & hyperscalers and champion their requirements internally to be incorporated into the portfolio. For Google Analytics Partnership, Rahul is the engineering lead driving the collaboration on product integration topics.
Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:
Episode 96: Recap of SAP Sapphire Orlando and Barcelona and it's momentum for SAP BTP
Jun 19, 2023
In this episode, host Niklas Siemer is joined by Steffen Pietsch, the Vice President and Head of SAP BTP Product Management, to discuss the latest updates and announcements from the recent SAP Sapphire events.
They cover key SAP BTP roadmap updates, including improvements in SAP Build Apps and SAP Task Center integration. Siemer highlights announcements from Sapphire, such as SAP’s expanded partnership with Google Cloud and AI advancements in SAP Analytics Cloud. A customer success story features Frucor Suntory, who used SAP BTP to develop My Sales Hub, boosting productivity and revenue. Steffen Pietsch shares insights from Sapphire events in Orlando and Barcelona, discussing AI integration, SAP Build adoption, and the importance of SAP Integration Suite.
Also in this episode:
SAP BTP is a foundational platform that enables seamless integration, innovation, and business transformation for SAP customers.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI technologies are a major focus area for SAP, with new capabilities being integrated across the portfolio to enhance user experiences and developer productivity.
The partnership between SAP and Google Cloud has been significantly expanded, allowing customers to better leverage data across their enterprise landscape through tighter integration between SAP Data Sphere and Google Cloud.
SAP Build, the low-code/no-code development platform, is seeing strong adoption and interest from both technical and business users, empowering them to build applications and automate processes without extensive coding.
Integration remains a key priority for SAP, with enhancements to SAP Integration Suite, including the upcoming Edge Integration Cell that provides more flexibility and control for customers.
Customers and partners expressed a positive sentiment towards SAP BTP at the Sapphire events, recognizing its importance in helping organizations adapt and innovate in a rapidly changing business environment.
Steffen Pietsch recommends the book “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton Christensen as it provides valuable insights into the challenges successful companies face when trying to innovate, which relates to the transformative capabilities of SAP BTP.
Steffen Pietsch is the Vice President, Head of SAP BTP Product Management. Steffen joined SAP in 2021 and is globally responsible for the SAP BTP Product Management. Together with his teams, he drives innovation, further development, enablement, and adoption of the SAP BTP. Steffen is based at SAP in Walldorf
Before he joined SAP, he gained more than 18 years of experience in various customer and partner roles. In addition to that Steffen was a board member and CTO of DSAG (German speaking SAP user group) registered association (e.V.).
Episode 95: Introduction to SAP Business Application Studio – SAP’s integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud.
Jun 01, 2023
In this episode of the SAP BTP Talk, host Niklas Siemer is joined by Yuval Anafi, the lead product owner of SAP Business Application Studio, to discuss capabilities and features of SAP Business Application Studio, the next-generation development environment from SAP.
Yuval shares his experience at SAP and the principles behind SAP Business Application Studio, emphasizing standards, openness, flexibility, and guided developer experiences. He discusses how developers can get started, its support for various programming languages, low-code/no-code capabilities, and its connection with SAP Build. The conversation also covers its open-source foundations, compatibility with Visual Studio Code, upcoming roadmap items, and the integration of AI to enhance developer productivity.
Also in this episode:
SAP Business Application Studio is SAP’s next-generation development environment, focused on providing the best productivity tools for building enterprise-ready SAP applications.
The tool is based on open standards, offering flexibility and the ability to integrate with a wide range of community-driven tools and extensions.
SAP Business Application Studio provides guided experiences to help developers, especially those new to SAP technologies, be more productive.
The tool supports a variety of programming languages and frameworks, including ABAP, Java, Node.js, and more, making it a versatile development environment.
While ABAP coding is not currently supported within SAP Business Application Studio, the team is working closely with the ABAP tooling team to explore ways to extend the tool’s capabilities in this area.
SAP Business Application Studio is closely integrated with SAP Build, allowing for collaboration and reuse of building blocks across different tools and personas within an organization.
The open-source foundation of the tool, based on Microsoft VS Code OSS, ensures compatibility with the latest innovations from the Microsoft developer community and access to a vast marketplace of extensions.
Upcoming roadmap items include simplifying SaaS development on BTP, enhancing the consumption of SAP Business Events, and introducing visual storyboarding and graphical tools for Fiori UI development.
SAP is exploring the integration of AI and generative AI models within SAP Business Application Studio to assist developers in writing code more efficiently and with higher productivity.
Yuval Anafi is the Lead Product Owner of the SAP Business Application Studio and the former SAP WebIDE. He and his team are working closely with SAP technology teams, SAP LOBs and SAP developer community, on defining the right solution roadmap.
Yuval is based at SAP in Raanana, Israel and he joined SAP at 2004 and had several roles and tasks across SAP, mainly around the SAP developer tools area, starting with SAP Visual composer, continue with SAP Gateway Eclipse tools, SAP Web IDE and SAP Business Application Studio.
Episode 94 – Unleash the power of business data with SAP Datasphere.
May 02, 2023
In this episode, Guarav Dey chats with Karsten Ruf, senior director in the Marketing and Solutions team for Data and Analytics at SAP, about how the SAP Datasphere builds upon the capabilities of the previous SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, adding new features like data integration, data cataloging, and semantic modeling to deliver a comprehensive data service for data professionals.
Karsten also discusses how Data Sphere integrates with other SAP solutions, such as Data Intelligence Cloud and Analytics Cloud, enabling a unified experience across data integration, warehousing, and analytics. He shares a success story of Messer Gases, a customer that leveraged Data Sphere to harmonize data across their SAP and non-SAP systems, reducing costs, mitigating risks, and improving scalability. Additionally, Karsten emphasizes the importance of an open data ecosystem, highlighting SAP’s partnerships with leading technology vendors like Colibri, Confluent, Databricks, and DataRobot. These integrations allow customers to access business data across various cloud deployments and infrastructures.
Also in this episode:
Existing SAP Data Warehouse Cloud customers can seamlessly transition to Data Sphere, as all current installations were automatically renamed and rebranded. Partners and customers can continue to leverage their previous investments in Data Warehouse Cloud under the new Data Sphere platform.
Datasphere is designed to coexist with SAP Data Intelligence Cloud, at least in the near term. While Data Sphere will eventually cover all the capabilities of Data Intelligence Cloud, for now, Data Intelligence Cloud remains the more feature-rich solution for certain use cases. SAP will provide tools to facilitate a smooth transition between the two platforms over time.
The integration between SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud has been strengthened, with Datasphere offering a multi-dimensional modeling experience with new features like calculated and restricted measures. This allows Datasphere models to serve as a core data foundation for extended planning and analytics use cases.
The concept of Business Data Fabric is central to SAP’s approach with Datasphere. It aims to deliver an integrated and semantically rich data layer across various data sources, both SAP and non-SAP, helping customers avoid the complexities and costs associated with data movement, especially in scenarios like mergers and acquisitions.
SAP is partnering with leading technology vendors, such as Colibri, Confluent, Databricks, and DataRobot, to build an open data ecosystem around Data Sphere. These integrations enable customers to access business data across multiple cloud deployments and infrastructures.
To get started with SAP Data Sphere, Karsten recommends first exploring the guided tour experience to understand the platform’s features and capabilities. This is followed by the option to sign up for the free 90-day trial, which allows users to import data and connect to additional data sources to set up a pilot project.
Karsten Ruf, is a senior director in the Marketing and Solutions team for Data and Analytics at SAP. He has been with SAP since 2008 and has held a variety of product and solution management positions.
In his current role he focusses on SAP Datasphere with a special focus on supporting SAP partners and the BW move.
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Episode 93 – New in SAP BTP and how enterprises are running better with SAP BTP
Mar 29, 2023
In this episode, we discuss new features for developers on the ABAP environment, improvements to API management, and the introduction of SAP Datasphere – the successor to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
We also dive into the roadmap for upcoming BTP service releases, including the ability to consume Postgres SQL on AWS, enhanced Git authentication in SAP Business Application Studio, and new real-time features for mobile apps. Additionally, we showcase a customer success story featuring Costain, a UK-based infrastructure consulting firm that leveraged SAP BTP to create an Intelligent Infrastructure Control Center. This solution helped Costain increase equipment efficiency, reduce IT costs, and improve data security and accessibility.
Also in this episode:
New login options for ABAP environment: Developers can now choose between login attribute email or username when provisioning new tenants.
API management enhancements: Administrators can configure notifications for API business hub updates, and developers can connect SAP S/4HANA Cloud to SAP Task Center.
Introduction of SAP Data Sphere: The successor to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, enabling a business data fabric architecture to harmonize mission-critical data.
Roadmap for BTP services: Upcoming features include Postgres SQL on AWS, Git authentication in SAP Business Application Studio, and real-time features for mobile apps.
Costain’s Intelligent Infrastructure Control Center: A success story using SAP BTP to unify project data, increase visibility, and drive efficiency and sustainability.
Continued support for existing SAP Data Warehouse Cloud customers: Investment and security are guaranteed as the software is updated by SAP.
Opportunities to provide feedback and showcase customer stories on the SAP BTP Talk podcast.
Episode 92: Introduction into SAP Build – SAP’s Unified Low-Code Solution to Unleash the Power of Business Users
Feb 23, 2023
In this episode of the SAP BTP Talk, host Hannah Salamon interviews Diana Rosner, the leader of the product enablement team for app development and automation on SAP BTP. They discuss the new SAP Build offering, a unified low-code and no-code development solution on the SAP Business Technology Platform.
Diana provides an overview of SAP Build, which unifies SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, and SAP Build Work Zone into a single development environment. She explains how it enables both developers and business users to build applications, automate processes, and create custom business sites with minimal coding. The discussion covers key capabilities, including no-code development, integration with SAP Signavio, and a pre-built content library. Diana shares customer success stories and highlights the SAP Builders program, which offers training and community support. She also outlines roadmap priorities, such as deeper integration and enhanced governance.
Also in this episode:
SAP Build is a new unified low-code development offering on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
SAP Build brings together three previously separate solutions – SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, and SAP Build Work Zone – into a single development environment.
SAP Build Apps offers no-code front-end and back-end development capabilities, allowing users to build mobile and desktop applications without extensive coding.
SAP Build Process Automation integrates RPA and workflow capabilities to enable users to automate tasks and processes without code.
SAP Build Work Zone empowers IT professionals and business experts to easily build and design custom business sites integrated with data from SAP systems.
SAP Build leverages BTP services for governance, security, and lifecycle management to provide an enterprise-grade low-code development platform.
The SAP Builders program offers hands-on training, community support, and resources to help users upskill and get started with low-code development using SAP Build.
Key priorities for the SAP Build roadmap include deeper integration between the product pillars, enhanced governance capabilities, and more pre-built business context.
SAP Build aims to empower both professional developers and business users to solve problems and innovate more quickly by leveraging low-code and no-code development capabilities.
Diana Roesner leads the Product Enablement team for App Development and Automation on SAP BTP. In her role she and her team deliver user enablement in different formats such as e-learning courses, hands-on workshops, whitepapers, and webinars for SAP Build, as well as other App Development solutions on SAP BTP. Diana joined SAP in 2015 and had different roles across customer engagement, sales, and communications.
Episode 91 – Automate business processes with SAP Build Process Automation
Jan 24, 2023
In this episode, Gaurav Dey is joined by Angela Harvey, the Vice President of SAP Build Process Automation, to discuss how the low code / no code development with SAP Build Process Automation empowers business users to automate workflows and tasks without writing a single line of code.
Angela explains the key differences between low-code and no-code, highlighting how they enable collaboration between business and IT teams. She showcases real-world use cases, such as invoice processing and employee onboarding, where SAP Build Process Automation can significantly improve efficiency and reduce errors. Learn about the motivations behind SAP’s investment in low-code and no-code technologies, as well as the benefits they can unlock, including faster process building, seamless integration, and secure collaboration. Angela also provides guidance on how to get started with SAP Build, including leveraging the free tier of SAP Business Technology Platform.
Also in this episode:
SAP Build is a portfolio of low-code and no-code solutions that enable application development, automation, and business site creation.
Low-code solutions abstract complex tasks and provide shortcuts for pro developers, while no-code empowers business users to build applications without coding.
The motivation behind SAP’s investment in low-code and no-code is to address the shortage of full-time developers and empower the digital-native workforce.
SAP Build Process Automation combines RPA and workflow capabilities, allowing business users to automate processes and tasks faster, reduce errors, and focus on more strategic work.
The SAP Build portfolio provides pre-built content and templates, such as for invoice processing and employee onboarding, which can be easily customized by business users.
Customers can get started with SAP Build by leveraging the free tier of SAP Business Technology Platform, which includes access to Build Apps and Build Process Automation.
SAP provides various resources, including click-through demos, guided experiences, and learning courses, to help customers explore and get hands-on with the SAP Build portfolio.
Angela Harvey, is the VP of Marketing and Solutions for SAP Process Automation. She has been with SAP for over 15 years in a variety of Product Management and Product Marketing positions. In her current role she enjoys sharing how customers can be more efficient by introducing workflow management, RPA, and other technologies into their business processes. Angela holds a degree in Applied Physics from Simon Fraser University in Canada.
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Episode 90: Realize Your Business Potential with SAP AI Solutions
Dec 19, 2022
In this episode, Hannah Salamon is joined by Tobias Knietzsch, a product manager for artificial intelligence at SAP, to discuss the importance of AI and how SAP is helping customers leverage its power.
Tobias explains the importance of AI for businesses and SAP’s three-pillar approach: built-in AI in SAP solutions, customizable AI on SAP BTP, and trustworthy AI. He shares examples like automating payment matching in SAP Cash Application and personalized learning in SAP SuccessFactors. The discussion covers SAP BTP’s role in AI delivery through SAP AI Business Services and AI Core/Launchpad, highlighting SAP’s business-focused AI differentiation. Tobias also emphasizes ethical AI development, key AI announcements from SAP TechEd 2022, and how customers and partners can get started with SAP’s AI solutions.
Also in this episode:
SAP is committed to making its customers “intelligent enterprises” by infusing AI into its business solutions.
SAP delivers AI capabilities through three pillars: out-of-the-box AI in SAP solutions, customizable AI functionalities on SAP BTP, and trustworthy AI development.
Examples of AI in SAP solutions include automating payment matching in SAP Cash Application and providing personalized learning recommendations in SAP SuccessFactors.
Delivering reusable AI functionalities through products like SAP AI Business Services and SAP AI Core/Launchpad.
Focusing on business-specific AI solutions, leveraging its deep domain expertise, rather than competing on general-purpose AI technology.
SAP has strong ethical principles and policies in place to ensure the responsible development and deployment of AI solutions.
The introduction of SAP Build Process Automation and the SAP Start digital assistant.
Tobias Knietzsch is a Product Manager for Artificial Intelligence and has been involved with AI at SAP since 2019. He joined the company in 2016 and in his current capacity, he is one of the Product Managers for SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad, two AI services that enable customers and partners to confidently build AI scenarios on SAP BTP.
Episode 89 – SAP TechEd 2022 special & highlights
Nov 29, 2022
In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, November’ 2022 we interact with content lead from central Product Management team for SAP Business Technology Platform. We will talk about how SAP TechEd, SAP’s premier technical conference helped IT professionals to develop, implement, optimize, and upgrade SAP solutions. How it enabled developers, IT architects, engineers, system and database administrators, analysts, data modelers, and designers to master their SAP skills, network with experts, and learn about what’s new from the SAP ecosystem.
Interview Guest:
Cecilia Huergo, is part of the central Product Management team for SAP BTP, mainly focused on content strategy for events like SAP TechEd. Other responsibilities include the SAP BTP Innobytes series and creating awareness for SAP BTP. As part of her role, she also interacts with the extended SAP Community and enjoys hosting internal and external sessions.
Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:
Opening Keynote with Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer, Member of the SAP Executive Board, SAP SE
Business Applications Keynote with Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Executive Board, SAP Product Engineering, SAP SE
Episode 88: 1. SAP, DFKI and Saarland University: Building Prototypes with SAP BTP 2. SAP & Accenture Partnership and Deep Dive into SAP Process Automation
Oct 25, 2022
In this episode we take you through the experience of building prototypes with SAP BTP in a cooperation of SAP, DFKI and Saarland University and a have fruitful discussion between SAP and Accenture about their long-standing partnership and how they bring value to customers using SAP Process Automation.
Interview 1
The first interview is about SAP and DFKI (German Research Center for AI) discussing how they collaborate and build prototypes with SAP BTP at the Saarland University. They have organized seminars for students to learn more about the development of cloud software with SAP technologies and to get experience of software engineering hands-on. See how these SAP BTP in action results are not only interesting for informatic students but also for our customers.
Guests:
Christian Lander is a Senior Software Development Architect at SAP Customer Innovation and Maintenance. After customer specific projects in retail, he is now focussed on life science cloud products. Before joining SAP in 2019, Christian did his PHD in Computer Science at the German Research Center for AI (DFKI) and the Saarland University.
Michael Kormannis a Developer for the S/4Hana Industry Cloud at SAP mainly involved in developing cloud software for retail. Since finishing his bachelor’s in computer science at Saarland University, he is continuing his studies at Technical University of Munich while working for SAP. Through his position as a student and part of SAP, he experienced the SAP BTP hands-on in seminar groups at the university while in parallel already seeing enterprise scale applications being developed and applied by using the same technology.
SAP and Accenture have a long partnership and are working together to build end-to-end solutions to extend and integrate processes across SAP S/4HANA and other LoBs. As a leading business partner, Accenture has used SAP Process Automation and other services across SAP BTP to automate manual processes, optimize core business functions and delivered differentiating assets to drastically improve business outcomes for the customers. In this episode, Accenture shares their view on process automation technologies, what current business challenges are and how have they used SAP Process Automation to overcome these process inefficiencies. They also talk about different use cases and share an outlook on upcoming initiatives with SAP.
Episodes Co-Host:
Archana Shuklais a Director in SAP BTP Product Management. She has been working with SAP for more than 18 years with deep technical knowledge and experience in product development and management. She is leading product success activities and partner eco-system for SAP Process Automation. Archana has been conducting multiple workshops, webinars, podcasts and has been speaker at international conferences. She technically supports consultants, developers and solution advisors and is an eminent member of SAP Community with multiple blogs.
Guests:
Lakshmi Mohan is leading SAP Intelligent Automation practice for Accenture Northeast Market Unit. Helping clients identify and unlock automation opportunities in SAP ERP Landscape using automation, cognitive and intelligent technologies. Lakshmi in her 20 years of SAP Technology experience had implemented and delivered large scale SAP S4HANA transformative projects in big multinational corporations. She is a frequent speaker in SAP TechEd Conferences
Murugan Padmanabhan has over 25 years of Systems Integration experience helping many large global clients on Business & Digital Transformation programs. More recently he has been involved in implementing Advanced Analytics and Intelligent Automation solutions integrating data from disparate data sources including SAP HANA and S/4HANA, ArcGIS, Telemetry among others. Murugan is passionate about Intelligent Automation and currently leads the SAP Process Automation Practice in the West Market Unit in NA.
Episode 87: SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology – Derive Integration Guidelines for your Organization
Sep 27, 2022
In this episode we talk about a standardized approach to integration and how you can accelerate your digital transformation and become an integrated intelligent enterprise.
The SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M) is an integral part of SAP’s integration strategy in context of the Intelligent Enterprise. Learn how ISA-M supports you to shape your integration strategy covering both technical and organizational aspects. Discover the new version and get started with the Integration Assessment capability within SAP Integration Suite.
Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Specialist for SAP BTP, discusses with Katrin von Ahsen, Chief Product Expert for Intelligent Enterprise Technology at SAP, how ISA-M helps accelerate a hybrid integration platform design, safeguard integration projects based on SAP best practices, and enables an agile integration practice across your organization.
Interview Guest:
Katrin von Ahsen is a Chief Product Expert for Intelligent Enterprise Technology at SAP with a focus on integration topics. She is responsible for the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M) including its tool- based approach delivered as Integration Assessment capability within SAP Integration Suite. Katrin is a frequent speaker at SAP TechEd, SAP Community, SAP User Groups, and more. She has more than 20 years of experience with SAP integration technologies and concepts in various roles, ranging from consulting to program and product management.
Episode 86 – Predict and Analyze Retail Inventory Allocation using SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and FedML
Aug 31, 2022
In this episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, August’ 2022 we engage with experts from Platform Adoption Advisory team for SAP Business Technology Platform. They will talk about how SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and FedML hyperscaler libraries for Azure can be leveraged for creating an end-to-end automated solution for ML experiments on hyperscalers without moving or duplicating data to the hyperscaler.
We then go deeper into understanding how businesses using SAP Business Technology Platform services, such as SAP Data Warehouse Cloud helps them model data coming in from different sources. Then how FedML, uses SAP Data Warehouse Cloud’s federation architecture to query the cloud data sources directly via the unified business layer and helps automate the training, building and deployment using only few lines of code.
Interview Guests:
Cameron Khorsandiis a business developer for all things related to SAP BTP. He supports customer engagements by identifying challenges and discovering solutions through a technical lens by implementing SAP’s human-centered approach to innovation.
In addition, he helps drive internal initiatives to ensure impact is driven effectively to customers utilizing solutions and SAP teams globally. Cameron started with SAP as an intern with the Products & Innovation team and continued to SAP Concur.
Not long after he found himself as part of the Platform Adoption Advisory team in the Technology & Innovation board area. He has since been part of a winning team driving SAP Analytics Cloud Planning adoption and the Border States Electric project, highlighted at SAPPHIRE NOW 2021. Cameron is passionate about learning the challenges big companies face today and how best to solve them using intelligent solutions.
Jack Seeburger is a Senior Data Scientist for the Strategic Customer Engagements team of SAP Platform Adoption and Advisory. Jack solves unique problems by collaborating closely with customers to develop custom BTP solutions. Focusing on Machine Learning and AI applications he combines his backgrounds in Linguistics, Computer Science and Economics to bring new innovations from 0 to 1.
Jack first joined SAP as part of the SAP Next Talent program where he still mentors new graduate Data Scientists. Jack brought his unique skillset to the Montas Del Plata collaboration highlighted at TechEd 2021 and the Levi’s Intelligent Virtual Inventory Reservation system. Jack has recently been focusing on developing new repeatable hyperscaler architectures and the Federated Machine Learning Library.
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Episode 85 – Enable business applications to communicate through asynchronous events and extend your digital core.
Jul 29, 2022
In this episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, July’ 2022 we engage with experts from SAP BTP Marketing & Solutions Organization and BTP foundation team. They will talk about how SAP Event Mesh enables asynchronous communication to reliably send and receive messages through applications, services, and systems using standard messaging protocols, exchange patterns, and principles. We then go deeper into understanding how businesses can experience greater agility and scalability when they create responsive applications that work independently and participate in event-driven business processes across the business ecosystem.
Interview Guest:
Craig is based out of Indianapolis, Indiana, in the States. He has been in the SAP ecosystem for about 24 years. Almost all that time he has been integrating different applications with each other or with SAP applications. Craig, joined SAP in 2015 and have been part of the solution management organization since 2020. Follow Craig on Twitter.
Sven Kohlhaasis a Development Manager for SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry runtime and SAP Private Link service at SAP. Follow Sven on SAP Community.
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Episode 84: Deep Dive into SAP Application Extension Methodology
Jun 30, 2022
With the transformation to the cloud, the way is changing how customers need to extend their standard software. Technical options that have been suitable in the past, are no longer an option in the cloud software. With this change customers often face the challenge “how do I have to extend standard software now?”
In this podcast episode Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, discusses with Michael Köhler, Principal Technical Consultant at SAP Germany, how the SAP Application Extension Methodology helps customers to gain structure and clarity into this challenge.
Interview Guest:
Michael Köhler is a Principal Technical Consultant at SAP Consulting in Germany. In his more than 14 years of experience in SAP Technologies, he acted in different roles reaching from Implementation to Solution Architecture and Project Management. With his experience and dedication, he helps our customers to be successful with our software products.
SAP Application Extension Methodology information:
Public JAM page: To get access, please write to sapaem@sap.com and mention your email address in SAP ID Service, which you typically use when accessing SAP resources like SAP Community or Support Launchpad.
Episode 83 – Deploy SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure and develop enterprise grade apps.
May 31, 2022
In this episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, May’ 2022 we engage with experts from SAP & Microsoft. They will talk about how the automated deployment of SAP S/4HANA via SAP Cloud Appliance Library can be configured in minutes, and how it enables the customer to deploy and use the solution in the cloud in a few hours of technical runtime.
We then go deeper into the aligned architecture of SAP and Microsoft that helps businesses to monitor lifecycle operations and orchestration capabilities. Together we simplify and improve the experience for our customers running SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure with the quick and easy approach of SAP Cloud Appliance Library.
Interview Guest:
Markus has been working in the field of landscape optimization and cloud computing for the last twenty years and has driven landscape management topics within the SAP group since then. He is located at SAP’s headquarters in Germany leading the Cloud Management product unit as Chief Product Owner.
Markus holds an engineering degree in Media Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences (HdM), Stuttgart, Germany and an engineering doctorate in Business Information Technology from Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany. LinkedIn | Twitter
Holger is a Product Manager for SAP architecture and integration at Microsoft. He joined Microsoft 5 years ago before working over 10 years at SAP. In his current role Holger is working closely with SAP to integrate SAP and Microsoft products. LinkedIn | Twitter
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Episode 82: SAP Graph: THE easy-to-use API of the Intelligent Enterprise
Apr 28, 2022
Welcome to the new SAP Integration & Extension Talk with Daniel Lou, Head of SAP Graph, and Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Manager for SAP Business Technology Platform at SAP SE. SAP Graph is a new and unified API for SAP, using modern open standards like OData v4. With SAP Graph, developers access SAP-managed business data as a single semantically connected data graph, spanning the suite of SAP products. In this episode we discover what SAP Graph is all about and how you can start with the new solution.
Interview Guest:
Daniel Lou is the Head of SAP Graph. He and his team focus on enabling domain-centric capabilities on SAP Business Technology Platform to make it easier and better for an ecosystem of SAP’s customers/partners/developers to extend SAP data and innovate together with SAP. He has PhD in Computer Science and has over 20 years of experience in leading design and development of a large variety of high-performance data solutions.
Episode 81 - Build and run containerized business apps on Kubernetes!!
Mar 24, 2022
In this episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, March’ 2022 we deep dive into conversation with Development Architect from SAP BTP Runtimes & Core Stakeholder Engagement team, where we start with understanding the differences between Kyma and SAP BTP Kyma runtime. Then talking about how businesses can get the benefits if they build and run containerized business applications on Kubernetes. We also discuss what’s new in the SAP BTP Kyma runtime and where we can learn more and get hands-on knowledge.
Interview Guest:
Arthur Perry, a Development Architect with the SAP BTP Runtimes & Core Stakeholder Engagement team. Focusing on cloud extensibility, he works with SAP customers, partners and internal colleagues to enable and support the BTP Runtimes & Core components and drive adoption of those components.
Episode 80: Introduction to SAP Process Automation: A New No-Code Experience
Feb 25, 2022
Welcome to the new SAP Integration & Extension Talk with Thomas Volmering, Chief Product Manager for SAP Process Automation, and Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Manager for SAP Business Technology Platform at SAP SE. In this episode we discover what SAP Process Automation is all about and how you can accelerate automation with a modern no-code experience. Learn what the groundbreaking advantages of low-code/no-code process automation are and how you can start with the new solution.
Interview Guest:
Thomas Volmering is Chief Product Manager for SAP Process Automation and is driving with an experienced, motivated and inspired team the future of this citizen developer solution. He has more than 20-years track record of helping SAP customers and partners driving process efficiency. Thomas has successfully launched many solutions in the Business Process Management and Workflow space in different engineering roles.
Episode 79 - Your Business Processes can get Intelligent!!
Jan 26, 2022
Interview Guests:
Archana Shukla, Senior Product Manager SAP Workflow Management. She has been working with SAP in different roles for more than 16 years with deep technical knowledge and experience in product development and management. She is currently leading product success operations for APJ region and managing global partner eco-system. In her role, she is responsible for various marketing activities which involve customer, partners and other stakeholder engagement and enablement.
Archana has been conducting multiple workshops, webinars, podcasts and has been speaker at international conferences. She technically supports consultants, developers and solution advisors and is an eminent member of SAP Community with multiple blogs.
Cecilia Huergo is part of the Central Product Management team for SAP BTP, mainly focused on content strategy for events like SAP TechEd. As part of her role, she also interacts with the extended SAP Community and enjoys hosting internal and external sessions. The most recent experience was hosting Channel 1 topic hours for SAP TechEd in 2021.
Rui Nogueira is Vice President Intelligent Enterprise & Cross Architecture at SAP with over 20 years of experience in applying information technology in a wide range of industries. He holds a graduate degree in electrical engineering. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and SAP events and has been an instructor for various openSAP courses. His focus is on the integration between the SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP’s Intelligent Suite.
Goodbye Interview & The Evolution of the Podcast from SAP Hana Cloud Platform to SAP Cloud Platform Podcast to the finally ongoing SAP Integration & Extension Talk with Podcast Host Manjunath Baburao and Hanna Salamon
Guest: Manjunath Baburao
Manjunath Baburaois a Product Manager in the SAP Business Technology Platform Cross Product Management team based in Bangalore, India. His focus areas include Data Management, Multi-Cloud Foundation & Business Continuity for SAP BTP. In his new role, he will leverage his broad experience to align & drive central initiatives for SAP BTP.
SAP BTP DevOps Series: Ops Automation Kiril and Abhishek talk about Operations Automation in the SAP BTP environment.
Co- Host: Abhishek Nath
Abhishek Nath works as a product manager at SAP in the Cloud and Lifecycle Management area. He is responsible for DevOps and lifecycle management topics around SAP Business Technology Platform, looking after the APJ region.Together with colleagues from other areas, Abhishek is forging the overall DevOps story for SAP BTP. He has broad experience with system provisioning topics (spanning installation, system copy, and migration of SAP on-premise systems) and enterprise architecture. Abhishek is a regular speaker at SAP events, such as SAP TechEd, and various SAP partner events. He is also an Erickson-certified coach.
At the time of recording Kiril Gavrailov was a product expert in the Product Management team in the Cloud and Lifecycle Management area at SAP. He worked on operations automation solutions in SAP Business Technology Platform. He is also the author of a number of blog posts in SAP Community and a speaker at various conferences.
Episode 76: SAP TechEd & SAP BTP for the public sector / COVID-19 aid program
Oct 28, 2021
Interview: Public Sector powered by SAP BTP
Michael Köhleris a Principal Technical Consultant at SAP Consulting in Germany. In his more than 13 years of experience in SAP Technologies, he acted in different roles reaching from Implementation to Solution Architecture and Project Management. With his experience and dedication, he helps our customers to be successful with our software products.
Episode 75: Delivery & Change Management on SAP BTP and SAP BTP Free Tier
Sep 30, 2021
Interview 1:
BTP DevOps Podcast Series Episode 4: Delivery and Change Management
In this interview Harald and Abhishek talk about Delivery and Change Management in the BTP Cloud environment and also for hybrid environments, as is the case for many of SAP’s customers.
Host: Abhishek Nath
Abhishek Nath works as a product manager at SAP in the Cloud and Lifecycle Management area. He is responsible for DevOps and lifecycle management topics around SAP Business Technology Platform, looking after the APJ region.
Together with colleagues from other areas, Abhishek is forging the overall DevOps story for SAP Business Technology Platform. He has broad experience with system provisioning topics (spanning installation, system copy, and migration of SAP on-premise systems) and enterprise architecture. Abhishek is a regular speaker at SAP events, such as SAP TechEd, and various SAP partner events. He is also an Erickson-certified coach.
Harald Stevens is a product expert in the Product Management team in the Cloud and Lifecycle Management area at SAP. He concentrates on transport management solutions in SAP Business Technology Platform.
Harald has written several blog posts on SAP Community and been a speaker at SAP TechEd conferences.
SAP Business Technology Platform Free Tier In this interview we talk to Max about what is the SAP BTP Free Tier, what is its scope and what is the road ahead for this offering on the Business Technology Platform.
Max is a Product Manager within the BTP team. In his role, he is responsible for the product ownership of SAP BTP Trial offerings, which consist of the Free Trial and the upcoming Free Tier. Prior to joining SAP, Max spent fifteen years in strategy and operations consulting, working within high-tech, financial services, transportation, and federal sectors.
Episode 74: SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation & SAP Partnership with EY AgilityWorks UK
Aug 06, 2021
Interview 1:
SAP Partnership with EY AgilityWorks
EY: “The views reflected in this podcast are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the global EY organization or its member firms.”
Utsav Chobe is a Senior Manager with EY AgilityWorks UK. He leads use of innovative technologies to address challenging business demands. He works in customer facing roles helping customer teams build & drive automation strategy using Intelligent RPA, Business Process Management, SAP Business Technology Platform, S/4 HANA and Analytics. Recently, his team won SAP Innovation Award 2021 for their work on managing COVID-19 risk.
Boris Andree is a Director at SAP´s Intelligent RPA Solution Management division. He focuses on strategy, Go-to-Market, and adoption of intelligent technologies and solutions. Over the past 20 years, he held various positions in regional and global teams at SAP and SAP partners, building strong expertise in the areas of Business Process Management, Business Intelligence, SAP HANA, and Artificial Intelligence.
Interview 2:
SAP Intelligent RPA low-code/no-code product updates
Enkhzul (Jesse) Sukhbayar is a Marketing & Community Specialist for the SAP Intelligent RPA team. She has over 6 years of experience in branding, marketing management in software, digital health, and banking sectors. Highly passionate and experienced in creating impactful end-to-end organic and paid campaigns across various channels. She currently focuses on international lead and demand generation activities for SAP Intelligent RPA and related solutions.
Peter Engel is Global Solution Owner for SAP Intelligent RPA. Peter has worked in various roles at SAP, including customer-facing roles, for 27 years. He has deep expertise specializing in SAP’s innovative technologies like Intelligent RPA, Conversational AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and S/4HANA. In his current role, Peter is working on product strategy and commercialization. He supports the Intelligent RPA community and our customers with webinars, blog posts, and workshops, as well as helping to realize projects and scaling Intelligent RPA deployments.
SAP Integration & Extension Talk Episode 72: SAP Landscape Management Cloud & SAP Partnership with IBM
May 27, 2021
Interview 1:
Talk about the new SaaS solution SAP Landscape Management Cloud on SAP Business Technology Platform, which enables customers to manage their SAP systems in Infrastructure Cloud environments and how the solution addresses customer challenges during the transition from on-premise to cloud scenarios.
Guests:
Markus Winter, Chief Product Owner, Cloud Lifecycle Management. He has been working in the field of landscape optimization and cloud computing for the last twenty years and has driven landscape management topics within the SAP group. He is located at SAP’s headquarters in Germany leading the Cloud Management product unit as Chief Product Owner. Markus holds an engineering degree in Media Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences (HdM), Stuttgart, Germany and an engineering doctorate in Business Information Technology from Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Luisa Beltrán Cespedes Communications for Cloud and Lifecycle Management Landscape Orchestration Products
SAP and IBM have come together to help companies accelerate their journey to the Intelligent Enterprise. As part of Evolution Program, IBM has transformed existing end-to-end industry workflows using SAP Business Technology Platform and specifically SAP Workflow Management to increase customer satisfaction. IBM shares details on these use cases, how they have leveraged SAP Business Technology Platform for reinventing business processes, their experience with the whole transformation and an outlook on upcoming content packages.
Co-Host:
Archana Shukla, Senior Product Manager SAP Workflow Management. She has been working with SAP in different roles for more than 16 years with deep technical knowledge and experience in product development and management. She is currently leading GTM operations for APJ region and global partner eco-system. In her role, she is responsible for various marketing activities which involve customer, partners and other stakeholder engagement and enablement. Archana has been conducting multiple workshops, webinars, podcasts and has been speaker at international conferences. She technically supports consultants, developers and solution advisors and is an eminent member of SAP Community with multiple blogs.
Guests:
Andrew Worsley-Tonksis an IBM Distinguished Engineer, SAP Chief Architect and the global SAP S/4HANA Leader for IBM Services. He has led multiple complex SAP business transformation and modernization programmes. In his current role, he is leading innovation and the build of some of IBM’s Industry Cloud solutions in partnership with SAP, with a focus on transforming traditional business processes into Intelligent Workflows leveraging SAP’s Business Technology Platform. Andrew is also a thought leader, a speaker and co-author of SAP S/4HANA: An introduction, published by SAP PRESS.
Asidhara Lahiri, SAP Enterprise Architect, is a technical leader in IBM SAP practice, a thought leader and an author with more than 24 years of work experience, helping clients transform their business by leveraging SAP. She is in IBM’s SAP Services for 20 years. She holds 2 patents and has several publications, including 2 SAP Press books which she has co-authored “SAP S/4HANA: An introduction” and “SAP Cloud Platform : Cloud-native Development “. She is currently leading the architecture in the IBM-SAP Evolution partnership, from a platform perspective as well as industry solutions for Industrial Machinery and Components. She has also been working on the intelligent workflow initiative at IBM, using SAP BTP.
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