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.
Episode 105: Discovering the SAP HANA Cloud - Vector Engine
Mar 28, 2024
In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Thomas Hammer, Lead Product Manager for SAP HANA Cloud.
Together they will dive into SAP’s database as a service offering SAP HANA Cloud and focus on its new capability, the vector engine. You will get an understanding of what the new engine is, why it is important, use-cases and more.
Interview Guest:
Thomas Hammer is the Lead Product Manager for SAP HANA Cloud, located in Walldorf, Germany and with SAP for 10 years.
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 new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Frank Jentsch, Product Lead of the SAP BTP, ABAP environment.
You will hear about the SAP BTP, ABAP environment: What it is, use-case scenarios, it’s evolution and more. Frank will explain whenever a company can benefit from using the SAP BTP, ABAP environment in their software development projects. Don’t miss this episode when you are interested into the new cloud world alongside with ABAP.
Interview Guest:
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 100th episode of the SAP BTP Talk, host Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Specialist for SAP BTP, welcomes Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Board Member at SAP SE, as their special guest. The episode covers the evolution of the podcast since its start in 2015, the role of SAP BTP in achieving business goals, BTP customer success stories, milestones, and latest advancements. We deep dive into the topic of Generative AI and its importance nowadays and share a preview of the upcoming SAP TechEd 2023, taking place on November 2-3 in Bangalore, India and virtually. Register today! Additionally, the three podcast hosts celebrate the anniversary together, looking back at the highlights, sharing their journey and experiences as well as a small “best of” 100 episodes.
InterviewGuest:
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 the new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Steffen Pietsch, the Vice President, Head of SAP BTP Product Management. You will hear about SAP Sapphire which took place mid of May in Orlando and Barcelona. Together with Steffen Pietsch we will make a recap of these awesome events and hear about great new announcements, the atmosphere at the event and his personal experiences and impressions visiting the SAP Sapphire as Vice President, Head of SAP BTP Product Management. To enrich the episode, we will also dive into the customer story of the month and on top of that, you will learn about some of the road map items at the horizon of SAP BTP.
Interview Guest:
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 the new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Yuval Anafi, Lead Product Owner of the SAP Business Application Studio.
You will learn why using SAP Business Application Studio running on SAP BTP can increase the productivity of your developers. We will also talk about the co-existence between the SAP Business Application Studio and SAP’s low-code no-code offering SAP Build. To enrich the episode, we will also dive into the customer story of the month and how they are using SAP Business Application Studio. On top of that, you will learn about some of the road map items at the horizon of SAP BTP.
Interview Guest:
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 of SAP BTP Talk, April’ 2023 we will talk on how SAP Datasphere enables enterprises unleash the power of business data providing unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization.
We will also understand how SAP Datasphere enables access to authoritative data, enrich all data projects, simplify the data landscape, and provides a business data fabric for businesses.
Interview Guest:
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 of SAP BTP Talk, March’ 2023 we will talk about some new additions & announcements made to SAP BTP services. We will also hear about how these BTP services are enabling businesses to turn data to value, predictive analytics to lower risk, increase efficiency, and cut costs.
Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:
Episode 92: Introduction into SAP Build – SAP’s Unified Low-Code Solution to Unleash the Power of Business Users
Feb 23, 2023
In the new episode Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Diana Roesner, Head of Product Enablement for App Development and Automation on SAP BTP, about SAP Build. A unified, low-code solution on SAP BTP to unleash the power of business users that has been released at SAP TechEd 2022. You will learn why the area of low-code no-code development significantly changes daily work, what this new solution is all about (the different product pillars SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, SAP Build Work Zone) and how you can benefit and can get started right now. Tune in to hear why SAP Build is really an evolution within low-code offerings and how you can develop applications without coding skills.
InterviewGuest:
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 of SAP BTP Talk, January’ 2023 we interact with the vice president for SAP Build Process Automation and hear how SAP Build Process Automation offers a simpler and faster way to automate business processes.
We will also talk about how this business service helps in simplifying automation with drag-and-drop and AI capabilities, accelerating development using pre-built workflows, bots and connectors for SAP and non-SAP systems and also collaborate securely.
Interview Guest:
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.
Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:
Episode 90: Realize Your Business Potential with SAP AI Solutions
Dec 19, 2022
In the new episode Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Tobias Knietzsch, Product Manager for Artificial Intelligence, about the AI product portfolio at SAP and the new opportunities and innovations it brings. We will discover how SAP delivers ready-to-use AI built into your SAP applications and how you can tap into the power of AI on SAP BTP. Besides we will also discuss the announcements in this area from this year’s SAP TechEd, our annual tech conference, that took place in Las Vegas and virtually in November 2022.
You can also expect a short recap of the year 2022 and discover what’s new in SAP BTP including a customer story of the month.
InterviewGuest:
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:
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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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