Episode 113: Event Driven Architecture with a Power Couple – SAP Integration Suite and Advanced Event Mesh
Nov 29, 2024
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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.
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Episode 112: Streamlining success with SAP BTP Service Catalog and embedded SAP Business AI capabilities
Oct 31, 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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