Episode 93 – New in SAP BTP and how enterprises are running better with SAP BTP
Mar 29, 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:
Episode 85 – Enable business applications to communicate through asynchronous events and extend your digital core.
Jul 29, 2022
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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
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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.
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