Discover SAP Business AI Platform

In this episode, Hanna Salamon, Niklas Siemer, and Gaurav Dey are joined by Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Board member at SAP to celebrate 100 episodes! 

Jürgen discusses the importance of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) for businesses, sharing success stories and key milestones in BTP’s evolution. Juergen also provides an exclusive look at the upcoming SAP TechEd 2023 conference, highlighting the focus on generative AI and the opportunities for attendees. He shares recommendations for the SAP community to stay up-to-date and engaged with the latest BTP developments.

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About Juergen Mueller:

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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In this episode, host Niklas Siemer is joined by Steffen Pietsch, the Vice President and Head of SAP BTP Product Management, to discuss the latest updates and announcements from the recent SAP Sapphire events.

They cover key SAP BTP roadmap updates, including improvements in SAP Build Apps and SAP Task Center integration. Siemer highlights announcements from Sapphire, such as SAP’s expanded partnership with Google Cloud and AI advancements in SAP Analytics Cloud. A customer success story features Frucor Suntory, who used SAP BTP to develop My Sales Hub, boosting productivity and revenue. Steffen Pietsch shares insights from Sapphire events in Orlando and Barcelona, discussing AI integration, SAP Build adoption, and the importance of SAP Integration Suite. 

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About Steffen Pietsch:

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.).

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In this episode of the SAP BTP Talk, host Niklas Siemer is joined by Yuval Anafi, the lead product owner of SAP Business Application Studio, to discuss capabilities and features of SAP Business Application Studio, the next-generation development environment from SAP.

Yuval shares his experience at SAP and the principles behind SAP Business Application Studio, emphasizing standards, openness, flexibility, and guided developer experiences. He discusses how developers can get started, its support for various programming languages, low-code/no-code capabilities, and its connection with SAP Build. The conversation also covers its open-source foundations, compatibility with Visual Studio Code, upcoming roadmap items, and the integration of AI to enhance developer productivity.

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About Yunal Ranafi:

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.

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In this episode, Guarav Dey chats with Karsten Ruf, senior director in the Marketing and Solutions team for Data and Analytics at SAP, about how the SAP Datasphere builds upon the capabilities of the previous SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, adding new features like data integration, data cataloging, and semantic modeling to deliver a comprehensive data service for data professionals. 

Karsten also discusses how Data Sphere integrates with other SAP solutions, such as Data Intelligence Cloud and Analytics Cloud, enabling a unified experience across data integration, warehousing, and analytics. He shares a success story of Messer Gases, a customer that leveraged Data Sphere to harmonize data across their SAP and non-SAP systems, reducing costs, mitigating risks, and improving scalability.  Additionally, Karsten emphasizes the importance of an open data ecosystem, highlighting SAP’s partnerships with leading technology vendors like Colibri, Confluent, Databricks, and DataRobot. These integrations allow customers to access business data across various cloud deployments and infrastructures. 

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About Karsten Ruf:

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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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.

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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.

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About Diana Roesner:

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.

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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.

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About Angela Harvey:

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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