Discover SAP Business AI Platform

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.

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About Tobias Knietzsch:

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.

LinkedIn | SAP Community

Links for more AI infos:

Links for“What’s New” in SAP BTP Category:

Hosted by Hanna Salamon – Senior Product Communication Specialist SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP SE

Follow Hanna on: SAP Community | LinkedIn | Twitter

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:

More about SAP Business Technology Platform:

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Hosted by Gaurav Dey – BTP Foundation, SAP.

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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.

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 Kormann is 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.

Links for more topic infos:

• Innovative Retail Laboratory – ITH

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 Shukla is 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.

Links for more topic infos:

• SAP Process Automation
• SAP Community
• Follow us on LinkedIn
• Automate your Business Processes

Links What’s New Section:

• “SAP BTP Talk” – The freshly reimagined SAP BTP Podcast
• SAP TechEd 2022 Registration + Agenda
• SAP BTP Innobytes Series
• Customer Success Story: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)

More about SAP Business Technology Platform:

• SAP Business Technology Platform
• SAP Community
• Subscribe to: Monthly SAP Business Technology Platform Newsletter
• Follow on: Twitter │ LinkedIn │ YouTube │Facebook
• Feedback or podcast ideas? Write us an email at [email protected]

Hosted by Hanna Salamon – Senior Product Communication Specialist SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP SE

Follow Hanna on: SAP Community | LinkedIn | Twitter

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.

SAP Community │ LinkedIn │ Twitter

Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:

More about SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

• Public Landing Page
  • openSAP Course
  • Blog 1 & Blog 2

Links What’s New Section:

• TechEd 2022 Registration
• Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant C
• SAP Data Warehouse Cloud under CPEA
• SAP BTP in a Nutshell Overview Sessions
• Team Liquid Success Story + Podcast

More about SAP Business Technology Platform:

• SAP Business Technology Platform
• SAP Community
• Subscribe to: Monthly SAP Business Technology Platform Newsletter
• Follow on: Twitter │ LinkedIn │ YouTube │Facebook
• Feedback or podcast ideas? Write us an email at [email protected]

Hosted by Hanna Salamon – Senior Product Communication Specialist SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP SE

Social Media:

Twitter:  Hanna Salamon (@ha_nn_aS) / Twitter

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannasalamon/

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 Khorsandi is 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:

Links for more SAP Integration Suite & SAP Extension Suite information:

Additional downloads:

Hosted by Gaurav Dey – T&I Cross Architecture, SAP.

Social Media:

Follow Gaurav on – SAP Community.

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 Kohlhaas is a Development Manager for SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry runtime and SAP Private Link service at SAP. Follow Sven on SAP Community.  

Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:

• New Features/ Enhancements on: 
  • SAP Analytics Cloud – Optimized Story Experience  
  • SAP Process Automation – Add Mail Notifications to a Process 
  • SAP Business Application Studio – Map Input Parameters & Create Query Snapshots
• SAP Event Mesh 
• SAP Event Mesh – Official Help Documentation 
• SAP Event Mesh – Missions on SAP Discovery Center 
• SAP Private Link Service – Official Help Documentation 
• SAP Private Link 
• Roadmap item 1 – SAP Analytics Cloud – Microsoft Office Integration 
• Roadmap item 2 – SAP Business Application Studio – Conversion of a single-tenant UI app to a multitenant UI app 
• Other Roadmap items 
• Reach us at: [email protected]  

Links for more SAP Integration Suite & SAP Extension Suite information:

• SAP Integration Suite
• SAP Extension Suite
• SAP Community
• Subscribe to: SAP Integration Suite & SAP Extension Suite Newsletter
• Follow on: Twitter │ LinkedIn │ YouTube │Facebook

Additional downloads:

• Download transcript as PDF file

Hosted by Gaurav Dey – T&I Cross Architecture, SAP.

Social Media:

Follow Gaurav on – SAP Community.

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:

• Blog Post 1 & Blog Post 2
• Public JAM page: To get access, please write to [email protected] and mention your email address in SAP ID Service, which you typically use when accessing SAP resources like SAP Community or Support Launchpad.

Links What’s New Section:

SAP SAPPHIRE 2022 News Guide & Homepage
SAP Innobytes Video Series
SAP’s Cloud Integration 2022 Highlights Whitepaper
SAP Innovation Award Winners
SAP BTP Garage Series

Links for more SAP Business Technology Platform information:

• SAP Business Technology Platform
• SAP Community
• Subscribe to: Monthly SAP Business Technology Platform Newsletter
• Follow on: Twitter │ LinkedIn │ YouTube │Facebook

Hosted by Hanna Salamon – Senior Product Communication Specialist SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP SE

Social Media:

Twitter:  Hanna Salamon (@ha_nn_aS) / Twitter

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannasalamon/

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

Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:

• SAP SAPPHIRE 2022
• SAP SAPHHIRE 2022 – Website
• OpenSAP course on Gain Experience with Business Partner for SAP S/4HANA Conversion
• OpenSAP course on Gain Experience with SAP S/4HANA – Logistics
• www.sap.com/cal
• https://cal.sap.com/
• SAP Cloud Appliance Library – SAP Community
• Create Destinations Using the MTA Descriptor
• Use a Config.JSON to Create or Update a Destination Service Instance.
• Roadmap item 1 – Data center availability – SAP Analytics Cloud
• Roadmap item 2 – SAP Business Application Studio – Rapid deployment of HTML5 apps to SAP BTP
• Other Roadmap items

Resources for Microsoft Azure

• SAP solutions on Azure
• SAP Cloud Appliance Library – docs.microsoft.com
• YouTube – SAP on Azure

Links for more SAP Integration Suite & SAP Extension Suite information:

• SAP Integration Suite
• SAP Extension Suite
• SAP Community
• Subscribe to: SAP Integration Suite & SAP Extension Suite Newsletter
• Follow on: Twitter │ LinkedIn │ YouTube │Facebook

Additional downloads:

• Download transcript as PDF file

Hosted by Gaurav Dey – T&I Cross Architecture, SAP.

Social Media:

Follow Gaurav on – SAP Community.

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.

Follow Daniel on: LinkedIn

Links for more SAP Graph information:

• Visit community page
• Read and try multi-part tutorial series
• Watch our complete Introduction Course
• Explore the SAP Graph Navigator
• Sign up for quarterly newsletter
• Write to us at [email protected]
• Check out the SAP Graph Road Map
• Contact us about the SAP Early Adopter Care program

Daniels Podcast Recommendations:

Episodes | Data Engineering Podcast

Links for more SAP Business Technology Platform information:

• SAP Business Technology Platform
• SAP Community
• Subscribe to: Monthly SAP Business Technology Platform Newsletter
• Follow on: Twitter │ LinkedIn │ YouTube │Facebook

Hosted by Hanna Salamon – Senior Product Communication Specialist SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP SE

Social Media:

Twitter:  Hanna Salamon (@ha_nn_aS) / Twitter

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannasalamon/

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.

Follow Arthur on: LinkedIn │ Twitter │ SAP Community | Github | Instagram

Links to the Resources that were discussed in the episode:

• openSAP course on Ride the SAP HANA Wave: Fundamentals and Insights into Cloud Databases
• SAP Community blog on SAP Analytics Cloud release for Q1 2022
• SAP Discovery Center missions with Kyma
• Roadmap item 1 – Deployment to SAP BTP, Kyma runtime
• Roadmap item 2 – Ability to import stories to SAP Analytics Cloud from line-of-business solutions from SAP Fieldglass
• Other Roadmap items

Resources for Kyma and SAP BTP Kyma Runtime discussed in the conversation:

Kyma Project (Open Source)

• https://kyma-project.io
• Github – Kyma Project
• Slack Workspace – Kyma Project
• Stack Overflow – Kyma Project

SAP BTP, Kyma runtime

• SAP Help – Kyma Runtime
• SAP Discovery Center – Kyma runtime
• SAP Discovery Center Missions – Kyma
• SAP Community – Kyma runtime

Links for more SAP Integration Suite & SAP Extension Suite information:

• SAP Integration Suite
• SAP Extension Suite
• SAP Community
• Subscribe to: SAP Integration Suite & SAP Extension Suite Newsletter
• Follow on: Twitter │ LinkedIn │ YouTube │Facebook

Additional downloads:

• Download transcript as PDF file

Hosted by Gaurav Dey – T&I Cross Architecture, SAP.

Social Media:

Follow Gaurav on – SAP Community.