Welcome to openSAP Invites, I’m your host, Antonio Soto.  In this episode, I will have a conversation with two guest experts from Red Hat, Ricardo Garcia and Markus Koch.  Automation has become a key feature in current IT organizations. Software technology End User demand is constantly increasing driven by changing market conditions and the democratization of IT. IT organizations must react faster and more flexibly with limited resources as they tend to IT infrastructure requirements. Automation helps to reproduce complete software deployments and system configurations much faster with considerable error reductions. Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform allows for the administration of the entire lifecycle of RHEL servers such as patching, security fixes, subscriptions, Red Hat Insights, and the SaaS that makes sure that all the RHEL hosts are compliant with Red Hat’s and other vendors’ recommendations (like SAP) based on their respective customers policies. Red Hat’s Ansible technology can be an effective solution that can help SAP Basis Administrators manage automation workflows across multiple SAP Software solutions.

Ricardo joined Red Hat in October 2019, initially being part of the Services team as an architect focused on SAP workloads, providing solutions for customers involving automation and integration technologies. Currently he  works in the Portfolio Architecture team creating reference architectures with all the products of Red Hat’s portfolio.

Markus joined Red Hat in October 2010 and since 2017 he works as a Partner Enablement Manager in the EMEA Partner Team, helping our partners to understand, sell and implement SAP solutions with Red Hat products. He joined as Presales for Red Hat’s global accounts managed out of Germany, helping his customers building ITIL compliant data center operations. He is a co-founder of the SAP Ansible Automation project (https://sap-linuxlab.github.io) Previous stations in his career include Sun Microsystems and EMC

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Welcome to openSAP Invites. I’m your host, Elena Lucarelli, and in this episode, I’ll be talking to two guest experts from the SAP Global Developer and Community Relations team, Mamikee Kanneh and Rich Heilman. We’ll talk about the basics of ABAP, why it’s worth learning, and where to start your learning journey.

Mamikee joined SAP in 2019, working as multimedia content creator. In 2021 she joined the SAP Global Developer and Community Relations team. Her focus is on the developer learning experience for emerging developers, starting with those first learning ABAP.

Rich joined SAP in 2007. In his long career he has had many roles within the company. He has co-authored books and, during his time as director with the SAP HANA Product Management team, he presented numerous courses on openSAP.

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Welcome to openSAP Invites, I’m your host, Antonio Soto. In this episode, I will have a conversation with two guest experts from the SAP Analytics Cloud Solution Management Team, Katryn Cheng and Orla Cullen. Katryn, Orla, and I will discuss topics around SAP’s strategically positioned Analytics Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution- SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). SAC is an invaluable tool set that enables organizations to obtain powerful business insights into their data via visualizations such as Storyboards, Infographics, Dashboards, Analytic Applications, Enterprise Planning Applications, and Predictive Analytics. It leverages the latest industry innovations like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to deliver powerful Augmented Analytics capabilities. SAC also helps existing SAP customers across the board that utilize any of our core solutions like SAP SuccessFactors, S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, just to name a few that are looking to gain business intelligence insights into their data by leveraging the latest multi-product integrative innovations built into SAC.

Katryn Cheng is a solution manager for SAP Analytics Cloud and currently helps drive go-to-market strategy, field enablement, and customer programs.

Katryn joined SAP in 2001, providing product support for business intelligence customers and partners. She has remained involved in and passionate about business intelligence and analytics and has helped numerous customers and partners get value out of their data with SAP Analytics solutions.

Orla Cullen is a solution manager for SAP Analytics Cloud. She has been working with and on many SAP applications since 2003. In the last 12 years, her main focus has been on analytics, in particular the areas of augmented BI and machine learning.

Orla currently drives the roadmap, enablement, and communication of the quarterly releases for SAP Analytics Cloud, and manages external events for analytics across SAP.

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Welcome to openSAP Invites! I’m your host, Elena Lucarelli. In this episode, I’m talking with Rainer Zinow, one of the content experts for our openSAP courses on SAP Business ByDesign. Rainer discusses the beginning of the collaboration with openSAP, why should customers and partners take the courses and what the SAP Business ByDesign team has planned for 2022 on openSAP.

Rainer Zinow is senior vice president of SAP’s Cloud SME Solutions and Content Group and head of SAP Business One and SAP Business ByDesign Product Management. In his role, Rainer is responsible for the solution strategy and partner engagement for both products.

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Welcome to a special Thought Leaders episode with Heini Utunen in which we discuss how the World Health Organization’s online learning platform facilitates the transfer of public health knowledge for emergencies on a massive scale.
Heini takes us behind the scenes and shares how it felt to be in the position of providing trusted information in an emergency response. She tells us how she and her team took over responsibility for being first, fast, and frequent in providing fact-based information about the situation in a timely manner for those who needed it.

The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the OpenWHO.org online learning platform in 2017 to facilitate the transfer of public health knowledge for emergencies on a massive scale in anticipation of the next pandemic. Grounded in the principles of open access and equity, courses are free, self-paced, accessible in low-bandwidth and offline formats, and available in national and local languages.

Having served frontline responders in regionalized outbreaks from Ebola to plague, OpenWHO dramatically scaled up course production for the COVID-19 pandemic, making life-saving information from WHO experts available online at a time when lockdowns and social distancing limited our ability to physically come together to learn.
The platform offers courses on 46 different COVID-19 topics, as well as more than 100 courses on other health topics, with 6.7 million course enrolments. Courses are available across 64 languages, including the 15 most-spoken languages worldwide and the official languages of 44 out of 46 of the least-developed countries, recognizing that it is easier for people to learn and understand in their native tongue.

Heini Utunen is Acting Head of Unit of the Learning and Capacity Development Unit, which is part of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program. The unit was established in 2018 and Heini has worked there from the beginning, establishing the area of knowledge transfer for infectious diseases and health emergencies.

She has prior experience in the government of Finland, where she served as communications officer for the Minister of Health. She also worked as a training officer at the Crisis Management Centre, mainly involved in capacity building for the European Union, African Union, and United Nations in several post-conflict missions.

Heini has a bachelor’s degree in political science, a master’s in information studies, and is writing her PhD dissertation in information and communication technologies. She also has a principal’s qualification in Finland.

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Welcome to openSAP Invites! I’m your host, Lorna Richards. In this episode, I’m talking with Johanna Wittig, one of the creators of the popular openSAP course: Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business. Johanna discusses the feedback they have received over the years since the first edition of the course ran in early 2017.  She also talks about the topic of virtual communication and why she thinks there will always be a place for sketching with a pen and paper. The 10th repeat of the course is being offered now.

As a member of the UX team at SAP, Johanna Wittig focuses on developing new ideas and concepts for interacting with business applications.

Throughout her professional career, she has worked in multidisciplinary teams with the aim of encouraging a multidisciplinary approach and strengthening a productive exchange across disciplines. Time and again, she has experienced that sketches are an excellent medium to reach this goal.

Since joining SAP, Johanna has been driving several teaching formats for visual communication.

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Welcome to openSAP Invites, I’m your host, Robert Nichols.  SUSE is a global leader in true open-source solutions. An SAP partner whose mission is to give customers the freedom to innovate anywhere. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a leading Linux platform for hosting SAP workloads, including SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA. The alliance between SUSE and SAP spans two decades of collaboration and innovation.  In this episode, I welcome two experts from SUSE, Christian Holsing and Richard Mayne.  Christian and Richard discuss the history of SUSE’s partnership with SAP, how our mutual customers benefit from this relationship, and what SUSE is doing to help enable partners and customers with training resources.

Christian Holsing is the manager of SUSE solution management team for SAP, leading several products and initiatives of SUSE supporting SAP workloads. Christian is an experienced leader with a focus on product and customer success.  Christian is based in Germany and has a long experience in the industry. In previous roles, he was the product manager for SLES for SAP.  Before that, he spent 17 years at IBM in various roles in product management and strategy teams. He started his professional career in 2001 as an SAP implementation partner.

Richard Mayne is a training architect at SUSE. His focus is on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications and High Availability. Richard has many years of experience designing, building, and delivering technical training.

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Welcome to openSAP Invites, I’m your host, Robert Nichols. In this episode, I have a conversation with two guest experts from the SAP SuccessFactors product management team, Jayendra Bisnik and Abishek Suvarna. Jayendra, Abishek and I will talk about a very valuable tool for SAP partners called the package configuration manager. The package configuration manager is a business configuration tool that uses SAP Best Practices and qualified partner packaged solutions to automate many of the standard configurations that are common across customer implementations. 

Jayendra has almost 20 years of experience in the Human Resources Management domain. He is currently working on architecting ready-to-consume SAP Best Practices for SAP SuccessFactors to help customers decrease implementation costs and reduce time-to-value.

Jayendra joined SAP in 2003 as an application developer and has held various roles since then, including development lead, consultant, solution architect, project lead, and trainer. With nearly ten years in SAP consulting, he has acted as a trusted advisor to many global customers, helping them implement SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors solutions.

Jayendra holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. He has been part of the prestigious SAP Services Winners’ Circle, and writes about a wide variety of topics in Human Resources and technology.

Abishek currently leads the development and design for the package configuration manager. 

Abishek joined SAP in 2008.  He has worked in different roles in the Governance, Risk, and Compliance team, the Rapid Deployment Solutions team, and now the SAP Best Practices Team.

Abishek holds a master’s degree in Information Technology.

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Welcome to openSAP Invites! In this episode, we’re talking with Rutika Bodas to learn how we can become better, more mindful, and more confident communicators. Whether the thought of speaking to a large audience excites you or fills you with dread, this episode will ensure you’ll radiate with confidence by identifying the colors that personify you and embodying the ABCs of communication.

Rutika is a Development Manager in the ISBN Product Development Organization at SAP Labs India and has experience in leading SAP teams through various roles since 2010 as a Developer, Senior Developer, and Product Owner.

Aside from the technical positions she’s held at SAP, Rutika is also a certified Personal Transformation Coach, Mindfulness Practitioner and is a passionate Public Speaker & Trainer. Founded on her diverse corporate experience, she offers webinars, sessions and talks on topics for personal growth and professional astuteness, both inside and outside SAP.

She also runs a podcast show titled ‘Mindmills by Rutika’ (Listen here: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor)

She loves travelling to sunny beaches and is always up for an engaging conversation and soulful laughter over a cup of strong coffee or a pint of light beer, as applicable!

Aside work, other topics she is passionate about are Brain Behavioral Science, Sustainable Living, and Purpose Driven Life.  

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Welcome to a special Thought Leaders episode with Martina Peskoller-Fuchs in which we discuss the complexities of our working lives interwoven with our different cultures, values, and biases. Martina explains in a clear and entertaining way why we need to reimagine today’s workplace. Tune in to hear Martina’s top tips on how to be a great dinner host and ensure everyone feels welcome at your next party or workshop!

I’m Elisabeth Riemann and it’s a pleasure to be your host today!

Ombudsperson at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

Martina Peskoller-Fuchs is from Austria and holds a Master of Law Degree from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She worked in the legal and international environment for over a decade. After spending considerable time in war-torn regions and dealing with large-scale crimes while working for the International Criminal Court, she developed an interest in conflict prevention and alternative dispute resolution. She then trained and became a certified mediator in Austria and started working as the ombudsperson for the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).  Furthermore, she has training and extensive experience in coaching, NLP, communication, conflict resolution and meaning-centered psychotherapy by Viktor Frankl.

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