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 the new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Steffen Pietsch, the Vice President, Head of SAP BTP Product Management.
You will hear about SAP Sapphire which took place mid of May in Orlando and Barcelona. Together with Steffen Pietsch we will make a recap of these awesome events and hear about great new announcements, the atmosphere at the event and his personal experiences and impressions visiting the SAP Sapphire as Vice President, Head of SAP BTP Product Management. To enrich the episode, we will also dive into the customer story of the month and on top of that, you will learn about some of the road map items at the horizon of SAP BTP.

Interview Guest:

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 the new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Yuval Anafi, Lead Product Owner of the SAP Business Application Studio.

You will learn why using SAP Business Application Studio running on SAP BTP can increase the productivity of your developers. We will also talk about the co-existence between the SAP Business Application Studio and SAP’s low-code no-code offering SAP Build. To enrich the episode, we will also dive into the customer story of the month and how they are using SAP Business Application Studio. On top of that, you will learn about some of the road map items at the horizon of SAP BTP.

Interview Guest:

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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More information about SAP Innovation Award participant 2023, Nestle S.A. and how they used SAP Business Application Studio here.

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In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, April’ 2023 we will talk on how SAP Datasphere enables enterprises unleash the power of business data providing unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization.

We will also understand how SAP Datasphere enables access to authoritative data, enrich all data projects, simplify the data landscape, and provides a business data fabric for businesses.

Interview Guest:

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 of SAP BTP Talk, March’ 2023 we will talk about some new additions & announcements made to SAP BTP services. We will also hear about how these BTP services are enabling businesses to turn data to value, predictive analytics to lower risk, increase efficiency, and cut costs.

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In the new episode Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Diana Roesner, Head of Product Enablement for App Development and Automation on SAP BTP, about SAP Build. A unified, low-code solution on SAP BTP to unleash the power of business users that has been released at SAP TechEd 2022. You will learn why the area of low-code no-code development significantly changes daily work, what this new solution is all about (the different product pillars SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, SAP Build Work Zone) and how you can benefit and can get started right now. Tune in to hear why SAP Build is really an evolution within low-code offerings and how you can develop applications without coding skills.

Interview Guest:

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 of SAP BTP Talk, January’ 2023 we interact with the vice president for SAP Build Process Automation and hear how SAP Build Process Automation offers a simpler and faster way to automate business processes.

We will also talk about how this business service helps in simplifying automation with drag-and-drop and AI capabilities, accelerating development using pre-built workflows, bots and connectors for SAP and non-SAP systems and also collaborate securely.

Interview Guest:

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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In the new episode Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Tobias Knietzsch, Product Manager for Artificial Intelligence, about the AI product portfolio at SAP and the new opportunities and innovations it brings. We will discover how SAP delivers ready-to-use AI built into your SAP applications and how you can tap into the power of AI on SAP BTP. Besides we will also discuss the announcements in this area from this year’s SAP TechEd, our annual tech conference, that took place in Las Vegas and virtually in November 2022.

You can also expect a short recap of the year 2022 and discover what’s new in SAP BTP including a customer story of the month.

Interview Guest:

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.

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• SAP Process Automation
• SAP Community
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• Automate your Business Processes

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

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