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/

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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:

• 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/

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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.

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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/

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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.

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Welcome to the new SAP Integration & Extension Talk with Thomas Volmering, Chief Product Manager for SAP Process Automation, and Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Manager for SAP Business Technology Platform at SAP SE. In this episode we discover what SAP Process Automation is all about and how you can accelerate automation with a modern no-code experience. Learn what the groundbreaking advantages of low-code/no-code process automation are and how you can start with the new solution.

Interview Guest:

Thomas Volmering is Chief Product Manager for SAP Process Automation and is driving with an experienced, motivated and inspired team the future of this citizen developer solution. He has more than 20-years track record of helping SAP customers and partners driving process efficiency. Thomas has successfully launched many solutions in the Business Process Management and Workflow space in different engineering roles.

Follow Thomas on: LinkedIn │ Twitter │ SAP Community

Links for more details:

• Latest blog by Thomas
• Exchange knowledge: SAP Community, Q&A, Blogs 
• Explore: SAP Product Page , Product Demo 
• Learn more: SAP Help Portal  
• Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube

Thomas Tech Book & Movie Recommendations:

1. Book: Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management, Ben Foster & Rajesh Nerlikar
2. Series: Billion Dollar Code (Netflix)

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

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

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

Social Media:

Twitter:  Hanna Salamon (@ha_nn_aS) / Twitter

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

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Interview Guests:

Archana Shukla, Senior Product Manager SAP Workflow Management. She has been working with SAP in different roles for more than 16 years with deep technical knowledge and experience in product development and management. She is currently leading product success operations for APJ region and managing global partner eco-system. In her role, she is responsible for various marketing activities which involve customer, partners and other stakeholder engagement and enablement.

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.

Follow Archana on: SAP Community

Prashant Gautam, Product Manager for Innovation topic in SAP Workflow Management service.

Follow Prashant on: SAP Community

Links to Resources that were discussed in the episode:

• openSAP course on Enable Users in Multilingual Business with SAP Translation Hub
• Official help guide on Migrating API Management Subscription Created Using the Starter Plan Service Instance to Different Subaccounts
• SAP Community blog on developing and deploying a multichannel sample app to mobile with SAP Business Application Studio for low-code development
• Support of partner Cloud Integration adapters with API and Integration Marketplace
• New adapters for Process Integration
• Other Roadmap items
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools

Resources for SAP Workflow Management discussed in the conversation:

• Workflow Management Prepackaged Content  | New Features | openSAP | SAP Community

 Hands-on sessionsfrom SAP TechEd 2021:

• INT261- Automate Your CapEx with Predefined Workflow Content and RPA Bots
• DEV164 – Develop, Configure, and Provision Application Workflows and Content
• INT360 – Intelligent Approvals with Workflow Intelligence

Task Center: Help Portal | SAP Community

TechEd 2021 INT360 hands-on session (Exercise2 is for Workflow Intelligence)

Official Help document for Workflow Intelligence

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

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

Social Media:

SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/gauravdey

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Interview Guests:

Cecilia Huergo is part of the Central Product Management team for SAP BTP, mainly focused on content strategy for events like SAP TechEd. As part of her role, she also interacts with the extended SAP Community and enjoys hosting internal and external sessions. The most recent experience was hosting Channel 1 topic hours for SAP TechEd in 2021.

Follow Cecilia on: LinkedIn │ Twitter │ SAP Community

Rui Nogueira is Vice President Intelligent Enterprise & Cross Architecture at SAP with over 20 years of experience in applying information technology in a wide range of industries. He holds a graduate degree in electrical engineering. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and SAP events and has been an instructor for various openSAP courses. His focus is on the integration between the SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP’s Intelligent Suite.

Follow Rui on: LinkedIn │ Twitter │ SAP Community

SAP TechEd 2021 Links for more details:

• SAP TechEd News Guide   
• SAP TechEd 2021 Press Release   
• Executive Keynote   
• Developer Keynote   
• All replays in the SAP TechEd session catalog   
• That’s a Wrap TechEd 2021 Blog

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

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

Social Media:

Twitter:  Hanna Salamon (@ha_nn_aS) / Twitter

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

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