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Join Matthew Zenus, Global Vice President – SAP HANA & Persistency, Product Management and Strategy, and Daniel Dukes, Senior Product Marketing Director, as they reminisce on SAP HANA and the bright future of SAP HANA Cloud. Enjoy a time of personal stories, candid advice, and forward thinking from these two veterans. For anyone considering SAP HANA Cloud or even a current customer, this conversation is a must hear as SAP HANA Cloud is enabling industry leading advancements that are shaping the future of applications.      Listeners of all application develop roles and expertise levels are encouraged to tune-in.     Connect with our speakers:  Daniel Dukes – https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldukes/  Matthew Zenus – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-zenus-3594a81/    Don’t stop here – discover more:  SAP HANA Cloud - https://www.sap.com/canada/products/technology-platform/hana.html  SAP HANA Cloud Basic Trial – https://www.sap.com/canada-fr/products/technology-platform/hana/trial.html  SAP HANA Cloud Community – https://pages.community.sap.com/topics/hana/cloud    Key Topics: Early Adoption and Innovation: The podcast highlights the early days of SAP HANA, emphasizing the groundbreaking in-memory architecture and its significant impact on query acceleration. A notable example is a utility company in Amsterdam that leveraged SAP HANA to enhance geospatial queries, leading to the development of a high-performing, in-memory geospatial engine. Multi-Model Engine Journey: The integration of geospatial capabilities marked the beginning of SAP HANA's multi-model engine journey. This journey has evolved to include various engines like graph, JSON, document store, and vector engines, positioning multi-model functionality as a key differentiator for SAP HANA and SAP HANA Cloud in the market. Current Market Challenges: The podcast discusses the prevalent challenges customers face today, including complexity due to heterogeneous environments, data fragmentation, the explosion of diverse data sources, and the increasing importance of financial governance and price-performance optimization in cloud environments. Four Pillars of HANA Cloud Development: The development strategy for SAP HANA Cloud focuses on four key pillars: simplicity, financial governance and price performance, deployment flexibility, and automation and intelligence. These pillars are designed to make SAP HANA Cloud easier to adopt, administer, and scale while optimizing cost and performance. Generative AI Integration: The podcast highlights the integration of generative AI in SAP HANA Cloud, specifically through the native vector engine. This engine supports advanced AI use cases like similarity searches, semantic searches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which enhances large language model queries with relevant, organization-specific data. Upcoming Innovations: SAP HANA Cloud has an aggressive roadmap for the remainder of 2024 and 2025, including larger instance sizes, enhanced cost monitoring features, elastic compute nodes, multi-tenancy, SQL on files, and the introduction of a knowledge graph. These innovations are aimed at improving scalability, performance, and cost efficiency. Transition from On-Premise to Cloud: The podcast emphasizes the simplicity of migrating from on-premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud. SAP provides various tools and resources to assist customers in this transition, making it a natural and straightforward process to modernize and take advantage of SAP HANA Cloud's innovations.

A clean core helps customers keep up with the competition and use SAP S/4HANA standard features whenever possible and provides an easier way to keep getting updates without breaking business-specific functionality.  During this podcast, Sue Waite, Senior Director for North American Center of Excellence, Business Technology Platform solutions at SAP, and David Sentance, Associate Partner and Head of Data & Analytics at Camelot Management Consultants, will discuss how enterprise data management practices help ensure a clean core as well as mitigate risk to your business transformation initiatives.   Speakers: Sue Waite, Senior Director for North American Center of Excellence, Business Technology Platform solutions at SAP David Sentance, Associate Partner and Head of Data & Analytics at Camelot Management Consultants Host:  Corrie Birkeness Additional Resources: Building an Information Backbone for the Digital Enterprise: https://bit.ly/3wsYjVg Accelerate Your Move to the Cloud with Trusted Data: https://bit.ly/4bWD7Gj The Business Case for Clean Master Data: https://bit.ly/44LiZnR SAP solutions for Data & Analytics: https://bit.ly/3IDy9kS SAP solutions for Data Management: https://bit.ly/3UXbRBD The Data Tower Setup in SAP S/4HANA Initiatives (Camelot ITLab): https://bit.ly/3WBxokG Your Fast Forward S/4HANA Data Transformation (Camelot ITLab): https://bit.ly/4bjuPYO Data Quality Health Check (Camelot ITLab): https://bit.ly/44J9cig Data Analyzer (Camelot ITLab): https://bit.ly/3V2NnGb   Key Topics of Discussion: Importance of a Clean Core: Discuss the significance of establishing and maintaining a clean core in data management, especially in the context of transitioning from classic ERP systems to cloud-based solutions like S/4HANA. Emphasize the benefits of having a clean core, such as improved efficiency, accuracy, and adaptability. Dimensions of a Clean Core: Break down the five core dimensions of a clean core, including data cleanliness, composable approach, extensions, integration, and operational efficiency. Explain how each dimension contributes to the overall cleanliness and effectiveness of the core ERP system. First Steps in Moving to the Cloud: Explore the initial steps organizations should take when transitioning to the cloud, focusing on foundational work related to data management and governance. Highlight the importance of assessing existing data challenges and developing a strategy for data migration and quality improvement. Outcome-Driven Data Strategy: Stress the significance of adopting an outcome-driven data strategy before embarking on migration projects. Provide examples of business objectives, such as compliance, customer experience enhancement, or process optimization, and illustrate how these objectives inform the data strategy. Source Data Assessments and Data Quality Improvements: Discuss the importance of conducting source data assessments to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and data quality issues. Explain how these assessments serve as a foundation for data quality improvements and help organizations avoid pitfalls during migration and implementation. Techniques for Keeping Data Clean: Explore techniques and tools for maintaining data cleanliness, including accurate data capture, enrichment, and ongoing governance. Highlight solutions like SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) and data quality management micro-services for ensuring data integrity and accuracy. Change Management in Master Data Governance: Address the organizational change management aspect of implementing master data governance solutions. Discuss the need for training, stakeholder engagement, and establishing data governance councils and stewardship roles to ensure successful adoption and maintenance of clean data practices.

SAP experts discuss best practices and practical approaches for migrating data and master data management with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP experts discuss best practices and practical approaches for migrating data and master data management with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform. Speakers: Randy Connelly - Global Data Governance Practice Lead, Syniti Bill Todd - Principal Solutions Advisor, SAP Terry Penner - Marketing and Solutions, SAP BTP Part 1: Data Migration Key challenges Best practices for system conversion Best practices for selective data transition Best practices for new implementations Data migration tool options  Part 2: Master Data Management Challenges and priorities Efficiently working with master data  Part 3: Clean Core Data management and clean core Getting started with data migration to S/4HANA Learn more at: SAP BTP for RISE with SAP RISE with SAP SAP S/4HANA Extensions and Clean Core Best Practices SAP Advanced Data Migration and Management Tool SAP Master Data Governance

Hear from SAP Gold partner, AG Consultancy and Apps, on their continued delivery of successful customer engagements and technical and commercial expertise in the enterprise application development and automation space. Discover the community RPA bots created by AG and how Enterprise Automation from SAP can elevate your existing app and automation investments. Speakers: Nick Champion - Co-Founder & Director, AG Consultancy and Apps Rahul Kumar - Technical Solution Lead, AG Consultancy and Apps John Luu - Product Marketing Manager, SAP Build Process Automation Additional Resources: Learn more about Enterprise Automation Check out AG's SAP Build implementation and support services Browse the partner-built community bots Topics Include: Overview of AG Consultancy & Apps Customer Trends and Challenges The Role of SAP Build Taking Automation to the Next Level Third-Party Connectivity Development of Automation Bots        

While companies know that managing their data is essential, it can also be tough – and technology is not necessarily the hardest part, it is the people and the process. Join, Maria Villar, Head of North America Data Strategy and Transformation at SAP, and Vinny Maurici, Vice President of Data Engineering at Object Edge as they discuss current challenges companies experience when developing a data strategy and an approach to developing one that is outcome-driven.   Host: Corrie Birkeness Speakers: Maria Villar – Head of North America Data Strategy and Transformation Vinny Maurici - Vice President of Data Engineering at Object Edge   Additional Resources: SAP Enterprise Data Strategy Master Class: https://bit.ly/4abjwB1 SAP Enterprise Data Strategy Workbook: https://bit.ly/4ausB8v SAP solutions for Data & Analytics: https://bit.ly/3IDy9kS   Discussion Highlights: Overview of Data Strategy Challenges Business Outcome Focus in Data Strategy Foundations of Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Governance Agile Data Governance and Leadership Executive Support and Organizational Capabilities The importance of aligning data strategy with business outcomes Modernizing MDM and data governance practices Securing executive support for effective data transformation

Learn about Carhartt and their journey to modernize their integration solutions. Hear how they leveraged the SAP Migration Factory program to assess their migration from SAP Process Orchestration/Integration to SAP Integration Suite, their migration off the SAP Business Technology Platform, Neo environment and plans for the future.  Speakers: Saravanan Subramanian – EAI Architect, Carhartt Sri Pedamallu – SAP Global Center of Excellence Executive, Carhartt Arti Gopalan – Director of Product Management, SAP Integration Suite Ryan Champlin – Sr. Director Solution Management, SAP Integration Suite     Additional Resources: Modernize Your Integration Landscape Virtual Summit https://bit.ly/3S8UUmM The Integration Scoop Podcast About Carhartt: Carhartt, founded in 1889 by Hamilton Carhartt, has a 135-year legacy of building rugged products to serve and protect hardworking individuals. With 6,000 employees across the United States and Mexico, Carhartt operates in three business units: Wholesale, Direct-to-Consumer, and Corporate Gear. Product lines include apparel for men, women, and kids, distributed through major partners like Sporting Goods, Tractor Supply, and Home Depot. Digital Transformation Journey: Carhartt's journey started with the integration of S4, followed by the transition to SAP Commerce Cloud and the introduction of the SAP Integration Suite. Currently focusing on implementing best practices and establishing a Center of Excellence. Challenges and Decision-Making: Carhartt faced challenges in modernizing its integration layer after adopting S4 and SAP Commerce Cloud. Choosing the SAP Integration Suite was based on its seamless fit into the SAP landscape, minimizing training concerns, and streamlining system synergy. The API strategy is a key component, enabling integration between cloud and on-premises systems, SAP and non-SAP systems. Working with SAP: Carhartt's experience with SAP has been positive, especially during the migration of multiple interfaces. The transition to the Integration Suite resulted in quicker development times and smooth collaboration with the SAP team. The migration to Integration Suite was guided by SAP's Migration Factory, ensuring a structured and efficient process. Future Steps: Carhartt is gearing up to migrate PO interfaces into the cloud integration, with a focus on API management. Plans include migrating around 200+ interfaces in batches and implementing advanced API management for their evolving needs. Conclusion: The next year for Carhartt involves establishing API management, building on the foundation laid during the PIPO migration. SAP offers dedicated resources for migration scenarios, and if you're not using Integration Suite, access it through the Business Technology Platform free tier. Subscribe and Stay Updated: Enjoyed the podcast? Check out the Let’s Talk Data website for more links and information. Don't miss the next episode of the Integration Scoop - Subscribe or Follow today!        

Terry Penner and Jürgen Butsmann discuss the AI priorities, practical applications, and key use cases for SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP Speakers:                                                                                                                      Jürgen Butsmann – Director Solutions Management SAP S/4HANA, SAP SE.        Terry Penner - Marketing and Solutions, SAP Business Technology Platform Call to Action: Learn more about SAP BTP for S/4HANA and RISE at SAP BTP for S/4HANA

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are facing unprecedented challenges in managing their finances effectively. Whether it's optimizing budgets, forecasting cash flows, or analyzing complex financial data, change in working capital requirement the demand for accurate and timely insights has never been greater. To address these challenges, learn how Aumento Technologies has leveraged SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere in ‘FINVERSE’, a pre-built solution that businesses can implement to reduce development time, data logic errors, and saves valuable time, allowing finance teams to focus on strategic initiatives.   Speakers: Kavan Shah – CEO & CTO, Aumento Technologies  Megan Hoy – Solution Manager, SAP Analytics Cloud  CTA’s: Learn more about Aumento Technologies: https://www.aumentotec.com/  Visit the SAP Community for more details on SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere business content:    SAP Analytics Cloud Business Content   SAP Datasphere Business Content 

Increasingly, sustainability is a top priority for companies worldwide. But many organizations struggle with how to enact their vision and achieve meaningful impact. In this podcast, experts will discuss the importance of data and analytics solutions to sustainability success. You’ll hear from Emily Penn, a sustainability activist, about her journey and how gathering the right data can make a big difference in her efforts to reduce plastic waste. She’ll be joined by Ragunath Ramanathan, Chief Revenue Officer for SAP Business Technology Platform, who explains how technology can help companies harness data across their supply chain to reduce their carbon footprint and achieve their sustainability ambitions. Speakers: Emily Penn, Sustainability Activist Ragunath Ramanathan, Chief Revenue Office for SAP Business Technology Platform Stefanie Kruijen, SAP Sustainability Partner Ecosystems Success Lead Show Notes: For more information on how technology can help you in your Sustainability strategy, visit the SAP Sustainability website or explore our Sustainability Navigator.  Also, learn how you can get started on a data and analytics strategy, visit the SAP Business Technology Platform website.

Join Dr. Thomas C. Redman, aka “the Data Doc” President of Data Quality Solutions, and Kim Huth-Ziegler and Autumn Moss from the Global Product and Solution marketing team as they discuss an article written by Tom Redman titled “Bad Data is Sapping Your Teams Productivity”   The original article, published in Nov 2022 , explores how data quality hasn’t kept up with the current pace of business. Data quality is costing businesses not only time and money but is also contributing to the growing problem of distrust in business operations leading to increased customer frustration. Many managers in today’s business are seeking to obtain all of the data, when in reality they are given a set of incomplete or bad data leaving them to manage “by the seat of their pants.” In this podcast, we will explore the root of the problem and ways to overcome it, which may not be as hard as it seems.   Speakers:                                                                                                                      Thomas C. Redman, Ph.D., the Data Doc, President Data Quality Solutions.              Kim Huth- Ziegler Solutions & Product Marketing Senior Specialist – BTP (SAP)          Autumn Moss Data Management | Business Technology Platform (BTP) Global Solution Marketing Manager (SAP) CTA’s:  Originally posted in the Harvard Business review:  https://blogs.sap.com/2023/05/25/can-your-data-be-trusted/  https://blogs.sap.com/2023/05/25/bad-data-is-sapping-your-teams-productivity/ 

For over 50 years, Jabil has been constantly innovating to fulfill its mission to become one of the most technologically advanced manufacturing solutions providers in the world. Customers depend on Jabil for everything from product design and engineering, through volume, manufacturing, assembly, quality testing, procurement, and logistics, which is why this company has undergone a massive digital transformation. Moving to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. My guest in this episode is Cindy Kendall, IT Director at Jabil as she gives us a glimpse into this giant transformation. Speakers: Cindy Kendall, IT Director - Jabil                                                                                          Jennifer Frank McGrory, SAP S/4HANA Go-to-Market Lead in North America  Additional Resources: Jabil IT Services - https://bit.ly/3QuFus5 Value Exploration Workshop - a hands-on gamified SAP S/4HANA Cloud simulation experience. Catch the last workshop for 2024:  https://events.sap.com/us/sapclouderpsimulation/en/home 5 Minutes with....Glen Moffatt on The Renaissance of ERP: https://bit.ly/3Eeefvr SAP has a Cloud solution for every organization, learn more: https://bit.ly/3NOkoln

In just under 8 minutes, Rachel Ballard, Forrester TEI Consultant, shares why 16,000+ customers saw a 278% return on investment over three years from connecting their applications with SAP’s Integration Platform as-a Service (iPaas) solution to automate their business processes. Hear about the business impact of cloud-based integration and the latest market trends.   Speaker: Rachel Ballard, Forrester Total Economic (TEI) Consultant  Calls to action: The Integration Scoop Access Your Integration Space SAP Integration Suite Self-Guided Demo Customer Stories SAP Integration Suite Capabilities SAP Integration Community Request a Demo  

Now more than ever, integration is the key to solving fundamental business challenges and being able to innovate to stay ahead. What solution you adopt and the integration strategies you put to work are keys to a future-proof and connected business. Listen in as Emily Mui, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at SAP, and Raghu Ramanathan, Chief Revenue Office at SAP, talk about the necessity for a comprehensive integration solution, real world customer success stories, and the business and technological value that SAP Integration Suite brings to our customers. Speakers: Raghu Ramanathan – Chief Revenue Officer, SAP Emily Mui – Sr. Director, Product Marketing, SAP Calls to action: The Integration Scoop Access Your Integration Space SAP Integration Suite Self-Guided Demo Customer Stories SAP Integration Suite Capabilities SAP Integration Community Request a Demo  

As customer demands and operational needs increase while talent resources continue to fall short, businesses need a way to innovate faster with less. Take charge and jumpstart your automation projects with a new starter pack of SAP Build Process Automation in the public edition of SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Join Angela Harvey, Vivian Wang, and John Luu in this episode to learn about the product features and content. Speakers: Angela Harvey | Marketing and Solution Management, SAP Build Process Automation                Vivian Wang | Solution Management, SAP S/4HANA Cloud                                                              John Luu | Product Marketing, SAP Build Process Automation The new starter pack is a great way to start your automation journey and improve the processes that are already running. Learn more through the following resources: Learn how to provision your automation starter pack Watch a click-through demo of an invoicing scenario for SAP S/4HANA Check out the e-book to explore top automation use cases One-page summary on the starter pack  Explore: SAP Product Page | Product Demo | Use Case Repository  Stay up to date with SAP Build: Sign up for SAP Builders Newsletter

Accuray is in the business of developing, manufacturing, and selling medical devices. But they are ultimately in the business of saving lives. “What we do is that critical,” says GS Jha, Global Chief Information Officer at Accuray. Learn more about this ambitious company’s critical need to select a solution that is digital, scalable, reliable, and highly secure. One that provides real-time insights and keep competitive. Listen in to hear how implementing SAP S/4HANA will enable this global organization to keep pace with its goal to make cancer treatments shorter and safer so patients can live longer.  Speakers: GS Jha, Global Chief Information Officer - Accuray Jennifer Frank McGrory, SAP S/4HANA Go-to-Market Lead in North America  Additional Resources: Value Exploration Workshop - a hands-on gamified SAP S/4HANA Cloud simulation experience. Catch the last workshop for 2024:  https://events.sap.com/us/sapclouderpsimulation/en/home 5 Minutes with....Glen Moffatt on The Renaissance of ERP: https://bit.ly/3Eeefvr SAP has a Cloud solution for every organization, learn more: https://bit.ly/3NOkoln

In this episode, Prasanna Mahalingam shares some insights on Wipro’s pre-built content for SAP Build Process Automation and how it helps customers with hundreds of day-to-day business operations. Hear how these “pre-built automation bots” are conceived, what process automation means for our SAP partner, and how Wipro is building BTP extensions for customers across industries.  Speakers: Prasanna Mahalingam  - Practice Director, Digital Innovation Team John Luu - Product Marketing Manager, SAP Build Process Automation CTA's: https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/process-automation/features.html https://www.wipro.com/    

Adaptability, flexibility and speed was the name of this race for Mercedes-EQ Formula E Race team as they waved the checkered flag on a successful 13 week implementation.  Hear how SAP S/4HANA Cloud enabled Mercedes’ race team users to have access from all around the world.  The real-time system data has proven to be intuitive and flexible for all no matter what level of user.  This is vital keys to success as they look to the future growth of the team. Speakers: Ian James, Team Principal - Mercedes-EQ Formula E Race Team Jennifer Frank McGrory, SAP S/4HANA Go-to-Market Lead in North America  Additional Resources: Value Exploration Workshop - a hands-on gamified SAP S/4HANA Cloud simulation experience. Catch the last workshop for 2024:  https://events.sap.com/us/sapclouderpsimulation/en/home 5 Minutes with....Glen Moffatt on The Renaissance of ERP: https://bit.ly/3Eeefvr SAP has a Cloud solution for every organization, learn more: https://bit.ly/3NOkoln  

In this podcast episode, Ari Levin from Accenture joins Camilla Dahlen from SAP to discuss the a multi-system landscape HR professionals typically manage nowadays. They talk over the need to be more efficient and effective in when running run their SAP ERP HCM systems, minimizing risk, whilst allowing to adopt next-generation software solutions in the cloud. Listen to this Podcast to see ways and options to manage and maximize your data. Speakers: Ari R. Levin: Global Professional Services Lead, Accenture Camilla Dahlen: GVP BTP Ecosystem Monetization, Partner Ecosystem Success, SAP Additional Resources: SAP BTP for HR: http://bit.ly/3k1e3bB Discover Center: http://bit.ly/3YVipzP Accenture and SAP BTP: http://bit.ly/3Ka2N7p Accenture Software for HCM : https://bit.ly/3XzSb4T

Join us to hear more about PwC’s global transformation and how their journey to implement SAP S/4HANA, public cloud edition around the globe has dramatically improved data quality, reduced carbon footprint, and has enabled them to spend more time with clients. My guest, Michael Rasch, Global SAP Partner Alliance will share the importance of preparing his organization’s partner firms to be “cloud ready” by starting the conversation early coupled with gaining clarity on what cloud means to them has been a crucial exercise in driving user adoption. Hear more about how this powerhouse of an organization is leveraging Signavio for process design and BTP for custom enhancements and development. Solid Governance body in place Speakers: Michael Rasch, Global SAP Partner Alliance Leader Jennifer Frank McGrory, SAP S/4HANA Go-to-Market Lead in North America  Additional Resources: Value Exploration Workshop - a hands-on gamified SAP S/4HANA Cloud simulation experience. Catch the last workshop for 2024:  https://events.sap.com/us/sapclouderpsimulation/en/home 5 Minutes with....Glen Moffatt on The Renaissance of ERP: https://bit.ly/3Eeefvr SAP has a Cloud solution for every organization, learn more: https://bit.ly/3NOkoln

Join Dr. Thomas C. Redman, “the Data Doc,” President of Data Quality Solutions, and Maria Villar, Enterprise Data Management & Data Strategy Innovator at SAP as they share their insights around Digital Transformation and their diagnosis to why, even through all the hype, digital transformation has failed to deliver. Speakers: Maria Villar, Enterprise Data Management and Data Strategy Innovator at SAP Dr. Thomas C. Redman, President Data Quality Solutions, aka "the Data Doc" Autumn Moss, Global Solutions Marketing Manager – Data Management | BTP at SAP Show Notes: The Data, Management, and Trust Issues Slowing Digital Transformation: https://bit.ly/3HoVib7 Q&A on Data, Management, and Trust Issues Slowing Digital Transformation: http://bit.ly/3R16NbV Aberdeen Report June 2022: https://bit.ly/3kB9k0m