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We discuss the first steps with HANA workloads, followed by full SAP landscapes. With SAP’s launch of the business Technology Platform on hyperscalers we learn how AWS enable BTP, by providing the necessary infrastructure services to enable the business services offered in BTP

Mik Risom Pedersen shares his experience with the Andel RISE roll-out. Andel is a large Danish utility company that has had multiple mergers and acquisitions in recent years, resulting in a very complex SAP landscape. The RISE project involved simplification of the landscape and a migration to SAP S/4HANA.

Mohan Kumar from SAP shares his perspective on the challenges facing organizations and professionals wishing to continuously innovate and adopt cutting edge technologies. Identifying your business capabilities, mapping out and optimizing your processes and execute on your visions require strong governance. We learn how The SAP Integrated Toolchain assist the enterprise architect and the business process owners in meeting the requirements of rapidly changing business environments.

In a conversation with Alina Yukhymenko from SAP, we learn the intricate details of building a business case to take your SAP workload to the cloud. In addition to the basics of hardware and migration cost, looking at opportunity costs and business value is also important, but indeed very hard numbers to calculate.

In a conversation with Jacob Lund from NTTData, we explore the topic of composability. What is a composable IT architecture? Why should you aim for composable applications and how does SAP fit in? What can partners do to help clients make the best of their SAP applications and to build the right enterprise architecture.

In a conversation with Simon Townson we explore the topic of composability. What is a composable IT architecture? Why should you aim for composable applications and how does SAP fit in?

In a conversation with Fredrik Borlie we explore the topic of composability. What is a composable IT architecture? Why should you aim for composable applications and how does SAP fit in?

In a conversation with Paul Wood and Robert Reuben we explore the ins and outs of archiving. Why does it matter, what’s the catch, how do you get started. As the amount of data increases and as workloads are moving to the cloud, archiving becomes ever more important. By ensuring that you only work on relevant data compute and storage costs can be reduced significantly. As SAP clients starts planning the upgrade from ECC to S/4HANA, reducing the data footprint can generate big savings. Up to 60% of the data volume can be archived prior to upgrade, making the upgrade simpler and the target landscape less expensive.

In a conversation with Fredrik Borlie we learn how Polestar managed to make full use of the offerings of SAP RISE by re-defining SAP ERP upgrade governance. At Polestar it is no longer a negotiation between IT and business when and how often their IT landscape is upgraded. Changing the entire organization to adopt a true cloud mindset has allowed Polestar to achieve shorter and more frequent upgrades. Thus realizing benefits of new innovations more frequently and much earlier than through traditional upgrade schemes.

In a conversation with Rahul Karnawat and Shabarish Nair from Tarento Group we discuss the ins and outs of cloud transformation from the perspective of integration. We discuss the key integration challenges facing businesses embarking on the cloud journey and learn how Tarentos tool set and methodology can help businesses simplify their integration landscape.

In a conversation with Jacob Roed from Grundfos we hear how Grundfos organize themselves around SAP application and integration development. We hear about S/4HANA upgrades, introduction of FIORI and other SAP BTP Services. Jacob shares his leadership philosophy and explains how Grundfos is attracting new talent to the SAP ecosystem.

In this episode we meet Ingo Pfeiffer who, after employments at SAP customers and SAP itself, nowadays is acting as independent consultant in the field of SAP Application Lifecycle Management. Besides discussing Ingos experiences related to S/4HANA projects and making use of SAP Solution Manager and Focused Build, the conversation scope broadens out to touch upon Enterprise Architecture, the awareness of ALM at the point of SAP-related investment decisions and of course SAP Cloud ALM as “new kid on the block” in SAP’s ALM portfolio.

In a conversation with Girish Gupta from Maersk we learn how Maersk leverages the SAP Analytics solution stack to increase financial transparency across multiple business areas. Girish explains how Maersk is organized around analytics, the analytics architecture and how Maersk has established a competency center to serve the business stakeholders with innovative, complex yet simple to use solutions at rapid pace.

In a conversation with Jan Hesthaven from KMD we learn how the first Danish public sector SAP solution was developed and launched as a pioneering Software as a Service deployment. KMD is a frontrunner using SAP, hosting SAP and delivering services and operations of SAP with the Danish municipalities. Jan explains the KMD history with SAP and how KMD and SAP collaborate to bring value to end users. Jan explain how KMD as a customer and partner leverage their connections in the SAP eco-system to get optimal value to their customers.

In a conversation with Greg Doukas and David Kargo from Trifork we learn how Trifork use SAP BTP platform to bring SAP Processes up close and personal to the end users. Greg and David explain with examples from their project with Royal Greenland how they go about innovating in close collaboration with the end users and business stakeholders. We learn about the ideation process, the development process and the release process.

In a conversation with Kristoffer Rohde, head of Solution Consulting Nordics at OpenText we discuss how organizations can add intelligence to information throughout SAP business processes with automation, efficiency and agility whilst being able to share information across business processes and enterprise applications in a controlled and compliant manner.

In a conversation with Ola Schlyter from E.ON Sweden we learn about mission critical IT operations in one of the most exciting places to be in the winter 22/23. Utilities, specifically electricity distribution. Ola explains how E.ON decided to test conversion of their 20 year old ECC to S/4HANA and how they organized themselves around the test migration and the migration itself. SAP ISU migration into S/4HANA.

On November 15 and 16, We teamed up in the SAP Copenhagen Experience Center. 25 customers and partners viewed SAPTechED 2022 together. Thomas Madsen and Karl Bergström summarize TechEd and the CxC event in this podcast episode.

In a conversation with Thomas Nørmark, head of innovation at NTT Data we discuss topics as diverse as metaverse, digital sensing, innovation processes, service-oriented architectures. Thomas gives examples on NTT Data innovation projects, including digital nose, digital farming and of course the digital human.

In a conversation with Gitte Kvist Hansen, Head of BI and Analytics at Lemvigh-Müller we learn how data is becoming the key asset for a wholesale company in a volatile business environment. We discuss how SAP BI solutions help bring the right data assets to the business for timely decision making. Gitte explains how Lemvigh-Müller has organized themselves for good BI governance using SAP BW and SAP HANA.

In a coffee corner conversation with Karl Kessler from SAP we discuss the benefits of ABAP and how ABAP is evolving in a cloud world. ABAP is still very useful and is being augmented for use in hybrid scenario where some workloads run in SAP S/4HANA and some in the Business technology platform. We discuss how ABAP consultants should prepare for the future.

In a conversation with Uwe Grigoleit from SAP we discuss the benefits of S/4HANA, options for cloud and the future of ERP. Uwe shares his advice for clients considering S/4HANA and explains how partners and clients can leverage their experience with SAP ECC (The biggest S/4HANA competitor by the way) to secure not just a successful S/4HANA implementation, but also realize the full business potential of S/4HANA.

In a coffee corner conversation with Tim Back, Chief Development Architect at SAP we learn how SAP approaches low/no-code tooling and how this fit into the overall SAP Architecture

Change Management is a challenging discipline. Overcoming the obstacles posed by the power of habit is no easy feat. In-application learning and process assistance can help simplify adoption of new solutions and ways of working. SAP’s enable now solution provide in application help and guidance including rich standard content, but also with the capability for developers, consultants and process owners to create their own content specific to their application, solution design or process implementation.

In a conversation with Ole Jedrzejczyk from Deloitte we discuss best practice S/4HANA project execution and some of the tools that help make project execution simpler and less risky. We learn what Application Lifecycle Management is all about and discuss solutions such as Solution Manager, Cloud ALM, Signavio and Deloitte advisory.

In a conversation with Tapan Kumar Dash from Maersk Technology we learn about some of the SAP initiatives under way at Maersk and how Maersk Finance transformation sets new standards for an SAP roll-out. We learn how IT and business collaborate to bring new solutions in production.

In a conversation with Peter Kreiner-Sasady, CTO at INVIXO we learn how application integration is becoming simpler and simpler. Peter takes us through SAP integration history and gives his perspective on the benefits of low/no-code tools. We discuss how event-based integration will change the way we think integration and learn how INVIXO add value to the SAP portfolio.

In a conversation with Michael Nielsen, Lead Infrastructure Manager at Velliv we learn how Velliv managed to establish an IT infrastructure from the ground up as they were divested from Nordea. Michael gives insights into their SAP landscape and explains how HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) was crucial to their establishment of an SAP landscape in a new setting. We learn how Michael and his colleague Troels (the 2 man SAP department) manages a complex SAP landscape spanning private cloud, public cloud and complex integration scenarios to the rest of the Velliv solution landscape.

In a conversation with Jacob Lund, Senior Director, Data & Analytics Transformation at NTT Data Business Solutions we learn how NTT can help businesses make sense of their data and how to architect your organization and system architecture in such a way as to reap the full benefit of data, whether they are structured or unstructured. Jacob explains the concept of the Data Fabric and gives us at SAP some feedback on the maturity of the SAP solutions in this context.

​ In a conversation with Joakim Frisberg, Head of Nordic SAP transformation at Accenture we learn how Accenture help businesses reap the benefits of digitalization early on by intelligently de-composing their legacy solution architecture into a mix of cloud offerings and intelligent deployment of value adding services from the SAP business Technology platform. And in doing this they prepare for the shift to SAP S/4HANA, thus making the move much simpler. Accenture call this Smart field (As opposed to green- and brownfield).

​In a conversation with Martin Verlande, SAP Technology Architect at Norsk Hydro we hear how Hydro adopts new technologies using shaping and safeguarding processes. At Norsk Hydro IT has set aside time to ensure that the maturity of new technology offerings is continuously explored, so that the right technologies are always ready to be adopted when the business need arise. Martin gives a thorough analysis of the SAP Business Technology Platform. What is hot and what is not. We also discuss the key value add of classic SAP in terms of structured CI/CD processes and end-to-end monitoring of business process execution.

​In a conversation with Mikael Walsted, Enterprise Architect at Salling group we hear about a pragmatic approach to enterprise architecture focused on value creation and an ambition to match IT-cost to realized value. But we also learn how Salling IT has been pro-active in their quest to establish a foundation for value creation well in advance of the idea creation. We discuss how the business is active participants in data management topics and how Salling has become truly data driven and what this means to the business.

​In a conversation with Christian Pedersen, CFO SAP Nordic we learn a few basics on being a CFO and running a finance organization. A few details on a day in the life of an SAP CFO is shared. We learn how and why SAP has transformed their Finance processes and organization in the past 5-10 years and how S/4HANA has accelerated the change. We discuss the benefits of data transparency and how access to real time reporting simplifies finance execution.

In a conversation with David Colgan from Deloitte we take the pulse of S/4HANA on the Danish market. We learn how the technical aspects of moving to S/4HANA has become so trivial that this is no longer a concern or risk. This means that we more often than not see businesses take on the additional challenge of implementing some sort of data driven business transformation as part of their S/4HANA project. We learn from David how Deloitte is a catalyst for such change. Hear David’s optimistic view on Danish business agility and readiness in the years to come.

In a conversation with Martin Börjesson from TetraPak we hear about the TetraPak approach to data management and how data is catalogued and exposed in a fashion that enable true democratization of data usage. Learn how TetraPak has established a culture of innovation through creation of lean “Minimum Viable Products” to augment their business processes with data driven solutions. Learn Martin’s take on “Data Management” and the TetraPak enterprise data strategy, a multi-year program for data enablement that seeks to instill a cross departmental awareness of the poser of data.

Thomas Hartmann fra ATP giver sit bud på god skik i en IT-organisation når det gælder rettidig omhu i planlægning af de forretningskritiske IT-systemer. Thomas beretter hvordan ATP har forandret en IT-organisation med klassiske halvårlige leverancer og en vis portion IT-teknisk gæld til en agil og forretningsorienteret sprint-baseret løsningsfabrik. Hør hvordan ATP benyttede S/4HANA til at simplificere adgang til nøgletal for finansfunktionen og dermed skabte grundlaget for simplere forretningsgange.

En samtale om Machine Learning med Frederik Bonde. Hvordan kommer man i gang med Machine learning? Hvordan organiserer man sig? Hvor og hvordan opstår idéerne? Hvor søger man hjælp? Frederik har prøvet det hele og giver sit bud…

En samtale om integration i SAP landskaber med Daniel Graversen, Mangeårig integrationsekspert og indehaver af FIGAF. SAP-landskaber bevæger sig lige så stille fra det monolitiske ERP-system hvor alle processer og applikationer udbydes fra centralt hold til et mere forskelligartet landskab hvor de brugervendte applikationer tilbydes i skyen både af SAP og af andre leverandører. Dermed øges integrationsudfordringen fra ”blot” at være overførsel af eksterne data til SAP og hovedbogen til nu også at være fra hovedbogen til alle interne og eksterne applikationer, der leverer procesunderstøttende funktionalitet og data. Hvad betyder det for integrationsspecialisten? Hør hvordan Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) giver nye muligheder men også udfordringer.

En samtale med Thomas Nørmark, Itelligence om etisk AI, Procesautomatisering, fremtiden for SAP-udviklere og applikationskonsulenter. Lidt om brugen af SAP løsninger til at skabe bedre bruger og kundeoplevelser