Data Lab Dialogues

In a conversation with Kurt Holst from Databricks we learn how Databricks and SAP Data Management applications are a match made in heaven. With the launch of BDC, it is now possible to share data to the leading Data Engineering and AI ops tool on the market – Databricks. We discuss what Databricks is all about and specifically why it makes sense to use data where without copying it too much around...

In a conversation with Benjamin Houttuin we learn some details on the AWS / SAP partnership to provide SAP cloud services globally. 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 offer...

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. Guests: Mik Risom Pedersen Solution Architect at Andel  40 years IT experience with 24...

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 p...

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. Guests: Alina Yukhymenko Alina’s main role at SAP is Value Advisory. In this role A...

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. Guests: Jacob Lund Jacob Orup Lund has worked within the SAP space since 1997,...

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? Guests: Simon Townson Simon is a Chief Enterprise Architect working with SAP products for close to 25 years.  Simon joined SAP in 2006 after several years for a major European systems integrator, working...

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? Guests: Fredrik Borlie Fredrik was certified as Basis Admin in December 1998. And he has since then always worked with SAP technical areas. Portal Security Development ChaRM SolMan Integrations BTP Fredrik loves t...

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 planni...

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 upgra...

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 upgra...

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. Guests: Rahul Karnawat , Founding Part...

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. Guest: Jakob Roed Jonstrup , IT manager and responsible for SAP &...

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,...

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 solution...

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....

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 pro...

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. Guest: Kristoffer Rohde, Head of Nordic P...

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 of 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 migrati...

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. Hosts: Thomas Madsen, Enterprise Architect & Head of SAP data Lab Copenhagen Karl Bergström, Enterprise Architect, SAP Denmark Enterprise Architect in the presale area....

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. Guest: Thomas Nørmark, Head of Innovation at NTT Data. In his role as Global Head of Inn...

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 SA...

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. Guest: Karl joined SAP back in the 90’s....

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 potenti...

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 Guest: Tim Back, Chief Development Architect – Business Technology Platform, SAP Show Notes: Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x2A49ivGGk https://www.sap.com/products/business-technology-platform/low-code.html Hos...