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Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, join us for a brief recap episode as we wind down the July 4 holidays. We dive into critical topics covered on ASUG channels and highlight insights and advice offered by SAP leaders and customers.  Related Insights  Read our article about the SAP API policy updates Listen to our interview with Thomas Saueressig R ead SAP's API policy update FAQ  Liste...

Send us Fan Mail Managing the water supply of 9 million people between Orlando and the Florida Keys, the South Florida Water Management District is also a key player in restoring and protecting the Everglades. In order to manage the complex financial processes associated with this work and its status as a government entity, the organization implemented SAP S/4HANA. This week on ASUG Talks, we dive...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we answered your questions from the recent ASUG Community Conversation "SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference Highlights: AI, Roadmaps, and What’s Next" ( click here to watch the full replay ). Submitted by that event's attendees, the questions cover a wide variety of topics and concerns.  John Astill, SAP Architecture Advisor and one of...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing on the conversation started in an earlier episode focuses on setting the stage for effective change management strategy , AUSG Talks dives into how organizations should approach change management during a digital transformation project.  Key Insights Using a PACE framework Spurring confidence among eventual solution end users Lessons learned from a change management pro...

Send us Fan Mail On the final day of SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference, Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion, was joined by David Robinson, President of SAP North America. Following the litany of announcements SAP made at the event--including its vision for the "Autonomous Enterprise," the two touched on the path forward for SAP customers and how SAP professionals...

Send us Fan Mail In a live session at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference, Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion, was joined by SAP analysts Jon Reed and Joshua Greenbaum for a candid recording answer YOUR questions.  The three not only fielded inquiries submitted by conference attendees, but they also answered questions posed by audience members listening to their conversatio...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, SAP's chief customer officer joins the podcast, giving vital context to many of the announcements at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference along with SAP's new API policy.  Key Insights Context into SAP's API and ODP RFC Policies  The impact of SAP's newest acquisitions How SAP is helping its customer base prepare for its vision of...

Send us Fan Mail In Orlando last week at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference, SAP announced a new, AI-focused vision for its customer base. This week on ASUG Talks, Jim Lichtenwalter, Senior Podcast Producer and ASUG Talks Host, is joined by Isaac Feldberg, ASUG Senior Editor, to break down the event's announcements and put them in context for ASUG members.  Key Insights  What the new v...

Send us Fan Mail With SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference upon us, we dive into some of the key themes and announcements that are sure to be present at the event. This week on ASUG Talks, we'll not only touch on some vital SAP themes, but we'll also take a look at some recent ASUG content centered on those topics, and hear from SAP leaders.  Key Takeaways Details about the new SAP...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we learn how SAP is evolving its support options, leveraging agentic AI to ensure support is predictive and preventative. This approach further enables customers as they seek to maintain organizational flexibility and contend with ever-changing business dynamics and socioeconomic disruptions.  Key Insights SAP's support focuses in 2026 Specific exampl...

Send us Fan Mail SAP unveiled its Q1 2026 financial results last week, showing growth in key areas, including overall revenue and its cloud business. This week on ASUG Talks, Isaac Feldberg, ASUG Senior Editor, and SAP analysts Joshua Greenbaum and Jon Reed once again join the podcast to discuss what these results reveal.  Key Insights What growth areas mean for SAP customers CEO Christian Klein&a...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we dive deep into the evolving relationship between AI and enterprise architecture. As the technology becomes more widespread in enterprises, EAs are seeing AI change the their daily work and spur shifts in the way they approach their roles. On the podcast this week, we hear not only how AI can help EAs accomplish tasks, including SAP S/4HANA migration, bu...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we hear from the ASUG Content Team, who is currently hard at work finalizing the programming for SAP Sapphire and ASUG Annual Conference . They walk listeners through what they can expect from the conference sessions along with the ASUG Pre-Conference Seminars , kicking off May 11.  Key Insights How ASUG Pre-Conferene Seminars will help attendees make the...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, Jan Gilg rejoins the podcast. In conversation with Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion, Jan discusses how SAP is working to improve private cloud adoption, the value of faster innovation cycles, how SAP's AI strategy fits into its larger vision.  Key Insights How public cloud environments lead to future AI enablements Balancing cost p...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we go to the cloud. As SAP customers seek to embrace innovation to spur improved business processes, cloud environments are critical to that journey. SAP's Sanjay Kulkarni joins the podcast not only to articulate the central place cloud environments play in ERP innovation, but also to address ASUG members' specific concerns with handing their ent...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we dive into the ninth annual Pulse of the SAP Customer Research , honing in on three specific themes the research revealed.  Key Insights  ASUG Members' adoption of SAP S/4HANA Addressing the ASUG community's budget and pricing concerns  The importance of cybersecurity to ASUG members Related Insights Download the 2026 ASUG Pulse of the SAP Cust...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, SAP CEO Christian Klein joins Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO and Chief Community Champion, for a discussion about the ever-evolving place AI has in the SAP ecosystem, Christian's thoughts on current global business disruptions impacting SAP customers, and the future of SAP careers.  Key Insights The disconnect between the perception of AI and practical, real-w...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we air the first in a three-part series focused on change management. ASUG VP of Content, Patty Brown, is joined by two seasoned change management professionals who off their perspectives on how enterprises should jumpstart their OCM strategies to set a foundation for success further in the technology adoption process.  Key Insights The importance of kicki...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we learn how HP leveraged RISE with SAP to implement a single global SAP S/4HANA instance. Ramesh Gopinath, Senior Director of ERP and Workflow Platforms, joins the podcast to walk listeners throughout how the organization prioritized cross-organizational collaboration and managed critical systems downtime for maintenance during this digital transformation...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we talk with PepsiCo, as the organization is set to begin leveraging SAP Business Data Cloud. Prasad Suram and Venkat Nalabothu, two of the organization's IT leaders who are involved with the implementation, join the podcast to discuss their learnings, advice, and insights.  Key Insights The importance of SAP BDC to PepsiCo's IT goals  How the or...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion, sits down with the new SAP North America President, David Robinson. During their conversation, the two dive into David's background, responsibilities, and thoughts about IT innovation within the North American customer base.  Key Highlights How David is working to help customer obtain--and maintain...

Send us Fan Mail The ASUG Research team joins the podcast to break down its recent research project focused on change management . We dive into how members of the ASUG community are approaching change management, and the hurdles they are reporting when rolling these strategies out along side large scale digital transformation projects.  Key Insights The large volume of change management projects i...

Send us Fan Mail SAP announced its Q4 and full year 2025 financial results last week. Analysts Joshua Greenbaum and Jon Reed, along with ASUG Senior Editor Isaac Feldberg, join ASUG Talks to discuss their key takeaways and highlights from the financial results call.  Key Insights Why these reports matter to SAP customers More about the stock price drop triggered by missed cloud growth goals  How S...

Send us Fan Mail In the second part of our "Setting the Stage for AI" series, Anurag Barua and Paul Modderman join the podcast to follow up their advice from the previous episode for enterprises seeking to establish a solid, sound foundation for leveraging AI solutions.  Key Insights The importance of change management in enterprises' AI journeys Steps to overcome AI trust issues Ho...

Send us Fan Mail This week on ASUG Talks, we kick of the first in a two-part series focused on what critical steps organizations should take as they begin their AI journeys.  Anurag Barua and Paul Modderman return to the podcast after their episodes focused on agentic and generative AI to offer their insights on this critical first steps.  Key Insights How to approach budgeting  The importance of...