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What does it take to move a mainframe-based SAP core banking platform that touches around 40% of all money movements in the Australian economy onto a cloud‑enabled S/4HANA foundation, while the bank stays live? In this episode, Simon Davies, General Manager Core Banking at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, shares how his team replatformed CBA’s mission‑critical SAP core in 18 months across 50+ lines...

How do you run a 24x7, high‑volume e‑commerce business and still deliver a brownfield move to SAP S/4HANA, three upgrades, and continuous innovation without trashing clean core? In this episode, Sriram Rekapalli, Principal SAP Financials and Analytics at Vistaprint, shares how his team cut an ECC to S/4HANA conversion downtime to 18 hours during COVID, then built a three‑tier extensibility strateg...

Moving to cloud ERP does not mean you have outsourced security. In this episode, Gaurav Singh, Senior Manager SAP Security at Under Armour and co‑author of the bestseller “Cybersecurity for SAP,” explains why infrastructure and cloud security, shared responsibility and SAP Integration Suite should be top of mind for every SAP customer. He shares what he learned writing a 400‑plus‑page book on SAP...

When AI, analytics and SAP Joule collide with elite esports, what really changes in the locker room and on game day? In this episode, Team Liquid’s Senior Director of Sports Science and Analytics, Jesse Hart, shares how his team turns billions of in game data points into tiny performance edges that win championships. You will hear how SAP HANA, BTP and Joule let coaches self serve insights in real...

December 2027 is closer than it looks, and many SAP ERP teams are quietly realising they may not make the deadline. In this episode, SAPinsider Chief Research Officer Robert Holland shares what he is seeing in the data and in conversations with hundreds of SAP customers: why more than 90% are planning for private cloud, what all the new names (RISE, GROW, SAP Cloud ERP) actually mean in practice,...

What happens when a renewable energy company with 95+ entities, four disconnected finance systems and piles of spreadsheets decides to stand up SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud in just four months? In this episode, Tuan Tran, Head of Enterprise Solutions at Squadron Energy, shares how a non‑SAP IT leader led a greenfield public cloud ERP program under extreme time pressure to satisfy investors, replace “s...

What really separates leading finance, tax and GRC teams from everyone else in the SAP ecosystem? In this episode, SAPinsider Vice President and Research Analyst Susan Galberaith shares fresh research on organisational maturity, governed AI and why most organisations are still stuck at “level 3” without properly connecting data, processes and systems. She explains how CFOs, tax leaders and GRC pro...