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. Kurt gives us examples of use cases and explain the zero-copy delta-sharing concept.

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 Merete Langseth and Hanne Wehnert we learn how Topsøe has taken a simple and very structured approach to identify the potential of AI in the business. We also learn how Topsøe manages the AI initiatives. We learn how it became clear that most initiatives would ultimately be realized using standard components from existing software vendors such as SAP and Microsoft.

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.