SAP Cloud Platform Podcast

In the April 2025 episode of SAP BTP Talk, we explore how existing and potential SAP partners can build, run, and integrate scalable full-stack cloud applications using the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) and adhering to the development recommendations set out in the SAP BTP Developer's Guide. We would touch upon including an ERP-agnostic design while you are developing the solution that lets you deliver your application as a side-by-side extension to consumers using any SAP solution, such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Business One, and SAP Business ByDesign.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Shabana Samsudheen, Senior Product Manager for SAP HANA Cloud. We're making a deep dive into the new Knowledge Graph engine of SAP HANA Cloud. Talking about what graphs are and what they're used for. Typical uses cases of graphs and how to use them in SAP HANA Cloud.

In the February 2025 episode of SAP BTP Talk, we explore how SAP accelerates enterprise automation with SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite offering a unique and comprehensive AI-powered solution to integrate applications, discover process inefficiencies, and automate processes across heterogeneous enterprise environments. Discover how SAP helps enterprises integrate everything, improve continuously, and automate completely.

In the January 2025 episode of SAP BTP Talk, we explore how SAP Build accelerates development and automation with low-code, pro-code, and generative AI tools. Discover how businesses can build cloud-ready extensions to maximize investments in cloud ERP and their application ecosystems.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, December 2024, we will talk about how Joule – the AI copilot from SAP – truly understands your business. And when this intelligence is infused in SAP BTP Cockpit, how it transforms productivity and the way your teams work. Host Gaurav Dey interviews Kishore Vivekanandan, a product lead at SAP BTP, discussing Joule's role in making BTP administration more efficient and user-friendly. Our conversation delves into the advancements in AI, particularly interactive AI in business applications, with a focus on the new features of SAP BTP and Joule's integration. We also touch upon the learnings that the development team had from the beta program and how those insights have shaped the product roadmap.

In this episode, Niklas Siemer will have a conversation with Gautham Krishna, Product Manager SAP Integration Suite, and Karsten Strothmann, Lead PM Event-Driven Integration, about the world. As we all know the world is event-driven, right? So, let's talk about what EDAs are, what use cases have made it to day-to-day life, and how Event-Driven Architecture can be applied to businesses to allow them to benefit from this game-changing approach.

In the 10th episode of SAP BTP Talk for 2024, we reflect on SAP TechEd, emphasizing innovation and collaboration highlighted by keynote speaker Mohamed Alam. The episode first discusses upcoming SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enhancements, including accessibility via SAP Managed Data Centers and the introduction of ABAP Cloud for efficient extension development. For the main topic, Gaurav Dey is joined by Holger Neuert, Chief Product Expert for SAP BTP Service Catalog and Estimator, to explore the SAP Business AI Catalog, focusing on how embedded AI can optimize processes. SAP customers now have access to the new SAP Business AI Feature Catalog in SAP Discovery Center, offering a centralized location to explore all AI features. The catalog provides details, visuals, benefits, resources, pricing, and value information for AI offerings within the cloud suite. This resource helps SAP customers identify the most valuable and suitable AI features for their specific SAP landscape. Additionally, a new AI Unit Estimator tool has been added to aid in understanding the AI Units required for different features. This discussion provides a holistic overview of how SAP Discovery Center embeds SAP Business AI capabilities along with SAP Business AI Feature Catalog and Estimator. Tune in to learn how these capabilities can help you solve real-time business challenges while making the cloud adoption journey easier.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Sonja Liénard, Head of SAP BTP ABAP. Together they will make a deep dive into ABAP Cloud and its relation to clean-core. The use of artificial intelligence-based capabilities for developers will completely influence the world how ABAP developers will work with ABAP Cloud and its ABAP Development Tools. We will talk about upcoming innovations like code explanation and code generation and their potential coming in the near and far future.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, August' 2024 we will talk about SAP BTP Security services portfolio and how enterprises can build applications securely and foster a security-first culture in everything they do. We will touch upon topics like secure user access and connectivity, permissions, communications, and encryption. Our expert will also discuss how compliance is adhered with SAP BTP Security services along with integration to SAP Cloud ALM.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, July 2024, we will talk about SAP Signavio Process Insights which runs on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) delivering data-driven insights into business processes and their usage based on data from one or more source systems. This service helps organizations to achieve business process excellence by helping to identify where processes can be improved, allowing users to drill down to understand root causes, and providing recommendations on how to improve. We would also touch upon how as a business user such as a process owner, change driver, transformation lead, or decision maker you can leverage this service to navigate through your business process transformation journey from insight to action & maximize process excellence.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Geoff Scott, CEO and Chief Community Champion of the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG). Together they will make a recap of the impression and announcements of SAP Sapphire and the ASUG Annual Conference. Geoff is sharing his top moments and his opinion on AI in business. To close the interview, Geoff give a little preview on the ASUG Tech Connect in November.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Geoff Scott, CEO and Chief Community Champion of the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG). Together they will make a recap of the impression and announcements of SAP Sapphire and the ASUG Annual Conference. Geoff is sharing his top moments and his opinion on AI in business. To close the interview, Geoff give a little preview on the ASUG Tech Connect in November.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Thom Valks, Partnership manager at Team Liquid. Together they will make an exploration into the world of Esports. They discuss typical Esports tournaments, the game League of Legends and the partnership between Team Liquid and SAP. Team Liquid is adopting technology from SAP BTP in various use cases. Thom will guide us through these scenarios and details and explain the benefits of working with huge amounts of data in Esports.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, April 2024, we will talk about the new addition made to the SAP Business AI family – ‘Generative AI Hub'. We will discuss: how does it fit into the overall SAP's Business AI portfolio, the main use cases where it fits for the Generative AI scenarios, and how is this different from other generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and others? We will also discuss how enterprises can Accelerate outcomes with instant access to top-rated foundation models from multiple providers. While preserving security and privacy they can supercharge mission-critical processes.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Thomas Hammer, Lead Product Manager for SAP HANA Cloud. Together they will dive into SAP's database as a service offering SAP HANA Cloud and focus on its new capability, the vector engine. You will get an understanding of what the new engine is, why it is important, use-cases and more.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Thomas Hammer, Lead Product Manager for SAP HANA Cloud. Together they will dive into SAP's database as a service offering SAP HANA Cloud and focus on its new capability, the vector engine. You will get an understanding of what the new engine is, why it is important, use-cases and more.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, February' 2024 we will talk about the new addition made to the SAP Integration Suite family ‘Edge Integration Cell' that was announced as Generally Available at TechEd last year. We will discuss how Edge Integration Cell offers a hybrid integration runtime which enables enterprises to manage APIs and run integration scenarios within their private landscapes. The Edge Integration Cell enables the processing of data within a private landscape. The cloud-based environment of SAP Integration Suite is utilized to design and monitor integration content.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Frank Jentsch, Product Lead of the SAP BTP, ABAP environment. You will hear about the SAP BTP, ABAP environment: What it is, use-case scenarios, it's evolution and more. Frank will explain whenever a company can benefit from using the SAP BTP, ABAP environment in their software development projects. Don't miss this episode when you are interested into the new cloud world alongside with ABAP.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, December' 2023 we will talk about the new announcement ‘SAP Build Code' that was made at TechEd 2023. We will discuss how SAP Build Code offers a turn-key environment for coding, testing, integrating, and managing Java and JavaScript application life cycles by bringing together key design and runtime services and tools in a single offering.

In this new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Raphael Schmitz, Chief Development Architect in SAP BTP Engineering, and Konstantin Heine, Product Manager for SAP Business Technology Platform. You will hear about the new released SAP BTP Guidance Framework: What it is, what the targeted personas are, the motivation for the creation and more. Konstantin and Raphael will give you a deep dive into the content for each persona including further details and recommendations. Don't miss this episode when you want to use SAP BTP with more guidance and help!

In this 100th episode of the SAP BTP Talk, host Hanna Salamon, Senior Product Communication Specialist for SAP BTP, welcomes Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Board Member at SAP SE, as their special guest. The episode covers the evolution of the podcast since its start in 2015, the role of SAP BTP in achieving business goals, BTP customer success stories, milestones, and latest advancements. We deep dive into the topic of Generative AI and its importance nowadays and share a preview of the upcoming SAP TechEd 2023, taking place on November 2-3 in Bangalore, India and virtually. Register today! Additionally, the three podcast hosts celebrate the anniversary together, looking back at the highlights, sharing their journey and experiences as well as a small “best of” 100 episodes.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, September' 2023 we will talk about how SAP is leveraging generative AI technologies into developing code and writing CAP applications. This conversation will highlight how SAP is integrating Large Language Models (LLM) into developer tools to generate CDS models for the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model. You will hear how developers are enabled to generate new code using CapGPT, whereby giving prompts they can Generate a CDS model and data for authors and books with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model in less than a minute.

In the new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Christian Fecht, Chief Product Owner of SAP BTP, Neo Environment. You will hear about the end-of-life announcement from SAP BTP Neo Environment, the impact on customers and SAP BTP itself. We will also make a small “time warp” into the history and evolution of SAP BTP. Christian will also explain what the motivation for sunsetting SAP BTP Neo environment was. We will sum up the interview with concrete action items for customers which implemented SAP BTP Neo environment.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, July' 2023 we will talk about Bringing together SAP systems and data with Google Cloud. This partnership unlocks entirely new opportunities for enterprises to derive more value from their full data footprints. This discussion will highlight how SAP enables enterprises to build an end-to-end data cloud that brings data from across the heterogenous data landscape using the SAP Datasphere together with Google's data cloud, so they can view their entire data in real time and maximize value from their SAP software and Google Cloud investments.

In the new episode Niklas Siemer, Product Specialist for SAP BTP, is talking to Steffen Pietsch, the Vice President, Head of SAP BTP Product Management. You will hear about SAP Sapphire which took place mid of May in Orlando and Barcelona. Together with Steffen Pietsch we will make a recap of these awesome events and hear about great new announcements, the atmosphere at the event and his personal experiences and impressions visiting the SAP Sapphire as Vice President, Head of SAP BTP Product Management. To enrich the episode, we will also dive into the customer story of the month and on top of that, you will learn about some of the road map items at the horizon of SAP BTP.

We are talking about roadmap items from SAP Business Application Studio and other SAP BTP services. Second, the customer story of the month and how they are using the SAP Business Application Studio. And last, the interview with lead product owner of the Business Application Studio.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, April' 2023 we will talk on how SAP Datasphere enables enterprises unleash the power of business data providing unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. We will also understand how SAP Datasphere enables access to authoritative data, enrich all data projects, simplify the data landscape, and provides a business data fabric for businesses.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, March' 2023 we will talk about some new additions & announcements made to SAP BTP services. We will also hear about how these BTP services are enabling businesses to turn data to value, predictive analytics to lower risk, increase efficiency, and cut costs.

In this episode, we discover how the new low-code solution SAP Build helps accelerate your development and automation goals and how you can create enterprise applications without code.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, January' 2023 we interact with the vice president for SAP Build Process Automation and hear how SAP Build Process Automation offers a simpler and faster way to automate business processes. We will also talk about how this business service helps in simplifying automation with drag-and-drop and AI capabilities, accelerating development using pre-built workflows, bots and connectors for SAP and non-SAP systems and also collaborate securely.

In this episode, we discover how SAP delivers ready-to-use AI built into your SAP applications and how you can tap into the power of AI on SAP BTP.

In this episode of SAP BTP Talk, November' 2022 we interact with content lead from central Product Management team for SAP Business Technology Platform. We will talk about how SAP TechEd, SAP's premier technical conference helped IT professionals to develop, implement, optimize, and upgrade SAP solutions. How it enabled developers, IT architects, engineers, system and database administrators, analysts, data modelers, and designers to master their SAP skills, network with experts, and learn about what's new from the SAP ecosystem.

In this episode we take you through the experience of building prototypes with SAP BTP in a cooperation of SAP, DFKI and Saarland University and a have fruitful discussion between SAP and Accenture about their long-standing partnership and how they bring value to customers using SAP Process Automation.

In this episode we talk about a standardized approach to integration and how you can accelerate your digital transformation and become an integrated intelligent enterprise.

In this episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, August' 2022 we engage with experts from Platform Adoption Advisory team for SAP Business Technology Platform. They will talk about how SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and FedML hyperscaler libraries for Azure can be leveraged for creating an end-to-end automated solution for ML experiments on hyperscalers without moving or duplicating data to the hyperscaler. We then go deeper into understanding how businesses using SAP Business Technology Platform services, such as SAP Data Warehouse Cloud helps them model data coming in from different sources. Then how FedML, uses SAP Data Warehouse Cloud's federation architecture to query the cloud data sources directly via the unified business layer and helps automate the training, building and deployment using only few lines of code.

In this episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, July' 2022 we engage with experts from SAP BTP Marketing & Solutions Organization and BTP foundation team. They will talk about how SAP Event Mesh enables asynchronous communication to reliably send and receive messages through applications, services, and systems using standard messaging protocols, exchange patterns, and principles. We then go deeper into understanding how businesses can experience greater agility and scalability when they create responsive applications that work independently and participate in event-driven business processes across the business ecosystem.

Learn how SAP Application Extension Methodology can support you by providing a structured, technology agnostic approach for customers and partners to define an organization specific extension strategy.

In this episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, May' 2022 we engage with experts from SAP & Microsoft. They will talk about how the automated deployment of SAP S/4HANA via SAP Cloud Appliance Library can be configured in minutes, and how it enables the customer to deploy and use the solution in the cloud in a few hours of technical runtime. We then go deeper into the aligned architecture of SAP and Microsoft that helps businesses to monitor lifecycle operations and orchestration capabilities. Together we simplify and improve the experience for our customers running SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure with the quick and easy approach of SAP Cloud Appliance Library.

SAP Graph is THE easy-to-use API of the Intelligent Enterprise. It provides an intuitive programming model that you can use to easily build new extensions and applications using SAP data.

In this episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, March' 2022 we deep dive into conversation with Development Architect from SAP BTP Runtimes & Core Stakeholder Engagement team, where we start with understanding the differences between Kyma and SAP BTP Kyma runtime. Then talking about how businesses can get the benefits if they build and run containerized business applications on Kubernetes. We also discuss what's new in the SAP BTP Kyma runtime and where we can learn more and get hands-on knowledge.

The SAP Process Automation solution is an AI-powered, intuitive, and no-code solution for Workflow Management and Robotic Process Automation that empowers citizen developers. Learn more about this new offering.

In the first episode of SAP Integration & Extension Talk, 2022 we deep dive into conversation with Product Experts from SAP Workflow Management service, where they start with giving insights into new capabilities added to the business service. Then they talk about how ‘SAP Workflow Management' leverages the concept of embedded intelligence and make end-to end business processes intelligent. They also discuss how workflow intelligence can be implemented into real time business scenarios and how they plan to augment it with new capabilities like multiclass classification and making significant enhancements in the area of process automation and hyper automation.

SAP TechEd 2021 took place completely virtually in November. It is the global event for developers, IT professionals and technical audiences to connect, share product knowledge and tech best practices.  In this episode podcast Host, Hanna Salamon – Senior Product Specialist for SAP Business Technology Platform, is talking to Cecilia Huergo and Rui Nogueira, who accompanied the audience through Channel 1 of SAP TechEd 2021. Together we will discuss the latest announcements, product innovations, community engagement and event highlights. Furthermore you will get an overview of session replays, recommendations and post SAP TechEd activities and content.

This episode comes with a goodbye interview with our well-known podcast host Manjunath Baburao talking to Hanna Salamon about the evolution of this podcast since the beginning in 2015. The second interview is about Operations Automation in the SAP Business Technology Platform environment.

1. Discover SAP TechEd Highlights 2. Learn how SAP provides a platform for aid requests during COVID-19 times in the cultural sector running on SAP Business Technology Platform.

This episode takes you through 2 interesting topics: 1. Delivery & Change Management on SAP BTP Cloud and hybrid environments and recommendations for developers. 2. SAP Business Technology Platform Free Tier and what you can expect from this offering.

We take you through the latest low-code/no-code product updates on SAP RPA and a fruitful discussion between SAP and EY AgilityWorks on their long-standing partnership and how they bring value to customers through latest innovations like hyperautomation.

Karin and Abhishek talk about purpose and importance of the BTP ABAP environment, importance of DevOps in the ABAP world, CI/CD options for customers working on S/4HANA and BTP ABAP environments and other change management options. Hosts & Guests: - Yun-Hsuan (Sandy) works at SAP as a senior product specialist, focusing on creating cohesive presentations, roadmaps, and platform stories to evangelize. She has supported the Greater China teams with expert knowledge transfer related to SAP Business Technology Platform and beyond - Abhishek Nath works as a product manager at SAP in the Cloud and Lifecycle Management area. He is responsible for DevOps and lifecycle management topics around SAP Cloud Platform, looking after the APJ region.​Together with colleagues from other areas, Abhishek is forging the overall DevOps story for SAP Cloud Platform. He has broad experience with system provisioning topics (spanning installation, system copy, and migration of SAP on-premise systems) and enterprise architecture. Abhishek is a regular speaker at SAP events, such as SAP TechEd, and various SAP partner events. He is also an Erickson-certified coach. - Karin Spiegel is a product expert in the Product Management team for Cloud and Lifecycle Management.​ Her main focus is on Git-enabled Change and Transport System (gCTS), as well as working on other topics a round transporting software.​ Links: - SAPPHIRE Newsguide: https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2021-06-sapphireinnovation-news/ - openSAP Course: https://open.sap.com/courses/btp1 - SAP DevOps Community: https://community.sap.com/topics/devops

This episode introduces the new SaaS solution SAP Landscape Management Cloud running on SAP Business Technology Platform and provides a discussion between SAP and IBM giving insights into their partnership and how they are using SAP Workflow Management.

​This episode focuses on the latest updates from the SAP Integration Suite area, on newly released adapters and pre-packaged content for non-SAP integration. Interviewer: Manjunath Baburao Guest: Shilpa Vij & Udo Paltzer, SAP Integration Suite Product Management Helpful links: SAP note 3001980 on new non-SAP connectivity options for SAP Integration Suite: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3001980 SAP Help Portal on connectivity options for SAP Integration Suite: https://help.sap.com/viewer/368c481cd6954bdfa5d0435479fd4eaf/Cloud/en-US/55325f2a722c4f67bb7752b369b09ff8.html Blog on new non-SAP connectivity options for SAP Integration Suite: https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/17/new-adapters-added-to-sap-cloud-integration/ SAP Influence Session for SAP Integration Suite: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/2282

Episode Highlights: Sheila Zelinger and Friederike Heyne discuss the new Pay-As-You-Go pricing model for SAP BTP. They explain what it is, what the differences are, when to use which pricing model and what to do if your needs expand while using Pay-As-You-Go. Host: Friederike Heyne – LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/friederike-heyne/ Guest: Sheila Zelinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheila-zelinger-870532/ Find out more about Pay-as-You-Go here: https://www.sap.com/germany/products/integration-suite/pricing.html Irina Kirilova and Abhishek Nath talk about the CI/CD story in the context of the SAP Business Technology Platform, with topics like ‘Getting started with CI/CD’, ‘SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery' and ‘Project Piper’. Host: Abhishek Nath: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhisheknat/ Guest: Irina Kirilova: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irina-kirilova-742a18119/ Find out more about the SAP DevOps Community here: https://community.sap.com/topics/devops