SAP Partner Podcast

Please welcome Dr. Feiyu Xu, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at SAP. Feiyu has in-depth knowledge and extensive experience in the areas of AI platform development, conversational AI, knowledge graphs, information extraction, business intelligence, and big-data text analytics. Through her various functions, she has obtained broad experience of the total cycle of innovation in her expert areas – ranging from basic research via AI development all the way to products and their commercialization. Before joining SAP, Feiyu was Head of AI Lab at Lenovo Research based in Beijing. In 2013, she won a Google Focused Research Award for her contribution in the field of natural language processing. Feiyu was selected by Forbes China 2019 to the List of Top 50 Women in Tech. At Global AI Application Product Expo 2019, she was honored as one of the Top 10 Persons of the year in Chinese Artificial Intelligence. More information and resources for SAP Partners: http://bit.ly/SAPPartnerPodcastMoreInfo

​​Please welcome Britta Fengler, Global Vice President, Partner Enablement Industry Cloud, checking in from Walldorf. More information and resources for SAP Partners: http://bit.ly/SAPPartnerPodcastMoreInfo

Please welcome Trilok Rajesh, Vice President, Global Head of Database Migration Factory Program as he is checking in from Vancouver, Canada. We will be talking to him about SAP HANA Cloud Migration. More information and resources for SAP Partner: http://bit.ly/SAPPartnerPodcastMoreInfo

Please welcome Hans Uebe, Global Head of Ecosystem Delivery Success at SAP. We reached Hans from his home office in Heidelberg and he shared an unexpected answer to our question on how ecosystem delivery success has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Please welcome Franz Hero, Head of Development SAP Digital Supply Chain. He is checking in from the beautiful city of Heidelberg, Germany. Join us as we explore the exciting world of Digital Supply Chain, Industry 4.0 with a special focus on the opportunities for partners in these areas.

Please welcome Steffen Burger, Global Head of Partner Enablement, SVP Global Partner Organization at SAP. We look back at the last 12 months for Partner Enablement in SAP and learn more about the accomplishments, the challenges and the direction going forward in these unusual times during a global pandemic. More information and resources for SAP Partners: http://bit.ly/SAPPartnerPodcastMoreInfo

Join us as we welcome Gary Erickson, VP Channel Digital Enablement. He comes from the world's second largest country, where bear spray isn't an uncommon companion on his hiking trips. We explore with him virtual learning from various angles, especially highlighting some of the valuable tools SAP Partners can benefit from.

Join us as we welcome Anne Yi, General Manager of SAP App Center checking in from beautiful San Francisco. Anne gives us a tour of the recently launched enhancements of SAP App Center as we celebrate the 3 year birthday of SAP's marketplace. More information and resources for SAP Partners: http://bit.ly/SAPPartnerPodcastMoreInfo

Travel with us “Back To The Future” as we welcome our special guest, Alexander Lingg, Senior Vice President and Head of SAP User Experience. A frontrunner for the Design and User Experience evolution at SAP, Alex is the best person for you to hear from on how you can bring a consistent and enjoyable SAP Fiori experience to all your users.

Join us as on this episode with Finn Backer, Global VP SAP Business One Unit at SAP. Finn enjoys mountain biking in a country that doesn’t have many mountains but is well known for its beautiful landscape, tulips and windmills. In this episode we will discover through examples how SAP Partners can become an Intelligent Enterprise by taking advantage of the resources offered for SME’s.

Join us as we welcome our special guest Rainer Zinow, SVP of Product Development Business One and Business ByDesign. Rainer takes us on a journey that starts 30 years ago with water-cooled mainframes and leads us into the present where we discuss the opportunities around the SAP Business Application Factory for SME’s. More information and resources for SAP Partners.

Join us as we welcome Christian Thisgaard, VP of SAP Platform and Technology, Global Partner Ecosystem. We will take you from mountain climbing, rescue missions to exploring outcome driven data strategies. Christian will share specific examples on how SAP Partners can unlock the data promise. More information and resources for SAP Partners.

Join us as we welcome our special guest Anja Schneider, SVP & Global Head of Customer Innovation , Technology & Innovation to discuss the Intelligent Enterprise in the experience economy as a field of action for SAP Partners. Learn how the Business Technology Platform strategy and a human-centered innovation approach strengthens partners’ argumentation to prospects and customers. For more details, please visit the SAP AppHaus website.

Join us as we explore Intelligent Technologies and IRPA (Intelligent Robotic Process Automation) with Mike Friday, Vice President, SAP Intelligent Enterprise Solutions and Ecosystems.

Join us as we explore the role Artificial Intelligence plays in the enterprise space. Please welcome our guest speaker David Judge, Vice President, SAP Intelligent Enterprise Solutions. For more information, visit the SAP Community.

Tune into exciting insights about SAP S/4HANA and how it helps drive innovation for your business. Our special guest speaker spent his early childhood years growing up in Peru and speaks perfect Spanish. The episode is of course brought to you in English. Joining in from Walldorf, Germany, please welcome on the show Sven Denecken, SVP, Head of Product Success and Co-Innovation for SAP S/4HANA. For more details, visit: sap.com/extends4, sap.com/s4 or select a trial account.

Learn more from our special guest Tom Janoshalmi, Chief Strategy Growth Officer of SAP Digital Business Services as we explore together with him what services and programs SAP Partners can take advantage of.

Both Alert Notification and Transport Management help DevOps personnel to provide and operate apps on SAP Cloud Platform, bringing enterprise-readiness and fostering an integrated experience.With this, they help SAP Cloud Platform to differentiate compared to other PaaS offerings. Join us as we explore this exciting topic with our guest speakers Kiril Gavrailov, Boris Zarske and Harald Stevens. Additional information: TechEd Learning Journey - https://bit.ly/2kjUTil, blog post about Transport Management - https://bit.ly/338rvx5, blog posts about Alert Notification - https://bit.ly/2GJwKK9

Tune in to our discussion on Analytics with Timo Elliott, VP, Global Innovation Evangelist for SAP. Timo is Passionate about Digital Transformation, Analytics, AI and ML. He has been with SAP for over 28 years, enjoys being a windsurfing instructor, ski rep, cartoonist and also holds a patent on mobile analytics.

Listen in as our hosts and Charles Bennett, SAP’s Cloud Channel Development Expert and a “returner” to SAP, talk about the 6 habits of a modern cloud business and how successful companies apply them. Learn what Charles’ favorite methodology is, and what advice he would give to partners and customers to increase cloud adoption. Check out the following links for more information: My Cloud Blueprint, openSAP Course on Digital Business Models

SAP IoT (Internet of Things) is a key enabler of the Intelligent Enterprise. This podcast features special guest Elvira Wallis, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the Internet of Things (IoT) at SAP.

On this episode we welcome our special SAP guests Neil McGovern, Senior Director of Product Marketing. Neil recently rocked a chili cook-off competition without ever having cooked one earlier. Listen into the discussion about a new SAP vision for strategic data management and the first product built on this new vision.

On our first episode, we welcome our special guests Ekaterina Kruse, Technical Partner Manager for SAP Cloud SDK and a passionate tango dancer, and Henning Heitkoetter, Product Owner of SAP Cloud SDK, who visited SAPPHIRE on crutches. Listen in as they discuss how to build intelligent enterprise extensions with SAP Cloud SDK. Useful links: Product page, Community update call, tutorial, Extending S/4HANA book, openSAP course

The SAP Partner Podcast is a new podcast series primarily for SAP Partners, but also available for SAP Customers and the general public. During each episode, we will bring in exciting speakers from SAP’s various teams as well as SAP Partners for an open discussion, sharing their own stories with you. We will discuss not only their successes but everyday challenges as well. You can expect to learn about general updates and get some useful hints for SAP Partners as we will be covering and connecting several product areas, relevant for a non-technical audience, just as for those with detailed SAP product knowledge.

The SAP Partner Podcast series is a brand new podcast series for SAP Partners to help navigate in the sometimes complex world of SAP technologies and provide general updates. It will cover topics SAP Partners should care about. Learn about the background of Max and Daniel and how they will try place the different topic areas on a virtual mindmap. The podcast will help you build your SAP knowledge through exciting stories and connecting the dots.