SAP Experts Podcast
134 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsGetting the message, how things are done right, to a wide audience, through a new channel, by the right people.
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SAP Experts Podcast Episode 30: COVID-19 and beyond – CIO challenges and strategies 2020
April 20, 2020 13:01 - 33 minutes - 31.6 MBCOVID-19 took the world by complete surprise and turned it upside down. Most businesses are now in a tough struggle protecting employees, understanding the risks to their business, and managing the supply chain disruptions caused by the efforts to contain the spread of virus. While the full impact of this epidemic is hard to grasp, I am happy that our SAP CIO Florian Roth, whose main task now is not only to keep the lights on but navigate our foundation through these rough waters, took the t...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 29: Pulse Check – How SAP Customers act in times of COVID19
April 14, 2020 22:00 - 42 minutes - 39.8 MBWith the global economy dumping down the same rate that corona infections rise, it is not very easy to get a clear picture of the situation, neither for us individuals, nor for enterprises who are struggling to cope with the challenges and build resilience. When taking a look into media, you will find many opinions about the situation ranging from we are all doomed to “we are getting out of this with a black eye”. It is a good idea to take a look into the reality of SAP customers how they are...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 28: Value creation and crisis response for Private Equity
April 05, 2020 22:00 - 55 minutes - 51.7 MBThe coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is causing widespread concern and economic hardship for consumers, businesses and communities across the globe. PE enterprises are facing a situation in which they have multiple underlying companies with hundreds or thousands of employees looking for guidance and direction during this crisis. I sat together (virtually) with Sean Epstein, Senior Vice President Private Equity, SAP to discuss the actual situation for Private Equity firms, crisis response strat...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 27: The Do’s and Dont’s when approaching S/4HANA
March 28, 2020 23:00 - 41 minutes - 38.6 MBFive years after the initial release of S/4HANA it is interesting to see that still some are unsure about the Dos and Don’ts when approaching S/4HANA and this is not only about adopters, but I talk about partners, and ourselves at SAP and I am straight looking at Sales, Presales and Value Engineers. That’s why I sat together with Mr. William “Bill” Bowers, Global Vice President of the Solution Management S/4HANA at SAP to discuss not only the Top3 common mistakes made while approaching S/4HAN...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 26: Authentic Leadership
March 25, 2020 23:00 - 47 minutes - 44.5 MBNot only in a working relations, Leadership is a topic which affects anybody be if you are in the position to lead others, or others lead you. Even though we are talking mostly about enterprise applications in this podcast … and this industry, it is undisputed that the way key functions do their job probably affects enterprise success even more than bits and bytes. Leadership might be a hot discussed topic, leadership gurus like Simon Sinek might be omnipresent and whenever you see some share...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 25: The Top5 Best Practices of Best in Class S/4HANA Adopters
March 15, 2020 23:00 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBHaving the right mindset and principles at the beginning of a digital transformation initiative is vital to its success. Five years after the first release it has become obvious, that there are certain patterns of common principles that will determine the ease, speed and success of your Digital Core initiative. Or in other words: There are Best Practices that all those who implement SAP S/4HANA fast and with great success have in common: They Prioritize Core over Edge They separate Differenti...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 24: Entrepreneurship and the Future of User Interaction
March 08, 2020 23:00 - 53 minutes - 60.4 MBIn case you are working in a tech corporate environment and you have not founded the company you are working in, chances are that you have an almost romantic view about the life and work of entrepreneurs. I met with one of those at the office of his company in Munich who pass on safe and frequent salary checks for the sake of freedom and being able to do their own thing. It is Stephan Odoerfer, who is founder and managing director of 4tiitoo a tech company that is leading in enabling computer...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 23: The Future of Digital Supply Chain Management
March 01, 2020 23:00 - 37 minutes - 45.8 MBAround Christmas I sat together with Hans Thalbauer the SAP Senior Vice President responsible for Digital Supply Chain Management and Internet of Things and we had a conversation about what can we can expect logistically out of 2020 and what requirements possible events in 2020 could have on setup, performance and flexibility. We talked about how political events, natural disasters and pandemies are affecting the global supply chains and the business of enterprises. And what is happening now:...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 22: Are You Experienced?
February 23, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBToday’s guest is promising fun for several reasons: “Radio Personality become Customer Experience Expert" Steven Spears, who is Global Program Manager for SAP CX and also uses his skill from his former being as a radio star to create and host the "Future of Customer Engagement & Experience Podcast”. So what we did was to do something new. You can surely find a lot of interesting podcast resources covering the topic of experience management in a very competent way. But Steve and I dialed up on...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 21: Digitalize your Supply Chain!
February 10, 2020 07:39 - 44 minutes - 52 MBDigitalize your Supply Chain! – Peter Bickenbach Success, Best Practices and Strategies for your next level digital Supply Chain Management!
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 21: Digitalize your Supply Chain!
February 09, 2020 23:00 - 44 minutes - 52 MBToday we are talking about Logistics and Manufacturing also known in a wider sense as Supply Chain Management. For this it is great to have somebody here who knows his discipline from actually having had laid his hands on from a practical point because he started his professional life constructing huge diesel engines. Today he is the Solution Hub lead for Digital Supply Chain at SAP and a prominent face in meeting rooms and big stages of Supply Chain conferences alike. Since he is also an asp...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 20: Give Data Purpose!
January 26, 2020 23:00 - 31 minutes - 40.6 MBTen years ago, the highest valued companies had names like ExxonMobil, PetroChina, Petrobras and Royal Dutch Shell, 2020, things look bit different with names taking a prominent spot on the list that nobody thought about in 2010: Alphabet/Google, Facebook, Tencent, Amazon and Alibaba. Companies that don’t see their economic purpose in digging for oil. They are digging for data, which is the oil of the 21st century. I am pleased to welcome Dirk Häussermann, who is Senior Vice President and Hea...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 19: The Rise of SAP Analytics Cloud and Data Warehouse Cloud
January 19, 2020 23:00 - 44 minutes - 51.8 MBSecond part of my conversation with Ivo Bauermann about the principles and success factors of modern analytics solutions and specifically SAPs next gen solutions in that area which are the SAP Analytics Cloud and the Data Warehouse Cloud. Also we talk about the economic implications and success factors to bring all horsepower of these capabilities to the street to enable 100% insight to action. Part two of a two-part conversation. Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 18: We gonna need a bigger boat
January 12, 2020 23:00 - 52 minutes - 59.4 MB“… Be open, bring new and creative ideas and help us build the next version of SAP. Bring a new mindset and don’t comply … I would hope that everyone of us still has this young kid inside that says: Brake the rules!” Interesting records about “making the difference”, awesome messages and great storytelling at the SAP Experts Podcast Episode #18 by this week’s guest Ivo Bauermann, Senior Vice President and Head of Product Strategy - Database & Analytics, about what type of people and personali...
SAP Experts Podcast 17: The year of Artificial Intelligence
January 06, 2020 23:00 - 37 minutes - 45.7 MB2020 is going to be a very exciting year as many digitalization initiatives across all industries are full steam ahead. Early January is generally the time of the year when often questions are asked if there will be something like a determining topic for the next 12 months that will produce a lot of new capabilities and will have a big effect how enterprises do their business. If you ask Sven Denecken, who is kicking of this year at the SAP Experts Podcast and is Senior Vice President and Hea...
SAP Experts Podcast 16: SAP S/4HANA, Cloud and Projects
December 15, 2019 23:00 - 47 minutes - 54.5 MBBefore we go into Christmas break, we have not one guest but two guests for you. First, we welcome back for her second visit Ms. Saskia Fontanive of innovabee, who became prominent because of her successful high-speed S/4HANA Cloud implementations. And second, it’s great to have Mr. Jan Gilg who was responsible for the other extreme: The internal S/4HANA implementation at SAP. Additionally, Jan is now as Senior Vice President directly responsible for any S/4HANA related development, and repor...
SAP Experts Podcast 15: The World of Analytics
December 08, 2019 23:00 - 51 minutes - 48 MBLately there was some interesting story in tech news. For the third year in a row, the board of a Californian giant in the world of enterprise applications rejected a shareholder proposal for the company to release data about how much women are paid at the company relative to men. While many tech companies incl. SAP have provided disclosures around gender pay equity issues and committed to closing pay gaps, this one tech company has continued to refuse to do so because, as they stated, it wo...
SAP Experts Podcast 14: Neuroscience, Technology and Innovation
December 01, 2019 23:00 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MBToday’s episode is all about the tool you hopefully use most in your life. Your brain. My guest in this episode is Mark Raben, the CTO MEE at SAP who is heavily involved in Neuroscience to research how unartificial intelligence influences the way innovation is adopted and Mark and me will discuss how this Connection between a brain and innovation works and what is the recipe for excellence. We will tell you who will be the winner in an experience economy, how your job can get you busted at th...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 13: A day in the life of a CFO
November 24, 2019 23:00 - 37 minutes - 34.9 MBSAP Experts Podcast #13 - A day in the life of a CFO Guest: Dr. Carl-Christian von Weyhe Host: Alexander Greb Today I am humbled to welcome a man who is a master of his craft: Dr. Carl Christian von Weyhe who is Chief Financial Officer of SAP in Middle and Eastern Europe and a sought-after lecturer and speaker in matters of financial and strategic management. We talked about the rapidly changing role of a CFO and Corporate Finance Management, Finance Transformation from the view of a CFO an...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 12: Tangible Innovation
November 10, 2019 23:00 - 48 minutes - 55.7 MBBasically, turning people’s heads by talking about innovation is easy. Invent some fancy title for yourself which should ideally contain the words “Innovation”, “Digitalisation” or in the best case “Alchemist” and, very important, dress up like a hipster. That adds credibility. Then you look up youtube for the latest TED Talks and you will be able to reel off the fancy inventions and cloud castle and hope the whole linkedin community will cheer for you. Well, unfortunately at times it happens...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 11: The X (Data) Files
November 03, 2019 23:00 - 40 minutes - 48.4 MBIf you have not yet gotten the message that SAP has now something with an X, or Experience Data, you probably live behind the moon. So it is quite obvious that the experience topic has a big strategic relevance for SAP, and that’s not because we want it to be like that, but because winning in the 21st century means adapting to an experience economy where customer centric processes and the emotional connection of your customer to your products should not only be of utter importance for you, it...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 10: Build your case for S/4HANA
October 20, 2019 22:00 - 40 minutes - 38.2 MBIf you remember Episode 8 of our podcast series featuring the right approach to S/4HANA, Uwe Grigoleit told about the Viessmann case. Viessmann, an international manufacturer heating, industrial and refrigeration systems, had a quite clear case to move to S/4HANA. Inventory savings in two-digit millions as a result of an ERP transformation to S/4HANA made the path for a fast decision to do the Move. But of course, not in all cases, it is easy as that. Imagine a typical approach to S/4HANA. Wh...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 8: Spinoff
October 14, 2019 09:29 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MB“Project Intelligence Network” and “Predicting Asset Health and Avoiding Failure” with Mike Fecek and “The Cast”
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 9: Corporate Finance Digitalized!
October 13, 2019 22:01 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBToday we are talking Finance! Being a logistics guy, I want to know anything about Corporate Finance, its changing role, challenges, and strategic aspects. Especially financial transformation and which role digital technologies play in all of that. And to do exactely that I have one of the best people as guest for these questions: Christian Straub, Head of Customer Solution Advisory Finance in Middle & Eastern Europe. He is a trusted advisor and frequent guest in the CFO offices throughout E...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 8: Spinoff
October 13, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBWelcome to the SAP Experts Podcast -Spinoff. With this episode I want to introduce and add an new label and a little bit different piece and format to the SAP Experts Podcast which will co- exist with the future episodes of the classic format that you already and hopefully love by now. The reason: We at SAP have many different Podcasts which differ a lot in format, style, content and length. Many of them are purely internal podcasts, that are not available to the public. But from time to tim...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 7: The right approach to S/4HANA
October 06, 2019 22:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBFor this episode, I deliberately chose the same title as my linkedin-blog. Because if you are working in sales, presales, services or consulting no matter if here at SAP, one of our great partners or you are a customer, this episode is a must for you in which meet Uwe Grigoleit. As Senior Vice President he has the global responsibility for the Go-to-Market of S/4HANA, and Uwe has quite some messages for all of us. We talk about S/4HANA, strategy, readiness, value, the role of cloud, what are ...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 6: All about Digital Transformation
September 26, 2019 22:00 - 43 minutes - 40.8 MBIn highly disruptive times, Digitalization is the area where the main decisive actions concerning your business model, processes and infrastructure are taken. It is the main business battlefield of the 21st century in which your actions and decisions result in either being the disruptor of your industry or being out-disrupted into marginalization. But what does this mean for SAP, its partners and its customers? For this episode I have met with one of SAP’s key players in the area of product s...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 5: S/4HANA in 16 weeks!
September 12, 2019 22:00 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBDuring his keynote on Tuesday, SAP Germany CEO Daniel Holz will present the winners of this year‘s SAP Quality Award. One of the winners will be an S/4HANA customer project that shows how fast and smooth you can make the move to SAPs next generation ERP system. DEE I a fast-growing German manufacturer of clothing wanted to go to S/4HANa Cloud and with the help of SAP Partner innovabee they did just that. In 16 weeks. Yeah, not months, weeks! So let this be your new benchmark for your S/4HANA ...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 4: Innovation is inevitable
September 09, 2019 22:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBIn Episode 4, I have the pleasure to meet Glenn Gonzalez who is Chief Technical Officer of SAP Germany and the „Central Point of Contact“ and „Trusted Advisor“ for topics like „Digital Transformation“ and “Innovation” for our customers. When you have watched one of his inspiring key notes like those at SAP NOW in Berlin you know, many claim to be Innovation Leads, he is it and as such the perfect conversation partner for innovation topics. Whenever you have the possibility to see him talk, yo...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 3: SAP S/4HANA MOVE – Axel Vetter
August 22, 2019 07:06 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBSAP S/4HANA MOVE – Axel Vetter Guest: Axel Vetter Host: Alexander Greb
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 3: SAP S/4HANA MOVE – Axel Vetter
August 21, 2019 22:01 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBIn this episode, Alexander Greb meets Axel Vetter (Head of S/4HANA MOVE program) in Walldorf, where he is giving us not only interesting insights of the status of the S/4HANA adoption, but also on the S/4HANA MOVE program and what it does to support customers, partners and SAP employees. Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Axel on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axel-vetter-16a26b1a/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 2: Q&A Session on SAP S/4HANA with Stefan Batzdorf
August 21, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBStefan Batzdorf (Senior Practice Engagement Manager at Infosys Europe and former Head of S/4HANA Program at SAP) is returning for Episode 2 of the SAP Experts Podcast where we answer questions that were provided to us by YOU via our contact email [email protected] Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Stefan on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-batzdorf-6b4348ba/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at [email protected] Pleas...
SAP Experts Podcast Episode 1: Top 5 Reasons to go on SAP S/4HANA
August 20, 2019 22:00 - 38 minutes - 72.4 MBStefan Batzdorf is Senior Practice Engagement Manager at Infosys Europe and former Head of S/4HANA Program at SAP. With that and his shining personality he is not only able to discuss any subject with you at any level, he is the ideal guest for our first episode in which we will discuss the TOP 5 Reasons to go on SAP S/4HANA which are (in our opinion): #5: Future proven and cloud-ready architecture #4: Intelligent instead of transactional ERP #3: Best way for a complete IT-landscape moderniza...
SAP Experts Podcast Trailer
August 19, 2019 22:00 - 1 minute - 2.83 MB“Getting the message, how things are done right, to a wide audience, through a new channel, by the right people.” Strategic SAP S/4HANA advisor, Speaker and Thought Leader Alexander Greb has sat down with heavyweights from inside and outside the SAP ecosystem like product management SVPs, CTOs, Customer CIOs, and LoB Evangelists to bring you interviews, insights and discussions about all relevant Best Practices, topics and trends from the SAP universe that are relevant like Digitalization, In...