Data Lab Dialogues

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.

In a conversation with Thomas Nørmark, head of innovation at NTT Data we discuss topics as diverse as metaverse, digital sensing, innovation processes, service-oriented architectures. Thomas gives examples on NTT Data innovation projects, including digital nose, digital farming and of course the digital human.

In a conversation with Gitte Kvist Hansen, Head of BI and Analytics at Lemvigh-Müller we learn how data is becoming the key asset for a wholesale company in a volatile business environment. We discuss how SAP BI solutions help bring the right data assets to the business for timely decision making. Gitte explains how Lemvigh-Müller has organized themselves for good BI governance using SAP BW and SAP HANA.

In a coffee corner conversation with Karl Kessler from SAP we discuss the benefits of ABAP and how ABAP is evolving in a cloud world. ABAP is still very useful and is being augmented for use in hybrid scenario where some workloads run in SAP S/4HANA and some in the Business technology platform. We discuss how ABAP consultants should prepare for the future.

In a conversation with Uwe Grigoleit from SAP we discuss the benefits of S/4HANA, options for cloud and the future of ERP. Uwe shares his advice for clients considering S/4HANA and explains how partners and clients can leverage their experience with SAP ECC (The biggest S/4HANA competitor by the way) to secure not just a successful S/4HANA implementation, but also realize the full business potential of S/4HANA.

In a coffee corner conversation with Tim Back, Chief Development Architect at SAP we learn how SAP approaches low/no-code tooling and how this fit into the overall SAP Architecture

Change Management is a challenging discipline. Overcoming the obstacles posed by the power of habit is no easy feat. In-application learning and process assistance can help simplify adoption of new solutions and ways of working. SAP’s enable now solution provide in application help and guidance including rich standard content, but also with the capability for developers, consultants and process owners to create their own content specific to their application, solution design or process implementation.

In a conversation with Ole Jedrzejczyk from Deloitte we discuss best practice S/4HANA project execution and some of the tools that help make project execution simpler and less risky. We learn what Application Lifecycle Management is all about and discuss solutions such as Solution Manager, Cloud ALM, Signavio and Deloitte advisory.

In a conversation with Tapan Kumar Dash from Maersk Technology we learn about some of the SAP initiatives under way at Maersk and how Maersk Finance transformation sets new standards for an SAP roll-out. We learn how IT and business collaborate to bring new solutions in production.

In a conversation with Peter Kreiner-Sasady, CTO at INVIXO we learn how application integration is becoming simpler and simpler. Peter takes us through SAP integration history and gives his perspective on the benefits of low/no-code tools. We discuss how event-based integration will change the way we think integration and learn how INVIXO add value to the SAP portfolio.

In a conversation with Michael Nielsen, Lead Infrastructure Manager at Velliv we learn how Velliv managed to establish an IT infrastructure from the ground up as they were divested from Nordea. Michael gives insights into their SAP landscape and explains how HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) was crucial to their establishment of an SAP landscape in a new setting. We learn how Michael and his colleague Troels (the 2 man SAP department) manages a complex SAP landscape spanning private cloud, public cloud and complex integration scenarios to the rest of the Velliv solution landscape.