2023-04-28T10:00:00.000-04:00

SAP BTP Overview

The SAP Business Technology Platform is in the center of SAP’s strategy to support intelligent sustainable enterprises. During this session you will get an overview about the role of SAP BTP within SAP’s overall strategy and why it is an essential building block to achieve fully integrated and highly automated business processes. Learn which solution areas are covered by SAP BTP and about the benefits that can be achieved by building upon a business-centric technology platform. This session also gives guidance on how you can start the journey with BTP from a technical and on the available commercial models that support you with creating your individual BTP strategy.

Speaker: Arne Speck - Product Manager for SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Switzerland

The Universe of SAP Business Technology Platform in a Nutshell – SAP Discovery Center

Do you know what SAP Business Technology Platform offers to you? What use cases can be build with SAP BTP and what are its technical services?

The SAP Discovery Center with its Missions and Service Catalog is the easiest way to get those answers and go beyond: it also guides you through the implementation.

This session will show how you can best leverage the SAP Discovery Center. It will take you on a mission by walk you through a sample use case. You will learn which technical services are available and how you can use them to realize your specific needs with SAP BTP.

Speaker:  Nis Boy Naeve - Vice President SAP BTP Adoption Enablement

SAP BTP Governance

Fasten your seat belt and join the journey to understand how the platform center of excellence grew with the transformation from a small and centralized to a scalable and decentralized SAP BTP platform landscape. Get insights into how the IT group at SAP runs SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to deliver more than 500 applications running on SAP BTP from over 400 cloud developers. Hear best practices and understand how to find and apply them to your business.

Speaker: Jill Egel, IT-Technology Services, SAP SE

and Christian Loos, Product Manager SAP SE

SAP Integration Suite – Overview, recent innovation, road map

SAP Integration Suite is SAP's Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service for the integration of heterogeneous system landscapes. SAP Integration Suite supports the integration of APIs, processes, data and events. In this session you will learn more about the key capabilities, use cases, benefits, recent innovations and road map of SAP Integration Suite.

Speaker: Udo Paltzer - VP Product Management SAP Integration Suite SAP SE

SAP BTP AI: Artificial Intelligence with SAP Business Technology Platform

Attend this session to learn how to take advantage of the artificial intelligence offer in SAP BTP for your business.

Understand how to leverage existing AI services to boost your projects and how to create your own AI functions from scratch and deploy them in the SAP cloud environment.

Discover how SAP can make you successful in all parts of an AI project, from data management, to model lifecycle to highly performing inferencing.

Speaker: Pierpaolo Vezzosi i- AI solution management team for SAP BTP

SAP BTP: Analytics

Attend this session to get an overview of the key capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud and identify scenarios ideally suited for SAP Analytics Cloud within in your business. You will also get insights into the strategic directions and areas of investment related to Analytics in SAP BTP.

Finally, hear what’s on the horizon in terms of planned new features and functionality.

Speaker: Orla Cullen – Solution Manager for Planning and Analytics

Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) with SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud is SAP’s strategic solution for planning and analysis running on SAP BTP. With SAP Analytics Cloud customers can implement integrated planning processes across the whole enterprise. In this session, we will introduce the concept of Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) as a modern concept for running enterprise planning. In addition, we will demonstrate the powerful planning capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud and how the product can be used for xP&A.

Speaker:

• Chen Nee Faulhaber, Product Manager for SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP SE
• Nick Verhoeven - Solution manager Planning & Analytics SAP Netherlands

SAP Market Communication for Utilities

Join this session and see how SAP Market Communication for Utilities is leveraging SAP BTP services and capabilities, enabling utilities companies with an efficient and integrated solution to market communication needs.

With the industry cloud portfolio, SAP combines the power of SAP S/4HANA® and SAP Cloud Platform with Utilities cloud solutions to provide end-to-end vertical capabilities that deliver real business value.

Based on SAP's long-standing industry experience, SAP® Market Communication for Utilities is developed on the SAP Business Technology Platform. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Solution uses SAP BTP capabilities to provide legally required market communication for the German energy market.

Speaker: 

• Christoph Müller – Product Manager for Utilities at SAP IBSO
• Kai Merklein, Chief Development Architect at SAP
• Kai Erik Rupprecht, Development Architect at SAP

Application Operations

Get an overview of SAP BTP services and approaches that can help to reduce your efforts for operating your applications reliably on SAP BTP – standalone or as part of overarching Application Lifecycle Management processes. The following topics will be presented in a short overview (with the option to deep-dive in the following days and weeks in separate sessions):

• DevOps with SAP BTP – how you can use SAP BTP to lower the entry barrier for your development teams to benefit from more agile approaches in SAP enterprise environments, while being able to stick to existing operations processes
• Integration of SAP Cloud Transport Management into Application Lifecycle Management solutions
• Using alerting and technical ops automation for synthetic monitoring
• Monitoring, alerting and remediations on failed events in SAP Event Mesh

Speakers:

Boris Zarske, Product Manager, 
Harald Stevens, Product Manager, and 
Biser Simeonov , Technical Product Manager

Application Development with proCode Development ​

SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the foundation for the Intelligent Enterprise and provides a basis for high-performance applications in the cloud and on-premise for supporting companies in digital transformation and for extending the software used on a local platform in a convenient and agile way. In addition to running side-by-side on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), the developer extensibility model is now offered for extensions directly within SAP S/4HANA as well, both in the Cloud and on-prem. The aim is to give a short summary of what has happened so far in the Business Technology platform in the ABAP area and provide an outlook on what we continue to do at high speed in the S/4HANA stack.

Speaker: Dr. Safa Golrokh Bahoosh, Senior Product Specialist

Application Development with proCode Development ​

Speaker: Tim Back Chief Development Architect for SAP BTP

Platform Security: This presentation will provide an overview of the security functions and features of the SAP BTP platform. It will cover topics such as user authentication, access control, data encryption, and network security to ensure that sensitive information is protected while stored and processed in the cloud. Additionally, the presentation will discuss the various security certifications and audits that a cloud platform undergoes to maintain its security posture. The purpose of this presentation is to educate attendees on the measures taken to secure a cloud platform and to provide peace of mind for those considering the adoption of cloud services

Speaker: Jürgen Adolf  - Product manager of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) Security SAP SE

ISAM: The SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M) allows you to define and execute an enterprise integration strategy meeting current and future integration requirements. It includes integration use case patterns, architecture blueprints, and additional best practices for cloud and hybrid landscapes which can be applied along a well-defined adoption path. The Integration Assessment capability within SAP Integration Suite offers a tool-based approach for key parts ISA-M. It delivers SAP recommendations for choosing the right integration technology for a given integration scenario and can also help you to introduce integration governance across your organization.

Join this session to understand the concepts of ISA-M and to explore the Integration Assessment capability within SAP Integration Suite.

Speaker: Katrin von Ahsen, Chief Product Expert Intelligent Enterprise Technology

• Transform and modernize against 10-year old backend systems without re-coding, adopting an API-first strategy to deliver an amazing digital experience for customers
• Leverage the SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite to link SAP on premise, SAP Cloud Solutions, Workday, Salesforce, Dynamics, ServiceNow, AWS, and other third-party services
• Millions of Centrica customer use the website and app daily, making 5-7 million API calls per day through digital channels with <200 msec. response time, handling 40-50% of the total calls, increasing customer satisfaction

• Needed real-time game-day insights from several non-SAP stadium systems to deliver best attendee experience ParkHub, Micros, Fanatics, Weather, HappyOrNot, NFL, Sparkcentral, Twilio)
• Leveraged SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite, SAP HANA Service, and SAP Analytics Cloud to create the first venue Digital Boardroom based on aggregated data across all stadium systems
• Built out the “Executive Huddle” in just six months to improve customer experience and maximize revenue

• Bacardi needed to create a new Sales Force Automation Platform enabling sales employees to make their work more effective, providing an integrated system linked to all the markets, teams and 1200+ existing integration flows
• Implement a hybrid integration platform based on SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite to work with their existing SAP Process Orchestration system on premise
• Integration components were delivered in less than one month, while achieving new, reusable building blocks.  Low-level API aps were covered without requiring new development on the backend

• Created a Business Data and Integration Hub as the new core of their intelligent enterprise, enabling intelligent product configuration based on machine Learning, ad-hoc data science using SAP Data Intelligence, and intelligent B2B customer integrations
• With SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite, E+H integrates SAP and non-SAP (e.g. Salesforce) and enables a data-centric mindset
• Delivered greater customer satisfaction with intelligent product configuration, self-service analytics, and support for new business models like IIoT

• Natura, a global personal care cosmetics group, faced integrating SAP ERP with 3rd party Tax Solutions across ~1,800 cities each with their own local and municipal taxes.
• SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite gave Natura the ability to connect their SAP and non-SAP systems in real time to mobile-enable their workforce and be compliant with Brazil’s Nota Fiscal
• Natura has adopted a cloud-first and API-first integration strategy, and SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite is the solution they need to future-proof their business