SAP Enterprise Architect Virtual Global Summit
March 1-3, 2022
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Paul Kurchina, SAP Community Evangelist; SAPinsider
Martin Mysyk, Enterprise Architect, SAP
Jeff Kavanaugh, Chief Learner and Sharer, Infosys Knowledge Institute
Global climate issues and the race to carbon neutrality have prioritized sustainability for both C-suite and front-line employees. Commerce and buildings are vital to this green future and fundamental to modern life, yet they fall short of their sustainable promise. The authors of the recent Amazon #1 book Practical Sustainability share findings from their research, and what it means for enterprise technology leaders. This session discusses a practical approach to sustainability, in three areas: circular commerce, smart spaces, and human experience – and how enterprise architects are critical to a sustainable future. Circular commerce converts traditional linear, extractive commercial models to regenerative ones that respect provenance and reimagine consumption. Smart spaces transform static, physical places into adaptable digital buildings, and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. All this, using applied systems design and digital twins while improving the human experience.
Joao Couto, Vice President for SAP Business Unit at Microsoft, Microsoft
According to Gartner, by 2023, 60% of organizations will depend on the Enterprise Architect role to lead the business approach to digital innovation. Join Joao Couto to learn about the Future of Intelligent Enterprise and how you, as a change agent, can drive the transformation for your organization, from strategic planning all to way to the implementation. Joao will also share the vision for the SAP & Microsoft partnership and the latest development including product integration, co-innovation, and best practices from customers and partners across industries and around the world.
Sebastian Steinhaeuser, Chief Strategy Officer, SAP
Never before has SAP’s combination of technology and expertise been more relevant for customers worldwide. Digital transformation has taken over every industry, and the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated it even further as businesses, supply chains and the way people work changed overnight. We clearly understand the current imperatives our customers are facing and are uniquely positioned to help. SAP’s systems touch millions of lives. We can enable the data economy with seamless, connected business processes for every organization. We can combine experience data and business process intelligence data to power the future of work. We can also affect the future of our climate and decent work through ethical, efficient, and circular supply chains powered by a network approach. We can help every company become an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. Join Sebastian Steinhaeuser, the SAP’s Chief Strategy Officer, to learn more about how SAP can enable your success.
Dr. Philipp Herzig, SVP, Head of Intelligent Enterprise & Cross Architecture, SAP Product Engineering, SAP
At SAP, we strive to enable companies to break down departmental silos and adopt dynamic, cross-functional business processes to deliver optimal experiences. That’s why a key part of SAP’s strategy is integrating end-to-end processes – spanning SAP, partner, or third-party solutions. Join Philipp Herzig, Head of Intelligent Enterprise & Cross Architecture in SAP Product Engineering, to hear more about what’s under the hood of SAP’s intelligent enterprise, explore how you can benefit from it, and deep dive into the underlying architecture.
Stefan Batzdorf, VP & CTO, SAP S/4HANA, SAP SE
Enterprise resource planning systems will soon augment human intelligence and become omnipresent companions to their users. But trust will be key.
A CEO is notified about a natural disaster impacting one of her major suppliers and is guided to another supplier in time to avert losses. A bridge failure triggers a transportation management system to autonomously calculate and implement a new route for freight delivery. A sales manager in a bidding war for a major deal is able to confidently tailor her company’s offer based on real-time insight into the cost of goods and target profit margin. Welcome aboard the ERP time machine.
Vaidya Aiver, CEO, Pillir
A recent market report showed that 92% of IT managers report difficulty finding enough talent, as they also struggle to hold onto existing talent in the face of fierce competition. This is a contributing factor to why 74% of companies that started modernizing their legacy IT systems never completed their projects.
At the same time, supply-chain costs are going up. The business units need IT organizations to quickly respond to the changing business needs, innovate, and bring new technologies and processes to business functions.
What can be done?
There is no one-solution-fits-all. In this presentation, the speaker will explore the possible paths to innovation and modernization including ABAP automated transformation, Pre-built tailor-made business applications, low-code/no-code platform and how it can all simplify complex SAP landscape.
Attendance of this presentation will get to explore:
- The different options you should consider to accelerate business improvements , cleaning SAP core and simplify S/4HANA migrations
- What to look for in a low-code/no-code solution and what role it can play in accelerating business improvements
- How enterprises can expedite business process modernization and innovation in the face of talent shortage and complex landscapes.
Ricardo Garcia Cavero, Principal Portfolio Architect, Red Hat
Automation is securing its place at the core of companies because of the high ROI it allows them to achieve and the peace of mind it confers by eliminating human error in repeatable processes. SAP landscapes can benefit of automation from Day 0 when they are deployed or migrated to different platforms (e.g. from on-premise to cloud) to Day 2 when they need to be managed and maintained. Red Hat provides a complete platform to apply automation at scale to the hosts running SAP workloads through their full lifecycle.
Corinne Reisert, Vice President-Head of SAP Roadmaps, SAP
Philipp Meyer, Solution Manager SAP Transformation Navigator, SAP
Use SAP Transformation Navigator to determine your individual product recommendation based on your current system landscape. Use pre-defined “Value Maps” outlining industry best practices to Identify whitespaces.
Vivek Bapat, SVP Marketing, Purpose and Sustainability Solutions, SAP
Sustainability has evolved into a core business topic. Now more than ever before Sustainability and Profitability are being discussed in the board room and C-Suite as key business differentiators and core growth drivers. How should business and technology leaders bring sustainability transformation initiatives into the mainstream functions of finance, supply chain, procurement and HR.
What can IT professionals do he simplify access to financial and operational data and insights that are foundational to the sustainability movement. How can they create technology architectures that infuse sustainability into their core business process and extend them into their value chains with minimum disruption?
This session shares common observations across industry and customer organizations that are at the leading edge of this change.
Paul Kurchina, SAP Community Evangelist; SAPinsider
Day 2: Agenda
Session Recordings For Day2 Now Available
Isabel Rodrigues, SAP Road Map Explorer Business Owner, SAP
Michael Loeckelt , Product Expert, SAP
Use SAP Road Map Explorer to explore the strategic direction of industries, products, and product clusters and dive into detailed product roadmaps.
Stefan Batzdorf, VP & CTO, SAP S/4HANA, SAP SE
SAP’s long-term goal is to both modernize and modularize the SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP to enable customers a composable ERP in the Public Cloud. It will be based both on a minimal ABAP Core and multiple cloud-native applications and services on the Business Technology Platform (BTP), yet highly integrated with each other based on common Kernel Services.
In this session, Stefan Batzdorf, CTO of SAP S/4HANA development will share with you first glimps of the Composable ERP strategy that SAP plans to pursue in the coming years to redefine the Public Cloud ERP.
Jim Sullivan, Head of Product Management, Sustainability, SAP
The future of business is profitable with a positive impact on people and the planet. SAP is working with technology companies, leading non-governmental organizations, management consulting firms, global systems integrators, sustainability ratings platforms and standard-setting organizations to understand sustainable business needs and build solutions to support them. Understand these sustainability solutions and the five steps you can take to help ensure sustainable business outcomes.
John Krakowski, Senior Product Manager – Application Lifecycle Management, SAP
Evan Stoddard, Senior Product Manager – Application Lifecycle Management, SAP
SAP provides multiple application lifecycle management (ALM) offerings for on-premise, hybrid, and cloud-centric solutions such as SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP Focused Run. Join us to explore the benefits and advantages of each offering. Understand how SAP Cloud ALM guides you successfully through the implementation and operation of your cloud-centric solutions to maximize their value at no additional cost. Obtain north star guidance and ask your important questions about which ALM offering fits best to your current solution and future strategy.
Andrew Binns, Director of the Boston-based Innovation Advisory Firm, Change Logic
Many believe corporations cannot innovate and that they should leave disruption to startups. Corporate Explorers are leaders who prove this view wrong by building disruptive new businesses inside established companies. Enterprise Architects are often their allies, sometimes their opponents, and perhaps also Corporate Explorers themselves.
John Gibson, SVP & Global Head, Platform and Technologies Centre of Excellence, SAP
Why Business Technology Platform? Why not just Technology Platform? How does this make a difference to the types of activities that SAP is doing with its customers?
The SAP BTP Centre of Excellence team have seen significant changes in the requests from customers in the last few years. Complex data architecture activities still happen but more and more we are seeing data architecture activities for specific business reasons. John Gibson, Global Head of the BTP COE team, will talk about some of these changes including the Architecture requirements for Sustainability, the blending of applications and platform and the need for continuous innovation.
Damien Johnson, Chief Architect – Global RISE Ecosystems, SAP
RISE with SAP is now ubiquitous within the SAP’verse. This session will provide an overview of what RISE with SAP delivers to the customers and how that impacts customers’ architecture designs and principles. Learn about key areas to focus within your RISE with SAP journey – from start to finish:
- Integration
- Security
- Legacy systems
- Transition planning
Dr. Gero Decker, Co-founder & CEO, Signavio & General Manager Business Process Intelligence, Signavo
Join Dr. Gero Decker, General Manager SAP Signavio, and learn how SAP Signavio helps companies transform in an ever-changing world. Get an overview on SAP Signavio’s product portfolio, capabilities and its model-driven approach.
Laz Uriza, Business & Sales Strategy Director – WW SAP on Azure Strategy Lead at Microsoft
More and more customers are transforming their business in the wake of the pandemic by modernizing their mission critical SAP systems on to the cloud. The key to driving innovation starts from choosing the right cloud and leveraging the rich portfolio of extended and innovative services available on the platform. In this session, you will get the full view of the unique offerings that Microsoft Cloud has to offer that will allow you to extend your SAP capabilities and accelerate innovation.
- Starting with the services you already use, you can seamlessly integrate SAP apps and data with Microsoft Teams and Office applications to improve collaboration and enhance user experience.
- You can further analyze data and generate predictive insights using Microsoft AI and ML solutions.
- Employees can easily access insights and make well informed decision using Power BI. You can further enable your stakeholders to modernize and simplify business processes by combining IoT and Edge services with AI and Digital Twins and by leveraging Microsoft Power Platform solutions.
- And above all make sure you are running your data in the safest and most sustainable Cloud in the industry
With Microsoft Cloud, the possibilities are endless. The speaker will walk through the key Extend & Innovate scenarios that can spark ideas for your organization.
David D’Aprile, VP of Product Marketing, Onapsis
Over the last few months, everywhere you turn, there’s another story about debilitating ransomware attacks on business-critical systems. The traditional lens through which we view ransomware attacks is no longer as effective as it used to be. And while the benefits of moving SAP systems to the cloud are numerous, the migration process is a massive undertaking and frequently means giving up control and visibility into infrastructure security, operations, maintenance.
Attend this webcast to learn how to best protect your most critical SAP systems from the looming threat of ransomware before you begin your migration to the cloud. Attendees will gain a better understanding of:
- Business-critical security considerations for the enterprise
- How one application misconfiguration or vulnerability could put an entire enterprise at risk
- The best way to address security and compliance in an interconnected environment
Kai Finck, SVP & Head of Industry Cloud Program, SAP
When SAP announced its Industry Cloud Strategy at SAPPHIRE 2020 it blazed the trail on how customers can drive innovation with industry next-practices while transforming with SAP S/4HANA in the cloud. Join Kai Finck, SVP & Head of Industry Cloud Program at SAP, to discover how SAP’s industry cloud solutions provide significant business value and the major role it plays within RISE with SAP.
Vasee Rayan, Senior Vice President, SAP
Introducing SAP Business Network, a cloud-based, multi-enterprise collaboration solution that provides efficiency, reliability, and intelligence to connect with all your trading partners to deliver what your business needs for continuity and growth.
Day 3: Agenda
Session Recordings For Day 3 Now Available
Konstantin Heine, SAP
Carsten Puschke, SAP
High-quality integration across functions and processes is the basis for any company to react with agility and speed to changing market conditions. Since SAP introduced distinct suite qualities that characterize SAP’s intelligent suite of seamlessly integrated applications, you’ll get an update how things evolved in the meantime. Further we will introduce the latest insights how SAP simplifies out-of-the box application integrations – and you will learn how to manage the increasing scope of integration practices within your company and how to map your integration use cases to SAP-recommended integration technologies by applying SAP’s Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M).
Wassilios Lolas, Global Vice President, Head of the Center of Excellence, Business Process Intelligence, SAP
Find out why Business Process Management is key to every business transformation, how the SAP Signavio Suite provides you with the capabilities to accelerate your transformation, with a special focus on SAP S/4HANA transformations.
Arun Thiyagarajan, Head of Product Management, SAP Business Network
Rodion Schuster, Chief Customer Officer, SAP Business Network
Insights on unified, collaborative, and intelligent network that delivers:
A business community: A global network of partners to drive desired business outcomes
Collaboration: Network-wide process orchestration that redefines collaboration
Intelligence: Integrated intelligence to deliver predictability as one platform to easily connect with industry and third-party partner networks
Laz Uriza, Business & Sales Strategy Director – WW SAP on Azure Strategy Lead at Microsoft
RISE with SAP changes many things for customers by its cloud model. How does this translate into traditional Enterprise Architecture concepts for SAP landscapes?
In this session we look at some of the architectural implications of RISE with SAP in a customer landscape and how good architecture practices are still required, to support the expected outcomes. Key architecture areas that need to be designed well are:
- Integration design
- Data architecture
- Security frameworks
- Performance/Resiliency & latency considerations
Sharm Manwani, Executive Professor of IT and Digital Leadership, Henley Business School
Why has Enterprise Architecture failed to deliver its value potential in so many large enterprises? Research from McKinsey and Henley Business School focuses on what digital leaders do differently to drive enterprise value. This session outlines key survey findings supplemented by insights from CIO and SAP consultancy experiences. The aim is help Enterprise Architects reflect on their capabilities and how to evolve into digital leaders by generating new stakeholder perceptions and realities.
Andre Christ, CEO & Co-Founder, LeanIX
The ideal of the Intelligent Enterprise promises greater agility, profitability, and sustainability. To achieve this, organizations must tame complexity, reduce technical debt, and chart a clear path forward. In this presentation, André Christ will share how “best run” businesses establish and maintain the transparency required for a comprehensive understanding of SAP and third-party landscape in the enterprise. Drawing on concrete examples from his experience with hundreds of customers, André will show how this transparency provides the insights necessary to plan milestones, manage change, and accelerate the transformation journey.
Chandra Knabel, Director, Enterprise Architecture and Standards, Breakthru Beverage
Karla Villacreses, Enterprise Architecture Team Leader, Inter-American Development Bank
Michelle Krom, Director Enterprise Architecture, SAP
Daniela Weller-Neundorf, Bosch
Enterprise Architecture roles are in the top 10 most difficult to fill positions in IT and ranked as the #1 job by GlassDoor for 2022, but the supply can’t keep up with the demand! With a small amount of effort, every Enterprise Architect can prepare the next generation of EA’s and learn something along the way. Currently, 89% of EAs are men, so one way to increase the size and diversity of the talent pool is to increase the number of women entering the field. Research conducted in 2021 showed that mentoring was the #1 way to get more women into the field of Enterprise Architecture. As an SAP Enterprise Architect Community we need to help each other to fast track our skills to keep up with the ever increasing pace of business and technology change. Join us for an impactful discussion from our panel enterprise architects.
Track 4: Innovating businesses with SAP`s Low-Code/No-Code offering
Sebastian Schroetel, VP, Head of Low-Code/No-Code Products, SAP
Low-Code/No-Code enables development for those who are not familiar with coding, and at the same time frees up professional developers. In this session, you will learn about SAP’s unified Low-Code/No-Code offering that empowers to build processes, applications and digital experience portals with minimal to no coding effort.
Track 2: RISE with SAP
Damien Johnson, Chief Architect – Global RISE Ecosystems, SAP
Max Yurov, SAP
Track 2 RISE with SAP: How to apply enterprise architecture in cloudy & hybrid world
Track 1: SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework
Ivana Trickovic, Enterprise Architecture Methodology Lead, SAP
Andreas Poth, SAP Product Engineering, Enterprise Architecture Methodology Lead, SAP
In this section, Ivana Trickovic and Andreas Poth, leading SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology from SAP Product Engineering, provide an overview of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and introduce the concepts and principles of the underlying Enterprise Architecture Methodology.
Track 3: SAP Business Technology Platform
Nis Boy Naeve, SAP
SAPs Business Technology Platform has many powerful capabilities. It offer business (B) and technical (T) values. But how do you leverage these values to the max? This session goes deeper and explains you how to discover the business and technical values, where to find use cases and get direct guidance to build them. It will show how to find technical information and examples how these translate these into business value. Discovery SAP BTP from inspiration to implementation with the Discovery Center.
Track 2: RISE with SAP
Damien Johnson,
Chief Architect – Global RISE Ecosystems, SAP
JT Malorgio, SAP
- Understanding details and concepts
- Industry cloud & cloud providers
Track 4: Innovating businesses with SAP`s Low-Code/No-Code offering
Eric Solberg, Chief Architect, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP
Akseli Virtanen, Head of Developer Inspiration, SAP
SAP AppGyver enables non-technical users to easily build and extend business applications – without coding. Learn how citizen developers can use the no-code tool to drive innovations and bring their companies to the next level of efficiency and enterprise resilience.
Track 3: SAP Business Technology Platform
Andreas Welsch, Vice President Solution Management, SAP
SAP has been adding “artificial intelligence” into its business applications to drive better business outcomes along end-to-end business processes. Examples include Lead to Cash, Source to Pay, etc. In addition, AI business services on SAP Business Technology Platform allow you to easily and flexibly use AI even without deep data science expertise. Overall, this makes it easier for SAP customers of any industry or size to benefit from increased insights and automation with a native user experience in SAP applications. But what are these capabilities and how can you use them? How can enterprise architects prepare to set up, scale, and support AI initiatives in their business? And what’s the best way to get started today? Learn about the underlying architecture based on available use cases and receive recommendations for acquiring the skills to drive innovation in your business.
Track 1: SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework
Andreas Poth, SAP Product Engineering, Enterprise Architecture Methodology Lead, SAP
Christine Fotteler, Global VP, Chief Enterprise Architect, SAP
The SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework provides Reference Business Architectures and Reference Solution Architectures. Christine Fotteler, Head of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Architecture, and Andreas Poth, Head of SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology, explain in this session the strategy to provide SAP Reference Architecture. They demonstrate E2E business processes and Intelligent Enterprise Examples.
Track 3: SAP Business Technology Platform
Sundu Venkataram, SAP
In today’s world it is integral that organizations unify their data and analytics strategy. Data is becoming more valuable, but it’s also becoming more complex – During this session, Sundu Venkataramani from SAP BTP Global COE team will talk about unlocking and extracting the value of data and doing away with complexity via SAP’s Unified Data and Analytics which is a key pillar of SAP Business Technology Platform. This will help organizations to have a consolidated view across all their data assets and achieve insight and make real time decisions, especially during times of rapid change.
Track 1: SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework
Peter Klee, SAP
Timo Fassbinder, SAP
In customer context leveraging the SAP reference content can accelerate customer transformations from strategic scoping to implementation support. In this session, Peter Klee, Head of SAP Transformation Hub in Customer Success, will have a look at the services and tools used. Timo Fassbinder, SAP Enterprise Architecture Advisory and Business Consulting, is joining him to give the perspective on the future direction from the SAP Signavio side.
Track 2: RISE with SAP
Damien Johnson,
Chief Architect – Global RISE Ecosystems, SAP
Raul Porras, Enterprise Architect, SAP
Track 2 RISE with SAP
Track 4: Innovating businesses with SAP`s Low-Code/No-Code offering
Thomas Volmering, Product Management Lead, SAP
Praveen Kumar, SAP
SAP Process Automation combines workflow management and RPA capabilities to enable fast and efficient process automation. In this session, you will be introduced to SAP’s new no-code experience and how citizen developers can use it.
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