Webinars

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Past/On-Demand Webinars

Securing SAP S/4HANA in a Hybrid Environment with Zero Trust Mar 5 — SAP S/4HANA is built for connectivity—integrating with business partners, on‑prem infrastructure like print servers, cloud workloads, and SaaS applications. While this hybrid model enables real-time insights, advanced analytics, and AI-driven innovation, it also expands the attack surface. Traditional perimeter-based security built on firewalls and VPNs wasn’t designed for today’s distributed SAP landscape—and falls short on visibility, segmentation, and least-privileged access. Zscaler’s cloud-delivered Zero Trust architecture helps secure SAP S/4HANA across hybrid environments by enforcing identity- and context-based access and simplifying workload security. Join this webinar to learn how to gain visibility into workload traffic, reduce exposure, and contain threats faster—without the complexity and operational overhead of legacy approaches. Watch now to learn: - Why firewalls and VPNs fall short for hybrid SAP—and why a proxy-based Zero Trust model is better suited - How to grant secure access to business partners without exposing S/4HANA or your network - How to secure S/4HANA communications with print services (print servers/printers) in on‑prem environments - How to protect traffic between S/4HANA and SaaS apps with consistent policy enforcement and inspection

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DIY or Done-for-You? Rethinking Tax Compliance Strategy in SAP Feb 25 — How Tax Compliance Is Changing in SAP Tax compliance in SAP is no longer just an IT decision. It’s a strategic risk decision. As governments shift to real-time, transaction-level enforcement, SAP customers are being forced to rethink how tax compliance fits into their S/4HANA, Clean Core, and data governance strategies. Many organizations are evaluating ERP-native approaches, while others are expanding their capabilities to account for authority-led, end-to-end compliance models designed to keep pace with continuous mandates. Each path comes with tradeoffs in cost, risk, scalability, and long-term agility. In this session, Sovos tax and SAP experts explore how SAP customers should think about this decision, not from a product perspective, but from an enterprise architecture, risk, and operating model standpoint. You’ll learn: - Why tax compliance is shifting from an internal ERP function to an externally enforced, authority-led model - What SAP customers should consider when using ERP-native tools for digital reporting and mandates, and what capabilities to enhance and complement those tools - The hidden complexity behind e-invoicing, SAF-T, and continuous transaction controls - How Clean Core principles intersect with tax data, controls, and audit exposure - Key questions IT, Finance, and Tax leaders should be asking before choosing a compliance path - How today’s compliance decisions can impact transformation risk for years to come This session is designed for IT and ERP leaders, Finance and Tax executives, SAP CoE and Clean Core program owners, and enterprise architects responsible for compliance strategy, and is especially relevant for organizations preparing for the 2026–2027 regulatory expansion or actively navigating an S/4HANA

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Next-Generation SAP Payments: Mastering Advanced Payment Management Feb 19 — Corporate payment operations face unprecedented complexity: multiple legal entities, diverse bank relationships, varied currencies, regional regulatory constraints, and multiple payment formats. SAP’s Advanced Payment Management (APM) provides a centralized payment factory that addresses these challenges head-on and supports payments across single or heterogeneous SAP environments. Join Serrala Treasury Services (STS), pioneers in SAP in-house banking and payment factories, for an expert-led session. Explore the three core payment scenarios enabled by APM: Payments In Name Of (PINO), Payments On Behalf Of (POBO), and Internal/Intercompany Payments, along with how APM-IHB and Multi-Bank Connectivity (MBC) extend the solution for complex, multi-bank landscapes. You will see practical PINO and POBO use cases, including pass-through forwarding and conversion and forwarding using APM’s XML framework, as well as automated Internal/Intercompany Payments that avoid external bank fees and delays. The session also highlights how APM-IHB optimizes routing and cross-border management and how MBC simplifies bank integration with a single cloud-based connector, embedded SWIFT connectivity, and real-time status updates integrated with BCM Watch this webinar to: - Understand how APM centralizes complex corporate payment operations in SAP S/4HANA. - Learn when to use PINO, POBO, and Internal/Intercompany Payments. - See how APM-IHB supports POBO, routing optimization, and cross-border management. - Discover how MBC simplifies bank integration and real-time payment tracking. - Review key APM technical components that support standardized, high-integrity payment processes.

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Securing SAP Workloads in the Cloud: Moving Beyond Firewalls Feb 18 — SAP will end mainstream support for ECC on December 31, 2027, driving organizations to migrate to cloud-based S/4HANA through RISE with SAP. Moving SAP workloads to the cloud unlocks agility and innovation—but it also introduces new attack vectors. For self-managed cloud migrations (AWS, Azure, GCP), customers are responsible for the workload security. Legacy security architectures built on firewalls and VPNs were not designed for the cloud and add unnecessary complexity. Watch this SAPinsider webinar to learn how deploying a Zero Trust Architecture simplifies and strengthens SAP security, no matter where your workloads run. Discover how to protect data, prevent advanced threats, and securely connect SAP systems across VPCs, VNets, and hybrid environments—ensuring business continuity in a fast-changing IT landscape. Watch now to learn: - The limitations of traditional firewalls and why a proxy-based Zero Trust model is essential for SAP. - Strategies for advanced threat prevention and data protection. - How to secure SAP connectivity across clouds and hybrid infrastructures. - Actionable steps to protect workloads and streamline cloud security.

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Protecting SAP ERP Availability & Data Privacy—Be a Hero vs Victim Feb 17 — Modern cloud ERP exposes new challenges to both SAP ERP availability and privacy. Before October 2025, more than 2,000 organizations believed they were protected by multi-regional cloud architecture, only to be impacted by a single hyperscaler DNS outage that disrupted access across multiple countries for more than 14 hours. That same year, geo-political sanctions abruptly interrupted hyperscaler services for several organizations, and a Microsoft executive confirmed to the French Senate that data cannot be fully protected from U.S. access under the U.S. Cloud Act. In response, the EU Commission released its Cloud Sovereignty Framework version 1.2.1 to assess sovereignty effectiveness, including data and A.I. sovereignty along with countries from every global continent, who also have released their own data and A.I. policies. This webinar will examine these 2025 incidents and explain how to strengthen SAP ERP availability and privacy through SAP Cloud ERP, Customer Data Center, SAP Sovereign On-site, and S/4HANA On-site deployments. Attendees will learn strategies for guarding against global DNS or IAM outages, meeting privacy obligations under the EU Digital Operational Resiliency Act, and navigating global AI regulations. Watch Now to: - Review the major SAP ERP cloud outages and privacy risks of 2025. - Understand options that eliminate hyperscaler fiduciary risk. - Clarify data residency vs. sovereignty and custody vs. management services.

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SAPinsider Research Webinar: Enterprise Data and Analytics in the Era of AI Feb 11 — Digital business generates more data than traditional business, and that information is foundational to supporting innovation and realizing desired business outcomes such as improved forecasting accuracy, faster and better decision-making, enhanced customer and user experiences, and setting up the ground work for AI adoption and innovation. Companies that have invested in modernizing their data and analytics strategies and technologies are seeing results, both in the outcomes mentioned as well as many Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). To identify the key factors, strategies, expectations, challenges, and technologies driving enterprise data and analytics strategies, SAPinsider surveyed community members across multiple industries, locations, and roles. This research explored the data and analytics maturity of respondents’ organizations and identified key traits across maturity segments as they journey towards becoming data-driven and AI-enabled. Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans. Understand the factors impacting SAPiniders’ data and analytics strategies. - Explore the impact that data and analytics maturity has on desired business outcomes and KPIs. - Learn about the technologies that are in use to build data and analytics foundations. - Discover how Data Leaders are succeeding with their data and analytics strategies.

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Hardening the Core: Modern Security for AI Systems and SAP Landscapes Feb 4 — As AI adoption accelerates and SAP landscapes continue to evolve, technical leaders face growing pressure to safeguard their environments while enabling innovation. In this session, Apiphani will break down two critical but often disconnected security domains: AI security and SAP security. We’ll explore the core pillars of AI security, including data protection, identity and access management, governance and compliance, threat detection, and policy-driven employee enablement, followed by a deep dive into SAP-specific security and technical compliance practices. Finally, we’ll connect the dots between the two, highlighting how a unified approach strengthens your overall risk posture and prepares your organization for a future where AI and SAP operate side-by-side. This webinar is designed for technical leaders, architects, and hands-on practitioners who want a clearer, more actionable understanding of how to secure what’s here today and what’s coming next. Watch this webinar now to learn: - How to secure AI initiatives without slowing down innovation or exposing sensitive data. - Is your SAP systems truly compliant and protected, or have hidden gaps in access, configuration, or monitoring. - How to secure and build a unified security strategy that covers both AI and SAP, instead of managing two disconnected risk areas.

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SAPinsider Research Webinar: The Office of the SAP CFO and the Future of Finance Feb 3 — As regulatory complexity, cyber risk, and economic volatility converge, the Office of the SAP CFO is being pushed beyond stewardship into a new role as strategic co‑pilot of the enterprise. At the same time, most SAP-centric finance organizations remain stuck at an “established but not optimized” maturity plateau, constrained by fragmented data, manual close processes, and slow, spreadsheet-driven reporting that limit the impact of AI and automation. In this research-driven session, SAPinsider unpacks findings from the 2025 benchmark study of 110 SAP-centric organizations to show how leading finance teams are modernizing the core, automating the close, and building an AI-ready data foundation on SAP S/4HANA. You will see how “optimized” organizations are using solutions such as SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Financial Closing, SAP Business Warehouse, and complementary close automation tools to move toward a continuous close, cut cycle times from week-long marathons to as little as 1–3 days, and free scarce finance talent for higher-value analysis and business partnership. Watch this webinar to learn how to: - Identify where your finance organization sits on the SAPinsider maturity curve and what separates “established” from “optimized” finance teams in SAP environments. - Use your SAP S/4HANA journey to consolidate financial activities, standardize data with Universal Journal, and lay the foundation for AI-enabled forecasting and anomaly detection. - Accelerate the shift from efficiency to automation in the financial close, including practical steps toward a continuous close powered by orchestration and close automation tools. - Overcome the top barriers to AI adoption in finance—organizational complexity, security and privacy concerns, and competing priorities—through focused pilots, governance, and change management.

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Modernize Without Disruption: Top Considerations for Your SAP Transformation Journey Jan 27 — SAP modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar on demand, we reveal an alternative to costly rip-and-replace methods. Join us to see how process orchestration and automation platforms can act as an “agility layer” to streamline your ERP modernization—ensuring business continuity and dramatically reducing your migration timeline. Whether you’re planning to migrate to S/4HANA or are still exploring your options, now is the time to modernize front-end applications and equip your workforce with new capabilities. See how, with Appian, you can show value in weeks, keep your core clean, and reduce risk at every stage of your journey. Watch now to: - Identify the critical SAP blind spots and complexities—such as managing undefined processes and difficult integrations with external applications —that can hinder a smooth S/4HANA Cloud migration. - Learn how housing customizations on an agility layer helps you retain business value and future-proof your systems. - Explore the key business benefits of this approach, including cost savings, improved efficiency, and maximizing investments in your existing systems. See how the Appian Platform helps

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Driving Tax Determination Excellence: How Hyundai Powers U.S. Sales Tax with Sovos + SAP S/4HANA Jan 22 — Watch this webinar to discover how Hyundai: - Eliminated manual tax calculations across high-volume transactions - Handled tax determination in all U.S. jurisdictions with precision and speed - Achieved real-time compliance using Sovos’ certified SAP connectors and automated rule updates - Future-proofed tax operations with scalable architecture and regulatory monitoring This session is ideal for SAP finance, tax, and IT leaders seeking to modernize legacy tax engines, reduce audit risk, and align tax compliance with digital transformation initiatives.

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