
ASUG Talks
ASUG Talks covers vital topics in the SAP ecosystems, leveraging thought leaders, customers, and experts to help listeners navigate modern challenges and maximize their SAP investments.
Episodes
59 episodes
ASUG Talks Special Edition: 2025 Fall Conferences Preview
ASUG is set to kick off its fall conference season, hosting three events aimed at helping attendees make the most of their SAP investments: SAP for Utilities, Presented by ASUG; ASUG Best Practices; and ASUG Tech Connect.Ahead of these e...
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: Overcoming Large-Scale Supply Chain Disruptions
Organizations have contended with several "black swan" events in recent years, severely interrupting global supply chains, including the COVID-19 pandemic, global conflicts, trade route disruptions, and now the specter of tariffs. Thes...
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: Unpacking ASUG Cloud and AI Research
ASUG recently collaborated with Intel and Microsoft to examine two of the hottest topics in the SAP ecosystem: cloud migration and AI adoption. As SAP continues spurring its customer base to embrace the cloud, citing next-generation AI solution...
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: The Changing Role of Enterprise Architects in Utilities
In North America, the utilities industry is contending with shifting customer expectations, growing power demands, and changing technology infrastructure. With the growing importance of AI and cloud solutions, the role of enterprise architects ...
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: Inside ASUG's SAP S/4HANA Adoption Research
SAP S/4HANA officially released 10 years ago. In that decade, SAP has not only encouraged its customer base to embrace the next-generation ERP platform, but it also spurred widespread cloud migration. The ASUG research team has moni...
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ASUG Talks News Brief: Breaking Down the SAP Q2 2025 Financial Results
SAP hosted its quarterly financial results call last week. The first since the litany of announcements the software company made at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference in May, the event covered SAP's continuing focus on cloud adoption and...
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: How Agentic AI is Reshaping the SAP Ecosystem
AI is innovating at a rapid rate. After generative AI took the ERP ecosystem--and the larger tech industry--by storm in recent years, agentic AI is quickly capturing the attention of the community. It makes sense, as the capabilities enabled by...
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: What ASUG and SAP Research Reveals About Integration
Dive into a recent collaborative research project conducted by ASUG and SAP focused on one of the chief focuses (and challenges...
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ASUG Talks Customer Success Story: How SA Power Networks Managed a Dual SAP S/4HANA Migration
Conducting a single SAP S/4HANA digital transformation is complicated enough. In this episode of ASUG Talks, we sat down with Travis Smith, Principal SAP Enterprise Architect at SA Power Networks. The Australian utility company tackled TWO RISE...
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: Keys to Leveraging SAP BTP
In this latest ASUG Talks roundtable, we dive deep into the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). The solution helps SAP customers tackle a variety of functions. But where should users begin?We are joined by the authors of the SAP Pres...
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ASUG Talks Executive Interview: David Robinson, SAP
In the final episode recorded live at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference, ASUG Talks focuses on SAP cloud offerings. David Robinson, President of Cloud ERP at SAP, sat down with Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Cha...
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: Cybersecurity in the Cloud
As SAP customers migrate to the cloud, cybersecurity is a critical component of those transformation projects. Moving your IT ecosystem and sensitive organizational data from bare-metal, on-premises environments into the cloud requires a dedica...
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ASUG Talks Live: ASUG Leaders Reflect on SAP Customers' Challenges and Focuses
In the second live episode recorded at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference, Marissa Gilbert, ASUG Research Director, moderates a panel featuring several ASUG leaders: Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion&n...
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ASUG Talks Open Forum: Unpacking the SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference Announcements
The first in a series of special ASUG Talks episodes recorded in the ASUG booth at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference, we turn the mics towards the audience. Jon Reed, Co-Founder of diginomica, leads a brief conversation with...
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ASUG Talks News Brief: On the Ground at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference
ASUG Talks breaks down the major announcements from SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual conference. Jim Lichtenwalter, ASUG Talks Host, is joined by Isaac Feldberg, Senior Content Manager at ASUG, for a special news brief recorded at the...
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ASUG Talks Executive Interview: Philipp Herzig, Chief Technology Officer at SAP
In an exclusive interview with ASUG Talks, Dr. Philipp Herzig, SAP Chief Technology Officer, discusses the talk of the SAP ecosystem: artificial intelligence. The constantly-evolving technology is steadily becoming a critical component of...
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ASUG Talks Customer Success Story: Inside Phoenix Global's GROW with SAP Implementation with Jeff Suellentrop
What exactly does a GROW with SAP project look like? ASUG Talks digs deep into this question during a conversation with Jeff Suellentrop, Chief Information & Technology Officer at Phoenix Global, a metals and mining services co...
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ASUG Talks Executive Interview: Andre Bechtold, SAP
While visiting the SAP global headquarters in Walldorf, Germany, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion Geoff Scott recently sat down with Andre Bechtold, President of SAP Industries & Experiences. As the software company looks...
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ASUG Board of Directors Roundtable: Unpacking the SAP Business Data Cloud Announcement and Databricks Partnership
Tune in to a special roundtable episode of ASUG Talks, where Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO & Chief Community, is joined by two ASUG Board Members: Mark LeClair and Craig Dalziel. A few weeks ago, the three attended the
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ASUG Talks Roundtable: How AI is Changing the SAP Ecosystem
ASUG Talks dives deep into the technology of the moment: artificial intelligence. In this roundtable, Jim Lichtenwalter, ASUG Content Manager, is joined by two AI experts: Paul Modderman, SAP AI Director, Mindset Consulting
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ASUG Talks: Insights from the 2025 ASUG Pulse of the SAP Customer Research
Each year, ASUG charts the shifting attitudes, focuses, hurdles, and solution adoption rates among its members with the annual Pulse of the SAP Customer Resear...
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ASUG Talks: Breaking Down the Debut of SAP Business Data Cloud
ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion Geoff Scott traveled to New York for the SAP Business Unleashed event, where SAP
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ASUG Talks Special Edition: AI Announcements and Innovations
To debrief major announcements from the most recent editions of Microsoft Ignite and ASUG Tech Connect, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion Geoff Scott and Carolyn Szczurek, ASUG Communications Lead, recently welcomed Holger Bruchelt, Princ...
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ASUG Talks Special Edition: Navigating Enterprise Architecture and AI - Live from ASUG Tech Connect with Diginomica
ASUG partnered with Diginomica for a special episode of ASUG Talks. Recorded at ASUG Tech Connect, Jon Reed, Co-Founder at Diginomica, hosted a conversation with Geoff Scott, CEO & Chief Community Champion at ASUG, and Jos...
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ASUG Talks Special Edition: SAP User Group Collaborative Research
Tune in for a special episode of ASUG Talks dedicated to insights from the recent collaborative research project ASUG undertook alongside DSAG and UKISUG. Focused on AI, the research examined how members of the three communities are approaching...
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