Inside SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Hosted by Owen McQuade from SAP Partner Customer Care, in this episode we dive into the post-go-live journey of Connect 44 as they transition from SAP Business By Design to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Our guests, Debra Valek (CFO of Connect 44), Xenopol Oprea (Group Operations and Transformation Manager at Connect 44), and Rafael Finck (CEO and owner of implementation partner SNAP International) share their insights on the importance of standardization, the challenges of data and change management, and the benefits of real-time financial insights. Learn how automation, AI, and efficient teamwork are shaping the success of Connect 44's transformation.
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What if your maintenance planning could anticipate demand before a single work order is created? In this episode of Inside SAP S/4HANA Cloud, we explore SAP IBP for MRO, SAP's end-to-end supply chain planning solution purpose-built for asset-intensive industries.
Host Olena Iavorska is joined by Vivek Sinkar, Regina Kafizova and Indrasen Naidoo to break down how SAP Integrated Business Planning for Maintenance, Repair & Operations transforms the way organizations in mining, utilities, oil & gas, railways, and energy plan, manage, and optimize their assets and supply chains.

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Join Hiruni Arunodhi live from Berlin at SAP’s Finance and Risk Customer Council for a candid conversation with Meena Kandasamy and Anne Kellman from Vistra. In this episode, they share how Vistra is driving a global SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition rollout across 56 countries, with a focus on standardizing finance processes, improving data consistency, and supporting better business insights. Learn how Vistra is addressing challenges around different local systems, currencies, accounting practices, and data quality, while using SAP tools and integrations to create more harmonized operations.
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Recorded live at our Customer Council in Berlin, Episode 148 features host Yannick Peterschmitt, with Aurélien Filiali from SAP's AI Practices team in conversation with Michael Strauß from Unzer. Unzer is a fast-growing fintech and payment solutions provider built from the merger of multiple companies across Europe.
Michael shares how Unzer went live on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition on January 1, 2021 — one of the earliest adopters — driven by the need to unify a fragmented landscape of legacy systems across 13 merged entities. The conversation covers how a small team manages continuous SAP innovation releases, leaning on SAP Preferred Success, a trusted partner, and dedicated in-house expertise. This episode also focuses on AI: from building a safeguarded internal ChatGPT framework to adopting Joule, running company-wide AI weeks, and accelerating software development through AI-assisted coding.
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Recorded live at our Customer Council in Berlin, Episode 147 features Ahsan Ahmed Syed from SAP in conversation with Samir Aid from AXA. On the two‑year anniversary of AXA’s SAP Cloud ERP go‑live, Samir shares first‑time impressions of the Council and why peer exchange matters when many customers face similar challenges. He explains AXA’s move from a heavily customized, multi‑country on‑premise landscape to SAP Cloud ERP to eliminate technical debt and enforce 100% fit‑to‑standard finance processes — “no need to reinvent the wheel.”

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