Inside SAP S/4HANA Cloud

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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Live from SAP Customer Council in Berlin, Greg Hutcheon interviews Dr. Abaid Goda, Head of Group ID and Digitization at KWD Automotive. They explore KWD’s journey on SAP Cloud ERP, why a standardized, group-wide operating model matters in automotive manufacturing, how clean-core principles reduce complexity by avoiding custom exits, and where SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enables seamless integration with third-party systems. You’ll hear how the team followed the standard activation methodology from discovery to run, organized UAT with local and global process owners, and tackled master data preparation and real-time interfaces, culminating in their first go-live in January.

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Recorded live at our Customer Council in Berlin, this episode features Katharina Stopf from SAP with Delaware, one of the earliest adopters and co‑innovation partners for SAP Cloud ERP in Professional Services. They revisit how Delaware became the very first public cloud customer, helped shape today’s fit‑to‑standard best practices, and scaled from early pilots in APAC to a global footprint. You’ll also hear practical operating lessons—why key users need dedicated time to adopt new features, how automated end‑to‑end testing de‑risks releases, and what to prioritize next.

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