Switched On: A Bowdark Podcast

Sapphire 2022 Reactions From Bowdorks

Episode Summary

James and Paul gathered a congress of super-nerds from the Bowdark staff to think back on the recent SAP Sapphire 2022 event in Orlando, FL. We combed through the Sapphire News Guide and used my on-site experience to dig deep.

Episode Notes

Podcast Episode! Sapphire Orlando Reactions From Bowdorks

 

 

Money Quotes

Tim Champagne

Is this just another fragmentation of apps out there? [re: iOS app announcements]

Kyle Bitson

If you look at what’s happening in the world…supply chain issues…they’re more relevant than they have been in a long time. 

It’s striking a balance between the technical upgrade and unlocking the new features and showing business value to your end users. [re: finding out about SOAR]

James Wood

It’s amazing to me in 2022, we’re still having conversations about on-boarding suppliers and figure out how to trade ASNs. It feels very antiquated.

The elephant in the room: it’s incredibly complicated. The number of new technologies in play for an S/4HANA implementation. This was never going to be smooth.

Paul Modderman

For good or for ill — I don’t know — the act of doing things sustainably is entirely in the hands of customers and clients taking the actions. [re: SAP forays into sustainability]

I was hooked — that was telling me what actually happens with SAP solutions! I could literally imagine buying the pizza in the store with the app. [re: Casey’s pizza story]