Christian Michel, Ph.D.

🎰 Vegas is all about big wins - and AI + Data + Apps is one for our customers - SAP’s winning trio at #SAPConnect in Las Vegas 🏆 What we announced this week goes beyond technology - it’s about enabling organizations to make smarter decisions, act faster, and scale with confidence in uncertain times. Together with Dr. Michael Ameling, Irfan Khan, Anja Schneider, and Brenda Brown, we highlighted the capabilities that bring the SAP Business Suite to life. I enjoyed presenting how #SAPrunsSAP is leveraging #AI, #data, and #applications to drive synergies across all business areas:  https://lnkd.in/eT4z9Nfx Special thanks to Todd Inlander for joining me on stage to share Southern California Edison (SCE)‘s inspiring transformation journey! 💡 It was a pleasure to meet with so many customers and partners throughout the last days. Thank you to our teams working hard behind the scenes to realize our first-ever SAP Connect 🙏 Let’s jointly keep the Vegas momentum going as we continue to bring out our best 🤝

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I have posted frequently about digital sovereignty — and for good reason. Digital sovereignty isn’t just a tech trend; it’s a strategic focus that is reshaping our digital future. Today, SAP is empowering our customers by putting that security directly into their hands 🙌​ I am proud to announce the expansion of the SAP Sovereign Cloud portfolio and the launch of SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site — a new solution setting the highest standard for secure, compliant, and scalable innovation. SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site offers SAP-operated infrastructure within a customer-owned or customer-selected data center. This solution delivers the highest levels of data, operational, technical, and legal sovereignty while maintaining SAP cloud innovation and architecture 🔐💼​ Today, I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic press conference and engaging in inspiring conversations with journalists about the importance of digital sovereignty and how SAP is driving this transformation forward! 🗣️🎤​ This marks a critical milestone, as security and control become directly linked to innovation and growth. Whether through our sovereign cloud, investments in local expertise, or partnerships across the regions, SAP is here to help organizations innovate with confidence — safely and securely! 🤝🌍 Martin Merz, Monika Schaller #SovereignCloud #Innovation

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#CleanCore reloaded!   We are taking the next step in the evolution of clean core extensibility: we sunset the 3-tier extensibility model and replace it with a new, optimized #CleanCore extensibility model based on 4 clean core levels!   Why? The assignment of all classic #ABAP in tier 3 as “not clean” turned out to be too strict and prevents customers from reaching a clean core in areas where classic technologies are inevitable to extend the SAP standard. We need to be more precise.   What's new with the clean core levels? ✅ Level A bundles #SAPBTP for side-by-side extensions and #ABAPCloud for on-stack extensions, in short the entire #SAPBuild offering. This is the best clean core level and remains the go-to option for all new developments. Levels B-D categorize classic #ABAP: ✅ Level B: if your custom code follows best practices, uses stable classic ABAP technologies and classic APIs, it is rated as level B and clean core. ✅ Level C: classic #ABAP code which doesn't qualify for level B and requires special measures to keep it clean. ✅ Level D: classic #ABAP with clear violations of best practices, not clean at all.   How to detect and govern this? The #ABAPTestCockpit is your friend 🙂 What if I started with the 3-tier extensibility model already? No issue, you are on track and the level concept will provide you with enhanced guidance in case you have classic #ABAP.   Now I'm sure you want to learn more about the new clean core level concept. You have the choice: - Start from the business perspective with our new clean core extensibility white paper (https://lnkd.in/dR-qU6A4) - Start from the ABAP extensibility perspective and read the blog post https://lnkd.in/dBk35mYD from Olga Dolinskaja and our revision of the ABAP extensibility guide (https://lnkd.in/etksh3UP).   But make sure to do both 😉   Looking forward to explain all these news to you on upcoming events! 👍 Steffen Pietsch Rudolf Hois Priyadarsana Panda Sonja Liénard Alina Laura Iager Olga Dolinskaja Thomas Fiedler Kai Dehmann Volker Drees Fabian Fellhauer Jens Weiler Frank Jentsch Iwona Hahn Carine Tchoutouo

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🚀✨ This week I came across 2 inzeresting documents for driving Innovation with SAP’s Clean Core and Integration Strategies… 🌐🔧 In today’s fast-paced digital world, keeping mission-critical systems agile and cost-efficient is essential. SAP’s Clean Core approach, built on five core principles—business processes, extensibility, data, integration, and operations—ensures your systems are ready for innovation and support your transformation journey seamlessly. 🔄💼 But it’s not just about connecting systems—it’s about making them work together effortlessly to boost innovation, agility, and long-term success. With SAP’s holistic Integration Strategy, complexity is removed whether you’re staying within the SAP ecosystem or integrating third-party solutions. This creates a unified, intelligent, and scalable digital foundation that empowers your path to innovation. 🧩🚀 👉 Learn more about how SAP can accelerate your digital transformation and heck out the links in first comment… #SAP #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #Integration #CleanCore #Agility #BusinessGrowth

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As #AI becomes a driving force in business innovation, developers need reliable and scalable methods to deliver impactful AI solutions. That’s where SAP BTP AI Best Practices come in—a set of hands-on guidelines that connect key AI capabilities with real-world use cases on SAP Business Technology Platform.   You can Explore all Best Practices here: https://lnkd.in/eZ4_bDwS   Our first six SAP BTP AI Best Practices focus on GenAI building blocks like secure model access, prompt templating, content filtering, and enterprise-grade vector search with #SAPHANACloud. Whether you're integrating external models or building scalable, compliant AI features, these best practices offer repeatable patterns to help you move faster with confidence.   Explore them through: 🔹 Functional View: use-case patterns like summarization, question answering, anomaly detection. 🔹 Technical View: deep dives into Generative AI, RAG pipelines, data masking, and more.   These best practices are accessible from the SAP BTP Guidance Framework, supporting developers, architects, and innovation leads with hands-on, practical guidance.   And this is just the beginning—more best practices are on the way to help scale AI across #SAPBTP.   Kudos to Markus Albrecht and the bright minds who brought this initiative: Luís Marques, Andrii Rzhaksynskyi , Velizar Stoyanov, Francisco Robledo Relaño, PhD, Joel Elias Rodriguez, Robert Schulz, Chirag Gupta, Bhagabat Prasad Behera, Dan Antonio, Sergio Pacheco-Sanchez, Rajeshwari Kute, Marco Cigaina, and many more...   Let’s turn AI potential into real business impact—one best practice at a time.

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How can you turn connected data into real-world outcomes?    Seeing what Tyrolit Group has achieved in sustainability is inspiring: With SAP Sustainability Control Tower, SAP Cloud ERP Private Edition, and SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, Tyrolit can centralize data, align reporting with standards, and use AI to map emissions, reduce manual work, and improve accuracy. This isn’t just about numbers – it’s about taking action, from cutting packaging waste to optimizing energy use. The results speak for themselves: ➡️ Over 80 ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics tracked ➡️ More than 60 managers empowered with automated reporting, and ➡️ An incredible amount of 5,163 tons of CO₂ saved annually at the headquarters.   This shows that when technology meets a culture that cares, sustainability isn’t just an environmental goal – it becomes tangible business impact. Christian Klein Dominik Asam Sophia Leonora Mendelsohn Gunther Rothermel

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The latest Forrester Wave for #PLM was recently published. The biggest surprises are that SAP isn’t included at all and Aras made it into the leader area ahead of Dassault Systèmes and PTC. No surprise is that all PLM systems represented by the vendors in the Leader and Strong Performer areas are integrated platforms with broad functionality, or monolithic systems as some people like to call them, and that all systems are based on rational databases. It appears that neither characteristic stands in the way of being a leader or strong performer.

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𝐒𝐀𝐏 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈 — 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐔𝐬𝐞 SAP Joule for Developers brings AI-powered assistance to SAP Build and ABAP, helping teams boost productivity—from generating code and UI components to intelligently guiding workflow design. As the offering continues to evolve, we’re extending the free access period until Sept 2026 to give you more time to utilize in production with its full capabilities at no cost. Learn what’s available and how to get started: https://sap.to/6049fxQeB Alexandre Vassiliadi Gizem OKUMUS Jan Schneider Paul Robertson Emek Yeşilyurt #AI #Joule #SAPBuild #ABAP #Developers

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