What an event, we had around 150 participants from the partner eco-system from global service providers to VARs and software developers in North America at the beautiful SAP Engineering academy in San Ramon, California.

We had the goal to:

• Discuss your opportunities related to innovating on SAP BTP
• Provide SAP BTP related solutions and product updates
• Help you accelerate your SAP BTP journey
• Explore SAP BTP enablement and coaching offerings (including SAP Integration and Certification Center services)​
• Understand go-to-market options with content: SAP Store, VPUC, QPPS ​
• Share your experiences as a foundation for 2023​ planning
• Network and foster stronger relationships across the SAP partner ecosystem

We had great welcome keynote by Ferose VR talking about the history of the unique and beautiful location followed up by keynote presentation by Luciano Ravenna, Steffen Burger, Pavel Penaz and Camilla Dahlen after the break we had few more keynotes by John Singelmann, Dirk Wenzel.

Key Sessions delivered by the PSA team:

On Day 1 the PSA team represented by Wesley Honorato (Head of PSA NA) and Mordechai (Moty) Moshin (IE Architect NA) delivered the “Meet the experts – QPPS – Qualified Partner Packaged Solutions – what it is, how it works, how to use it as a GTM route for channel partners” session that had a packed room more than 20 attendees discussing the benefits of building Qualified-Partner-Packaged-Solution (QPPS) and which majority of the participants were not aware of this GTM program and majority of them would like to pursue creating packages.

The session started by Wesley providing introduction to the North-America PSA team he leads talking about the experts in the team and the teams Vision and plans for 2023.

Wesley Honorato – Head PSA NA

The PSA Team North America

Followed by Mordechai introducing the key concepts of the QPPS program with the success video:

and key program information:

the impact the QPPS program drives

QPPS Impact

as well as the result of the program in NA for 2022

QPPS program NA results 2022

On Day 2 the PSA team held 3 other breakout sessions:

Sustainability with SAP – Providing products and services that meet the sustainability challenges and opportunities of our customers

Presented by Tahir (Bob) Babar and Mordechai (Moty) Moshin. The room was full of partners asking questions about Sustainability as everyone are looking to embrace it as shown here:

Mordechai started with explaining the key Why for sustainability followed by Bob covering the What and Mordechai closed with recapping SAP Sustainability Cloud offerings and where to find additional resources and possible next steps with the partner onboarding guide.

SAP Sustainability Cloud

SAP BTP and Clean core

One of the well-attended breakout sessions was the SAP BTP And Clean Core session given by Louenas Hamdi our S/4HANA Cloud BTP advisor. The session was held in a large classroom called Plattner in honor of our founder! About 30 attendees from about 20 partners attended the session.

SAP BTP and Clean Core – Louenas

The session started with a slide defining the concept of clean core in ERP and with a question from Louenas to the audience to guess who the author of the definition was. As no one guessed, Louenas revealed that the author was ChatGPT and told the audience that the objective of showing this definition is to make a point about how the world and businesses will be relying more and more on technology and smart platforms.

The objective of the clean core presentation aimed at making sure the partners understood the importance to extend and integrate with SAP ERP systems and LoB solutions in a clean core compliant way. The presentation talked about how Developer extensibility and BTP can aid in that endeavour. And lastly, Louenas presented planned global and regional enablement and coaching offerings on this topic.

Partners loved the presentation and asked questions and expressed interest in one-on-one follow-ups.

Fireside Chat with SAP executives+ Q&A​

Fireside Chat

SAP Build portfolio – Augment enterprise applications and unleash innovation by anyone no matter the skill levels- SAP Build Process Automation, SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Work Zone

Presented by Tahir (Bob) Babar and Mordechai (Moty) Moshin. Another packed breakout session. Mordechai started with update on SAP’ Build portfolio

SAP Build Portfolio

SAP Build – Mordechai (Moty) Moshin

And Bob followed with outstanding demos for each component with interactive Q&A with the attending partners.

Bob demoing SAP Build

in the morning of day 2 during the general keynote we had 3 partners delivering the Partner success stories session hosted by Alexandra Uhlherr-McGhee. The partners were given the opportunity to showcase their BTP-related success stories on the centerstage called the Arena. Among them, two were invited by the PSA team as they closely worked with them on these achievements in the last two years.

The first partner was ConvergentIS, represented by Julio Navas who presented their BTP App which recently gained the spotlighted status on SAP Store. He told the audience how BTP and SAP store is transforming their company from a local service company to a global software provider company that is more profitable and resilient.

Julio Navas – ConvergentIS

The second partner was Yash represented by Yogesh Nagpal who gave an inspiring talk about sustainability and showed their Sustainability QPPS and also spoke on how BTP was used to build the package.

Yogesh Nagpal – Yash

Overall outstanding event with great interactive experience with our SAP partners.

Here a short video recap: