Looking Back at SAP TechEd 2025 Berlin

Posted by on Nov 11, 2025

Back home from Berlin and back behind the keyboard. Time to reflect on SAP TechEd 2025. And yes, it was genuinely refreshing to finally have a physical TechEd in Europe again. The last one I attended was Las Vegas 2019, which feels like another era: SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) was just starting to become mainstream, SAP Datasphere (DSP) was still called Data Warehouse Cloud, and AI was mostly something shown during keynotes rather than applied in real scenarios. The virtual editions we had in the meantime were a decent attempt, but never a real substitute for the actual experience: talking to product managers, reconnecting with familiar faces, meeting new ones, and getting hands-on with the tools.

Keynote

As usual, the keynote was an avalanche of announcements, slogans, demos, and even robots on stage. But: 1 hour and 45 minutes is simply too long, especially when the keynote is scheduled at the end of a full first day (presumably to accommodate the U.S. online audience). In this keynote, SAP clearly wanted to emphasize that they are going all-in on AI. I saw a new proprietary model (SAP-RPT-1) and even a large language model for ABAP (!).

Within the analytics domain, the biggest announcement was the upcoming partnership with Snowflake, enabling integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in 2026H1. One issue with scheduling keynotes at the end of the day: half the analytics community had already heard most of this news earlier on the show floor, but okay…

BDC is everything

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Posted in: SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere

De Nederlandse BI Podcast: SAPPHIRE 2024

Posted by on Jun 5, 2024

The latest episode of the Dutch BI Podcast is hosted by Ronald Konijnenburg, along with Tim Koster, Xavier Hacking, and Jef Baeyens. Unfortunately, Martijn and Joost are absent. This episode mainly focuses on recent developments and announcements during the “SAP SAPPHIRE 2024” event.

Main Topics:

1. Seamless Planning:

• Jef Baeyens discusses the new release in the Seamless Planning beta program, where a planning model can be deployed in Datasphere without replicating the planning data. However, there are still some limitations, such as importing actuals and master data.

• Tim Koster emphasizes that this is an important step, although there is still work to be done to achieve full integration.

2. SAP Analytics Cloud:

• Xavier Hacking mentions some incremental improvements, such as the Light Viewer feature and the announcement that the Classic Design Experience will soon be discontinued.

• The impact of these changes is discussed, particularly for users still working with older versions of Stories and Analytics Applications.

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, De Nederlandse BI Podcast, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere

De Nederlandse BI Podcast: SAP Data Unleashed 2024

Posted by on Mar 14, 2024

Daar gaan we weer! Welkom bij een nieuwe episode van de Nederlandse BI Podcast. Deze keer duiken we in het SAP Data Unleashed event. We gaan alle grote nieuwtjes door en delen onze eigen inzichten (en ja, dat doen we helemaal zonder AI-hulp!) over de nieuwste features.

Wat gaan we bespreken?

  • Knowledge Graph
  • Seamless planning
  • Joule
  • Apple Vision Pro
  • Compass
  • En nog veel meer!

Geniet ervan en van het mooie weer, namens het hele team!

Ronald, Martijn, Xavier, Joost, en Tim

Posted in: De Nederlandse BI Podcast, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere

De Nederlandse BI Podcast: Ontwikkelen met Joule in SAC en Datasphere as data platform

Posted by on Jan 31, 2024

Welkom bij DNBIP! In deze aflevering duiken we dieper in de wereld van SAP, met focus op innovatieve topics zoals Joule, JustAsk, en DataSphere, en brengen we je het laatste SAP nieuws. Of je nu een expert of nieuwkomer in de wereld van data bent, deze podcast biedt inzichten die je niet wilt missen.

  • Spotlight op SAP Joule en JustAsk, hoe transformeer je bedrijfsdata in SAC
  • De unieke waarde van DataSphere als data platform
  • De nieuwste ontwikkelingen binnen de SAP organisatie

Veel plezier!

Ronald, Joost, Tim en Xavier

Posted in: De Nederlandse BI Podcast, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere

De Nederlandse BI Podcast: SAP TechEd 2023

Posted by on Nov 6, 2023

We’re back!! 😉

SAP TechEd 2023 is inmiddels weer achter de rug. Wat is er allemaal aangekondigd? Wat viel op tijdens de keynote? Wat is er nieuw in SAC en Datasphere? Dit en meer in een splinternieuwe aflevering van De Nederlandse BI Podcast!

[Sorry, Dutch only, but maybe some AI tool can translate the podcast! 😀]

Posted in: De Nederlandse BI Podcast, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere