Red Hat at SAPinsider 2023

The word transformation takes on so many different meanings. In this keynote session we will illustrate transformation through the stories of customers and partners who have made significant impact on business processes, innovation, executive visibility, and IT landscapes just to name a few areas where leaders are seeing a significant return on their investment. Hear from Jamie Lee, CIO, Ecobat, an organization whose mission it is to dispose of batteries in an eco-friendly manner with little to no impact on the environment. You will learn how Ecobat, and other organizations have dramatically simplified their IT landscapes with moves to SAP S/4HANA and the Cloud. Also gain insights from some of strategic partners including Red Hat and how they are supporting SAP customers innovation and transformation agendas. 

Location:  Tower Ballroom

Speaker:  Wolfgang Bausch, Director, Alliance Partnership, Global, Red Hat

 No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, an automation strategy at scale is essential to enable you to save time, accelerate innovation, improve employee satisfaction, and reduce costs throughout your organization.  For SAP customers this is even more relevant as they move to SAP S/4HANA and to Public Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure.  Pre and post deployment automation is essential to fully realize the optimal  benefits of both platforms.

Location: Da Vinci 3

Speakers: JP Silvestre, NA SAP Lead, Red Hat, Kalyan Pasumarti, Sr. Ecosystem Solution Architect, Red Hat, Prakash Pattaiyan, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft​

Automation is key when it comes to keeping up with the fast pace of innovation every company needs to adopt in order to be and remain competitive. Red Hat provides an ideal platform to automate the management of SAP workloads.  The unique combination of Red Hat Ansible, Smart Management and Insights on top of RHEL eases the challenges present in the whole lifecycle of these critical workloads. Discover how to leverage Red Hat certified automation from Day 0 to Day 2 operations (from planning migration and new deployments to day to day administration operations) making repeatable processes much less complex and free of human error.

Location: Da Vinci 4

Speakers: JP Silvestre, NA SAP Lead, Red Hat, Jim O’Donnell, NA Sr. SAP Architect, Red Hat

Today we are evolving beyond classical ERP implementations powering the Shift to Intelligence leveraging hybrid applications, hybrid cloud, and business platforms that deliver on the business transformation, aligned to key concepts including Clean Core and Continuous Optimization. In this session we will explore how IBM today is delivering on this Shift to Intelligence, building extensible, composable, and orchestrated solutions with our partner ecosystem to drive innovation in the right way that delivers simpler, smarter, connected, and more adaptive solutions. Learn how we drive innovation at a speed that supersizes the RoI for your transformation program.

Location:  Monet 2

Speaker: Wolfgang Bausch, Global Head of SAP Business at Red Hat, Devraj Bardhan, CTO SAP Managed Services, IBM

SAP and non SAP worlds are colliding.  The move to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA has two different streams; the shift to the digital core ‘and’ the modernization and integration of applications, which can start and run in parallel.  In our hybrid world,  these streams can be challenging without the proper frameworks and technologies.  Join us as we share infrastructure modernization best practices.

Location:  Theater 1

Speaker: JP Silvestre, NA SAP Lead, Red Hat, Vas Mitra,  NA SAP Solutions Architect, Red Hat, Anupam Gupta,  Co-Founder & Chief Architect , Celebal Technologies

SAP systems are at the core of companies and they interact with many applications. The need to be more flexible and adopt modern techniques for development is a must for everyone. DevOps and cloud native patterns provide a huge increase in flexibility and resiliency and OpenShift is a perfect platform to make the most of them and absolutely boost developer's productivity, so that the new apps can make the most of your SAP estate, integrating seamlessly with it and abstracting all its details so that developers do not need to worry about how to communicate with the SAP systems.

Location:  Theater 1
Speakers: JP Silvestre, NA SAP Lead, Red Hat, Jim O'Donnell,  NA SAP SA, Venkat Tatavarthy, Sr Partner Solutions Architect, SAP on AWS

The Digital Enterprise requires integration of heterogeneous solutions that live in the IT landscape. SAP workloads need to be able to communicate seamlessly with new SAP applications, legacy components, and many other non SAP products in order to constitute a robust and well performing ecosystem.  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps organization with the automation journey from migrations to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA to Day 2 SAP operations.  Join us as we’ll review Ansible for SAP best practices that can save your company time and money. 

Location:  Theater 1
Speakers: Jim O’Donnell, NA SAP Solution Architect, Red Hat

TUESDAY @ 3:30 PM RED HAT BOOTH #615

Grab a coffee and swag at the Red Hat booth (# 615) and learn what Red Hat and SAP’s preferred vendor partnership means for you.  Get a view into our 2023 roadmap for improving SAP performance, reliability and scalability while discovering how the Red Hat ecosystem can help you. You will have the opportunity to engage with Red Hat experts, schedule an in both demo, join a mini theater session with Red Hat partners, schedule a private meeting, and add sponsored speaking sessions hosted by Red Hat to your conference agenda.