SAP announced its Q4 and full year 2025 financial results last week. Analysts Joshua Greenbaum and Jon Reed, along with ASUG Senior Editor Isaac Feldberg, join ASUG Talks to discuss their key takeaways and highlights from the financial results call.

Key Insights

• Why these reports matter to SAP customers
• More about the stock price drop triggered by missed cloud growth goals
• How SAP's business AI play factored into the financial results

Related Insights

• Read ASUG's full breakdown of the financial results
• Gain insights from Yaad Oren, Managing Director of SAP Labs U.S. and Global Head of Research and Innovation at SAP SE, about disruptions in the ERP market

In the second part of our "Setting the Stage for AI" series, Anurag Barua and Paul Modderman join the podcast to follow up their advice from the previous episode for enterprises seeking to establish a solid, sound foundation for leveraging AI solutions.

Key Insights

• The importance of change management in enterprises' AI journeys
• Steps to overcome AI trust issues
• How to adopt a "human-centric" approach to AI adoption.

Related Insights

• Read about how SAP is striving to make Joule the "process-native" copilot for organizations in the utilities industry
• Register for the SAP BTP and AI Community Kick Off webcast on Jan. 28

This week on ASUG Talks, we kick of the first in a two-part series focused on what critical steps organizations should take as they begin their AI journeys.

Anurag Barua and Paul Modderman return to the podcast after their episodes focused on agentic and generative AI to offer their insights on this critical first steps.

Key Insights

• How to approach budgeting
• The importance of AI centers of excellence
• How to develop and enable AI "sherpas" in your organization

Related Insights

• Read about the recent SAP S/4HANA compatibility pack extension
• Read ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion Geoff Scott's thoughts on how enterprises should approach de-customization as the SAP ECC end-of-maintenance deadline approaches

In a follow-up to the live episode of ASUG Talks recorded at ASUG Tech Connect last November featuring questions submitted by the conference's attendees, ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion, Geoff Scott is joined once again by analysts Joshua Greenbaum and Jon Reed. They dive in to those submitted questions left unanswered.

Key Insights:

• The part ERP systems play in an IT environment
• How enterprises can facilitate SAP S/4HANA user readiness
• The best SAP Cloud ALM features

Related Insights

• Listen to the trio's first episode addressing ASUG Tech Connect attendee questions
• Dive into ASUG's recent interview with Jan Gilg
• Register to join the first ASUG SAP BTP and AI Community meeting of the year on Jan. 28

ASUG Talks kicks off 2026 answering your questions.

Last year, during an ASUG Community Conversation focused on SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), we fielded questions from our attendees about the newest addition to the SAP portfolio.

This week on ASUG Talks, I am joined by Sandeep Dhingra, VP & Strategic Architect Advisor of SAP BDC. He addresses the event's unanswered questions about BDC, and how it can help customers prepare their IT landscapes for AI.

Related Insights

• I spoke with my ASUG colleagues about the insights and pieces of content from 2025 they found most beneficial
• Tune in to my conversation with ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion, Geoff Scott, focused on his biggest takeaways from 2025

ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion, Geoff Scott, joins ASUG Talks this week to discuss three of the year's most critical theme--as revealed to us by our ASUG Talks agentic AI chatbot!

Geoff and I also walked listeners throughout our own AI use case and reflected on the year's key themes and topics in the ASUG community.

Key Insight:

• AI growth and innovation in the SAP ecosystem
• Cloud adoption among ASUG members
• ASUG's own agentic AI use case

This week on ASUG Talks, I am joined by several of my colleagues, who worked hard this past year to develop content aimed at helping ASUG members make the most of their SAP technology investments. We cover the year's best insights, from conferences to podcasts, and which insights are the most helpful and critical.

Key Resources:

• 2025 ASUG Pulse of the SAP Customer Research
• ASUG Executive Exchange
• First Five newsletter sign-up
• ASUG Talks Roundtable: Inside ASUG's SAP S/4HANA Adoption Research
• SAP's Irfan Khan on SAP Business Data Cloud's Impact and Future Development
• Migrate First, Transform Later: J. J. Keller’s Strategic Path to SAP S/4HANA
• Hydro One’s Transformation Journey and Key Takeaways for Canadian Utilities
• Unlocking Value: How John Deere Successfully Migrated from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA
• ASUG Collective

This week on ASUG Talks, SAP Cloud ALM takes center stage. I am joined by two guests offering different perspectives about the solution. Bryce Lightner, Enterprise Solutions and Operations Architect at Woodstream Corporation, discussed his experience using the solution, while Sören Ruder, Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Head of Customer Experience & Solutions (CXS) at SAP, joined the podcast to articulate the value of SAP Cloud ALM and where it fits into the portoflio.

Key Insights

• How SAP Cloud ALM helped Woodstream optimize its project management capabilities
• The impact SAP Cloud ALM can have on enterprises as they undertake business transformations
• How SAP Cloud ALM can also help organizations with their AI journeys

Related Insights

• Read ASUG editorial's interview with Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer of SAP Data & Analytics, about SAP Business Data Cloud