In an exclu­sive inter­view with ASUG Talks, Dr. Philipp Herzig, SAP Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer, dis­cuss­es the talk of the SAP ecosys­tem: arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence. The con­stant­ly-evolv­ing tech­nol­o­gy is steadi­ly becom­ing a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of the soft­ware com­pa­ny’s offer­ings, with SAP work­ing to embed AI capa­bil­i­ties across its entire suite of solutions. 

Ahead of SAP Sap­phire & ASUG Annu­al Con­fer­ence 2025, Herzig sat down with Geoff Scott, ASUG CEO & Chief Com­mu­ni­ty Cham­pi­on, for a wide-rang­ing dis­cus­sion about the place AI holds in the SAP ecosys­tem and how he is work­ing to fur­ther enable SAP cus­tomers to embrace the technology. 

Key Insights

• How Herzig is specif­i­cal­ly dri­ving SAP’s goal of being the ​“num­ber one busi­ness AI company”
• Spe­cif­ic exam­ples of how SAP is embed­ding AI capa­bil­i­ties across its entire portfolio
• The vision for SAP Busi­ness Data Cloud and how it empow­ers enter­pris­es to embrace AI solutions

Relat­ed Resources

• Read ASUG­’s exclu­sive inter­view with Jan Gilg, Chief Rev­enue Offi­cer & Pres­i­dent for SAP Amer­i­c­as and the SAP Glob­al Busi­ness Suite organization
• Expand your AI knowl­edge with the ASUG Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence Fun­da­men­tals and SAP AI Solu­tions Con­tent Collection
• Lis­ten to ASUG Direc­tor of Strate­gic Top­ics and Com­mu­ni­ties, Kel­ly Dowl­ing, on a recent episode of the Women in ERP Pod­cast, where she dis­cuss­es her work build­ing and empow­er­ing the ASUG community

Lis­ten to more ASUG Talks

• Jeff Suel­len­trop, Chief Infor­ma­tion & Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer at Phoenix Glob­al, joins the pod­cast to walk through his orga­ni­za­tion’s recent GROW with SAP project
• Andre Bech­told, Pres­i­dent of SAP Indus­tries & Expe­ri­ences, lays out how SAP approach­es tech­nol­o­gy inno­va­tion and build­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of SAP professionals
• Geoff Scott is joined by two mem­bers of the ASUG Board – Mark LeClair and Craig Dalziel – to break down the SAP Busi­ness Data Cloud (BDC) release and Data­bricks partnership