Some of the best conversations at ASUG Tech Connect might be the ones where you bring the question.
ASUG Community Conversations are a chance to find your people: the ones working through the same challenges you are. Bring your questions, share what’s working (and what isn’t), and learn from the experiences around you.
Because sometimes the answer comes from someone who’s been there. And sometimes the best takeaway is realizing you’re not figuring it out alone.
Find a Community Conversation at ASUG Tech Connect and join in: bit.ly/4zeRAJB
ASUG Tech Connect Community Conversations
🗄️ BDC Community Conversation: Preparing Your Data Landscape for AI
November 2 | 12:15–1:05 PM CT | Room 201C
💻 App Development Community Conversation: ABAP Cloud, Joule Studio on SAP Business AI Platform
November 2 | 3:40–4:30 PM CT | Room 201C
🤖 AI Community Conversation: Exploring AI Use Cases Across the Business
November 3 | 12:15–1:05 PM CT | Room 201C
☁️ Cloud ERP Community Conversation: Building the Autonomous Enterprise
November 3 | 3:40–4:30 PM CT | Room 201C
🌱 ASUG Collective Community Conversation: AI and Your Career: Deciding What Comes Next
November 3 | 4:40–5:20 PM CT | Room 202D
🏛️ Enterprise Architecture Community Conversation: Aligning Governance with Transformation
November 4 | 12:15–1:05 PM CT | Room 201C
🔗 Integration Community Conversation: A Customer Journey
November 4 | 3:15–4:05 PM CT | Room 201C
👻 It's October. You know what's haunting SAP practitioners right now?
Legacy customizations.
48% of ASUG members say too many customizations in their old instances is the top migration risk they've experienced. It's also the #1-ranked risk overall.
The ghost of every workaround ever built is coming back to haunt your S/4HANA migration.
The full story is in our 2026 S/4HANA Research Report. bit.ly/4itG72N
ALT What's haunting your S/4HANA migration? Large purple 48% indicating legacy customizations as the top migration risk for ASUG members. Other top risks include 44% data migration issues and 41% change management. ASUG logo at the bottom.
What should SAP customers be paying attention to after the Q3 earnings call?
Joshua Greenbaum and Jon Reed join ASUG Talks to get beyond the numbers and discuss what they heard, what they’re watching, and what it could mean for customers.
🎧 Listen to the conversation: bit.ly/4imCdHI
If you work in the utilities sector, you are already feeling the pressure of AI-driven demand growth hitting the grid in real time. What is less clear for many organizations is what to do about it strategically.
ASUG sat down with KPMG's Brad Stansberry and Adrian Leaf to dig into how AI, data center expansion, and electrification are reshaping what utilities need to do, what capabilities matter most right now, and why the window to define your organization's role in the energy and compute ecosystem is shorter than it looks.
If your team is working through any of these questions, this conversation is a practical place to start.
Read it here: bit.ly/4AZ9G3F
Utilities have no shortage of promising AI use cases. The harder question is: How do you move them beyond the proof of concept?
@AWS looks at what it takes to operationalize agentic AI across SAP environments, including the orchestration, governance, and access needed to connect intelligence with real business processes.
Read more: bit.ly/3WFPKmp
👻 You made it to go-live. Now what?
For 36% of live organizations, the top support need is figuring out where and how to apply SAP Business AI, Joule, and AI agents. For 31%, it's knowing which S/4HANA capabilities to adopt next.
And it does not matter how long you have been live—the need for AI guidance is consistent across S/4 Newcomers and Pros alike.
Go-live changes the questions, not the pressure. The full story is in our 2026 S/4HANA Research Report: bit.ly/4itG72N
ALT A graphic titled "The Questions Don't End at Go-Live" from ASUG. It shows three columns with percentages for valuable support areas for SAP S/4HANA optimization: 36% for identifying where to apply AI, 31% for guidance on S/4 capabilities, and 22% for data quality, governance, or reporting support. A key insight notes AI's role beyond initial implementation.
What happens to @SAP change management when AI starts creating the changes?
That’s becoming an important question as AI takes a larger role in producing code, tests, configurations, and other change artifacts.
Rev-Trac looks at the two-sided challenge ahead: keeping the SAP environment stable and governed while also managing the changes AI helps create.
Read more: bit.ly/4BsLo2f
What happens after SAP for Utilities?
Today at 2 PM CT, we’re getting the utilities community back together to talk about exactly that.
Join Beyond SAP4U: What’s Next for the Utilities Community to hear what resonated with utilities leaders, exchange perspectives with peers, and keep the conversations from SAP for Utilities moving forward.
You don’t have to have attended SAP for Utilities to take part.
🔗 Join the conversation: bit.ly/4e3jsrH
There’s something special about being in a room full of people who get what you do.
ASUG Chapter meetings bring those conversations to life. Ideas, connections, insights… all in one place.
See what’s coming up next for members: bit.ly/3Nj5aZA
ALT Upcoming ASUG chapter meetings announcement. The schedule includes: Wisconsin Chapter on Monday, October 26; Ottawa Chapter on Thursday, November 5; New England Chapter on Thursday, November 12; and Colorado Chapter on Thursday, November 12.
The hands-on labs at ASUG Tech Connect are filling up fast. 👀
Nearly half the labs already have 50+ attendees, and many are completely sold out.
Don't wait to make your plans. Join us and see what everyone's showing up for: bit.ly/4yFKfBv
👻 It's October. You know what's haunting SAP practitioners right now?
Legacy customizations.
48% of ASUG members say too many customizations in their old instances is the top migration risk they've experienced. It's also the #1-ranked risk overall.
The ghost of every workaround ever built is coming back to haunt your S/4HANA migration.
The full story is in our 2026 S/4HANA Research Report. bit.ly/4itG72N
ALT The image is a slide titled "What's haunting your S/4HANA migration?" It states that 48% say legacy customizations are the top experienced risk, followed by data migration (44%) and change management (41%). A bar chart titled "Top SAP S/4HANA Migration Risks Experienced" shows three risks: "Too many customizations," "Data migration issues," and "Change management," with "Too many customizations" being the top risk at 20%. A small ghost icon is labeled "Top Risks." ASUG logo appears in the bottom left corner.
Global enterprise asset management (EAM) gets complicated fast.
On the latest ASUG Talks, @PepsiCo’s Aaron Gladura takes us inside the company’s approach to creating greater consistency across its EAM processes with SAP.
We get into the Global Template, spare parts, adoption, governance, and what it takes to make change work at PepsiCo’s scale.
🎧 Tune in: bit.ly/4zJReKW
Most companies didn’t set out to build a hybrid strategy; their operations produced it anyway. Manufacturing data lives on the factory floor, but SaaS applications like SAP Concur and SAP Ariba only run in the cloud. Ultimately, enterprise strategy ended up following the reality.
@Intel explored what that means for @SAP modernization in a five-part video series produced with ASUG at SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference 2026. The conversations cover the control and cost questions, as well as the implications of infrastructure choices for AI readiness.
Five interviews. One page. Check it out here:
bit.ly/4r98h5Q
An audit trail is only as strong as the documentation behind it.
In a new ASUG Partner Insight, Doxis Director of International Growth Fabian Rückels explains how organizations can fill SAP's documentation gaps from within SAP itself, keeping data centralized, processes cleaner, and audit readiness within reach.
Read it here: bit.ly/4j8RMF8
Got challenges? We’ve got experts.
Join a virtual event to get practical insights and solutions you can use immediately.
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ALT Virtual events schedule for the ASUG Community. Tuesday, 10/20: - "Invisible Support in Action: How SAP Prevents Disruptions Before They Happen" by ASUG IT Operations Community Alliance. - "Reduce SAP S/4HANA Data Migration Complexity With AI Innovation!" in partnership with Accenture. Wednesday, 10/21: - "What's New From SAP Security Patch?" by September SAP Security Update. - "One Source of Truth: SAP Runs the Transactions, but Who’s Handling Paperwork?" in partnership with Doxis. Thursday, 10/22: - "How SAP IBP Turns Supply Chain Volatility into Faster, Better Business Decisions" in partnership with Syskoplan Reply.
From the event floor to your inbox. #SAP4U ⚡
Join Lauren Dixon for a quick recap of highlights from the event, conversations from the community, and a quick peek at what's coming up in ASUG First Five.
The event may be over, but conversations continue. Make sure you're signed up for ASUG First Five for the top SAP updates and insights delivered straight to your inbox: bit.ly/4ilw9jV
IT director? Enterprise architect? Developer? This one's for you.
In our latest Hot Seat, Kara Hughes breaks down who #ASUGTechConnect is built for, what she's most excited to see from customer teams, and why it's worth three days in Fort Worth.
Nov. 2–4 | In partnership with SAP TechEd
Save your seat: bit.ly/4xmw44B
Missed SAP Connect 2026?
Kelly Dowling and Elizabeth Tuckwell join ASUG Talks to break down the biggest announcements, the ongoing importance of governance, and how SAP customers are using AI across the business.
🎧 Tune in to catch up here: bit.ly/4hXvGDl
The utilities industry is being reshaped by forces that did not exist at scale just a few years ago. AI adoption, surging data center demand, and the pace of electrification are creating new strategic questions that most utilities are still working out how to answer.
What enterprise capabilities do you actually need to lead in this kind of environment? What choices are on the table, and what are the tradeoffs?
@KPMG's Brad Stansberry and Adrian Leaf bring a grounded perspective to those questions in a new conversation with ASUG, drawing on their work with the KPMG Energy Orchestrator series.
Read the full article: bit.ly/4AZ9G3F
What turns an emerging technology into a meaningful business innovation?
In this ASUG Talks conversation, Yaad Oren explains how SAP’s research and innovation teams identify promising technologies, explore their possible applications, and focus their work on creating customer value.
From AI and data to robotics, the episode offers a closer look at how SAP researches the developments that could influence the next era of enterprise technology.
🎧 If you missed it, listen here: bit.ly/4gdWob2
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