Welcome to Innovate Now: Your Gateway to Game-Changing Insights
Our Innovate Now video series brings you cutting-edge insights into current market trends, technological innovations, and real-world problem-solving. From SAP Transformation to the game-changing potential of Generative AI, this series showcases how Kagool’s expertise is making an impact globally.
Join us for exclusive conversations with our top experts who navigate these challenges daily, providing practical solutions and thought leadership. Stay tuned for episodes packed with innovation, knowledge, and strategies to help your business thrive.
Episode 1: SAP Supply Chain Trends & Solutions with Kagool
Watch Episode 1 of Innovate Now! Join Kevin Little and Suresh Kanumuri as they explore:
- The rise of S/4HANA in revolutionising warehouse management
- The surprising shift: Why companies are insourcing 3PL logistics systems
- The e-commerce boom: Adapting to evolving fulfilment centre demands
- Lessons from the field: Success stories in automotive and retail supply chains
Watch the episode to unpack these trends and provide actionable strategies you can implement right away.
Episode 2: How Build Factory Model Revolutionise SAP Delivery & Business Efficiency
Watch Episode 2 of Innovate Now! Join Kevin Little and SAP expert Ramesh Mandal as they explore how the Build Factory Model transforms SAP delivery and drives organisational success
Key Topics Covered:
- What is a Build Factory Model? Breaking down its core components for optimising SAP operations.
- Efficiency and Scalability: How businesses streamline delivery and scale seamlessly.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Reducing operational costs through reusable frameworks and centralised governance.
- Real-World Success Stories: Insights from industries like automotive and manufacturing.
- Integrating AI and Machine Learning: Enhancing Build Factory Models with cutting-edge technology.
Watch to discover actionable strategies and how your organisation can benefit from this framework.
Episode 3: How AI is Transforming Business & Driving Innovation
Watch Episode 3 of Innovate Now! Join Kevin Little, Peter Humble from Microsoft, and Hammand Karman as they explore the Road Map to AI—a strategic guide to AI adoption, data readiness, and ethical implementation to drive real business success.
Key Topics Covered:
- Is Your Business AI-Ready? Understanding the essential steps for AI adoption.
- Data Readiness & AI Success: Why clean, structured data is the foundation of effective AI.
- AI in Retail: How AI revolutionises customer experiences, stock management, and predictive analytics.
- Scalability & Cloud AI: Leveraging cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure for AI-driven automation.
- Ethical AI & Governance: Ensuring responsible AI implementation with transparency and accountability.
- Overcoming AI Adoption Challenges: Common pitfalls and how businesses can navigate AI integration successfully.
Watch to discover actionable insights and real-world applications that will help your organisation unlock AI’s full potential.
Episode 4: Inside SAP Supply Chain Transformation with Kagool
Is your supply chain future-ready?
In Episode 4 of Innovate Now, host Kevin Little is joined by Suresh Kanumuri, Head of Enterprise Solutions at Kagool, to uncover what it takes to transform SAP supply chains at scale—from legacy modernisation to global integration and automation. Explore real-world strategies, integration frameworks, and customer success stories that reveal how businesses across manufacturing, retail, and utilities are simplifying complexity and achieving measurable outcomes with SAP S/4HANA.
Key Topics Covered:
- Mastering SAP Supply Chain Models: Explore product-led, customer-led, and service-led strategies—and how Kagool delivers value across all three.
- Integration That Works: Proven approaches to connecting SAP with legacy and third-party systems.
- Smart Automation: Leverage SAP S/4HANA and EWM to drive warehouse efficiency and real-time visibility.
- Scaling with Confidence: How Kagool partners with GSIs and niche experts to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
- Global Success in Action: Real-world insight from a 12-country rollout across 150+ retail locations.
- Legacy to Leading Edge: Practical ways to modernise without disrupting operations.
- Future-Proofing Supply Chains: Align transformation with KPIs like speed, agility, and operational excellence.
Episode 5: From BI to AI – Building a Modern Data & Analytics Strategy with Microsoft & Kagool
Is your business intelligence ready for the AI era?
In Episode 5 of Innovate Now, host Kevin Little is joined by Pete Humble (Microsoft) and Lalith Kumar Korae (Kagool) to explore how organisations are moving beyond dashboards and legacy BI into the future of AI-driven analytics. Discover how real businesses are modernising their data strategy, migrating SAP to Azure, and unlocking scalable, governed platforms to turn data into decisions.
This session cuts through the buzzwords and delivers practical advice, frameworks, and examples to help you align your analytics roadmap with business outcomes—no matter where you are on the BI to AI journey.
Key Topics Covered:
- Why BI Alone Isn’t Enough: Understand the limitations of traditional dashboards and the need for intelligent, predictive analytics.
- Modernising Through SAP to Azure: Learn how businesses are accelerating SAP migrations to Microsoft Azure for agility, integration, and AI enablement.
- The Foundations of Trustworthy Data: Explore how to build clean, governed data pipelines that enable scalable analytics and AI applications.
- Strategy Before Software: Discover why defining business outcomes before selecting tools is the key to long-term success.
- AI in Action: Real-world stories of organisations using AI and Power BI to drive insight, innovation, and transformation at scale.
- Smarter Decisions, Faster: Learn how data fragmentation, cultural change, and platform design all play a role in delivering trustworthy, real-time decision-making.
Episode 6: Modernising Legacy Systems – Accelerating Data Transformation
Are legacy systems holding your business back from becoming truly data-driven?
Watch Episode 6 of Innovate Now as Kevin Little, Pete Humble from Microsoft, and Lalith Korae from Kagool explore how to modernise legacy SAP and BI systems using Microsoft Azure, Velocity, and SparkQ—without the need for costly replatforming.
Key Topics Covered:
- Modernising legacy SAP and BI systems without full replatforming using Microsoft Azure
- Governed, role-based data access to support secure self-service analytics
- Tiered data governance models (bronze, silver, gold) for scalability and compliance
- No-code SAP data ingestion and governance with Kagool’s Velocity and SparkQ
- AI readiness and advanced insights powered by Microsoft Copilot
- Aligning data strategy with business goals to maximise ROI and transformation impact
Episode 7: Transforming SAP Data Migration – People, Process & Pulse
Struggling to gain control over your SAP data migration? Watch Episode 7 of Innovate Now as Kevin Little and Lawrence Vinicombe from Kagool explore how to unlock SAP transformation success by focusing on the three pillars of data migration: People, Process, and Tooling.
Learn how Kagool’s SAP-certified platform, Pulse, helps reduce risk, improve visibility, and drive confident go-lives—right the first time.
Key Topics Covered:
- Why SAP data migration must be treated as a strategic workstream—not an afterthought
- The impact of people, planning, and communication on migration success
- How to build realistic, integrated data migration plans that align with SAP delivery
- Common pitfalls in data quality, reconciliation, and ownership—and how to avoid them
- How Pulse by Kagool improves automation, error handling, and go-live readiness
- Real-world lessons from clients like Meggitt, XP Power, and Calor Gas
- Practical steps tostart early, stay in control,and ensure long-term SAP data integrity
