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CONFERENCE
GUIDE
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Table of Contents
9 TIPS TO INCREASE THE VALUE OF YOUR CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE
Attend any session at Financials 2011, GRC 2011, HR 2011, or BI 2011. (Your conference badge admits you to sessions offered across
all four programs.)
Join your peers at a conference orientation session. It familiarizes you with key elements of the event, including its educational sessions,
networking forums, Exhibition Hall layout, and more everything you need to know to get the greatest value from your conference
experience.
Take advantage of the Customer Discussion Forums special sessions where delegates share experiences, tips, tricks, and techniques on a
specific topic.
Bring your individual questions to the Ask-the-Experts forums and meet one-on-one or in groups with an expert speaker for help with
your toughest challenges. Ask a specific question, get a specific answer.
Visit the SAP booth in the Exhibition Hall to see demos of the SAP functionality youll be learning about in the sessions, and glean
more insight into how you can do more with your SAP software now and in the future.
Access and download the conference materials sign up for a free membership to www.insiderlearningnetwork.com and access all the
session materials from all four conferences through your account. To learn more and to register for Insider Learning Network on-site,
please visit the Insider Learning Network kiosk on the 1st level of the Elicium Ballroom in the Exhibition Hall.
Speak with the leading third-party vendors about their ideas for optimizing your SAP infrastructure.
Attend an SAPexperts LIVE session to experience in person the SAPexperts knowledgebase. Youll dive deeper into a specific article from
this knowledgebase with its author. Ask him or her follow-up questions to get even more guidance from this article.
Important! Many speakers at this event are regular contributors to the SAPexperts online knowledgebases. Conference delegates are
strongly encouraged to take advantage of this invaluable resource year-round. Visit the WIS Publishing booth to activate a subscription or
to learn if your companys subscription to SAPexperts is current.
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General Information 2
Conference Orientation Session 2
Conference Overview 3
Conference at a Glance 3
Keynote Address 4
General Assemblies 5
SAP Solutions Labs 6
Convention Center Map 8
Thank You to Our Sponsors 9
Insider Networking
Networking Ribbons 9
Welcome Reception 9
Exhibitor Meet and Greet 9
Customer Discussion Forums 11
SAPexperts LIVE Sessions 13
Ask-the-Experts 15
Daily Schedules
Monday, 6 June (Pre-Conference Education) 17
Tuesday, 7 June 18
Wednesday, 8 June 21
Thursday, 9 June 24
Session Descriptions
Pre-Conference Education 27
Track Listings 31
BI Sessions Tuesday, 7 June 33
BI Sessions Wednesday, 8 June 37
BI Sessions Thursday, 9 June 43
Financials and GRC Sessions Tuesday, 7 June 47
Financials and GRC Sessions Wednesday, 8 June 55
Financials and GRC Sessions Thursday, 9 June 65
HR Sessions Tuesday, 7 June 75
HR Sessions Wednesday, 8 June 79
HR Sessions Thursday, 9 June 83
Sponsored Educational Sessions 87
Exhibition Hall
Exhibition Hall Map 89
Exhibiting Companies 91
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Conference Orientation Session
Monday, 13.45 14.15 G104
Tuesday, 8.15 8.45 G104
This informative session is designed to help you become familiar with the key elements of this conference including educational sessions,
networking forums, Exhibition Hall layout, and more everything you need to know to get the greatest value from your experience.
Learn how to navigate the program and choose the sessions of greatest interest to you
Find out when and where networking activities are scheduled and how to make the most of them
Get to know the conference staff and find out how they can be of help to you throughout the conference
Meet peers you can interact with at the event and keep in touch with for years to come
Discover opportunities to continue your learning and networking experience after the conference is over
CONFERENCE BADGES
Delegates must wear badges at all times for admission to Pre-
Conference Education sessions, conference sessions, the keynote
addresses, the exhibition hall, special events, lunches, refreshment
breaks, and networking activities. You can pick up your conference
name badge at the registration desk.
REGISTRATION
The registration desk is located in the Elicium Foyer on the ground
floor of the RAI Convention Center. Registration hours are:
Monday 9.00 17.30
Tuesday: 8.00 19.00
Wednesday: 8.00 18.00
Thursday: 8.00 17.15
EVALUATIONS
We value your comments and feedback. Please fill out the evaluation
forms provided at each session and return them to our staff when
exiting the session. Also, get your free conference t-shirt by filling
out the overall conference evaluation form that will be handed out on
Thursday, and returning it to a staff member at the registration desk.
LUNCHES AND BREAKS
The conference provides delegates with lunches and breaks between
sessions for all three days of the conference. See the daily schedules on
pages 17-26 for exact times and locations.
MOBILE DEVICE POLICY
For the convenience and consideration of all delegates, we ask that you
silence all mobile telephones while you are in a session.
BUSINESS SERVICES CENTER
A full service business center is located in the lobby of the Auditorium
Lounge. The business center is open during conference hours.
CLOAK ROOM
The cloak room is located in the Elicium Foyer on the ground level
next to the registration desk. This service is available on a first-come,
first-served basis and is free of charge.
EMAIL/INTERNET STATIONS
We have set up convenient email stations and wireless networking
areas. The SSID of SAPinsider will be broadcast, but laptops must
be configured with an 802.11b card accepting DHCP. The network
will always be up, but there may be service interruptions. Please
contact your company Network Administrator for wireless connection
assistance. For ease of use and maximum functionality, this network is
not secured and individuals are responsible for security on their own
workstation. Use of mail encryption, anti-virus software, personal fire-
wall, and VPN applications is recommended. Technical support is not
available for systems. Please report network-related problems to the
conference registration desk.
SMOKING POLICY
The RAI is a non-smoking facility; please step outside the building
if you wish to smoke.
INSIDER LEARNING NETWORK KIOSK
Following this conference, continue your networking experience on
Insider Learning Network. Your free membership keeps you connected
with the delegates, speakers, and partners you meet this week. Get
independent tips, tricks, and strategies to build on the content presented
at this event, and remain up-to-date on what is happening in the SAP
community, all in one location. Plus, now you can access all of your
conference materials on Insider Learning Network. Log in using the
email address you used to register for the conference and you will find all
of the session presentations from all four conferences in the Conference
Materials folder located on your homepage. For more information and
to register on-site please stop by the Insider Learning Network kiosk
on the 1st level of the Elicium Ballroom in the Exhibition Hall.
General Information
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Conference at a Glance
Conference Overview
40 COMPREHENSIVE TRACKS
Customize your learning experience by attending sessions from
Financials 2011, GRC 2011, HR 2011 or BI 2011. Choose from more
than 225 sessions across 40 comprehensive tracks.
EXHIBITION HALL
Compare and contrast market-leading solutions and see for yourself how
SAP and third-party technologies fit into your IT infrastructure. See
pages 89-96 for a complete listing of sponsors and exhibitors.
SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS
Sponsored Educational Sessions, delivered by conference sponsors,
will provide you with opportunities to learn about customer successes,
participate in discussions, and view demonstrations of how vendor
products or services can help drive more business value from your SAP
solution. These sessions are part of the main conference schedule. See
pages 87-88 for more information.
INSIDER NETWORKING
Financials 2011, GRC 2011, HR 2011, and BI 2011 offer a wide array
of networking opportunities. Attach a networking ribbon to your badge
to find specific counterparts from your industry. Attend one of our
SAPexperts LIVE sessions to learn more about articles from the authors
themselves. Participate in one of our Customer Discussion Forums and
have detailed conversations with people who share your interests, and
then tap into the knowledge and insight of the conference speakers at
Ask-the-Experts. Finally, join us during the Welcome Reception or the
Exhibitor Meet and Greet to interact with other delegates, exhibitors,
and speakers to build a lasting network of peers. See pages 9-15 for more
information.
Pre-Conference
Education
Conference
Monday, 6 June Tuesday, 7 June Wednesday, 8 June Thursday, 9 June
9.00 Registration opens
10.00 Morning sessions
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Conference Orientation
Session
14.30 Afternoon sessions
17.30 Registration closes
Morning Coffee
Exhibition Hall opens
8.15 Conference Orientation
Session
9.00 Keynote Address
10.00 GRC Solutions Lab
10.15 Refreshment break
10.30 EPM Solutions Lab
10.45 Breakout sessions
13.30 Lunch
17.30 Welcome Reception
17.45 Ask-the-Experts
19.00 Exhibition Hall closes
Morning Coffee
9.00 Financials General
Assembly
HR General Assembly
GRC General Assembly
BI Breakout sessions
13.30 Lunch
15.45 Exhibitor Meet and Greet
16.00 Ask-the-Experts
Morning Coffee
12.00 Lunch
17.15 Conference concludes
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Keynote Address
Tuesday, 7 June
Analytics for Finance, HR, and Compliance:
What the Numbers Tell Us
9.00 10.15 y Auditorium
Across the worlds best run companies you find a prevalence of real-time analytics. This keynote looks at the innovative ways
these companies leverage analytics for greater insight and business performance. Sanjay Poonen, the executive who sets direction
for all SAP business applications and technologies, offers previews of SAP innovations for finance, HR and compliance and
demonstrates how analytics enhance the value of your organizations current SAP applications.
New Priorities and SAP Technologies for Business Intelligence
Much has changed for Business Intelligence (BI) and Line of Business professionals. Business conditions and emerging
technologies have altered priorities. BI teams now face steeper requirements for information integrity, burgeoning data volumes,
and unprecedented demand for analytics across different lines of business. At the same time, end users are clamoring for simpler,
faster and also mobile access to BI capabilities. This keynote explores these trends and the emerging technologies that best
support them. It also offers recommendations for setting priorities to ensure BI investment yields strong technology and
business ROI.
Sanjay Poonen
President of Solutions
Go-to-Market, SAP AG
Jason Rose
Head of Business
Intelligence Marketing,
SAP BusinessObjects
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General Assemblies
Especially for our HR 2011 Delegates
Its 2011. Hows Your Employee Engagement?
9.00 10.15 y Forum
Employee expectations, requirements, and business contributions are changing. Understanding how,
and reflecting those insights across your HR processes to improve engagement and impact business
outcomes is one of the highest priorities for HR executives. In this assembly, Dawn Crew, the
executive who leads and sets direction for the SAP HCM solution portfolio, provides a detailed look at
these priorities and how they can correlate to a companys competitive standing. This assembly also
offers previews of the newest SAP solutions coming in the areas of Manager Self-Service, Strategic
Workforce Planning and mobile applications as wells as SAP recommendations for improving
employee engagement and effectiveness with your current HR platform.
* Claus Heinrich was a Board Member of SAP for over 13 years, responsible for Human Resources and various Product Development areas. He retired in 2009.
Dawn Crew
Vice President
HR Line of Business
Solutions
SAP
Claus Heinrich*
CEO sovanta AG
Especially for our GRC 2011 Delegates
SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Launch
9.00 10.15 y Emerald Room
Join Jim Dunham, Group Vice President, GRC Solution Management, as he unveils SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0. Leading
customers will join Jim to explain how the newest features drive value and return on investment. GRC 10.0 builds on SAPs proven
track record and goes beyond with an extraordinary collection of customer-driven enhancements. This latest release is truly
comprehensive, enabling a unified approach to GRC initiatives. Also see how SAPs partners have delivered industry-specific GRC
solutions tailored for customers needs. This assembly promises to signal a new era for GRC solutions.
Jim Dunham
Group Vice President
GRC Solution
Management
SAP
Wednesday, 8 June
Especially for our Financials 2011 Delegates
Finance Today: A Roadmap for Mastering Change and
Promoting Greater Productivity and Performance
The performance of finance organizations today hinges, in large measure, on the ability to handle
change and volatility. Recent studies signal that this ability is required by professionals at every level,
from managers to financial officers, and that this competency impacts every KPI, from the number of
days it takes to close the books and day-sales-outstanding to return on capital employed and the cost of
finance as a percentage of revenue. This assembly looks at the changes that have the greatest impact on
performance and examines the strategies being employed at best-run finance organizations to drive
better performance, growth, and alignment with the business operations teams they serve. Benchmark
data will illustrate what best-in-class finance looks like, how your peers are performing and how they achieve advantage by optimizing their technology solutions. This
assembly also includes special previews of new SAP productivity and decision-support solutions for finance professionals and recommendations that SAP customers can
apply today to improve finance processes.
Martin Naraschewski
Vice President
Finance Solutions
SAP AG
Phil Scrivener
Senior Director
European Advisory,
The Hackett Group
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SAP Solutions Labs
SAP
Financials (ERP) and

SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise Performance Management

(EPM) Solutions Lab
Visit the SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions lab, located in the Exhibition Hall, for an in-depth look at SAP Financials and
SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions. Learn how your finance team can become a more effective partner to your business by providing optimal control and
empowering all stakeholders to adapt quickly, act with confidence and take full advantage of dynamic business conditions.
INTRODUCING SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS EPM 10.0 SOLUTIONS
UNIFIED. COMPREHENSIVE. TRANSFORMATIONAL.
With a new Web 2.0 interface, new disclosure management capabilities, and the use of transformational technologies including in-memory computing
and mobile technologies, SAP BusinessObjects EPM 10.0 solutions provide the most comprehensive EPM solution for a more responsive finance
organization.
The solution lab provides a three-day opportunity for you to:
Meet one-on-one with SAP solution experts. Make an appointment with an experienced solutions expert to discuss business challenges you
are facing, discuss current best practices and review solution features and functionality.
Explore SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions. Self-guided demonstrations and workbook exercises, with real-life
business scenarios, allow you to learn, at your own pace, about the benefits of these solutions.
Learn best practices. Watch live demonstrations and discover how SAP financial solutions can benefit you and your organization by attending
Financials (ERP) and EPM lab presentations presented by our knowledge experts.
Featured solutions offer comprehensive functionality for:
Treasury and financial risk management
Receivables management
Invoice to pay
Accounting and financial close
Shared services for Finance
Planning and consolidation
Profitability and cost management
Strategy management
Financial consolidations
Spend Performance Management
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED! MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT EARLY!
Appointments are required for the one-on-one sessions, small group presentations and self-guided demos. Be sure to stop by the SAP Financials (ERP)
and SAP BusinessObjects EPM solution lab to make your reservation. The lab registration desk opens each day at 8.00 and is located in the exhibition
hall.
The registration desk opens at 8.00 each day.
Appointments are scheduled during the following hours:
Tuesday, 7 June 10.30 17.30
Wednesday, 8 June 10.30 17.30
Thursday, 9 June 8.30 14.30
PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS AND GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Small group presentations and product demonstrations will run Tuesday through Thursday beginning at 8.00. Visit www.financials2011.com/epmlab for
a complete schedule.
Stop by the SAP FI/EPM Solution Lab in the Exhibition Hall to make your reservation!
For more information on SAP Financial Solutions, visit www.sap.com/solutions/business-process/financial-management.epx and www.sap.com/epm
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SAP
BusinessObjects Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)

Solution Lab and Partner Showcase
INTRODUCING SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS GRC 10.0 SOLUTION
COMPREHENSIVE. ESSENTIAL AND PROVEN. INDUSTRY SPECIFIC.
SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) 10.0 solution delivers an extraordinary collection of customer-driven enhancements,
unveiling a unified approach to managing GRC initiatives. SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0, and an unmatched partner ecosystem, provide the most
complete portfolio of industry-specific GRC solutions to meet your risk and compliance needs.
Stop by the SAP BusinessObjects GRC solution lab, located in the Exhibition Hall, to talk to our experts and gain in-depth knowledge on this new
release and learn about the full array of GRC solutions from SAP and select partners. The GRC Solution Lab and Partner Showcase is a three-day
opportunity for you to:
Meet one-on-one with solution experts. Make an appointment with one of our experienced GRC solution experts to discuss your specific
requirements and learn how it can address the needs of your organization.
Learn best practices. In addition to one-on-one meetings, well have small group presentations and product demonstrations led by SAP
knowledge experts and select partners where you can discover how the SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 solution can benefit you and your
organization.
Talk to our partners. Discover and evaluate complementary GRC solutions with private discussions from a select group of partners in the
partner showcase including: Accenture, Greenlight Technologies, Protiviti and su53 Solutions.
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED! MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT EARLY!
Appointments are required for the one-on-one sessions and small group presentations. Be sure to stop by the SAP BusinessObjects GRC solution lab,
located in the Exhibition Hall, to make your reservation. The lab registration desk opens each day of the conference at 8.00.
One-on-one Appointments
Appointments to meet with a GRC solution expert are available during the following hours:
Tuesday, 7 June 10.00 17.00
Wednesday, 8 June 12.00 18.00
Thursday, 9 June 8.00 14.30
PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS AND GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Small group presentations and product demonstrations will run Tuesday through Thursday beginning at 8.00. Visit www.grc2011.com/grclab for a
complete schedule.
Stop by the SAP BusinessObjects GRC Solution Lab in the exhibition hall to make your reservation!
For more information on SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 visit www.sap.com/sapbusinessobjects/grc
SAP Solutions Labs, continued

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Emerald
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Main Entrance
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Forum
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Elicium Tower
Ballroom
Exhibition Hall
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SAP EPM Lab SAP GRC Lab
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to lunch
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Elicium Tower
Foyer
Convention Center Map
MAP LEGEND
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Registration
2
Cloak Room
3
Lunch Days 13
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Lunch Pre-Conference
Education Day
5
Day 1 Keynote Address
Day 2 Financials General
Assembly
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HR General Assembly
7
Exhibition Hall
Morning Coffee
Breaks/Desserts
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SAP GRC Solutions Lab
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SAP EPM Solutions Lab
10 Day 2 GRC General Assembly
D201 D202 D203 D204
Elicium Tower
Second Floor
Elevators to
First and
Fourth level
Elicium Tower
Fourth Floor
D407
Elevators to
First and
Second level
D403
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NETWORKING RIBBONS
Attach industry ribbons to your conference badge and use them to
find specific counterparts who are attending the conference. Find
out what theyre learning and build a lasting network of peers.
Visit the registration desk for more information.
WELCOME RECEPTION
After the sessions on Tuesday, join hundreds of your peers at our
Welcome Reception. Its a chance to have discussions with the
speakers, trade experiences in a casual setting with the people who
fight the same battles you do every day, and visit the Exhibition
Hall.
EXHIBITOR MEET AND GREET
Take advantage of this opportunity to visit with our sponsors
and exhibitors on Wednesday afternoon to get a firsthand look at
cutting-edge products and new functionality. See demos and talk
with expert developers, consultants, and SAP product managers.
CUSTOMER DISCUSSION FORUMS
These forums are informal, interactive get-togethers where SAP
customers with similar interests, projects, and challenges can
gather to talk about specific topics. Each topic will be facilitated
by a subject-matter expert. You do not need to sign up in advance
to attend, and there is no formal agenda. Just have a great
discussion with people who share your concerns and interests. See
page 11 for a complete listing and schedule.
SAPEXPERTS LIVE
SESSIONS
This forum offers delegates
the opportunity to meet
leading authors from our
SAPexperts knowledgebases
and discuss topics from
recent articles. Attend these sessions to get additional information,
share and discuss experiences with your peers, and ask the author
questions unique to your own experience. These sessions are
part of the main conference schedule. See page 13 for more
information.
ASK-THE-EXPERTS
Pull up a chair in the Ask-the-Experts area of the Exhibition Hall
during Tuesdays Welcome Reception and Wednesdays Exhibitor
Meet and Greet and spend one-on-one time with the top experts.
Learn from their real-world expertise and get specific insights on
topics and questions that matter to you most. See page 15 for a
complete listing of experts.
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Customer Discussion Forums
Step away from the standard lecture format and share ideas with your peers in these dynamic, interactive forums. Gather lessons, how-to information,
and techniques other customers have learned based on experience.
Battle-tested strategies and best practices for
managing and archiving SAP NetWeaver BW data
Jim Malfetti, Brandywine Data Management Group
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G111 B7
Dont miss this unique opportunity to talk with your counterparts at other
organizations about their strategies for archiving and storing their SAP
NetWeaver BW data. Explore questions such as: Why does my organization
need a data retention policy for BW, and what are the most important aspects
to include? How can I best control data growth in SAP NetWeaver BW
while still retaining the data my users need? Which tools and strategies are my
counterparts using to ensure data quality in their organizations? What archiving
strategies deliver optimum system performance? Are my peers seeing benefits
from a complete information lifecycle management implementation, or is it
just hype? Walk away from this discussion with strategies and best practices for
improved data management that you can put to use right away.
Lessons and best practices that streamline the
time-to-close process
Sandeep Bagchi, Keane
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G101 F5 G7
Engage in an interactive discussion with peers and find out how they are speeding
the time-to-close process. Get answers to questions such as: What are the best ways
to manage, direct, and optimize my companys closing procedures? How do I over-
come common problems that plague my closing processes? What SAP tools are
available to help me streamline my period-end close? How do I ensure that my close
processes are transparent and meet regulatory requirements? Gain new ideas and per-
spectives on how to construct well-coordinated year-end and month-end processes.
Recommendations and advice to building and running
a shared services environment
Bernhard Fischer, SAP AG
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G111 F8
Are you considering, planning, or have already begun rolling out a shared ser-
vices model at your organization? Participate in an interactive discussion with
peers and experts who have been through this type of project to find out the
best ways to proceed. Get answers to challenging questions, such as: How can
a shared services model help optimize costs, minimize risk, and improve ser-
vices provided to the business? How are my peers overcoming common
implementation and design challenges? How do I go about leveraging busi-
ness process automation in my shared service organization? Which finance
processes should be kept within the shared service center and which ones can
be outsourced? Hear from your colleagues and get insights into what every
SAP financials team should know before beginning a shared services project.
How do your SAP security and authorizations measure up?
James Roeske, Savera Systems
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G101 G2 H6
Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other SAP
customers are managing their SAP security and authorizations. Learn what key
areas and functionality of SAP solutions you can leverage today to boost secu-
rity as well as improve your audit process. Engage in a discussion about how
your peers are building compliance into their own SAP security structures.
Hear how others are getting their users and not just their security adminis-
trator involved in maintaining a safe, secure, and compliant environment.
Improve the integration of financials functionality
with other SAP applications
Naeem Arif, Arif Consulting
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G111 F2
Enter into a lively discussion with peers and experts to find out the best ways
to integrate SAP software for financial accounting with other SAP compo-
nents, such as sales and distribution (SD) and materials management (MM).
Explore questions such as: What key integration points between the finan-
cial accounting, MM, and SD components should I pay special attention to?
What integration mistakes and inefficiencies should I avoid? How do I
ensure that these different components are recording and reporting the same
results? How are my counterparts at other companies reconciling discrepan-
cies between components? Leave this moderated discussion forum with
unique insights and best practices that improve the integration of your finan-
cial accounting software with the rest of your SAP landscape.
A real-world guide to core SAP ERP HCM and payroll
enhancements
Robert Moeller, SAP Labs
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G111 H2
Join this unique forum that will offer you the opportunity to exchange ideas
with experts and peers on the recent improvements made to core SAP ERP
HCM and payroll with SAP enhancement package 5. Find out which
enhancement packages others are running and what their installation and
maintenance challenges and successes have been. Examine the technical and
functional prerequisites that if followed correctly will help you avoid costly
installation problems. Network with your colleagues to determine what your
options are for addressing untamed HR business processes, integrate existing
processes, and satisfying functionality gaps. Take part in the discussion and
come away with insight and a strategy for leveraging the new functionality
for core SAP ERP HCM and payroll.
Lessons for maintaining a sound business
intelligence strategy in an evolving technical
landscape
Penny Silvia, IBM
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G101 B1
The business intelligence space is constantly evolving, with the release of
new technologies and the rise of new trends. Without a concrete BI
roadmap or strategy, its easy to lose a competitive edge. This interactive
session explores questions such as: What are some best practices for staying
up-to-speed with new BI trends, such as mobility or in-memory computing?
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organizational BI roadmap? What are the top pitfalls to avoid when formu-
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SAPexperts LIVE Sessions
This forum allows you the opportunity to meet authors from the SAPexperts knowledgebases and discuss topics from their articles. Share your own best
practices related to the topic or ask questions pertinent to your individual situation. The author will dive deeper into their articles most critical points, and youll
also gain insight from other participants. Copies of the articles are available outside the session room. You are encouraged to review the article before the session
and come prepared with your questions.
SAPexperts LIVE is provided to you courtesy of the SAPexperts knowledgebases where hard-to-find instruction, best practices, and guidance are published
every week for SAP professionals who manage and support SAP projects and activities.
HRexpert
LIVE
SAP ERP HCM performance management: New features
enhance employee development
Venki Krishnamoorthy, SAP America
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 D201 H2
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Venki Krishnamoorthy, SAP ERP
HCM Consultant, SAP America, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of
his most widely read articles from HR Expert the leading publication and knowl-
edgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions that support HR. Learn how
to use the latest performance management functionality delivered with SAP enhance-
ment package 4 to provide 360-degree feedback to employees, conduct calibrations,
set team goals, identify development needs, and integrate the training needs with
SAP Enterprise Learning solution. View examples of the two user interface options
to perform the appraisal process. Understand the uses of and differences between the
predefined performance management process and the flexible performance manage-
ment process. Learn how to leverage performance management functionality to build
and motivate teams to achieve greater success by aligning team and corporate goals to
specific, measurable individual goals. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge
and engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities.
BIexpert
LIVE
Accelerate the creation of powerful dashboards in
Xcelsius
Anurag Barua, AES Corp
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G103 B4
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Anurag Barua, author, speaker, and
SAP practitioner specializing in dashboard development, and engage in an in-depth
discussion about one of his most widely-read articles from BI Expert. Discover what
features Xcelsius offers for quicker dashboards development with fewer manual
efforts. Explore strategies and techniques to improve dashboard design and get tips
for getting started using Xcelsius, including required skill sets. Learn how to over-
come common roadblocks customers experience when building dashboards.
HRexpert
LIVE
Tips for using the succession management component
to optimize talent management
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 D201 H2
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Venki Krishnamoorthy, SAP HCM
Consultant, SAP America, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his
most widely read articles from HR Expert the leading publication and knowledge-
base for organizations that leverage SAP solutions that support HR. Hear how the
new succession management component from SAP enhancement package 4 for
talent management can help you in your talent management efforts. Identify the new
features and functions available for talent management specialists. Learn how these
tools enable you to do talent calibration, compare talents, identify potential successors
for vacant positions, evaluate their training and development needs, and meet corpo-
rate goals and objectives. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and engage
with peers who have the same interests and priorities.
Financialsexpert
LIVE
Calculate actual costs across multiple company codes
using a new business function in SAP enhancement
package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
Janet Salmon, SAP AG
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 Auditorium F1
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Janet Salmon, Solution Manager, SAP,
and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of her most widely read articles from
Financials Expert the leading publication and knowledgebase for organizations that
leverage SAP solutions for finance. The material ledger records the flow of goods from
the initial purchase of the raw material to the final sale of the finished product and assigns
any price differences incurred during purchasing and production to the product sold.
Attend this session and learn how to record both the legal view (in which the purchased
good is treated as an external purchase for legal reporting purposes) and the group view
(in which the actual costs for the purchased good are passed on to the other company
and split into their cost components for group reporting purposes) in the material ledger.
Find out how to capture the inter-company markups in your cost component split using
SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP. Youll receive a copy of the article free of
charge and engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities.
Financialsexpert
LIVE
Financials Expert LIVE: What you need to know to
migrate to the SAP General Ledger
Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G102 F2 F12
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet one of the foremost experts in
SAP General Ledger, Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young, and engage in an in-
depth discussion about one of his most widely read articles from Financials
Expert. After a brief overview of the article, Gary will lead you in a dynamic,
interactive discussion and question-and-answer session. Heres just a sample of
the topics covered: What are the benefits and ROI you can expect with an SAP
General Ledger migration? What are the key phases in an SAP General Ledger
migration project and tasks and challenges you face? How do you overcome data
conversion challenges? How can I use the SAP General Ledger to enhance
financial closing processes? Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge
GRCexpert
LIVE
Five considerations for outsourcing your IT systems audit
Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 D407 G6 F10
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Richard Hunt, Director, Turnkey
Consulting, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his most widely
read articles from GRC Expert the leading publication and knowledgebase for
organizations that leverage SAP BusinessObjects solutions for governance, risk, and
compliance. Learn the five key considerations youll want to take into account when
selecting an outsourcing specialist. Get a list of key questions you should be asking
your outsourcing provider and learn why its important to work with them on a trial
basis, to help develop the relationship. Youll receive a copy of the article free of
charge and engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities.
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Ask-the-Experts
Pull up a chair in the Ask-the-Experts area of the Exhibition Hall during Tuesdays Welcome Reception and Wednesdays Exhibitor Meet and Greet
and spend one-on-one time with leading conference speakers. Learn from their real-world expertise and get specific insights on topics and questions that
matter most to you.
Tuesday, 7 June
17.45 19.00 Exhibition Hall, Elicium Ballroom
BI
Waldemar Adams, SAP
Business intelligence strategies, in-memory analytics
Thierry Audas, SAP
Integration between SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and
SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects BI embedded
in the SAP Business Suite, SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT
BI project management, SAP BusinessObjects
dashboards, performance tuning
Don Loden, Decision First Technologies
ETL design and performance, SAP BusinessObjects Data
Services, data quality in real-time or batch operations,
data warehouse design and implementation
Information lifecycle management, near-line storage,
data archiving, DART, retention management, data
management
Oscar Trompe, SAP
SAP HANA, in-memory
GRC
Steve Biskie, ERP Audit Solutions
Audits, general SAP BusinessObjects governance,
risk, and compliance solutions, IT controls, continuous
controls monitoring
Jennifer Cha, SAP
SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control suite functionality,
configuration and implementation best practices
Financials
SAP integration, SAP General Ledger, data migration
Shared services
Enhanced financial closing, SAP Financial Closing
cockpit, SAP General Ledger migration issues, and peek
at enhancement pack content enhancements in CO
Deepak Khosla, Infosys Tech
SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions, SAP BI (SAP
NetWeaver BW & SAP BusinessObjects), financial &
management reporting using SAP tool set
William Miller, MI6 Solutions Group
SAP General Ledger, migration to the SAP General
Ledger, SAP General Ledger design best practices
Kees van Westerop, Kwest Consulting & Education
VAT and Intrastat reporting, banking
HR
Kouros Behzad, SAP Labs
Workforce analytics, strategic workforce planning
Winnie Chu, AspireHR
Global SAP ERP HCM implementation, project and risk
management, U.S./Canada payroll
Martin Gillet, Cogilius bvba
Personnel administration and development, employee
and manager self-services, reporting
Jeremy Masters, Worklogix
Enterprise compensation management, performance
management, employee and manager self-service
Hendrik Vordenbaeumen, SAP AG
Travel management ERP/travel OnDemand/travel
mobile, OnDemand strategy
Doug Whittle, Whittle Consulting Group
Super user programs, organizational change and
communication strategies, leadership development
programs
Ute Wohlleben, BASF IT Services GmbH
SAP E-Recruiting enhancement package 4, SAP E-
Recruiting workflow & portal-free use of the Web
Dynpro applications, SAP talent management
functionality
Dr. Michael Wulf, SAP AG
Data privacy, global employment, global HCM systems
Wednesday, 8 June
16.00 16.45 Exhibition Hall, Elicium Ballroom
BI
Jesper Christensen, COMERIT
SAP NetWeaver BW performance tuning, SAP NetWeaver
BW reporting, SAP NetWeaver BW administration
Patrick Dixon, Independent Consultant
SAP NetWeaver Portal, user interfaces, usability
Lothar Henkes, SAP
Enterprise data warehousing, SAP NetWeaver BW
roadmap, SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA
Keith Mullins, IBM
SAP business intelligence strategy, SAP strategy for EIM
and EDM, SAP NetWeaver MDM, SAP BusinessObjects
with SAP NetWeaver BW
Penny Silvia, IBM
SAP reporting and analytics, business intelligence
strategies, high-performance analytics
GRC
Chris Johnston, SAP EMEA
GRC overview, access management, SAP BusinessObjects
Access Control, eGRC, SAP BusinessObjects Risk
Management, SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
Raymond Mastre, PricewaterhouseCoopers
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control ruleset
customization, SAP security remediation/redesign
Simon Persin, Turnkey Consulting
SAP ERP security & authorizations, role building,
implementations, and support, SAP BusinessObjects
Access Control risk analysis and remediation, compliant
user provisioning, and superuser privilege management
Financials
John Jordan, ERP Corp
Controlling, product costing, variance analysis
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting
Material ledger, cost of sales accounting, profit center
accounting
Katharina Reichert, SAP AG
Collections management, dispute management,
credit management
Product costing, simplified reporting, user interface
technologies
Birgit Starmanns, SAP
Disclosure management, product costing, shared
services
Anurag Tambe, Infosys
Business planning and consolidation, SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation, SAP BusinessObjects
enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions
HR
Jens Ejsing, SAP Denmark
Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP HCM, quality
assurance for SAP ERP HCM projects and solutions,
design of global templates for SAP ERP HCM
Kalaiselvan Govindaraj, Bharat Petroleum Corporation
Performance management, competency assessment,
change management
Steve Horn, AspireHR
End-user training, project team training, designing,
developing, and delivering SAP end-user or project team
training
HCM performance management, HCM talent
management, HCM e-recruiting
Carrie Lande, SAP
HR shared services
Paul Shipman, REXAM
Effective utilization of SAP ERP HCM as an efficiency
and cost saving tool in business, global HCM projects,
compensation management
Penny Silvia, IBM
SAP reporting and analytics, business intelligence
strategies, high-performance analytics
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Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Monday, 6 June (Pre-Conference Education)
TIME EVENT LOCATION CONF PAGE
9.00 17.30 Registration Elicium Foyer
10.00 13.00 Morning Sessions
What every SAP customer needs to know about the latest planning, budgeting, and forecasting tools available with SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises and Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP
G103
B F G
28
A eulde to the latest technlques and technoloeles for determlnlne product costs and maxlmlzlne protabllltv
Birgit Starmanns, SAP and Janet Salmon, SAP AG
G106
F G
27
1he updated 2011 eulde to $AP Buslness0bjects solutlons for nanclal reportlne
Bryan Katis, SAP
G107
F G B
28
A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, version 10.0
Jennifer Cha, Frank Rambo, and Michaela Zwinakis, SAP
G105
G F
27
An essentlal and up-to-date eulde to $AP RP RCM and $AP enhancement packaees: Capabllltles, benets, requlrements,
and infrastructure
Anna Holtmann, SAP and Dr. Michael Wulf, SAP AG
G104
H
27
Navigating and choosing the right SAP and SAP BusinessObjects functionality to meet your HR reporting needs
Penny Silvia, IBM
G102
H B
27
13.00 14.30 Lunch Auditorium Lounge
13.45 14.15 Conference Orientation Session G104
14.30 17.30 Afternoon Sessions
Comprehensive guidelines for choosing the right SAP and SAP BusinessObjects solutions for reporting and business
intelligence to meet your needs
Nick Wall and Dr. Abdourahmane Faye, SAP
G103
B F G
29
An in-depth guide based on real-world experience for migrating to the latest version of SAP General Ledger
Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young and William Miller, MI6 Solutions Group
G106
F G
29
Comprehenslve lnstructlon to achleve tleht lnteeratlon and conslstent data between $AP nanclal appllcatlons and other
modules in your SAP landscape
G107
F G
29
A comprehenslve eulde to bulldlne and runnlne shared servlces that support nance and RR
Bernhard Fischer, SAP AG and Carrie Lande, SAP
G105
F G H
28
Expert lessons and new access control techniques that simplify your security remediation activities within a diverse IT
landscape
G109
G F
29
An up-to-date guide to leveraging the latest SAP functionality for employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service
(MSS)
G102
H
29
A comprehensive guide to SAP features, functions, and infrastructure for talent management
G104
H
28
H HR 2011 Session F Financials 2011 Session G Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) 2011 Session B BI 2011 Session S Sponsored Educational Sessions Networking Session KEY
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Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Tuesday, 7 June
8.00 9.00 Welcome Coffee Elicium Ballroom
8.00 19.00 Exhibition Hall Elicium Ballroom 89
8.15 8.45 Conference Orientation Session G104
9.00 10.15 Keynote Address:
Analytics for Finance, HR, and Compliance: What the Numbers Tell Us
Sanjay Poonen, President of Solutions Go-to-Market, SAP AG
New Priorities and SAP Technologies for Business Intelligence
Jason Rose, Head of Business Intelligence Marketing, SAP BusinessObjects
Auditorium
B F G H
4
10.00 17.00 SAP
BusinessObjects Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Solution Lab and Partner Showcase Elicium Ballroom 1 7
10.15 10.45 Refreshment Break Elicium Ballroom
10.30 17.30 SAP
Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions Lab Elicium Ballroom 2 6
10.45 12.00 Breakout Sessions
A comprehensive guide to building or improving your enterprise data warehouse with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3
Lothar Henkes, SAP
G103
B
33
Customer discussion forum: Battle-tested strategies and best practices for managing and archiving SAP NetWeaver BW data
G111
B
33
A comprehensive guide to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 roadmap
Thierry Audas, SAP (session repeated on Wednesday at 9.00)
Emerald Room
B F
33
Case study: Lessons from Philips Groups journey toward a sound master data management and governance strategy
Marco van Horck, Philips
G104
B F
33
$horten the order-to-cash cvcle wlth better lnteeratlon between nanclals and sales and dlstrlbutlon
G105
F
48
Expert guidance to bring your asset accounting process into compliance with IFRS
G109
F
47
Keeplne up wlth vA1: Row emerelne developments can affect vour $AP svstems and nanclal reports
Auditorium
F G
47
$trateeles for tackllne the nanclal, leeal, and cultural complexltles of elobal $AP RP lmplementatlons and rollouts
Ross Boardman, Ross Boardman Ltd
D407
F G
48
Kev lessons to lncrease the qualltv and speed of vour nanclal close processes
G102
F G
47
The 2011-2012 audit survival guide: Tips and tricks to survive your next audit quickly and painlessly
D403
G F
48
Mlnlmlzlne the cost of compllance, audlt, securltv, and rlsk manaeement ln nanclallv challenelne tlmes
G106
G F
48
Case study: Nokia Siemens Networks successfully updates its risk analysis and remediation rule set to align IT and business
functions
Mari Hurskainen, Nokia Siemens Networks
G107
G F
47
Executive session: Teaching HR to speak the language of business, get managements attention, and deliver strategic value
Kim Fischer, EPI-USE
D201
H
75
Case study: How self-services helps Elgeka streamline HR processes, improve the quality of HR data, and reduce costs
Dr. Michael Galanakis, ELGEKA SA
D202
H
75
1lps and trlcks for savlne monev, reduclne errors, and ealnlne efclencv wlthln vour pavroll operatlons
Tom Hallewell, ROC
D203
H
76
A guide to building an organizational management data governance strategy
Danialle Rook, EPI-USE America
D204
H
75
An up-to-date guide to new talent management enhancements from SAP
Michael Maier, SAP AG
Forum
H
75
Streamlining document creation and management within SAP ERP HCM
Venky Seshadri, Accenture Software
G110
H S
75
A look at the latest mobile solutions from SAP and how they can support your BI strategy
Waldemar Adams, SAP
G103
B
33
Best practices to optimize report performance with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator
G104
B
33
Proven techniques and technologies to streamline data migration
G109
B
34
Case study: 30 tips and tricks from Shell International to optimize SAP BusinessObjects with SAP NetWeaver BW
Steve Mutch and Ian Millea, Shell International (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
Emerald Room
B F
34
New General Ledger in SAP as a database for consolidation in SEM-BCS and reporting in BI
Dorothea Baumann, Siemens IT Solutions & Services GmbH and Rainer Krug and Johanna Brabetz, SMA Solar Technology AG
G111
B S
34
Case studv: lncreaslne protabllltv and slmpllfvlne plannlne and forecastlne at 1-$vstems
Klaus Bergmann and Gerhard Wilhelmi, T-Systems International GmbH
D407
F B
49
19
Daily Schedule
12.15 13.30 Breakout Sessions, continued
$trateeles for lnteeratlne nanclal and manaeement reports lnto a slnele, lnteerated reportlne framework
G110
F B
50
Customer discussion forum: Lessons and best practices that streamline the time-to-close process
G101
F G
49
How to leverage the latest SAP General Ledger functionality to streamline accounting and improve compliance
Stefan Karl, SAP
G107
F G
49
The comprehensive 2011 guide and roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions
James Fisher, SAP
Auditorium
F G B
50
Case study: How Unilever reduced inter-company reconciliation challenges across 22 countries and achieved a faster close
Renate Boekensteyn and Kris Stono, Unilever
G106
F G B
49
xecutlve sesslon: $trateeles for lmprovlne the aellltv and reduclne the cost of nanclal processes uslne a shared
services center
G102
F G H
49
Lessons for conducting more comprehensive user access reviews of your SAP system
G108
G
50
Case study: How Novartis reduced its compliance costs with a more stable controls environment
Claudia Iacobucci, Novartis International AG and Mark Jeffers, Novartis Pharma AG
D403
G F
49
A comprehensive guide and strategic roadmap to SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions,
including version 10.0
Michael Heckner, SAP
G105
G F
48
Leading practices for designing, building, or improving global HR structures
John Brownridge, Deloitte Consulting
D201
H
77
Executive session: Managing, motivating, and leading a multi-generational workforce
D202
H
76
Case study: How Japan Tobacco International addressed core HR challenges and enabled enterprise collaboration using SAP
visualization solutions by Nakisa
Anna Sorokina, JTI
D203
H
76
An up-to-date guide to the latest employee self-service enhancements from SAP
Gertrud Beisel, SAP Labs
Forum
H
76
Everything you ever wanted to know about SAP ERP HCM reporting
D204
H B
76
13.30 14.45 Lunch Europe Foyer
A comprehensive overview of SAP solutions for enterprise information management
Pascal Clement, SAP
G103
B
35
What you need to know to get the most out of using SAP NetWeaver BW as your enterprise data warehouse
G104
B
35
Empower end users with Web-based ad hoc reporting and analysis
Nick Wall, SAP
Emerald Room
B F
35
Customer discussion forum: Recommendations and advice to building and running a shared services environment
G111
F
51
Case study: How Royal Greenland recognizes inventories in multiple currencies and valuations using the material ledger
Lars Bo Hassinggaard, Royal Greenland A/S
G105
F
51
Case study: Bentley Systems speeds dispute resolution and gains visibility into credit write-offs around the globe
Jim Frick, Bentley Systems
G108
F
50
A comprehenslve eulde to $AP's roadmap for an accelerated nanclal close
Stefan Karl, SAP
Auditorium
F G
50
Executive session: Benchmark the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your SAP investment against real-world KPIs
Christian Titze, Gartner
D403
F G B
51
The 2011 guide to the latest capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Dr. David Ormerod, SAP UK (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
G102
F G B
52
Case study: Best Practices from Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidateds Microsoft
Excel-based automation experience

Caitlyn Ashton-Gill, Global Software
G110
F G S
50
Expert guidance to minimize operational risk
Jrme Pugnet, SAP
D407
G
52
Case studv: Row $tatoll lmproved lts nanclal compllance actlvltles throueh lmplementatlon of process control
Ole Martin Rine, Statoil
G107
G
51
Case studv: Repsol reduces seereeatlon of dutles ($ob) conlcts throueh lmproved rlsk ldentlcatlon and tlehter
internal controls
Carlos Bonete and Imanol Beguiristain, Repsol YPF, S.A.
G106
G F
51
Merge identity management and compliance activities and technologies to ensure better access control and
regulatory reporting
Nishi Prakash, SAP UK
G109
G H
52
A practical guide to mitigating the most common SAP ERP HCM project risks
D201
H
77
SAPs strategic roadmap for SAP ERP HCM: The latest HR solution innovations from SAP
Dawn Crew, SAP
D202
H
77
20
Daily Schedule
Lessons to prevent, uncover, and correct HR data problems before they detract from the bottom line
Tom Hallewell, ROC
D203
H
77
How to improve the quality of your talent pool while reducing recruiting costs and time-to-hire
Anna Holtmann, SAP
D204
H
77
Techniques and best practices to improve manager and employee self-service usability
Forum
H
78
Case study: How Carlsberg Breweries ensures accurate and consistent BI reports across a multi-country environment
Soren Krohn, Carlsberg Breweries
Emerald Room
B F
36
Advanced tips and tricks to optimize your BI strategy with Xcelsius dashboards
Keith Mullins, IBM (session repeated on Wednesday at 9.00)
G103
B F
36
10 things guaranteed to derail your BI project and strategies, tools, and techniques to combat them
Penny Silvia, IBM
G104
B F
36
An up-to-date guide from SAP to improve treasury and risk management activities
Christian Mnich, SAP AG
D407
F
52
Customer dlscusslon forum: lmprove the lnteeratlon of nanclals functlonalltv wlth other $AP appllcatlons
G111
F
54
Case study: How McKesson built a strong business case for an SAP General Ledger migration project
Ross Wilson, McKesson (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
G105
F
53
Case study: Lessons learned from Mota-Engils implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Joo Fonseca de Almeida, Mota Engil
G102
F B
53
Are your payment processes and SAP systems ready for Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)?
Auditorium
F G
53
New optlons for eovernlne nanclal master data and ensurlne accurate consolldated nanclal statements
Ralf Ille, SAP AG
G109
F G B
54
Automate and contlnuouslv monltor controls for a more efclent and effectlve compllance process
Jennifer Cha, SAP
G106
G F
53
Case study: How the University of Warwick exposes and mitigates segregation of duties violations
David Cowling, University of Warwick
G107
G F
53
Executive session: An up-close look at SAPs global governance, risk, and compliance program
Dr. Dirk Metzger, SAP AG
G108
G F
54
Executive session: Getting an accurate picture of your organizations risk exposure using a fact-based approach
D403
G F B
54
Opportunities and options for mobilizing SAP ERP HCM processes and data
D201
H
78
Panel discussion: The future of HR shared services Predictions from the experts
Moderator: Carrie Lande, SAP; Panelists: Karsten Alva-Jorgensen, Novo Altum, Astrid Zwiers, p-direkt, and
Mark Jones, SAP AG
D202
H
78
A eulde to runnlne a elobal pavroll operatlon more efclentlv
Tom Hallewell, ROC
D203
H
78
Case studv: Achlevlne effectlve, exlble elobal recrultlne processes at BA$F
D204
H
78
Undocumented euldellnes for settlne up standard $AP RP RCM workows
Forum
H
78
A guide to improving the usability of HR and employee self-service
Inna Wahlberg, NorthgateArinso
G110
H S
78
17.30 19.00 Welcome Reception Elicium Ballroom 9
17.45 19.00 Ask-the-Experts Elicium Ballroom 15
Daily Schedule Tuesday, 7 June
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Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Wednesday, 8 June
8.00 9.00 Morning Coffee Elicium Ballroom
9.00 10.15 HR General Assembly: Its 2011. Hows Your Employee Engagement?
Dawn Crew, Vice President, HR Line of Business Solutions, SAP
Claus Heinrich, CEO sovanta AG
Forum
H
5
9.00 10.15 Financials General Assembly: Finance Today: A Roadmap for Mastering Change and Promoting Greater Productivity and Performance
Martin Naraschewski, Vice President, Finance Solutions, SAP AG
Phil Scrivener, Senior Director, European Advisory, The Hackett Group
Auditorium
F
5
9.00 10.15 GRC General Assembly: SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Launch
Jim Dunham, Group Vice President, GRC Solution Management, SAP
Emerald Room
G
5
9.00 10.15 BI Breakout Sessions
A comprehensive guide to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 roadmap
Thierry Audas, SAP (repeat session)
G103
B F
37
20 tips and tricks to improve data load performance
G104
B
37
Expert strategies, guidelines, and tools to harness the power of SAP NetWeaver Portal
G105
B
37
Advanced tips and tricks to optimize your BI strategy with Xcelsius dashboards
Keith Mullins, IBM (repeat session)
G106
B F
37
10.30 17.30 SAP
BI Expert LIVE: Accelerate the creation of powerful dashboards in Xcelsius
G103
B
37
Best practlces for creatlne a unled securltv archltecture for a comblned $AP NetWeaver BW and $AP Buslness0bjects Bl landscape
G104
B
37
Executive session: Formalizing an enterprise-wide BI strategy that increases the effectiveness of business and IT organizations
Waldemar Adams, SAP
Emerald Room
B F
38
Case studv: Row McKesson plans to streamllne lts chart of accounts to lmprove nanclal reportlne and achleve faster closes
Ross Wilson, McKesson
Auditorium
F
55
Optimize your receivables management processes with SAP
G102
F
56
xecutlve sesslon: 1 kev steps for achlevlne excellence ln nance buslness partnerlne
Gilles Bonelli, The Hackett Group
G108
F G
56
Reduce nanclal rlsk exposure arlslne from external market condltlons and reeulatlons
G110
F G
57
Case studv: Row Austrla Federal Mlnlstrv of $clence and Research lmplemented a unled plannlne and budeetlne strateev
Philipp Otto, Federal Ministry of Science and Research
D403
F G B
55
Row $AP supports the convereence of nance, performance manaeement, and GRC to drlve nanclal excellence
James Fisher, SAP
G105
F G B
56
How to create a customized rule set to meet the compliance needs of a multi-national organization
G107
G F
56
Panel discussion: Leading customers share their successes and lessons with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0
Sonny Dasgupta, SAP
G106
G
57
Case study: How Provimi centralized its GRC strategy and optimized related system settings and processes
Ids Voerman and Dr. Louis van Vliet, Provimi
G109
G
56
Panel dlscusslon: A eulde to reaplne the buslness benets offered bv an enterprlse-wlde contlnuous controls
monitoring program
Gary Dickhart and Susan Stapleton, Greenlight Technologies
D407
G F
57
HR Expert LIVE: SAP ERP HCM performance management: New features enhance employee development
D201
H
80
Case study: How Rexam enables global transparency of organizational data and valuable HR insight with the SAP
Organizational Visualization application by Nakisa
Paul Shipman, REXAM
D202
H
79
Case study: Insight into how Eneco aligned corporate objectives and goals with its manager and employee self-service
implementation
Kees Voeten, Eneco
D203
H
79
Advanced SAP NetWeaver BW techniques that can expand your HR reporting capabilities
Penny Silvia, IBM
D204
H
79
Executive session: Case study: How SAP is using its own solutions to enable global shared services, improve process
efclencv, and provlde 24 x 1 support to lts emplovees
Mark Jones, SAP AG
Forum
H
79
Customer discussion forum: A real-world guide to core SAP ERP HCM and payroll enhancements
G111
H
79
22
Daily Schedule
12.00 18.00 SAP
BusinessObjects Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Solution Lab and Partner Showcase Elicium Ballroom 1
An inside look at the SAP in-memory computing roadmap and SAP HANA
Oscar Tromp, SAP (session repeated on Thursday at 14.30)
Emerald Room
B F
38
Case study: Lessons learned from AES rollout and integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions with SAP NetWeaver BW
G103
B F
38
Part 1: Lessons to design and deploy dynamic dashboards and cockpits: Emphasis on SAP NetWeaver solutions
G104
B F
39
Case study: Cooper Industries shortens the invoice-to-pay process by automating accounts payable
Dominic Gaffey, Cooper Industries
D403
F
58
Case studv: Row $AP ls achlevlne operatlonal excellence wlth elobal shared servlces for nance
Dr. Marcell Vollmer, SAP AG
G102
F
58
Lessons for bulldlne a template to standardlze vour nanclal rollout, lmplementatlon, or uperade across a laree, dlverse
user base
G107
F
59
Accelerate local and elobal nanclal closes and perlod-end reports wlth lmproved lnteeratlon between prot center
accounting and the general ledger
G110
F
57
How to perform more agile planning and forecasting using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Dr. David Ormerod, SAP UK
Auditorium
F G B
59
Achleve ereater control and more predlctable nanclal performance bv unlfvlne rlsk manaeement wlth enterprlse
performance management
Richard Barrett, SAP UK and Olivier Delcourt, SAP
D407
F G B
57
Customer discussion forum: How do your SAP security and authorizations measure up?
G101
G H
58
Proven approaches to implement process control functionality
Heinrich Wilking, Turnkey Consulting
G106
G
60
Case studv: lmplementlne a more efclent superuser prlvlleee manaeement process at Phlllps
Purushottam Pawar, Philips
G108
G
58
Case studv: Row lster Group's technoloev solutlon lnteerated, accelerated and slmplled multlple compllance lnltlatlves
across its heterogeneous IT landscape
Malte Globig, Elster Group (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
G105
G
58
Executive session: SAPs journey toward becoming a risk intelligent enterprise
Miriam Kraus, SAP
G109
G F
59
How to create a comprehensive data governance strategy on a global scale
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G111
G S
59
lncrease vour proclencv wlth $AP lnteractlve Forms bv Adobe to lmprove self-servlces and streamllne RR processes
Michael White, Exaserv
D203
H
80
Case study: How Takeda Pharmaceuticals integrates, publishes, and manages eLearning content from multiple authoring sources
Gail Edington, Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America
D204
H
80
Expert recommendations you can use every day to improve the functionality and usability of your HR applications
Forum
H
80
Unlock the power of SAP query tool to create the complex HR reports you need without the customization costs
Greg Newman, Strategic Data Solutions
D202
H B
81
Executive session: Strategies for building and implementing a formal internal leadership development program as part of
your organizations succession plan
D201
H F B
80
How to combat ETL problems that arise from bad source data using data services functionality
Emerald Room
B
40
Case studv: Row banlsh befence adopted Corporate lnformatlon Factorv prlnclples to lncrease the efclencv and data
accuracy of its SAP NetWeaver BW environment
Anne-Marie Ditlevsen, Danish Defence
G103
B
39
Part 2: Lessons to design and deploy dynamic dashboards and cockpits: Emphasis on SAP BusinessObjects solutions
G104
B F
40
Understandlne vour product costs wlth better lnteeratlon between nanclal and loelstlcs functlonalltv
Janet Salmon, SAP AG and Birgit Starmanns, SAP
Auditorium
F
62
A comprehensive guide to streamline and automate the inter-company billing process
G107
F
60
Reduce your companys days sales outstanding (DSO) with the right SAP Dispute and SAP Collection Management
coneuratlon and lnteeratlon technlques
Richard Gentenaar, Proxyon BV
G108
F
61
An up-to-date guide to technologies for increasing the accuracy of liquidity planning, forecasting, and reporting
Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP and Marc Mertens, Deloitte
G109
F
60
Daily Schedule Wednesday, 8 June continued
23
Daily Schedule
Case study: How Statoil used parallel valuation within treasury for posting multiple currencies to FI
Mark Allen Carter, Statoil
G102
F G B
61
1he road to reconclllatlon: Closlne wlth condence and achlevlne balance sheet lnteerltv wlth BlackLlne and $AP
Stefan Karl, SAP AG, Mario Spanicciati, BlackLine Systems, and Pieter Geyer, Proxyon-International
G110
F G S
61
Key change management considerations that are essential for any GRC project
Nicola White, Turnkey Consulting
D201
G
61
Case study: How Fonterra created a global platform to mitigate risk in its export documentation processes
Rekha Baptista, Fonterra
D407
G
60
Case study: Lessons from an SAP Ramp-Up customer: Why Centrica chose SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 to manage
increasing compliance requirements
Nicolas Winston, Centrica
G106
G
60
Critical insights for leveraging GRC to increase business agility and performance
D403
G F
61
Case study: How Philips fully automated risk analysis and remediation for more accurate segregation of duties reporting
Stefan Pados, Philips
G105
G F
60
Save your organization time and money with best practices and proven techniques for recruiting and hiring the right HR
consultants
D202
H
81
Guidelines for a successful global SAP ERP HCM rollout or consolidation
D203
H
81
A guide to transforming the travel management process with new functionality from SAP
Forum
H
81
An HR reporting and analytics practitioners guide: Dos, donts, and decisions
Penny Silvia, IBM
D204
H B
81
15.45 16.45 Exhibitor Meet and Greet Elicium Ballroom 9
16.00 16.45 Ask-the-Experts Elicium Ballroom 15
Case study: Lessons learned from Shell Internationals SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 upgrade
Djorgo Gubbels, Shell International
Emerald Room
B
40
Customer discussion forum: Lessons for maintaining a sound business intelligence strategy in an evolving technical
landscape
Penny Silvia, IBM
G101
B
40
A comprehensive overview of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and next generation solutions
Oscar Tromp, SAP
G103
B
40
The key to portal usability: Aligning a user-centric design approach with your business strategy
G104
B
41
Financials Expert LIVE: Calculate actual costs across multiple company codes using a new business function in SAP
enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
Auditorium
F
62
Proven advlce to effectlvelv manaee cash collectlon actlvltles ln a nanclal shared servlce envlronment
Ralf Ille, SAP AG (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
G106
F
63
Simplify postings of business transactions to the general ledger with these automatic account determination techniques
G111
F
63
lmprove vour oreanlzatlon's abllltv to adapt to chanee wlth a dvnamlc nanclal forecastlne process
D403
F G
63
xecutlve sesslon: Case studv: lnslde Alrbus' strateev for lmprovlne elobal nanclal reports, data qualltv, and perlod-end
closes wlth a common nance platform across lts uropean subsldlarles
Philipp Visotschnig, Airbus
G102
F G B
62
Upload and report on $AP nanclal data wlthout ever leavlne Mlcrosoft xcel
Jim Halepaska, Z Option and Dean Jones, Excel4apps
G109
F S
63
Case study: Lessons from Unilevers 17-country global rollout of SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
Deborah Taylor, Unilever
G105
G
62
Resolve segregation of duties and sensitive access violations with a cost-effective, task-based approach to security
G107
G
63
Case study: How EADS utilizes global trade functionality for cross-border trading
Jochen Hartmannshenn, EADS HQ
G108
G
62
How to prevent fraud and strengthen your organizations risk management procedures
Dana Spataru, Deloitte
D407
G F
62
How to achieve continuous monitoring with SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management
Ganesh Ram and Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz, PricewaterhouseCoopers
G110
G S
63
HR Expert LIVE: Tips for using the succession management component to optimize talent management
D201
H
82
An innovative guide to planning and executing an SAP enhancement package project within your SAP ERP HCM environment
Martin Gillet, Cogilius bvba (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
D202
H
82
Best practices for designing and delivering effective SAP ERP HCM training to end users
D203
H
82
A guide to using SAP ERP HCM technology to comply with data privacy and data protection regulations
Robert Moeller, SAP Labs and Dr. Michael Wulf, SAP AG
D204
H
81
Case studv: Row rlcsson utlllzed $AP lnteractlve Forms bv Adobe to mlerate from countrv speclc customlzed forms to
exlble standard forms
Anand K Sadasivam and Peter Lippmann, Ericsson
Forum
H
82
24
Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Thursday, 9 June
8.00 9.00 Morning Coffee Elicium Ballroom
8.00 14.30 SAP
BusinessObjects Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Solution Lab and Partner Showcase Elicium Ballroom 1 7
8.30 14.30 SAP
Strategies and tools to control burgeoning data volumes in SAP NetWeaver BW
G104
B
43
Lessons for evaluating and determining the direction of your organizations BI strategy and roadmap
Penny Silvia, IBM
G109
B
43
Introducing new BI capabilities for formatted reports and dashboards embedded in SAP Business Suite applications
Dr. Abdourahmane Faye, SAP
G103
B F
43
Best practices for overcoming common challenges that can occur during SAP General Ledger migrations
Giovanni Perone, PwC
G105
F
65
Proven techniques to improve your cost of sales accuracy
G108
F
66
Case studv: Glaxo$mlthKllne Bloloelcals speeds pavments and lmproves vendor relatlonshlps wlth a slmplled lnvolce
verlcatlon and approval process
Brigitte Van Belle and Laetitia Corbiaux, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
G110
F
65
xecutlve sesslon: 1he death of currencles and the future of nanclal reportlne
Dr. Juergen Ott, Formerly of Allianz
D407
F G B
65
Case studv: Row Ferrovlal bolstered the efclencv and automatlon of lts elobal consolldatlon processes uslne
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Luis Parra, Ferrovial
G102
F G B
65
xpert lessons to condentlv control and monltor svstem access
John Jerrehian, SAP
G107
G
66
Protect vour nance and human resource operatlons from susplclous transactlons and people
Kai Seela, SAP AG
G111
G
66
How well do your controls measure up to rigorous audit standards?
D403
G F
66
How to integrate multiple compliance activities into an automated, enterprise-wide risk management program
Marco Geisenberger, Protiviti
G106
G F
66
Reduclne lnefclencles and rlsks assoclated wlth paper-based RR documents and forms
Andreas Fink, OpenText Software GmbH and Steffen Lichtenberger, SAP (Schweiz) AG
D201
H
83
Executive session: How does your organization measure up? Results of Towers Watsons 2011 annual survey of HR service
delivery and technology
Tom Keebler and Mike DiClaudio, Towers Watson
D202
H
83
Row to deslen or uperade vour elobal RR svstems to proactlvelv facllltate the lnternatlonal erowth and protabllltv of vour
company
Jens Ejsing, SAP Denmark (session repeated today at 16.00)
D203
H
83
A comprehenslve eulde to manaelne elobal pavroll uslne countrv-speclc pavroll functlonalltv
Robert Moeller, SAP Labs (session repeated today at 16.00)
D204
H
83
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3: If, when, and how to upgrade
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT (session repeated today at 14.30)
G104
B
44
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis versus BEx Analyzer: What, why, and how?
Thierry Audas, SAP
G109
B
44
Lessons for building visually compelling and interactive dashboards with Xcelsius
Nick Wall, SAP
G103
B F
44
A paln-free approach to mleratlne vour xed assets
G105
F
67
Row to ealn costlne lnslehts that lmprove prlclne and protabllltv
Jrmie Brunet, SAP
G110
F
67
How to leverage the SAP Financial Closing cockpit to accelerate time-to-close
Antonio Giannelli and Stefan Karl, SAP
G102
F G
68
Executive session: A strategic guide to achieving compliance with generally accepted accounting principles across multiple
countries
Keerthana Mainkar, Infosys
G111
F G
67
Case studv: $tatoll redenes plannlne and consolldatlon: Lessons from the companv's process redeslen and technoloev
implementation
Jone Solberg, Statoil ASA
G106
F G B
67
An expert guide to access control performance optimization
Simon Persin, Turnkey Consulting (session repeated today at 16.00)
D403
G
67
25
Daily Schedule
Lessons for migrating to SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0: Not just another upgrade
Frank Rambo, SAP (session repeated today at 16.00)
G107
G
68
Customlzlne workows for access manaeement ln $AP Buslness0bjects Access Control
Luis Bustamante, SAP
G108
G
67
Improve data privacy compliance and segregation of duties (SoD) controls in an SAP ERP Human Capital Management
environment
D407
G H
68
Strategies and technologies to effectively manage your global workforce
Manimala Kanagavel, Deloitte Consulting India
D201
H
84
How a user can perform basic and advanced calculations in their reports using SAP query regardless of experience level
Penny Silvia, IBM
D203
H
83
Streamline HR processes with new talent management enhancements for succession planning and e-learning
Michael Maier, SAP AG (session repeated today at 16.00)
D204
H
84
1lps to coneure and customlze emplovee and manaeer self-servlces ln $AP RP RCM
G202
H
84
Executive session: Best practices to drive value and innovation with business mobility solutions
Dr. Ahmed El Adl, SAP America
G104
B
45
Case studv: adldas Group's data llfecvcle manaeement strateev for more cost-effectlve and efclent data warehouse
management
Daniel Engel, adidas Group
G109
B
44
A detailed guide to SAP Crystal Reports: Best practices for leveraging functionality and integrating with SAP ERP and SAP
NetWeaver BW
G103
B F
44
Reduce risk with timelier, more accurate credit checks
D407
F
70
Financials Expert LIVE: What you need to know to migrate to the SAP General Ledger
G102
F
69
Lessons for evaluating and choosing the right option to report on and analyze variances
G108
F B
69
Best practices for managing the complexities of an SAP rollout across the European Union
Arjan Buunk and Erik de Gier, Capgemini
G105
F G
68
Lessons for automating and reducing planning cycle time
G106
F G
69
Best practices to ensure internal and external audit preparedness
Paul Weel, Deloitte
G110
G F
69
Case study: How Kazakhstan Railways automated its enterprise risk management and continuous monitoring system
Kuat Irabev, Kazakhstan Railways
D403
G
69
Best practices to add continuous control monitoring to a new or existing internal controls framework
Dr. Werner van Haelst, CSI
G107
G
69
Case study: Maximizing employee ROI with SAP talent management functionality: Lessons from Bharat Petroleum
Corporation Limiteds implementation
D201
H
85
CA1$ made easv: Flne-tunlne vour cross-appllcatlon tlme sheet (CA1$) coneuratlon
D202
H
85
Case study: How Rexam structured and executed its global SAP ERP HCM implementation
Paul Shipman, REXAM
D203
H
84
Leverage the latest version of ASAP methodology to optimize value and savings from your next HR project
D204
H
85
Better align your workforce management strategy with your key business goals
G111
H B
84
Considerations, challenges, and technologies needed for a sustainable data governance strategy
Keith Mullins, IBM
G103
B
45
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT (repeat session)
G104
B
46
An inside look at the SAP in-memory computing roadmap and SAP HANA
Oscar Tromp, SAP (repeat session)
G109
B F
45
Lessons learned during an accounts payable automation project
Brian Shannon, Dolphin
G105
F
71
Assess e-payables as a means to simplify and reduce the costs of accounts payable
Arif Esa, SAP
G107
F
70
Develop an action plan to optimize working capital performance
Olivier Delcourt, SAP
G102
F B
70
blsclosure manaeement and XBRL ~ Lessons for preparlne vour nanclal statements for a faster nanclal close
Antonio Giannelli, SAP
G108
F G B
71
26
Daily Schedule
A eulde to new $AP functlonalltv for sharlne GRC data and content across multlple svstems: 1he enabler of unled,
enterprise-wide GRC
Prentice Wells and Atul Sudhalkar, SAP
D403
G
70
A detailed guide to the available reporting options with SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
Ankur Baishya, SAP Labs
G110
G
70
Increase transparency and security across your international supply chain
Kai Seela, SAP AG
G111
G
71
GRC Expert LIVE: Five considerations for outsourcing your IT systems audit
D407
G F
71
Strategies to automate key risk and compliance management activities
Jrme Pugnet, SAP
G106
G F
71
Lessons for integrating HR data across global and local SAP systems while preventing errors and redundancies
Shravan Malyala, Deloitte Consulting India Pvt
D201
H
85
Case study: Best practices and lessons learned from Cameron Italys time management deployment
Martina Prantl, Cameron Italy srl
D202
H
85
How to leverage the global employees module in SAP to manage employees across multiple international assignments
Chris Murray, PwC
D203
H
85
Utlllze personnel cost plannlne to more accuratelv and efclentlv plan headcount and compensatlon: 1lps for success
Lionel Obuchowski, Keneos
D204
H
86
15.45 16.00 Refreshment Break Topaz Lounge
16.00 17.15 Breakout sessions
Proven tips and techniques to optimize query performance in SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0
G103
B
46
Case study: 30 tips and tricks from Shell International to optimize SAP BusinessObjects with SAP NetWeaver BW
Steve Mutch and Ian Millea, Shell International (repeat session)
G109
B F
46
Proven advlce to effectlvelv manaee cash collectlon actlvltles ln a nanclal shared servlce envlronment
Ralf Ille, SAP AG (repeat session)
G102
F
73
Case study: How McKesson built a strong business case for an SAP General Ledger migration project
Ross Wilson, McKesson (repeat session)
G106
F
72
The 2011 guide to the latest capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Dr. David Ormerod, SAP UK (repeat session)
G105
F G B
73
Practlcal advlce for bulldlne and malntalnlne control efclencv
Michelle Kent and Richard Cleary, Ernst & Young
G104
G
72
Lessons for migrating to SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0: Not just another upgrade
Frank Rambo, SAP (repeat session)
G107
G
72
Simon Persin, Turnkey Consulting (repeat session)
G108
G
71
Case studv: Row lster Group's technoloev solutlon lnteerated, accelerated and slmplled multlple compllance lnltlatlves
across its heterogeneous IT landscape
Malte Globig, Elster Group (repeat session)
G110
G
72
Expert techniques to rapidly identify, assess, and mitigate high-risk SoD violations
Bartosz Stanislawczyk, Ernst & Young
G111
G
72
Streamline HR processes with new talent management enhancements for succession planning and e-learning
Michael Maier, SAP AG (repeat session)
D201
H
86
An innovative guide to planning and executing an SAP enhancement package project within your SAP ERP HCM environment
Martin Gillet, Cogilius bvba (repeat session)
D202
H
86
A comprehenslve eulde to manaelne elobal pavroll uslne countrv-speclc pavroll functlonalltv
Robert Moeller, SAP Labs (repeat session)
D203
H
86
Row to deslen or uperade vour elobal RR svstems to proactlvelv facllltate the lnternatlonal erowth and protabllltv of vour
company
Jens Ejsing, SAP Denmark (repeat session)
D204
H
86
17.15 Conference Concludes
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Pre-Conference Education
Pre-Conference Education, 6 June
Join us on Monday, 6 June for Pre-Conference Education. Special 3-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to
explore new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of SAP foundation technologies, and enhance your learning experience at the
main conference.
A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to
SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, version 10.0
Jennifer Cha, Frank Rambo, and Michaela Zwinakis, SAP
Monday, 10.00 13.00 G105
F G
This three-hour session will provide an in-depth look at the next major release
of SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions
specifically highlighting SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, SAP
BusinessObjects Process Control, and SAP BusinessObjects Risk
Management. Attendees of this session will: Learn new ways to save money by
preventing fraud, errors, and reducing audit costs. Receive a detailed preview of
the functionality in the 10.0 release of these three solutions. Walk through the
full feature set of 10.0 as key enhancements such as access risk analysis
improvements are showcase. Examine the migration scenarios for SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control and upgrade paths for SAP BusinessObjects
Process Control and SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management. Become
familiar with the harmonized technical architecture of SAP BusinessObjects
GRC solutions, its user interface, ABAP back ends, plug-ins, system
landscape requirements, and software logistics. Find out what new
enhancements have been added to the latest releases, including improvements
to access risk analysis functionality. Learn how to put a content life cycle
management approach into practice that will enable easier data transporting
and upload processes.
A guide to the latest techniques and technologies for
determining product costs and maximizing profitability
Birgit Starmanns, SAP and Janet Salmon, SAP AG
Monday, 10.00 13.00 G106
F G
This special three-hour session offers a comprehensive guide to the latest SAP
functionality for product costing and expert recommendations to integrate
costing processes across financial accounting, controlling, sales, and
manufacturing functions. Understand the end-to-end process of product
costing, and get leading practices to extend accounting entries created
throughout the process. Learn what different controlling objects can be used to
support manufacturing strategies, such as make-to-stock, repetitive, process,
make-to-order, and engineer-to-order. Examine the master data that is
required to develop a standard cost for a product. Find out how product cost
postings are made to the SAP General Ledger. Understand how the month-
end process in product costing will help to ensure more accurate financial
statements. Get tips to better analyze product costs and make more strategic
decisions when determining the optimal price(s) to market your products.
Learn how to achieve more accurate margin analysis by adding profitability
analysis (CO-PA) postings to the product costing information. Walk through
the key enhancements to product costing, including cross-company actual
costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, and parallel balance sheet
valuation.
An essential and up-to-date guide to SAP ERP HCM and SAP
enhancement packages: Capabilities, benefits, requirements,
and infrastructure
Anna Holtmann, SAP and Dr. Michael Wulf, SAP AG
Monday, 10.00 13.00 G104
H
HR departments are being asked to quickly adapt to business and market
changes, increase the efficiency of their workforce, and control and lower HR-
related costs all while ensuring global visibility and compliance. This session
offers advice on the best ways to leverage SAP ERP Human Capital
Management (SAP ERP HCM) functionality to achieve these goals.
Understand interdependencies between components such as personnel
administration (PA), time management, payroll, and talent management. Step
through the requirements to properly integrate these components with each
other, as well as with critical applications within your SAP landscape, such as
financials. See how the latest enhancements in the areas of compensation,
shared-service delivery, travel management, and talent management could
impact your SAP ERP HCM landscape, both now and in the future. Evaluate
SAP solutions for talent management as a means to transform your talent
acquisition, training, and performance management activities. Learn the best
ways to support critical end-to-end HR business processes, such as hire-to-
retire. Evaluate whether SAP functionality for employee and manager self-
services could be used to simplify process execution and improve the quality of
HR data in your system. Become familiar with the complete SAP ERP HCM
portfolio of service delivery features and functionality. Explore the business and
technical requirements for utilizing the functionality covered in this session.
Understand the concept of enhancement packages and the various
functionalities that are available in the different parts of SAP ERP HCM.
Navigating and choosing the right SAP and
SAP BusinessObjects functionality to meet your HR
reporting needs
Penny Silvia, IBM
Monday, 10.00 13.00 G102
B H
This comprehensive three-hour session explores ready-made HR reports
delivered with your SAP and SAP BusinessObjects systems and the options
that are now available to customize, develop, run, and distribute customized
reports. Get an up-to-date look at the options available to you with SAP ERP,
SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects to create: Headcount reports,
hiring/departure reports, utilization reports, travel and expense reports, training
and education reports, employee statistics reports, payroll reports, dashboards,
self-service reports. Evaluate different SAP and SAP BusinessObjects
reporting tools, and review their capabilities, trade-offs, and requirements. Get
expert recommendations to help you determine which tools are best-suited for
your HR environment. Explore best practices for delivering HR reports faster
and more accurately. Discover the operational reporting options for SAP ERP
that allow you to combine lean data provisioning, where appropriate, with the
latest front-end reporting options for your end users.
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The updated 2011 guide to SAP BusinessObjects solutions for
financial reporting
Bryan Katis, SAP
Monday, 10.00 13.00 G107
B F G
In a period of three short years, SAP acquired Business Objects, Outlooksoft,
and Sybase, and has further enhanced its business intelligence offering with
numerous partner solutions. This special three-hour session discusses the
profound implications that these changes have for financial reporting and
planning and offers advice to help your financial teams, IT teams, business
intelligence (BI) teams, and end users acclimate to the new environment.
Examine what SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 has in store for SAP customers in
the areas of: Report development and presentation, Drill-down analytics,
Dashboards, Web reports. Obtain strategic guidelines for picking the right tool
or combination of tools for your specific financial reporting requirements.
Understand the impact that the latest SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation solution could have on your planning, budgeting, and
consolidated reporting activities. Find out how to increase report accuracy and
performance by leveraging improved integration between SAP BusinessObjects
front-end tools and your existing SAP NetWeaver BW back-end data
warehouse. Learn how tools such as SAP BusinessObjects Explorer can help
you speed the delivery of mission-critical financial information. Get a glimpse
into expanded database capabilities and new mobile solutions that could be
used to improve the scalability and portability of your BI reports and analyses.
Assess the prerequisites, skills, and learning curve required to leverage SAP and
SAP BusinessObjects solutions in a financials environment. Attendees of this
session receive these exclusive take-homes: A detailed matrix illustrating which
tools address specific challenges, up-to-date joint roadmaps for SAP
NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and SAP
BusinessObjects solutions, and a comprehensive glossary of new terminology.
What every SAP customer needs to know about the latest
planning, budgeting, and forecasting tools available with
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises and Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP
Monday, 10.00 13.00 G103
B F G
This special three-hour session explores the capabilities, tradeoffs, and
requirements for leveraging the latest SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation functionality. Gain a thorough overview of the functionality
delivered with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for business
planning and budgeting, forecasting and consensus building, and financial
reports, consolidations, and analyses. Walk through important prerequisites
that must be understood for leveraging both the SAP NetWeaver and
Microsoft versions. Acquire insight into the technical integration points
between SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and other SAP
applications SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects
BI and understand how data should flow between them. Prepare for the
change management effort required when migrating from IT-centric
applications, such as SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning functionality,
to business-centric applications, such as BPC. Step through real-world
scenarios that illustrate how you can increase productivity, reduce budget cycle
times, adapt to changing business and market conditions, and improve
statutory and regulatory reporting. Step through proven data modeling,
security, performance, and usability techniques. Gain insight into key
enhancements in the 7.5 release of both the version for SAP NetWeaver and
the version for the Microsoft platform, including native integration with the
SAP BusinessObjects BI tools.
A comprehensive guide to building and running shared
services that support finance and HR
Bernhard Fischer, SAP AG and Carrie Lande, SAP
Monday, 14.30 17.30 G105
F G H
This comprehensive, three-hour session outlines concepts and best practices
that support you in successfully implementing shared services. Learn how
utilizing SAP technology in your shared services organization enables
automation, service improvements, improved governance, and ultimately
operational excellence in HR and finance. Find out how a shared services
model could help you optimize costs, minimize risk, and improve the HR and
finance services you provide to your business. Learn which HR and finance
be outsourced. Learn how to set up specific analytics to measure and manage
HR and finance operations within a shared services environment. Take a look
at design principles and lessons learned from other SAP customers who are
implementing new, or who are fine-tuning existing, HR and finance shared
service centers. Learn how to leverage business process automation in your
shared service organization utilizing proven concepts and readily available
technology enablers. Delve into best practices for building and operating a
shared services center, including considerations for communication front-end,
service catalog, and service delivery platform. Examine the four common action
areas required for shared service projects to reach full benefit: Organization,
Communication with stakeholders, Processes, Infrastructure. Learn how the
technical and business platform delivered with the SAP Shared Service
Framework can be used to support multifunctional, global, automated, and
customer-oriented shared services.
A comprehensive guide to SAP features, functions, and
infrastructure for talent management
Monday, 14.30 17.30 G104
H
This special three-hour session provides live demos and an in-depth guide to
SAP functionality for talent management. Evaluate the features and
integration points of SAP solutions that support: E-recruiting, employee
development, enterprise performance management, enterprise compensation
management, succession planning. Learn how to integrate key data objects
requisitions, appraisal, course, budget, and job family objects with core SAP
ERP HCM transactions. Step through examples that illustrate an end-to-end
requisition process in SAP E-Recruiting. Learn how to set up a performance
and compensation management program. Gain insight into how to manage an
employees development using SAP Learning Solution. Learn how to utilize
profile matchup to register team members for training courses. Understand
your options for analyzing the performance of your workforce from end-to-
end, including tips for conducting talent appraisals and identifying top
performers. Find out how to track workforce performance and align it with
your compensation strategy. Understand how employees and managers can
ensure appropriate training by browsing the course catalog to identify the right
courses. Understand how succession planning fits in the position requirements
in order to identify the job requisitions to be raised.
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An in-depth guide based on real-world experience for
migrating to the latest version of SAP General Ledger
Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young and William Miller, MI6 Solutions Group
Monday, 14.30 17.30 G106
F G
This special three-hour tutorial provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide
to successfully plan and execute a migration to the latest version of SAP
General Ledger. It draws from the experiences of other customers who have
been down this path and offers insights from their lessons learned. Attend this
unique session to: Understand how important differences between the classic
version of general ledger and the newest version of SAP General Ledger affect
your project plan, scope, timeline, and resource requirements. Learn the key
decisions and considerations involved in implementing or upgrading to the
SAP General Ledger, such as ensuring your design is driven by reporting
requirements. Learn how to use new functionality to streamline important
financial processes, such as maintaining the various parts of master data across
your entire SAP landscape. Become familiar with the migration toolset
available to customers transitioning to the new version of the SAP General
Ledger. Find out how to ensure data and process integrity by avoiding too
many parallel ledger setups and incomplete or false segment definition.
Acquire best practices for utilizing splitting and zero balancing functionalities
in the right way. Understand and evaluate the new features delivered with the
latest SAP enhancement package. Hear how other SAP customers have
implemented SAP General Ledger, and get dos, donts, and lessons learned
from their experiences.
An up-to-date guide to leveraging the latest SAP functionality
for employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service
(MSS)
Monday, 14.30 17.30 G102
H
Whether youre new to self-services or seeking to expand your existing self-
service footprint, you wont want to miss this detailed three-hour session that
explores the latest employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS)
capabilities from SAP. Review the evolution of SAP self-service technology
since its inception and find out what may have changed since your initial
implementation. Learn the differences between Web Dynpro Java and Web
Dynpro ABAP technologies and SAPs overall user interface technology
direction. Find out why its critical to have a solid understanding of how
functional features from SAP ERP HCM and technical features from SAP
NetWeaver Portal converge in a self-service environment. Explore the latest
self-service business packages available from SAP and what you can do with
them.Get an overview of the SAP Interactive Forms software by Adobe
including integration opportunities, workflow capability, and overall
functionality for workforce administration empowerment. Find out how the
latest SAP functionality works in a self-service environment; for example,
SAPs latest talent management and development functionality. Get best
practices that empower employees and managers to gain control over their own
personnel data. Come away with advice for preparing the end user, HR, IT,
and support organizations for self-service operations, including change
management and training considerations.
Comprehensive guidelines for choosing the right SAP and
SAP BusinessObjects solutions for reporting and business
intelligence to meet your needs
Nick Wall and Dr. Abdourahmane Faye, SAP
Monday, 14.30 17.30 G103
B F G
Come to this three-hour session for a comprehensive introduction to the vast
array of reporting and BI tools available within SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver
BW, and SAP BusinessObjects. Understand what tool you should use for
what task, and how to build a high-value reporting and business intelligence
(BI) strategy using the various solutions that are available. Compare and
contrast the different reporting and BI options, including core SAP ERP tools
such as the Report Painter and Report Writer, SAP NetWeaver BW tools
such as SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx), and SAP BusinessObjects tools
such as SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence, Xcelsius, and SAP Crystal Reports. Step through the key
functionality of each tool and determine where, why, and how it can make the
reporting process easier and more effective. See examples of the interfaces and
end-user navigation features for each of these tools to help decide which is best
suited for your team. Review the unique terminology, acronyms, and
definitions associated with these solutions and how they map back to
traditional, industry data warehousing, and BI terms. Discover what resources
are required for implementation and usage of each tool. Get an expert
perspective on the life cycle and roadmap of these applications, and understand
whats in store for the future.
Comprehensive instruction to achieve tight integration and
consistent data between SAP financial applications and other
modules in your SAP landscape
Monday, 14.30 17.30 G107
F G
This comprehensive three-hour session walks you through specific techniques
for integrating financial modules with each other, as well as with other SAP
applications you may be running in your landscape. Attend this session to:
Obtain best practices for properly integrating financial accounting (FI) with
managerial accounting and controlling (CO). Walk through detailed,
undocumented configuration steps to ensure proper integration of FI and CO
with: sales and distribution (SD), materials management (MM), human capital
management (HCM), project systems (PS), and plant maintenance (PM).
Learn the best ways to maintain consistent data across multiple modules for
smoother processes, such as order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay, payroll, and travel
reimbursement. Determine how unique aspects of each module, such as master
data fields, affect your integration efforts. Identify the best ways to set up
automatic postings from other modules into financials. Examine the
dependencies and challenges that you need to be aware of when integrating
SAP modules, such as pushing your CO postings through to FI.
Expert lessons and new access control techniques that
simplify your security remediation activities within a diverse IT
landscape
Monday, 14.30 17.30 G109
F G
This three-hour session provides detailed instruction to remediate or even
rebuild your SAP security role structure across a large, complex landscape.
Whether you are just beginning a security remediation project or improving
your existing efforts, by attending this session you will: Learn new and
advanced techniques for leveraging access control functionality to reduce the
security maintenance effort, gain greater flexibility, and diminish general
complexity of roles. Acquire best practices for improving the configuration of
your rule set. Hear how the experts leverage enterprise role management
functionality to build standard rule sets, cross-system rules, and cross-platform
rules. Identify ways to design or improve a role structure which is compliant,
practical, and sustainable, especially as audits get tougher, security staffing is
leaner, and budgets are tighter. Acquire lessons from a large, complex,
segregation of duties remediation project that one of SAPs customers
completed. Identify the key challenges the company faced and the SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control functionality it implemented to address them.
Delve into the project planning phases, and understand the key tasks that need
to be executed in a successful remediation project.
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Track Listings
BE Special sessions for executives and senior managers
B1 Track 1: New BI strategies, technologies, and lower cost of
ownership
B2 Track 2: Financial reports and analyses
B3 Track 3: HR reports and analyses
B4 Track 4: Dashboards, portals, and user interfaces
B5 Track 5: Report development and performance
B6
Track 6: Planning, forecasting, and budgeting
B7
Track 7: Data modeling and data warehouse management
B8
Track 8: Data integrity and governance
B9
Track 9: Implementations, upgrades, and integration
BS
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Financials 2011
Governance, Risk, and Compliance 2011
GE Special sessions for executives and senior managers
G1 Track 1: Compliance and risk convergence, optimization, and
cost containment
G2 Track 2: Segregation of duties, risk remediation, and security
G3 Track 3: Establishing, testing, and monitoring controls
G4 Track 4: NEW! SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0
G5 Track 5: Implementations, upgrades, rollouts, and systems
integration
G6
Track 6: Audits
G7
Track 7: Financial consolidation, closing, and reporting
G8
Track 8: Global compliance and risk management
G9
Track 9: Financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting
GS
Track Listings
FE Special sessions for executives and senior managers
F1 Track 1: Performance and cost management
F2 Track 2: Core accounting, control, and reporting
F3 Track 3: Financial analyses and business intelligence (BI)
F4 Track 4: Planning, forecasting, and budgeting
F5 Track 5: Closings and consolidations
F6
Track 6: Streamlining accounts payable
F7
Track 7: Receivables, cash flow, and treasury
F8
Track 8: Shared services
F9
Track 9: Multi-national finance and compliance
F10
Track 10: Audits
F11
Track 11: Risk management
F12
Track 12: SAP implementations, upgrades, and global rollouts
FS
HR 2011
HE Special sessions for executives and senior managers
H1 Track 1: Strategies and best practices driving best-run HR
organizations
H2 Track 2: Talent Management
H3 Track 3: Self-services and shared services
H4 Track 4: Payroll, time, and travel management
H5 Track 5: HR reports, analyses, and decision support
H6
Track 6: Security, authorizations, data management, and
system administration
H7
Track 7: SAP implementations, upgrades, global rollouts, and
enhancement package projects
H8
Track 8: Managing a global HR enterprise
H9
Track 9: Containing and controlling HR costs
H10
Track 10: Workforce utilization and employee productivity
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BI Session Descriptions
Financials and GRC sessions can be found on pages 47-73. HR sessions can be found on pages 75-86.
A comprehensive guide to building or improving your
enterprise data warehouse with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3
Lothar Henkes, SAP
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G103
B7
Learn how to leverage the new enterprise data warehousing (EDW)
capabilities introduced with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 to reduce the total cost
of operations and data warehouse development, decrease data latency, and
accelerate response time. Discover how to use new data modeling capabilities
that provide quicker time to value and greater efficiency, as well as reduce the
degree of technical expertise required to model data. Understand SAPs vision
for SAP NetWeaver BW, and its evolution into an in-memory EDW
solution. Gain insight into the deployment of SAP High-Performance
Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA) data mart scenarios running alongside SAP
NetWeaver BW. Understand how SAP HANA serves as the underlying in-
memory database platform. Come away with an understanding of how in-
memory technology impacts data warehousing capabilities, existing SAP
NetWeaver BW customers, and the SAP data warehousing roadmap.
A comprehensive guide to the SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence 4.0 roadmap
Thierry Audas, SAP
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 Emerald Room
(session repeated on Wednesday at 9.00)
B1 F3
This session takes a deep dive into the new functionality available with SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and offers insight into how this new release can fit
within your BI landscape. Step through examples of enhanced functionality,
such as the new multi-source semantic layer and event-driven data processing.
Understand how these features allow for a 360 view across the business with
real-time access to information. Discuss prerequisites for using them. Become
familiar with the new SAP BusinessObjects Analysis client for analyzing SAP
NetWeaver BW and other OLAP data sources on the Web and in Microsoft
Office. Get practical advice for evaluating and getting started with the new
solutions, including how to use them to gain greater insight into your business,
make smarter business decisions, and measure their results.
Case study: Lessons from Philips Groups journey toward a
sound master data management and governance strategy
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G104
B8 F3
Learn how Philips Group is building an efficient master data management and
governance strategy, and walk away with tips for doing the same in your
organization. Understand how Philips recognized the need for a revamped
master data management strategy due to inconsistent and duplicate data found
between systems, and walk through the eight goals Philips is achieving with its
governance strategy. Explore the three distinct master data management
processes used by the organization to ensure high data quality
consolidation, harmonization, and central MDM and review the unique use
cases for each. Learn how Philips leverages SAP NetWeaver Master Data
Management to support the master data management and transport needs.
Gain insight into governance challenges faced by Philips including process
alignment across the organization, getting the business (not just IT) on board,
and picking the right tools to support its data governance strategy and get
best practices for overcoming them.
Customer discussion forum: Battle-tested strategies and best
practices for managing and archiving SAP NetWeaver BW data
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G111
B7
Dont miss this unique opportunity to talk with your counterparts at other
organizations about their strategies for archiving and storing their SAP
NetWeaver BW data. Explore questions such as: Why does my organization
need a data retention policy for BW, and what are the most important aspects
to include? How can I best control data growth in SAP NetWeaver BW while
still retaining the data my users need? Which tools and strategies are my
counterparts using to ensure data quality in their organizations? What
archiving strategies deliver optimum system performance? Are my peers seeing
benefits from a complete information lifecycle management implementation,
or is it just hype? Walk away from this discussion with strategies and best
practices for improved data management that you can put to use right away.
A look at the latest mobile solutions from SAP and how they
can support your BI strategy
Waldemar Adams, SAP
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G103
B1
This session helps you make sense of all the changes that occurred when SAP
acquired Sybase and what those changes potentially mean to your IT teams, BI
teams, and end users. Explore the latest mobile offerings for business
intelligence (BI) to help you evaluate which best meet your organizations
unique on-the-go needs. Hear the newest trends in the mobile BI space and
dive into real-world examples of how other SAP customers have successfully
leveraged BI reports, metrics, and real-time data on mobile devices. Learn
some of the top requirements these organizations have encountered when
using mobile BI solutions, and leave with tips for ensuring successful mobile
BI usage. Gain insight into the SAP mobility roadmap to create a strong
foundation for your own mobile strategy on your teams smart phones, iPhone,
iPad, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, or Symbian OS devices.
Best practices to optimize report performance with
SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G104
B5
Obtain proven tips and tricks to increase system performance and deliver
reports in a fraction of the usual time with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator.
Find out how your use of SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator impacts business
analysis process, enterprise IT architecture, and required skill sets. Examine the
critical steps and lessons learned from real-world SAP NetWeaver BW
Accelerator implementations, including integration considerations and system
performance improvement benchmarks. Learn how to save time during the
initial indexing process, including parallelizing based on resolution of master
data dependencies, analysis of load requests in InfoCubes, and proper system
parameters tuning. Take home a template to start planning your own SAP
NetWeaver BW Accelerator implementation, including advice to plan for the
management, training, and support of the technology.
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Case study: 30 tips and tricks from Shell International to
optimize SAP BusinessObjects with SAP NetWeaver BW
Steve Mutch and Ian Millea, Shell International
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 Emerald Room (session repeated Thursday at 16.00)
B5 F3
Go behind the scenes with Shell International BV to see how it implemented and
optimized SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports, and
Xcelsius on top of its SAP NetWeaver BW 7.01 environment. Discover how the
organization scoped its 18-month implementation project, and what resources (both
human and technical) it aligned with this project. Gain insight into how Shell
International BV optimized back-end data flows for MDX query efficiency alongside
several custom-developed functionality improvements, such as dynamic charting
capabilities in Xcelsius. Understand the pitfalls experienced by the project team
and how they overcame them by determining the optimal number of characteristics
in queries. Explore the strategies leveraged by the organization to deliver a layered,
scalable SAP NetWeaver BW environment and maximize usability.
Case study: How Unilever reduced inter-company reconciliation
challenges across 22 countries and achieved a faster close
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G106
B2 F5 F9 G7 G8
Inter-company reconciliation has been identified as one of the most common tasks
that can slow down the closing cycle. Hear firsthand how Unilever uses SAP inter-
company reconciliations functionality in over 120 companies across 22 countries to
identify and resolve problems early in the closing process. Find out how the
company eliminated extra work and delays at both the corporate and divisional
levels. Examine how Unilever enabled peer-to-peer reconciliations and information
sharing in real time. Discover the companys approach for providing entities with a
centralized database for making adjustments before reports are sent to corporate.
Hear how Unilever is now able to prevent most discrepancies by addressing issues
early on in the closing process. Find out how Unilever has improved the flow of
communication during the inter-company reconciliation process.
Case study: Increasing profitability and simplifying planning
and forecasting at T-Systems
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 D407
B6 F4
Hear a firsthand account of how T-Systems has increased profitability and
simplified its planning and forecasting processes using SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation. Walk through T-Systems implementation
project, beginning with its initial project preparation stages through go-live.
Hear firsthand how the company was able to tightly link its business process
flows to the data and processes that support its planning and budgeting
activities. See for yourself how T-Systems is now able to develop more timely
and accurate plans and budgets that align with the companys goals. Take home
tips and critical lessons learned to guide your organizations implementation.
Everything you ever wanted to know about SAP ERP HCM
reporting
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 D204
B3 H5
Learn what types of HR reports come standard with your SAP system and
what options are now available to develop, run, and distribute customized
reports. Obtain guidelines to determine which reporting tools and options are
best suited for your needs. When should you rely on standard prebuilt reports
and queries, and when should you custom design your own reports using the
SAP query and ad hoc tools? Learn how to simplify user access and navigation
of area menus and reporting trees. Find out how to leverage SAP NetWeaver
Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) business content that is delivered
for HR reporting and analytics. Get guidelines to determine when SAP ERP
is better suited for your HR reporting requirements and when you should be
using SAP NetWeaver BW. Get tips for customizing SAP ERP HCM
reports. Learn how to add payroll and time management infotypes into
standard reports. Take home a cheat sheet with the most useful HR reporting
programs and transactions and SAP notes for activating switches in infosets.
New General Ledger in SAP as a database for consolidation in
SEM-BCS and reporting in BI
Dorothea Baumann, Siemens IT Solutions & Services GmbH and Rainer Krug and
Johanna Brabetz, SMA Solar Technology AG
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G111
BS B2
This session provides an overview of Siemens customer-specific solution
approach for creating an integrated SAP financial reporting and consolidation
environment. Siemens and its customer SMA Solar Technology AG will share 2
years experience with you. Learn how the services offered at Siemens can help
your organization achieve faster and more efficient financial closes, integrated
external and internal accounting, consolidation processes, and management
reporting. Understand how your team can create harmonized financial processes
based on leading IFRS accounting principles. Step through real-world examples
of how Siemens services allow for effective parallel accounting and segment
reporting within the new general ledger, matrix consolidation with SEM-BCS,
and integrated planning and reporting within SAP NetWeaver BW.
Proven techniques and technologies to streamline data migration
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G109
B7
Review the successes and lessons learned from real-world data migration efforts,
including the most effective ways to design, create, and implement data validation
and reconciliation. Take a new look at SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and the
best ways you can leverage it to streamline data migration activities. Identify the
symptoms and causes of the most common data migration challenges and get tips
for avoiding them. Find out how to design documents and SAP BusinessObjects
Data Services code with reusability in mind to reduce risk and development time
for current and future migration efforts. Step through detailed examples to
understand how proper data conversion minimizes project risk, improves data
quality, and optimizes system resources. Explore proven cutover strategies that
reduce business freeze duration. Take home sample documents detailing functional
and technical data migration design, data mapping spreadsheets, cutover plans,
data validation scripts and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services sample code.
The comprehensive 2011 guide and roadmap for
SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management
(EPM) solutions
James Fisher, SAP
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 Auditorium
B1 F1 G1
This session offers a comprehensive guide to SAP BusinessObjects enterprise
performance management (EPM) solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects
Strategy Management, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation, and SAP BusinessObjects
Profitability and Cost Management. Understand more about the SAP
BusinessObjects EPM solutions roadmap for 2011 and beyond. Gain insight
into SAPs support strategy for strategic enterprise management (SEM)
functionality for business consolidation. Learn how all these solutions integrate
with SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence
(BI) solutions, and SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance
(GRC) solutions. Leave this session with a strong understanding of the current
solutions for enterprise performance management and their future roadmap.
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Strategies for integrating financial and management reports
into a single, integrated reporting framework
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G110
B2 F1 F2
With increasing pressure on the office of the CFO to take a more strategic
approach to financial reporting, more and more companies are integrating day-
to-day financial reports with management reports into a single financial
reporting framework. This session arms you with expert advice to develop a
framework that more adequately integrates your organizations finance
functions with other business functions to offers broader perspective on the
state of your business. Understand how to incorporate reports from your SAP
ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions into
your framework. Find out how to implement an efficient integrated reporting
platform that supports both your business intelligence and enterprise
performance management landscapes. Understand the critical success factors of
designing your framework, including team composition, and learn how to deal
with common challenges, such as data modeling complexity. Take home
sample documentation you can use when building your own framework.
A comprehensive overview of SAP solutions for enterprise
information management
Pascal Clement, SAP
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G103
B8
This session helps you benchmark your organizations data management
strategy against other SAP customers, and create a roadmap for success. Take a
detailed look at SAP capabilities for enterprise information management (EIM)
and understand the requirements for leveraging this functionality. Discover how
you can use profiling and cleansing tools to improve data quality. Find out how
SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management and SAP Master Data
Governance can be leveraged to consolidate, harmonize, synchronize, and
govern master data across your enterprise. Obtain best practices for embedding
data quality management into extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
processes, so you can build data warehouses or data marts and provide fast
response times to BI queries. Find out how you can leverage information
lifecycle management functionality from SAP and partners to manage the
complexities of maintaining data in multiple systems, provide easier access to
data for auditing and reporting purposes, and ensure that your data retention
strategy complies with the increasing number of regulations that you face.
Empower end users with Web-based ad hoc reporting and
analysis
Nick Wall, SAP
B4 B5 F3
Learn how employees can leverage the self-service query and reporting
functionality available with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to get
answers to new and evolving business questions. Understand the best ways to
include SAP and non-SAP data in your Web analyses. Step through examples
that show how to leverage Web intelligence functionality to train end users to
design and deliver interactive reports without the need for IT expertise or
advanced knowledge of the underlying data sources and structures. Gain
insight into key enhancements delivered in the latest release of SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, including new charting features and
dimensional capabilities for better analysis and reporting on OLAP sources.
See how these features enable a more streamlined user experience, faster access
to data, and easier content sharing across the BI landscape.
Executive session: Benchmark the total cost of ownership
(TCO) of your SAP investment against real-world KPIs
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 D403
BE B1 FE GE
Despite its widespread use in the enterprise software market, measuring the
total cost of ownership (TCO) of your SAP environment can be a very elusive
task. This session provides you with benchmarks for the costs associated with
running an SAP environment and support organization, as well as the costs
related to paying an external service provider for support services. Get a clear
picture of post-implementation costs, as well as services delivered, tied to key
service-level agreements (SLAs). Explore various benchmark methodologies,
including the consensus cost model and price benchmark contract comparison,
and take a look at actual KPIs which allow you to run your support
organization in a more efficient and effective way. Learn how to measure the
financial and operational costs of your own or your outsourced environments,
and identify the skill sets your competency center should have.
The 2011 guide to the latest capabilities of
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G102 (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
B6 F4 G9
This session offers a detailed overview of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation functionality, with emphasis on its planning, budgeting,
forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities. Learn how to consistently
manage your companys performance using timely and accurate plans and
budgets that are aligned with your strategic goals. Get tips to seamlessly
integrate corporate and departmental planning, quickly model business
scenarios, and re-forecast to meet rapidly changing business conditions. Create
more transparent financial data to enable fast, accurate management and
statutory reporting. Leave this session equipped with a thorough
understanding of the functionality delivered in the latest release and learn what
SAP has in store for the solution going forward.
What you need to know to get the most out of using
SAP NetWeaver BW as your enterprise data warehouse
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G104
B7
Delve into the challenges and opportunities that arise when using SAP
NetWeaver BW as your enterprise data warehouse (EDW). Learn why and
how to integrate different source systems into one EDW using SAP
NetWeaver Process Integration, XML, and enterprise application integration
tools. Take a detailed look at the pros and cons of your EDW architectural
options, including federated, centralized, and distributed EDW models, and
explore when each approach is appropriate. See how to build a flexible system
landscape including application servers, database servers, Java stacks, portal
environments, and security protocols that can adapt to your business. Learn
how to interface heterogeneous technical platforms and how to consolidate
different master and transactional data. Weigh your options for building a
centralized or a decentralized EDW support organization. Examine the top 10
pitfalls companies face when implementing SAP NetWeaver BW as an
EDW, and get proven tips and techniques to overcome them.
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10 things guaranteed to derail your BI project and strategies,
tools, and techniques to combat them
Penny Silvia, IBM
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G104
B9 F12
Identify and overcome the most common challenges associated with business
intelligence-related implementations, migrations, or upgrades. Learn to craft a
solid BI roadmap that reduces project risks and addresses key business
challenges and your unique requirements. Identify best practices and tools that
can be deployed to gather inventory and analyze performance of all the BI
objects. Get tips and lessons learned to avoid common pitfalls associated with
the quality, harmonization, consolidation, migration, and integration of data.
Explore the implications of a global environment on testing and custom
development. Learn the most effective ways to create and deploy a solid
governance strategy and security framework for your BI project. Take home a
document listing the most important project preparation activities that can
make or break your BI project.
Advanced tips and tricks to optimize your BI strategy with
Xcelsius dashboards
Keith Mullins, IBM
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G103 (session repeated on Wednesday at 9.00)
B4 F3
Explore best practices and use-case scenarios for leveraging Xcelsius
dashboards to drive sustainable competitive advantage within your BI strategy.
Take a critical look at the capabilities delivered with Xcelsius such as
containers, workflow, and data manager, and step through examples of how
each can be used to provide immediate business value to your enterprise. Step
through demos of the various types of interactive dashboards that are enabled
by Xcelsius, such as cash-to-cash cycle time, global spend, and performance
management. Learn the best ways to enable what-if and predictive analysis
within a value map to show how you can maximize revenue, optimize
spending, and obtain profitable growth. Examine the three different ways to
integrate Xcelsius with your SAP NetWeaver BW data warehouse. Take
home a BI maturity model, a real-world Xcelsius cash-to-cash cycle time
dashboard published to PowerPoint, and a cash-to-cash cycle time value map
aligned with SAP NetWeaver BW business content.
Case study: How Carlsberg Breweries ensures accurate and
consistent BI reports across a multi-country environment
B5 F3
This session explores how Carlsberg Breweries ensures transparency and
validity of global BI data by leveraging standardized templates across 19
European locations. Hear how the organization built a Value Map to
determine which crucial KPIs such as days sales outstanding (DSO) are
required to track performance within and across all geographical sites. See
examples of Carlsbergs home-grown BI report structure, and see a examples
of how reports are displayed within SAP NetWeaver Portal. Understand the
steps Carlsberg Breweries took toward ensuring a strong data governance
strategy, including the development of a data sourcing strategy and master data
maintenance policies, establishing a Business Intelligence Competence Centre
(BICC), and documenting all processes. Explore the training initiatives taken
by Carlsberg to help boost user adoption of the standardized BI reports, such
as using the SAP Productivity Pak for e-learning.
Case study: Lessons learned from Mota-Engils
implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G102
B9 F12
Get an insiders view of how Mota-Engils structured its SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation implementation project. Identify the business
drivers that sparked the organizations decision to move its planning and
consolidation activities to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
for NetWeaver, including its need for diversification-based growth. Hear
firsthand how the company designed a project plan that aligned with its overall
company strategy and vision. See how critical lessons learned at each phase of
the companys implementation project, including those surrounding
development and integration can help guide your own implementation. See
what steps the company is taking to continuously improve its consolidation
environment including integration with planning.
Executive session: Getting an accurate picture of your
organizations risk exposure using a fact-based approach
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 D403
BE FE GE
Managers and business leaders attending this session learn how to manage and
mitigate risk based on facts and evidence within their SAP systems. Find out
how to detect and gauge control weaknesses by leveraging data analytics and
automating your audit processes. Hear recent real-world examples from
companies that have used data analytics to recover costs, provide timely risk
reports, and do more with a lot less. This session will discuss strategies for
testing entire data populations on an ad hoc, repetitive, or continuous basis.
Learn how to automate manual, repetitive tasks, saving the organization
valuable time and resources. Get tips to analyze data, then store, share, and
leverage those results across the audit team. Find out how to distribute
transactional evidence of fraud, error, and waste directly to the business for
faster resolutions.
New options for governing financial master data and ensuring
accurate consolidated financial statements
Ralf Ille, SAP AG
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G109
B2 B8 F3 G7
Learn how to ensure that financial master data from multiple accounting
systems is consistent in order to efficiently produce consolidated financial
statements. Explore new financial master data governance functionality
available from SAP. Learn how to maintain financial master data for group
charts of accounts, profit centers, and cost centers. Understand what kind of
financial data can be modeled and maintained in a central master data system
and how SAPs predelivered data model can be enhanced to meet your needs.
Find out how to configure workflow approvals for master data change requests.
Understand how to distribute financial master data from a central master data
system to other applications within SAP ERP; to other financial accounting
systems, or to the financial consolidation software in your SAP landscape.
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20 tips and tricks to improve data load performance
Wednesday, 9.00 10.15 G104
B5 B7
Gain detailed insight into the best ways to monitor and optimize the
performance of SAP NetWeaver BW data loads. Receive best practices to
maximize data load performance while reducing long-term maintenance costs.
Find out when to use portable extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
code and when to eliminate hard-coding in your ETL logic. Learn how you
can reduce the amount of hardware and free up resources for online report
users. Find out how to enable version history to track code changes and how to
create reusable ETL logic to improve throughput and reduce data load time.
Get tips on when and how to use customer exits in DataSources and variables
to manage risk and reduce maintenance costs. Identify the challenges and
benefits of semantic partitioning and the importance of efficient data models.
Take home sample code and system settings for optimized ETL processes.
Thierry Audas, SAP
Wednesday, 9.00 10.15 G103 (repeat session)
B1 F3
Xcelsius dashboards
Keith Mullins, IBM
B4 F3
Expert strategies, guidelines, and tools to harness the power
of SAP NetWeaver Portal
Wednesday, 9.00 10.15 G105
B4
Get best practices to leverage the various aspects of the SAP NetWeaver
Portal from the SAP NetWeaver Application Server, to database
capabilities and security implications and achieve the highest return on
investment (ROI) on your portal investment. Identify the most appropriate
applications for your portal environment, and get tips for application location.
Obtain proven recommendations for optimal performance and security during
a portal rollout, from single sign-on (SSO) points, to intranet and web site
replacements. Find out whether it makes sense to expose portal content
internally or externally. Discover why federation is not always the best solution
for remote locations. Get design considerations for extending portal content to
mobile devices. Examine technical considerations when integrating SAP
NetWeaver Portal with Microsoft SharePoint, including document
management interoperability and authentication and identity management.
Gain insight into the future of SAP NetWeaver Portal, from front-end
development and monitoring capabilities, to enhanced integration with SAP
BusinessObjects.
Best practices for creating a unified security architecture for
a combined SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects BI
landscape
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G104
B7
Step through the security models for both SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP
BusinessObjects solutions, and learn how to combine them into a single,
unified security architecture for your system. Walk through the steps to
properly configure SAP BusinessObjects tools so that the configuration does
not violate existing security definitions in your SAP NetWeaver BW
environment. Uncover integration pitfalls that can cause security problems,
such as too narrowly defining your security model. Learn why proper OLAP
security in SAP NetWeaver BW is the foundation for integrating data-level
security for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects. Get tips to
prepare SAP NetWeaver BW queries to integrate with SAP BusinessObjects
solutions so reports automatically apply user authorizations. Take home a 10-
step guide to integrating security for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP
BusinessObjects tools.
BI Expert LIVE: Accelerate the creation of powerful
dashboards in Xcelsius
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G103
B4
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Anurag Barua, author, speaker,
and SAP practitioner specializing in dashboard development, and engage in an
in-depth discussion about one of his most widely-read articles from BI Expert.
Discover what features Xcelsius offers for quicker dashboards development
with fewer manual efforts. Explore strategies and techniques to improve
dashboard design and get tips for getting started using Xcelsius, including
required skill sets. Learn how to overcome common roadblocks customers
experience when building dashboards.
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Case study: How Austria Federal Ministry of Science and
Research implemented a unified planning and budgeting
strategy
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 D403
B6 F4 G9
This session examines how Austria Federal Ministry of Science and Research
implemented a unified system for budgetary planning, leveraging home-grown
spreadsheets, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Understand how public sector compliance
standards for example, planning budgets up to four years in advance was
the driving factor behind the Ministrys new planning initiative. Hear the
lessons learned from the Ministrys implementation of SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation, such as limiting the number of dimensions to less
than 10. View sample screenshots of the planning spreadsheets created by the
organization to analyze budgetary data (bottom-up and top-down), and
aggregate the requests of the decentralized departments. See examples that
illustrate how to format SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
reports to maximize at-a-glance information and better manage budgets for
several subunits from a single point. Gain insight into the change management
strategies employed by the organization, such as the implementation of user
testing before the roll-out. Take home sample budget spreadsheets used by the
Ministry that you can reference while building or optimizing your own.
Executive session: Formalizing an enterprise-wide BI
strategy that increases the effectiveness of business and IT
organizations
Waldemar Adams, SAP
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 Emerald Room
BE B1 FE F1
Find out how to formulate an effective BI approach that benefits IT and line
of business teams alike, by aligning business partners and formalizing business
needs, to removing limits of a departmental focus. Explore critical success
factors for developing and delivering a comprehensive BI strategy that
identifies a shared set of goals and delivers planned results. Learn best practice
approaches to executing this plan enterprise-wide, including guidelines to
define and run a successful BI competency center. Hear key recommendations
to achieve high-level executive sponsorship that can help mandate change and
organize cross-functionally for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome.
Come away with a repeatable framework that engages and brings together the
priorities of both CIOs and business executives to address organizational
challenges that a BI strategy can resolve.
How SAP supports the convergence of finance, performance
management, and GRC to drive financial excellence
James Fisher, SAP
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G105
B1 F1 G1
Take a guided tour of SAPs portfolio of solutions for financial excellence,
including SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM)
solutions; SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
solutions; and SAP ERP Financials, and learn what innovations are in store.
Hear how these enhanced solutions can be jointly leveraged to address new
challenges in finance in 2011 and beyond. Gain visibility into business
segments for clearer decision-making to support your companys plan to adopt
converging international accounting standards, as well as a business user centric
approach to managing risks; and to develop an effective strategy that leverages
global business networks in finance. Tap into strategies that can help to secure
an accurate, timely close cycle while maintaining organizational compliance.
Leave this session with a through understanding of how to achieve financial
excellence.
Achieve greater control and more predictable financial
performance by unifying risk management with enterprise
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D407
B2 F1 G1
Attend this session for a detailed look at how to integrate risk management into
your enterprise performance management strategy, with the goal of providing
better control, greater predictability of revenues and expenses and better
visibility into future earnings. Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Risk
Management together with the SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions to
rapidly detect and mitigate emerging risks; assess the resource requirements and
capacity needed to address changing levels of demand; and align strategy with
risk management to meet corporate objectives. Learn how to feed this
information directly into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,
version for the Microsoft platform, to deliver a complete risk adjusted planning
solution. Find out how to integrate data across all your planning and
performance management applications using SAP BusinessObjects Financial
Information Management. Step through a detailed demo that illustrates how
these solutions work together to give the control, agility and insight needed to
outperform your competitors in todays uncertain times.
An inside look at the SAP in-memory computing roadmap and
SAP HANA
Oscar Tromp, SAP
(session repeated on Thursday at 14.30)
B1 F3
Understand the concept of in-memory computing, and learn the best ways to
leverage it to optimize real-time analytics using data from operational systems,
data warehouses, and real-time events. Gain insight into the SAP vision and
strategy for in-memory computing, including SAP High-Performance
Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA), a real-time analytics engine that takes
advantage of lower memory prices and the availability of flash solid-state
storage devices. Go beyond the technology to understand the impact in-
memory computing could have on your business users and your companys
bottom line. Get guidelines to extract data from SAP and non-SAP data
sources, model it in-memory, and pass it to SAP BusinessObjects front-ends,
including SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. Examine use case scenarios that help
identify opportunities to apply in-memory computing in your organization.
Leave this session with a strong understanding of the current solutions for in-
memory computing from SAP and its future roadmap.
Case study: Lessons learned from AES rollout and integration
of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions with SAP NetWeaver BW
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G103
B9 F12
Hear the key lessons learned by AES a global power company with
electricity generation and distribution plants worldwide as it implemented
and integrated SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports,
and Xcelsius, with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0. Find out how the company has
improved its ability to generate reports and BI from a variety of disparate data
sources. Step through a demo that illustrates how the company is able to
display its most important business KPIs through an Xcelsius dashboard.
Learn how AES overcame challenges associated with a required support pack
installation, integration, system monitoring and security. Get insight into some
of the top project management lessons learned during this implementation,
such the learning curve associated with understanding the SAP
BusinessObjects technology stack, its touch points with SAP NetWeaver BW,
and ensuring data quality and governance.
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Executive session: Strategies for building and implementing
a formal internal leadership development program as part of
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D201
BE FE HE H1 H2
Organizations continually struggle with how to identify qualified candidates for
formal leadership roles. Too many organizations fail to formally prepare their
new leaders, resulting in a haphazard approach to leadership preparation that is
nothing more than on-the-job learning through the school of hard knocks.
This session will provide you with specific examples of formalized leadership
development programs that visionary organizations have developed and offer
in-house. Using his experience in helping organizations build successful
leadership programs, the speaker will guide you through the process of how to
develop content specific to your organization, examples of exercises and
activities, options foridentifying and selecting candidates, ways to market the
program, and the importance of executive sponsorship. Participants will review
multiple examples of how organizations are preparing their future leaders
through customized, formal programs and will hear the key dos, donts, gotchas,
and lessons learned along the way. Gain an understanding of how this program
can, and should, become part of a formal succession plan for your organization.
How to perform more agile planning and forecasting using
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 Auditorium
B6 F4 G9
Whether you are new to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation or
already have some experience, this guide to the latest functionality for both the
Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver platforms can help you increase organizational
agility, improve planning accuracy, and achieve a faster, more compliant
financial close. Reduce the learning curve and increase your user adoption rate
by leveraging native Microsoft Office tools, which provide familiar and easy to
use interfaces. Find out how to save time and resources when integrating and
maintaining business user applications by leveraging the same SAP NetWeaver
system that drives your data warehouse. Learn how to reduce budget cycle
time by enabling stakeholders the ability to collaborate and align their budgets.
Find out how other customers have improved planning accuracy, providing
them the ability to conform to highly complex business processes and
methodology changes. Hear about the latest starter kits that help improve
capital expenditure planning and cash flow forecasting.
Part 1: Lessons to design and deploy dynamic dashboards
and cockpits: Emphasis on SAP NetWeaver solutions
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G104
B4 F3
The first half of this two-part session takes a deep dive into the capabilities of
traditional SAP business intelligence dashboard tools, including SAP
NetWeaver Visual Composer and the SAP BEx analyzer, Web application
designer tools, and query designer. Walk step-by-step through the
construction of a dashboard using SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, and
gain insight into the future role of the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)
Web application designer tool in dashboard and cockpit design. Hear how
other companies feed portal-based dashboards and cockpits using SAP BEx
information broadcasting functionality, and gather tips for using custom
iViews to build cockpits directly within SAP NetWeaver Portal. Discuss how
to leverage BI queries and views as DataProviders for SAP NetWeaver Visual
Composer models. See a demonstration of how to build a Web cockpit off
two queries within SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, along with a step-by-
step guide to designing a BEx Web application designer template.
Unlock the power of SAP query tool to create the complex HR
reports you need without the customization costs
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D202
B3 H5
Gain insight into little-known pieces of extended functionality in the SAP
query tool that will allow you to create complex reports without having to pay
for customization, saving you considerable expense while enhancing user
productivity. Walk through the process for defining and creating custom fields
that display symbols and calculated values in reports. Learn how to generate
follow-on activities from query results, such as linked queries and transactions.
See how to drill down into report details without switching transactions and
screens. Walk away from this session with a clear understanding of how
utilizing the SAP query tool helps to improve error identification and
resolution and make reports more relevant to users. Take home an illustrated
example of the steps involved, such as creating calculated values, adding in
symbols, nested reports, and transactions so you can start writing your own
enhanced queries using the logic discussed in this session.
An HR reporting and analytics practitioners guide: Dos,
donts, and decisions
Penny Silvia, IBM
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 D204
B3 H5
Learn how to leverage the latest SAP ERP HCM prepackaged content and
analytical applications to streamline talent management and cross-analytics.
Delve into the top five dos and donts related to SAP reporting and analytics
for HR and SAP ERP HCM data, including the impact of running reports in
SAP ERP vs. the data warehouse. Explore the full range of SAP ERP HCM
analytics, and learn how to navigate the more than 200 queries, 300 key figures,
100 templates, and six analytical composite applications to choose the content
that best suits your needs. Understand the keys to success and risks for failure
when reporting against employee data, job information, expenses, training,
payroll, and more. Learn why in HR more than in any other area, getting
reporting and analytics right is critical for user adoption and system integrity.
Case study: How Danish Defence adopted Corporate
Information Factory principles to increase the efficiency and
data accuracy of its SAP NetWeaver BW environment
Anne-Marie Ditlevsen, Danish Defence
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G103
B1
This session explores how the Danish Defence implemented the data
warehousing principles of Bill Inmons Corporate Information Factory (CIF)
methodology to ensure high quality BI data within SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0.
Understand how the organization, which has used SAP NetWeaver BW for
10 years recognized the need for a reimplementation due to siloed data
and the need for frequent data re-loads. Learn the underlying principles of the
CIF methodology and how it redefined Danish Defences technical
architecture, encouraging data extraction using standard functionality only.
Hear how the reorganization of data reduced the organizations load time from
24 hours to five, allowed for the re-use of data, and ensured accurate SAP
NetWeaver BW reports. Get tips for performing your own SAP NetWeaver
BW reimplementation, such as leveraging Agile principles and an iterative
implementation approach. Hear how layered scalable architecture can be used
to model your enterprise data warehouse objects according to CIF. See a
demonstration of how Danish Defence embedded an Xcelsius cockpit within
its re-engineered SAP NetWeaver BW environment to further ensure user-
friendliness and data consistency.
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Case study: How Statoil used parallel valuation within
treasury for posting multiple currencies to FI
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G102
B2 F9 G7 G8
Learn how Statoil modified the local currency of its headquarters to the
currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates in
order to comply with IFRS functional currency requirements. Examine how
the company was able to provide accurate postings for all currency values being
posted into FI. Find out how the company was able to provide a means to post
the document currency, first local currency, second local currency (when
required), and a third local currency (when required) of a treasury posting
within a company code directly to FI. Examine the steps Statoil took to
configure its treasury solutions to calculate all values for each currency that are
posted in FI. See how the company is better able to post treasury transactions
to FI using a new structure built with existing treasury functionality and a
customized business add-in (BAdI).
How to combat ETL problems that arise from bad source data
using data services functionality
B8
Understand how and why extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
challenges arise from bad source data, and how to combat those challenges
using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services. Hear how SAP BusinessObjects
Data Services can seamlessly integrate complex stored procedures as data
services functions. Step through an overview of the change data capture
(CDC) tools delivered with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, and know
when to choose source- or target-based CDC. Gather best practices for
deploying data services in a multi-user environment, and learn why its not a
good idea to hold up a project to wait for complex transformation logic.
Accelerate your ETL project by leveraging the object-oriented and reusable
characteristics of data services code. Leave this session with expert tips, such as
how to properly track errors with data services statistics, and advice on using
data services in an enterprise data warehouse.
and cockpits: Emphasis on SAP BusinessObjects solutions
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G104
B4 F3
Attend the second half of this two-part session to explore the dashboard and
cockpit functionality within SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, including
Xcelsius, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer, and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis. Walk through
a detailed demonstration of how to build an Xcelsius dashboard, including
adding a background, leveraging filters, linking those filters to data, and
creating interactive graphs. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
can leverage queries to both relational and OLAP sources. Acquire navigation
and usability tips, including how to enable single sign-on. Map the capabilities
of these SAP BusinessObjects BI tools, along with those of the traditional
BEx and SAP NetWeaver tools, to the various roles and requirements within
your organization.
A comprehensive overview of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
and next generation solutions
Oscar Tromp, SAP
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G103
B1
Come to this session to see how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated
version can provide managers, business teams, and casual users with immediate
insights into vast amounts of data. Understand how SAP BusinessObjects
Explorer, accelerated version, differs from the standard version. Examine how
SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, and SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer interoperate. Understand how to leverage SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version for data analysis, even outside of
SAP NetWeaver BW. Identify technical requirements, such as the use of SAP
NetWeaver BW Accelerator, to properly index and partition large volumes of
data before they are queried and analyzed. Step through the SAP two-year
roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, to understand
how it aligns with your business intelligence strategy.
Case study: Lessons learned from Shell Internationals SAP
NetWeaver BW 7.3 upgrade
Djorgo Gubbels, Shell International
B9
Step inside Shell Internationals upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3, and take
away the best practices and technical insights you need for successfully performing
your own. Understand how Shell scoped and resourced its SAP NetWeaver BW
7.3 upgrade within a global environment leveraging various outsourcing strategies.
Explore the technical challenges faced by the Shell team when identifying system
landscape dependencies and gathering requirements, such as upgrading to the
latest support pack release for the SEM plug, ensuring the appropriate OS and
database versions, and having a dual stack for Java and ABAP on a single system.
Discover how Shell is leveraging SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 enhancements, such
as semantic partitioned objects, 7.x hierarchy loads, faster data load activation and
end-to-end data loading. Gain insight into how the organization plans integration
testing to ensure that its SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions will be fully integrated
with the new SAP NetWeaver BW release, and see demonstrations of the
Xcelsius and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports the company has
built within its new SAP NetWeaver BW environment.
Customer discussion forum: Lessons for maintaining a
sound business intelligence strategy in an evolving technical
landscape
Penny Silvia, IBM
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G101
B1
The business intelligence space is constantly evolving, with the release of new
technologies and the rise of new trends. Without a concrete BI roadmap or
strategy, its easy to lose a competitive edge. This interactive session explores
questions such as: What are some best practices for staying up-to-speed with
new BI trends, such as mobility or in-memory computing? How do I know
which BI tools will best meet the needs of my users and their unique business
requirements? What are the key components of an organizational BI roadmap?
What are the top pitfalls to avoid when formulating a BI strategy and how
can my team avoid them? Leave this lively session with the real-world insight
and advice you need to fine-tune your organizations BI strategy now and
for years to come.
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Executive session: Case study: Inside Airbus strategy for improving
global financial reports, data quality, and period-end closes with a
common finance platform across its European subsidiaries
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G102
BE B2 FE GE
Explore the steps taken by Airbus to ensure that its financial and IT
infrastructure supports all of its sites and subsidiaries across Europe. Learn
how the companys demand for a clear set of business requirements to support
its current IT investments has resulted in a company-wide initiative to better
integrate local SAP-based financial systems, deliver leaner financial processes,
and better serve the business through new financial standards. Hear examples
that illustrate how the company developed a new, centralized, financial
platform that consists of a unified accounting system as well as unified rules
and procedures. Find out how Airbus closes the gaps that can commonly exist
between finance and IT departments by involving key stakeholders from both
areas in any critical decisions. Delve into how the company was able to speed
up the monthly availability of data for a faster close without sacrificing quality.
Come away with an understanding of how Airbuss strategy has led to more
effective reports, consistent data, and faster closes across all its subsidiaries.
The key to portal usability: Aligning a user-centric design
approach with your business strategy
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G104
B4
Discover how to build a portal that aligns with your business strategy and goals
while simultaneously meeting user needs. Understand what it takes to develop
an intuitive, easy-to-use portal interface. Know what features are delivered out-
of-the-box, where custom development may be required, and options for
integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. Walk through the key
elements of usability design, including personas, wireframes, the applicable
prototype, pilot testing, and go-live. Learn how to create and use personas to
construct content for your users. Gain the skills to balance business
requirements and user-centric design to meet your portal development
timeline. Find out how to get managements buy-in for usability research and
improvements, as well as why and how to involve users in the design process
and pilot testing. Delve into the SAP NetWeaver Portal interface, key
customization options, and see examples of portals that take customization to
the next level. Receive tips and strategies to determine what features your
portal user interface should and shouldnt contain, such as when to use
elaborate Adobe Flash displays, if customized widgets are needed, and where
to make your portal sticky to keep people engaged.
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Case study: How Ferrovial bolstered the efficiency and
automation of its global consolidation processes using
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G102
B2 F5 F9 G7 G8
Get an inside look at how Ferrovial, an international transportation infrastructure
company, manages complex financial consolidation processes and dual reporting
standards using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Identify the
business drivers that sparked the organizations decision to migrate from SAP
BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, including its integration with budgeting and planning processes.
Explore the steps that Ferrovial has taken to automate its consolidation and
reconciliation processes and streamline the reconciliation between US GAAP and
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Hear how the company
complies with parallel reporting requirements associated with more than 700
company codes and several international accounting standards, from IFRS and US
GAAP, to local and legal requirements. Walk through the developments Ferrovial
has made since the initial implementation and what projects are in its future.
Executive session: The death of currencies and the future of
financial reporting
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 D407
BE B2 FE GE
Listen in as Juergen Ott, former CFO of Allianz Switzerland, shares his
perspective on the past history and future outlook for accounting and financial
reporting. Examine both the facts and the speculation about the recovery from the
biggest financial crisis in history and the effects it has had on the financial reporting
and currency activities of businesses across the globe. Understand the cause-and-
effect relationship that exists between the state of the post-recession economy and
the accounting and financial reporting processes businesses are using. Learn how
an unsound and improper asset valuation today can lead to negative implications
for the recovery of the economy. Understand the key role that depreciation plays in
preventing such outcomes. Leave this session with an up to date look at how your
financial reporting processes will be affected by the economic recovery.
Introducing new BI capabilities for formatted reports and
dashboards embedded in SAP Business Suite applications
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G103
B4 F3
Walk through the current SAP product roadmap for business intelligence
content, with emphasis on new formatted and dashboard capabilities available
for SAP Business Suite customers. Gain insight into new business intelligence
functionality delivered with SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.
Find out how installing an SAP enhancement package affects your current
landscape and future upgrades. See a demonstration of one of the newest
capabilities available to SAP Business Suite 7 users: SAP Crystal Reports and
Xcelsius dashboards embedded within the various SAP Business Suite
applications, including SAP ERP and SAP CRM. See how to use the new
embedded analytics capabilities to enable a more compelling and beneficial
way to make sense of the data and business processes that affect users day-to-
day activities.
Lessons for evaluating and determining the direction of your
organizations BI strategy and roadmap
Penny Silvia, IBM
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G109
B1
Learn the fundamental requirements for shaping a business intelligence (BI)
strategy that aligns with your organizations overall business goals today and in
the future. Understand the key components of a solid BI strategy, including
management buy-in, appropriate phases for deployment, and end-user
training. Learn techniques for creating measurable strategies that will add value
via organizational KPIs at all levels of the organization. Hear how the maturity
of your SAP system affects the BI strategy you adopt, and determine when
SAP business analytics tools and which end-user tools for reporting,
planning and ad hoc analysis should come into play. Take home a matrix of
BI tools from SAP, a sample BI strategy document, and a checklist to help
determine an effective BI strategy for your organization.
Strategies and tools to control burgeoning data volumes in
SAP NetWeaver BW
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G104
B7
Explore the three data management and archiving options available to help
you control expanding data volumes in SAP NetWeaver BW. Obtain criteria
to choose the right option for your needs, or to develop a hybrid approach that
leverages the best of multiple options. Examine the differences between
traditional archiving and near-line storage of SAP NetWeaver BW data, and
get an update on the new near-line storage interface. Learn how to ensure that
your SAP NetWeaver BW data targets are designed properly to anticipate
future growth and meet subsequent data archiving requirements. Tap into
valuable lessons learned from a seasoned expert, and get a realistic idea of how
to achieve all the benefits of archiving while preserving the integrity of SAP
NetWeaver BW data online and in your archives.
Case study: Statoil redefines planning and consolidation:
Lessons from the companys process redesign and technology
implementation
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G106
B6 F4 G9
Get a firsthand account of how Statoil rolled out SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation in order to improve data integrity, enable flexible
planning and consolidation functions, and leverage the companys existing
investment in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver. Hear how the company
reevaluated its legacy planning and consolidation processes and made
improvements that resulted in a stable environment for internal and external
reporting. Understand the key drivers behind choosing the solution and what
benefits, such as the ability to streamline the process of creating and approving
plans, budgets, and forecasts, the company is targeting for go-live. Find out
how the company was able to harmonize master data used in the consolidation
process to reduce master data maintenance. Walk through Statoils
methodology for building a project plan and moving toward a more unified
enterprise performance management and reporting landscape.
BI Sessions Thursday, 9 June
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Lessons for building visually compelling and interactive
dashboards with Xcelsius
Nick Wall, SAP
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G103
B4 F3
This session examines architectural considerations and best practices for
leveraging Xcelsius to give managers detailed, visual dashboards for improved
decision-making. See how to easily incorporate Xcelsius dashboards into your
business environment without the need for custom development skills.
Obtain best practices for dashboard development and design, including tips on
positioning content on the page, what types of charts best suit specific
scenarios, and how to use pre-attentive variables to bring attention to the most
important data on the page. Examine technical prerequisites, and understand
the importance of up-front business and IT design, including well-defined and
accepted key performance indicators (KPIs). Come away with the answers you
need to the top questions about building an Xcelsius dashboard, and gather
best practices to ensure the growth and adoption of dashboards within your
organization.
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis versus BEx Analyzer: What,
why, and how?
Thierry Audas, SAP
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G109
B1
Gain insight into the SAP vision and strategy for positioning SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office as an alternative to BEx
Analyzer, and edition for OLAP as the successor of SAP BusinessObjects
Voyager. Examine technical prerequisites, platform capabilities, and roadmap
details for both editions. Learn how to smoothly transition your user
population from the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) tools to the SAP
BusinessObjects BI solutions. Find out how to take advantage of self-service
BI usage capabilities in order to give users greater autonomy and reduce the
usage of expensive IT resources. Explore use case scenarios that illustrate how
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis works with your existing SAP NetWeaver BW
data warehouse and queries. Learn about its interoperability with various SAP
in-memory processing technologies, such as SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator.
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G104 (session repeated today at 14.30)
B9
This session explores the new features of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 and helps
you gauge whether an upgrade makes sense for your organization. View the
new automated partitioning of InfoProviders using pre-delivered step-by-step
Wizards, and learn how to monitor database usage and performance in the
improved administration cockpit. Explore how SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3
improves hierarchy handling through integration into process flows, and allows
for the loading of hierarchies from flat files using DataSources. Examine the
new transformation options to support semantic groupings, along with the
currency and unit conversions now available for DSOs and InfoSources. Gain
insight into the technical and human resources required to upgrade to this new
release, best practices for scoping, and potential challenges along the way. View
a sample upgrade plan to reference during your own SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3
initiative.
A detailed guide to SAP Crystal Reports: Best practices for
leveraging functionality and integrating with SAP ERP and
SAP NetWeaver BW
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G103
B5 F3
This session outlines SAP Crystal Reports capabilities and best practices for
integrating it with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW. Learn how to take
advantage of the key capabilities and features of SAP Crystal Reports to create
sophisticated, formatted reports. Find out how to create groups, summary
tables, drill-down capabilities, sub-reports, conditional formulas, and
hierarchies. Gain insight into how users can leverage these reports to better
understand critical information and make better business decisions. Get an
overview of data connectivity options between SAP Crystal Reports with SAP
ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW, including required software and available data
sources.
Better align your workforce management strategy with your
key business goals
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G111
B3 H1 H10
Learn how strategic workforce planning can impact your companys ability to
execute on their strategy, thus reducing costs and improving bottom-line
revenues. Gain greater visibility into your workforce composition so that you
can manage your talent on a strategic level and align your workforce with your
business goals. Learn how the SAP BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce
Planning solution provides transparency, enables the modeling of your resource
supply and demand, and helps to identify and analyze gaps. The key objective
is to ensure that you always have the right talent in place to support your
corporate strategy. Learn new ways to develop and manage action plans and
monitor your progress towards your goals.
Case study: adidas Groups data lifecycle management
strategy for more cost-effective and efficient data warehouse
management
Daniel Engel, adidas Group
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G109
B7
This session explores the adidas Groups year-long implementation of a data
lifecycle management strategy to better manage and monitor the companys
SAP NetWeaver BW data. Hear how the adidas Group recognized the need
for a data lifecycle management strategy through a steadily growing data
warehouse environment. Find out how the company scoped and resourced its
data restructure project, and the strategies used for getting business buy-in for
the initiative. Learn how the organization leveraged the Database
Compression and the Archive Development Kit (ADK) to reduce disc space
and hence, infrastructure costs. Gain insight into the three main benefits
adidas Group is realizing including reduced IT costs, more efficient change
management, and improved system monitoring. Explore the biggest technical
challenges faced by the organization - such as determining which data objects
to compress and gather tips for overcoming them.
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Executive session: Best practices to drive value and
innovation with business mobility solutions
Dr. Ahmed El Adl, SAP America
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G104
BE B1
Discover new ways leading SAP customers are adopting a culture of business
process improvement while building positive momentum among end-users
by extending their SAP investment through mobile applications. Prepare to
create a new, comprehensive mobility strategy for your enterprises SAP
investments or fine-tune your existing wireless processes. Step through a best-
practice roadmap that will help guide your development of an effective IT and
business mobility strategy. Understand the main pillars of mobility strategy,
including architecture, infrastructures, user experience, mobility management,
and security. Evaluate specific ways that you can leverage mobile solutions
from Sybase to implement a new or innovate your existing enterprise mobility
strategy. Hear about key factors behind the success of mobility strategies,
collect techniques to reduce the related risks, and get expert tips to ease the
path to SAP mobility.
Lessons for evaluating and choosing the right option to report
on and analyze variances
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G108
B2 F2 F3
Explore the different types of variance calculations available with SAP ERP
managerial accounting (CO) functionality, including total variance, production
variance, and planning variance. Learn when and how to use each to enhance
your analysis activities. Walk through variance configuration settings and
understand their impact on your variance reports. Gain insight into how
variance categories can be used to examine and determine the root causes of
production variances. Troubleshoot message analysis of the four input and four
output variance categories, including input price, resource usage, and input
quantity variance. Obtain clear definitions and examples from period-end
variance analyses. Learn how to identify typical problems that can occur with
total, production, and planning variance calculations; and get expert advice on
taking corrective action.
SAP HANA
Oscar Tromp, SAP
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G109 (repeat session)
B1 F3
Considerations, challenges, and technologies needed for a
sustainable data governance strategy
Keith Mullins, IBM
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G103
B8
Get tips and best practices for developing and implementing a data governance
strategy that both adds business value and is integrated into the overall
management systems of your organization. Explore the different types of
governance models, including local, regional, and central, to determine which
is appropriate for each unique data type. Identify the types of data that need to
be governed, such as materials, vendors, and customers, and understand how
successful governance and management of each type can benefit your
organization. Know the difference between passive and active governance
strategies and tap into successful approaches for implementing each. Explore
the difference a solid data governance strategy can have on future reports and
business intelligence and how this impacts key business decisions. Come away
with valuable tips and tools for ensuring a successful data governance
framework, including a maturity model, leading practice governance models,
and sample data management and governance project plans.
Develop an action plan to optimize working capital
performance
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G102
B2 F1
This session outlines a proven approach to link and align your organizations
operational and strategic plans and generate more productivity from your
working capital. Learn how to develop key performance indicators (KPIs) that
support a number of scorecard methodologies, including balanced scorecard,
economic value-added and activity-based costing methods using both SAP
BusinessObjects Strategy Management and SAP BusinessObjects business
intelligence solutions. Find out what capabilities are available to import data
into SAP BusinessObjects BI via a scheduling function or on an ad hoc basis.
Walk through a live demonstration that showcases how to monitor the
different drivers of working capital and put into place a strategic action plan for
your organization.
Disclosure management and XBRL Lessons for preparing
your financial statements for a faster financial close
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G108
B2 F5 F9 G7 G8
This session shows you how to overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality,
transparent financial close process and showcases how SAPs brand-new
collaborative disclosure management solution combined with XBRL
functionality can help. Learn how SAPs disclosure management solution
enables customers to go the last mile to ensure a timely, accurate and risk-free
close process, by managing the production, filing and publication of financial
statements and reports. Take an up-to-date look at requirements, common
challenges, and recommendations for optimizing your group closing cycles.
Get a clear understanding of the regulatory mandates which require companies
to file their financial statements in eXtensible Business Reporting Language
(XBRL). Learn about the impact this has on the so-called last mile of the
financial close and how to you can optimize this to bring the benefits of a fast
and efficient close to your organization.
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B9
This session explores the new features of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 and helps
you gauge whether an upgrade makes sense for your organization. View the
new automated partitioning of InfoProviders using pre-delivered step-by-step
Wizards, and learn how to monitor database usage and performance in the
improved administration cockpit. Explore how SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3
improves hierarchy handling through integration into process flows, and allows
for the loading of hierarchies from flat files using DataSources. Examine the
new transformation options to support semantic groupings, along with the
currency and unit conversions now available for DSOs and InfoSources. Gain
insight into the technical and human resources required to upgrade to this new
release, best practices for scoping, and potential challenges along the way. View
a sample upgrade plan to reference during your own SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3
initiative.
B5 F3
Go behind the scenes with Shell International BV to see how it implemented
and optimized SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports,
and Xcelsius on top of its SAP NetWeaver BW 7.01 environment. Discover
how the organization scoped its 18-month implementation project, and what
resources (both human and technical) it aligned with this project. Gain insight
into how Shell International BV optimized back-end data flows for MDX
query efficiency alongside several custom-developed functionality
improvements, such as dynamic charting capabilities in Xcelsius. Understand
the pitfalls experienced by the project team and how they overcame them
by determining the optimal number of characteristics in queries. Explore the
strategies leveraged by the organization to deliver a layered, scalable SAP
NetWeaver BW environment and maximize usability.
Proven tips and techniques to optimize query performance in
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0
Thursday, 16.00 17.15 G103
B5
This session offers expert advice on analyzing and troubleshooting long-
running queries using SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 tools, statistics tables, and the
query monitor. Understand the factors that contribute to slow queries, such as
bottlenecks and design issues in the front-end, insufficient fine-tuning and
optimization in the back-end, and inadequate hardware. Learn the top reasons
for poor query performance and the various ways to troubleshoot drags on your
system, such as analyzing SAP NetWeaver BW statistics and data from
transactions RSRT and ST03. Explore practical solutions for improving your
query performance using the OLAP cache, aggregates, compression, index
building, and setting the appropriate read mode. Gain insight into how to
properly use query components like restricted key figures, calculated key
figures, and formulas to guarantee optimal query performance. Understand
what factors you need to consider when deciding whether to use SAP
NetWeaver BW Accelerator for performance improvements.
B6 F4 G9
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Financials and GRC Session Descriptions
BI sessions can be found on pages 37-46. HR sessions can be found on pages 75-86.
Thierry Audas, SAP
(session repeated on Wednesday at 9.00)
B1 F3
Case study: Lessons from Philips Groups journey toward a
sound master data management and governance strategy
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G104
B8 F3
Learn how Philips Group is building an efficient master data management and
governance strategy, and walk away with tips for doing the same in your
organization. Understand how Philips recognized the need for a revamped
master data management strategy due to inconsistent and duplicate data found
between systems, and walk through the eight goals Philips is achieving with its
governance strategy. Explore the three distinct master data management
processes used by the organization to ensure high data quality
consolidation, harmonization, and central MDM and review the unique use
cases for each. Learn how Philips leverages SAP NetWeaver Master Data
Management to support the master data management and transport needs.
Gain insight into governance challenges faced by Philips including process
alignment across the organization, getting the business (not just IT) on board,
and picking the right tools to support its data governance strategy and get
best practices for overcoming them.
Case study: Nokia Siemens Networks successfully updates its
risk analysis and remediation rule set to align IT and business
functions
Mari Hurskainen, Nokia Siemens Networks
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G107
F11 G2
Get best practices and key techniques from Nokia Siemens Networks risk analysis
and remediation rule set update project. Find out how the organization updated
its previous ruleset to include three sets of new risk rules suggested by SAP, as
well as a number of other tailor-made transactions. View practical examples of
how the company customized and updated this rule set to ensure that its SoD
testing is completed accurately and on time. Examine how Nokia Siemens
Networks expedited the update project and the review of its newly emerged
segregation of duties conflicts by involving process owners and power users from
the beginning. Walk away with skills to review and update your rule set to make
certain that your rules are complete for your internal control environment.
Expert guidance to bring your asset accounting process into
compliance with IFRS
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G109
F9
Take a firsthand look at the key steps required to overcome one of the most
complex and difficult-to-interpret issues related to IFRS compliance: asset
componentization. Step through examples and best practices for separating
larger assets into smaller components, and learn what detailed asset
information must now be provided to reduce ambiguity and uncertainty in
your organizations financial statement audits. Walk through the different
depreciation rules that must be applied to your organizations assets, both fixed
and intangible. Get detailed configuration advice to meet IFRS requirements
within your SAP system for asset accounting and learn what changes you can
anticipate surrounding asset classes, GL accounts, transaction types, and
depreciation.
Keeping up with VAT: How emerging developments can affect
your SAP systems and financial reports
F9 G7 G8
Get a thorough understanding of how procedures required by the European
Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) affect your business and financial
processes. Identify common misconceptions surrounding VAT, including
those measures that need to be taken with pro-rata VAT and deferred VAT.
Understand when to apply pro-rata VAT and how to set it up and integrate it
into the financial accounting (FI) module. Learn how to customize your
financial accounting application to meet different VAT policies and the
implications on your tax reporting processes. Learn how to handle VAT and
tax jurisdiction codes within one company code.
Key lessons to increase the quality and speed of your
financial close processes
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G102
F5 G7
Attend this session for best practices to successfully implement the SAP
Financial Closing cockpit to increase the quality and speed of your financial
closing processes using automation and task flow functionality. Walk through
some of the key business drivers for implementing the SAP Financial Closing
cockpit including the ability to establish a shared, uniform interface where all
periodic activities can be documented and made transparent and available to
the business. Step through examples that illustrate how to leverage this
solution to provide a structured interface for executing transactions and
complex financial business processes, such as period closing schedules, using
both standard templates and work lists. Walk away with tips to more
efficiently monitor your entire closing status and drill-down into your
organizations important financial closing details.
Financials and GRC Sessions
Tuesday, 7 June
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Minimizing the cost of compliance, audit, security, and risk
management in financially challenging times
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G106
F1 G1
Attend this session for a solid understanding of the key areas of fraud, risk, and
compliance that can result from reduced budgets, high workloads, and
increased responsibilities brought on by current market and corporate financial
challenges. Identify GRC functionality you can use to help automate these
activities and enable your organization to do more with less. Walk through
detailed configuration tips to help augment current processes, such as risk
remediation in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, and enhance the value of
your current application. Explore options and decision points with respect to
GRC upgrade paths or implementations of additional functionality under
tighter budgets and limited resources. This session will arm you with tips and
automation best practices that provide a more tangible ROI on your
governance, risk, and compliance solutions.
Shorten the order-to-cash cycle with better integration
between financials and sales and distribution
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G105
F7
This detailed session provides a close look at the integration between SAP
financial accounting (commonly referred to as FI) and sales and distribution
(commonly referred to as SD) functionality. Find out how to support your
order-to-cash (OTC) cycle using an integrated solution that includes FI, SD,
accounts receivable (A/R), and managerial accounting (commonly referred to
as CO) functionality. Identify important integration points between key
documents such as sales orders, billing documents, accounting invoices, and
customer payments. Become familiar with the fields on the material master
that are used to determine accounting and pricing. Step through the account
determination process and see how to convert the billing document into the
accounting invoice. Identify ways to use the SAP General Ledger to improve
the order-to-cash cycle.
Strategies for tackling the financial, legal, and cultural
complexities of global SAP ERP implementations and rollouts
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 D407
F12 G5 G8
Explore key considerations for planning and conducting a global SAP ERP
Financials implementation or rollout. Take a guided tour through the global
project life cycle, from appropriately assessing the scope to supporting the
systems after go-live. Prepare for the multitude of challenges involved in
executing a global implementation, including language requirements, legal
requirements, tax regulations, and multiple currency requirements. Identify
ways to prepare for the unique issues presented by individual countries. Get
real-world tips for securing user and stakeholder buy-in from multiple
countries. Learn how to ensure compliance with various country-specific
regulations. Learn how to confront common pitfalls, such as language barriers,
before they impact your organizations global rollout. Get a detailed
explanation of how to design a post-go-live support strategy.
The 2011-2012 audit survival guide: Tips and tricks to survive
your next audit quickly and painlessly
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 D403
F10 G6
This session provides insight to help project managers, functional teams,
administrators, and users better prepare for an audit of their SAP system.
Learn how the audit process works in an SAP environment. Identify SAP
functions and supporting business processes that will be under the closest
scrutiny, such as security monitoring. Review specific SAP configurable
controls and learn what the auditor will typically be looking for related to these
settings. Explore audit issues that can stem from the way things were set up in
the initial implementation or upgrade. Walk away with a checklist of final
audit preparation steps. Get practical and proven advice to start thinking like
an auditor and prepare your domains for an SAP system audit.
A comprehensive guide and strategic roadmap to
SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
solutions, including version 10.0
Michael Heckner, SAP
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G105
F11 G1 G4
Understand how to more effectively align and unify your governance, risk
management, and compliance initiatives using the latest GRC functionality
from SAP. Get valuable advice to help reduce risk exposure, make more
effective decisions regarding strategy, and optimize your organizations overall
performance. Get tips to prepare for the real impact that financial, social, and
environmental risks can have on your business such as the loss of revenue,
fraud, and failed audits. Learn how to align your operational processes with
your organizations strategic objectives. Understand how to more readily
identify competitive opportunities in the marketplace. Learn how SAPs
portfolio of solutions can be mapped to your current and future GRC
requirements. Get an intimate look at SAPs vision for GRC, with emphasis
on release 10.0 and whats to come with future releases.
B5 F3
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Case study: How Novartis reduced its compliance costs with a
more stable controls environment
Claudia Iacobucci, Novartis International AG and Mark Jeffers, Novartis Pharma AG
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 D403
F1 G1 G3
Find out how Novartis stabilized its SAP controls environment and reduced
overall compliance costs using SAP BusinessObjects Access Control. Hear
how the company was able to simplify its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance process
while building new standard mitigating controls. Find out how Novartis built a
more comprehensive and compliant risk library to be used in risk analysis and
remediation. Walk through the entire implementation project and find out key
lessons learned, including the importance of implementing compliant user
provisioning and risk analysis and remediation functionality in the proper
sequence. Gain insight into the benefits Novartis has realized, such as better
alignment with IT and a more preventive risk analysis system. Get a preview
of companys plan for future SAP access control projects.
Case study: How Unilever reduced inter-company
reconciliation challenges across 22 countries and achieved a
faster close
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G106
B2 F5 F9 G7 G8
Inter-company reconciliation has been identified as one of the most common
tasks that can slow down the closing cycle. Hear firsthand how Unilever uses
SAP inter-company reconciliations functionality in over 120 companies across
22 countries to identify and resolve problems early in the closing process. Find
out how the company eliminated extra work and delays at both the corporate
and divisional levels. Examine how Unilever enabled peer-to-peer
reconciliations and information sharing in real time. Discover the companys
approach for providing entities with a centralized database for making
adjustments before reports are sent to corporate. Hear how Unilever is now
able to prevent most discrepancies by addressing issues early on in the closing
process. Find out how Unilever has improved the flow of communication
during the inter-company reconciliation process.
Case study: Increasing profitability and simplifying planning
and forecasting at T-Systems
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 D407
B6 F4
Hear a firsthand account of how T-Systems has increased profitability and
simplified its planning and forecasting processes using SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation. Walk through T-Systems implementation
project, beginning with its initial project preparation stages through go-live.
Hear firsthand how the company was able to tightly link its business process
flows to the data and processes that support its planning and budgeting
activities. See for yourself how T-Systems is now able to develop more timely
and accurate plans and budgets that align with the companys goals. Take
home tips and critical lessons learned to guide your organizations
implementation.
Customer discussion forum: Lessons and best practices that
streamline the time-to-close process
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G101
F5 G7
Engage in an interactive discussion with peers and find out how they are
speeding the time-to- close process. Get answers to questions such as: What
are the best ways to manage, direct, and optimize my companys closing
procedures? How do I overcome common problems that plague my closing
processes? What SAP tools are available to help me streamline my period-end
close? How do I ensure that my close processes are transparent and meet
regulatory requirements? Gain new ideas and perspectives on how to construct
well-coordinated year-end and month-end processes.
Executive session: Strategies for improving the agility and
reducing the cost of financial processes using a shared
services center
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G102
FE F8 GE HE
Fragmented and inconsistent business processes, along with inflexible
technologies, can inhibit both productivity and service responsiveness. Find out
from a leading SAP executive how the new SAP Shared Service Framework
can be leveraged to achieve significant cost savings in the financials arena.
Understand how the framework can become the infrastructure for more
efficient communication between the service center and its clients, improved
compliance with service level agreements (SLA), and more accurate, insightful
reports to business stakeholders. Learn how customers are reaping benefits by
standardizing and automating transactional services delivered by the shared
service organization. Learn how to turn your organization into a more agile
and lean business center where financial administration services are treated as
core business processes, and customer satisfaction goals are exceeded by
delivering the right services for the best price.
How to leverage the latest SAP General Ledger functionality
to streamline accounting and improve compliance
Stefan Karl, SAP
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G107
F2 G7
Attend this session for an up-close view of the SAP General Ledger in SAP
ERP 6.0. Learn what functionality is available to support a more unified
approach to management and financial accounting. Learn how the SAP
General Ledger supports parallel accounting through the use of parallel ledgers
and parallel accounts. Learn how to utilize SAPs new profit center
reorganization to automate and more easily shift those structures and
responsibilities. Examine how the SAP General Ledger can help you support
corporate governance by offering perfect transparency among your entries,
helping to reduce the risk of non-compliance.
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Lessons for conducting more comprehensive user access
reviews of your SAP system
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G108
G2
Learn how to set up and conduct periodic reviews of who is accessing your
SAP system using compliant user provisioning functionality within SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control. Find out how to uncover instances of
obsolete and outdated access that can contribute to segregation of duties (SoD)
violations. Determine when existing access processes can be mapped as is
within compliant user provisioning or when they should be re-evaluated or
completely remodeled. Find out how to integrate compliant user provisioning,
enterprise role management and risk analysis and remediation functionality in
order for user access reviews to be fully operational. Take home a list of best
practices and key examples of how other customers are conducting user access
reviews.
Strategies for integrating financial and management reports
into a single, integrated reporting framework
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G110
B2 F1 F2
With increasing pressure on the office of the CFO to take a more strategic
approach to financial reporting, more and more companies are integrating day-
to-day financial reports with management reports into a single financial
reporting framework. This session arms you with expert advice to develop a
framework that more adequately integrates your organizations finance
functions with other business functions to offers broader perspective on the
state of your business. Understand how to incorporate reports from your SAP
ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions into
your framework. Find out how to implement an efficient integrated reporting
platform that supports both your business intelligence and enterprise
performance management landscapes. Understand the critical success factors of
designing your framework, including team composition, and learn how to deal
with common challenges, such as data modeling complexity. Take home
sample documentation you can use when building your own framework.
The comprehensive 2011 guide and roadmap for
SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management
(EPM) solutions
James Fisher, SAP
B1 F1 G1
This session offers a comprehensive guide to SAP BusinessObjects enterprise
performance management (EPM) solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects
Strategy Management, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation, and SAP BusinessObjects
Profitability and Cost Management. Understand more about the SAP
BusinessObjects EPM solutions roadmap for 2011 and beyond. Gain insight
into SAPs support strategy for strategic enterprise management (SEM)
functionality for business consolidation. Learn how all these solutions integrate
with SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence
(BI) solutions, and SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance
(GRC) solutions. Leave this session with a strong understanding of the current
solutions for enterprise performance management and their future roadmap.
A comprehensive guide to SAPs roadmap for an accelerated
financial close
Stefan Karl, SAP
F5 G7
Receive a detailed overview of the most recent enhancements of financial close
solutions in SAP Business Suite and SAP BusinessObjects, and an outlook on
SAPs strategy and planned innovations. Learn how additional functionality in
SAP ERP Financials (e.g., in asset accounting, product costing) can improve
your financial close for IFRS, US GAAP, or parallel accounting standards.
Explore the benefits of the SAP Financial Closing cockpit to plan, schedule,
execute, and monitor close activities across multiple systems. Understand the
value of the different SAP offerings for inter-company reconciliation and
consolidation. Learn how to support the production of financial statements
and publishing via XBRL. Understand the capabilities of internal controls
monitoring and account reconciliation to help ensure your companys financial
integrity. See how to leverage cross-functionality like reporting and analytics,
and master data governance. Come away with real-world lessons from
successful SAP customers and a good understanding how your company can
benefit from SAPs portfolio for financial close.
Case study: Bentley Systems speeds dispute resolution and
gains visibility into credit write-offs around the globe
Jim Frick, Bentley Systems
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G108
F7
Examine how Bentley Systems recently rolled out SAP solutions for dispute
management and collections management to more effectively process
receivables-related dispute cases and notify customers about outstanding
receivables. Walk through the companys SAP landscape and find out how it
transitioned from internally developed tools in Microsoft Access and SharePoint
to SAP Collections and Dispute Management as a means to track accounts
receivables and credit write-offs. Find out how the company is now able to
codify and structure the payment status of disputed invoices and delinquent
accounts and track how the collections team works with customers to resolve
these. See how the company utilizes credit write-offs to identify customer
accounts where all or part of the software maintenance contract has to be written
off. Find out how the company implemented the tool globally, so that the
transactions processed by the shared service centers in the United States and
Ireland are visible to all relevant members of Bentley Systems around the globe.
Case study: Best Practices from Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Consolidateds Microsoft

Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G110
FS F5 GS G7
Find out how to save time off of your monthly financial reporting and increase
data integrity by eliminating reliance on manual data exports and rekeying to
Microsoft Excel from SAP systems. Receive key concepts and best practices
for how SAP users can leverage their MS Excel environment in SAP.
Understand the challenges Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated faced prior
to the deployment of Microsoft Excel-based automation and learn how they
utilized familiar MS Excel functionality to get intuitive, formula-driven,
dynamic and accurate results. This session will illustrate how to move beyond
static spreadsheets and create the ultimate dynamic SAP financial spreadsheet
experience using Microsoft Excel. Improve productivity by automating your
SAP financial spreadsheet environment. Populate spreadsheets with live
balances and descriptions from SAP to Microsoft Excel. Learn more effective
ways to handle classic and special ledgers in spreadsheets from the SAP
General Ledger. Drill-down dynamically from the spreadsheets to the lowest
level of detail in SAP.
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Case study: How Royal Greenland recognizes inventories in
multiple currencies and valuations using the material ledger
Lars Bo Hassinggaard, Royal Greenland A/S
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G105
F2
Attend this session for a firsthand look at how Royal Greenland, one of the
worlds leading companies on the seafood market, uses the material ledger
functionality from SAP to recognize inventory in multiple currencies and
valuations. Learn the sequence of steps the company took to activate the
material ledger in an SAP system that was already up and running. Find out
what was required in terms of configuration and SAP support when upgrading
from mySAP ERP 2004 to SAP ERP 6.0. Find out how the company is able
to meet complex requirements surrounding reporting, integration with CO-
PA, calculating true cost, completing user exits and performing period closings
in the material ledger. Find out how Royal Greenland plans to expand the
functionality of its material ledger including how to further use the data within
the material ledger, perform spend analysis, track data trends, and complete
vendor evaluations.
Case study: How Statoil improved its financial compliance
activities through implementation of process control
Ole Martin Rine, Statoil
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G107
G3
Hear how Statoil, the second largest natural gas supplier in Europe, is
currently implementing SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. Find out the
initial drivers behind the project, including helping Statoil increase efficiency of
financial compliance activities. Learn how Statoil initiated the project
subsequent to a proof of concept, and involved key individuals from the
organization to establish a roadmap for the solution within the context of a
wider GRC strategy. Examine the companys approach to identify key project
objectives and define an implementation timeline. Gain insight into how the
company balanced the project with other initiatives going on within the
organization. Learn how Statoil was able to justify and drive the project by
using it as a means to allow a more standardized and efficient process. Come
away with lessons you can put to use immediately within your own project.
Case study: Repsol reduces segregation of duties (SoD)
conflicts through improved risk identification and tighter
internal controls
Carlos Bonete and Imanol Beguiristain, Repsol YPF, S.A.
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G106
F11 G2
Hear firsthand how Repsol utilizes SAP BusinessObjects Access Control to
reduce the number of SoD conflicts in its organization, as well as the total
number of users in conflict. Find out how the company defined its segregation
of duties by first identifying risks and the incompatible functions that form the
risks. Find out what new mitigating controls Repsol identified and set up as a
result of this process. Learn how the company cleaned up authorization data in
its transactional systems. Find out why Repsol created a new department
within the IT security organization to build its SoD matrix and authorization
schema, run the analysis, and communicate the results. Leave this session with
an understanding of how Repsol used SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk,
and compliance (GRC) solutions to achieve an efficient and sustainable
advantage, resulting in an improvement of the companys internal controls
environment.
Customer discussion forum: Recommendations and advice to
building and running a shared services environment
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G111
F8
Are you considering, planning, or have already begun rolling out a shared
services model at your organization? Participate in an interactive discussion
with peers and experts who have been through this type of project to find out
the best ways to proceed. Get answers to challenging questions, such as: How
can a shared services model help optimize costs, minimize risk, and improve
services provided to the business? How are my peers overcoming common
implementation and design challenges? How do I go about leveraging business
process automation in my shared service organization? Which finance
be outsourced? Hear from your colleagues and get insights into what every
SAP financials team should know before beginning a shared services project.
Empower end users with Web-based ad hoc reporting and
analysis
Nick Wall, SAP
B4 B5 F3
Learn how employees can leverage the self-service query and reporting
functionality available with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to get
answers to new and evolving business questions. Understand the best ways to
include SAP and non-SAP data in your Web analyses. Step through examples
that show how to leverage Web intelligence functionality to train end users to
design and deliver interactive reports without the need for IT expertise or
advanced knowledge of the underlying data sources and structures. Gain
insight into key enhancements delivered in the latest release of SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, including new charting features and
dimensional capabilities for better analysis and reporting on OLAP sources.
See how these features enable a more streamlined user experience, faster access
to data, and easier content sharing across the BI landscape.
Executive session: Benchmark the total cost of ownership
(TCO) of your SAP investment against real-world KPIs
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 D403
BE B1 FE GE
Despite its widespread use in the enterprise software market, measuring the
total cost of ownership (TCO) of your SAP environment can be a very elusive
task. This session provides you with benchmarks for the costs associated with
running an SAP environment and support organization, as well as the costs
related to paying an external service provider for support services. Get a clear
picture of post-implementation costs, as well as services delivered, tied to key
service-level agreements (SLAs). Explore various benchmark methodologies,
including the consensus cost model and price benchmark contract comparison,
and take a look at actual KPIs which allow you to run your support
organization in a more efficient and effective way. Learn how to measure the
financial and operational costs of your own or your outsourced environments,
and identify the skill sets your competency center should have.
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Expert guidance to minimize operational risk
Jrme Pugnet, SAP
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 D407
G8
Attend this session and learn how to overcome the difficult challenge of
managing operational risk. Get helpful advice to improve compliance with a
myriad of local and country-specific safety and environmental regulations,
while also managing risks within the manufacturing industry related to plant
production and maintenance, such as machine down-time or changes in laws
and regulations. Find out how to prevent mistakes and other events, such as
security breaches, that can have a catastrophic impact on your organizations
employees, communities, and the reputation of the enterprise. Walk through a
live demonstration that showcases how to use SAP BusinessObjects
governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to automate your
organizations operational risk and compliance processes, which can lead to
better identification and mitigation of risks and improved strategic planning.
Merge identity management and compliance activities and
technologies to ensure better access control and regulatory
reporting
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G109
G2 H5 H6
Faced with increasingly stringent regulatory requirements and pressure to
decrease IT cost, leading organizations are embedding compliance into the
entire user role and security management process. In this session, learn how
the combination of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control and SAP
NetWeaver Identity Management aligns business and IT to ensure that
authorizations are performed in a compliant manner, thereby enabling
preventive compliance. Come away with insights into how put into place an
enterprise-wide mechanism to detect, mitigate, remediate, and prevent access
and authorization risk across key business processes.
B6 F4 G9
10 things guaranteed to derail your BI project and strategies,
tools, and techniques to combat them
Penny Silvia, IBM
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G104
B9 F12
Identify and overcome the most common challenges associated with business
intelligence-related implementations, migrations, or upgrades. Learn to craft a
solid BI roadmap that reduces project risks and addresses key business
challenges and your unique requirements. Identify best practices and tools that
can be deployed to gather inventory and analyze performance of all the BI
objects. Get tips and lessons learned to avoid common pitfalls associated with
the quality, harmonization, consolidation, migration, and integration of data.
Explore the implications of a global environment on testing and custom
development. Learn the most effective ways to create and deploy a solid
governance strategy and security framework for your BI project. Take home a
document listing the most important project preparation activities that can
make or break your BI project.
Xcelsius dashboards
Keith Mullins, IBM
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G103 (session repeated on Wednesday at 9.00)
B4 F3
An up-to-date guide from SAP to improve treasury and risk
management activities
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 D407
F7
This session offers a detailed tour of brand new treasury and risk management
functionality soon to be available from SAP. Explore the newest features and
functions, as well as infrastructure and architecture enhancements. Gain new
insights into leading practices for managing commodity price risk. Step
through enhancements to the exposure manager that will enable your
organization to better handle delivery and price risk. Find out how to empower
your organization to more precisely manage cash, mitigate financial risks, and
streamline bank interactions and payment processes. Get a comprehensive
overview of how to establish an integrated payment factory. Learn how to
centrally monitor and track the status of payments. Get insight into options for
direct bank connectivity or easy connectivity to the secure and reliable
infrastructure of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication (SWIFT) Network. Hear the latest developments and
news regarding SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) and ISO20022, along
with advice to leverage treasury functionality to support these initiatives.
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Are your payment processes and SAP systems ready for
Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)?
F9 G7 G8
Within the next two years, European countries will be standardizing their
banking systems, eliminating the distinction between national and intra-
European cross-border payments. This Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
initiative impacts companies doing business with or within the countries in
which the Euro is the local currency. Examine the impact of SEPA on the
payment processes and procedures configured within your SAP system; for
example, holders of debit cards and credit cards will now be able to use these
cards within SEPA to make payments at their usual national rates. See
firsthand how this change will impact your financials applications and what
types of issues to anticipate with the switch, such as master data and bank data
changes and the need to set up new payment procedures.
Automate and continuously monitor controls for a more
efficient and effective compliance process
Jennifer Cha, SAP
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G106
F11 G3 G4
Understand how you can improve your financial governance by automating the
monitoring and testing of controls. Learn the different ways to implement
continuous controls monitoring including creation of custom controls and
business rules. Understand the technical specifications to implement an
automated controls framework relating to critical financial and other SAP
ERP controls. Discuss best practices for evaluating and monitoring controls
and ERP application settings against a sliding scale of violation thresholds and
learn how to route workflow accordingly. Evaluate how your organization can
benefit from implementing an automated controls framework.
Case study: How Carlsberg Breweries ensures accurate and
consistent BI reports across a multi-country environment
B5 F3
This session explores how Carlsberg Breweries ensures transparency and
validity of global BI data by leveraging standardized templates across 19
European locations. Hear how the organization built a Value Map to
determine which crucial KPIs such as days sales outstanding (DSO) are
required to track performance within and across all geographical sites. See
examples of Carlsbergs home-grown BI report structure, and see a examples
of how reports are displayed within SAP NetWeaver Portal. Understand the
steps Carlsberg Breweries took toward ensuring a strong data governance
strategy, including the development of a data sourcing strategy and master data
maintenance policies, establishing a Business Intelligence Competence Centre
(BICC), and documenting all processes. Explore the training initiatives taken
by Carlsberg to help boost user adoption of the standardized BI reports, such
as using the SAP Productivity Pak for e-learning.
Case study: How McKesson built a strong business case for
an SAP General Ledger migration project
F2 F12
Find out how McKesson successfully built its business case for the companys
SAP General Ledger migration project, while making sure to engage key
stakeholders across the organization. Learn why McKesson, when building its
business case, chose to focus on the financial reporting benefits, such as its
ability to support FASB/IASB convergence requirements. Learn what key
business decisions McKesson made at the beginning of its migration project,
such as designing its ledger to support parallel accounting and document
splitting. Understand how McKesson mitigated the projects impact on
ongoing accounting, reporting, and closing activities. Walk through
McKessons timeline and phased implementation approach from planning to
go-live. Hear how the company planned and aligned the implementation
timeline to the fiscal calendar, a critical step when planning an SAP General
Ledger migration project.
Case study: How the University of Warwick exposes and
mitigates segregation of duties violations
David Cowling, University of Warwick
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G107
F11 G2
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the University of Warwicks complex
segregation of duties (SoD) remediation project. Hear first-hand the
methodology the university used, which included a small focused internal
team, and a PRINCE2 project management methodology commonly used in
the United Kingdom but which can be adapted for use anywhere. Find out
how university executives now have a better understanding of the risks as a
result of the remediation project. Find out what methods the University of
Warwicks project team used to expose and evaluate SoD issues, how it gained
consensus for a resolution, and how it communicated the necessary changes to
users. Explore the universitys criteria and process for modifying the standard
access control rule set. Walk away from this session with undocumented
examples of lessons learned from the University of Warwicks SoD project.
Case study: Lessons learned from Mota-Engils
implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G102
B9 F12
Get an insiders view of how Mota-Engils structured its SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation implementation project. Identify the business
drivers that sparked the organizations decision to move its planning and
consolidation activities to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
for NetWeaver, including its need for diversification-based growth. Hear
firsthand how the company designed a project plan that aligned with its overall
company strategy and vision. See how critical lessons learned at each phase of
the companys implementation project, including those surrounding
development and integration can help guide your own implementation. See
what steps the company is taking to continuously improve its consolidation
environment including integration with planning.
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Customer discussion forum: Improve the integration of
financials functionality with other SAP applications
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G111
F2
Enter into a lively discussion with peers and experts to find out the best ways
to integrate SAP software for financial accounting with other SAP
components, such as sales and distribution (SD) and materials management
(MM). Explore questions such as: What key integration points between the
financial accounting, MM, and SD components should I pay special attention
to? What integration mistakes and inefficiencies should I avoid? How do I
ensure that these different components are recording and reporting the same
results? How are my counterparts at other companies reconciling discrepancies
between components? Leave this moderated discussion forum with unique
insights and best practices that improve the integration of your financial
accounting software with the rest of your SAP landscape.
Executive session: An up-close look at SAPs global
governance, risk, and compliance program
Dr. Dirk Metzger, SAP AG
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G108
FE GE G1 G4
Listen in as one of SAPs Global GRC executives provides insight into the
current state of the companys constantly evolving global governance, risk, and
compliance program. Understand the key building blocks from which the
program was developed with special focus on risk management, Sox 404
compliance, and SAPs security framework, which consists of business
continuity planning, crisis management, and information security. Learn how
the company established a consistent vision and strategy, by rolling out the
same methodologies, tools, and best practices across the enterprise. Find out
how since implementing a more centralized GRC program, the company has
gained greater effectiveness and efficiency across its GRC processes. Learn
what SAP has in store as the business case and implementation plan for SAP
BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 is discussed to replace SAPs legacy GRC
solutions in productive use so far.
Executive session: Getting an accurate picture of your
organizations risk exposure using a fact-based approach
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 D403
BE FE GE
Managers and business leaders attending this session learn how to manage and
mitigate risk based on facts and evidence within their SAP systems. Find out
how to detect and gauge control weaknesses by leveraging data analytics and
automating your audit processes. Hear recent real-world examples from
companies that have used data analytics to recover costs, provide timely risk
reports, and do more with a lot less. This session will discuss strategies for
testing entire data populations on an ad hoc, repetitive, or continuous basis.
Learn how to automate manual, repetitive tasks, saving the organization
valuable time and resources. Get tips to analyze data, then store, share, and
leverage those results across the audit team. Find out how to distribute
transactional evidence of fraud, error, and waste directly to the business for
faster resolutions.
New options for governing financial master data and ensuring
accurate consolidated financial statements
Ralf Ille, SAP AG
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G109
B2 B8 F3 G7
Learn how to ensure that financial master data from multiple accounting
systems is consistent in order to efficiently produce consolidated financial
statements. Explore new financial master data governance functionality
available from SAP. Learn how to maintain financial master data for group
charts of accounts, profit centers, and cost centers. Understand what kind of
financial data can be modeled and maintained in a central master data system
and how SAPs predelivered data model can be enhanced to meet your needs.
Find out how to configure workflow approvals for master data change requests.
Understand how to distribute financial master data from a central master data
system to other applications within SAP ERP; to other financial accounting
systems, or to the financial consolidation software in your SAP landscape.
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Thierry Audas, SAP
B1 F3
Xcelsius dashboards
Keith Mullins, IBM
B4 F3
Case study: How Austria Federal Ministry of Science and
Research implemented a unified planning and budgeting
strategy
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 D403
B6 F4 G9
This session examines how Austria Federal Ministry of Science and Research
implemented a unified system for budgetary planning, leveraging home-grown
spreadsheets, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Understand how public sector compliance
standards for example, planning budgets up to four years in advance was
the driving factor behind the Ministrys new planning initiative. Hear the
lessons learned from the Ministrys implementation of SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation, such as limiting the number of dimensions to less
than 10. View sample screenshots of the planning spreadsheets created by the
organization to analyze budgetary data (bottom-up and top-down), and
aggregate the requests of the decentralized departments. See examples that
illustrate how to format SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
reports to maximize at-a-glance information and better manage budgets for
several subunits from a single point. Gain insight into the change management
strategies employed by the organization, such as the implementation of user
testing before the roll-out. Take home sample budget spreadsheets used by the
Ministry that you can reference while building or optimizing your own.
Case study: How McKesson plans to streamline its chart of
accounts to improve financial reporting and achieve faster closes
F2
Attend this session for an in-depth review McKessons plans to clean up the
companys existing chart of accounts and company code structure. Hear what
steps of the project the company has completed and how taking these steps
will help the company more accurately report on financial activities across the
entire organization. Learn how the company plans to tailor its SAP chart of
accounts design to meet the challenges of multiple reporting regulations such
as US GAAP, IFRS, and other local statutory requirements. Understand
which tools the company plans to use alongside the SAP General Ledger,
including SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects to meet legal and
management reporting requirements. Find out what challenges the company
has faced with regards to managing its master data integration and hierarchy
design activities. Leave this session with a list of critical success factors for
more effectively maintaining the chart of accounts at your own organization.
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Case study: How Provimi centralized its GRC strategy and
optimized related system settings and processes
Ids Voerman and Dr. Louis van Vliet, Provimi
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G109
G5
Find out how and why Provimi has implemented and continues to add
technology solutions that will enable it to execute a more centralized
governance, risk, and compliance strategy. Delve into the lessons Provimi has
already learned from its implementation of software such as SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control and SAP BusinessObjects Process Control for
identifying and eliminating SoD violations and centrally monitoring its
enterprise- wide internal controls enterprise-wide. Explore the successes and
challenges the company has experienced with its implementation of access
control functionality to support user provisioning and automate task approvals.
Learn what steps were taken to ensure that the SAP system is not needlessly
exposed to unauthorized access. Step through examples of the rigorous business
process evaluation and improvements Provimi conducted before implementing
any compliance tools. Understand the SAP system settings and processes that
must be optimized before a compliance tool can be used effectively.
Executive session: 7 key steps for achieving excellence in
finance business partnering
Gilles Bonelli, The Hackett Group
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G108
FE GE
Attend this session and listen in as Gilles Bonelli, Director of EPM Advisory
Service for Europe with The Hackett Group discusses the latest research and
trends impacting finance functions. Listen in as he discusses what The
Hackett Group has found to be the seven key steps to achieving excellent
business partnering. Find out what key changes high performing finance
organizations have implemented to reshape their service delivery models for
controlling and financial planning and analysis in order to achieve a function
that is both lean and effective. Walk away from this session with an up-close
look at what considerations and steps your organization can take to improve its
overall finance function.
Executive session: Formalizing an enterprise-wide BI
strategy that increases the effectiveness of business and IT
organizations
Waldemar Adams, SAP
BE B1 FE F1
Find out how to formulate an effective BI approach that benefits IT and line
of business teams alike, by aligning business partners and formalizing business
needs, to removing limits of a departmental focus. Explore critical success
factors for developing and delivering a comprehensive BI strategy that
identifies a shared set of goals and delivers planned results. Learn best practice
approaches to executing this plan enterprise-wide, including guidelines to
define and run a successful BI competency center. Hear key recommendations
to achieve high-level executive sponsorship that can help mandate change and
organize cross-functionally for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome.
Come away with a repeatable framework that engages and brings together the
priorities of both CIOs and business executives to address organizational
challenges that a BI strategy can resolve.
How SAP supports the convergence of finance, performance
management, and GRC to drive financial excellence
James Fisher, SAP
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G105
B1 F1 G1
Take a guided tour of SAPs portfolio of solutions for financial excellence,
including SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM)
solutions; SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
solutions; and SAP ERP Financials, and learn what innovations are in store.
Hear how these enhanced solutions can be jointly leveraged to address new
challenges in finance in 2011 and beyond. Gain visibility into business
segments for clearer decision-making to support your companys plan to adopt
converging international accounting standards, as well as a business user centric
approach to managing risks; and to develop an effective strategy that leverages
global business networks in finance. Tap into strategies that can help to secure
an accurate, timely close cycle while maintaining organizational compliance.
Leave this session with a through understanding of how to achieve financial
excellence.
How to create a customized rule set to meet the compliance
needs of a multi-national organization
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G107
F9 G2 G8
Creating or updating a rule set for a multi-national company can be a daunting
task it must address critical risks to the entire business, yet be flexible
enough to allow for local adaptations for individual sites. Identify the key
challenges you could encounter in creating your rule set, and obtain best
practices to overcome them. Walk through a step-by-step process for creating
base templates that may be used in a multi-national SAP BusinessObjects
Access Control implementation. Review standard SAP features that can assist
in the rule set creation process. Learn effective ways to engage internal and
external auditors to ensure compliance requirements are met. Hear a real-
world case study of a multi-national company that successfully implemented a
complete and accurate rule set. Take home a quick reference card that includes
tips for building a rule set and sample best practices.
Optimize your receivables management processes with SAP
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G102
F7
This session arms you with tips to overcome common roadblocks associated
with inefficient and fragmented credit, billing, collections, and dispute
processes that can impair both economic visibility and a companys attempts at
effective cash management, while often contributing to significant cash flow
and profitability issues. Understand the full range of SAP functionality that
supports these activities and know the steps required to implement and
optimize it. Receive best practices for automatically creating and closing
dispute cases, and hear examples that will help your organization add extremely
valuable process tracking attributes to your dispute management reports.
Compare financial performance indicators and benchmarks of companies who
have focused on improvement in these areas in their cash, collections, billing,
and dispute areas.
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Panel discussion: A guide to reaping the business benefits
offered by an enterprise-wide continuous controls monitoring
program
Gary Dickhart and Susan Stapleton, Greenlight Technologies
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 D407
F11 G3
This interactive session offers valuable insight into what business benefits can
be achieved by implementing an enterprise-wide monitoring program. Hear
from a panel of customers who have created this type of program using SAP
BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions. Learn
what factors are most important to your key stakeholders when shaping and
developing an enterprise-wide GRC strategy. Find out how to utilize
comprehensive reports and dashboards to gain visibility across your compliance
initiatives and to monitor program effectiveness. Hear how these seasoned
professionals have overcome some of the biggest challenges associated with
implementing an enterprise-wide monitoring program. Learn what benefits
across the areas of technology, audit, compliance, and operations these
organizations have since achieved.
Panel discussion: Leading customers share their successes
and lessons with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0
Sonny Dasgupta, SAP
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G106
G4
Participate in this candid, moderated discussion with SAP ramp-up customers
who will share detailed insight, best practices, and lessons learned from their
experiences so far with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0. Find out how these
leading organizations are working to put effective business and IT controls in
place and support efficient business operations. Hear how they measure the
success of controls efforts and trouble-shoot implementation challenges. Find
out what has and has not worked during pre-project business case
development, project realization, and go-live phases. Take advantage of a
special post-session discussion period to have your most pressing SAP
BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 questions addressed.
Reduce financial risk exposure arising from external market
conditions and regulations
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G110
F9 G8
Learn how to better manage financial risks arising due to fluctuations in
interest rates, foreign exchange rates, and commodity prices. Understand how
new treasury and risk management functionality from SAP, such as exposure
management, can be used to consolidate financial exposures that are identified
in sales and distribution, materials management, and financials applications
across your enterprise. Learn how to develop effective hedging strategies. Get a
detailed look at what commodity types and hedging instruments can be
managed in SAP. Find out how, using full integration into back-office
accounting processes, you can ensure compliance with complex International
Accounting Standards (IAS), US GAAP, and local statutory reporting
requirements.
Accelerate local and global financial closes and period-end
reports with improved integration between profit center
accounting and the general ledger
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G110
F2
Learn how to incorporate profit center accounting processes into the SAP
General Ledger to accelerate your period-end closes and more efficiently create
accurate reports. Find out how to factor local and international accounting
principles into your closing and reporting strategy. Gain valuable insight into
using the actual profit center as a document splitting characteristic by defining
the field profit center to enable full balance sheet reporting. Learn the
differences between the classic version and latest version of the SAP General
Ledger in relation to profit center accounting functionality. Take a guided tour
of the global settings that are available in the SAP General Ledger for profit
center accounting. Learn new ways to view and present financial statements by
profit centers using new drill-down reports.
Achieve greater control and more predictable financial
performance by unifying risk management with enterprise
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D407
B2 F1 G1
Attend this session for a detailed look at how to integrate risk management into
your enterprise performance management strategy, with the goal of providing
better control, greater predictability of revenues and expenses and better
visibility into future earnings. Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Risk
Management together with the SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions to rapidly
detect and mitigate emerging risks; assess the resource requirements and
capacity needed to address changing levels of demand; and align strategy with
risk management to meet corporate objectives. Learn how to feed this
information directly into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,
version for the Microsoft platform, to deliver a complete risk adjusted planning
solution. Find out how to integrate data across all your planning and
performance management applications using SAP BusinessObjects Financial
Information Management. Step through a detailed demo that illustrates how
these solutions work together to give the control, agility and insight needed to
outperform your competitors in todays uncertain times.
SAP HANA
Oscar Tromp, SAP
B1 F3
strategy for in-memory computing, including SAP High-Performance Analytic
Appliance (SAP HANA), a real-time analytics engine that takes advantage of
lower memory prices and the availability of flash solid-state storage devices. Go
beyond the technology to understand the impact in-memory computing could
have on your business users and your companys bottom line. Get guidelines to
extract data from SAP and non-SAP data sources, model it in-memory, and pass
it to SAP BusinessObjects front-ends, including SAP BusinessObjects Explorer.
Examine use case scenarios that help identify opportunities to apply in-memory
computing in your organization. Leave this session with a strong understanding of
the current solutions for in-memory computing from SAP and its future
roadmap.
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Case study: Cooper Industries shortens the invoice-to-pay
process by automating accounts payable
Dominic Gaffey, Cooper Industries
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D403
F6
Attend this session and learn how Cooper Industries automated its existing
SAP-based accounts payable (AP) invoice process to address the deficiencies
and gaps presented by paper-based document management. Review the
companys landscape and organizational roadmap for its invoice-to-pay business
process. Walk through Cooper Industries overall system architecture, technical
components, and integration touch-points that are typical for such a project.
Understand the importance of effective change management and listen in as
process and project challenges that were encountered by the team are discussed.
Find out what important language, currency, and tax/VAT considerations the
company encountered when driving a geographically diverse AP data-entry
automation project. Take the opportunity to see how well the stated objectives
and business requirements of Cooper Industries were met and how the
company defined recognition rates, processing interpretation, and most
importantly, its straight-through processing capability as measures of success.
Case study: How Elster Groups technology solution
integrated, accelerated and simplified multiple compliance
initiatives across its heterogeneous IT landscape
Malte Globig, Elster Group
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G105 (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
G2
Hear from Elster Group, and learn why this global manufacturing company
chose SAP and Greenlight as its compliance solution. Learn how diverse
business requirements from a geographically and organizationally spread-out
group of stakeholders were consolidated into a single solution. See how Elster
uses SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, SAP BusinessObjects Process
Control and Greenlights RTA Design Studio to automate SoD analysis and
process control testing for SAP and non-SAP applications. Hear why Elster
Group utilized the SAP delivered risk matrix to standardize SOD reporting
and view risk analysis reports which include users and authorizations from
SAP, BaaN and Mapics systems. See SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
in action by viewing the steps for control set up and testing and how process
owners are able to save time through automation. Walk away from this
session understanding how consolidating compliance for multiple business
applications into your existing GRC solutions provides all stakeholders insight
to improve business governance and transparency.
Case study: How SAP is achieving operational excellence with
global shared services for finance
Dr. Marcell Vollmer, SAP AG
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G102
F8
Hear how SAP implemented a global shared services organization in order to
increase process quality, customer satisfaction, compliance and productivity,
and to help achieve operational excellence and gain a competitive advantage.
Walk through SAPs project plan for building four centers around the world,
providing global resource allocation and coverage for all transactional processes
migrated into the SSC organization, which includes finance and HR. Find out
how these centers are able to provide a single point of contact and methods to
access the services. Learn how SAP migrated an average of 50% of its
employees within each country to the shared services centers and how through
business process reengineering, gained additional savings of 30%. Find out
how SAP adapted its shared services offerings to account for cultural
differences without sacrificing efficiency gains.
Case study: Implementing a more efficient superuser privilege
management process at Philips
Purushottam Pawar, Philips
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G108
G5
Hear techniques, tips, and tricks from Philips superuser privilege management
implementation project. Learn how the organization designed internal
processes for both requesting access to and reviewing access usage within SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control. Find out how Philips identified what types of
users should be granted superuser status, what kinds of activities should be
enabled in superuser privilege management, how often superusers should be
accessing the system, and who should be reviewing the access logs. See in
detail how Philips built an approval and a review and sign off workflow in
compliant user provisioning to streamline the superuser privilege management
process. Get tips on how to apply problem management on superuser privilege
management usage to improve your business and support processes.
Case study: Lessons learned from AES rollout and integration
of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions with SAP NetWeaver BW
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G103
B9 F12
Hear the key lessons learned by AES a global power company with
electricity generation and distribution plants worldwide as it implemented
and integrated SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports,
and Xcelsius, with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0. Find out how the company has
improved its ability to generate reports and BI from a variety of disparate data
sources. Step through a demo that illustrates how the company is able to
display its most important business KPIs through an Xcelsius dashboard.
Learn how AES overcame challenges associated with a required support pack
installation, integration, system monitoring and security. Get insight into some
of the top project management lessons learned during this implementation,
such the learning curve associated with understanding the SAP
BusinessObjects technology stack, its touch points with SAP NetWeaver BW,
and ensuring data quality and governance.
Customer discussion forum: How do your SAP security and
authorizations measure up?
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G101
G2 H6
Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other
SAP customers are managing their SAP security and authorizations. Learn
what key areas and functionality of SAP solutions you can leverage today to
boost security as well as improve your audit process. Engage in a discussion
about how your peers are building compliance into their own SAP security
structures. Hear how others are getting their users and not just their
security administrator involved in maintaining a safe, secure, and compliant
environment.
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Executive session: SAPs journey toward becoming a risk
intelligent enterprise
Miriam Kraus, SAP
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G109
FE GE G1
SAPs senior GRC executive offers insight into SAPs holistic and systematic
approach to managing the greatest threat of all: strategic risks. See how SAP
extended its progressive risk management approach towards strategic risk
management with enhanced focus on emerging risks. Gain valuable insight
into how SAP developed and implemented the SAP Strategic Risk
Management Framework. Get a sense of SAPs unique approach to holistically
apply the SAP Strategic Risk Management Framework to key strategic
questions, bringing together different views on risks and opportunities, and
creating a completely new perspective on major uncertainties. Discuss with
SAPs GRC executive how to enable a company to become a risk-intelligent
enterprise by embedding risk management in strategy development and
execution.
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D201
BE FE HE H1 H2
How to create a comprehensive data governance strategy on
a global scale
Chuck Nardi, BackOffice Associates
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G111
GS G1
Gain an understanding of how to manage the on-going creation, collection,
and maintenance of data for your integrated ERP solutions to optimize
performance and profitability. Learn how to eliminate data redundancy,
content errors, lack of data standards and possible omissions; all critical to the
success of your data governance strategy with a detailed look at two methods
of data governance active and passive. Understand how passive data
governance allows users to interact directly with source systems to monitor
results and identify data issues. Find out how active data governance differs
from passive data governance by providing a guided process for the
introduction and management of data into selected systems.
How to perform more agile planning and forecasting using
B6 F4 G9
Whether you are new to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation or
already have some experience, this guide to the latest functionality for both the
Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver platforms can help you increase organizational
agility, improve planning accuracy, and achieve a faster, more compliant
financial close. Reduce the learning curve and increase your user adoption rate
by leveraging native Microsoft Office tools, which provide familiar and easy to
use interfaces. Find out how to save time and resources when integrating and
maintaining business user applications by leveraging the same SAP NetWeaver
system that drives your data warehouse. Learn how to reduce budget cycle
time by enabling stakeholders the ability to collaborate and align their budgets.
Find out how other customers have improved planning accuracy, providing
them the ability to conform to highly complex business processes and
methodology changes. Hear about the latest starter kits that help improve
capital expenditure planning and cash flow forecasting.
Lessons for building a template to standardize your financial
rollout, implementation, or upgrade across a large, diverse
user base
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G107
F12
This session offers a solution to the challenge of delivering a large, multi-
faceted financial roll-out, implementation, or upgrade to a diverse user base.
Find out how to use a template to ease subsequent rollouts by avoiding the
need to start anew with each instance. Hear what makes a template
development project and subsequent rollouts successful, and know what
pitfalls, such as budget constraints and inadequate data, to watch out for.
Assess each step of the template design process. Learn how to identify
requirements, find out how to define the appropriate scope, and gather ideas
for getting stakeholder buy-in for the project. Understand the time and
resources needed to build a prototype that will become your roll-out template.
Take home a checklist of the core financial components to include when
building a template.
and cockpits: Emphasis on SAP NetWeaver solutions
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G104
B4 F3
The first half of this two-part session takes a deep dive into the capabilities of
traditional SAP business intelligence dashboard tools, including SAP
NetWeaver Visual Composer and the SAP BEx analyzer, Web application
designer tools, and query designer. Walk step-by-step through the
construction of a dashboard using SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, and
gain insight into the future role of the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)
Web application designer tool in dashboard and cockpit design. Hear how
other companies feed portal-based dashboards and cockpits using SAP BEx
information broadcasting functionality, and gather tips for using custom
iViews to build cockpits directly within SAP NetWeaver Portal. Discuss how
to leverage BI queries and views as DataProviders for SAP NetWeaver Visual
Composer models. See a demonstration of how to build a Web cockpit off
two queries within SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, along with a step-by-
step guide to designing a BEx Web application designer template.
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Proven approaches to implement process control functionality
Heinrich Wilking, Turnkey Consulting
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G106
G3
Examine the important choices and key questions to consider when
implementing SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. Get practical advice to
define, construct and implement controls that ensure your business processes
are working properly and that you are complying with necessary regulations.
Get configuration tips to reduce the number of erroneous manual- and paper-
based processes, resulting in improved process controls transparency. Hear
firsthand how to ensure that areas of high risks are covered by mitigating key
controls. Walk through practical examples that demonstrate how to identify
the areas within your organization where your efficiency and controls testing
can be improved. Learn how to accurately document your organizations
controls, test plans and test results, allowing for easy access by auditors and
compliance stakeholders.
A comprehensive guide to streamline and automate the inter-
company billing process
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G107
F2 F6
Walk through the core building blocks for implementing and configuring
inter-company sales order processing in your SAP system. Understand the
different entities involved in processing an inter-company sales order, including
delivery, customer billing, inter-company billing, and automated EDI postings.
Solidify your knowledge of the fields in the customer and vendor master that
are required for posting correct financial entries. Learn the basic design
requirements for using IDocs and the information required to maintain the
different output types, including logical addresses, account assignment
configuration, and creation of partner profiles for both customers and vendors.
Gain insight on how to enhance the pricing in sales and distribution to
determine the correct departure and destination country for the tax condition
types. Understand the tax implication of VAT registration between ordering
and delivering country. Take home configuration examples, a list of relevant
master data and OSS notes, sample code to derive the inter-company vendor,
tax derivation flow diagram for customer and inter-company billings and tips
to better use the IDoc monitoring tools within SAP.
An up-to-date guide to technologies for increasing the
accuracy of liquidity planning, forecasting, and reporting
Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP and Marc Mertens, Deloitte
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G109
F4
Get a firsthand look at how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,
version for SAP NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise and SAP
NetWeaver BW can be integrated with SAP Business Suite and other
transactional systems to enable a financial liquidity reporting, planning and
forecasting scenario. Understand how the starter kit for liquidity planning can be
sourced through flat files or integrated with SAP transactional applications. Learn
how the integration with SAP NetWeaver BW enables drill down reporting to
perform data quality checks and remediation procedures. Leverage customer best
practice calculations for mid- to long-term forecasts (two years) by integrating
committed transactions with forecasted financial data, avoiding inaccurate forecasts
of future exposures. Gather tips on how cash calculation rules can be maintained
to meet your requirements and how business user simulation and sensitivity
analysis can be performed. Step through a demo of this applied analytical scenario,
showing transactional data integrations and aggregation, data quality checks,
planning/simulation and management reporting using an Xcelsius dashboard.
Case study: Lessons from an SAP Ramp-Up customer: Why
Centrica chose SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 to manage
increasing compliance requirements
Nicolas Winston, Centrica
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G106
G4 G5
See why Centrica, an SAP Ramp-Up customer, chose SAP BusinessObjects
Access Control 10.0 to manage increasing compliance requirements in its
extensive SAP landscape. Already an existing customer on an older release, find
out what new challenges Centrica faced relating to user access management and
why the company decided that SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 provided
significant additional benefits over SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 5.3.
Understand Centricas complex security challenges and business drivers and hear
firsthand how the company evaluated its product version roadmap. Learn from
the specific product features that Centrica considered to be significant and hear
how it plans to leverage additional GRC functionality from the latest release.
Come away with a sound understanding of the key decisions when evaluating
your future benefits of an upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0.
Case study: How Fonterra created a global platform to
mitigate risk in its export documentation processes
Rekha Baptista, Fonterra
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 D407
G8
Examine how Fonterra, a global leader in dairy nutrition, leverages SAP
Global Trade Services to manage the companys high number of global trade
transactions and reduce its trade compliance risks. Learn how the company
automatically uploads data to and from multiple source systems, such as its
banks and customs offices. Examine Fonterras strategies for managing its high
volume of master data centrally to support a highly automated end to end
process. Hear firsthand how Fonterra integrates global trade services with SAP
ERP to ensure smoother, faster data flow for its trade documents. Get best
practices for using electronic documents to facilitate compliance and to ensure
100% risk mitigation is achieved.
Case study: How Philips fully automated risk analysis and
remediation for more accurate segregation of duties reporting
Stefan Pados, Philips
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G105
F11 G2
Explore how Philips rolled out a new rule set to report on its segregation of
duties (SoD) violations across its 14 SAP systems. Learn what steps were taken
to set up and customize the SAP standard rule set to meet the companys
needs and requirements. Learn how the company employed organizational
rules to prevent false positives from appearing in its reports. Walk through the
steps Philips took to create a job schedule that adequately monitored and
prepared its risk analysis result data for SAP NetWeaver BW data loading.
Learn how Philips translated business reporting requirements by building
custom SoD reports in SAP NetWeaver BW. Take this opportunity to view
what standard SAP NetWeaver BW reports are available for SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control. Evaluate whether these options will meet
your reporting requirements, or if it will be necessary to build additional
custom reports. Walk through the steps Philips took to integrate SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control and SAP NetWeaver BW.
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Case study: How Statoil used parallel valuation within
treasury for posting multiple currencies to FI
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G102
B2 F9 G7 G8
Learn how Statoil modified the local currency of its headquarters to the
currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates in
order to comply with IFRS functional currency requirements. Examine how
the company was able to provide accurate postings for all currency values being
posted into FI. Find out how the company was able to provide a means to post
the document currency, first local currency, second local currency (when
required), and a third local currency (when required) of a treasury posting
within a company code directly to FI. Examine the steps Statoil took to
configure its treasury solutions to calculate all values for each currency that are
posted in FI. See how the company is better able to post treasury transactions
to FI using a new structure built with existing treasury functionality and a
customized business add-in (BAdI).
Critical insights for leveraging GRC to increase business
agility and performance
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 D403
F1 G1
Attend this session for a detailed look at how a sound and effective GRC
program can impact the strategic direction and performance of your
organization. Step through methods for using SAP BusinessObjects GRC
solutions that will help your company better perform and better execute its
GRC initiatives in alignment with its corporate strategy. Explore functionality
that allows key stakeholders to gain deeper insight into risks that could impact
and compromise performance objectives. Get preferred practices to effectively
manage compliance and control requirements and risk profiles in order to drive
performance and the effective management of key business strategies. Learn
what steps your organization can take to ensure greater predictability and
performance, reduced cost and more effective processes.
Key change management considerations that are essential
for any GRC project
Nicola White, Turnkey Consulting
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 D201
G5
Understand the key change management and communication challenges that
can occur during an SAP BusinessObjects GRC implementation, upgrade, or
enhancement project. Find out what potential barriers to success can occur
during each phase of the project lifecycle and how these can be avoided
through more effective management of the change process. Walk away with
important guidelines and tips to help your key stakeholders to accept, and even
embrace, technology and business changes that can result from a GRC project.
Learn how to better engage these stakeholders from the start of the project.
Take home proven change-enablement strategies used by project managers
and change management professionals in other SAP projects. Take away
actionable advice to mitigate change risks in your GRC project.
and cockpits: Emphasis on SAP BusinessObjects solutions
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G104
B4 F3
Attend the second half of this two-part session to explore the dashboard and
cockpit functionality within SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, including
Xcelsius, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer, and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis. Walk through
a detailed demonstration of how to build an Xcelsius dashboard, including
adding a background, leveraging filters, linking those filters to data, and
creating interactive graphs. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
can leverage queries to both relational and OLAP sources. Acquire navigation
and usability tips, including how to enable single sign-on. Map the capabilities
of these SAP BusinessObjects BI tools, along with those of the traditional
BEx and SAP NetWeaver tools, to the various roles and requirements within
your organization.
Reduce your companys days sales outstanding (DSO) with
the right SAP Dispute and SAP Collection Management
configuration and integration techniques
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G108
F7
This session provides detailed techniques for configuring an integrated and
automated SAP Receivables Management (formerly known as FSCM)
functionality for dispute resolution and collections management. Learn how to
deal with the most common configuration and integration challenges such as
synchronizing master data between financial accounting and Receivables
Management applications. Receive best practices to automate the creation,
processing and closing of dispute cases. Learn how to automate the generation
of correspondence to customers with whom your company is involved in a
dispute based on specific attributes. Get tips on how to set up and use a
streamlined collections management process by using promise to pay,
instalment payment, direct correspondence and all kinds of features on invoice
level. Find out how to improve status tracking and getting in control by
effectively using the latest dispute and collections management reports. Walk
through specific integration techniques you can use to streamline the process of
resolving disputes and collecting outstanding debts.
The road to reconciliation: Closing with confidence and
achieving balance sheet integrity with BlackLine and SAP
Stefan Karl, SAP AG, Mario Spanicciati, BlackLine Systems, and Pieter Geyer,
Proxyon-International
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G110
FS F5 GS
Attend this session and learn how automating the traditionally manual, labor
intensive and spreadsheet-driven account reconciliation process can help your
organization (whether operating in an SAP-only or multiple ERP
environment) achieve a quicker and more accurate close increasing
efficiencies, productivity, visibility, and control, while minimizing risk and
reducing bottom-line costs. Learn how to automate and maintain better
control over the entire financial close process while ensuring timely, accurate,
and documented communications between all departments. Hear firsthand, a
customer success story and the key benefits and ROI the company has
experienced since using BlackLine alongside SAP ERP Financials to reconcile
global accounts. Leave this session with a better understanding on how to close
with confidence, maintaining more control and visibility, while reducing risk,
and creating a faster, more efficient close cycle.
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Understanding your product costs with better integration
between financial and logistics functionality
Janet Salmon, SAP AG and Birgit Starmanns, SAP
F2
This session will provide an overview of the product costing capabilities in
SAP ERP and the integration points between your product costing and
logistics processes, including sales and distribution, manufacturing, controlling,
and core accounting. Walk through each step of a manufacturing process as it
is executed in the logistics modules. Understand how a financial entry is made
in the SAP General Ledger accounts in FI and the various controlling objects
in managerial accounting (CO). See how month-end processes, including
overhead allocations, work-in-process and variance calculations, are necessary
to ensure accurate valuation of manufactured products at month-end.
Case study: How EADS utilizes global trade functionality for
cross-border trading
Jochen Hartmannshenn, EADS HQ
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G108
G8
Learn how EADS, a global aerospace and defense company, complies with
global cross-border trade initiatives, such as International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (ITAR). Explore in detail how EADS is using SAP
BusinessObjects Global Trade Services to fully comply with, track, and license
ITAR-relevant materials and goods throughout its multi-tier, global supply
chain. Explore how EADS implements the bill of material of an aircraft and
how the license determination is done on sub-line-level. Find out how EADS
was able to comply with various license requirements including EU specific
requirements, United States ITAR, as well as Export Administrations
Regulations. Gain insight into how EADS is able to more accurately process
ITAR-related transactions while maintaining a single, central location for end-
to-end license management.
Case study: Lessons from Unilevers 17-country global rollout
of SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
Deborah Taylor, Unilever
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G105
G5 G8
See how Unilever has rolled out and now leverages SAP BusinessObjects Process
Control across 17 European countries to ensure that business processes conform
to design, that risk is managed effectively, and that Unilevers brand value is
protected. Learn how Unilever is now able to automate the testing of key controls
regularly to reduce the likelihood and impact of control failures. This session
provides recommendations from Unilevers real world experiences, and discusses
how the company was able to prevent cash leaks at critical points within its key
business processes such as procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and make-to-stock.
Learn how Unilever reduced its cost of operating controls how it manages risk
with the assurance that its business processes are operating effectively. Examine
how Unilever maintains tighter controls in key business process to improve
profitability. Step through Unilevers implementation methodology, which was
used to guide regional implementations from start to finish.
Executive session: Case study: Inside Airbus strategy for improving
global financial reports, data quality, and period-end closes with a
common finance platform across its European subsidiaries
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G102
BE B2 FE GE
Explore the steps taken by Airbus to ensure that its financial and IT
infrastructure supports all of its sites and subsidiaries across Europe. Learn
how the companys demand for a clear set of business requirements to support
its current IT investments has resulted in a company-wide initiative to better
integrate local SAP-based financial systems, deliver leaner financial processes,
and better serve the business through new financial standards. Hear examples
that illustrate how the company developed a new, centralized, financial
platform that consists of a unified accounting system as well as unified rules
and procedures. Find out how Airbus closes the gaps that can commonly exist
between finance and IT departments by involving key stakeholders from both
areas in any critical decisions. Delve into how the company was able to speed
up the monthly availability of data for a faster close without sacrificing quality.
Come away with an understanding of how Airbuss strategy has led to more
effective reports, consistent data, and faster closes across all its subsidiaries.
Financials Expert LIVE: Calculate actual costs across multiple
company codes using a new business function in SAP
enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
F1
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Janet Salmon, Solution
Manager, SAP, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of her most
widely read articles from Financials Expert the leading publication and
knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions for finance. The
material ledger records the flow of goods from the initial purchase of the raw
material to the final sale of the finished product and assigns any price
differences incurred during purchasing and production to the product sold.
Attend this session and learn how to record both the legal view (in which the
purchased good is treated as an external purchase for legal reporting purposes)
and the group view (in which the actual costs for the purchased good are
passed on to the other company and split into their cost components for group
reporting purposes) in the material ledger. Find out how to capture the inter-
company markups in your cost component split using SAP enhancement
package 5 for SAP ERP. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge
How to prevent fraud and strengthen your organizations risk
management procedures
Dana Spataru, Deloitte
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 D407
F11 G1
Too often, regulations, governance, and controls become a priority only when
theres already a problem. This session provides real-world advice to help you
take a more disciplined, proactive approach to risk management. Learn how to
leverage risk management functionality from SAP to more effectively identify
not only potential control weaknesses, such as policy violations or personnel
issues but also the underlying root cause of those weaknesses. Get practical
advice to design customized policies and procedures for your organizations
internal control and compliance structures. Understand your organizations
process for assessing its level of compliance with external regulations. Step
through a detailed demo that illustrates how you can use SAP BusinessObjects
Risk Management to analyze internal documents such as customer, contract
and transaction data to more adequately manage risks and detect internal fraud
patterns.
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How to achieve continuous monitoring with
SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and
SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G110
GS G3
Continuous monitoring (CM) technologies are maturing and many organizations
are now using them to automate the testing and monitoring of automated
controls as well as implementing data analytics and monitoring processes within
their ERP systems. Attend this session for a comprehensive overview of the
continuous monitoring capabilities offered by SAP BusinessObjects Risk
Management and SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. Step through a proven
CM implementation approach and understand the different types of CM
mechanisms and processes that can be implemented using these tools embedded
platforms. Hear firsthand how to create CM rules using the key risk indicator
framework provided in SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management and the
automated rule framework provided by SAP BusinessObjects Process Control.
Learn how PricewaterhouseCoopers has helped clients successfully implement
control monitoring mechanisms and what best practices your organization can
put into place to ensure automated controls are operating effectively and detecting
exceptions related to data management and processing.
Improve your organizations ability to adapt to change with a
dynamic financial forecasting process
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 D403
F4 G9
This session guides you through best practices for systematically capturing
changes in the external business environment that can affect your financial
forecasts. Walk through a dynamic, event-driven planning and forecasting
model that will enable your organization to understand, plan and respond to
changes with agility while minimizing the complexity of its planning effort.
Understand how to better account for the changes in an economic
environment and what impacts these may have on your organizations
competitive landscape. Learn how to re-examine your business plans mid-
course and update them to reflect changes in key economic drivers in a timely
manner. Get tips for defining performance triggers such as exchange rates,
commodity prices, market share and advice on how to reforecast based on
these new performance drivers. Gain insight into how to initiate smart, mid-
course corrections to stay on target with performance goals.
Proven advice to effectively manage cash collection activities
in a financial shared service environment
Ralf Ille, SAP AG
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G106 (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
F8
Attend this session for tips to use SAP Collections Management to effectively
manage open receivables and learn how to create work lists to distribute and
prioritize your organizations cash collection activities. Learn how SAP
Collections Management can be integrated into an interaction center - the
workplace of a shared service center agent - where contact persons can be
called with only two mouse clicks thereby improving the productivity of your
collection specialists team. Find out how to effectively manage your customers
dispute cases and integrate all relevant parties to the dispute resolution process
using SAP Dispute Management. Understand how to increase the
productivity of the dispute resolution team through higher transparency with
regards to customer communications using an interaction center.
Resolve segregation of duties and sensitive access violations
with a cost-effective, task-based approach to security
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G107
G2
Find out how to create a more sustainable security design to help reduce
common authorization issues, such as excessive access and segregation of duties
risk. Get techniques for analyzing your current security environment to help
build a stronger business case for a security re-design project. Learn how using
a task-based security approach can help you more effectively remove
unnecessary user access, while also moving the ownership of SAP security
from IT to the business. Find out how doing so helps to lower maintenance
time and increases business visibility into access while allowing IT to focus on
new development projects rather than maintenance. Learn how a task-based
approach can help remediate SoD issues by removing unnecessary and unused
transactions from users. Take home a best practice project plan for a security
design and a quick reference card explaining the security design solution.
Simplify postings of business transactions to the general
ledger with these automatic account determination
techniques
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G111
F2
Attend this session for detailed instruction to set up account determination
tables that link business transaction objects to your SAP General Ledger
accounts. Learn how setting up these tables will enable you to post transactions
from other modules to the general ledger with ease. Understand the main tables
and master data that accounts are assigned in and how to trace any errors or
inconsistencies back to the originating source. Walk through some of the most
common mistakes that are made when configuring account assignments, such as
using the wrong cost element category on a revenue related account, which
should be passed to CO-PA. Get tips to create and assign new general modifiers
and account keys in the materials management and sales and distribution
modules. Learn the best way of setting up account determination for areas such
as travel management and the material ledger in order to classify accounts more
specifically to the business situation. View a demo that illustrates how to run a
report that clearly shows where accounts have been automatically assigned.
Upload and report on SAP financial data without ever leaving
Microsoft Excel
Jim Halepaska, Z Option and Dean Jones, Excel4apps
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G109
FS F7
Find out how to streamline SAP financial processes form beginning-to-end
using Excel along with GLSU financial spreadsheet loader from Z Option and
GL Wand from Excel4apps. See firsthand how to use Excel4apps GL Wand
tool to enable highly efficient finance reporting, shorter month ends, and faster
refreshes directly from SAP into Excel. Discover how GL Wand empowers
users to easily create, edit and publish finance reports with full drilldown to
Line Items and Document Details without the assistance of IT in the familiar
Excel environment. Find out how to utilize Z Options GLSU tool to
improve the efficiency of financial data entry functions, from importing cutover
data to daily financial (FI) postings to processing vendor invoices. Understand
how GLSU complements standard SAP functionality by using Microsoft
Excel to validate and post more than 1,000 lines, attach source documents,
utilize pick lists, create flexible user-defined templates, and more. Walk away
from this session armed with detailed insight for using Z Options GLSU
solution and Excel4apps GL Wand tool to increase data accuracy, reduce
processing time and effort, and shorten month-end close cycles.
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Best practices for overcoming common challenges that can
occur during SAP General Ledger migrations
Giovanni Perone, PwC
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G105
F2 F12
In this session, find out why and how to circumvent some of the most common
challenges associated with migrations to the latest release of the SAP General
Ledger. Obtain tips for setting up parallel ledgers to meet the requirements of
IFRS, local GAAP, and tax GAAP. Mitigate project risk with best practices to
utilize segmented reporting which integrates your segment postings and
reporting in SAP functionality for financial accounting. Find out how to ensure
data and process integrity when designing and setting up parallel ledger. Learn
how using the latest release of the SAP General Ledger enables the real time
alignment between your financial and managerial accounting procedures.
Case study: GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals speeds payments
and improves vendor relationships with a simplified invoice
verification and approval process
Brigitte Van Belle and Laetitia Corbiaux, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G110
F6
With more than 100,000 invoices processed a year, find out how
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals was able to automate some the companys
manual and time-consuming invoice processes, allowing for quicker payments
and improved vendor relationships. Find out how the company rolled out the
click and pay functionality in SAP to simplify its invoice verification and
approval process. Examine GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals method for putting
into place optical character recognition (OCR) technology within its accounts
payable department, enabling semi-automatic recording of invoices and a
simplified invoice verification steps and approval process, without requiring
specific invoice templates from our suppliers. Find out how the company
completely reviewed and automated its invoice dispute management process by
implementing specific workflows to handle various kinds of exceptions such as
invalid purchase orders, price difference, quantity difference, and service
approval. Gain a better understanding of the optical character recognition
(OCR) solution provided by SAP.
Case study: How Ferrovial bolstered the efficiency and
automation of its global consolidation processes using
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G102
B2 F5 F9 G7 G8
Get an inside look at how Ferrovial, an international transportation infrastructure
company, manages complex financial consolidation processes and dual reporting
standards using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Identify the
business drivers that sparked the organizations decision to migrate from SAP
BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, including its integration with budgeting and planning processes.
Explore the steps that Ferrovial has taken to automate its consolidation and
reconciliation processes and streamline the reconciliation between US GAAP and
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Hear how the company
complies with parallel reporting requirements associated with more than 700
company codes and several international accounting standards, from IFRS and US
GAAP, to local and legal requirements. Walk through the developments Ferrovial
has made since the initial implementation and what projects are in its future.
Executive session: The death of currencies and the future of
financial reporting
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 D407
BE B2 FE GE
Listen in as Juergen Ott, former CFO of Allianz Switzerland, shares his
perspective on the past history and future outlook for accounting and financial
reporting. Examine both the facts and the speculation about the recovery from the
biggest financial crisis in history and the effects it has had on the financial reporting
and currency activities of businesses across the globe. Understand the cause-and-
effect relationship that exists between the state of the post-recession economy and
the accounting and financial reporting processes businesses are using. Learn how
an unsound and improper asset valuation today can lead to negative implications
for the recovery of the economy. Understand the key role that depreciation plays in
preventing such outcomes. Leave this session with an up to date look at how your
financial reporting processes will be affected by the economic recovery.
Thursday, 9 June
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Expert lessons to confidently control and monitor system
access
John Jerrehian, SAP
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G107
G2
With regulatory requirements growing increasingly stringent, its more
important than ever to control and monitor access to critical systems and
information. Attend this session for a complete overview of SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control functionality and learn the most effective ways
to continuously monitor your controls for segregation of duties (SoD)
violations. Learn how to more confidently control and monitor segregation of
duties and critical access to help safeguard against fraud and mistakes. Gets
tips for provisioning compliant user access, ensuring compliant role
governance, and managing superuser access. Leave this session with lessons to
help lower the cost of compliance, and make audit and compliance activities
more efficient.
How to integrate multiple compliance activities into an
automated, enterprise-wide risk management program
Marco Geisenberger, Protiviti
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G106
F11 G1 G4
Learn how to integrate risk management, internal control, compliance, IT, and
internal audit functions with an enterprise-wide risk framework built on the
latest version of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions. Walk through the key
steps of a standard SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 implementation project
starting with the initial sizing, installation, and configuration of the system.
Understand how implementing such a framework can help your organization
comply with both external requirements and internal policies while proactively
controlling the financial, operational and other business risks within your
organization. Learn how to standardize your existing risk and control
frameworks and risk management processes and map them to workflows and
data objects within your system. Learn how to avoid challenges in configuring
your risk management system, setting up your risk management processes, and
eliminating segregation of duties conflicts. Take home a detailed sample
project timeline.
How well do your controls measure up to rigorous audit
standards?
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 D403
F10 G6
Whether you are designing new controls from scratch for a new
implementation or evaluating the efficacy of your existing controls, this session
prepares you for exactly what auditors are most likely to scrutinize. Examine
key control issues that your team needs to know during each phase of controls
design or improvement. Understand how determining the internal controls
you should use for new implementations differs from the special issues that
upgrades can pose. Review an easy-to-use template to help your project team
identify the proper controls. Explore the best ways to document controls
around a configured business process, segregation of duties (SoD), and
ongoing SAP maintenance processes. Walk away with a plan for educating,
evaluating, and coaching your project team to properly set up new or update
existing controls and ensure that you pass your next audit without difficulty.
Introducing new BI capabilities for formatted reports and
dashboards embedded in SAP Business Suite applications
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G103
B4 F3
Walk through the current SAP product roadmap for business intelligence
content, with emphasis on new formatted and dashboard capabilities available
for SAP Business Suite customers. Gain insight into new business intelligence
functionality delivered with SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.
Find out how installing an SAP enhancement package affects your current
landscape and future upgrades. See a demonstration of one of the newest
capabilities available to SAP Business Suite 7 users: SAP Crystal Reports and
Xcelsius dashboards embedded within the various SAP Business Suite
applications, including SAP ERP and SAP CRM. See how to use the new
embedded analytics capabilities to enable a more compelling and beneficial
way to make sense of the data and business processes that affect users day-to-
day activities.
Protect your finance and human resource operations from
suspicious transactions and people
Kai Seela, SAP AG
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G111
G8
Government regulations require that organizations screen parties with whom it
conducts business, including customers, vendors, employees, or any other party
involved in its financial transactions. Find out how to use the compliance
management functionality within SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services
to identify and screen potential employees and business partners to ensure that
all business transactions, specifically those surrounding your human resources
and finance, are legitimate and lawful. Explore your options to more effectively
monitor vendors and documents in your back-end system to ensure your
company is not inadvertently doing business with blocked companies. Learn
how to use the sanctioned party list screening, embargo check, and license
determination services to manage regulatory compliance, customs, and risk.
Leave this session with practical advice for ensuring your imports and exports
are in line with relevant regulations.
Proven techniques to improve your cost of sales accuracy
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 G108
F2
Learn techniques to correctly set up cost estimates using SAP managerial
accounting (CO) functionality, and see how this could increase the accuracy of
cost-of-sales estimates and improve planning processes. Identify your options
for setting up master data. Learn how cost estimates employ logistics master
data to determine the standard price of assemblies and finished goods. Learn
the best ways to allocate overhead to product costs. Examine how to use cost
components to assign a cost estimate to a group of similar components such as
materials, labor, or overhead. See how a costing variant enables your SAP
system to use the right prices, bills of material, and routings. Step through a
list of costing variant configuration settings. Find out how to create standard
and preliminary cost estimates, and understand how they assemble and display
price information. Determine how to quickly evaluate and resolve cost estimate
warnings and error messages, and why these notifications should never be
ignored.
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A pain-free approach to migrating your fixed assets
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G105
F2
Fixed asset migration is a task that can strike fear into any finance or project
team. This session offers detailed insight into a proven methodology that was
developed based on real-world experience with numerous implementations
that can be used to help your organization simplify its fixed asset migration
project. Find out what steps need to be taken before you can migrate your asset
data, including running your asset load in test mode before creating any data,
as well as other steps that need to be completed to prepare your system. Hear
firsthand what tools should be used when migrating your master records and
transactional data and the importance of testing in this process. Get tips for
reconciling your loaded data with the source data. Gain expert guidance on
what steps to take if something goes wrong. Examine key criteria to ensure
that your project team is assigned the appropriate tasks for the successful
migration. Take home a sample checklist that will walk you through a
successful fixed asset migration project.
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 D403 (session repeated today at 16.00)
G2
Learn how to fine-tune your SAP BusinessObjects Access Control risk
analysis and remediation application for more optimal performance. Discover
that historic problems might have accumulated that are now causing
performance problems and bottlenecks within your system. Get best practices
to track your performance problems and learn how to get rid of them easily
using trace tools. Examine potential performance issues that can occur within
your other GRC applications, including superuser privilege management log
reports, and compliant user provisioning. Learn how and where to implement
the most important parameter of OSS notes to boost access control
performance and resolve any data integrity issues. Take home a performance
tuning checklist and a list of recommendations for performance related
parameters.
Case study: Statoil redefines planning and consolidation:
Lessons from the companys process redesign and technology
implementation
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G106
B6 F4 G9
Get a firsthand account of how Statoil rolled out SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation in order to improve data integrity, enable flexible
planning and consolidation functions, and leverage the companys existing
investment in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver. Hear how the company
reevaluated its legacy planning and consolidation processes and made
improvements that resulted in a stable environment for internal and external
reporting. Understand the key drivers behind choosing the solution and what
benefits, such as the ability to streamline the process of creating and approving
plans, budgets, and forecasts, the company is targeting for go-live. Find out
how the company was able to harmonize master data used in the consolidation
process to reduce master data maintenance. Walk through Statoils
methodology for building a project plan and moving toward a more unified
enterprise performance management and reporting landscape.
Customizing workflows for access management in
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control
Luis Bustamante, SAP
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G108
G2
The new access management functionality in SAP BusinessObjects Access
Control 10.0 provides enhancements to the already popular compliant user
provisioning capability. Attend this session and learn how by leveraging the
standard SAP workflow functionality it is now possible to customize even
further the business scenarios for approval of authorization assignment. Learn
how to extend this functionality by integrating the SAP Business Rule
Framework (BRFplus) to allow users without ABAP development skills to
program their own custom routing rules and approver selection logic. Gain
insight into the components of the new workflow engine and how to
customize them, also you will learn how to create agents and initiators using
BRFplus. For this session prior knowledge of SAP BusinessObjects Access
Controls compliant user provisioning functionality is advised.
Executive session: A strategic guide to achieving compliance
with generally accepted accounting principles across multiple
countries
Keerthana Mainkar, Infosys
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G111
FE F9 GE
This session provides guidance to help you navigate the complexities of
adopting a multi-country generally accepted accounting principle (GAAP)
framework. Explore key strategies that will enable your organization to
effectively mobilize people, processes, and technology while achieving
compliance with all regulatory authorities. Understand the challenges faced by
organizations in setting up multi-GAAP reporting environments, including
the recognition and identification of major policy differences and best practices
to overcome them. Get tips for identifying the requirements and different
approaches, as well as the pros and cons for achieving compliance. Take home
a step-by-step guide to assess your organizations readiness for effectively
achieving multi-GAAP compliance.
How to gain costing insights that improve pricing and
profitability
Jrmie Brunet, SAP
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G110
F2
This session describes how to leverage SAP solutions to drive a deeper
understanding of true costs, which help serve as a basis for critical decisions
around profitability, margin management, pricing strategies, merchandising
plans, distribution activities, and customer service. Glean better insights from
your managerial accounting processes by jointly leveraging SAP ERP
Financials cost and profitability accounting functionality (commonly known as
CO-PA) and SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management.
Learn how to better manage allocations and cross-charging. Understand the
simulation and scenario modeling options, including the impact on resource
requirements. Find out which CO-PA characteristics (e.g., customers,
products, and cost objects) must be linked with SAP BusinessObjects
Profitability and Cost Management to map activities to both applications.
Compare the differences between the two solutions, and determine when to
make cost assignments or calculate contributions in one rather than the other.
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How to leverage the SAP Financial Closing cockpit to
accelerate time-to-close
Antonio Giannelli and Stefan Karl, SAP
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G102
F5 G7
Explore the SAP Financial Closing cockpit and walk through configuration
steps including how to set up required authorizations and how to create a
global template for the entire closing process, as well as the pre-built
integration capabilities for the SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood.
Learn how to generate a task list to schedule and monitor tasks in your close
process. Examine how to use workflows to handle groups of objects that have
to be processed together, such as production orders, and learn how to
configure them to handle escalations of errors occurring in the close programs
during the close. Get tips for starting critical tasks, such as production order
settlement, project settlement, payroll, or billing in remote systems, within an
SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW system.
Improve data privacy compliance and segregation of duties
(SoD) controls in an SAP ERP Human Capital Management
environment
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 D407
G2 H6
Obtain expert advice to manage the complexity of configuring and monitoring
your SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM)
environment for compliance. Understand why SAP ERP HCM
authorizations, which are based on infotypes and SAP transaction codes,
present unique challenges for security administrators. Learn how to configure
the system at the authorization level to identify and monitor infotype-based
conflicts, as well as standard transaction-based segregation of duties (SoD)
conflicts. Hear how to configure a data privacy pop-up screen in your SAP
logon configuration as an extra control to ensure compliance with data privacy
legislation. Acquire best practices to properly configure and leverage SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control risk and remediation functionality to work in
conjunction with your SAP ERP HCM system.
Lessons for building visually compelling and interactive
dashboards with Xcelsius
Nick Wall, SAP
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G103
B4 F3
This session examines architectural considerations and best practices for
leveraging Xcelsius to give managers detailed, visual dashboards for improved
decision-making. See how to easily incorporate Xcelsius dashboards into your
business environment without the need for custom development skills.
Obtain best practices for dashboard development and design, including tips on
positioning content on the page, what types of charts best suit specific
scenarios, and how to use pre-attentive variables to bring attention to the most
important data on the page. Examine technical prerequisites, and understand
the importance of up-front business and IT design, including well-defined and
accepted key performance indicators (KPIs). Come away with the answers you
need to the top questions about building an Xcelsius dashboard, and gather
best practices to ensure the growth and adoption of dashboards within your
organization.
Lessons for migrating to SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
version 10.0: Not just another upgrade
Frank Rambo, SAP
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G107 (session repeated today at 16.00)
G4 G5
The latest releases of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0 have
undergone a number of profound architectural changes to better harmonize
and deeply integrate solutions for access control, process control, risk
management, global trade, and SAP BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for
Brazil (SAP BusinessObjects Nota Fiscal Eletronica). Examine the technical
architecture of these solutions, and what supported upgrade and migration
paths are available. Understand the requirements for migrating your existing
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementation to the new release.
Learn how to leverage the supporting migration tools delivered by SAP
BusinessObjects and what benefit they can provide in your upgrade plan. Walk
step by step through a system demo that illustrates how the migration can be
performed.
A detailed guide to SAP Crystal Reports: Best practices for
leveraging functionality and integrating with SAP ERP and
SAP NetWeaver BW
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G103
B5 F3
This session outlines SAP Crystal Reports capabilities and best practices for
integrating it with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW. Learn how to take
advantage of the key capabilities and features of SAP Crystal Reports to create
sophisticated, formatted reports. Find out how to create groups, summary
tables, drill-down capabilities, sub-reports, conditional formulas, and
hierarchies. Gain insight into how users can leverage these reports to better
understand critical information and make better business decisions. Get an
overview of data connectivity options between SAP Crystal Reports with SAP
ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW, including required software and available data
sources.
Best practices for managing the complexities of an SAP
rollout across the European Union
Arjan Buunk and Erik de Gier, Capgemini
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G105
F12 G5 G8
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the unique business and
system requirements that accompany an SAP rollout across the European
Union. Explore the financial and legal challenges youll face in an EU rollout.
Understand how to prepare your SAP system for the differences in financial
reporting, value-added tax (VAT) reporting, mobility, compliance, and
deductions that affect EU countries. Find out which SAP processes can be
easily adjusted and which will require more manual efforts to comply. Leave
this session knowing how local and national cultural practices and policies can
affect your project. Tap into the experiences that were gathered with multiple
SAP EU implementations and get key lessons learned from the project
successes and challenges.
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Best practices to add continuous control monitoring to a new
or existing internal controls framework
Dr. Werner van Haelst, CSI
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G107
G3
Obtain detailed instruction to design an internal controls framework that
improves compliance and provides greater control over financial processes.
Examine strategies that will help your organization utilize a new or existing
internal controls framework in order to move towards a continuous controls
monitoring framework. Examine the core components essential to any internal
controls framework, including process analysis, risk analysis, and adequate
mitigating controls. Find out how to utilize SAP BusinessObjects governance,
risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to build a new or strengthen an existing
framework. Learn how, when possible, to avoid manual testing processes and
instead use automatic, tool-based testing. Examine the best ways to configure
authorization, reporting, and monitoring controls within your SAP system for
more efficient process analysis, risk analysis, and control mitigation. Learn how
you can use solutions such as SAP BusinessObjects Process Control to
facilitate the design, implementation, testing, and automation of your SAP
application controls.
Best practices to ensure internal and external audit
preparedness
Paul Weel, Deloitte
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G110
F10 G6
This session offers SAP teams, as well as financial, operational and IT auditors
and those concerned with SAP ERP internal controls, guidelines and tools to
improve their risk intelligence in preparation for internal and external audits.
Understand the activities that need to happen in each stage of the auditing
process from planning and execution, to defining corrective and preventive
actions, to the reporting of audit results. Obtain tips for leveraging internal
control features within your SAP ERP environment in order to better meet
your audit requirements. Identify the best ways to conduct an internal audit of
important areas including quality management, environment management,
and safety and security management. Get practical tips to improve the way you
conduct an audit of your change management process. Find out how to
accurately diagnose weaknesses in business processes that could put your
organization at risk of audit failure. Understand the various operational,
financial, and technical risks that can affect the way you use your SAP system
and learn what controls you can implement to address them.
Case study: How Kazakhstan Railways automated its
enterprise risk management and continuous monitoring
system
Kuat Irabev, Kazakhstan Railways
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 D403
G3 G5
Attend this session for an up-close look at how Kazakhstan Railways built an
effective and sustainable GRC program using SAP BusinessObjects Risk
Management and SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. Find out what the
companys corporate risk management system was comprised of prior to the
implementation, and what factors led to choosing the risk management and
process control solutions. Hear firsthand what steps Kazakhstan Railways took
to optimize efficiency, increase effectiveness, and maximize visibility across its
risk initiatives. Learn how the organization saved time and reduced compliance
costs with an improved balance of manual control processes and automated
business process controls. Hear Kazakhstan Railways outline its next steps for
automating its risk management and continuous control monitoring system.
Financials Expert LIVE: What you need to know to migrate to
the SAP General Ledger
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G102
F2 F12
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet one of the foremost experts in
SAP General Ledger, Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young, and engage in an in-
depth discussion about one of his most widely read articles from Financials
Expert. After a brief overview of the article, Gary will lead you in a dynamic,
interactive discussion and question-and-answer session. Heres just a sample of
the topics covered: What are the benefits and ROI you can expect with an
SAP General Ledger migration? What are the key phases in an SAP General
Ledger migration project and tasks and challenges you face? How do you
overcome data conversion challenges? How can I use the SAP General Ledger
to enhance financial closing processes? Youll receive a copy of the article
free of charge and engage with peers who have the same interests and
priorities.
Lessons for automating and reducing planning cycle time
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G106
F4 G9
This session provides detailed instruction for streamlining your organizations
planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for maximum flexibility and
accuracy. Get guidance to leverage powerful tools in the form of script logic
and BAdIs to build best-in-class functions that automate manual activities,
enable advanced forecasting capabilities such as integrated operational and
financial planning, rolling financial forecast, and event driven planning and
ensure data quality and consistency of KPI definitions. Find out what standard
script logic functions are available and know where to use custom BAdIs to
fulfill your unique business requirements. Get tips and tricks to parameterize
planning functions for building dynamic simulations and what-if scenarios,
such as bill of material explosion, variance analysis and cash flow analysis. Take
home a step-by-step development and debugging guide to kick-start your
planning process automation.
Lessons for evaluating and choosing the right option to report
on and analyze variances
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G108
B2 F2 F3
Explore the different types of variance calculations available with SAP ERP
managerial accounting (CO) functionality, including total variance, production
variance, and planning variance. Learn when and how to use each to enhance
your analysis activities. Walk through variance configuration settings and
understand their impact on your variance reports. Gain insight into how
variance categories can be used to examine and determine the root causes of
production variances. Troubleshoot message analysis of the four input and four
output variance categories, including input price, resource usage, and input
quantity variance. Obtain clear definitions and examples from period-end
variance analyses. Learn how to identify typical problems that can occur with
total, production, and planning variance calculations; and get expert advice on
taking corrective action.
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Reduce risk with timelier, more accurate credit checks
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 D407
F7
Get detailed instruction how to design and configure credit management
functionality in SAP Receivables Management (formerly known as FSCM).
Learn how to integrate credit management with your current workflows to
speed credit checks, approvals and denials. Get tips on how to implement a
credit decision process within your company that is timelier, requires less
manual intervention, is more accurate and provides the tools for quicker
decision making. Gain detailed insight in the added value of the credit
manager portal and how to apply external credit ratings to your own credit
rules. Avoid configuration pitfalls, such as setting ineffective thresholds that
may slow key business processes and require excessive manual intervention.
View a live demonstration that shows how credit management supports the
information flow between different departments of the company, boosting
quick and efficient credit decision making.
A detailed guide to the available reporting options with
SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
Ankur Baishya, SAP Labs
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G110
G7
This session offers detailed insight into the financial and business intelligence
reporting options available within SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions,
including Web Dynpro, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects BI and
Xcelsius. Get expert guidance to help determine the appropriate reporting
strategy for your organization. Walk through a list of pre-requisite technical
requirements that are necessary before adding the GRC report mart, SAP
Crystal Reports, or Xcelsius to your GRC environment. Walk through a live
demonstration that will give you a better understanding of each of the available
reporting option, using examples from SAP BusinessObjects Access Control,
SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and SAP BusinessObjects Risk
Management.
A guide to new SAP functionality for sharing GRC data and
content across multiple systems: The enabler of unified,
enterprise-wide GRC
Prentice Wells and Atul Sudhalkar, SAP
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 D403
G4
Unifying disparate GRC programs requires sharing and integrating
information and data across multiple systems. In an environment that has seen
a high rate of mergers, acquisitions, and company reorganizations, this can be
a daunting task. This session introduces you to new content lifecycle
management functionality available with SAP BusinessObjects GRC version
10.0. Learn how to extract configurations and content from GRC applications,
and deploy them into other GRC application instances. Find out how this
integrated solution based on an ABAP platform can help your organization
add industry specific configurations as well as share content across numerous
regions. Learn how content expertise diffused throughout your organization
(or beyond!) can be tapped, managed and channeled to all your systems. Learn
how to manage configuration content to more easily perform implementations
and worry-free updates. Walk through SAPs current solutions for more
effective content management for GRC solutions, including eGRC,
continuous controls monitoring, and trade.
SAP HANA
Oscar Tromp, SAP
B1 F3
Assess e-payables as a means to simplify and reduce the
costs of accounts payable
Arif Esa, SAP
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G107
F6
This session guides you through options SAP makes available to support e-
invoicing. Step through examples that illustrate how eliminating manual
paper-based systems could reduce operational costs, optimize working capital,
and eliminate manual paper-based systems. Examine the key benefits of a
sound e-invoicing solution and how it provides a means to effectively integrate
suppliers into the process. Learn how to increase the speed and accuracy of
invoicing with document process automation, enabling your organization to
process payments faster. Take home the results of an Aberdeen Group
research study that details the strategic value strategic value of accounts payable
automation, as well as e-payables.
Develop an action plan to optimize working capital
performance
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G102
B2 F1
This session outlines a proven approach to link and align your organizations
operational and strategic plans and generate more productivity from your
working capital. Learn how to develop key performance indicators (KPIs) that
support a number of scorecard methodologies, including balanced scorecard,
economic value-added and activity-based costing methods using both SAP
BusinessObjects Strategy Management and SAP BusinessObjects business
intelligence solutions. Find out what capabilities are available to import data
into SAP BusinessObjects BI via a scheduling function or on an ad hoc basis.
Walk through a live demonstration that showcases how to monitor the
different drivers of working capital and put into place a strategic action plan for
your organization.
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Disclosure management and XBRL Lessons for preparing
your financial statements for a faster financial close
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G108
B2 F5 F9 G7 G8
This session shows you how to overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality,
transparent financial close process and showcases how SAPs brand-new
collaborative disclosure management solution combined with XBRL
functionality can help. Learn how SAPs disclosure management solution
enables customers to go the last mile to ensure a timely, accurate and risk-free
close process, by managing the production, filing and publication of financial
statements and reports. Take an up-to-date look at requirements, common
challenges, and recommendations for optimizing your group closing cycles.
Get a clear understanding of the regulatory mandates which require companies
to file their financial statements in eXtensible Business Reporting Language
(XBRL). Learn about the impact this has on the so-called last mile of the
financial close and how to you can optimize this to bring the benefits of a fast
and efficient close to your organization.
GRC Expert LIVE: Five considerations for outsourcing your IT
systems audit
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 D407
F10 G6
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Richard Hunt, Director,
Turnkey Consulting, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his
most widely read articles from GRC Expert the leading publication and
knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP BusinessObjects solutions
for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn the five key considerations youll
want to take into account when selecting an outsourcing specialist. Get a list of
key questions you should be asking your outsourcing provider and learn why
its important to work with them on a trial basis, to help develop the
relationship. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and engage
with peers who have the same interests and priorities.
Increase transparency and security across your international
supply chain
Kai Seela, SAP AG
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G111
G8
Learn how to optimize your supply and demand chains across enterprise
boundaries while more quickly and accurately responding to customer and
partner inquiries. Discover how to make your logistics and supply chain
processes more transparent using rules-based automation available with SAP
BusinessObjects Global Trade Services, which can be tailored to your business.
Find out how to ensure supply chain security, proactive management of trade
risk, and compliance with fluctuating global regulations and agreements. Learn
how to streamline complex import and export processes and compliance
checks, and ensure expedited customs clearance to optimize trade at the lowest
risk and minimal cost. Receive a roadmap for optimizing your global trade
services to help streamline your organizations global trade processes.
Lessons learned during an accounts payable automation
project
Brian Shannon, Dolphin
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G105
F6
Attend this session to hear lessons firsthand from the field on how to optimize
your accounts payable processes and more efficiently receive, enter and track
vendor invoices. Learn how to utilize SAP Business Workflow and SAP
NetWeaver certified add-ons, such as process tracking and document imaging,
as part of a comprehensive, automated accounts payable implementation. Find
out how utilizing a financial shared services center can help your users adjust to
changes, such as dealing with electronic images instead of paper invoices, and
adopting new, sophisticated workflow processes. Walk through a real-world
example that demonstrates how companies have implemented accounts
payable optimization components in multiple stages. Get tips and advice for
tackling the challenges associated with testing, training and change
management.
Strategies to automate key risk and compliance management
activities
Jrme Pugnet, SAP
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 G106
F11 G1
Fragmented compliance and risk management programs are costly and
complex and do not yield sufficient visibility, transparency, or security. This
session offers advice for building a strategy to integrate and align disparate
compliance programs, security initiatives, and process controls, giving you a
clearer view of where the greatest risks lie throughout your enterprise. Learn
how to transform your GRC strategy from reactive to proactive. Get best
practices and see a live demo that illustrates how other companies are
successfully automating GRC activities to achieve cost savings, protect current
value by preventing risk and compliance issues from occurring, and
incorporating risk and compliance into business performance. Obtain best
practices to automate and embed GRC activities into the core processes of
your organization. Gain new insight into the role SAP BusinessObjects GRC
version 10.0 could play in the unification of your GRC programs.
G2
Learn how to fine-tune your SAP BusinessObjects Access Control risk
analysis and remediation application for more optimal performance. Discover
that historic problems might have accumulated that are now causing
performance problems and bottlenecks within your system. Get best practices
to track your performance problems and learn how to get rid of them easily
using trace tools. Examine potential performance issues that can occur within
your other GRC applications, including superuser privilege management log
reports, and compliant user provisioning. Learn how and where to implement
the most important parameter of OSS notes to boost access control
performance and resolve any data integrity issues. Take home a performance
tuning checklist and a list of recommendations for performance related
parameters.
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B5 F3
Case study: How Elster Groups technology solution
integrated, accelerated and simplified multiple compliance
initiatives across its heterogeneous IT landscape
Malte Globig, Elster Group
G2
Hear from Elster Group, and learn why this global manufacturing company
chose SAP and Greenlight as its compliance solution. Learn how diverse
business requirements from a geographically and organizationally spread-out
group of stakeholders were consolidated into a single solution. See how Elster
uses SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, SAP BusinessObjects Process
Control and Greenlights RTA Design Studio to automate SoD analysis and
process control testing for SAP and non-SAP applications. Hear why Elster
Group utilized the SAP delivered risk matrix to standardize SOD reporting
and view risk analysis reports which include users and authorizations from
SAP, BaaN and Mapics systems. See SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
in action by viewing the steps for control set up and testing and how process
owners are able to save time through automation. Walk away from this
session understanding how consolidating compliance for multiple business
applications into your existing GRC solutions provides all stakeholders insight
to improve business governance and transparency.
Case study: How McKesson built a strong business case for
an SAP General Ledger migration project
F2 F12
Find out how McKesson successfully built its business case for the companys
SAP General Ledger migration project, while making sure to engage key
stakeholders across the organization. Learn why McKesson, when building its
business case, chose to focus on the financial reporting benefits, such as its ability
to support FASB/IASB convergence requirements. Learn what key business
decisions McKesson made at the beginning of its migration project, such as
designing its ledger to support parallel accounting and document splitting.
Understand how McKesson mitigated the projects impact on ongoing
accounting, reporting, and closing activities. Walk through McKessons timeline
and phased implementation approach from planning to go-live. Hear how the
company planned and aligned the implementation timeline to the fiscal calendar,
a critical step when planning an SAP General Ledger migration project.
Expert techniques to rapidly identify, assess, and mitigate
high-risk SoD violations
Bartosz Stanislawczyk, Ernst & Young
Thursday, 16.00 17.15 G111
G2
This session delivers techniques, tips, and tricks to identify and fully leverage
frequently overlooked risk analysis and remediation functionality within SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control for advanced segregation of duties (SoD)
analysis. Determine what reporting strategies you should utilize in order to
gain a clear picture of your organizations access violations and tips to rapidly
assess the root cause of each violation. Acquire expert guidance to maximize
the effectiveness of risk analysis and remediation as part of your security
remediation process, whether as part of a new security rollout or in remediating
your existing design. Identify advanced techniques to more accurately manage
your Sarbanes-Oxley and non-Sarbanes-Oxley access requirements. Leave this
session with a better understanding on how to tie risk analysis and remediation
to your organizations overall governance and compliance initiatives.
Lessons for migrating to SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
version 10.0: Not just another upgrade
Frank Rambo, SAP
G4 G5
The latest releases of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0 have
undergone a number of profound architectural changes to better harmonize
and deeply integrate solutions for access control, process control, risk
management, global trade, and SAP BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for
Brazil (SAP BusinessObjects Nota Fiscal Eletronica). Examine the technical
architecture of these solutions, and what supported upgrade and migration
paths are available. Understand the requirements for migrating your existing
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementation to the new release.
Learn how to leverage the supporting migration tools delivered by SAP
BusinessObjects and what benefit they can provide in your upgrade plan. Walk
step by step through a system demo that illustrates how the migration can be
performed.
Practical advice for building and maintaining control
efficiency
Michelle Kent and Richard Cleary, Ernst & Young
Thursday, 16.00 17.15 G104
G3
Attend this session for a behind the scenes look at the disproportionate expense
that organizations currently spend on their controls environment. With
continued pressure to increase efficiency, returns and accountability, the
expenditure made on controls has to deliver both value and competitive
advantage. Understand the value proposition of an enhanced control
environment and walk through three proven approaches that can help an
organization increase its control efficiency. Get tips for developing a realistic
roadmap and understand the role that SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk,
and compliance solutions can play in the support, maintenance and continued
improvement of an organizations control environment.
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Proven advice to effectively manage cash collection activities
in a financial shared service environment
Ralf Ille, SAP AG
F8
Attend this session for tips to use SAP Collections Management to effectively
manage open receivables and learn how to create work lists to distribute and
prioritize your organizations cash collection activities. Learn how SAP
Collections Management can be integrated into an interaction center - the
workplace of a shared service center agent - where contact persons can be
called with only two mouse clicks thereby improving the productivity of your
collection specialists team. Find out how to effectively manage your customers
dispute cases and integrate all relevant parties to the dispute resolution process
using SAP Dispute Management. Understand how to increase the
productivity of the dispute resolution team through higher transparency with
regards to customer communications using an interaction center.
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HR Session Descriptions
BI sessions can be found on pages 37-46. Financials and GRC sessions can be found on pages 47-73.
A guide to building an organizational management data
governance strategy
Danialle Rook, EPI-USE America
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 D204
H6
Learn how an SAP ERP HCM data governance strategy can maximize the
value of system investment. Get best practices for increasing the reliability of
your SAP transactional and master data. Hear examples of how one piece of
incorrect data in an integrated system can impact numerous reports and
processes; for example, a position which is not attached to any job may affect
requirements matchup, headcount, and regulatory reporting. Receive advice to
limit data errors at entry by altering OM transactions to guide users through data
updates. Find out how to identify existing data issues with standard SAP reports,
as well as how to correct existing data issues with PPOME and the SAP Legacy
System Migration Workbench tool. Understand why SAP ERP HCM data
governance should not be viewed as an IT solution, but rather a collaborative
initiative driven by stakeholders from business, data owners, change management
and IT. Discover the crucial components of a governance strategy design and
implementation. Get information on the different approaches to installing a
governance model during or after implementation. View examples of
documentation used to establish and support the data governance model. Take
home a check list of items to include in your governance standards.
An up-to-date guide to new talent management enhancements
from SAP
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 Forum
H2
This session examines how talent management processes, when designed,
integrated, and executed properly, support organizations in overcoming
challenges of workforce performance and productivity, as well as employee
motivation and professional growth. Take an in-depth look at how to support
your processes with the latest talent management enhancements from SAP.
Find out how to ensure you hire the right people, align individual and team
goals with corporate strategy, and institute competitive, yet cost-effective
remuneration policies. Learn how to improve employee performance and
nurture rising stars with the right assessment, review, training, and succession
planning strategy. Understand how managers can use workforce and talent
analytics to make fact-based decisions. Get a complete understanding of most
recent innovations such as usability and customer-oriented design in
talent management coming with enhancement package 5. Learn how planned
enhancements will continue to shape future talent management offerings.
Case study: How self-services helps Elgeka streamline HR
processes, improve the quality of HR data, and reduce costs
Dr. Michael Galanakis, ELGEKA SA
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 D202
H3 H6 H10
Examine the successes and challenges Elgeka experienced when implementing
SAP functionality for employee self-service. Hear what was included in phase
one of the companys rollout, including incorporating personal data, employee
history, past evaluations, specific achievements, KPIs, sick leave, benefits and
allowances, payroll receipts and personal development plans in the portal. See
how Elgeka will realize a substantial increase in data quality by eliminating
paper-based forms and data entry. Learn what solutions Elgeka is planning to
put in place to tackle change management. Hear the companys approach to
customizing employee self-service screens based on employee role. Gain insight
into how Elgeka was better able to secure its data and increase the efficiency of
the companys security, business and authorization maintenance processes.
Executive session: Teaching HR to speak the language of
business, get managements attention, and deliver strategic
value
Kim Fischer, EPI-USE
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 D201
HE H1
For too long, HR professionals have struggled to be heard and believed and
have battled to demonstrate or deliver the enormous value they can bring to
their organizations. Part of the problem exists because, unlike financials, HR
information is difficult to quantify and monetize. The only way forward is to
learn to speak numbers, the language of business. This session offers a
pragmatic approach and framework for teaching your HR organization to
manage people based on quantifiable evidence rather than hearsay. It explores
important differences between HR organizations that rely on data and tools to
justify their decisions, recommendations and positions, versus those that rely
on senses and intuition that are subjective, prone to failure, and not credible to
decision-makers. Come away with insights that are sure to empower your HR
organization to play an active and meaningful role in proactively overcoming
business challenges.
Streamlining document creation and management within SAP
ERP HCM
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G110
HS H3 aLearn how to utilize Accentures quick document builder for
document management to reduce TCO and realize a quick ROI. Examine
how this solution, which has SAP-certified integration, works with your SAP
ERP HCM infrastructure to create legally secured documents such as letters,
references, or certificates, automatically with little effort from HR or managers.
Identify how you can utilize this solution to create documents from existing
and future workflows within your SAP system. Learn how global organizations
and shared services centers can utilize this technology to maintain efficient and
accurate document creation and management processes.
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Tips and tricks for saving money, reducing errors, and gaining
efficiency within your payroll operations
Tom Hallewell, ROC
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 D203
H4 H9
If you think you know everything there is to know about payroll, think again!
Learn how to improve your existing payroll operations, reduce operating costs, and
improve cycle times while preserving a zero error rate. Understand the typical
sources of payroll errors and lost efficiencies and learn how to avoid the common
pitfalls. Get specific examples of how to make payroll improvements by using SAP
Interactive Forms software by Adobe to reduce the need to re-key data. Gather
techniques to maximize HR data accuracy, make optimal use of payroll schemas,
harness workflows, and execute intelligent reports. Examine various processes that
can directly influence payroll efficiency, such as time-related payment entry and
hire and fire processes, and learn how these processes can be seamlessly integrated
to ensure cycle time reduction. Come away with practical advice and quick steps
you can take to maximize your operational payroll efficiency.
An up-to-date guide to the latest employee self-service
enhancements from SAP
H3
Get an up-to-date preview of the new portal-agnostic and user-friendly version of
employee self-service based on Web Dynpro for ABAP. Find out how to use
SAP tools to build a more intuitive interface with easier menu management and
deployment options. Learn how the employee time management process has
been improved through the introduction of a new interface. Examine how you
can utilize the new time management process for easier and quicker leave
requesting and approval and for simplified user interaction. Examine new personal
information management options you can deploy to provide a more user-friendly
option for employees to maintain their own personal information. Step through
the technical prerequisites and configuration options you must consider before
using the latest employee self-service functionality. Take a look at how to utilize
the Floor Plan Manager (FPM), a UI framework based on Web Dynpro ABAP,
to adapt self-service UIs without the need for custom development.
Case study: How Japan Tobacco International addressed core
HR challenges and enabled enterprise collaboration using
SAP visualization solutions by Nakisa
Anna Sorokina, JTI
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 D203
H2
This presentation outlines why and how Japan Tobacco International (JTI)
implemented and utilizes the solutions, SAP Org Visualization, SAP Talent
Visualization and Data Quality Console by Nakisa. Hear how JTI has set up
its system to leverage SAP ERP HCM data as the single source of truth to
ensure the integrity of information used for workforce management, succession
planning and measure data quality reliability. Learn how the company takes
advantage of a common, intuitive user interface across each application to
promote buy-in and encourage user adoption. Find out why JTI initially
implemented SAP Org Visualization by Nakisa to facilitate core HR activities.
Learn how the application eliminated manual org charting processes, by
automating org chart creation, printing and archiving. Hear how the company
has significantly reduced the time spent recreating org charts, and has
facilitated the timely dissemination of accurate information across the
enterprise. Learn how JTI has implemented and uses SAP Talent
Visualization by Nakisa together with its org chart solution, to better manage
succession planning strategy and processes. Get an introduction to the Data
Quality Console by Nakisa. Learn how JTI is using this tool to monitor data
quality and visualize overall data quality reliability status through the company.
Everything you ever wanted to know about SAP ERP HCM
reporting
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 D204
B3 H5
Learn what types of HR reports come standard with your SAP system and
what options are now available to develop, run, and distribute customized
reports. Obtain guidelines to determine which reporting tools and options are
best suited for your needs. When should you rely on standard prebuilt reports
and queries, and when should you custom design your own reports using the
SAP query and ad hoc tools? Learn how to simplify user access and navigation
of area menus and reporting trees. Find out how to leverage SAP NetWeaver
Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) business content that is delivered
for HR reporting and analytics. Get guidelines to determine when SAP ERP
is better suited for your HR reporting requirements and when you should be
using SAP NetWeaver BW. Get tips for customizing SAP ERP HCM
reports. Learn how to add payroll and time management infotypes into
standard reports. Take home a cheat sheet with the most useful HR reporting
programs and transactions and SAP notes for activating switches in infosets.
Executive session: Managing, motivating, and leading a multi-
generational workforce
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 D202
HE H1 H10
Todays workforce is a unique, diverse and often-times confusing blend of
individuals who represent an equally diverse range of talents, needs, and
expectations. Organizations are facing an ever-growing challenge of
misunderstanding and even resentment between older, not so old, and younger
employees in the workplace. This session will provide you with a high-level
overview of the four generations currently represented in the typical workplace
today. Identify key attributes that distinguish each of these generations, which,
in turn, must be addressed in order to maintain a work environment that not
only accomplishes organizational goals, but also meets the unique needs of its
employees. After reviewing the data describing Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and
Nexters, participants can gain a better understanding of themselves and their
co-workers and begin to examine how to manage themselves and others more
effectively in todays age-diverse workplace. Use this information to gain an
understanding of how generational attributes impact leadership, teamwork,
work habits, internal relationships, conflict, and employee motivation.
Executive session: Strategies for improving the agility and
reducing the cost of financial processes using a shared
services center
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G102
FE F8 GE HE
Fragmented and inconsistent business processes, along with inflexible
technologies, can inhibit both productivity and service responsiveness. Find out
from a leading SAP executive how the new SAP Shared Service Framework
can be leveraged to achieve significant cost savings in the financials arena.
Understand how the framework can become the infrastructure for more
efficient communication between the service center and its clients, improved
compliance with service level agreements (SLA), and more accurate, insightful
reports to business stakeholders. Learn how customers are reaping benefits by
standardizing and automating transactional services delivered by the shared
service organization. Learn how to turn your organization into a more agile
and lean business center where financial administration services are treated as
core business processes, and customer satisfaction goals are exceeded by
delivering the right services for the best price.
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Leading practices for designing, building, or improving global
HR structures
John Brownridge, Deloitte Consulting
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 D201
H6 H8
This session offers invaluable advice whether you are building new org
structures or looking to improve your existing org structure design. Walk step-
by-step through a guide to designing global HR structures. Understand the
leading practices in organizational design. Learn how to ensure you are
building a structure that provides a solid foundation for your current use of
SAP ERP HCM as well as flexibility for future SAP ERP HCM components.
Learn the purpose of each HR structure and how that structure drives the
functionality of each component within SAP ERP HCM. Examine the key
attributes that are unique to each structure, such as the country and currency
setting, and identify which attributes are the most important in meeting your
particular business requirements. Discover the keys to unlock integration
within the various SAP ERP HCM components personnel subarea and
employee subgroup groupings. Take home sample SAP ERP HCM structures
and a structure design template. Explore ways to improve and redesign your
current SAP ERP HCM structures to ensure you are getting the most out of
them in all areas of SAP ERP HCM. Get strategies for managing historical
reporting and for dealing with configuration tables that are not effective dated.
A practical guide to mitigating the most common SAP ERP
HCM project risks
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 D201
H7
Avoid the pitfalls associated with poor risk management, constant timeline
revisions and scope creep. Learn what it takes to build a strong, but flexible risk
management strategy and follow real-world examples of risk management
strategies that have been applied in actual SAP ERP HCM projects. Expand
your knowledge of common HR project risks, including project team structure,
lack of proper change management plan, and security holes, and learn steps you
can take to avoid them. Learn why its crucial to start the risk identification
process before blueprint and how to perform risk analysis for each phase of
your SAP project. Get tips for categorizing business and technical risks, and
gauging their impact to your organization. Understand how to access and use
templates for tracking risks, and get best practices for communicating risks to
your team. Discuss key insights for creating a risk management team that can
continuously identify and track project risks as well as take action to mitigate
them. Take home a project management checklist identifying specific tasks that
should be performed during various stages of your HR project to mitigate risk.
How to improve the quality of your talent pool while reducing
recruiting costs and time-to-hire
Anna Holtmann, SAP
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 D204
H2 H9
Explore the latest additions to SAP E-Recruiting functionality for candidates,
managers, recruiters, and recruiting administrators. This session sheds light on the
options SAP makes available to increase the number of qualified resources in your
talent pool while streamlining the overall recruiting process. Take an in-depth
look at the new secure registration and email verification process for candidates.
Find out how the application process has been improved by introduction of user
and password entry, new correspondence letters to applicants, and various changes
in data maintenance (e.g., education, work experience, qualifications) to avoid
data loss during application entry. Gain insight into how recruiters can now
streamline requisition processes and better track applicants. View comprehensive
demos and visual examples that illustrate how to make the e-recruiting process
more usable and secure. Step through the technical prerequisites and
configuration options to be considered to ensure a clear understanding and a
smooth implementation process of the latest e-recruiting functionality.
Lessons to prevent, uncover, and correct HR data problems
before they detract from the bottom line
Tom Hallewell, ROC
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 D203
H9
This session explores various tools you can use to consistently improve the quality
of your HR data. Get an in-depth introduction to visualization, forms, and
reports and learn how each of these tools enables you to easily find and correct
data inaccuracies. Get best practices for ensuring that data is not only accurate at a
single point in time, but also easy to maintain and monitor on an ongoing basis.
Find out how data quality issues can negatively affect the bottom line. Understand
how automated processes and electronic workflows run more smoothly and
support better decision making when based on fundamentally sound data. Leave
this session with a plan for guaranteeing HR data quality in your organization.
Merge identity management and compliance activities and
technologies to ensure better access control and regulatory
reporting
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G109
G2 H5 H6
Faced with increasingly stringent regulatory requirements and pressure to decrease
IT cost, leading organizations are embedding compliance into the entire user role
and security management process. In this session, learn how the combination of
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control and SAP NetWeaver Identity
Management aligns business and IT to ensure that authorizations are performed
in a compliant manner, thereby enabling preventive compliance. Come away with
insights into how put into place an enterprise-wide mechanism to detect, mitigate,
remediate, and prevent access and authorization risk across key business processes.
SAPs strategic roadmap for SAP ERP HCM: The latest HR
solution innovations from SAP
Dawn Crew, SAP
Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 D202
H1
Learn whats new in SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP
HCM) and get a firsthand look at the new solutions coming for SAP ERP
6.0. Go inside the latest SAP ERP HCM solutions strategy and gain an
understanding of the roadmap of solutions that are planned. Drill down into
the features and functionality contained in SAP Business Suite and see
demonstrations and overviews of the major functional enhancements and
customer successes. Understand the benefits, skills, and decision criteria
necessary to consider when evaluating these solutions.
Techniques and best practices to improve manager and
employee self-service usability
H3
This session explores the critical issue of how to expose manager self-service
and employee self-service functionality to your end users in a simple and
compelling way. Time and again, usability proves to be a vital part of self-
service implementations, whether it is to support personnel/ organizational
change requests, performance management, compensation management, or any
other employee or manager self-service component. This session delivers critical
advice and practical tips for all those implementing (or who have implemented)
an application that touches varied user types (employee, manager, HR, etc.),
populations (union, non-union, executives, etc.) and geographies. Best practices
discussed include improvement in portal navigation, taxonomy, and look and
feel. Get tips on how to extend standard SAP functionality into highly usable
components that employees and managers will enjoy using.
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A guide to improving the usability of HR and employee self-
service
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G110
HS H3
This session provides best practices for streamlining HR processes and
delivering them to managers and employees via self-services. Get insight into
how key HR transactions, for example administrative HR transactions, talent
management processes, HR analytics and reports, can be streamlined and
centralized so users can achieve maximum productivity in a minimum of clicks.
Learn how to create transactional efficiency by simplifying screen layouts for
employees and managers, and reducing the number of process steps for
standard HR transactions, resulting in increased user comfort and faster
learning.
A guide to running a global payroll operation more efficiently
Tom Hallewell, ROC
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 D203
H4 H8
Due to the country-specific nature of payroll legislation, most organizations
run payroll as a strictly local business operation. However, there are many
benefits to be gained as a result of managing payroll as a global function.
These include significant cost savings, improved global process compliance,
and simplification of IT landscapes. This session explores the possibilities for
using SAP payroll functionality to realize efficient and streamlined global
payroll processing. Learn about the geographical coverage of SAPs payroll
solutions, and the reasons for considering alternatives such as country-specific
partner solutions and outsourced payroll providers. Receive practical advice
gleaned from architects of global SAP payroll solutions on the optimal design
and deployment strategies as well as the service delivery models needed to
support them. Come away with a clear understanding of the roadmap to global
payroll efficiencies and what the journey entails.
Case study: Achieving effective, flexible global recruiting
processes at BASF
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 D204
H2 H8
Find out how BASF was able to infuse greater flexibility into its global
recruiting process by implementing new e-recruiting functionality with SAP
enhancement package 4. Hear how BASF is using new Web Dynpro
functionality, giving recruiters the ability to work in different windows
simultaneously, create requisitions for open positions, and post jobs directly to
the companys homepage and job distributors. Learn how and why BASF
developed custom enhancements to requisition maintenance and the job
posting interfaces. See how BASF improved the searchability and usability of
external candidate data and employee data by creating new search criteria for
different candidate types, including external candidates, pupils, employees, and
internal agencies. Identify and overcome common risks that BASF faced
during its project, including system errors and missing functionality. Come
away with lessons you can apply as you embark on your own e-recruiting
initiative.
Opportunities and options for mobilizing SAP ERP HCM
processes and data
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 D201
H6
Discover how new SAP ERP HCM applications for smartphones and tablets
can have a dramatic impact on your HR processes, reports, and data. Walk
through new applications that allow access to SAP ERP HCM information
anytime and anywhere, including mobile workflow and productivity
applications. Learn how you can utilize the Sybase Mobile Workflow
application for SAP Business Suite with its predelivered workflows for leave
requests, travel requests, and clock-in/clock-out time recording. Find out how
you can use the customizing tool in the Sybase Mobile Workflow to adapt the
pre-delivered workflows or configure your own workflows, all without writing
a single line of code. Examine how the new productivity applications enable
employee look-up within an organization chart, quick and easy access to
detailed employee profiles, and navigation across the organizational hierarchy.
Take a look at the new expense capture application that utilizes the camera in
your smart phone to take a picture of your receipts and ultimately automate
the creation of an expense report using a mobile device.
Panel discussion: The future of HR shared services
Predictions from the experts
Moderator: Carrie Lande, SAP; Panelists: Karsten Alva-Jorgensen, Novo Altum,
Astrid Zwiers, p-direkt, and Mark Jones, SAP AG
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 D202
H3
Join a panel of experienced HR managers and consultants and identify what
they see as the next stage or next step for HR shared services. These experts
will share lessons learned and recommendations in a unique, fast-paced format
that will throw ideas your way almost faster than you can capture them in
writing! Answer questions like: Will HR shared services evolve beyond a
transactional focus? What are the expectations on HR technology? What role
will outsourcing play? Will there be a convergence of several areas of shared
services (finance, IT, etc)? How does technology support that merger? Can
you transition from a call center model to an HR specialist model? Walk away
with dozens of practical, original, and easy-to-implement ideas to map out the
future of shared services in your organization.
Undocumented guidelines for setting up standard SAP ERP
HCM workflows
H6
Learn new and creative ways to leverage standard workflows to get the most
out of your SAP ERP HCM applications. Review technical prerequisites,
transaction codes, programs, and authorization requirements for setting up
these workflows. Find out what scenarios, such as business rules in self-service
processes, are suitable for workflows and which workflow features will give you
the greatest return on investment (ROI). View demos that illustrate a standard
workflow setup, including time approval (and leave requests). Obtain expert
advice to identify, configure, activate, and assign tasks to these workflows.
Gather best practices for integrating workflows with the professional inbox,
business workplace, and universal worklist tools. Collect tips for monitoring
and troubleshooting workflows and work items. Take home a step-by-step
guide for enabling standard workflows in your SAP ERP HCM environment
and a housekeeping checklist to ensure the quality of your workflow
deployment.
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Advanced SAP NetWeaver BW techniques that can expand
your HR reporting capabilities
Penny Silvia, IBM
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 D204
H5
You have HR data LOTS of HR data from employee information, hiring
and job information, training and expense information, recruiting and payroll
information, in your SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver
BW) solution; now what can you do with it? Unlock the full potential of SAP
NetWeaver BW with insights on how to perform extensive analysis, make
selected reports and activities accessible over the Web to internal and/or
external users, link your HR reports to your financial reports, and create
executive or external quality reports and presentations. Learn new ways to
enable self-service reporting or ad hoc capabilities. Walk through concrete and
real-world examples that illustrate some of the advanced capabilities available
with the suite of solutions available with SAP business intelligence solutions.
Identify data-modeling requirements that will allow for maximum
performance and data accessibility. Receive expert instruction to create more
appealing HR reports using BIs newest and most advanced tools, including
the SAP BusinessObjects tools and the SAP BEx tools you already own.
Leave this session with new design techniques that you can put to use right
away.
Case study: How Rexam enables global transparency of
organizational data and valuable HR insight with the SAP
Organizational Visualization application by Nakisa
Paul Shipman, REXAM
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 D202
H2 H8
This presentation outlines how Rexam, a leading global consumer packaging
company, implemented and uses SAP Organizational Visualization by Nakisa.
Discover the financial and strategic benefits Rexam gained by eliminating the
need to manually create org charts. Find out how Rexam implemented a
centralized org charting application with live connectivity to its SAP ERP HCM
system. Learn how it provided executives, managers, and employees visibility into
company wide, global, organizational data through its internal, secured Web-
based portal. Hear how users are able to validate core organizational data. Learn
how Rexam quickly fostered user adoption and get its employees to immediately
start utilizing this capability right after implementation. See how the company
utilizes the real-time org charting application to enable its HR teams to make
better tactical decisions to meet business objectives. Hear how the solution met
Rexams business requirements with minimal customization efforts. Find out how
the scalability of the solution supports the consolidation of additional country
locations for a truly globalized view of its organizational structure.
Case study: Insight into how Eneco aligned corporate
objectives and goals with its manager and employee
self-service implementation
Kees Voeten, Eneco
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 D203
H3
This session delves into how Eneco reengineered its self-service processes and
technology to drive and support the companys corporate strategy. Learn how
the need for anywhere, anyhow, anytime access to personal information and files
impacted the companys implementation of employee and manager self-service.
Walk through Enecos project plan and learn why it chose to roll out specific
HR solutions from SAP in a phased approach. Identify some of the main
hurdles Eneco faced during this project, including the challenges it encountered
integrating ESS and MSS functionality seamlessly with Microsoft Sharepoint.
Get insight into some of the decisions that had to be made in the requirements
gathering phase prior to the implementation. Explore some of the key lessons
Eneco learned related to Microsoft Sharepoint integration, during the initial
roll-out and now that employees have been using ESS and MSS functionality.
Customer discussion forum: A real-world guide to core
SAP ERP HCM and payroll enhancements
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 G111
H2
Join this unique forum that will offer you the opportunity to exchange ideas
with experts and peers on the recent improvements made to core SAP ERP
HCM and payroll with SAP enhancement package 5. Find out which
enhancement packages others are running and what their installation and
maintenance challenges and successes have been. Examine the technical and
functional prerequisites that if followed correctly will help you avoid costly
installation problems. Network with your colleagues to determine what your
options are for addressing untamed HR business processes, integrate existing
processes, and satisfying functionality gaps. Take part in the discussion and
come away with insight and a strategy for leveraging the new functionality for
core SAP ERP HCM and payroll.
Executive session: Case study: How SAP is using its own
solutions to enable global shared services, improve process
efficiency, and provide 24 x 7 support to its employees
Mark Jones, SAP AG
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 Forum
HE H1 H3 H8
When SAP was faced with the need to optimize HR processes and create
globally scalable and sustainable services, it turned to its own solutions. Using a
combination of SAP ERP HCM, self-service, SAP Customer Relationship
Management (SAP CRM), and business intelligence solutions, the company
was able to build a shared service center (SSC) that now provides the company
with a single system of record for all HR-related processes and data. See how
the inclusion of SAP CRM employee interaction center functionality ensures
that employee questions or issues are routed to the correct person and that a
response is given promptly. Gain insight into the productivity gains SAP has
been able to realize as a result. Hear how SAP utilizes business intelligence to
manage continuous improvement in HR service provision and is developing
mobile reporting capability to facilitate more effective business decision
making. Come away with an understanding of the substantial efficiency gains
SAP realized as a result of its newly streamlined processes for managing the
end-to-end employee life cycle.
HR Sessions Wednesday, 8 June
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HR Expert LIVE: SAP ERP HCM performance management:
New features enhance employee development
Wednesday, 10.45 12.00 D201
H2
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Venki Krishnamoorthy, SAP
ERP HCM Consultant, SAP America, and engage in an in-depth discussion
about one of his most widely read articles from HR Expert the leading
publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions
that support HR. Learn how to use the latest performance management
functionality delivered with SAP enhancement package 4 to provide 360-
degree feedback to employees, conduct calibrations, set team goals, identify
development needs, and integrate the training needs with SAP Enterprise
Learning solution. View examples of the two user interface options to perform
the appraisal process. Understand the uses of and differences between the
predefined performance management process and the flexible performance
management process. Learn how to leverage performance management
functionality to build and motivate teams to achieve greater success by aligning
team and corporate goals to specific, measurable individual goals. Youll receive
a copy of the article free of charge and engage with peers who have the same
interests and priorities.
Case study: How Takeda Pharmaceuticals integrates,
publishes, and manages eLearning content from multiple
authoring sources
Gail Edington, Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D204
H2
Learn how Takeda Pharmaceuticals IT and instructional design groups joined
forces to better integrate eLearning courses created with a diverse set of
authoring tools using SAP Enterprise Learning. Learn how this integration
provides for a better end-user experience and helps to streamline learning and
training at Takeda. Walk through Takedas process for identifying and
selecting the best software for course development, and see how the company
resolves common problems with content language management, SCORM
commands, media, navigation, bandwidth, and playback. Take home 10 tips
for allowing authored content to play accurately in your SAP system. See some
of the critical Web-based authoring changes available with SAP enhancement
package 4. Take a look at the technical instructional design standards Takeda
developed to ensure successful and low-impact playback when working with
external vendors. Hear how this best practice has become standard across the
organization.
Customer discussion forum: How do your SAP security and
authorizations measure up?
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G101
G2 H6
Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other
SAP customers are managing their SAP security and authorizations. Learn
what key areas and functionality of SAP solutions you can leverage today to
boost security as well as improve your audit process. Engage in a discussion
about how your peers are building compliance into their own SAP security
structures. Hear how others are getting their users and not just their
security administrator involved in maintaining a safe, secure, and compliant
environment.
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D201
BE FE HE H1 H2
Expert recommendations you can use every day to improve
the functionality and usability of your HR applications
H1 H10
This session offers practical lessons for deriving greater value from your
existing SAP ERP HCM applications, features, and configuration. Find out
how far you can take standard functionality before you need to think about
custom development and modifications. Learn easy ways to activate user
menus, assign personalized transaction codes, and define user parameters.
Explore the best ways to leverage standard HR workflows, including advice for
using table T779X for workflow as an alternative to standard audit programs.
Obtain best practices for using standard reports to identify the manager
associated with a personnel member. Find out how to leverage Web Dynpro
personalization options to improve the usability of your self-service portal.
Learn how monitoring SAP user assignments with the HRUSER transaction
can simplify self-service data collection. Find out how to properly map and
assign users to personnel numbers.
Increase your proficiency with SAP Interactive Forms by
Adobe to improve self-services and streamline HR processes
Michael White, Exaserv
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D203
H3 H10
Understand the proper way to set up SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and
use them to streamline existing HR business processes, such as promotions or
employee transfers. Get ideas to enhance ESS and MSS usability with SAP
Interactive Forms by Adobe features. Learn to streamline data entry, increase
online and offline forms usage, and tie forms to workflows for submissions,
approvals, and reviews. Find out how to properly check a workflow process to
ensure that all business audit requirements are met. Step through examples
that show how interactive forms can be customized and changed to meet the
needs of your HR business requirements using custom error messages,
dynamically generated field content, and restrictions on form data that align
with system security.
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Unlock the power of SAP query tool to create the complex HR
reports you need without the customization costs
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 D202
B3 H5
Gain insight into little-known pieces of extended functionality in the SAP
query tool that will allow you to create complex reports without having to pay
for customization, saving you considerable expense while enhancing user
productivity. Walk through the process for defining and creating custom fields
that display symbols and calculated values in reports. Learn how to generate
follow-on activities from query results, such as linked queries and transactions.
See how to drill down into report details without switching transactions and
screens. Walk away from this session with a clear understanding of how
utilizing the SAP query tool helps to improve error identification and
resolution and make reports more relevant to users. Take home an illustrated
example of the steps involved, such as creating calculated values, adding in
symbols, nested reports, and transactions so you can start writing your own
enhanced queries using the logic discussed in this session.
A guide to transforming the travel management process with
new functionality from SAP
H4
Receive a comprehensive overview of the latest SAP Travel Management
features and functionality, including the new mobile, reporting, and on-
demand offerings. Step through the business scenarios supported by SAP
Travel Management, including submitting initial requests, travel planning, and
submitting and settling travel expenses. Gain an understanding of how the
new functionality can simplify integration with third-party online booking
tools and monthly expense report submissions. Understand how to leverage
the integration between SAP ERP HCM and SAP ERP Financials to
improve travel policy compliance, monitor out-of-policy bookings, and
optimize travel expense and settlement processes. Walk through the product
strategy and roadmap for SAP Travel Management to find out how new
developments could affect your company.
An HR reporting and analytics practitioners guide: Dos,
donts, and decisions
Penny Silvia, IBM
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 D204
B3 H5
Learn how to leverage the latest SAP ERP HCM prepackaged content and
analytical applications to streamline talent management and cross-analytics.
Delve into the top five dos and donts related to SAP reporting and analytics
for HR and SAP ERP HCM data, including the impact of running reports in
SAP ERP vs. the data warehouse. Explore the full range of SAP ERP HCM
analytics, and learn how to navigate the more than 200 queries, 300 key
figures, 100 templates, and six analytical composite applications to choose the
content that best suits your needs. Understand the keys to success and risks for
failure when reporting against employee data, job information, expenses,
training, payroll, and more. Learn why in HR more than in any other area,
getting reporting and analytics right is critical for user adoption and system
integrity.
Guidelines for a successful global SAP ERP HCM rollout or
consolidation
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 D203
H7 H8
This session offers practical strategies to help you efficiently and effectively
perform a global SAP ERP HCM rollout or consolidation. Overcome classic
change management challenges associated with global projects by building a
solid communication plan and requirements gathering/approval process. Learn
how to structure your rollout or consolidation using a phased approach,
starting with one area of the world and ending another. Get insight into
specific challenges organizations face with language, culture, management, and
end-user buy-in. Learn how these challenges can affect your project timeline
and costs and learn what you need to do overcome these challenges. Learn
how you can use your rollout or consolidation to standardize processes globally.
Find out how other organizations have taken the steps necessary to consolidate
their SAP ERP HCM system to a single instance and the benefits realized
after this effort. Evaluate some common ways to localize your rollout,
including, translation, testing, and training. Walk away from this session with
a solid understanding of the necessary steps to take to ensure a smooth global
rollout or consolidation.
Save your organization time and money with best practices
and proven techniques for recruiting and hiring the right HR
consultants
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 D202
H1 H7 H9
This session will explain in detail how to find HR consultants that best meet
your companys needs. Learn how to prepare and conduct a detailed, targeted
technical interview to assess the candidates skills, match them to your
requirements, and verify that the fit is right. Learn how to determine exactly
what SAP ERP HCM skills you need from a consultant before you start the
recruitment process to ensure a correctly targeted search. Hear how to use your
own existing network to find recommended and verified candidates. Gain
insight into how to assess a candidates honesty and the accuracy of their
background and qualifications. Take home a selection of questions you can use
as a template for creating an interview that will ensure you are hiring the best
consultant for the job.
A guide to using SAP ERP HCM technology to comply with data
privacy and data protection regulations
Robert Moeller, SAP Labs and Dr. Michael Wulf, SAP AG
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 D204
H6
Companies are more aware than ever of their legal duty to safeguard employee
data and ensure employee privacy. Learn news ways to use structural
authorizations, change logging, encryption, as well as other technology, to
fulfill this obligation. Step through examples that illustrate just some of the
mistakes companies unknowingly make that can put their data at risk.
Examine the existing functionality for change logging and learn how to utilize
these tools to comply with audit requirements and data privacy laws. Find out
how your SAP system provides encryption and masking technology to protect
employee credit card information. Get insight into where SAP plans to
enhance the many data privacy, authorization, and data protection tools.
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An innovative guide to planning and executing an SAP
enhancement package project within your SAP ERP HCM
environment
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 D202 (session repeated on Thursday at 16.00)
H7
Gain familiarity with SAP ERP HCM functionality offered with SAP
enhancement packages 1, 2, 3, and 4 for SAP ERP 6.0. Step through
guidelines for integrating SAP enhancement packages into a mature SAP
ERP HCM landscape. Find out how your approach to installing an SAP
enhancement package differs from a full system upgrade. Review a checklist of
technical and functional prerequisites that can help you avoid costly installation
problems and reduce maintenance fees. Find out how to use a new tool from
SAP to determine which functionality would best benefit you in order to avoid
activating and maintaining features you dont need. Find out what options are
now available to address HR business process challenges, integrate previously
siloed HR processes, and close functionality gaps. Get a sneak peek into new
HR content planned for SAP enhancement package 5.
Best practices for designing and delivering effective
SAP ERP HCM training to end users
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 D203
H7
Learn how to get your SAP ERP HCM users educated and excited about
their set of SAP tools. Get best practices for designing, developing, and
delivering effective end-user training to HR teams. Explore the unique
training needs and requirements of HR users including a discussion of data
sensitivity and scheduling challenges. Walk through a three-phased roadmap
for developing end-user training, including conducting a training assessment,
scoping training content, and testing training materials. Understand the data
and security requirements that must be factored into setting up a training
system or portal. Identify the key factors for delivering effective end-user
training including ideal timeframe, training medium, and delivery method.
Find out how you can incorporate feedback from HR customers, students, and
your help desk to continuously improve and evolve your HR training materials.
Learn how an effective end-user training program can lead to an improved
return on investment for your SAP project.
Case study: How Ericsson utilized SAP Interactive Forms by
Adobe to migrate from country specific customized forms to
flexible standard forms
Anand K Sadasivam and Peter Lippmann, Ericsson
H3
This session examines how Ericsson is utilizing a self-made toolbox to rollout
organizational and personnel change requests globally to more than 100
countries based on SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe. Learn what worked and
what did not work during the first phase of Ericssons migration to this
solution, and why the company had to change its approach when moving from
the largest 12 countries (phase 1) to smaller and midsize countries (phase 2).
See how Ericsson was able to use what it learned from phase 1 of the rollout
to create one set of easily customizable eForms that could be used for the
remaining countries by clustering them into regions instead of implementing
country by country. Learn how this approach is driving standardization and
use of best practices across the company, while still allowing the required local
deviations. See how the toolbox reduced development costs for each new
country to nearly zero, and learn how implementation lead-time went from six
months to six weeks.
HR Expert LIVE: Tips for using the succession management
component to optimize talent management
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 D201
H2
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Venki Krishnamoorthy, SAP
HCM Consultant, SAP America, and engage in an in-depth discussion about
one of his most widely read articles from HR Expert the leading
publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions
that support HR. Hear how the new succession management component from
SAP enhancement package 4 for talent management can help you in your
talent management efforts. Identify the new features and functions available
for talent management specialists. Learn how these tools enable you to do
talent calibration, compare talents, identify potential successors for vacant
positions, evaluate their training and development needs, and meet corporate
goals and objectives. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and
engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities.
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A comprehensive guide to managing global payroll using
country-specific payroll functionality
H4 H8
Review the latest suite of payroll functionality contained in SAP ERP HCM
and understand how it can be set up and processed for multiple countries in a
global or local system. Learn how to configure SAP ERP HCM payroll.
Identify the pros and cons of a global payroll system, including the complexity
of implementing changes to your system once and finding a convenient time
globally to be able to implement those changes. See firsthand which payroll
functions support global payroll administration and find out how SAPs new
approach to delivering support packages enables greater support of global
installations. Explore the various country versions of payroll that SAP delivers,
including an overview of the functionality available within each.
Executive session: How does your organization measure up?
Results of Towers Watsons 2011 annual survey of HR service
delivery and technology
Tom Keebler and Mike DiClaudio, Towers Watson
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 D202
HE H1
Examine the highlights from Towers Watson justreleased 2011 14th annual
HR Service Delivery Survey. See how top HR organizations are designing and
managing their HR technology and service delivery initiatives to better enable
employees and managers and to improve the HR function itself. Identify the
current trends and future directions for organizations from around the world.
Learn about whats working (and whats not!) and get details on the specific
HR technology and functionality that respondents plan to introduce in the
coming year. Hear what steps they view as necessary to improve HRs strategic
influence and the tools that are most effective at making that happen. Break
down the components of leading HR service delivery models to examine how
companies are leveraging self-service functionality and HR shared services.
Leave with an understanding of the differentiators between organizations that
are succeeding with their self-service deployments and those that are not.
How to design or upgrade your global HR systems to
proactively facilitate the international growth and profitability
of your company
H7 H8
See how different HR system designs directly influence the ability of HR to
answer the CEOs questions and thereby affect their ability to make strategic,
financial, and operational decisions. Delve into the advantages and
disadvantages of the different design options as well as critical factors such
as support strategy, organization, service-delivery model, localization,
globalization, and change management processes you must consider when
making any system design decisions. Learn how you can use SAP Solution
Manager to enable the development, redesign, and maintenance of your global
and local SAP ERP HCM templates. Get a glimpse into new addon
functionality from SAP, and see how you can use it to tap into leading HR
best practices other companies use to bolster efficiency and profitability. Leave
this session with a clear understanding of how your HR architecture, processes,
data, and technology should be, and can be, designed to provide instant,
highquality answers to your CEO.
Reducing inefficiencies and risks associated with
paper-based HR documents and forms
Andreas Fink, OpenText Software GmbH and Steffen Lichtenberger,
SAP (Schweiz) AG
Thursday, 9.00 10.15 D201
H3 H8
This session describes alternatives to the cumbersome process of managing
employees using paper-based documents and forms. Find out how the SAP
Employee File Management application by OpenText can be used to digitize
paper employee records and integrate them with your SAP ERP HCM
system. Learn how you can enable access to documents as well as to SAP
transactional data and reports using the single SAP ERP HCM authorization
concept. Gain insight into how other customers are using this central point of
storage and access to realize five significant benefits: Assurance that employees
can exercise their legally-protected right to access their personnel records at
any time; improved compliance with employee data privacy laws; significant
reduction in time formerly wasted locating and distributing documents; fewer
data errors; and better governance and enforcement of employee data retention
policies. Step through a demo that illustrates how personnel can view
electronic documents via SAP GUI or portal-based self-service.
How a user can perform basic and advanced calculations in
their reports using SAP query regardless of experience level
Penny Silvia, IBM
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 D203
H5
This session provides step-by-step instructions that any user, regardless of
experience level, can follow to perform basic and advanced calculations in SAP
query reports for HR and payroll without coding or programming access or
knowledge. Attend this session to shore up your own skills or for knowledge-
transfer best practices that you can leverage to help users across your
organization fine-tune their skills. Users who have worked to create basic
formulas in Microsoft Excel can now do so directly in SAP query. Learn the
easiest way to create calculated fields in SAP query, including basic calculations
(current datehire date to determine length of service) as well as even more
complex ifthen statements. Learn how to add symbols and color icons to
your report to highlight certain entries add a red flag to all vendors overdue
for payment, for example and learn how to maximize graphics and charts to
showcase your SAP query reports in various formats, all through easy
selections. Unleash the power of using local fields and entries on selection
screens to allow you to perform more advanced calculations in SAP query that
most people thought were only available using ABAP programming.
HR Sessions Thursday, 9 June
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Improve data privacy compliance and segregation of duties
(SoD) controls in an SAP ERP Human Capital Management
environment
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 D407
G2 H6
Obtain expert advice to manage the complexity of configuring and monitoring
your SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM)
environment for compliance. Understand why SAP ERP HCM
authorizations, which are based on infotypes and SAP transaction codes,
present unique challenges for security administrators. Learn how to configure
the system at the authorization level to identify and monitor infotype-based
conflicts, as well as standard transaction-based segregation of duties (SoD)
conflicts. Hear how to configure a data privacy pop-up screen in your SAP
logon configuration as an extra control to ensure compliance with data privacy
legislation. Acquire best practices to properly configure and leverage SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control risk and remediation functionality to work in
conjunction with your SAP ERP HCM system.
Strategies and technologies to effectively manage your global
workforce
Manimala Kanagavel, Deloitte Consulting India
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 D201
H1 H8 H10
Gain insight into how to deploy management of global employees
functionality within your SAP ERP HCM application (also referred to as
global mobility) so that you can share data and report quickly and accurately.
Get step-by-step guidance for deciding whether or not this feature is the right
solution for your company. Walk through the steps required to implement this
functionality, with emphasis on using multiple action types to support to your
business processes and requirements, including localization, repatriation,
reactivation, and data sharing between employee assignments in both home
and host countries. Learn how to configure Infotype 0706 Compensation
Package Offer and how it updates Infotype 0008 Basic Pay during activation.
Leave this session with an understanding of tips, tricks, and lessons based on
other companies who have deployed global mobility in an SAP environment.
Streamline HR processes with new talent management
enhancements for succession planning and e-learning
H2 H10
This session provides an overview of the key partners SAP is working with in
the talent management area. Find out how the SAP Talent Visualization
application by Nakisa can provide you with the data and functionality you need
to make better and faster decisions about your talent pipeline and successor
rankings. Explore how you can utilize this solution integrated with SAP ERP
HCM to deliver collaboration, planning, and data-validation functionality.
Learn how you can use the RegLearn tool from hyperCision in conjunction
with SAP Enterprise Learning to improve regulatory training process
management. Leave this session with a clear understanding of how these
partnerships allow you to make better-informed organizational decisions, to
ensure employees remain in compliance.
Tips to configure and customize employee and manager
self-services in SAP ERP HCM
Thursday, 10.45 12.00 G202
H3
To get the most out of the self-service offerings within SAP ERP HCM, you
need to know how to effectively configure and customize the tools. This
session provides you with all of the information you need to customize
employee self-service (ESS) and manager selfservice (MSS) functionality.
Learn everything about the standard out-of-the-box configuration, from the
early release with ITS services to the latest Web Dynpro offering in SAP ERP
6.0. See a demo detailing self-services configuration with specific examples of
how to maintain personal data for employee self-services and the manager
team viewer. Leave this session with the knowledge necessary to set-up and
customize ESS and MSS to meet your specific business needs. Take home a
cheat sheet of useful SAP Notes and transactions for configuring and
customizing ESS and MSS.
Better align your workforce management strategy with your
key business goals
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 G111
B3 H1 H10
Learn how strategic workforce planning can impact your companys ability to
execute on their strategy, thus reducing costs and improving bottom-line
revenues. Gain greater visibility into your workforce composition so that you
can manage your talent on a strategic level and align your workforce with your
business goals. Learn how the SAP BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce
Planning solution provides transparency, enables the modeling of your resource
supply and demand, and helps to identify and analyze gaps. The key objective
is to ensure that you always have the right talent in place to support your
corporate strategy. Learn new ways to develop and manage action plans and
monitor your progress towards your goals.
Case study: How Rexam structured and executed its global
SAP ERP HCM implementation
Paul Shipman, REXAM
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 D203
H7 H8
Glean lessons from Rexams two-year global SAP ERP HCM
implementation which supported more than 21,000 employees starting in
2008 and ending in 2010. Learn why Rexam decided to implement SAP ERP
HCM, including the ability to more effectively manage key global processes.
Learn how and why Rexam chose to implement HR master data in personnel
administration, organizational structures in OM, and manager self-service
(MSS) features for global reporting, compensation and organizational charting
processes in the first phase of the project. Get insight into the specific
challenges the organization faced when re-engineering HR structures and
processes to leverage system benefits. Find out how the company exploits the
organizational management structure in compensation and benefits in MSS
workflows to enable managers to align their team compensation decisions and
policies with the global compensation parameters.
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Case study: Maximizing employee ROI with SAP talent
management functionality: Lessons from Bharat Petroleum
Corporation Limiteds implementation
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 D201
H2
Find out why Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), the second
largest oil company in India with 14,200 employees, and 456 locations, chose
to deploy performance management and competency assessments as part of its
companywide talent management implementation. Learn how the strategic
focus of BPCL on the retention and development of employees helped to
drive its talent management implementation. Gain insight into the specific
role learning and development, succession planning, and compensation
planning played in BPCLs decision to implement talent management. Get an
inside view into BPCLs change management plan and learn how it helped to
instill a sense of ownership and achieve business benefits associated with talent
management initiatives within the company. Learn from critical pitfalls Bharat
Petroleum Corporation encountered during its implementation and as it began
using the solutions.
CATS made easy: Fine-tuning your cross-application time
sheet (CATS) configuration
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 D202
H6
Review in detail the latest features and functions of the cross-application time
sheet (CATS) tool, including the functionality in SAP ERP 6.0. Understand
your options for entering data through CATS using standard SAP ERP
transactions, either via SAP GUI or employee self-services. Explore the core
integration points between CATS and other SAP components and see where
the most important CATS data and configuration elements originate. Receive
tips for how to best integrate CATS functionality with other applications or
sources, such as portal-based self-services. Learn new ways to troubleshoot and
fine-tune your existing CATS configuration problems, such as missing
configuration or missing authorizations. Take home a quick reference guide of
CATS transaction codes, answers to frequently asked questions, and
resolutions to common CATS error messages.
Leverage the latest version of ASAP methodology to optimize
value and savings from your next HR project
Thursday, 13.00 14.15 D204
H7 H9
Learn examples of how you can use SAPs latest ASAP methodology to
deliver bottom-line results from your next HR project. See how the newly
improved ASAP methodology enables you to better align your HR function
and HR processes with your companys ever-changing business strategy. Walk
through an actual template that will guide you in performing this alignment in
three to five days. Learn how the ASAP methodology has been enhanced with
the new SAP common process layer which enables you to visually redesign all
your HR processes. Learn how these changes automatically update the
technical configuration in the background. Examine how the ASAP
methodology is built around the new pre-configured SAP ERP HCM add-on
which continuously ensures that your HR processes are always the most cost-
effective. See how you can benchmark your current processes against SAPs
best-practice processes to determine if you want to activate all or just part of
them.
Case study: Best practices and lessons learned from Cameron
Italys time management deployment
Martina Prantl, Cameron Italy srl
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 D202
H4
Find out why Cameron Italy chose to deploy time management capabilities
and integrate it with a third-party time clock system, a portal, and payroll. Get
best practices from the companys project, including, why you should have all
processes clearly defined before you begin your implementation and
integration. See why and how employee and manager selfservice were crucial
to this project. Examine how this unique implementation has allowed
Camerons employees to become more responsible for managing their time.
Learn how the integration between time management capabilities and the
portal made this possible. Walk through each phase of Camerons project
starting with the decision to integrate all of the systems and a review of the
companys existing process flows. Learn how Cameron was able to generate
several required legal reports utilizing data from its time management system.
Take a look at how the implementation and integration of time management
with a time clock system and a portal provides payroll will the most accurate
data possible in an easily usable format. Take home sample AS-IS analysis,
process flow, and test scripts that Cameron used in its project.
How to leverage the global employees module in SAP to
manage employees across multiple international assignments
Chris Murray, PwC
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 D203
H4 H8
Learn how to manage expatriates and other global personnel using global
employee functionality available from SAP. Weigh the pros and cons of utilizing
this set of features and learn how it integrates with and can enhance your existing
SAP ERP HCM implementation. Understand how to define global employees
in your SAP system with an emphasis on the differences between business
travelers, expatriates, and concurrent employees. Get best practices to design,
configure, and align your global employee solution with personnel administration
(PA) and organizational management (OM) functionality. Examine key
differences between a central person number, a personal assignment number, and
a personnel number. Find out how different personnel numbers for a single
employee can be integrated in order to give you a full history of that employees
activity across multiple international assignments. Find out why data quality can
be one of the most challenging aspects of utilizing global employees
functionality, and obtain tips to manage this challenge. Learn how to minimize
global employee maintenance by streamlining expatriation and repatriation
processes and by clarifying responsibilities and roles in these processes.
Lessons for integrating HR data across global and local SAP
systems while preventing errors and redundancies
Shravan Malyala, Deloitte Consulting India Pvt
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 D201
H6 H8
Learn how to integrate HR data from your global and local SAP systems using
ALE IDoc technology. Find out how to filter personnel administration (PA)
and organizational management (OM) data for legal entities using the user exit
programming and configuration of custom ALE filter objects. Get tips to create
a strategy for designing personnel administration (PA) and organization
management (OM) to support filtering of data for legal entities and minimizing
duplicate data in global and local systems. Determine how to integrate data from
SAP systems that have different enterprise and personnel structures using custom
infotypes. Learn how to create custom message types. Take home sample code
for filtering PA and OM data to meet legal regulatory requirements.
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Utilize personnel cost planning to more accurately and
efficiently plan headcount and compensation: Tips for
success
Lionel Obuchowski, Keneos
Thursday, 14.30 15.45 D204
H2 H9 H10
In order to achieve operational efficiency, you must strike a balance between
available budgets, employee expectations, and workforce performance. Learn
how the implementation of personnel cost planning (PCP) functionality can
help you meet the many unique requirements of your business. Gain insight
into how to utilize PCP to plan salaries and headcount and how PCP can help
you more accurately forecast costs to support key budgeting and decision-
making processes. Learn how to streamline your annual salary and bonus
review process by using PCP-calculated budgets along with SAP enterprise
compensation functionality. Review lessons learned from past implementation
projects, including how to properly maintain key data in your system. Find out
how to plan for workforce fluctuation, link workforce management with the
cost of recruiting, hiring, and retention, and prepare budgets utilizing
personnel cost planning.
A comprehensive guide to managing global payroll using
country-specific payroll functionality
Thursday, 16.00 17.15 D203 (repeat session)
H4 H8
Review the latest suite of payroll functionality contained in SAP ERP HCM
and understand how it can be set up and processed for multiple countries in a
global or local system. Learn how to configure SAP ERP HCM payroll.
Identify the pros and cons of a global payroll system, including the complexity
of implementing changes to your system once and finding a convenient time
globally to be able to implement those changes. See firsthand which payroll
functions support global payroll administration and find out how SAPs new
approach to delivering support packages enables greater support of global
installations. Explore the various country versions of payroll that SAP delivers,
including an overview of the functionality available within each.
An innovative guide to planning and executing an SAP
enhancement package project within your SAP ERP HCM
environment
H7
Gain familiarity with SAP ERP HCM functionality offered with SAP
enhancement packages 1, 2, 3, and 4 for SAP ERP 6.0. Step through
guidelines for integrating SAP enhancement packages into a mature SAP
ERP HCM landscape. Find out how your approach to installing an SAP
enhancement package differs from a full system upgrade. Review a checklist of
technical and functional prerequisites that can help you avoid costly installation
problems and reduce maintenance fees. Find out how to use a new tool from
SAP to determine which functionality would best benefit you in order to avoid
activating and maintaining features you dont need. Find out what options are
now available to address HR business process challenges, integrate previously
siloed HR processes, and close functionality gaps. Get a sneak peek into new
HR content planned for SAP enhancement package 5.
How to design or upgrade your global HR systems to
proactively facilitate the international growth and profitability
of your company
H7 H8
See how different HR system designs directly influence the ability of HR to
answer the CEOs questions and thereby affect their ability to make strategic,
financial, and operational decisions. Delve into the advantages and disadvantages
of the different design options as well as critical factors such as support
strategy, organization, service-delivery model, localization, globalization, and
change management processes you must consider when making any system
design decisions. Learn how you can use SAP Solution Manager to enable the
development, redesign, and maintenance of your global and local SAP ERP
HCM templates. Get a glimpse into new addon functionality from SAP, and
see how you can use it to tap into leading HR best practices other companies use
to bolster efficiency and profitability. Leave this session with a clear
understanding of how your HR architecture, processes, data, and technology
should be, and can be, designed to provide instant, highquality answers to your
CEO.
Streamline HR processes with new talent management
enhancements for succession planning and e-learning
H2 H10
This session provides an overview of the key partners SAP is working with in
the talent management area. Find out how the SAP Talent Visualization
application by Nakisa can provide you with the data and functionality you need
to make better and faster decisions about your talent pipeline and successor
rankings. Explore how you can utilize this solution integrated with SAP ERP
HCM to deliver collaboration, planning, and data-validation functionality.
Learn how you can use the RegLearn tool from hyperCision in conjunction
with SAP Enterprise Learning to improve regulatory training process
management. Leave this session with a clear understanding of how these
partnerships allow you to make better-informed organizational decisions, to
ensure employees remain in compliance.
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Sponsored Educational Sessions provide you with opportunities to learn about customer successes, participate in discussions, and view demonstrations of
how vendor products or services can help drive more business value from your SAP solutions. These sessions are a part of the main conference schedule.
Streamlining document creation and management within SAP
ERP HCM
Tuesday, 10.45 12.00 G110
HS H3
Learn how to utilize Accentures quick document builder for document
management to reduce TCO and realize a quick ROI. Examine how this
solution, which has SAP-certified integration, works with your SAP ERP
HCM infrastructure to create legally secured documents such as letters,
references, or certificates, automatically with little effort from HR or managers.
Identify how you can utilize this solution to create documents from existing
and future workflows within your SAP system. Learn how global organizations
and shared services centers can utilize this technology to maintain efficient and
accurate document creation and management processes.
New General Ledger in SAP as a database for consolidation in
SEM-BCS and reporting in BI
Dorothea Baumann, Siemens IT Solutions & Services GmbH and Rainer Krug and
Johanna Brabetz, SMA Solar Technology AG
Tuesday, 12.15 13.30 G111
BS B2
This session provides an overview of Siemens customer-specific solution
approach for creating an integrated SAP financial reporting and consolidation
environment. Siemens and its customer SMA Solar Technology AG will share 2
years experience with you. Learn how the services offered at Siemens can help
your organization achieve faster and more efficient financial closes, integrated
external and internal accounting, consolidation processes, and management
reporting. Understand how your team can create harmonized financial processes
based on leading IFRS accounting principles. Step through real-world examples
of how Siemens services allow for effective parallel accounting and segment
reporting within the new general ledger, matrix consolidation with SEM-BCS,
and integrated planning and reporting within SAP NetWeaver BW.
Case study: Best Practices from Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Consolidateds Microsoft

Tuesday, 14.45 16.00 G110
FS F5 GS G7
Find out how to save time off of your monthly financial reporting and increase
data integrity by eliminating reliance on manual data exports and rekeying to
Microsoft Excel from SAP systems. Receive key concepts and best practices
for how SAP users can leverage their MS Excel environment in SAP.
Understand the challenges Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated faced prior
to the deployment of Microsoft Excel-based automation and learn how they
utilized familiar MS Excel functionality to get intuitive, formula-driven,
dynamic and accurate results. This session will illustrate how to move beyond
static spreadsheets and create the ultimate dynamic SAP financial spreadsheet
experience using Microsoft Excel.
Improve productivity by automating your SAP financial spreadsheet
environment
Populate spreadsheets with live balances and descriptions from SAP to
Microsoft Excel
Learn more effective ways to handle classic and special ledgers in
spreadsheets from the SAP General Ledger
Drill-down dynamically from the spreadsheets to the lowest level of detail
in SAP
A guide to improving the usability of HR and employee self-
service
Tuesday, 16.15 17.30 G110
HS H3
This session provides best practices for streamlining HR processes and
delivering them to managers and employees via self-services. Get insight into
how key HR transactions, for example administrative HR transactions, talent
management processes, HR analytics and reports, can be streamlined and
centralized so users can achieve maximum productivity in a minimum of clicks.
Learn how to create transactional efficiency by simplifying screen layouts for
employees and managers, and reducing the number of process steps for
standard HR transactions, resulting in increased user comfort and faster
learning.
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How to create a comprehensive data governance strategy on
a global scale
Chuck Nardi, BackOffice Associates
Wednesday, 12.15 13.30 G111
GS G1
Gain an understanding of how to manage the on-going creation, collection,
and maintenance of data for your integrated ERP solutions to optimize
performance and profitability. Learn how to eliminate data redundancy,
content errors, lack of data standards and possible omissions; all critical to the
success of your data governance strategy with a detailed look at two methods of
data governance active and passive. Understand how passive data
governance allows users to interact directly with source systems to monitor
results and identify data issues. Find out how active data governance differs
from passive data governance by providing a guided process for the
introduction and management of data into selected systems.
The road to reconciliation: Closing with confidence and
achieving balance sheet integrity with BlackLine and SAP
Stefan Karl, SAP AG, Mario Spanicciati, BlackLine Systems, and Pieter Geyer,
Proxyon-International
Wednesday, 14.30 15.45 G110
FS F5 GS
Attend this session and learn how automating the traditionally manual, labor
intensive and spreadsheet-driven account reconciliation process can help your
organization (whether operating in an SAP-only or multiple ERP
environment) achieve a quicker and more accurate close increasing
efficiencies, productivity, visibility, and control, while minimizing risk and
reducing bottom-line costs. Learn how to automate and maintain better
control over the entire financial close process while ensuring timely, accurate,
and documented communications between all departments. Hear firsthand, a
customer success story and the key benefits and ROI the company has
experienced since using BlackLine alongside SAP ERP Financials to reconcile
global accounts. Leave this session with a better understanding on how to close
with confidence, maintaining more control and visibility, while reducing risk,
and creating a faster, more efficient close cycle.
How to achieve continuous monitoring with
SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and
SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G110
GS G3
Continuous monitoring (CM) technologies are maturing and many
organizations are now using them to automate the testing and monitoring of
automated controls as well as implementing data analytics and monitoring
processes within their ERP systems. Attend this session for a comprehensive
overview of the continuous monitoring capabilities offered by SAP
BusinessObjects Risk Management and SAP BusinessObjects Process
Control. Step through a proven CM implementation approach and understand
the different types of CM mechanisms and processes that can be implemented
using these tools embedded platforms. Hear firsthand how to create CM rules
using the key risk indicator framework provided in SAP BusinessObjects Risk
Management and the automated rule framework provided by SAP
BusinessObjects Process Control. Learn how PricewaterhouseCoopers has
helped clients successfully implement control monitoring mechanisms and
what best practices your organization can put into place to ensure automated
controls are operating effectively and detecting exceptions related to data
management and processing.
Upload and report on SAP financial data without ever leaving
Microsoft Excel
Jim Halepaska, Z Option and Dean Jones, Excel4apps,
Wednesday, 16.45 18.00 G109
FS F7
Find out how to streamline SAP financial processes form beginning-to-end
using Excel along with GLSU financial spreadsheet loader from Z Option and
GL Wand from Excel4apps. See firsthand how to use Excel4apps GL Wand
tool to enable highly efficient finance reporting, shorter month ends, and faster
refreshes directly from SAP into Excel. Discover how GL Wand empowers
users to easily create, edit and publish finance reports with full drilldown to
Line Items and Document Details without the assistance of IT in the familiar
Excel environment. Find out how to utilize Z Options GLSU tool to
improve the efficiency of financial data entry functions, from importing cutover
data to daily financial (FI) postings to processing vendor invoices. Understand
how GLSU complements standard SAP functionality by using Microsoft
Excel to validate and post more than 1,000 lines, attach source documents,
utilize pick lists, create flexible user-defined templates, and more. Walk away
from this session armed with detailed insight for using Z Options GLSU
solution and Excel4apps GL Wand tool to increase data accuracy, reduce
processing time and effort, and shorten month-end close cycles.
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Exhibition Hall
Exhibition Hall
LOCATION: ELICIUM BALLROOM
Tuesday: 8.00 19.00
Wednesday: 8.00 18.00
Thursday: 8.00 14.30
Get comprehensive information on market-leading solutions. See how SAP and third-party technologies fit
into your IT infrastructure and help you improve key processes. Examine the latest strategies, features, and
enhancements and learn how to take the next step with your SAP projects. Learn new ways to leverage the
technology you already own and find out how to take advantage of new tools and technologies.
Exhibiting Companies and Stands
Company Stand #
Accenture 135
Aquire 340
BackOffice Associates 210
BlackLine Systems 225
Column5 Consulting 140
conesprit GmbH 160
Conteliga GmbH 235
CSI Global 125
Deloitte 305
Direct Insite 220
Emeritis 380
Ernst & Young (EMEIA) Services
Company Limited 315
ERPScan 240
Exaserv 345
Excel4apps 325
Global Software 105
Greenlight Technologies 335
HumanConcepts UK 375
Ingentis Softwareentwicklung GmbH 145
Insider Training 300
Kaba GmbH 370
Kofax 115
KPMG 242
LookupPoint 215
NAKISA 360
NorthgateArinso 165
Novell 120
PBS Software GmbH 205
PricewaterhouseCoopers SA 100
Runbook Company International 310
SAP 200
SAPexperts 300
SAPinsider 300
SAP PRESS 300
Security Weaver 150
Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH 355
su53 Solutions 365
TIK Consulting 130
TJC 230
Trintech 155
Turnkey Consulting 110
VELIXIS 212
Winshuttle 175
Z Option 330
Escalator
SAP EPM LAB SAP GRC LAB
Ask-the-Experts
Elicium Foyer
Elicium 1 Elicium 2
Escalator
200
300
Northgate
Arinso
165
145
150
155
Winshuttle
conespirit
Trintech 175
160
140
135
130
125
120
Novell
100
PWC
115
110
105
380
240 230
235 225
242 212
220 210
215 205
375
360
355
345
370
365
335
315
Ernst & Young
330 310
325
305
Deloitte
340
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The denitive event for outsourcing SAP operations and
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Reporting and Analytics 2011
www.reporting2011.com
The event for organizations that rely on SAP for reporting, business
intelligence, planning, and budgeting
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JULY 18-20, CHICAGO NOVEMBER 2-4, LAS VEGAS
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inventory levels, reduce warehouse management costs,
increase production efciency and meet customer demand
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JUNE 13-15, CHICAGO OCTOBER 3-5, AMSTERDAM
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www.scm2012.com
Strategies, best practices, updates and skills development for teams
that use, evaluate, deploy and support SAP
SCM solutions
PLM 2012
www.plm2012.com
PLM solutions
Manufacturing 2012
www.manufacturing2012.com
solutions for
manufacturing
Procurement and Materials Management 2012
www.procurement2012.com
Strategies, best practices, updates, and skills development for
teams that use, evaluate, deploy and support SAP
solutions
for procurement and materials management
CRM 2012
www.crm2012.com
The event for organizations that use, deploy, manage, and are
evaluating SAP
solutions for CRM

MARCH 13-16, LAS VEGAS
Financials 2012
www.nancials2012.com
Critical tips, strategies, and best practices for teams who use, evaluate,
deploy, and support SAP
functionality for nancials

GRC 2012
www.grc2012.com
Strategies, expert advice, and product updates for teams involved with
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compliance
HR 2012
www.hr2012.com
Best practices to leverage SAP
functionality to drive HR business value

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MARCH 20-23, ORLANDO
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www.bi2012.com
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Exhibiting Companies
Accenture
Gustav Mahlerplein 90 75797
1070 AT
Amsterdam, 1082MA
Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0) 20 4938383
Email: marketingnl@accenture.com
www.accenture.nl
Booth #135
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.
Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and
business functions, and extensive research on the worlds most successful companies,
Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and
governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and
a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help
clients improve their performance. In 53 countries and with approximately 215,000 people
serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.6
billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2010.
Aquire
400 E Las Colinas Boulevard
Suite 500
Irving, TX 75039
USA
Phone: 214-574-5020
Email: sales@aquire.com
www.aquire.com
Booth #340
From organizational charting to succession planning, workforce modeling, data integrity,
workforce analytics, compensation, and more Aquire solutions can be used individually or
together to manage the entire lifecycle of your workforce. Join more than 2,700 organizations
representing over 10 million employees in using Aquires workforce management suite.
BackOffice Associates, LLC
940 Route 28
South Harwich, MA 02661
USA
Phone: 1-508-430-7100
Email: info@boaweb.com
www.boaweb.com
Booth #210
BackOffice Associates, LLC is a leading provider of SAP data migration and SAP data
governance solutions for global SAP customers. Concentrating on SAP data quality for more
than a decade, BackOffice Associates products and services are a recognized best practice
for companies implementing SAP software. BackOffice delivers the industrys only Boring
Go Live process for the uneventful implementation of SAP. For data governance solutions,
BackOffice is the choice of SAP customers that require Business-Ready Data Every Day.
BackOffice Associates is headquartered in South Harwich, Massachusetts with offices in
Europe, Australia, India and Mexico. Company information is available at www.boaweb.com.
BlackLine Systems
21300 Victory Boulevard, 12th Floor
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
USA
Phone: 818-223-9008
Email: howard.goldstein@blackline.com
www.blackline.com
Booth #225
BlackLine Systems was the first to develop and offer a commercially available Balance Sheet
Account Reconciliation solution. An experienced provider of software to companies from the
Fortune 100 to beyond the Fortune 1,000, BlackLine provides quick-to-implement, scalable
and easy-to-use applications that automate the entire financial close process to help improve
financial controls for companies of all sizes. BlackLine software applications complement
existing Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Governance Risk and Compliance
(GRC) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. BlackLine offers its enterprise-class
software in a simple and secure OnDemand/SaaS platform.
Column5 Consulting
28 Bruton Street
London, W1J 6QW
United Kingdom
Phone: 020 7183 0760
Email: mweeks@column5.com
www.column5.com
Booth #140
Column5 is an Enterprise Performance Management consulting firm. We bring tangible
benefits to large enterprises and SMEs by delivering practical and systematic improvements in
strategy management, sales and operations planning, and more traditionally finance focussed
processes of profitability and cost management, planning, forecasting and reporting. We apply
methodologies, processes and enabling systems to facilitate our clients journey towards a
more agile and profitable business model. We are the No. 1 SAP performance management
partner in the USA with a strong presence in the UK and operations in Europe and the Asia
Pacific region.
conesprit GmbH
Erzweg 8
Bad Vilbel, 61118
Germany
Phone: +4917623934473
Email: roman.douverne@conesprit.de
www.bi-director.com
Booth #160
BI Director is the state of the art application to design, document and optimize SAP NetWeaver
systems. It automatically or semi-automatically extracts and transforms data flows into visual
information. The BI Director offers the possibility to generate documents in Word, HTML, Excel
for any major SAP NetWeaver object. An integrated analysis framework provides support to
solve problems such as naming conventions, sizing and performance. The BI Director enables
a fundamentally new approach for BI project controlling, improving sustainability of BI projects
and BI systems. Learn more about BI Director or download a free demo version through
www.bi-director.com. conesprit GmbH
Conteliga GmbH
Berninastrasse 8
Wettingen, 5430
Switzerland
Phone: +41789242405
Email: adi.kumar@conteliga.com
www.conteliga.com
Booth #235
Conteliga, a single platform for several GRC-related services, is designed to maximize the level
of security and controls by minimizing cost for control. Our strategy is based on preventive
controls, automation of continuous control monitoring, instant risk reporting making Conteliga
PRO-ACTIVE and a true REAL-TIME solution. Conteliga is designed for full SAP-integrated
solution with significant effect on ROI calculation and minimal Total Cost of Ownership. Its
beauty is in its simplicity, and customers achieve compliance objectives through an innovative,
customizable ownership model within a minimal time-frame. Conteliga provides outstanding
process control, enhances monitoring effectiveness and efficiency by avoiding false positive
alarms, raises business performance level, and reduces the existing IT and process costs.
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CSI Global
P.O. Box 3031
Den Bosch, 5203 DA
Netherlands
Phone: +31 73 640 8750
Email: info@csi4global.com
www.csi4global.com
Booth #125
CSI Global specializes in audit, security and control of SAP applications by working with expert
consultants, delivering of top-quality training and innovating software solutions focusing
on: - Reduced cost and rapid implementation of SAP BusinessObjects GRC powered by
Accelerated GRC methodology. - Implementing low cost alternative software solutions to meet
GRC requirements.- Comprehensive and independent risk analyses and review of internal
controls performed one time or periodically to meet compliance requirements.- Redesigning
or remediating security authorization concepts for GRC compliance. For more information
please visit the CSI website - www.csi4global.com.CSI: The right code for Governance, Risk
and Compliance.
Deloitte
Berkenlaan 8C
Diegem, 1831
Belgium
Phone: +32 2 600 60 68
Email: braskin@deloitte.com
www.deloitte.com
Booth #305
Deloitte adds a new dimension to any SAP implementation, providing a 360-degree approach
to maximize the value of your SAP investment. We view implementation through a broader
lens, using our multidisciplinary capabilities to produce solutions that help you achieve
unmatched business value. Were in every global business hub and our teamis well positioned
to help you anticipate the needs of your global suppliers and customers. Ask us how we can
help transform your company by going beyond basic improvement to achieve stellar business
performance and produce significant and sustainable change.
Emeritis
Berchemstadionstraat 78
Antwerp, 2600
Belgium
Phone: +32 3 2401060
Email: info_europe@emeritis.com
www.emeritis.com
Booth #380
Emeritis is a leading SAP ERP HCM and SAP NetWeaver consulting company, providing world-
class services to mid-sized and large enterprises. We have extensive experience in building
global templates and international roll-outs (using Emeritis SAP ERP HCM accelerator HCM
Express), as well as localization issues. Our services range from designing your SAP ERP HCM
strategy, solution implementation and customization, to professional application maintenance
support and managed payroll services. As an SAP ERP HCM specialist, Emeritis is also well
positioned to advice on 3rd party software solutions as SAP visualization solutions by Nakisa
and SAP Employee File Management by OpenText.
Ernst & Young (EMEIA)
Services Company Limited
Becket House
1 Lambeth Palace Road
London, SE1 7EU
England
Phone: +44 20 7980 0000
www.ey.com
Booth #315
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Worldwide, our 141,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering
commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider
communities achieve their potential. For more info please visit www.ey.com
ERPScan
Sabirovskaya str. 37
Saint-Petersburg, 197183
Russian Federation
Phone: +78127031547
Email: info@dsec.ru
http://erpscan.com
Booth #240
ERPScan is an innovative company engaged in the research of SAP security and develops
products for SAP security assessment. Apart from this the company renders consulting
services for secure configuration of SAP systems and conducts comprehensive assessments
and penetration testing of custom SAP solutions. The company expertise is based on research
conducted by the ERPScan subdivision Digital Security Research Group (DSecRG). DSecRG
is a leading partner of SAP AG in vulnerability assessment. Our flagship innovative product is
ERPScan Security Scanner for SAP which can help customers to perform automated security
assessments and compliance checks for SAP systems.
Exaserv
43, Route dArlon
Strassen, L-8009
Luxembourg
Phone: 352 20 880 272
Email: info_europe@exaserv.com
www.exaserv.com
Booth #345
Exaserv is a global consulting organization that provides SaaS solutions, implementation
services, application support and specialized products for SAP ERP HCM. The company
utilizes cutting-edge technology and delivery approaches to drive faster implementation
and higher return on investment. To lower project costs and achieve meaningful results
faster, Exaserv focuses on continued development of products, services and solutions
through innovation to make SAP ERP HCM easier to use for customers of all sizes. Exaserv
has European operations in (European heaquarters in Luxembourg), maintains its global
headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia and has Asia-Pacific operations in Malaysia.
Excel4apps
Centrix House, Keys Business
Village Keys Park Road
Hednesford, WS12 2HA
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)800 756 6869
Email: dean.jones@excel4apps.com
www.excel4apps.com
Booth #325
Excel4apps is a provider of best-in-class Excel-based reporting software to thousands of Oracle
& SAP users. Its award-winning GL Wand products help Oracle & SAP financial professionals
save time by delivering accurate and secure information in the familiar Excel environment. GL
Wand for use with SAP is an innovative Excel-based reporting tool for finance departments
running SAP financials. GL Wand enables highly efficient finance reporting, shorter month
ends and faster refreshes directly from SAP. Free Trial available.
Global Software, Inc.
500 Chiswick High Road
London, W4 5RG
United Kingdom
Phone: 011.44.208.956.2213
Email: info@glbsoft.com
www.glbsoft.com
Booth #105
With EMEA headquarters in London, UK, Global Software, Inc. is the No.1 worldwide provider
of Microsoft
Excel-based automation tools for the SAP marketplace. Globals Spreadsheet

Automation Suite includes the flagship Spreadsheet Server, Executive DASH and Enterprise
Budgeting. Globals products are used in 40 countries by 4,000+ customers. Global Software
Inc.s worldwide partner channel is comprised of over 120 companies. Founded in 1973,
Globals worldwide corporate headquarters is located in the Research Triangle region of North
Carolina, USA. Global has regional offices in Greensboro, NC, USA, Seattle, WA, USA and New
York, NY, USA.
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Greenlight Technologies, Inc
270 South Main Street
Flemington, NJ 08822
USA
Phone: 908-782-5700
Email: aparna.deshpande@greenlightcorp.net
www.greenlightcorp.com
Booth #335
Organizations are increasingly focused on achieving enterprise wide approach to Risk
Management and Compliance. Monitoring risks/controls in heterogeneous IT landscapes
represents a key challenge towards attaining the goal of unified risk management. Greenlight
solution enables organizations to detect/prevent enterprise risk via control monitoring across
the enterprise, its technology being embedded within SAP BusinessObjects GRC. Greenlight
addresses security/access management and monitoring of sensitive transactions for
financial/operational controls across multitude of ERP and business applications. Greenlight
has enabled over 90 Fortune 1000 companies achieve sustainable compliance for critical
applications within an enterprise. In doing so, Greenlight has helped reduce audit and
compliance costs.
HumanConcepts UK Ltd
10 Blenheim Court
Exeter, EX2 8PW
United Kingdom
Phone: +44(0)1392 823 023
Email: sales@orgplus.co.uk
www.humanconcepts.com
Booth #375
HumanConcepts enables enterprises to better manage organisational change of all types,
including growth, rightsizing and reorganisation. Using solutions from HumanConcepts,
customers can achieve organisation agility, more easily understand how they are organised,
plan for the future, and transition the workforce to its optimal state. Used by many of the
worlds largest organisations, HumanConcepts solutions provide immediate return on
investment by enabling companies to reorganise faster, manage financial targets, stay in
compliance, and reduce both cost and risk. The companys products have certified integration
with leading ERP and talent vendors such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson.
Ingentis Softwareentwicklung GmbH
Raudtener Str. 7
Nuremberg, 90475
Germany
Phone: 00499119897590
Email: mail@ingentis.de
www.ingentis.com
Booth #145
Launched in 1997, Ingentis has evolved into one of Germanys most innovative software
solution companies within the IT sector. Ingentis provides individual software development
as well as standard software products and consulting services that go with them. Our
flagship product is Ingentis org.manager; a tool for automated organisation charting. It allows
direct connections to all major personnel administration systems such as SAP, Oracle,
PeopleSoft, P&I etc. Other products include Ingentis easy.pes, a tool helping HR professionals
to plan and evaluate assessment centres and personnel development seminars and Ingentis
distribution.list for automizing the process of email distribution in an organization.
Insider Training
20 Carematrix Drive
Dedham, MA 02026
USA
Phone: 781-751-8700
Email: info@wisinsidertraining.com
www.WISinsidertraining.com
Booth #300
Insider Training is the most convenient, cost-effective way to sustain your competitive edge
on evolving SAP technologies. We offer over 40 in-depth Seminar on Demand training videos,
all recorded live at SAPinsiders world-class conferences and seminars and designed to
answer your toughest questions. View courses online, download them to your desktop, or
watch streaming videos on CD to get detailed training and practical insights from our lessons
and case-studies, without the cost of travel or time spent away from work. Visit us at the WIS
Publishing booth, or at www.WISinsidertraining.com
Kaba GmbH
Albetristrasse 3
Villingen-Schwenningen, 78056
Germany
Phone: +49-7720-603-0
Email: info@kbs.kaba.com
www.kaba.com/workforce-management
Booth #370
The core business of the Kaba group includes time and attendance, locking systems, access
control, security and automatic doors. Kaba is the technology leader for Enterprise Data
Collection in Europe and North America. Kaba is internationally active and organized on a
global scale. This fact distinguishes us from all other suppliers in the market. This is one of the
reasons why more than 1,300 global players are counted among our satisfied SAP customers.
Kabas software has SAP NetWeaver-certified integration.
Kofax Inc.
15211 Laguna Canyon Road
Irvine, CA 92618-314
USA
Phone: 001 9497831000
Email: info@kofax.com
www.kofax.com
Booth #115
Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is the leading provider of document driven business process automation
solutions. For more than 20 years, Kofax has provided award-winning solutions that streamline
the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture, transformation
and exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in
a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return
on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, government, business
process outsourcing, healthcare, supply chain and other markets. For more information, visit
www.kofax.com.
KPMG Advisory
Laan van Langerhuize 1
Amstelveen 1186DS
Netherlands
Phone: +31703 382321
Email: Jonker.Ronald@kpmg.nl
www.kpmg.com/NL/en/What-We-Do/Advisory/Risk-
Compliance/Pages/default.aspx
Booth #242
KPMG is a leading provider of professional services including audit, tax and advisory. At KPMG
we make it our business to help yours to run more effectively. Our Risk and Compliance
and Performance and Technology department helps you create more value, reduce costs,
improve the way you operate and bring a fresh and challenging point of view. We provide
services around GRC, Masterdata Management, Business Intelligence Services, Finance
Transformation, Cost Reduction and Operational Excellence. We assist organizations with
regulatory and compliance needs. We have a great deal of experience in identifying and
controlling financial and operational risks embedded in business systems.
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LookupPoint
Spanish Point Technologies Ltd.
50 City Quay
Dublin, Ireland
Phone: +353 1 6522000
Email: info@spanishpoint.ie
www.lookuppoint.com
Booth #215
Spanish Point Technologies is the creator of LookupPoint a compelling advance in
productivity technology which brings together the worlds of the Microsoft Office business
productivity suite, SAP and back-end information sources so that even casual users can
access difficult to find information. Users simply mouse over a business item in any Microsoft
Office application and LookupPoint will securely return in context business information in a
panel directly in the application. From displaying customer order status information from SAP
SD within Outlook to displaying the transaction value of the financial transaction from SAP
finance within Excel, LookupPoint empowers users to make better decisions more efficiently.
NAKISA
733 Cathcart
Montreal, PQ H3B 1M6
Canada
Phone: 514-228-2000
Email: andre.willems@nakisa.com
www.nakisa.com
Booth #360
About Nakisa Inc: Nakisa enables the worlds largest organizations to Visualize What
Matters Most. The company develops organization and talent visualization software to
help customers gain clarity into human capital data, easily manage key talent information
and optimize the sustainability and impact of the workforce. Via a special agreement, SAP
directly sells and supports Nakisa technology around the world. Read more about Visualization
Solutions by Nakisa at www.nakisa.com.
NorthgateArinso
Peoplebuilding 2,
Peoplebuilding Estate
Maylands Avenue
Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP2 4NW
United Kingdom
Phone: +441442 204500
Email: info@ngahr.com
www.ngahr.com
Booth #165
NorthgateArinso is a leading global Human Resources software and services provider offering
innovative HR business solutions to employers of all sizes. We help HR executives optimize
their HR service delivery through smarter processes and more efficient technology, supporting
workforce administration, payroll, benefits, recruitment, learning, and talent management.
Our 8,000 employees are dedicated to delivering excellence through HR consulting, HR
outsourcing and HR technology. We have offices in 35 countries on five continents, supporting
customers in more than 100 countries.
Novell
404 Wyman Street, Suite 500
Waltham, MA 02451
USA
Phone: 1-800-529-3400
Email: crc@novell.com
www.novell.com
Booth #120
At Novell, we are the leader in the intelligent workload management market with WorkloadIQ.
We enable customers to reduce the cost, complexity, and risk associated with their IT systems
through our solutions for identity and security, systems management, collaboration and Linux
based operating platforms. And we are dedicated to helping organizations securely deliver
and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell integrates mixed IT
environments, allowing people and technology to work as one.
PBS Software GmbH
Schwanheimer Strasse 144a
Bensheim, 64625
Germany
Phone: +4962511740
Email: info@pbs-software.com
www.pbs-software.com
Booth #205
PBS Software is a leading provider of add-on software for SAP solutions in the information
lifecycle management (ILM) envionment, specialized on data archiving, compliant storage,
data extraction and system retirement. PBS has been considered as an expert for complex,
integrated dataaccesses to archived or nearline data in SAP applications for many years. In
addition to classical SAP data archiving, PBS solutions also support SAP BW-specific nearline
storage concept that enables completely new ILM application scenarios together with column-
based database and analytics technology such as Sybase IQ.
PricewaterhouseCoopers SA
Av. Giuseppe-Motta 50
P.O. Box, 1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Phone: +41 58 792 91 00
Email: ruben.barata.rodrigues@ch.pwc.com
www.pwc.com
Booth #100
PwC (www.pwc.com) network firms provide industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory
services to enhance value for their clients. More than 161,000 people in 154 countries across
the PwC network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives
and practical advice. Our consulting professionals leverage our network of global resources
and industry knowledge to help clients implement their business strategies and priorities to
build effective organisations, innovate and grow profitably, reduce costs, manage risk and
regulation, and leverage talent. As business integrators, we look across the entire organisation
focusing on strategy, structure, people, process and technology to help our clients drive
sustainable change that yields measurable results.
Runbook Company International
Amperestraat 25 b
Ede, 6716 BN
Netherlands
Phone: + 31 318 648110
Email: info@runbook.com
www.runbook.com
Booth #310
Runbook Company International is the leading provider of SAP modules that streamline the
Financial Close, Internal Controls and Compliance Documentation in SAP. Organizations
that have implemented Runbook were able to successfully reduce costs and improve
quality through the automation of financial workflows. Understanding the aspects of End
to End finance, Runbook provides automation resulting in improved efficiency, visibility and
transparency in critical areas. Meet your peers and share best practices. You are in control.
www.runbook.com.
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SAP
Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16
Walldorf, 69190
Germany
Phone: +34 639719825
Email: rosa.chamorro@sap.com
www.sap.com
Booth #200
As the worlds leading provider of business software, SAP delivers products and services
that help accelerate business innovation for our more than 102.000 customers. We believe
that doing so will unleash growth and create significant new value for our customers, SAP,
and ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large. Today, customers in more than
120 countries run SAP applications from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small
businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations. The company
is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, (symbol
SAP.) For more information, visit www.sap.com
SAPexperts
20 Carematrix Drive
Dedham, MA 02026
USA
Phone: 781-751-8700
Email: customer@wispubs.com
www.sapexperts.com
Booth #300
Continue your learning after the event with the SAPexperts knowledgebases. The same experts
you learn from at the event give you their highly sough-after tutorials, instruction, and best
practices all year long in the SAPexperts knowledgebases. Their expertise is more complete
and trusted than anything else youll find on the Web. Youre guaranteed to avoid costly
trial-and-error, save time and money, and advance your skills. SPECIAL OFFER Purchase
a risk-free license to any of the SAPexperts knowledgebases on site and get a free SAP
PRESS book of your choice (up to $79.95 value). The SAPexperts knowledgebases include:
CRM Expert, BI Expert, Project Expert, HR Expert, Financials Expert, GRC Expert, SCM Expert,
Solution Manager Expert, as well as SAP Professional Journal. Visit the SAPexperts at the WIS
Publishing booth, or at www.sapexperts.com.
SAPinsider
20 Carematrix Drive
Dedham, MA 02026
USA
Phone: 781-751-8755
Email: insider@wispubs.com
http://sapinsider.wispubs.com
Booth #300
SAPinsider magazine, sponsored by SAP, is the premier source of information for the
executives, managers, consultants, and implementation and development teams who are
decision makers for their SAP systems. Read loyally by 125,000+ professionals charged with
maximizing the return on their companys multi-million dollar investment in SAP technology,
the magazine provides SAP customers with advanced notice of SAPs key product and service
initiatives, directly from SAP executives. http://sapinsider.wispubs.com
A perfect complement to SAPinsider, insiderPROFILES magazine offers detailed profiles of
todays most influential business and IT leaders their strategies, best practices, and howthey
leverage SAP solutions to achieve their objectives. Each issue delivers firsthand accounts and
insights from customers, partners, and industry thought leaders about how theyre innovating
and driving business value through SAP technology. http://insiderPROFILES.wispubs.com
SAP PRESS
20 Carematrix Drive
Dedham, MA 02026
USA
Phone: 781-751-8700
Email: info@sap-press.com
www.sap-press.com
Booth #300
SAP PRESS is the premier publisher of over 250 technical and strategic books for the SAP
community. We proudly offer an expansive range of unique titles to help you master SAP
technology and complete key SAP projects faster, while avoiding costly mistakes. Chosen
from among the best and brightest minds at SAP, leading consultancies, and SAP customers
from around the globe, our authors deliver keen insights, proven best practices, and solutions
to the challenges with which our readers struggle daily. SAP PRESS is thrilled to announce
the release of SAP PRESS BooksOnline, our all-new online reading platform. Visit us at
the WIS Publishing booth in the Exhibition Hall to save 25% on your purchase, or online at
www.sap-press.com.
Security Weaver
401 West A Street, Suite 2200
San Diego, CA 92101
USA
Phone: 1-800-620-4210
Email: info@securityweaver.com
www.securityweaver.com
Booth #150
Security Weaver partners with SAP and its customers to provide certified solutions that extend
the SAP risk and compliance landscape. As a solution provider for primarily SAP environments,
Security Weavers offerings are designed to go from small to large customers, public to
private.
Siemens IT Solutions and
Services GmbH
Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
Mnchen, 81739
Germany
Phone: +49 (173) 4768462
Email: carl-rainer.stetter@siemens.com
www.it-solutions.siemens.com
Booth #355
Siemens IT Solutions and Services is a European based premium player providing state-of-the-
art IT solutions and delivering outsourcing services with global reach. The Siemens Solutions
and Services GmbH and its subsidiaries offer a broad portfolio within the IT service chain: from
consulting, software development and system integration to the comprehensive management
of IT infrastructures. Through profound industry know-how and beneficial innovations, the
company enables customers to transform their business processes on an ongoing basis.
Further information at: www.siemens.com/it-solutions.
su53 Solutions
20 Adelaide Street
Belfast, BT2 8GD
United Kingdom
Phone: 44(0)7557110026
Email: nicola.stenson@su53.com
www.su53.com
Booth #365
su53 is an expert at empowering businesses to manage risk for strategic advantage. Our
consultants help businesses integrate Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
controls with business processes to foster a culture of strategic risk management. Working
with su53 will give stakeholders, auditors and regulators complete trust and confidence in your
GRC controls. Our solutions and services are based on over 100 years combined experience,
ensuring GRC integration allows continual improvement in the efficiency of your organisations
business processes. In 2009, su53 was appointed as SAP UKs Preferred Specialist GRC
Partner for the UK & Ireland in November 2009. su53 is headquartered in Belfast, Northern
Ireland, with operations across the UK.
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TIK Consulting
Level 40, 140 William Street
Melbourne, 3000
Australia
Phone: +61 3 92293891
Email: sales@tikconsulting.com.au
www.tikconsulting.com.au
Booth #130
The Nexus Suite (which is the main offering of TIK Consulting) provides configurable solutions
for SAP ERP HCM implementations and business as usual requirements that would otherwise
only be accomplished through programming. Each module of the Nexus Suite caters for
specific SAP business purposes such as data conversion, the import and export of information,
payroll and statistical reporting and reconciliation, master data replication and duplication,
payroll verification and SAP support pack analysis. The highly integrated and flexible nature of
the Nexus Suite ensures that the specific needs of any organisation can be met.
TJC
120, Avenue Charles de Gaulle
Neuilly-sur-Seine, 92200
France
Phone: +33 179 920 540
Email: osimonet@tjconseil.com
www.tjc-software.com
Booth #230
TJC is a privately owned company acting as a consulting and publishing company in SAP niche
subjects such as Data, Document and Fiscal Archiving, QM and SAP EHS Management. We
provide software that has SAP-certified integration for SAP data archiving automation, SAP
DART automation and SAP audit preparation. Those solutions are available through a network
of partners in 17 countries. For France, Switzerland and Belgium, we provide consulting
services on SAP archiving, SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management (System
decommissioning), DART, QM (implementation & standard interfaces to measurement
devices) and SAP EHS Management. We resell solutions from PBS-Sofware GmbH and
Dr.Eilebrecht GmbH in Europe.
Trintech
2nd Floor 4-6 Throgmorton Avenue
London, EC2n 2DL
United Kingdom
Phone: +44(0)2076285235
Email: carol.orr@trintech.com
www.trintech.com
Booth #155
Trintech is the leading global provider of integrated software solutions for the Last Mile of
Finance. From the time a transaction occurs to the time financial statements are issued,
Trintechs innovative Unity Suite automates data collection, account reconciliation, financial
close management, financial reporting, XBRL, and financial control testing. As a result, our
600 clients and 100,000 users worldwide benefit from an enterprise wide view into critical
financial processes, and are able to increase efficiency, improve visibility, shorten cycle times,
lower costs, and reduce risk. Trintech clients include 50% of the Fortune 50 and nearly 25%
of the Fortune 500 companies.
Turnkey Consulting Ltd
58 Ayres Street
London, SE1 1EU
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)207 288 2578
Email: paul.smitherman@turnkeyconsulting.com
www.turnkeyconsulting.com
Booth #110
Turnkey Consulting is a specialist IT security company focused on combining business
consulting with technical implementation to deliver information security solutions for clients
using SAP technology. It focuses on the delivery of specialised services in the areas of SAP
security, SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions and SAP
NetWeaver Portal. Turnkey works with systems integrators, audit partners and SAP clients
directly, to provide effective security and controls solutions to safeguard SAP systems and
business processes. The company was established in 2004 and has offices in the UK, USA,
Australia and Germany.
VELIXIS
Imperiastraat, 16A
Brussels, 1930
Belgium
Phone: +3223008710
Email: info@velixis.com
www.velixis.com
Booth #212
Velixis helps companies achieve true business agility and innovation. To reach that aim,
we deliver results-oriented Strategy & Performance Management (EPM), Business Process
Management (BPM), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Intelligence (BI)
solutions and services from business process analysis to solution delivery. Velixis partner,
SoftNtic, is a Business Intelligence expert. SoftNtic edits analysis and advanced administration
tools for SAP BusinessObjects since 2003. These products are aimed to give the unique
opportunity toget an easier integration and a truly simplified administration through solutions
for the worldwide BI leader: SAP BusinessObjects.
Winshuttle
64 Kimber Road
London, SW18 4PP
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 208 704 4170
Email: info@winshuttle.com
www.winshuttle.com
Booth #175
Winshuttle is the ERP Usability Company, providing software products that enable business
users to work with SAP directly from Excel, Web forms and other interfaces without any
programming. SAP users often struggle to effectively run complex business processes.
Winshuttle solves this problem by offering familiar interfaces to SAP, which improves
productivity and saves customers significant time and money. Winshuttles suite of solutions
work with all SAP modules, enabling both business and IT users to solve any data or business
process challenge by securely expanding SAP interactions to both employees and partners.
Thousands of global customers use Winshuttle to make their SAP lives easier.
Z Option, Inc.
417 Oakbend, Suite 200
Lewisville, TX 75067
USA
Phone: +1-972-315-8800
Email: jim@zoption.com
www.zoption.com
Booth #330
Z Option offers complementary software solutions that enable organizations to streamline SAP
financial data entry and reporting, with Microsoft Excel. By leveraging existing Excel expertise,
users can calculate financial transactions and post them directly to SAP. Z Options tools
include: 1) GLSU Financials Spreadsheet Uploader (Squeaky-clean data entry for GL, AR, and
AP) 2) LIVExpress (Invoice templates for 3-way matching and Invoice Verification for AP) 3)
Budget Loader (Load and retrieve SAP plan data from Excel, as well as budget or reforecast).
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