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ASUG DFW Chapter Meeting

Friday, April 17, 2015

8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast Compliments of our Sponsors

8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Collinwood I

ASUG Chapter Updates, Welcome, and Introductions - Allen Sulgrove, DFW Chapter Chair, Emergys Corp.

KEYNOTE – SAP S/4HANA: The Road Ahead for Customers

We will review SAP S/4HANA, the next generation business suite designed to help companies run simple in a digital and networked economy. This new suite is natively built on SAP's advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized user experience with SAP Fiori. Deployable in the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA is built to drive instant value across lines of business and industries with the ultimate in sophistication: simplicity. We will also discuss how current SAP Business Suite (ECC) customers can adopt new S/4HANA capabilities and simplification immediately while building their roadmap to full transition to this next-generation application suite.

Dr. Jeffrey Word, VP Product Strategy , SAP America Jeffrey Word, Ph.D., is VP of Product Strategy at SAP. He is the world's best-selling author for SAP-related books, including Business Process Integration with SAP ERP, SAP HANA Essentials, Integrated Business Processes with ERP, Business Network Transformation and SAP NetWeaver for Dummies. Dr. Word has more than 20 years’ experience in business and IT strategy working for Fortune 1000 companies. He is also the host of The HANA Effect, a weekly podcast discussing innovative companies and their real-time use cases of SAP HANA. http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHanaEffect

9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Break & Networking

Morning Breakout Session #1: 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.

Workforce 2020 Spring Glade

*** NOTE: THERE IS NOT A BREAK BETWEEN SESSION 1&2 FOR THIS TRACK Workforce 2020: Building a Strategic Workforce for the Future

Is there a crisis ahead for HR? Members of the millennial generation are already 15 years into their working careers. For the first time, we are experiencing as many as five generations in the workforce. How is this multi-generational, multinational workforce affecting the way Human Resources functions? Will our future organizations be without boundaries or remain hierarchically structured? Now that technology has enabled us to work globally, virtually, and with flexible time schedules, what is the next great divide we must conquer?

Join ASUG members and partners, thought leaders, along with customers and experts from SuccessFactors, an SAP Company, in this track geared to guide Human Resources business leaders and HR technology decision-makers through the changes ahead. Be ready for thought provoking discussions and insight into the next generation of SuccessFactors technology.

Michael Zieienziger, Oxford Economics

Finance, BPC & GRC Fairview

Meet Reports Wand - An Excel Front End to your SAP Queries and T-codes

Are you wasting time continuously exporting from other tools into Excel and reformatting data?

Learn about Reports Wand, a dynamic innovation from Excel4apps that leverages Microsoft Excel against existing SAP Queries and standard/custom SAP T-codes. We’ll cover and demonstrate how local companies such as Fujitsu and RSR are using this powerful tool for reporting and advanced analysis. Mark Pockl, Solution Specialist, Excel4Apps

Plano Centre 2000 East Spring Creek Pkwy. Plano, TX 75074

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Process, Testing & Data Goverance Sunnyslope

Quality Testing for SAP

SAP presents a unique testing challenge that often makes organizations balance testing, business objectives and finite resources. Managing the never ending streams of support packs, enhancement packs and custom transports can be time consuming and difficult, further adding to the complexity.

Join us today for an informative session as we discuss how advanced test automation tools can help you overcome these challenges to directly address the speed/quality/cost trade-off. See how you can leverage the benefits of script-less test automation to accelerate testing and deliver the full value of your SAP applications sooner. Brad Kallaway, Director of Global Pre-Sales, TurnKey Solutions

User Experience (UX) Northbrook III

Leveraging Mobile Devices for Continued Medical Education Learn how mobile learning really can work in a heavily regulated industry. Nearly 900 physicians learned a complex Electronic Medical System, without removing them from the workplace and those physicians also gained AMA CMEs via this education. We will also discuss how to increase end user adoption faster by understanding the consumption barriers Vince Lucey, Director, Enterprise Director, Ancile

HANA & Mobility Northbrook II

Amplify Your Decision Making in the Next Generation of Big Data

Decisions driven by data can provide unprecedented confidence in maximizing business value. But how do you avoid drowning in an overflowing pool of big data? Learn how organizations can unleash their full potential and make decisions with more accurate insight to leapfrog the competition. Sadaf Hossain, North America Lead for Big Data & Analytics Industry Value Engineering, SAP America

Business Analytics-BI Northbrook I

Driving Self-Service BI with SAP Analytics and SAP HANA

Having centralized and timely data is important, but enabling self-service access for business users across a broad range of devices is critical for operational productivity and end-user satisfaction. But where do you start? Which BusinessObjects technologies should be used and when? And how does HANA modernize your BI Platform to improve self-service. This session will focus on an overview of the BI tools available, the art of the possible and how HANA can spark new energy into your BI program Steve Freeman, VP of Field Operations, Decision First Technologies

10:50 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.

Break & Networking

Morning Breakout Session #2: 11:05 a.m. – 11:55 p.m.

Workforce 2020 Spring Glade

*** NOTE: THERE IS NOT A BREAK BETWEEN SESSION 1&2 FOR THIS TOPIC Workforce 202 Roundtable Lawrence Ferguson, SAP HCM & SuccessFactors Practice Lead, PwC Carl Eisenmann, Strategic Advisor of HCM, SAP Michael Zielenziger, Managing Editor/Thought Leadership, Oxford Economicas

Finance, BPC & GRC Fairview

Automating GRC with SAP's Expanded Capabilities

Are you familiar with the various capabilities SAP offers within its GRC portfolio to automate GRC activities? Join this session to learn of the most recent additions to the GRC offering. Bruce Romney, Sr. Director SAP Solutions for GRC, SAP America

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Process, Testing & Data Goverance Sunnyslope

Data Validation Made Easy

Every SAP customer is challenged with verifying the accuracy of the data migration process. Most often this is a costly process of manually verifying data based on a statistical sample of data. Further complicating the challenge, seldom are users available to perform these tasks when they are needed due to competing projects and other business demands. There are costly ETL software solutions that require a team of technical resources to deploy and manage. There is, however, an alternative. This presentation will demonstrate a cost effective alternative designed for the functional analyst or business user. Easily verify legacy to SAP migrated data, designed for the non-programmer. Identify "known good data" for integration testing as a by-product. A graphical dashboard provides an overview of the aggregated results. Steven Branch, President, Configurable Management

HANA & Mobility Northbrook II

What If There Was Another Way to Run SAP Processes Faster With or Without SAP HANA

Organizations that run business critical processes on SAP are looking at HANA. Even though some say HANA will be the standard to run SAP processes in the future, its cost and disruption to the business can make it an impossible short term solution. What if there was another way to run SAP processes faster with or without HANA? To help you streamline your operations for the digital age we would like to invite you to join us at our SAP Automation Tech Briefing.You will learn how organizations are leveraging automation to make SAP processes run faster for a fraction of what HANA could cost you. Come listen, learn and get involved with peers from your area that are already optimizing SAP processes without disrupting the business. Dave Kellerman, Automic

User Experience (UX) Northbrook III

SucessFactors User Experience

What are the questions that SuccessFactors Users Ask? - Who are our users?, User Experience Goals, Struggles users face, Impacts to the user experience Natalie Pavelek, Manager Human Resources, The HollyFrontier Companies

Del Rae Grose, Practice Director, Talent Management, 3D Results, LLC

Business Analytics-BI Northbrook I

Maps for SAP BusinessObjects

Leverage your investment in SAP Business Objects by extending it further with business enabled maps. Galigeo Location Intelligence solutions allow you to add intuitive maps and advanced analytics to your SAP BO Dashboard, Design Studio, and Web Intelligence environment. Thomas Lejars, Location Intelligence SME, Galigeo

11:55 a.m. – 12:55 p.m.

Lunch & Networking Compliments of our Sponsors

Afternoon Breakout Session #1: 12:55 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Workforce 2020 Spring Glade

SAP Cloud HR Innovation Carl Eisenmann, Strategic Advisor of HCM, SuccessFactors

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Finance, BPC & GRC Fairview

SAP Planning Made Smarter - Build a Bridge to Financial Excellence We will demonstrate how multinational customers like Adidas, Thyssenkrupp, Bayer were able to build a bridge between their Financial Planning Excel world and SAP. Combining these two worlds allows the SAP user to take advantage of the flexibility of Excel and the business process integrity and security of SAP. Resulting in tremendous shortening in planning cycles, increased accuracy and flexibility to change and create what if scenarios. Adrian Rochofski, Manageing Directors, Kern Americas

Process, Testing & Data Goverance Sunnyslope

Automating Business Process Discovery for SAP Environments with Worksoft Analyze

In order to optimize your actual business processes, you first need to understand them! Learn how to discover, visualize, and document your critical business processes to enable deeper analysis and higher quality execution across your enterprise landscape Keith Wilson & Josh Kleen, Worksoft

User Experience (UX) Northbrook III

SAP UX with a new GuiXT for iOS, Android, Web, SAP GUI

The ability to provide functionality through an intuitive user experience is critical today in improving system usage, data quality, adoption of business processes and delivering efficiencies throughout ones company. Liquid UI delivers a fast return on your ERP investment, with dramatic increase in productivity (in some cases, more than 80% as indicated by customers such as Hillyard), drastic cuts in SAP training time (e.g. Marathon Oil brought input notification training down to 30 minutes), and eliminating 95% of errors as resulted by Canada Post. This is a “User Friendly” alternative to SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori apps that fills the whitespace in your SAP UX strategy with deployment on SAP R/3 or above with or without SAP HANA!

Thomas Ewe, CEO, Synactive Inc. Nikhil Keeppanasseril, Demo Solutions Engineer, Synactive Inc

HANA & Mobility Northbrook II

Build The Case for SAP HANA

Working with SAP HANA means projects can be completed in half the time and at significantly reduced costs. This presentation provides a guided approach to creating a business case to your company executives outlining why SAP HANA is a necessary investment. Dwayne Thomas, Senior BI Architect, Ciber

Business Analytics-BI Northbrook I

Financial Reporting starts with Data Quality; An insight in FICO data issues and reconciliation

Data quality issues in SAP are more common than you think. Data issues in FICO hide easily and result in inaccurate reporting in ECC and higher reporting tools. This presentation highlights what the areas of concern are for FICO data issues. Eric Brink, CEO, ERPmenu

1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Break & Networking

Afternoon Breakout Session #2: 2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

Workforce 2020 Spring Glade

Empowering Your Workforce Using a Hybrid Talent Management Solution Lawrence Ferguson, SAP HCM & SuccessFactors Practice Lead, PWC

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Finance, BPC & GRC Fairview

SAP Planning Made Smarter - Build a Bridge to Financial Excellence

EPM 10.1 SAP Strategy Management and Mobility with EPM Unwired

See how SAP Enterprise Performance Management solutions like Strategy Management and the new mobility features such as EPM Unwired can help your organization closing the gap between Strategy and Execution with real life examples including available Apps. Hector Guerra, Services Director, Cipher Business Solutions

Process, Testing & Data Goverance Sunnyslope

Glazer Distributers Success Story: Leverage Excel-based Reporting to Streamline your Migration to SAP

Hear how Glazer Distributers utilized Spreadsheet Server to enhance their migration from JD Edwards to SAP. Spreadsheet Server allows them to improve the SAP reporting experience by eliminating manual, error-prone static spreadsheets and leveraging live data within the familiar confines of the Microsoft® Excel application. See how SAP users can experience more efficient month-end reporting and reduce days to close, saving time on month-end financial reports, such as balance sheet, income statement, PNLreports and more. She will also explain how users can drill-down through any SAP module while limiting their reliance on SAP BW. Leah Stolman, Senior Budget/Financial Analyst, Global Software

Business Analytics-BI Northbrook III

BOBJ SDK Scheduling Tool at Hunt Oil

The BI Team at Hunt Consolidated Inc. is required to distribute a large number of pre-calculated reports at month end. Prior to migrating to Business Objects (BOBJ), this distribution was managed via BW Process Chains. Given that no known comparative tool in BOBJ replicates this functionality, the BOBJ-based SDK scheduling tool was developed. The scheduling tool is a web-based application that involves multiple web pages comprised of a login screen, a scheduler, a status tracker and a destination viewer which provides visibility into the email recipients of various publications. Srikanth Gullapatti, Financial Information Analyst, Hunt Oil

HANA & Mobility Northbrook II

Raising Your BI Game: The Next Generation SAP HANA and Cloud Solutions

Gain an understanding of how Birst can accelerate deployment of new data warehouses and marts in HANA, as well leverage existing data warehouses and marts in multi-vendor ecosystems; and hear how SAP customers are benefiting from the solution. Jeff Feinsmith, Director of Product Architecture, Birst

Business Analytics-BI Northbrook I

Enabling Real-Time Visibility and Analysis with SAP HANA® and SAP® Business Objects™

Today, the world moves at a blazing fast pace. If your company's analytics aren't, then you are missing out on opportunities for increased revenue, cost reductions, or other performance improvements. Attendees will hear how several enterprises are using SAP HANA as a transactional system and real-time data hub, with SAP BusinessObjects providing the analytical front-end to bring it all together. Presenters will touch on case studies and best practices from three different client implementations, as well as conduct a brief demo illustrating key concepts. Being able to tie together transactions, operational data, and financial planning in real-time is the new business imperative.

John Latvatalo, Senior Manager of SAP Practice, Hitachi Consulting John Lauer, Director Business Development of SAP Practice, Hitachi Consulting

2:50 p.m. – 3:05 p.m. Break

Afternoon Breakout Session #3: 3:05 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.

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Finance, BPC & GRC Fairview

Using SAP BPC for non-Financial Planning at Hallmark Cards Learn how Hallmark Cards is using SAP BPC for non-Financial planning scenarios in their field service operations. Understand how BPC can be used to generate complex planning scenarios based on multiple variable input factors. Learn about perfomance tuning considerations and best practices for delivering extensive script logic in real-world planning scenarios. David Bromlow, VP Solution Delivery, IT Services 2

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Create, manage and run data management workflow right from Excel!

You will see live demonstration of new and refreshingly smart technology to configure and run workflows in Excel. Innowera Easy Workflow is the world's easiest workflow system for SAP that is designed for quicker and richer user experience while significantly reducing cost and efforts in the implementation and utilization of workflow systems. Entire workflow system is accessible from Excel. Live demo shows how this technology works and experience firsthand how easy it is to build and manage workflow for your SAP master and transactional data using just Excel file.

Mickey Shah, Jeremy Buckmier- Innowera

HANA & Mobility Northbrook II

Business Suite of HANA. Your Migration Roadmap

Help organizations understand what best-practices should be considered when migrating to SAP HANA. Through lessons learned and customer success and case studies we will describe the roadmap organizations should follow. Understanding processes and business models and knowing what solutions and utilities can help support the initiative.

Roland Bahadoor, Managing Partner - Sigma Business Solutions

Business Analytics-BI Northbrook I

How Rush Enterprises Enhances its Services Business by Driving Corporate and Operational KPIs with Action Oriented Analytics on HANA Infrastructure

Hear how Rush Enterprises maximizes the value of service and operational data assets by standardizing performance metrics to drive profitability with real time analytics. Learn how BW on HANA and BOBJ enabled the EDW to combine SAP and non-SAP transactional data, master data and provide universal Executive Dashboards to detailed drill-down reports. Kyle Johnstone & Rajiv Vellore, Big Data & Analytics Directors, KPIT

3:55 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Closing Session – Comments, Surveys, and Prize Giveaways Allen Sulgrove, DFW Chapter Chair, Emergys Corp

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Networking Reception Compliments of our Sponsors

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