NEWS LETTER AUSIA – Newsletter – Q1 2015

Welcome to this new AUSIA Newsletter, our communication to SUGEN and SAP User Groups members of AUSIA around the world, designed to keep you informed about the progress of AUSIA´s activities in each quarter.

AUSIA Relationship with SUGEN

New SUGEN Growth Model.

SUGEN has decided to strengthen its strategic role as a global network by supporting its growth

with emphasis on engagement and commitment. The growth will be translated to inviting new user

groups to the network supported by a process to stimulate engagement and commitment. The

process of engagement has been formulated by a Committee composed by 2 CLT Members

(Grahame Reynolds SAUG, David Ruiz AUSAPE ) and 3 UG Members volunteers ( SBN, SAPSA, ASUG

Argentina). It already counts with the approval of the 16 members.

At this point, SUGEN will start a process of regular yearly meetings with SAP in order to identify

different User Groups, regardless of their size or maturity level.

The idea is to boost flexibility and decrease quantification.

Attendance to the F2F SUGEN Meetings is not compulsory, but highly recommended.

SUGEN User Groups are encouraged to provide information to the SUGEN Growth Committee (SGC)

about other SAP communities that may be candidates to join SUGEN.

AUSIA Projects Status:

Benchmarking Project:

Ö Partner Annual Survey - Project on phase III o Status can be checked in the following link from AUSIA JAM:

https://jam4.sapjam.com/groups/4gqJFCDi97zDwuIXSE5YCS/documents/lBCVpntuqA7psvi7MGJDeh/slide_viewer?_lightbox=true

Ö Customer Annual Survey – ASUG Ecuador. o The survey has already been conducted among the members of the AUSIA User Groups. Results are

being analyzed.

AUSIA meetings and decisions:

AUSIA F2F Meeting – Miami, USA

AUSIA has organized a face to face meeting on the 4th of May in the SAP office in Miami The agenda will be as follows: 08:15 Welcome. 08:30 Positioning Strategy. 09:30 Coffee break. 10:00 Benchmarking Project: Closing of Phase II – Conclusions of the Customer Survey. 11:00 SAP Presentation (TBC). 12:00 Lunch. 13:00 Benchmarking Project Phase III: Localizations adaptation. 13:30 Benchmarking Project Phase III: Partner Survey – Next Steps. 14:30 Coffee break. 15:00 Interest Groups: Kick-off, development and alignment. 15:30 Activity review: LinkedIn Group– Newsletter. 16:00 SAP Presentation by Ricardo Poli. 16:45 Closure.

AUSIA Interest Groups Social Media & E-Commerce

AUSIA has created an Interest Group to address topics related to Social Media and E-Commerce. The agenda of meetings for 2015 is as follows: April: E-Commerce Omnichannel. Hybris. June: Social Media Business. August: Networked Economy. Ariba. September: Social Media Marketing. October: Social Media & E-Commerce. Success business stories.

AUSIA Social Activity AUSIA LinkedIn Group

The 10th September 2014, AUSIA created the AUSIA Group in LinkedIn. It has nearly 200 members (46% from Argentina, 18% from Spain, 7% from Colombia, 6% from Ecuador, and 3% from Chile). The goal is to share valuable information and promote the exchange of experiences and best practices among the members of the AUSIA User Groups. The network will be managed by the User Groups themselves.

AUSIA invites the SAP users to join the Group by searching “ausia” in the section “Groups”

AUSIA member activities: Changes in the Executive Boards of ASUG Brasil and GUSP Portugal.

ASUG Brasil informed about its new Executive Board for the three-year period 2015/2017, which is integrated by:

CEO – Cláudio Antônio Fontes (SolarBR)

Deputy CEO – Ricardo Gomes de Castro (Camargo Corrêa)

Administration Officer – João Donizeti Santos (Votorantim)

Finance Director – Wellington José Brigante (Libra)

Events Director – Ney Santos (BRF)

Communications Officer – Lorival Verillo (Klabin)

International Relations Officer – Josilda Helena de Souza (Vale)

Education Officer – Marcio Antonio Cardoso da Silva (Solvay)

With regard to their Board of Directors, it will count with the cooperation of:

Álvaro Martins (Petrobrás)

Fernando Birman (Solvay)

José Geraldo Antunes (Klabin)

GUSP Portugal has also announced changes in its Board.

The new Chair is Luis Ferreira (B2B).

João Pimenta (Sonae Industria) joins as the GUSP representantive for AUSIA.

The former president, Fernando Gonçalves, will continue to be part of the Board of Directors.

The Chairs of the AUSIA User Groups, interviewed

During 2014, AUSAPE has interviewed the Chairs of the User Groups that are part of AUSIA. The purpose was to strengthen relationships between the different User Groups, and to publicize the activities undertaken by each one of them. The interviews have been released both in Spanish and English, and can be downloaded in the following links:

R34 - ASUG (Colombia) - Luis Jorge Salgado Farias

R33 - ASUG (Chile) - Laura Grimau Pedro Doren Villaseca

R32 - ASUG (Venezuela) - Mariam Alireza R31 - GUSP (Portugal) - Fernando Gonçalves R30 - ASUG (Argentina) - Mónica Alejandra Melito R29 - ASUG (Brazil) - Sandra Marlene Heck

The Chairs of the SUGEN User Groups have also been interviewed: R35 - SBN NORGE (Norway) - Stein-Ove Røv R34 - SUG MENA (Middle East & North Africa) - Majed Almutairi R33 - CSUA (China) - Tianhong Ellen Wang R32 - SAUG (Australia) - Alan Hesketh R31 - USF (France) - Claude Molly-Mitton R30 - SUG (UK & Ireland) - Philip Adams R29 - VNSG (Holland) - Astrid Zwiers

Interviewswith the SAP liaisons for SUGEN (Marion Schnider) and AUSIA (Celina Fernandes).

AUSAPE has also interviewed Marion Schneider, the SAP liaison for several SUGEN User Groups such as VNSG (Netherlands), UKISUG (UK & Ireland), USF (France) and AUSAPE (Spain). The complete article (available in English and Spanish) cwill be published in the AUSAPE Magazine number 36 (March 2015). An important milestone would also be the interview with Celina Fernandes (SAP GUGO liaison for AUSIA), who will talk about the convenience of organising F2F meetings, the advantages of sharing a common language (Spanish), the role of Social Media and the challenges that AUSIA will have to face in the following years.

ASUG Argentina new corporate identity.

ASUG Argentina has released a new logo and website, which aligns with its new corporate identity. www.asug.org.ar