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Las Vegas • February 16 – 19, 2016

Basis & SAP Administration2016

The definitive conference for professionals who manage, deploy, and support SAP® solutions

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Monday, February 15

Pre-Conference WorkshopsSpecial three-hour Pre-Conference Workshops hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required.

Tuesday, February 16 – Friday, February 19

Main ConferenceTrack 1 Performance and landscape architecture

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Track 2 SAP Solution Manager Details on technical applications, the latest enhancements, and future directions

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Track 3 Security, high availability, and disaster recoveryVerified techniques to lock down and protect your SAP landscape

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Track 4 Cloud and virtualizationBest practices and use cases to prepare you to deploy SAP systems to cloud or virtualized environments

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Track 5 User experience and mobility Methods and skills for building interfaces that drive user adoption and better decision making

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Track 6 SAP HANA system administrationProven sizing, configuration, and monitoring approaches for your SAP HANA® system

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Track 7 Installations, upgrades, and migrationsCase studies, decision points, and real-world lessons for proper SAP implementations

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Pre-Conference Workshops Main Conference

Monday, February 15

8:00 am Registration

9:00 am Pre-Conference Workshops

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Pre-Conference Workshops

4:00 pm Pre-Conference Workshops Conclude

Tuesday, February 16


8:30 am General Session

10:00 am Refreshment Break

10:30 am Breakout Sessions

11:45 am Lunch

1:15 pm Breakout Sessions

2:30 pm Refreshment Break

3:00 pm General Assembly



5:45 pm Welcome Reception

6:00 pm Ask the Experts

6:45 pm Day 1 Concludes

Wednesday, February 17

7:45 am Speed Networking





11:45 am Lunch



2:30 pm Networking Sessions

2:50 pm Refereshment Break


4:15 pm Meet the Exhibitors

4:30 pm Ask-the-Experts



Thursday, February 18





11:45 am Lunch


2:15 pm Meet the Exhibitors





Friday, February 19







12:45 pm Conference Concludes

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E D U C A T I O N A L A N D N E T W O R K I N G O P P O R T U N I T I E S

Educational and Networking OpportunitiesPre-Conference WorkshopsSpecial Pre-Conference Workshops hosted the day before the event offer you the opportunity

to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required to ensure your spot.

4 Conferences – 1 LocationBasis & SAP Administration 2016 is co-located with BI 2016, HANA 2016, and IoT 2016. By

registering for one event, you can attend sessions at all four conferences at no additional cost.

Customer Case StudiesHear how leading companies tackle their projects and initiatives. Take away best

practices and methodologies taught by the companies that use them, and learn how to better utilize your existing technology and plan for the future. Hear how your peers have shortened project times, cut costs, evaluated key criteria, and ultimately achieved success on massive, high-stakes initiatives.

In-Depth Sessions Top experts from SAP, leading independent consulting firms, and your industry counterparts

present roadmaps, tips, tricks, best practices, and strategic recommendations that you can immediately put to use upon returning to the office.

The world’s foremost experts on SAP technologyHear directly from the best of the best. Speakers

at this conference are experienced practitioners, industry visionaries, and subject matter experts (SMEs) whom you can count on for reliable, accurate information. No sales pitches, just practical content to help you nail your next project, augment your skills, and advance your career.

Exhibitor Meet and Greets Compare and contrast market-leading solutions and see for yourself how SAP and third-party

technologies fit into your IT infrastructure.

Panel DiscussionsThese sessions are informal, interactive get-togethers where SAP customers can ask

panelists their most pressing questions. Each panel will be moderated by a subject-matter expert. You do not need to sign up in advance to attend, and there is no formal agenda. Just come with your list of questions in hand.

Ask the Experts Sit down with leading experts who manage, deploy, and support SAP environments to get

detailed answers to your toughest questions. Draw on the real-world experiences from some of the industry’s top technologists and tap into one-on-one time with experts and walk away with detailed answers to the questions that matter to you most.

Hands-On LabsRoll up your sleeves and get valuable hands-on experience with the latest technologies from

SAP. Experts will guide you through step-by step exercises to help you develop a comprehensive understanding of each solution’s functionality and arm you with skills you can use right away. Lab seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive early.

Evening ReceptionHave some fun after a day of intense learning, and attend the evening reception to relax, catch

up with your co-workers and colleagues, and build your professional network. Plus, market-leading solution providers will be on hand to answer your questions and walk you through prerequisites, decision points, trade-offs, and timelines for your ongoing initiatives and upcoming projects.

Speed NetworkingYou’ve heard of speed dating — now try speed networking! Participants will have 5

minutes to make their initial introductions and converse before moving on to meet another contact. An emcee will provide instructions and keep things moving. Forge new relationships and build a lasting network of peers you can call on for years to come.

CPE CreditsThis education program has been approved for 31 CPE credits. Advance your career and keep your certification current. Earn credits by attending sessions offered at Basis & SAP Administration 2016.

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P R E - C O N F E R E N C E W O R K S H O P S

Monday, February 15 Join us for Pre-Conference Workshops Special deep-dive sessions that enable you to:

• Explore new trends and strategies

• Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

By registering for Pre-Conference Workshops, you can:• Attend any sessions of interest to you

• Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated question-and-answer time

• Gain online access to the session slides and take-homes

• Participate in a networking lunch with other attendees

Morning Session, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Basis administration 101: Architecture, interfaces, monitoring, and more! Gabriel Mensching, NIMBL

Dive into the nuts and bolts of Basis administration and get tips to ensure your SAP landscape runs smoothly and efficiently. If you are new to Basis administration, this will provide the groundwork you need to succeed, and more experienced administrators will come away with new tips and techniques to add to their admin toolbox. Come away with a clear understanding of the standard architecture for small, medium, and large SAP landscapes, and how to:

• Ensure the right server equipment and infrastructure needed to support your SAP landscapes including physical, virtual, and cloud implementations

• Tune your SAP system to run smoothly and efficiently, taking into account how your SAP infrastructure can support or hinder business and configuration requirements

• Resolve issues with customer connections and SAP GUI and maintain SAP GUI in a complex environment

• Ensure needed daily, monthly, and quarterly monitoring to fully support your business needs

• Gather system performance metrics and customize operations reporting to ensure business requirements are met

• Understand the output of common transaction codes used by Basis

• Maximize your current system performance and maintenance, and implement best practices for the life of your SAP application

• Pinpoint performance measurements from the hardware, database, and application layers

• Troubleshoot common issues using the transport management system (TMS)

• Discover locks and performance issues within the database

• How to use DBA Cockpit to manage the database through SAP

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Morning Session, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

A practical guide to managing and maintaining a high-performing BI platform: What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2Adrian Westmoreland and Sathish Rajagopal, SAP

This detailed three-hour session delves into the many new options available to maintain and optimize your SAP BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform. Come away with a comprehensive understanding of new tools, features, and functionalities available and effective strategies to simplify system administration and management and reduce user support issues. Learn how to:

• Improve and streamline auditing, monitoring, multi-tenancy support, multilingual reporting, hot backup, and lifecycle management

• Navigate online resources to access solution information as well as SAP Active Global Support remote supportability tools

• Set BI launch pad preferences for user groups

• Build a patching strategy to keep your system up to date and understand how parallel patching helps reduce the overall patching time thus reducing the system downtime

• Correctly size your environment by using the BI 4 sizing estimator and the BI 4 sizing companion guide

• Determine the right security model for your landscape

• Validate and maximize the performance of your environment using performance testing tools


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Afternoon Sessions, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Kick-start your SAP Solution Manager 7.2 prep! What you can do today regardless of when you plan to adoptJohn Krakowski, SAP America

SAP recommends that you start preparing TODAY on SAP Solution Manager 7.1 even if you plan to adopt SAP Solution Manager 7.2 well after the end of ramp-up. Unique in the history of SAP tools and especially SAP Solution Manager, SAP is providing unprecedented preparation support, including best practices and analysis tools already accessible in SAP Solution Manager 7.1. Take a deep dive into the three accelerators you can utilize to prepare for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 on your SAP Solution Manager 7.1 system, including how to:

• Leverage best practices for solution documentation to document your solution on SAP Solution Manager 7.1 in order to avoid post-activation efforts on SAP Solution Manager 7.2

• Identify upfront which projects and solutions are vital and being actively used that you will want to activate during the content activation step of your upgrade

• Use the content selection tool to complete your selection for activation before the upgrade

• Test drive the activation process using the cloud test drive

• Upload your own project and go through a total test drive without any impact on your actively used SAP Solution Manager 7.1 system

Take home accelerator documentation and useful checklists to utilize in your SAP Solution Manager upgrade preparation.

Proven best practices for an SAP HANA implementation: A deep dive into how to plan, scope, budget, and execute a successful project Blake Duggan and Colin Hart, Method360

This comprehensive session provides a step-by-step strategy for a successful SAP HANA implementation. Take a detailed look at how to plan for the project, including staffing, scoping, milestone planning, and budgeting. Get tried and true guidelines for ensuring a successful execution, including data modeling options, extract transfer load (ETL) best practices, and connecting front-end SAP BusinessObjects tools. You will:

• Evaluate various deployment scenarios, and determine the best option based on your technical landscape

• Find out how to create a detailed SAP HANA hardware plan

• Budget your SAP HANA initiative appropriately based on the system size, user base, front-end initiatives, and support models

• Examine data modeling options in SAP HANA studio from relational to dimensional data models, the three different SAP HANA view options, and the pros and cons of each

• Explore options for loading data, including SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

• Learn the different connectivity options for SAP BusinessObjects front-end tools

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T R A C K O N E

Performance and landscape architectureStrategies and guidelines to ensure superior, scalable SAP ecosystems

Best practices for designing, developing, and testing to ensure optimum system scalability and performance William Adams, SAP SE

This session examines the most critical concepts, related to software performance, to keep in mind during the design, development, and testing phase. Attend to:

• Identify the most common pitfalls in development projects that lead to poor system performance, and get tips to avoid or overcome them

• Get system design best practices to ensure optimum scalability

• Discuss key performance differences between running applications in the cloud versus on-premise SAP landscapes

• Review testing tools and techniques, including when and how to leverage a single user test versus a volume test

Practical guidelines and techniques for sizing your SAP landscape for optimal performance and scalability William Adams, SAP SE

This session provides actionable advice to help you predict the hard-ware requirements needed to run your business workloads at optimal levels. By attending, you will learn how to:

• Calculate CPU consumption, perform user and workload analysis, and generate statistical records using SAP’s sizing tools

• Correctly size your SAP landscape using various methods, such as t-shirt sizing, formula sizing, user-based sizing, and throughput-based sizing

• Upgrade sizing and analyze the effects of additional database users, query optimizer behavior, and changes in hardware and software configuration

Take home a detailed list of special considerations, such as system scal-ability, and the role that SAP standard application benchmarks play in both the scalability and sizing of your systems.

guide to troubleshoot, identify, and resolve application performance problems with SAP Solution ManagerRobert Kelly, NIMBL

Take the guess work out of troubleshooting an application with step-by-step guidelines to use end-to-end (E2E) trace analysis in SAP Solution Manager. Learn how to run traces and analyze results to identify your bottlenecks, including how to:

• Set up and use the http plug-in and enable E2E trace analysis to perform traces

• Navigate the E2E trace analysis screens, and read and analyze the pie chart and addition graphs, as well as how to relay the information to your team

• View SAP Solution Manager trending reports and run SAP Solution Manager recommendations on your systems

Step through a live demo of SAP Solution Manager trace analysis and trending reports, and get system recommendations.

How to clean and maintain your SAP BW system for optimal performance Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT

Get practical tips to optimize SAP BW 7.3 and SAP BW 7.4 performance, including PSA optimization, compression, maintaining statistical cubes, controlling growth, reducing log file sizes, removing DTP temporary storage, DTP error logs, and temporary database objects. In this demo-heavy session, you will learn how to:

• Reduce the size of an SAP BW system by as much as 40% by taking steps such as removing PSAs, optimizing InfoCubes, cleaning temp tables, and by implementing the new LSA++ architecture

• Clean the table RSBATCHDATA, and reduce the footprints of IDocs and transactional RFC (tRFC) queues, aggregates, and cold data

• Create jobs for periodic system maintenance and size controls

Take home a 12-step cleanup manual with t-codes and step-by-step how-to instructions.

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SAP Solution ManagerDetails on technical applications, the latest enhancements, and future directions

SAP Solution Manager roadmap: What’s the strategic direction for 2016 and beyond?John Krakowski, SAP America

Attend this session for a comprehensive and updated look at SAP’s strategy and roadmap plans for SAP Solution Manager, and explore how it can be best leveraged to derive maximum value from your SAP invest-ments now and in the future. You will:

• Learn the strategic direction for SAP Solution Manager, with details on new and planned innovations, such as improved operations for SAP-centric hybrid solutions

• See version 7.2’s new solution documentation capabilities for designing and managing processes in a collaborative graphical environment

• Find out how simplified administration, configuration, monitoring, and change control functionality can be leveraged to maintain smooth operations for cloud solutions from SAP and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA

Bring greater value to your application lifecycle management philosophy by leveraging change request management in SAP Solution MangerVivek Banerjee, Enowa

Attend this session for a deep dive into the key features of change request management, quality gate management, change diagnostics, and the new central change and transport system (cCTS+) capabili-ties of SAP Solution Manager. In addition to gaining best practices for implementing change management functionality during an SAP Solution Manager implementation or during support, you will explore:

• Technical settings, key configuration points, and challenges faced by organizations during the implementation process

• Functionality of the portfolio and project management suite within SAP Solution Manager and its integration with change request management (PPM-ChaRM Integration)

• The relevance of cCTS+ within the change request management philosophy

• How the change request management functionality is well integrated within the Application Lifecycle Management Framework with Support Package 14

Hands-on lab

A beginner’s guide to documenting business processes in SAP Solution Manager 7.2Steve Christian, NIMBL

Are you excited about SAP Solution Manager 7.2? Although still a few months away from the general availability release, attend this session to get your hands on SAP Solution Manager 7.2 within a lab environment. Dive into the new Business Process Library and learn how to docu-ment business processes in the future SAP Solution Manager release. Attendees will learn:

• How to prepare for SAP Solution Manager 7.2

• An understanding of the new Business Process Library

• How to document a business process leveraging the new tools

• How SAP Solution Manager 7.2 builds upon SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Lab seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Case study

How CSIRO turned SAP Solution Manager from under-utilized to critical in 5 weeks Craig Nicholls, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Hear how Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) undertook an ambitious five-week project to make SAP Solution Manager a central component in the maintenance and support of its SAP platform. Get practical lessons, including how the company:

• Formulated the idea, engaged the right people with the right skills, delivered real cost savings, and provided innovative solutions to issues they previously didn’t know existed

• Set up proactive system monitoring that identifies problems before end users have had an opportunity to do so

• Leverages business process change analyzer and scope and effort analyzer to build the business case for upgrades and ensure that all developments are implemented to the highest quality standards

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Leverage SAP Solution Manager 7.1 for an enhanced testing experienceVivek Banerjee, Enowa

In this session, we will take a look at the philosophy behind test management with SAP Solution Manager Support Package 14 (released in late 2015), demonstrate the options for manual and automated testing, get best practices for selecting a testing tool, and identify areas of potential concern to watch for. Attend to learn:

• Testing options provided with SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP14 under automated and manual testing

• Best practices for selecting a test tool, including selection strategy and common questions to ask

• Tips for integrating SAP Solution Manager with various suites and tools, and what options fit best for different environments and support levels

• Options for accelerated testing with SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization

• How to improve regression testing with the business process change analyzer in SP14 and SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Feature Pack 2 (Support Pack 10)

Customize the technical monitoring functionality in SAP Solution Manager 7.1Jereme Swoboda, NIMBL

Take a deep dive into the technical monitoring functionality in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 and get guidelines to customize it to meet your organization’s unique requirements. By attending, you will learn:

• The difference between alerts and metrics and when it makes sense to use each, as well as tips to identify and dispose of useless monitors to prevent alert flooding

• Key integration points between SAP Solution Manager 7.1 and your computing center management systems (CCMS), and how and when to pull monitors from CCMS into SAP Solution Manager 7.1

• Lessons to monitor emails and faxes, and when and how to increase metric thresholds

Take home a step-by-step configuration guide for integrating generic request and message generator (GRMG) with CCMS for external web site monitoring.

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 application operations overview: New and planned developments John Krakowski, SAP America

Get detailed information on the latest developments for the next SAP Solution Manager 7.2 release in the areas of SAPUI5-based user inter-faces, integration monitoring, exception management, and dashboard capabilities. Dive into new features and functions, such as:

• New support options to ensure effective monitoring and smooth operations of hybrid cloud scenarios

• Integration of SAP HANA monitoring alerts into a central alert inbox

• Usage of predefined guided procedures for root-cause analysis and problem solving

A guide to troubleshoot, identify, and resolve application performance problems with SAP Solution ManagerRobert Kelly, NIMBL

Take the guess work out of troubleshooting an application with step-by-step guidelines to use end-to-end (E2E) trace analysis in SAP Solution Manager. Learn how to run traces and analyze results to identify your bottlenecks, including how to:

• Set up and use the http plug-in and enable E2E trace analysis to perform traces

• Navigate the E2E trace analysis screens, and read and analyze the pie chart and addition graphs, as well as how to relay the information to your team

• View SAP Solution Manager trending reports and run SAP Solution Manager recommendations on your systems

Step through a live demo of SAP Solution Manager trace analysis and trending reports, and get system recommendations.

Hands-on lab

Utilizing SAP Solution Manager to narrowly define your test scope for the next enhancement package projectGabriel Mensching and Steve Christian, NIMBL

This 3-hour, hands-on lab focuses on the required steps to access work centers, define a project to begin documenting business processes, reverse document an ERP system, create a technical bill of materials, and access the business process change analyzer. In a controlled lab environment, you will begin to understand the effort required and the value SAP Solution Manager brings. You will:

• See a live demo of scope and effort analyzer to help identify the impact on custom code during enhancement projects

• Reverse document an ERP system

• Measure the impact of an upgrade

• Build a test plan based on results

• Execute a test script using SAP Solution Manager

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T R A C K T H R E E

Security, high availability, and disaster recoveryVerified techniques to lock down and protect your SAP landscape

Case study

How Microsoft manages its SAP infrastructure with minimal downtime Sachin Ghorpade, Microsoft

Get real-world insight from Microsoft on key architectural and configura-tion enhancements it utilizes in its SAP landscape to increase business productivity by reducing the SAP system’s downtime. Come away with a toolkit of proven strategies and useful tips taken from experiences at Microsoft, including how it:

• Utilizes a rolling maintenance strategy that reduces downtime associated with system maintenance activities like security patches and service pack upgrades

• Built and maintains a solid high-availability plan, and effectively protects each single point of failure

• Reduced hardware cost for SAP disaster recovery setup and maintains a simplified disaster recovery plan

SAP system security: Proven techniques and strategies for the Basis administrator’s toolkitDeb Donhoe, Enowa

Though network engineers and system administrators are traditionally tasked with IT security-related responsibilities, the complexity of SAP ecosystems requires the specific skillset of an educated Basis admin or expert to effectively identify and secure gaps that may be unique to the SAP platform. This session offers expert advice on how to:

• Protect your IT infrastructure in the SAP application, database, operating system (O/S), and network layers using “Basis layer hardening”

• Mitigate and remediate malicious intrusions

• Establish Basis layer security as a mindset, a priority, and a part of the ongoing SAP technical maintenance lifecycle

Practical guidelines on how to build a solid high-availability and disaster recovery plan Avinash Keswani, Deloitte

Gain a step-by-step process for building a high-availability and disaster recovery plan for your SAP landscape, from defining scope to docu-menting detailed procedures for system restoration to operations during recovery and the resumption of normal operations. Learn how to:

• Define team roles and responsibilities and get key stakeholders involved

• Effectively test your strategy and keep it up to date over time

• Understand service-level agreements, key performance indicators, and strategies for integrating high-availability and disaster recovery into SAP upgrades

Take home a comprehensive plan to implement disaster recovery with testing procedures in your organization.

All-around security: Leveraging SAP’s identity and access management portfolio for an end-to-end solutionFedya Toslev, SAP SE

Get an introduction to SAP’s comprehensive identity and access management portfolio that covers both SAP and non-SAP systems in your IT landscape. Take a detailed look at on-premise identity manage-ment and single sign-on, as well as integrated solutions for cloud and cross-company environments. Learn how SAP Identity Management, SAP Single Sign-On, SAP Cloud Identity, and SAP Access Control can be leveraged to:

• Manage identities in heterogeneous system landscapes with just one solution – both on premise and in the cloud

• Ensure compliance with internal policies and legal regulations

• Align your single sign-on approach to cover your entire organization and extend to the cloud

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Case study

How Microsoft builds, manages, maintains, and executes SAP disaster recovery activities Sachin Ghorpade, Microsoft

Attend this session to learn Microsoft’s tried-and-true methods for preparing SAP systems for disaster, including:

• How the annual disaster recovery exercise is executed with minimal downtime and no disruption to its businesses

• Tools and techniques used to simplify disaster recovery and maintain a hot standby disaster recovery site all year long

• Configurations and user connectivity utilized to enable a quick failover and failback exercise and ensure transparency to interfaces and end users

Take home a detailed checklist of activities required to perform a system health check, and an Excel template to assist your disaster recovery prepa-ration, failover, and failback steps.

Safeguard your business-critical data with SAP Enterprise Threat Detection and SAP HANA Fedya Toslev, SAP SE

Identify attacks as they are happening, and analyze threats quickly enough to neutralize them before serious damage can occur with SAP Enterprise Threat. See how organizations use the combined capabilities of SAP HANA and SAP Enterprise Threat Detection to:

• Identify and prevent cyber attacks in real time

• Manage exposure to internal and external threats

• Leverage your log data to monitor your system landscape

• Scan for attack patterns, identify security lapses in your landscape, and strengthen your overall security infrastructure

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Cloud and virtualizationBest practices and use cases to prepare you to deploy SAP systems to cloud or virtualized environments

T R A C K F O U R

Best practices for migrating your SAP systems to virtualized environmentsKurt Hollis, Deloitte

The session offers an overview of which SAP systems and databases are supported in a virtualized environment, and outlines key factors and limitations to consider when virtualizing SAP applications. Come away with a comprehensive understanding of:

• The tools that exist to help perform the migration and to administer and monitor the virtualized systems

• Key considerations for reserving memory and CPUs and setup tips to optimize performance of SAP systems on a virtualized environment

• How to analyze performance using VM tools and SAP Transactions

How to manage and operate your SAP systems with SAP Landscape Virtualization Management: Current capabilities and roadmap detailsJens Rolke, SAP Labs

Learn how to effectively manage and run your SAP systems and land-scapes running on physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures with SAP Landscape Virtualization Management. Attend this session to:

• Get an overview of SAP Landscape Virtualization Management features and the current product roadmap

• Step through a live demo to see how the tool manages, monitors, and visualizes SAP systems and landscapes, and how you can automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks like copy/refresh of your SAP systems

• Explore options for integrating your existing solutions into SAP Landscape Virtualization Management

Migrating to an SAP hybrid cloud environment: Lessons from 3 use cases Michael Ryan, IBM

Explore the hybrid cloud journey and transformation of three compa-nies running SAP, whose experiences include migration of SAP and non-SAP applications from on-premise to cloud, SaaS implementation and integration, improving the user experience through mobility and BYOD, and localization of the SAP global template by use of hybrid cloud. Drawing on real-world insight, you will:

• Explore options for moving to an SAP hybrid cloud environment, and key considerations for selecting the right scenario for your specific requirements

• Understand how SaaS solutions integrate with your SAP environment

• Get SAP hybrid cloud best practices based on three specific use cases: A global professional services company, a global consumer packaged goods company, and a chemical manufacturing company divestiture

• Identify value proposition and cost savings recognized by moving to the cloud

Take home a checklist of TCO standard factors to compare current costs to cloud costs.

Cloudy with a chance of analytics: Explore cloud capabilities and deployment architecturesEric Vallo, EV Technologies

Recent innovations and new security certifications make the cloud an attractive environment to foster SAP analytics solutions. If you, like many, are looking for solid information on cloud capabilities, chal-lenges, and potential, attend this session to:

• Tackle conceptions that the cloud presents unnecessary risk

• Gain a better understanding of cloud-based technologies as they relate to your SAP landscape

• Understand how cloud capabilities can be leveraged to create scalable landscapes and reduce the TCO of your landscapes

• Examine architectures that will integrate seamlessly with on-premise solutions

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T R A C K F I V E

User experience and mobility Methods and skills for building interfaces that drive user adoption and better decision making

A guide to SAP’s top 5 Web UX technologies and when to use themSarah Lottman, SAP

This comprehensive session examines the top five technologies SAP offers for UX development. It candidly lays out the strengths and limita-tions of each tool and provides criteria to help choose which tool(s) best fit your needs. Attend this session and learn:

• If and when SAP Fiori® should be used for complex transactions and how SAP S/4HANA changes SAP UI decisions

• When to use SAPUI5 versus Web Dynpro for ABAP, and SAP Screen Personas 3.0

• Important differences between SAP Fiori and SAP Screen Personas, as illustrated in a live demo

• How to incorporate UX design tools into any SAP project and why this is critical for user acceptance and adoption

How does SAP Fiori fit into my landscape? A guide to components, dependencies, and requirementsGavin Quinn, Mindset

This session provides a detailed examination of the SAP Fiori architec-ture, including SAP Fiori components, landscape dependencies and requirements, and deployment options. Walk through a typical SAP Fiori landscape, and learn how SAP Gateway OData and RESTful proto-cols simplify the consumption of SAP information on different devices. Examine:

• The way SAP Fiori components, including its SAPUI5-based interface, SAP Fiori launchpad, and web services interact with SAP Business Suite, SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Gateway, SAP HANA, and the end user’s desktop or mobile browser

• Pros and cons of different options for deploying SAP Fiori in SAP Gateway, including hub deployment and embedded deployment, as well as SAP HANA Cloud platform deployment

• Criteria to determine which web proxy, such as SAP web dispatcher, will be most effective in load balancing, performance, and security

Going mobile? 7 essential considerations for Basis/IT admins to take into account Raza Rizvi, Deloitte

This comprehensive session outlines 7 key elements needed to deploy and maintain a successful, secure, mobile architecture and strategy that delivers business-critical information when and where it is needed most. Gain actionable advice, including how to:

• Avoid pitfalls and surprises during implementation by keeping your IT infrastructure team in sync when planning the internet-based mobile deployment

• Account for online and offline apps, including use cases for SAP Fiori extension to enable offline data

• Size the SAP Mobile Platform server for high availability and the SAP Gateway server for mobile enablement, and when to use SAP Mobile Platform Integration Gateway versus SAP Gateway server

• Consolidate your existing mobile landscape into a single SAP Mobile Platform server for better application management and reduction of the server footprint

Utilizing SAPUI5 to rapidly deploy custom applications on the SAP HANA platform Tony Guetersloh, TruQua Enterprises

This session arms you with a best practice approach for deploying custom apps using the SAPUI5 toolset. By attending you will:

• Develop a deeper understanding of the SAPUI5 development tools including Eclipse, SAP Web IDE and App Builder

• Gain a better understanding for how the tools facilitate the fast development of highly interactive, consumer-level applications based on the HTML5 standard

• Learn which visualization and display tools are available using SAPUI5

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Hands-on lab

Creating SAP Fiori applications with SAP Web IDEAttend this session to get hands-on experience building a custom SAP Fiori application using SAP Web IDE (integrated development environ-ment). Take a deep dive into the configuration and functionality of the integrated development environment and get step-by-step instruction for development, including:

• Examination of the integrated development environment layout and how to configure it to connect to the SAP HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP instances

• How to create a new SAP Fiori project, use standard SAP-delivered templates, and create a new custom application

• Tips and techniques for running, testing, and debugging your SAP Fiori application

Take home a user guide on configuring the SAP Fiori application using SAP Web IDE and connecting it to the SAP HANA Cloud.

Lab seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Hands-on lab

A step-by-step guide to build and deploy a simple SAP Screen Personas for ERPIn this session, attendees will learn how to leverage SAP Screen Personas within SAP ERP enhancement package 7 (on any database) to enhance the look and feel of a transaction within SAP ERP. The session will kick off with a discussion of SAP Screen Personas capa-bilities, use cases, and limitations. Attendees will then login to an SAP ERP enhancement package 7 system to create their own SAP Screen Personas flavor for a business transaction. Attendees will:

• Learn how to setup your workstation for SAP Screen Personas development and develop an SAP Screen Personas flavor for an ERP transaction

• Understand when to use SAP Screen Personas vs. SAP Fiori

• See how a screen flow can be modified for a simplified user experience

Take home a step-by-step guide you can use at your office. Lab seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Customize your business applications with SAP BusinessObjects BI SDKs: There are more options than you might think! Henry Kam, SAP

Get a comprehensive overview of SDKs available to developers within SAP BusinessObjects BI, understand when and why you may want to use them, and how to get started. Learn the full range of capabilities available, including how the:

• SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and semantic layer SDK can be leveraged to create, modify, and extend content

• BI platform SDK provides capabilities such as authentication, user administration, and report scheduling and publishing

• Mobile SDK enables you to extend the SAP BI suite to any device anywhere

• SAP BusinessObjects Lumira SDK offers visual extensions to customize interfaces for unique business uses

Review the SAP BusinessObjects SDK roadmap and gain insight into new SDK capabilities coming soon.

Hands-on lab

Design thinking — A new paradigm for traditional SAP developersAndy Prier, NIMBL

This workshop teaches enterprise software teams a UX design approach derived from a proven product design and development methodology. Through lecture, discussion, and interactive group work, you will learn how to put into practice the 6 steps of the design thinking method as used by SAP — understand, observe, derive insights, ideate, prototype, and test — and how to:

• Create user personas for which you will define solution requirements

• Brainstorm solutions while separating needs versus wants, required functionality vs. nice-to-have add-ons

• Prototype the app, identifying potential process, technical problems, and points of failure before you code

• Create low-fidelity mock-ups in Microsoft Excel and high-fidelity mock-ups using stencils, or templates, in SAP Fiori — and know when in the process to use each one

Take home templates and process diagrams to create user personas within your own company. Lab seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

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SAP HANA system administrationProven sizing, configuration, and monitoring approaches for your SAP HANA system

Sizing SAP S/4HANA using the Quick Sizer tool for SAP HANA William Adams, SAP SE

Explore different methodologies that can be utilized for SAP S/4HANA sizing, including an SAP S/4HANA greenfield sizing approach, as well as a sizing approach for the migration to SAP HANA as a database. Attend to:

• Understand the important concepts and fundamentals of sizing an SAP solution, from the beginning of an implementation to addressing the deltas in hardware requirements

• Get an introduction to the SAP S/4HANA sizing KPIs

• Explore the most up-to-date features and functionality of Quick Sizer, SAP’s online sizing tool

• Step through a live demo to see Quick Sizer in action

The admin’s guide to operations, security, and monitoring of SAP HANAKurt Hollis, Deloitte

Based on the experience of running several SAP HANA systems, this session provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instruction for oper-ation and administration of SAP HANA post go-live. Through live demo and detailed instruction, you will learn:

• How to use the SAP HANA studio for security, adding users, assigning permissions, administering high availability, maintenance, and performance optimization

• Best practices for high availability, backup, and recovery of the SAP HANA system

• Techniques for monitoring SAP HANA memory, using the DBA cockpit, and connecting to SAP Solution Manager

• How to troubleshoot using the logs, diagnostics, and traces

Take home a concise checklist of undocumented tips for system admin-istration and operation and a troubleshooting guide of common prob-lems and their solutions.

Configuration and deployment considerations for cost-optimizing SAP HANA infrastructureReddy Venumbaka, SAP

Learn how to lower your total cost of ownership and maximize perfor-mance and efficiency of your SAP HANA infrastructure and resource investments, including:

• Proper sizing of your SAP HANA workloads

• Appropriate deployment model for your data center infrastructure strategy

• Cost-optimizing your infrastructure for non-production usage

• Considerations for your high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) configuration

System landscape requirements and essential considerations to prepare your SAP landscape for SAP S/4HANALon Blake, Yash Technologies

Take a critical look at the wide range of technical landscape consider-ations you will want to take into account when you evaluate or imple-ment SAP S/4HANA. Come away with a solid understanding of:

• Virtualization options; memory, CPU, and disc requirements; as well as requirements for Unicode and new GL migrations

• SAP’s 5-system landscape requirement and how this approach reduces downtime and provides a complete productive support landscape during the course of the upgrade

• How to determine if you need to perform either a Unicode or new GL migration prior to implementing SAP S/4HANA

• Key questions to ask your vendors so that you know whether or not third-party applications need to be upgraded

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Expert’s guide to optimizing the performance of an SAP HANA systemKurt Hollis, Deloitte

Gain an understanding of key points about the SAP HANA platform that can affect performance, important system management and monitoring techniques, and tips for early detection of performance problems using alerts and steps for resolving them, including:

• How to analyze impacts of high memory and CPU usage, detect problems, correct issues, and continuously monitor key performance indicators

• Important system considerations that impact performance, such as host resources and size of data structures

• Proven techniques to set up and configure SAP HANA for optimal performance

• Tools and methods available in SAP HANA studio to effectively pinpoint and resolve performance issues

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Installations, upgrades, and migrationsCase studies, decision points, and real-world lessons for proper SAP implementations

SAP Lumira integration with the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform: What BI administrators need to knowDallas Marks, EV Technologies

SAP Lumira is now a full citizen of the SAP BI platform and no longer requires SAP HANA. Learn how to plan, size, and configure your existing landscape for the addition of the SAP Lumira for BI4 add-on and its in-memory database engine (formerly known as the Velocity engine), and how it compliments your existing SAP BI tools. You will:

• Discover features of the new SAP Lumira in-memory database engine that enable integration with the SAP BI Suite

• Learn how to size the SAP Lumira in-memory database engine for your environment

• Understand hardware requirements, technical prerequisites, and CPU and memory resources necessary

• Explore a step-by-step process for installing and configuring the SAP Lumira add-on for optimal performance and trusted data discovery

Leveraging SAP Test Data Migration Server for efficient test and development environmentsGabriel Mensching, NIMBL

This session will give you best practices for implementing SAP Test Data Migration Server (SAP TDMS) and utilizing the tool to reduce data-base size and build lean test environments. By attending, you will learn:

• The benefits of using SAP TDMS to build your test environment, such as the ability to reduce the footprint on your infrastructure and to scramble sensitive data

• SAP TDMS landscape recommendations and sizing guidelines for faster transfer rates

• Tips for a successful time-based reduction, such as patching your SAP TDMS components to the highest service pack level and implementing all known notes for that service pack level

Take home how-to guidelines for scrambling sensitive data that should not be revealed to testers.

Architectural design decisions and nuances: Considerations for every SAP BW on SAP HANA implementation Anil Chintaparthi, Accenture

Teams working on an SAP BW on SAP HANA implementation are chal-lenged to make sound design decisions across a variety of architectural topics that directly impact project success and system performance post go-live. This session — a must attend for anyone involved in an SAP BW on SAP HANA project — provides guidelines for your decision making, including:

• How to determine SAP HANA Live vs. SAP BW standard content

• Key considerations for determining whether to move to universes or sustain on BEx

• Hierarchy nuances to consider when transitioning to SAP BW on SAP HANA

Take home a checklist of key considerations to keep in mind when preparing for your SAP BW on SAP HANA project.

Test for success! — A deep dive into effective SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 test strategiesAlan Mayer, Solid Ground Technologies

Your success in migrating to the newest version of any software is directly related to the amount of testing done beforehand. Using real-world case studies to evaluate the effectiveness of various methods, you will:

• Get techniques for testing against your content according to your terms of acceptance

• Learn the individual tests that can be applied, the effectiveness of each, and how to determine the final set of tests that work best for your circumstances

• Craft your own final testing plan using selected strategies discussed during this presentation

Take home examples and workbook models covered during the presen-tation for further testing.

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Case study

Upgrading to SAP ECC enhancement package 7 without breaking stride — Strategic and technical lessons from CSIRO’s recent projectCraig Nicholls, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Hear how Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) successfully upgraded its SAP ECC system to SAP enhancement package 7 while still delivering its busy work agenda to support the major strategic reform program that the organization was undertaking. Get practical lessons, including how the company:

• Developed the business case for the upgrade, leveraging SAP Solution Manager’s scope and effort analyzer to identify the impacts and effort required by development teams

• Invested upfront in planning the upgrade, including research and development of a strategy to continue to support a transport path for new developments, and to minimize disruption to the business and development teams

• Performed a Unicode Conversion of its SAP ECC system to prepare for the upgrade

• Leverages new ESS/MSS (employee self-service/manager self-service) functionality to improve delivery of services to end users


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