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ASUG Minnesota Chapter Meeting

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Minneapolis Marriott West 9960 Wayzata Boulevard St. Louis Park, MN 55426

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8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration, Continental Breakfast Compliments of our Sponsors

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Waterford

Welcome Address Kathy Anderson, Chapter Chair Ronald McDonald House TBD Keynote: Everything Starts & Stops with Motivation Doug Dvorak, CEO DMG International, Dvorak Marketing Group

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break Compliments of our Sponsors

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. Breakout Session #1:

Waterford I Canadian Pacific HANA Journey Dean Stoffel, Director Program Management CAS, SAP Technical Services at Canadian Pacific

Waterford II Predictive…The NEXT Frontier. To Boldly Know What You Didn’t Know Before George Seth, Solution Advisor, CATCH Intelligence Jared Ellwein, Chief Technology Officer, CATCH Intelligence

Waterford III Maintaining Continuity of Your HCM Reporting as You Move to The Cloud Mary Graybeal, HCM Service Director, and Ed Goeters, HCM Solution Specialist, EPI-USE Labs

Galway A Fiori In The Cloud: The Next Wave Gavin P. Quinn, Mindset Consulting

Galway B Better Quality with Less Effort - How Do We Test SAP Better for Less? Tony Auriene, CEO, Elucidation Sponsored by IntelliCorp

Galway C Open Session TBD, TBD

Donegal Next Generation Interactive Executive Dashboards Using SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Gopal Krishnamurthy, CEO and Founder, Visual BI Solutions

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11:45 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch & Breakout Groups Compliments of our Sponsors

Waterford II Business Intelligence

Waterford III Data Governance/MDM Keri Berger, Medtronic

Longford GRC Process Controls Brian Martenson, Target

Galway C HR/Payroll Liz Poland, RBD

Galway A Org. Change Management/Doc & Training

Library Product Lifecycle Management Jim Keefe

Donegal SAP Financials Luke Rudnick, Project Consulting Group

Cashel Security Fred Sirota, CHS

Galway B SuccessFactors Mary Poppen, SAP

Waterford I Supply Chain Management David Swierenga, Medtronic

Afternoon Sessions

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Breakout Session #2:

Waterford I System Landscape Requirements and Essential Considerations to Prepare your SAP Landscape for SAP S/4HANA Lon Blake, Program Manager – SAP Technical Services, YASH Technologies

Waterford II Self-Service BI Strategy and Execution

Ina Felsheim, SAP

Waterford III Best Practices to Secure S/4HANA Amit Saha, Saviynt

Galway A A Project Manager’s Guide to Managing an SAP Fiori Project Jon Bragg, UX/UI Project Lead, NIMBL

Galway B SAP Change Management with Agile Methods: SAP HANA Reporting Case Study Clark Travis and Tom Kohlbry, Target

Galway C The Power of Three Yana Rosenfield, Sr. Solution Consultant, OpenText Nicholas Mauldin, Ecosystem Program Manager, OpenText

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Donegal Deliver a Stronger BI Experience with SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 Chris Bethune, Solution Architect, Itelligence

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Afternoon Break Compliments of our Sponsors

2:15 p.m. –3:15 p.m. Breakout Session #3:

Waterford I Empower Your Business Planning Process in SAP

Adrian Rochofski, Kern

Waterford II Case Study: How to Successfully Replace your BW Content with HANA Enterprise Content Dave Willett, Cori Simon, Brad Simon, and Nate Crawford, Phoenix Endeavors

Waterford III Using Real-Time Financial and Operational Analytics at Blue Buffalo Jeremy Stierwalt, Director, Protiviti

Galway A Validation of Your SAP Fiori Business Processes Ty Henson, Solution Architect, Worksoft

Galway B Implementing Change in Accounts Payable

Joe Hanousek, Engagement Manager, Esker Sean Kinsey, Director of PMO + Client Solutions, Esker Ben Braun, Director of Services for the Americas, Esker Janet Hermann, US Controller, Zinpro David Rynders, International Controller, Zinpro

Galway C Class Act: Minneapolis Public Schools Leverages Excel for Real-time SAP Reporting & Analysis Forest Rodd, Senior SAP Territory Manager, Excel4apps Tariro Chapinduka, Director of Finance Systems, Minneapolis Public Schools

Donegal Center of Expertise – Creating Value for SAP Solutions Sue Moulder, Diane Dixon, and Ginny Richardson, Cargill

3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Networking Reception & Raffle Compliments of our Sponsors

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Presentation Abstracts

General Session

Keynote: Everything Starts & Stops with Motivation Everything Starts and Stops With Motivation How to Develop the Inner-Motivator Within Displaying Dynamic Motivation in Your Business ________________________________________________________________ How to succeed in life and business–Just count the ways… Forget tough. Today, competition is fierce! It takes more to succeed in business than just having a smart competitive strategy, good reputation, and a top-notch product or service. In reality, a company’s human capital holds the key to sustainable, long-term growth. Businesses don’t do business–people do. They create the force that ensures an organization’s successful future. These individuals hold the solutions to problems, the ways to improve motivation, productivity, the creativity to enhance products and services, and the insight that the company needs to move forward. These goals become a reality if dynamic motivation is displayed and every executive and manager treats their employees as well as they treat their most important customers. Smart business owners and managers know that without the full support of their employees, no initiative can succeed, nor can any individual leader achieve their goals. Who Should Attend: The Everything Starts and Stops With Motivation Program is ideal for anyone with current or anticipated leadership responsibilities, ranging from support staff, front line employees to senior management expecting to take on leadership roles; and those who are not in management positions but are expected to lead, motivate and influence others in the course of their work. By attending this program you will learn to:

Create and project your motivational vision, values, and expertise

Be more intentional and strategic in motivation, as opposed to relying on intuition alone

Serve as a source of optimism and enthusiasm while eliciting excellence and innovation

Provide the resources and support to encourage savvy risk taking

Infuse responsibility, ethical actions, and balance in an organizational setting

Recognize ways to lead effectively under a variety of conditions/circumstances

Lead during times of change including crises and mergers

Create an effective leadership team

Five Essential Facets of Dynamic Motivational Leadership

Create the vision

Consistently communicate motivational vision and create a "buy-in"

Initiate and implement change to meet goals

Sustain the momentum – Motivate employees

Execute strategies, actions needed to create and sustain success

Doug Dvorak, CEO DMG International, Dvorak Marketing Group Doug Dvorak is the CEO of DMG International, a worldwide organization that assists clients with coaching & talent enhancement, productivity training and motivational excellence management workshops. Mr. Dvorak's clients are characterized as Fortune 1000 companies, small to medium businesses, civic organizations and service businesses. Mr. Dvorak has earned an international reputation for his powerful educational methods and motivational techniques, as well as his experience in all levels of business, corporate education and success training. His background in sales, leadership, and management has allowed him to become one of world’s most sought-after consultants, lecturers and teachers. This vast experience has helped him shape and determine his philosophies on success in business, which he now shares annually with thousands of individuals through keynote presentations, television and books.

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Mr. Dvorak is a certified management consultant and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing Management. But Mr. Dvorak's sense of humor is no less refined, as he is a graduate of the Player's Workshop of the Second City, one of the oldest and most prestigious improvisational comedy schools in the world. Doug philosophies have been featured in several articles and interviews. His dedication to success and sales excellence led him to be named one of the Top Ten Sales Professionals in America in 1988, by Personal Selling Power Magazine. Since 1995, Doug’s vision and leadership have been recognized; he has been honored with induction into several prestigious national and international Who's Who organizations, including Who's Who in Professional Speaking. Doug is a member of the National Speakers Association and is an Advisory Board Member of “Best Buddies International, Inc.", which is dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. In August 2014, Doug was inducted into the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame. Only 68 other Motivational Speakers have been asked to join this prestigious club. Other luminaries include, Zig Ziglar, Ronald Reagan, Dr, Wayne Dwyer, Bill Clinton, as well as many other business, civic & political dignitaries. Doug is also a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association (NSA). Doug has presented to over 1 million people on 5 continents.

Session #1 - Presentation Abstracts

Canadian Pacific HANA Journey

A 145-year-old railroad decided in November of 2014 to move all SAP systems to HANA. Our strategy has been one of minimal external involvement with only SAP as a partner to migrate our 22Terabyte production cluster of systems through a TDI to HANA in 20 months. We are retooling our IS group, not just the systems. Now, halfway the journey and all deployments have been on-time/on-budget. In production we have one third of our transactional systems in HANA, one third pending delivery, then final third due this fall. Dean Stoffel, Director Program Management CAS, SAP Technical Services at Canadian Pacific

Next Generation Interactive Executive Dashboards Using SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Level: Intermediate

In order for companies to leverage their existing data for better decision making, they need a solution that provides the tools to create stunning, interactive visualizations and dashboards. Design Studio will allow users to deliver the right information to decision makers at their fingertips. In this session, Gopal Krishnamurthy, CEO & Founder of Visual BI Solutions will discuss why to consider Design Studio, migrating from Xcelsius to Design Studio, and best practices for designing interactive executive dashboards. Krishnamurthy will also perform a LIVE DEMO of key Xcelsius dashboards now on Design Studio.

Gopal Krishnamurthy, CEO and Founder, Visual BI Solutions Gopal Krishnamurthy founded Visual BI in 2010 to transform the field of enterprise business intelligence and analytics. A pioneer and evangelist for SAP BW integration with SAP BusinessObjects, BPC and HANA, Mr. Krishnamurthy has led Visual BI to become the industry’s foremost all-in-one BI enablement firm delivering end-to-end software, analytics, and consulting solutions. Prior to founding Visual BI, Mr. Krishnamurthy held senior positions at Valero Energy Corporation, Tata Consulting, and AT&T. Mr. Krishnamurthy is frequent speaker at SAP and ASUG events. His thought leadership stems from his passion and commitment to delivering BI strategies and solutions that enable real-time, agile, self-service and mobile BI architecture and spans across all aspects of BI.

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Predictive…The NEXT Frontier. To Boldly Know What You Didn’t Know Before

Level: Intermediate Learn how to anticipate business changes and transform the way the organization thinks about it’s customers, services, and competitive advantage. We’ll open the door and show you how to act on big data, while extending insights across the business. George Seth, Solution Advisor, CATCH Intelligence Jared Ellwein, Chief Technology Officer, CATCH Intelligence George Seth is a Solution Advisor for CATCH Intelligence. George joined CATCH in early 2014, and his goal is to deliver a World Class Business Intelligence (BI) system that provides the greatest value to his clients, and their organization. As part of the Sales organization at CATCH, he manages the territory of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. Catch empowers him to be his best with the support and resources needed to drive business success at a high level, all while being part of a company with high core values. Jared Ellwein is the CTO of CATCH Intelligence. His focus over the past 15 years at CATCH Intelligence has been Business Intelligence. He has been certified on the Crystal product line since version 8.5 and the Business Objects products since version 6.5, along with Microsoft certifications. Jared has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master’s in Business Administration and has been applying technology to solve business problems for almost 20 years. After working on dozens of projects as a consultant for clients across various industries, Jared took on the leadership role at Catch Intelligence and is now leading the teams that develop and support the software products that are sold, as well as supporting the consulting teams.

Maintaining Continuity of Your HCM Reporting as You Move to The Cloud Level: Beginner/Intermediate The current space of SAP HCM can be seen as being composed of two worlds. At the base, we have the on-premise world; solutions are better established, functionally more complete, especially for such core components as payroll or organization management. And our future, we have the full-cloud world composed of cloud talent management, Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll. For most customers it seems these two worlds are colliding. Cloud deployment is usually taken on to improve user experience. However, because we have invested some much money, time and customization to our on-premise system, especially payroll. We are all searching for a middle ground to be able to get the data we need from cloud or on-premise and to improve the users experience of HCM reporting. Many organizations have concerns about losing control of their HCM data as they move to a cloud environment. Where is my data, what about payroll and all of the common actions we perform today? This fear is sometimes curbed by the benefits the end users gets through a better user experience. The challenges begin organizations move quickly into a hybrid environment and didn’t spend the time on considering their reporting strategy. Join us for this discussion of how to better manage your current on-premise data challenges as you move to hybrid reporting on your HCM data. Mary Grabeal, HCM Service Director and Ed Goeters, HCM Solution Specialist, EPI-USE Labs

Fiori in The Cloud: The Next Wave Extend your on premise system in the cloud with little or no on premise effort. See the latest techniques using HANA Cloud Platform and get instant delivery in a hybrid cloud/on premise environment. Gavin P. Quinn, Mindset Consulting

Better Quality with Less Effort - How do we Test SAP Better for Less? Level: Intermediate

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In this session, we highlight how to integrate technology with test management software tool HP Quality Centre. This session focuses on one aspect of change management: testing. Often companies using SAP find that the benefits of automated testing can be significantly outnumbered by the challenges that come with test script creation and maintenance. Learn how to maintain test asset health and better understand what test scripts to run when using automated testing tools. Three Key Learning Points:

Effective integration of the SAP landscape

How to leverage innovative technologies to enable better testing and change management

How to maintain test asset health across multiple SAP change cycles.

Tony Auriene, CEO, Elucidation Sponsored by IntelliCorp Tony Auriene has worked in almost every aspect of IT from mainframe operations and technical support, to managing development teams building both mainframe and PC applications. His work has included designing backend system interfaces that connected Windows client server applications to mainframe backend database systems via simple API calls that large scale corporate development teams could use to build client server applications. He led development teams in designing DBMS systems for data warehousing and mass data storage. For the last 10 years he has been involved in designing infrastructure for SAP Project Management and Testing / QA systems. His primary focus in the last five years has been on managing the administration of HP and IntelliCorp products both as a IT manager at BP, and as CEO of Elucidation Technologies, a consulting firm that he founded in 1991. Companies Tony has worked for include BP, National Education Corporation, Pepsi Bottlers, Waste Management, and RR Donnelley.

Session #2 - Presentation Abstracts

System Landscape Requirements and Essential Considerations to Prepare your SAP Landscape for SAP S/4HANA

Level: Beginner This session examines system landscape requirements and essential considerations for preparing your SAP landscape for S/4HANA. Understand how the new application design reduces the database size allowing for a smaller hardware footprint. Discuss memory, CPU and disc requirements, as well as requirements for Unicode migrations. Understand SAP’s five-system landscape requirement and how this approach reduces downtime and provides a complete productive support landscape during the course of the upgrade. Identify the right questions to ask your vendors so that you know whether or not third-party applications need to be upgraded at the time of your project. Recognize the largest opportunities for landscape cost savings.

Lon Blake, Program Manager – SAP Technical Services, YASH Technologies Mr. Blake has over 30 years of IT technical experience including more than 10 years of SAP Basis Administration. As the program manager, SAP Technical Services, for YASH Technologies, Lon is responsible for providing technical leadership and account management for key accounts. In addition, he is responsible for building and delivering various technical services as well as enhancing YASH’s technical services portfolio. Prior to joining YASH Technologies, Lon held key roles at Emergys Consulting, SAP Consulting, PWC and global organizations in the upgrade and basis practices. Mr. Blake is a preferred speaker and has presented at over 30 professional events including over 25 SAP Insider, SAPPHIRE, TechEd, and ASUG events.

SAP Change Management with Agile Methods: SAP HANA Reporting Case Study

The goal of change management is to ensure stability as infrastructure and development teams make changes. The goal of agile methodologies is to begin realizing business value, incrementally, as soon as possible. This presentation explores how Target works to “deliver more, faster without sacrificing quality” for SAP. In this joint presentation, representatives from Target’s change management and SAP HANA reporting teams will describe their journey to drive both speed and stability. Using a release framework that supports any development methodology, learn how Target is able to continuously deliver value to the business by applying a “right-sized” governance model, used automation to replace error prone manual tasks

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and assign team members to more valuable work, and delivered almost 250% more change in the first year of adoption. The second section explores the practical application of Agile methods for implementing and supporting SAP, recognizing that ERP is an entirely different animal than new software development or website design. Adapting Agile for a large end-to-end system will have natural conflicts but with thoughtful strategy the transition can lead the businesses to begin realizing more value, incrementally, and earlier than before. Case Study – Examples from implementing custom SAP HANA operational reports. Clark Travis and Tom Kohlbry, Target

Self-Service BI Strategy and Execution

Self-service BI is all the rage, and IT barely has the budget and time to keep the lights on. In this session, I'll share self-service BI strategies that have worked for other companies, common best practices, and which SAP tools can help you get there. If you are looking to empower business to make their own data-based decisions, with IT providing a sandbox to play in, this session is for you. Ina Felsheim, SAP

Best Practices to secure S/4HANA

As organizations innovate and accelerate their adoption of S/4HANA and SAP Cloud solutions, they are faced with new challenges in securing critical data and transactions. HANA’s privilege-based security model is completely different from SAP’s traditional authorization model. End users may have direct access to views and data in HANA, further complicating security enforcement. In this session we will review case studies of organizations that have deployed S/4HANA and built their own Fiori and side-car applications. Join us to:

Understand different integration patterns with HANA

Learn about HANA security model and identify challenges

Gain insight into HANA security best practices including Analytics and ABAC policies

Learn more about the security solutions implemented to govern HANA access

Amit Saha, Saviynt

A Project Manager’s Guide to Managing an SAP Fiori Project

Level: Intermediate NIMBL’s UX/UI Practice Lead will give an introduction to SAP Fiori, the infrastructure and development tools surrounding it, and drilling down into the most challenging part for a Project Manager on Fiori projects: leading the project from design thinking to application deployment. Name, Title, Company Jon Bragg, UX/UI Project Lead, NIMBL UI design expert Jonathan Bragg has over 10 years of experience in SAP technology, having transitioned from SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP NetWeaver Portal to SAP Fiori. As a professional who has seen the SAP UX experience evolve from early versions of SAP GUI to web interfaces, he is ideally suited to provide instruction on design thinking methodology as well as SAP Fiori app development. In his role as SAP UX/UI lead at NIMBL, Jonathan leads design thinking workshops and custom UI development projects. His colleagues and clients have called him “one of the top UI developers in the country,” “a strong thought leader,” and a person who “makes the difference on the success of projects” that he leads.

The Power of Three Level: Beginner

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We will speak to how OpenText can bridge the gap between SAP and Microsoft Sharepoint. The Power of Three (SAP, Microsoft, OpenText) will assist with two major challenges that SAP customers face. Challenge 1 – Limited interoperability between platforms and systems. Challenge 2- Lack of an adequate information governance strategy. We will address where we have seen these challenges within the SAP customer base and how an OT solution has solved them. We will then talk through customer examples and provide other use cases across the SAP solution stack. Yana Rosenfield, Sr. Solution Consultant, OpenText Nicholas Mauldin, Ecosystem Program Manager, OpenText Yana Rozenfeld is a Senior Solutions Consultant at Open Text with over 15 years experience in information technology. Her primary objective is to assist organizations in understanding how to Content Enable their SAP Business Processes using the OpenText solutions extensions for SAP. To her business partners, Ms Rozenfeld brings a wealth of knowledge in ECM solutions development and project delivery. Ms. Rozenfeld's experience spans a wide range of industries, enabling her to quickly understand prospects' requirements, recognize pertinent business drivers, and make environment-specific recommendations.

Deliver a Stronger BI Experience with SAP BusinessObjects 4.2

Level: Beginner SAP has announced the new enhancements and features with the upcoming release of BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2, but what does that mean for you? Do the included innovations provide a compelling case to make a move now? Take a deeper dive into the better performance, simpler interface, and more intuitive functionality that can be adopted without disrupting your existing BI investment. Attend this session to learn more about: New innovations in 4.2 for HANA integration, BW, and BI Platform Administrators; The difference between an update, an upgrade, and a migration and why lingo matters; Reasons to avoid an overly cautious software update process; How to handle items that can’t be migrated or upgraded The truth about hardware requirements and what you really need. Chris Bethune, Solution Architect, itelligence Chris Bethune is an accomplished analytics consulting professional with over 15 years IT/IS experience in healthcare, telecommunications, and general reporting solutions. Chris has over 10 years of experience working with a variety of backend source systems from both a reporting and administration perspective. He is also experienced in the complete lifecycle of SAP Analytics projects, starting with the initial project scope and progressing through project go-live. He has extensive experience in architecture design and deployment of high availability, high performance, and clustered SAP BusinessObjects systems as well as integration of those systems with a variety of backend environments such as Windows AD, SAP HANA, SAP BW, and SAP ECC. Chris currently serves as a Solution Architect specializing in complex BI Platform infrastructures for itelligence USA. He also serves as the Global Head of BI Technologies and a cross industry expert in the area of Analytics and SAP HANA for itelligence Global Business Solutions based in Germany. Current areas of interest include Predictive Analytics and Big Data integration using SAP solutions.

Session #3 - Presentation Abstracts

Empower Your Business Planning Process in SAP

During this session we will discuss 5 Tips and tricks to more efficiently integrate your business planning, forecasting and reporting process in SAP with a familiar MS Excel Front End. On hand of customer success stories, the audience will walk away with attempts and concepts that can be directly applied to their SAP environment. Our motto: Your Business process leads the SAP process!

Adrian Rochofski, Kern

Case Study: How to Successfully Replace your BW Content with HANA Enterprise Content

Business Case o Performance o Reduced Development turn-around time o Minimize/eliminate Etl/batch support o Foundation for front-end tools Methodology o How to phase implementation o Gap analysis/source-to-target, testing o

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Modified Agile approach (Sprints, Tools) o Change Management o Project Team make-up & key skillsets HANA Modeling o Solution Overview (with external systems) o Development approach o Replacing BW functionality/content with HANA models § --Inventory Solution – reengineering data sources § --Time solution § --Hierarchy solution § --Text fields o APO Integration using BODS Lessons Learned o Business Involvement o Testing – regression testing o Support (cloud, tool support, in-house team) Dave Willett, Cori Simon, Brad Simon, and Nate Crawford, Phoenix Endeavors

Using Real-Time Financial and Operational Analytics at Blue Buffalo

Level: Beginner

Blue Buffalo, a natural pet food company, leverages SAP HANA sidecar to provide real-time operational KPIs and analytics across their organization. By combining SAP and non-SAP data with SAP’s visualization capabilities they are making strategic decisions across all functional areas and key business initiatives while gaining unprecedented insight into financial and operational health. ~ See how they gained real-time visibility into product inventory, materials and distribution to determine the viability and profitability of in-house manufacturing ~Review the real-time analytics in a mobile friendly dashboard that enables plant managers to improve material utilization, fill rate and team effectiveness. ~ Learn how they combined third party data with their HANA ECC information to analyze product demand and manufacturing planning ~ Understand how SAP HANA helped them make sound business decisions that are key to their planned globalization goals.

Jeremy Stierwalt, Director, Protiviti Jeremy has 17+ years of Decision Science, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Enterprise Performance Management, and Database and Technology related experience with diversified responsibilities. He currently serves as Director, Data & Analytics at Protiviti.

Validation of Your SAP Fiori Business Processes

In this session, learn about the true challenges associated with testing your FIORI business processes. Hear how organizations have leveraged test automation to test their SAP End–to-End business processes to achieve 43% improvement in quality, 48% increase in productivity, and 38% shorter test cycles. See examples of how easy it is to create, maintain, and execute Business Process Testing in your SAP FIORI implementation.

Ty Henson, Solution Architect, Worksoft

Implementing Change in Accounts Payable

As your business grows the need for process efficiency improvements increases; more efficient work processes allow for increased throughput without adding headcount. These changes in the day-to-day work that your front line employees perform can be disruptive if implemented without thoughtful planning. By involving the full team in defining and implementing these changes -- as opposed to having the change foisted upon them -- we can achieve a better overall product through involvement of these experts in the daily work and a more efficient implementation owing to the personal investment of staff as participants in the process. This discussion will identify key organizational change agent roles and strategies for success accompanied by real life examples of Accounts Payable process automation at Zinpro. Joe Hanousek, Engagement Manager, Esker Sean Kinsey, Director of PMO + Client Solutions, Esker Ben Braun, Director of Services for the Americas, Esker Janet Hermann, US Controller, Zinpro David Rynders, International Controller, Zinpro Sean Kinsey Purdue alum – Computer/Information Technology 25 years IT and Professional Services PM Certificate George Washington University Scrum Master Prosci CM Certification Director of PMO and Client Solutions at Esker.

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David Rynders St. John’s – BA in Accountancy U of M – MBA Finance 15 + years in Accounting & Finance Certified Public Accountant International Controller at Zinpro Corporation Janet Hermann UW La Crosse – BS in Accountancy 15 + years Accounting & Finance Certified Public Accountant, Inactive US Controller at Zinpro Corporation

Class Act: Minneapolis Public Schools Leverages Excel for Real-time SAP Reporting & Analysis

Microsoft Excel is the world’s most widely used business productivity tool, and Business users in Finance and Accounting prefer Excel due to its ease of use, power and flexibility. Join Minneapolis Public Schools and Excel4apps in a case study of the challenges MPS faced in its management reporting processes, the need to have real-time budget variance information, the preference to leverage Excel and SAP, and how using GL and Reports Wand as part of the corporate IT strategy eliminated manual work, saved time, and improved accuracy. Forest Rodd, Senior SAP Territory Manager, Excel4apps

Tariro Chapinduka, Director of Finance Systems, Minneapolis Public Schools

Center of Expertise - Creating Value for SAP Solutions

Cargill has deployed SAP with multiple business units across the globe, and industry standards indicate 50-60% of organizations fail to realize the business benefits they expected from their ERP implementations. Similar to these companies, we have come to learn we are not getting the value we originally anticipated from our solution. Our business units are now asking "how can we maximize the investment in SAP and continously improve"? Our Center of Expertise has developed an end-to-end (E2E) approach that reviews the SAP-enabled business processes resulting in opportunities for improvement across people, process, data, and technology that drives value for our business units. This approach results in a practical plan to effectively execute, monitor and drive this value through to completion. Recently, we partnered with our internal customer Cargill Texturing Solutions, CTS, to host an E2E review at various locations and provide recommendations for improvement. During our presentation we will present the business case to better optimize the SAP solution, and our CoE approach to helping our internal clients in this journey. You'll hear from both the CoE and one of our internal clients. Sue Moulder, Diane Dixon, and Ginny Richardson, Cargill

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