ASUG Face-to-face Meetings: Education & Networking in Your Local Area AGENDA PAGE: 1 OmniASUG DFW Chapter Meeting Thursday, November 6, 2014 Omni Dallas at Park West Hotel 1590 LBJ Freeway Dallas, Texas 75234 (Click on the presentation title to see the corresponding abstract) 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast Compliments of our Sponsor 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Texas Learning Center ASUG Chapter Updates, Welcome and Introductions Allen Sulgrove, DFW Chapter Chair, Emergys Corp MORNING KEYNOTE: How to Navigate Through the SAP Journey and Key Stakeholder Relationships Scott Shadle, SVP and CIO , Aviall ANNOUNCE WINNER OF “SAP Super User Community of Excellence” 9:45 am – 10:00 a.m. Break & Networking (15 minutes) Morning Breakout Session #1: 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Finance Track Park West F How Maxim improved their Journal Entry Process Karen Murphy, Mgr CFO Applications, Maxim Integrated Mobile Track Park West E How Forest City Accelerates Time to Market and Reduces SAP Mobile Deployment and Support Costs Chad Wyckoff, IT Director, Solution Delivery at Forest City Enterprises Hari P. Kamineni, CEO & Co-Founder, Innovapptive BOBJ Track Texas Learning Center Hoarding: Buried Alive –How to keep your SAP BusinessObjects system from becoming part of the show Tom Fallwell, Chief Solution Architect , cBEYONData, Inc. Supply Chain Park West C/D 8 Ways to Improve Your Supply Chain Scott McKenzie, Speaker Title, RF Gen User Productivity Park West A Tips and lessons learned from redesigning a new user experience with SAP Screen Personas & Design Thinking Ricardo Sada, Innovation Manager, LinkTech Fred Jimenez, Consultant, LinkTech SUPER USER – Customer Stories 212 – 2 nd Floor Cameron: Super Users Supporting Change Management and Value Realization Julie Fawdington, Manager, Super User Development Team, Cameron SUPER USER – Getting more Productive with SAP Club Lounge 12th Floor IT Leaders, Business Leader, and Super User Leaders; 5 Business Outcomes Made Possible Through Super Users Kerry Brown, VP Enablement, SAP America Meeting Survey Evaluate sessions throughout the day and provide meeting feedback bit.ly/ASUG14
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OmniASUG DFW Chapter Meeting
Thursday, November 6, 2014 Omni Dallas at Park West Hotel 1590 LBJ Freeway Dallas, Texas 75234
(Click on the presentation title to see the corresponding abstract)
ASUG Chapter Updates, Welcome and Introductions Allen Sulgrove, DFW Chapter Chair, Emergys Corp
MORNING KEYNOTE: How to Navigate Through the SAP Journey and Key Stakeholder Relationships Scott Shadle, SVP and CIO , Aviall ANNOUNCE WINNER OF “SAP Super User Community of Excellence”
9:45 am – 10:00 a.m. Break & Networking (15 minutes)
How Maxim improved their Journal Entry Process Karen Murphy, Mgr CFO Applications, Maxim Integrated
Mobile Track Park West E
How Forest City Accelerates Time to Market and Reduces SAP Mobile Deployment and Support Costs Chad Wyckoff, IT Director, Solution Delivery at Forest City Enterprises Hari P. Kamineni, CEO & Co-Founder, Innovapptive
BOBJ Track Texas Learning Center
Hoarding: Buried Alive –How to keep your SAP BusinessObjects system from becoming part of the show Tom Fallwell, Chief Solution Architect , cBEYONData, Inc.
Supply Chain Park West C/D
8 Ways to Improve Your Supply Chain Scott McKenzie, Speaker Title, RF Gen
User Productivity Park West A
Tips and lessons learned from redesigning a new user experience with SAP Screen Personas & Design Thinking Ricardo Sada, Innovation Manager, LinkTech Fred Jimenez, Consultant, LinkTech
SUPER USER – Customer Stories 212 – 2
nd Floor
Cameron: Super Users Supporting Change Management and Value Realization
Julie Fawdington, Manager, Super User Development Team, Cameron
SUPER USER – Getting more Productive with SAP Club Lounge 12th Floor
IT Leaders, Business Leader, and Super User Leaders; 5 Business Outcomes Made Possible
Through Super Users
Kerry Brown, VP Enablement, SAP America
Meeting Survey Evaluate sessions throughout the
day and provide meeting feedback bit.ly/ASUG14
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SUPER USER – Team & Personal Skills Park West B
Wow Your Executives: Selling the Value of Super User Programs
CMC Runs BPC EPM 10.1 on NetWeaver and HANA for Financial Planning and Consolidation Kumar Kalidindi, Lead of SAP Global Process Shared Services Finance, Commercial Metals Company
Mobile Track Park West E
Enterprise Experience: Changing the Way Companies Do Business Mark Huesman, Senior Solution Engineer, Emergys
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BOBJ Track Texas Learning Center
Case Study: How TRCC Transformed Decision-Making with BusinessObjects and SAP Business Suite Powered by HANA Steve Freeman, VP Field Operations, Decision First Technologies
Leveraging Solution Manager for the Global Deployment at Novelis Robert Max, Global Applications Technology Manager, Novelis Ajay Narula, Managing Partner, SSX Global LLC
SUPER USER – Customer Stories Club Lounge 12th Floor
McKesson’s Super User Network: Bringing Humanity Back to the Work Place
Terrie Walker, User Sustainment Super User Network Manager, McKesson Corporation
Tina DeLise, Change Analyst – Super User Network Daily Ops, McKesson Corporation
SUPER USER – Getting more Productive with SAP Park West B
SAP Dashboards 4.1 Advanced Visualization Techniques
Jeremy Alper, Senior Business Intelligence Consultant, Method360
SUPER USER – Team & Personal Skills 212 – 2nd Floor
Super Users – Conveying the Message with Oomph
Julie Fawdington, Manager, Super User Development Team, Cameron
Template for Calculating Business Value and True Cost of Designing and Deploying and Effective Executive Dashboard with Best Practices Gopal Krishnamurthy, Founder/CEO, Visual BI
Mobile Track Park West E
Disrupting the Speed and Economics of Mobilizing SAP Brett Li, Sr. Solution Architect, Capriza Jay Herring, Regional Manager, Capriza
BOBJ Track Texas Learning Center
Universe Designer versus Information Design Tool Smack Down: Who Wins? Dave Rathbun, Speaker Title, PepsiCo
Supply Chain Park West C/D
Best practices from Coca-Cola Company in leveraging technology for improving change management across a complex SAP Landscape Kevin Ko, Speaker Title, IntelliCorp
User Productivity Park West A
Leveraging SAP UEM by Knoa for Fiori and Personas Projects Jesse Bernal, Product Evangelist, Knoa Software
SUPER USER – Customer Stories Club Lounge 12
th Floor
PrimeSource Building Products: Integrating a Long-Term User Support Structure That Brings Value to
the Business and IT
Ally Allen, IT Business Analyst Manager, PrimeSource Building Products
Jessica Bojic, Sr. Director, NTT Data
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SUPER USER – Getting more Productive with SAP 212 – 2nd Floor
Accelerated Excel-based SAP reporting: Insights to enhance productivity, timeliness, security, and accuracy Kevin Gibson, Sr. Excel Automation Solution Consultant, Global Software
SUPER USER – Getting more Productive with SAP Park West B
From Mess to Success: One Company’s Journey from Chaos to Model Driven Integration
Enrique Krajmalnik, Sr. Systems Engineer, No Magic
SAP Audit Management powered by HANA Mark Stearns, Sr. Director – Line of Business Finance, SAP America
Finance Track Park West E
Manage Your Workflow Right From Excel! (possible 2:00pm)
Mickey Shah, Founder and Chief Solution Architect, Innowera
Felipe Sutantri, Business Solutions Engineer, Innowera
BOBJ Track Texas Learning Center
Web Intelligence: The Business Objects “Swiss Army Knife” Dwayne Hoffpauir, Speaker Title, HP
User Productivity Park West A
The Value of Business Process Validation – an IDC Report on Worksoft’s Automation Solutions Josh Kleen, Senior Solution Architect, Worksoft
SUPER USER Getting more Productive with SAP Park West C/D
Data Structures for High Impact Dashboards Rick Patel, Founder and Managing Director, RAMP Consullting
SUPER USER – Customer Stories Club Lounge 12th Floor
HollyFrontier: Resurrecting Super User Programs Post Go-Live to Drive Business Value Blake Abbott, Senior Manager, Business Process Management, HollyFrontier Corporation Jennifer Helgeson, Abreon
SUPER USER – Getting more Productive with SAP Park West B
Acquisitions, Divestitures, Splits, Spin-offs…Oh My! The Havoc This Can Wreak on IT, the Business,
and Super User Teams
Mark Evans, Retired Oil & Gas Executive, Connect2Client
SUPER USER – Getting more Productive with SAP 212 – 2nd Floor
SharePoint – Without the Frustration
Peter Joeckel, President and Founder, TurnOnDevOps
3:55 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Texas Learning Center
Closing Session – Comments, Surveys, and Prize Giveaways ANNOUNCE WINNER OF “I ♥ SAP” ART CONTEST
Allen Sulgrove, DFW Chapter Chair, Fidelis Companies
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Additional Rooms:
2nd Floor
Room 212
12th Floor
Club Lounge
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Abstracts Keynote Address How to Navigate Through the SAP Journey and Key Stakeholder Relationships (8:45 a.m.)
Scott Shadle, SVP & CIO, Aviall, Inc. Scott Shadle is a 22-year information solutions veteran with global technology, business, and aviation experience. In 2011, he was named Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Aviall, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. Shadle oversees all aspects of information technology at Aviall, including their recent conversion to SAP. Prior to being named SVP and CIO, Shadle was Director of Aviall's Program Management Office. Shadle joined Aviall in November of 2010 following 10 years with Raytheon Company where he held senior leadership positions in Information Solutions, including his role as IS Director of Operations for Network Centric Systems (NCS). His extensive experience also includes leadership roles with MagneTek, Sensormatic Electronics, and consulting with Andersen Consulting/Arthur Andersen. Shadle earned an MBA from Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of Furman University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration.
Lunch: Survival of the Fittest (12:15 a.m.) Level: Beginner
Adaptation and change are what allows organizations, customers, individuals and SAP to continue to collaborate and enable each other to “Run simple.”. We will explore how the focus on successful adoption and performance are increasingly driving change within the SAP community at a grass roots level. Specifically we will explore the linkage between the consumerization of IT, the significance of customer experience and the influence of the SAP user. Kerry Brown, VP Enablement, SAP America Kerry Brown is a Global VP Enablement with SAP. She specializes in providing value in end-to-end delivery of business strategy and organizational transformation. Kerry has been with SAP for 7 years, prior to joining SAP, Kerry worked for Coca Cola Enterprises as the Global Director for Change Leadership. She has successfully developed and led teams for large, complex global initiatives and reengineering/system implementations enabling them to realize the fulfillment of organizational competency bringing the greatest value to their organizations.
Finance Track How Maxim improved their Journal Entry Process (10:00 a.m.)
Level: Intermediate
Learn how Maxim Integrated improved their journal entry process. See the before and after processes of their journal entries once they began using the ZOption tools as well as SAP workflow. Karen Murphy, Mgr CFO Applications, Maxim Integrated
SAP Financial Reporting using Microsoft Excel (11:05 am)
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
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Join Excel4apps in a presentation as we discuss several of our customers’ missions to improve their SAP financial reporting and inquiry capabilities. Learn about Fletcher Insulation, Upsher-Smith Laboratories and Odyssey Reinsurance, and hear how each company outlined each of their previous SAP reporting processes and challenges. And, the solutions they chose to solve those challenges. In addition, we’ll introduce you to our latest reporting solution, Reports Wand. Like GL Wand, Reports Wand a front-end Excel reporting solution that allows users to create reports based on existing underlying SAP queries. Mark Pockl, Solution Specialist, Excel4apps Mark Pockl is a Solutions Specialist with Excel4apps, a provider of best-in-class Excel-based financial reporting for Oracle and SAP users worldwideWith more than 18 years IT experience, including programming development, system configuration, report/query writing and business analysis, Mark has a wealth of SAP knowledge, specifically in the FICO area. He has worked on 5 full-cycle SAP implementations as a FICO Sr. Systems Analyst. He also has valuable experience in the BI/BW area with integration to SAP ECC 6.0. Mark has a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Pittsburgh.
CMC Runs BPC EPM 10.1 on NetWeaver and HANA for Financial Planning and Consolidation (12:55 pm) Level: Beginner/Intermediate The goal of the BPC project at CMC is to provide one “source” of data for financial users to report consistent
financial and operational data. The implementation of BPC will consist of multiple phases. Phase 1 includes
Financial Consolidation and Planning with ability to provide Consolidated Financial Statements including cash
flow by entity and Managerial Reporting. Transformation of inefficient legacy processes is one of the key
elements to realize BPC’s full potential. Once fully installed, BPC will serve to provide global users a platform to
focus on analyzing data versus aggregating or calculating data. Financial and operational data will include
financial statements, Plan and Forecast data, customer and vendor analytics, tonnage sold, average selling price,
working capital days, and many other metrics.
This session will cover:
• CMC’s decision to implement EPM BPC 10.1 on Netweaver and HANA for Financial Planning and Consolidations
• Review the phased project approach and the benefits of each phase
• Learn about “Key Design Decisions” that were made during the project
• Lessons learned from Phase 1 project implementation
Kumar Kalidindi, Lead of SAP Globla Process Shared Services Finance, Commercial Metals Company Kumar is a certified SAP Solution Management Consultant in Managerial & Financial Accounting. He has over 12 years of strong functional experience leading implementations in SAP ECC and BI. As a Consultant, he has proven expertise in Implementing Financial solutions and has been recognized as a SME in Managerial Accounting and Planning processes. Kumar has worked for BIG 4 Consulting companies, participated and led multiple full life-cycle implementations in SAP. He has participated in sales, presales and delivery initiatives including developing proposals, making presentations, leading large teams, budgets and meeting revenue targets.
Manage Your Workflow Right From Excel! (3:05 pm)
Level: Beginner Innowera brings a new and refreshingly smart technology that allows you to run workflows on an Excel file with a click of a button. 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
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utilization of workflow systems. See a live demo of how this technology works during our presentation and experience firsthand how easy it is to take control of your workflow processes. Mickey Shah, Founder and Chief Solution Architect, Innowera Mickey Shah is the founder and chief solution architect of Innowera. Mr. Shah is an SAP wizard with a passion for simplifying complex problems and driving efficiencies via automation. He is considered visionary in this space. Mr. Shah has deep SAP implementation and Microsoft technology background. Mickey started Innowera 2008 to extend SAP integration to Excel, SQL, Web, SharePoint and Mobile. Innowera technology is used by hundreds of large companies such as Sony, Shell, Nestle, ABB, Heineken, Swarovski, Richemont etc.
In last 20 years, Mr. Shah worked on assembly languages, mores codes, flat databases, 3d vector and raster applications, codeless business application running in DOS, CAPI control applications. Later he spent over a decade implementing SAP for large corporations across the globe and implemented SAP for companies such as Rockwell Collins, International Paper, Applied Materials, etc.
Felipe Sutantri, Business Solutions Engineer, Innowera Subject matter expert for Innowera's Data Management technology suite. | As a Solutions Engineer, Felipe Sutantri is responsible for driving awareness and familiarity of Innowera's technology through demos, webinars, training and business case studies. His understanding of various company products from the technology & business perspective helps customers map their business problems to solutions.
Introducing SAP Audit Management powered by HANA (3:05 pm) Level: Intermediate Presenting the brand new HANA solution for internal audit and finance managers launched in February 2014. Mark Stearns, Sr. Director – Line of Business Finance, SAP America Mark Stearns is Senior Director, Finance Line of Business for SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance, EPM and Finance solutions. Mark has over 20 years of experience of consulting, sales and auditing experience within the technology, risk and compliance and enterprise performance management domains at several leading companies, including SAP, IBM, Oracle and HP Enterprise Services. He serves as subject matter expert for SAP’s Access Control, Process Control and Risk Management solutions. Within this role he has built demonstration scenarios, lead training and learning agendas, driven go-to-market efforts and provided domain expertise to SAP’s product development team. In prior roles Mark led business process teams for a variety of global enterprise system implementations.
Mobile Track How Forest City Accelerates Time to Market and Reduces SAP Mobile Deployment and Support Costs (10:00 am)
Level: Intermediate By utilizing cost effective bundled run time licensing of SAP Mobile platform (SMP) and pre-packaged SAP Certified Mobile solutions, SAP Customers like Forest City Enterprises, MARS Chocolate and Vallourec USA Corp are accelerating their time to market and reducing deployment, development and support costs. Join this presentation to see how these customers and several other Fortune 500 companies achieve a quicker and higher ROI on their SAP mobile deployments by: • Deploying an array of SAP certified mobile solutions in as little as 4-6 weeks.
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• Customizing mobile solutions with SIMPLE configurations - NO CODE Change required • Transforming their smart phones into handheld devices with RFID peripherals • Reducing TCO of SAP Mobile Deployment and Support Hear from Chad Wyckoff, IT Director, Solution Delivery at Forest City Enterprises and Hari Kamineni President & Co-Founder, Innovapptive Inc., their strategic partnership, experiences, key benefits and how Forest City Enterprises accelerates, transforms and reduces costs of SAP mobile deployment and support. Hari P. Kamineni, CEO & Co-Founder, Innovapptive Speaker BIO..... Chad Wyckoff, IT Director, Solution Delivery at Forest City Enterprises
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Texas Instruments - Bringing Mobility to the Warehouse Using SAP ITS Mobile (11:05 a.m.)
Level: Intermediate
Texas Instruments recently deployed mobile SAP transactions at several of its worldwide warehouses, using SAP's ITS Mobile technology. This presentation reviews key aspects of the project, including SAP application development, mobile device selection, and wireless LAN construction. Key benefits of the project include improved visibility to box/bin level inventory data, and improved FIFO management of stock. Greg Davis, IT Architect, Texas Instruments
Speaker BIO.....
Enterprise Experience: Changing the Way Companies Do Business (12:55 pm) Level: Intermediate Businesses and professionals alike are looking for ways to boost productivity, improve efficiency and deliver better results. Achieving this objective may be as simple as re-examining the platform and interface employees, partners and vendors use to access SAP and other critical business systems, to ultimately enhance user experience and streamline processes. This session will investigate SAP’s strategy for enhancing the UX, as well as traditional UX strategies. We will also discuss your options for mobile platforms for third-party applications. Mobile platforms that provides integration for multiple business systems (ERP, CRM, BI, MES) – all through one consolidated user experience. Mark Huesman, Senior Solution Engineer, Emergys Speaker BIO.....
Disrupting the Speed and Economics of Mobilizing SAP (2:00 pm)
Level: Intermediate Enterprise mobility empowers and liberates your workforce by accelerating critical business processes and boosting overall productivity. Early adopters of mobile development have already experienced these benefits as well as improved operational efficiencies, however most organizations struggle with the barriers imposed by skill set requirements (mobile developers), complicated architecture, and lengthy mobile app development cycles. During our session, Capriza will examine the benefits and challenges associated with mobilizing your enterprise
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and will introduce and explore Capriza's solution for SAP, a disruptive mobility platform delivering rapid design and deployment of cross-platform mobile apps for even the most customized SAP implementations. We will discuss a case study of how TiVo mobilized manager approvals from SAP's Universal Work List in only 3 weeks and will conclude the session by designing and deploying a mobile app for SAP CRM in 10 minutes without writing a single line of code or requiring complex APIs. Brett Li, Sr. Solution Architect, Capriza Speaker Bio... Jay Herring, Regional Manager, Capriza Speaker Bio...
Business Objects Track
Hoarding: Buried Alive – How to keep your SAP BusinessObjects system from becoming part of the show (10:00 a.m.)
Level: Beginner Considering the maturity and success of corporate adoption and use of SAP BusinessObjects, the emerging problem for many installations is that there is now a huge cost to the systems success. That is, that there are too many ad hoc created reports and how does one deem what is critical. While many installations started with XIR2, the migration from R2 to 3.1 was typically a “forklift approach” that simply migrated everything. Now 4-5 years later, there is little budget for simply forklifting everything over when migrating to BusinessObjects 4.1. The opportunity this presents now is to clean the system out as part of the migration. This means smart meta-data analysis of what should stay and what should go. But what is clearly lacking in the new Upgrade Management Tool (UMT) is a surgical way to select what stays and goes. In this presentation we will show how our client sorted through 80,000 reports owned by over 120 business units and packaged them using the BusinessObjects SDK and Excel to make the job of UMT easier and error free. Tom Fallwell, Chief Solution Architect , cBEYONData, Inc. Tom Fallwell is the Chief Solution Architect with cBEYONData, Inc. His life in BI began with Crystal Reports 6 and continues today with SAP BusinessObjects 4.X. His continual interest in software development is currently focused on the SDK’s of SAP BusinessObjects SDK, ESRI, and various open source projects. Beyond the digital life, Tom enjoys analog activities like sailing and playing acoustic guitar.
Mastering SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius Training Session) (11:05 a.m.)
Level: Beginner The most consistent challenge organizations face when rolling out a dashboard is poor user adoption rates. This is almost always due to not paying enough attention to the three core components that separate an ordinary dashboard from extraordinary. In this session, you’ll learn how to bring all three pieces together to deliver sleek, useful and user-friendly Xcelsius dashboards that your executives will love. Jeremy Alper, Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant, Method360 Jeremy Alper is a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at Method360 with over 10 years’ experience in data visualization. Jeremy has designed dozens of executive level SAP dashboard solutions for fortune 500 companies
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in various sectors. His ability to transform data into information continues to help businesses rethink the way they do Business Intelligence.
Case Study: How TRCC Transformed Decision-Making with BusinessObjects and SAP Business Suite Powered by HANA (12:55 pm)
Level: Beginner/Intermediate This session debunks the myth that SAP HANA is only for large enterprises by taking an up-close look at Textile Rubber & Chemical Company's (TRCC) migration to SAP Business Suite powered by HANA and BusinessObjects. This session will focus on the real-time, analytics solution implemented that allows TRCC to interact with and see: • High-level KPIs across the company to quickly understand the pulse of the organization • Trends over time to visualize the impact of process improvements • Comparisons against plan and forecasts to take action and avoid surprises Steve Freeman, VP Field Operations, Decision First Technologies Steve is the Vice President of Field Operations at Decision First Technologies (DFT), an Atlanta-based Business Analytics Consultancy focused on Data Governance, real-time analytics and predictive analysis. Steve is responsible for DFT’s go to market strategy and services execution across all markets. A Business Analytics veteran, Steve has held numerous senior leadership roles with Business Intelligence firms including Cognos, Endeca, and Business Objects.
Interactive Template for Calculating Business Value and True Cost of Designing and Deploying an Effective Executive Dashboard with Best Practices (2:00 pm)
Level: Intermediate Participate in this interactive session and step through a guided exercise that helps determine the ROI of
executive dashboard design and delivery — from a cost, effort, time, and resource perspective. Work through an
estimation template and:
• Identify and quantify the nature of skilled resources and effort needed based on your organization’s
requirements
• Determine specific hours and associated costs for each step of the process, from high level design and
prototype development to back end testing, integration, and dashboard formatting
• Get practical tips for sequencing the efforts and visualizing the project plan
• Get best practices for your next executive dashboard initiative
Gopal Krishnamurthy, Founder/CEO, Visual BI Gopal Krishnamurthy, the founder/CEO of Visual BI, has more than a decade of experience with a variety of DW and BI platforms. His company leverages his industry-leading expertise in putting together BI strategies and road maps that enable real-time, agile, self-service and mobile BI architecture and solutions offering superior ROI. Gopal has built a reputation as a thought leader and visionary strategist in the promotion of enterprise BI initiatives. And he's an early adopter and evangelist of SAP BW integration to Business Objects, SAP BPC and SAP HANA.
Universe Designer versus Information Design Tool Smack Down: Who Wins? (2:00 pm)
Level: Intermediate
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When SAP released BI4 several years ago it offered a major upgrade to one of the core technologies used by
Business Objects since the beginning of the company: the universe. What does this mean for you and how does
it impact your intentions to move forward with the latest and greatest offering from SAP? In this session today I
will talk about various techniques and discuss how they are executed in both tools and then finish with a few
items to consider when planning whether to convert / adopt it as your standard.
Dave Rathbun, Speaker Title, PepsiCo Speaker Bio
Web Intelligence: The Business Objects “Swiss Army Knife“ (3:05 pm) Level: Intermediate This presentation will include an overview of the Business Objects suite of reporting tools, and a discussion of where Web Intelligence (WebI) fits within the suite. While best known as an ad hoc reporting tool for information workers at many levels, WebI also has capabilities to deliver engaging dashboards for executives (including mobile delivery), slice / dice / drill functionality for analysts, as well as high volume distribution of fixed format (operational) reporting. A discussion and demonstration of each capability will be included. Also included will be a discussion of connectivity options to both SAP products (like ERP and BW) and non-SAP products (virtually any third party database).
Dwayne Hoffpauir, Speaker Title, HP
Speaker Bio
Supply Chain/Compliance Track
8 Ways to Improve Your Supply Chain (10:00 a.m.) Level: Intermediate This session will cover how improvements can be made in your operations by automating your supply chain through barcoding and the implementation of data collection technology. The presentation will cover ways to leverage your investment in the Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM) modules in SAP. Scott McKenzie, Speaker Title, RF Gen Speaker BIO.....
What you need to know about SAP Solutions for GRC (11:05 a.m.) Level: Intermediate Can you effectively articulate what GRC is and what value SAP solutions for governance, risk, and compliance can offer your organization? Attend this session for a greater understanding of how technology improves managing risks related to third parties, fraud, access rights, global trade, regulatory compliance, financial reporting and corporate performance. Learn how recent innovations including HANA and Cloud for GRC are opening up new opportunities.
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Mark Stearns, Sr. Director – Line of Business Finance, SAP America Mark Stearns is Senior Director, Finance Line of Business for SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance, EPM and Finance solutions. Mark has over 20 years of experience of consulting, sales and auditing experience within the technology, risk and compliance and enterprise performance management domains at several leading companies, including SAP, IBM, Oracle and HP Enterprise Services. He serves as subject matter expert for SAP’s Access Control, Process Control and Risk Management solutions. Within this role he has built demonstration scenarios, lead training and learning agendas, driven go-to-market efforts and provided domain expertise to SAP’s product development team. In prior roles Mark led business process teams for a variety of global enterprise system implementations.
Dynamic Purchase Requisition Approval without Configuration (12:55 p.m.)
Level: Beginner A common challenge for SAP clients is having a procurement approval process that routes to the appropriate individual, or multiple individuals, dynamically based on a combination of data; for example, cost center and amount. Another top desire is having a solution that is easy to use and facilitates a seamless approval process. Often the authoring individuals are executives and are traveling or seldom log on to SAP. SAP’s purchase requisition and purchase order release strategies must be heavily customized to meet these needs and this requires ABAP programming and, of course, SAP Change Transports to migrate throughout the system landscape. With every modification there is risk of breaking the process. Winshuttle workflow is ideal for solving this challenge. Please join us for a demonstration of a purchasing approval process that just might work out of the box for your company. Geoff Hayward, Sr. Consultant, Configurable Management Speaker Bio
Best practices from Coca-Cola Company in leveraging technology for improving change management across a complex SAP (2:00 p.m.)
Level: Intermediate The IT department at The Coca-Cola Company is advanced in leveraging innovative technologies to improve operations. Understand why it has made LiveCompare/Technology a standard practice in its SAP ALM strategy. With IT struggling to balance project and time management effectively, the business was being put at risk. Find out how Coca-Cola moved to a pro-active approach to change management, allowing them to introduce high volume change quickly and with minimal effort or impact on the business. Hear how Coca Cola experience resource savings of between 30-40% and a 98% reduction in effort. Three key learning points: 1. Effective change management across complex SAP landscapes 2. How to leverage innovative technologies to improve SAP ALM 3. How to avoid common pitfalls when introducing change to your SAP landscape Kevin Ko, Speaker Title, IntelliCorp Speaker Bio
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SPEAKER INFO, Speaker Title, Speaker Company Speaker Bio
User Productivity Track
Tips and lessons learned from redesigning a new user experience with SAP Screen Personas & Design Thinking (10:00 am)
Level: Beginner Tips and lessons learned from redesigning a new user experience with SAP Screen Personas & Design Thinking: - What does it mean to increase productivity from UX perspective - Challenges from starting from a clear UX canvas - How to use Design Thinking as a framework Ricardo Sada, Innovation Manager, LinkTech Ricardo Sada is an IT Professional with over 15 years of expe-rience implementing and developing busi-ness software ranging from custom devel-opment, Web development, Business Intelli-gence and cloud (SaaS) applications. He is a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) by The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI), has a master’s degree in Business Innovation and is currently the Innovation Manager at LINK Technologies. Fred Jimenez, Consultant, LinkTech Fred Jimenez is an SAP service expert with 20+ years in the field and has worked for SAP and several top SAP vendors with different offerings.
Intelligent Automation with Redwood and SAP® (11:05 am) Level: Intermediate Learn how global companies like Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Eli Lilly and Sysco Foods leverage SAP® Central Process Scheduling by Redwood to realize operational excellence. Matt Colabrese, Solution Architect, will cover how these companies achieve central visibility and control through end-to-end process automation and orchestration; pro-active notification and alerting; exception handling and resource management. Matt Colabrese, Solutions Architect, Redwood Software Matt Colabrese is a Solutions Architect at Redwood Software that is responsible for analyzing new automation opportunities and implementing process automation architecture. He works closely with customers in every industry to identify and design solutions that improve enterprise efficiency and support business success. Matt holds a degree in Computer Science from Duke University and has three years of direct experience in practical business process analysis and automation.
Leveraging Solution Manager for the Global Deployment at Novelis (12:55 p.m.) Level: Intermediate This session presents how Novelis effectively used SAP Solution Manager for meeting the challenges of design, testing, governance, control and integration. Solution Manager supported processes were utilized to strategically construct the global template and build the implementation and maintenance projects; integrating the global BPH from the Global Process Councils into Solution Manager; completing the BPML for realization
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activities; integrating SAP Solution Manager with HP ALM to ensure consistency and quality with testing traceability and implementing test automation by leveraging SAP TAO. Robert Max, Global Applications Technology Manager, Novelis Robert Max is currently responsible for the technical support of Novelis’ portfolio of global applications including the teams supporting Solution Manager and delivering SAP Basis and Security Administration services. He has had a key role in the construction of two of the world’s largest SAP Implementations for Fortune 500 consumer products companies. Active in ASUG, Robert was the founding leader of the Solution Manager SIG, has spoken at numerous ASUG Annual Conference, SAP Active Global Support and TechEd Conferences as well as many regional events
Ajay Narula, Managing Partner, SSX Global LLC
Ajay is the Managing Partner of SSXGlobal LLC, a SAP IT Transformation Company has been involved with SAP Solution Manager and other integrated tools for effective implementations for multiple Fortune 500 clients during the last ten years. Implementations included integrating SAP Solution Manager with ARIS for Business Process Modeling, HP ALM for Testing and SAP Productivity Pak for End User Training. Besides technical and functional implementations, he has played an active role in building/updating the relevant IT processes and ensuring project governance as part of successful implementations.
Leveraging SAP UEM by Knoa for Fiori and Personas Projects (2:00 p.m.)
Level: Beginner Learn how to leverage KNOA and big data to drive your sap roadmap. Let knoa help identify where sap ui5 technology should be used. Jesse Bernal, Product Evangelist, Knoa Software Jesse Bernal has recently joined Knoa as a Sr. Solution Engineer. Before joining Knoa, Jesse worked at Johns Manville and led a multi-year implementation of a single Service Delivery Organization for all North American plants and business units. As part of that effort, Jesse architected and deployed the Knoa technology to drive improvements to SAP Business Processes in a manufacturing environment. Jesse enjoys sharing his visionary ideas with customers to help them achieve similar ROIs by leveraging the Knoa technology.
The Value of Business Process Validation – An IDC Report on Worksoft’s Automation Solutions (3:05 p.m.) Level: Beginner Organizations face a business imperative to ensure consistently high quality in end-to-end business processes. This requires extensive and effective testing across business-critical applications related to these processes. Conducting this testing can place a significant resource burden on organizations, leading many to look to increasingly automate business process validation. Worksoft's intuitive Business Process Validation software allows users to quickly capture the required business process knowledge without requiring programming or scripts, has a focus on the end to end business process including both SAP and non-SAP applications, and can respond quickly to dynamic change in those environments. Organizations using Worksoft are achieving strong IT and business benefits by automating a much higher percentage of business processes. On average, these mostly very large SAP customers (average SAP user base of 19,557) surveyed by IDC are obtaining average discounted benefits worth $13.59 million per interviewed organization over five years, achieving a net present value (NPV) to their investment of $11.46 million, earning a
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return on investment (ROI) of 537%, and reaching the break-even point in their investment in Worksoft in 11.9 months. Josh Kleen, Senior Solution Architect, Worksoft Josh Kleen is a Senior Solution Architect for Worksoft where he works with customers to identify unique solutions to leverage next-generation test automation software for SAP applications. He leverages his prior responsibilities of managing and maintaining SAP infrastructure and working with the business to develop creative solutions to help other organizations maximize their investments in SAP
Super User – Customer Stories Cameron: Super Users Supporting Change Management and Value Realization (10:00 am)
Level: Beginner In many SAP implementation projects, change management is a part of the project plan before go-live. Those who have implemented major change efforts understand that true business process and transformation change often isn't fully realized until after go-live. Super users are key to making sure the change 'sticks' and can be long-term advocates for the effort. In this session, we will review how Cameron is utilizing super users as change agents. Julie Fawdington, Manager – Super User Development Team, Cameron I've worked in leadership development, training, HR and change management roles during my career. Combining these skills with a great team, we have created a sustainable super user program within Cameron and grown it to be an integral part of our SAP support model. We are passionate about working with super users and helping them perform as key change levers in the organization. They are the ones who get things done in the business!
Change Agent: Why Your Transformational IT Initiative Will Fail Without Them (11:05 am)
Level: Beginner Change is becoming essential, more frequent, radical and complex for business to stay competitive in the market place. New IT infrastructure solutions hit the market every day and is revolutionizing the way IT enables businesses to achieve their margins. These multimillion dollar IT transformational products and systems disrupt the current structure of people, process and technology and alter the workplace. Now more than ever IT needs a network of support in the business to reduce resistance, gain alignment, transfer ownership, increase user adoption and increase ultimate utilization proficiency of the new solution. We will discuss how business involvement from executives to super users in IT infrastructure projects play a critical role in implementation and ROI realization. Terri Campbell, Senior Director of Change Leadership, McKesson Corporation A change leader with 15+ years of change leadership consulting experience with deep expertise in driving business results by managing the people side of change. Currently a senior director for the Change Leadership practice at McKesson supporting the change programs for the distribution solutions markets.
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McKesson’s Super User Network: Bringing Humanity Back to the Work Place (12:55 pm) Level: Beginner According to BusinessDictionary.com the definition of networking in business is: Creating a group of acquaintances and associates and keeping it active through regular communication for mutual benefit. Networking is based on the question "How can I help?" and not with "What can I get?" Through the activities of McKesson’s Super User Network, we strive to build a sense of community and engagement – to bring humanity back into the workplace. Come hear how we identify and reach out to potential Super Users and then provide “care and feeding” once they are aboard, including ongoing education and communications, skills enhancement and leadership opportunities.
Terrie Walker, User Sustainment Super User Network Manager, McKesson Corporation I have over 30 years experience with Fortune 500 companies with a history in sales, distribution, product supply and IT. I began as a Super User with the Clorox company within Product Supply supporting customer service, manufacturing and logistics. As Clorox implemented SAP in 2002,I came to lead their Super User group. Fast forward ... I currently have grown and manage User Sustainment's Super User Network for The McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 14 Company supporting over 370 Super Users. This program has become an industry standard of collaboration, training and recognition of the Super Users I support. I have a passion for teaching and believe Super Users are KEY to the sustainment of knowledge for end users and increasing the productivity of the companies they support. Tina DeLise, Change Analyst – Super User Network Daily Ops, McKesson Corporation I am passionate about the positive impact of Super User networks on the end user's daily experience. I endeavor to bring human connection back into the work place with the goal of increasing productivity and satisfaction for Super Users and end users alike. Let's talk about developing, implementing and sustaining Super User Networks (SUNs).
PrimeSource Building Products: Integrating a Long-Term Super User Support Structure That Brings Value to the Business and IT (2:00 pm)
Level: Beginner The role of a Super User evolves throughout an SAP business transformation - from the initial integration’s Blueprint to Go-Live, from hypercare to upgrades and process improvements. Join us to discuss how to effectively build one, flexible Super User program that adapts to changing needs, supporting and reinforcing the necessary process and behavioral changes needed to transform the way your business works. Ally Allen, IT Business Analyst Manager, PrimeSource Building Products I have been with PrimeSource Building Products for five years. During we began our SAP implementation. This process started in 2010 and was completed in 2014. During this change I lead the PrimeSource Change Management Team as the SAP Business Readiness Lead. | | As the BR Lead I worked closely with our OCM Consultant Partner to develop a PrimeSource OCM methodology, this included developing and sustaining a SAP
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HollyFrontier: Resurrecting Super User Programs Post Go-Live to Drive Business Value (3:05 pm)
Level: Beginner
HollyFrontier implemented SAP several years ago. They had identified gaps in the utilization of SAP and in correctly following the processes that SAP sets forth in some areas. The opportunity to improve SAP utilization, follow standardized business processes, and increase overall ROI from the use of SAP was recognized. One of the key success factors to accomplish this was to build a Super User framework that would be piloted, assessed and repeated throughout the organization. In partnership with Abreon, HollyFrontier created an approach to building and sustaining Super User Communities throughout the organization.
In order to ensure success, HollyFrontier leveraged a creative approach to ensure the right people were engaged, the end user community was aware of the program, the super users received the education required to be successful with their new role, and rewards and recognition programs were put in place to help gain momentum and ensure sustainability long term. Key elements of the program included:
Assessing the organization by location and determining the right mix of super users
Communicating early and often with custom branding, using simple communication vehicles to drive excitement and awareness
Building a training program that includes eLearning, Instructor Led Training, and Job Aids to ensure the Super Users have the information required to do their jobs as well as to share with the end user community
Ensuring Super Users have system, process and soft skills required to be effective in their role
Packaging the Super User program to be repeated in other parts of the organization, and incorporated into the overall support of HollyFrontier
Establishing a long-term sustainable program with flexibility based on the changing needs of the organization over time
We aren’t finished yet. As the program continues to grow beyond its initial stage, HollyFrontier plans to implement measurement tools to provide management empirical and statistical data. HollyFrontier has purchased and is implementing KNOA to measure gaps and areas of risk as well as opportunities for immediate improvement. This data will also be used to demonstrate improvement and identify focus topics for future improvement. In many SAP implementation projects, change management is a part of the project plan before go-live. Those who have implemented major change efforts understand that true business process and transofrmation change often isn't fully realized until after go-live. Super users are key to making sure the change 'sticks' and can be long-term advocates for the effort. In this session, we will review how Cameron is utilizing super users as change agents. Blake Abbott, Senior Manager, Business Process Management, HollyFrontier Corporation Sherri Regester, Abreon HollyFrontier Corporation is among the largest independent petroleum refiners in the United States with operations throughout the mid-continent, southwestern and Rocky Mountain regions. In his current position, Blake is responsible for the oversight of all business process improvement initiatives as well as enterprise master data. Blake Abbott has specialized in FI/CO and enterprise architecture since 1996. Previously, he worked as an SAP implementation consultant for over 15 years where he developed diverse industry experience in financial management, oil and gas, telecommunications, healthcare operations, insurance, automotive and manufacturing. His SAP product experience includes Finance, Controlling, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Plant Maintenance, Production Planning, Investment Management, Project Systems, Asset Accounting and Business Intelligence.
Super User – Getting More Productive with SAP
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IT Leaders, Business Leader, and Super User Leaders; 5 Business Outcomes Made Possible Through Super
Users
(10:00 am) Level: Beginner Super Users are indispensable – and the better the community the greater the value. We will explore how super user community ownership & development can enable the following 5 business outcomes: 1. Lower TCO 2. Drive Sustainability 3. Increase Adoption 4. Build shared ownership 5. Drive continuous improvement
Kerry Brown, VP Enablement, SAP America Kerry Brown is a Global VP Enablement with SAP. She specializes in providing value in end-to-end delivery of business strategy and organizational transformation. Kerry has been with SAP for 7 years, prior to joining SAP, Kerry worked for Coca Cola Enterprises as the Global Director for Change Leadership. She has successfully developed and led teams for large, complex global initiatives and reengineering/system implementations enabling them to realize the fulfillment of organizational competency bringing the greatest value to their organizations.
Creating an Issues Tracking or Ticketing System in SharePoint (11:05 am) Level: Beginner Everyone has issues. But everyone doesn't have the same issues. Some have issues with SAP, some with their PC, some with facilities…and some are just personal issues...but we'll leave those out. Something most of us have in common is we want to keep up with those issues, whatever they may be. Join SharePoint guru Russell Wright as he takes you through a journey of building an issues tracking system in SharePoint. We're just hoping he doesn't have any issues doing it… Russell Wright, Technical Director, Configurable Management Russell introduced SharePoint to Texas Instruments in 2002 while heading a systems group in the Worldwide Procurement and Logistics division. His team assisted internal users with obtaining significant business value from SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies for several years. In his current position, he continues to help people plan and architect business solutions using SharePoint and SAP. When he’s not “geeking out”, you can find him in the garage working on cars, at the bowling alley, or in the kitchen baking up homemade Jalapeno bread and English muffins. He currently provides training and services in the SharePoint and SAP space as Technical Director at Configurable Management where the focus is on integrating the SharePoint and SAP worlds leveraging Winshuttle products. Russell has been providing SharePoint training and consulting as an employee since 2003 and as an independent consultant since 2007. He loves to teach and inspire students with the capabilities of SharePoint both in the Dallas area and around the nation.
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SAP Dashboards 4.1 Advanced Visualization Techniques (12:55 pm) Level: Beginner The most consistent challenge organizations face when rolling out a dashboard is poor user adoption rates. This is almost always due to not paying enough attention to the three core components that separate an ordinary dashboard from extraordinary. In this session, you will learn how to bring all three pieces together to deliver sleek, valuable and user-friendly SAP Dashboards that your executives will love.
What will be discussed:
1) User Interface: Nobody wants to look at an ugly dashboard. The best dashboards integrate custom graphics, loading screens and sleek controls, all staying true to their own corporate style.
2) User Experience: Dashboards shouldn't have to come with a 50 page manual. They should be intuitive, easy-to-use and guide the user towards the answer they're looking for, even before they know the question.
3) Business Value: Far too often dashboard projects fail before they've even begun to be built. Understanding how to properly lead business requirements gathering sessions will ensure the dashboard you're building will provide real value to its users.
Take-Away Benefits:
1) Learn to create and integrate custom graphics into your dashboards using the free tool paint.NET.
2) Learn to create an intuitive dashboard design based on the way the human mind processes visual input.
3) Learn to extract valuable requirements from your users, even when they themselves don't know what they want.
Jeremy Alper, Senior Business Intelligence Consultant, Method360 Jeremy Alper is a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at Method360 with over 10 years experience in data visualization. Jeremy has designed dozens of executive level SAP dashboard solutions for fortune 500 companies in various sectors. His ability to transform data into information continues to help businesses rethink the way they do Business Intelligence.
Accelerated Excel-based SAP reporting: Insights to enhance productivity, timeliness, security, and accuracy
(2:00 am)
Level: Beginner Hear real-world best practices to automate your organization's reporting processes within the SAP ERP General Ledger and sub-ledgers as well as other specific SAP ERP modules. Hear firsthand about the tools other organizations used to overcome pain points and challenges integrating their spreadsheet environment with SAP ERP. By attending, you'll learn:
How to leverage existing SAP reports in Excel and eliminate the need to rekey, download, and export data
Methods to empower users to develop reports tailored to your organization's unique needs in a timely fashion without heavy reliance on IT, gaining increased time savings, departmental analysis, and efficiency; timeliness of budgeting process; better visibility of financial (and any other departmental) data across the entire organization; and enhanced spreadsheet security
Best practices to access SAP financial, budgeting, and operational environments without the need for data warehousing, data marts, and other middleware
Kevin Gibson, Sr. Excel Automation Solution Consultant, Global Software
Kevin joined the Global team in 2014. Prior to joining, he was the Financial Reporting Manger at the National
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Federation of Independent Business where he utilized Global’s flagship product, Spreadsheet Server, for six
years. Before that he was the corporate controller for e+ Cancer Care, a Nashville, Tennessee based healthcare
company where he managed the day to day operations for this $100+ million startup. Kevin gains his unique
perspective from 15+ years of hands on corporate experience. Working with many planning and reporting tools
over the years, he can quickly understand a client’s current situation and help them assess where Global’s
spreadsheet automation tools can help to ease bottlenecks. Kevin currently plays a leading role in product
direction - specifically with Global's Microsoft Excel-based automation tools.
From Mess to Success: One Company’s Journey from Chaos to Model Driven Integration (2:00 pm)
Level: Beginner Organizations of all sizes are struggling to streamline processes, integrate systems, and become more agile. In this presentation, we will highlight the path a global logistics and distribution company took to integrate 17 different ERP systems in 38 countries. Utilizing a process that focused more on standardizing and harmonizing business processes and less on controlling and reducing IT costs, this company attained phenomenal results, including an 83% reduction in integration time for new business partners. Learn more about their approach and the platforms they used along this incredible journey. Enrique Krajmalnik, , Sr. Systems Engineer, No Magic
Enrique is a Sr. Systems Engineer at No Magic, with an emphasis on business process and systems integration
utilizing the Cameo E2E Bridge. Before joining No Magic, Enrique co-founded Servoyant, a cloud-based remote
monitoring and management platform for IT providers, where he was responsible for strategy, direction, and
product vision. Prior to Servoyant, Enrique co-founded Illumen, a leading provider of IT managed services since
1996, where he served as President and CEO. A veteran of the IT services industry, Enrique has over 25 years of
experience providing technical solutions for businesses. Enrique studied mechanical engineering at Duke
University and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Enrique
was recently listed in the MSPMentor 250 as one of the most influential people in managed services.
Enrique lives in Plano, Texas with his wife, his two daughters and their pair of golden retrievers.
Level: Beginner Have you ever been merged, acquired, divested, split, or spun-off? Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity from coffee room rumors to the final deal execution creates organization chaos and major disruptions. Fear, uncertainty, lack of communications grip organizations and people. However, we all have muddled through these titanic changes and managed to survive. While all departments within the organization struggle with the pending changes, none is affected more than Information Technology department. Little thought is given to the impact on the technical infrastructure or changes to the application systems during the due diligence analysis prior to the closing of the deal. Yet the IT infrastructure and application architecture are the enablers that stabilizes the new entity and restores normalcy to the organization. Join us as we investigate organization change approaches, IT strategies, and the strategies for the restoration of the super-user communities following an M&A disruption. Mark Evans, Retired Oil & Gas Executive, Connect2Client Mark W. Evans recently retired from SAP after 38 years in the Oil & Gas industry. During his tenure at SAP he was Senior Director in Oil & Gas Industry Business Unit focusing on Solutions Manager for the Downstream Oil &
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Gas Industry. Prior to joining SAP, Mark was the co-founder of JMES Enterprises, an Oil & Gas Consulting firm that specialized in SAP implementation and support activities in the US Oil & Gas Downstream business areas. Mark has held various executive and senior management positions at Holly Corporation as the Vice President and CIO responsible for Holly’s SAP implementation, at Tesoro Corporation as Senior Vice-President and CIO and at Phillips Petroleum Company in various Information Technology, Finance, and Operations positions. Mark has 38+ years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry and 22+ years of involvement with SAP Oil and Gas implementation and support. Mark’s involvement with SAP includes leading multiple end to end implementation of SAP ERP, establishing and managing SAP support organizations, Oil & Gas industry leadership through his involvement in the Oil and Gas Global Council, and major development and integration efforts. During his tenure at the various Oil & Gas firms, Mark has involved in all aspects of Refining Information Technology from the Distributed Control Systems to Executive Reporting and Dashboards. Mark brings a wealth of real world and practical experience in the business of Refining and its Information Technology needs.
BPC 10.1… Which Flavor is Right for you? (3:05 pm)
Level: Beginner Depending on the way your company runs its operations, various reports and dashboards give the executives and managers insights into the business, the data structures and its presentation to the users make your BI solution a success or failure. In the latest avatar of SAP BPC, SAP now offers 3 choices of architecture that can be adopted for BI Planning and Reporting, which architecture is right for your company? Let this presentation be of some assistance to you in order to see how we can help RAMP Up your business.
Rick Patel, Founder and Managing Director, RAMP Consulting Rick Patel has extensive experience in Financial, Manufacturing, CRM, Data-warehousing, and Business Intelligence and ERP projects. He is highly experienced with every aspect of EPM, Planning Budgeting and Forecasting processes – from benchmarking, performance metrics, long term strategic to daily operational plans and budgets. He has over eighteen (18) years of client service experience including fifteen (15) years of SAP BI, SEM-BPS, IP and BPC.
SharePoint – Without the Frustration (3:05 pm) Level: Beginner As a super user or project team member, have you ever been frustrated with the ability to test and train in readily available and easy to use and maintain environments with current data? We have the solution for you! SharePoint’s flexibility is also its downfall. As the demand grows, so do the calls for wider integrations:
· Third party add-ons
· User/departmental customizations
· Interconnectivity
As these extra features are added to keep up with demand, the product becomes more and more complex. As
complexity increases, so does the likelihood of failure. Unfortunately, creating development or test environments for
the typical enterprise scale SharePoint environment is very difficult if not impossible. Typical development and test
environments that fail to reflect production data lead to unsuccessful deployments, costly rollbacks, and long
weekends.
The award-winning advanced development and testing environment from Kubisys replicates SharePoint application
environments from production, allowing you to create complete and accurate SharePoint environments for
development and testing with ease. With smart automation, Kubisys eliminates configuration drift and unplanned
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outages due to configuration changes. With a few simple clicks your organization can refresh environments to keep
settings up-to-date on-demand.
Find out how developers utilize a self-service portal to provision their own environment as needed, gaining new
levels of understanding as to how actual production data and settings are impacted by changes to the software or
environment.
Test and develop faster, better and cheaper. Never have to settle for two out of three again.
Peter Joeckel, President and Founder, TurnOnDevOps Peter Joeckel has been a leader in mid-market ERP (enterprise resource planning) since 1986 when his company installed some of the first network based manufacturing systems in the country. He built and eventually sold one of the fastest growing and forward thinking value-added software dealerships in the country. Its success was fueled by innovative software selection techniques and an outstanding project delivery team. Peter began his ERP consulting career while working in a manufacturing systems consulting group. His education and early work experience put him in a position to see the potential for PC based manufacturing systems for small and medium sized companies. Since that time, he has assisted in the selection and implementation of hundreds of ERP solutions. He has been recognized for his ability to match the right solution for a customer’s needs rather than “pushing boxes of software.” Today, Peter focuses on helping companies select and implement ERP solutions by using advanced tools and processes that increase the likelihood of successful projects. His goal is to continue to improve those tools and processes to build value for customers and provide a smooth transition from the selection to implementation process. He is a 1981 graduate of Columbia University, New York, New York, with a B.S. degree in industrial engineering and operations research.
Super User – Team & Personal Skills Wow Your Executives: Selling the Value of Super User Programs with Real Data (10:00 am)
Level: Beginning If senior executives expect Super User programs to run lean and deliver big already – how are you going WOW them? How are you going to create that unexpected customer delight that can possibly increase your budget, secure your program and further your career? In this session we are going to discuss multiple sources of information in you organization today that can help you create powerful stories. Stories that break through the noise and WOW. Some of the areas to be covered include:
· User Satisfaction · Economics of Productivity Losses · Help Desk / Incident Trends · User Performance Benchmarking · Process Variation & Breakdowns
Don’t miss this session and please bring your own powerful story of marketing super user program worth to share at this session.
Chris Dowse, Founder, NeoChange I am the Founder of Neochange, a bay-area user adoption services firm that specializes in user adoption analytics. Anyone that has met me knows that I am obsessed with User Success, I have been working on user adoption challenges for over 15 years having advised many software companies and their customer on how to improve business impact through user adoption. Example software clients include CA, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com, Symantec, VMware. Most of my efforts however have been focused on the buyers of enterprise software, some of our clients have included Wells Fargo, McKesson, DirecTV, and Cisco. We have an SAP User Analytic solution that we launched last year and is now sold by SAP and SAP implementation firms.
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In terms of topics to discuss with me, I am a bit of a data freak! I love finding the truth hidden in data and helping my clients shape powerful stories that compel organizational change - thus the company name Neochange.
Community Best Practices for Creating High Value Content (11:05 am)
Level: Beginner We will discuss how online communities work and the best practices that provide high value content. These online
communities can be made up of SAP stakeholders within an organization or Super Users sharing ideas from many
different organizations.
Denis Oneil, Social Media Consultant, OLinks Corporation At OLinks, we take a business approach to Social Media and Search Engine Marketing. The ultimate objectives are business growth, customer service, and resilience. We believe that our client needs to be reached through any online network that their prospect, customer, or partner prefers. We guide our clients to project a consistent marketing message across assets that they own (ie. their Web Site), they pay for (Online advertising), and they earn (ie. their Blog and company social channels)
Super Users – Conveying the Message with Oomph - TBD (12:55 pm) Level: Beginner If you are a super user and are required to convey information to the end users you support, presentation skills are important. During this session, you will learn about connecting to the audience and grabbing their attention, closing with impact, and how to handle questions. Julie Fawdington, Manager – Super User Development Team, Cameron I've worked in leadership development, training, HR and change management roles during my career. Combining these skills with a great team, we have created a sustainable super user program within Cameron and grown it to be an integral part of our SAP support model. We are passionate about working with super users and helping them perform as key change levers in the organization. They are the ones who get things done in the business!
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