Global Bike Inc. (GBI) – SAP UA’s global
curriculum standard Stefan Weidner, Head of SAP UCC, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
SAP University Alliances Infoday in CIS 2012, Moscow – December 13, 2012
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SAP University Alliances
EMEA Americas APJ
1.319 member institutions 807 285 227
7.147 lecturers 4.511 1.815 821
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SAP University Alliances EMEA – Facts
Facts More than 800 universities, universities of applied sciences
and vocational schools with more than 130,000 students are using services provided by SAP UA and the UCCs in Magdeburg and Munich in der EMEA Region.
Beside Germany, the following countries/regions are active:
Africa
Belgium / The Netherlands / Luxemburg (BeNeLux)
Bulgaria / Romania / Hungary / Poland (CEE)
Denmark / Finland / Sweden / Norway (Nordics)
Estonia / Latvia / Lithuania (Baltics)
France
Greece / Turkey / Israel
Great Britain / Ireland
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia etc. (CIS)
Slovenia / Serbia (Adriatics)
Spain / Portugal
Switzerland / Austria
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SAP UA and its SAP Competence Centers
HP / IBM
UCC / ACC
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Curriculum Support
Development of course material
Curriculum material developed by UA and UCCs
Teaching material for all SAP products in SAP UA
EMEA product portfolio
Ready to apply in classroom
Basis for development of own curriculum material
Curriculum material developed by UA members
Curriculum material shared by UA member
lecturers
Exchange of curriculum material for teaching ERP
and related topics
Rich curriculum material database on SAP UA
Community Portal
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SAP UA Community Portal
■ Access to latest news
■ Rich curriculum database
■ Teaching materials from
SAP UA and UCCs
■ Forums for discussions
between UA members on
teaching and research
Join our Community at http://uac.sap.com
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SAP University Alliances EMEA – Diversity
Target groups
Universities, U. of applied sciences
Vocational academies
Vocational schools, schools
„Cultures“
Western European
Eastern European/Asian
Arabic world
Africa
Languages
…
■ Educational systems
■ Teaching- and learning philosophies
■ New technologies (In-memory, mobile)
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Global Bike Inc. (GBI) – Objectives
■ Project Sponsor
- SAP UA
■ Project Core Team
- Simha Magal, Stefan Weidner, Jeff Word
■ Objectives
- Reengineer GBI 1.0 client to facilitate two levels of teaching
- Beginner level (realistic single-company code enterprise with multiple master data)
- Advanced level (multi-company code teaching environment with single master data)
- Create stable and flexible foundation for future SAP UA curricula
- Provide extensive background material, figures and examples to allow “almost real-life” business experience for students
- Cover more SAP ERP modules
General Availability ■ SAP UA Americas, SAP UA EMEA and SAP UA APJ in summer/fall 2010
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Global Bike Inc. (GBI) – Milestones
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Global Bike Inc. (GBI) – New version 2.11
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Enhancements in GBI 2.11 (Summer/Fall 2012)
Extended curriculum modules Financial Accounting (FI)
Managerial Accounting (CO)
Warehouse Management (WM)
New curriculum modules Project System (PS)
Business Process Analysis (BPA)
Other ongoing curriculum developments SAP Mobile Platform
SAP HANA
SAP ERP Configuration
SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM)
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BW)
… many more
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Enhancements in GBI 2.11 (Summer/Fall 2012)
New features/tools
Multi-company code environment for advanced SAP classes (test phase)
- SCC: Single company code (one GBI group, 1000 copies of master data)
- MCC: Multi company codes (100 GBI groups,1 copy of master data)
eLearning units recorded with SAP Workforce Performance Builder (datango)
Lecturers notes and data sheets for case studies
Mass user maintenance
Extension/localization guidelines
GBI corporate logo
… much more
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Future enhancements in GBI 2.x / 3.x
Near-future enhancements (GBI 2.x)
Extension and localization
Transformation of existing curricula to GBI dataset
Extend GBI case (history, data, scenarios)
Multi-company code curricula
Tools for student evaluation/grading
Far-future enhancements (GBI 3.x)
Integration with other SAP solutions and UA curricula
Historic and current transactional data for other curriculum scenarios
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GBI Business Process Model (ARIS and BPMN)
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eLearning units in SAP WPB (formerly datango)
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Interactive role play
1 First customer meeting
2a Internal preparation
2b External preparation
3 Kick-off meeting
4-1 Analysis workshop - Take 1
4-2 Analysis workshop - Take 2
5 Prototyping
6 Steering committee
7 Go-live
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Interactive role play – Storyboards
Thank You!
Question?
Ideas?
Contact information:
Stefan Weidner
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
SAP University Competence Center