ASUG Express: Next-Generation SAP Enterprise Architect Cloud Boot Camp Part 1: Developing Your Cloud Skills and Mindset

As more organizations move toward digital transformations and adoption of intelligent technologies, having the framework and talent in place to architect everything will become essential to success. Organizations need to have a strategy that involves data, processes, technology, and people, and no one role is better equipped to manage that than an enterprise architect. 

 

However, many SAP enterprise architects need to add one key new skill set that is essential for modern business transformations: cloud skills. The cloud is quickly becoming the landscape for innovation—the place where architects can help their organizations meet their increasing business challenges, modernize workloads on world-class infrastructure, protect data with multi-layered security, drive decision-making with intelligent analytics and insights, and adopt hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures without vendor lock-in. 

 

Please join us for a special interactive boot camp for SAP enterprise architects. We will cover the following topics from the perspective of real-world enterprise architects who have learned the skills necessary to transform themselves into cloud architects. This three-part program with in-between self-study will cover the following topics:

 

Agenda Topics:

• How to Become a Next-Generation Cloud Architect
• Cloud Insights: What You Need to Know and Do
• Architecting and Adopting a Cloud Mindset
• Accelerate Your Cloud Knowledge and Skills: On-Demand Playlist and Resources
• Living in the Cloud: New Opportunities to Accelerate Innovation and Value
• Smart Analytics in the Cloud
• Innovate in the Cloud with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Part 1: Developing Your Cloud Skills and Mindset

 

Introduction
Paul Kurchina – Community Builder and Evangelist, ASUG

 

How to Become a Next-Generation SAP Architect
Alison Hettrick – SAP Solution Consultant, Google Cloud

Today and in the future, you will need to supplement your skills with knowledge and skills on how to architect SAP for Cloud. The SAP cloud architect role translates the technical requirements and technical architecture of your SAP project into the cloud-specific technical architecture aspects and solution design to achieve the target state solution objective. Cloud architects are also responsible for bridging the gaps between complex business problems and defining solution architectures in the cloud. Learn what additional skills are needed to expand your knowledge into the cloud, why these skills are necessary, and how new cloud innovations will help transform your business.

 

Cloud Insights from a Former SAP On-Premise Architect: What You Need to Know and Do
Rohit Kamath – SAP Solution Consultant, Google Cloud

 

You need to change your mindset when thinking about moving your applications to the cloud or adopting cloud technologies. We will discuss some key items you should consider when thinking about moving applications to the cloud, from a first-hand perspective. Since innovation and change are always upon us, it is now more important than ever to adopt cloud skills in order to fit your needs sooner - and benefit from those skills faster. Learn how.

 

How Southwire Is Architecting and Adopting a Cloud Mindset
Chris Easterwood – VP of Center of Excellence, Southwire

 

In this session, we will learn how SAP and Google Cloud customer Southwire transformed itself and adopted a cloud mindset. Chris Easterwood, Vice President of ITS Integration Projects, will discuss: How training began with an on-site Bootcamp from Google Cloud focusing on the Google Cloud Platform; How Southwire engaged with a knowledgeable partner to help steer their infrastructure in the early stages; and What strategic discussions took place with Google Cloud and internal decision-making staff on how to build out Southwire’s underlying structure, e.g. organization, projects and network.

 

Accelerate Your Cloud Knowledge and Skills: On-Demand Playlist and Resources
Paul Kurchina – Community Builder and Evangelist, ASUG

If you have a success story to share, a non-member who would like to register, or are interested in sponsorship opportunities, please email us at asugexpress@asug.com.  

In partnership with:

Speakers

• Alison Hettrick, SAP Solutions Consultant, Google Cloud
• Alison Hettrick, SAP Solutions Consultant, Google Cloud
• Alison Hettrick, SAP Solutions Consultant, Google Cloud
• Rohit Kamath, SAP Solution Consultant, Google Cloud
• Rohit Kamath, SAP Solution Consultant, Google Cloud
• Rohit Kamath, SAP Solution Consultant, Google Cloud
• Chris Easterwood, VP of ITS Integration, Southwire
• Chris Easterwood, VP of ITS Integration, Southwire
• Chris Easterwood, VP of ITS Integration, Southwire
• Paul Kurchina, Connector, Community Builder and ASUG Evangelist, ASUG
• Paul Kurchina, Connector, Community Builder and ASUG Evangelist, ASUG
• Paul Kurchina, Connector, Community Builder and ASUG Evangelist, ASUG