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May 16-17, 2023 | Pre-Conference: May 15
Get a First Look at the ASUG Pre-Conference Seminars!
Kick off your ASUG Annual Conference experience on May 15 with an in-depth, hands-on experience from the best subject matter experts.
Immerse yourself in the most relevant and sought-after SAP products and services.
Pre-conference topics include:
- Understanding the SAP Business Technology Platform and its components
- Utilizing strategies to help build your resilient supply chain
- Enhancing your finance processes with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Gaining a better understanding of your guided journey to the cloud
- Analyzing HR data to help monitor your workforce
- Helping HR teams move to the cloud
- Protecting your organization with cyber security
- Learning what Enterprise Architects need to know when moving through a transformation
Whether you’re a Chief Enterprise Architect or a Supply Chain Manager, we have a seminar for you. Get the full seminar details on the SAP Sapphire and ASUG Annual Conference Registration site.
Can’t attend the pre-conference seminars? Find ASUG on the show floor and attend one of our more intimate Power Peer Group discussions with SAP thought leaders.
ASUG Pre-Conference Seminars
SAP Business Technology Platform
| Accelerate your ERP journey to the cloud with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Learn how SAP BTP delivers proven value to SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers at every step, from migration to integration to innovation. Hear directly from customers on the why, the what, and the how as they leverage SAP BTP and embark on their ERP cloud journey. Understand how to:
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This is the first, afternoon track as part of the full-day SAP Business Technology Platform pre-conference seminar.
Develop an ABAP Restful Application Programming Model (RAP) service as a custom extension to the SAP S/4HANA offering within ABAP Cloud on SAP S/4HANA. Using this service, create an application and a process using SAP low-code application development and automation offering SAP Build on the SAP BTP. Learn how professional developers in an ABAP environment and citizen developers in SAP Build can collaborate to construct powerful extensions to SAP S/4HANA.
This pre-conference seminar is hands-on. Please bring your own device.
This is track two in the SAP Business Technology Platform pre-conference seminar.
Learn why 1 + 1 = 3 in this hands-on seminar focusing on SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics coming together. Attendees will learn how to enable a Business Data Fabric across enterprise data stores, eliminate data duplication, and understand how BW Bridge can help you transition from BW or BW/4HANA to SAP Datasphere, while protecting existing investments.
With SAP Analytics Cloud deployed on top of SAP Datasphere, get live access to these semantically rich data models to deliver Visualizations, Augmented Analytics, and Predictive/Planning scenarios.
This pre-conference seminar is hands-on. Please bring your own device.
Attend this seminar to get hands-on experience with:
- SAP Datasphere
- Data Modeling
- Data Flows
- Analytical Modeling
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- Visualization
- Predictive scenarios
This is the third, afternoon track in the SAP Business Technology Platform pre-conference seminar.
As you transform your digital core, better understand your process integrations and the tools available to move your PI/PO to Integration Suite. SAP Integration Suite, a three-time Leader in the Gartner IPaaS Magic Quadrant, is one of the fastest-growing holistic Integration offerings, covering all Enterprise Integration requirements. See why it is a must in your SAP S/4HANA journey and non-SAP life alongside Integration-Expert guidance to get a real-world taste of the hottest product today.
This pre-conference seminar is hands-on. Please bring your own device.
Gain understanding about:
- Application Integration
- API-Led Integrations
- Async/Event-Based Integration
- Data Integration
- Non-SAP Integration
- And much more!
SAP S/4HANA
| Learn how you can benefit from a modern and comprehensive suite of finance solutions on SAP S/4HANA Cloud to automate your financial processes and confidently stir your business through uncertain economic times. During this half-day seminar, you’ll learn about the SAP vision and strategy for finance and hear from customers about their experiences running their financial processes on SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Attend this seminar to:
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SAP launched RISE with SAP to help companies become intelligent and sustainable enterprises in the Cloud. Since its launch, RISE with SAP has become the market standard to guide all our customers along their business transformation journey.
Over 2,500 customers have already chosen RISE with SAP to benefit from a guided journey, every step of the way, fully supported by SAP and partners.
Attend this seminar to:
- Get a complete overview of RISE with SAP and the unique value it can bring to your organization
- Explore the end-to-end journey from business process transformation to continuous innovation
- Understand how you can deploy SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the Cloud ERP for every business need, and evolve to a clean core
- Discover how to define your own adoption journey based on your business and IT requirements, desired timelines, and expected outcomes
- Learn how to go beyond and drive more business innovation
- Hear from customers about their experience with RISE with SAP
SAP Signavio
In a world of constant change, SAP Signavio solutions are a strategic pillar in every company's success, enabling organizations to achieve their maximum potential through constant process transformation. Over 2,000 companies have started their journey on SAP Signavio solutions to quickly adapt to change and reliably deliver faster business outcomes across heterogenous (SAP and non-SAP) operating environments.
Attend this seminar to:
- Learn about the ingredients for a successful business process transformation and how SAP Signavio offers them on a Cloud-based platform for business process management
- Hear from transformation leaders whose companies are leveraging SAP Signavio solutions to establish a data-driven continuous improvement culture across the organization
- Experience hands-on the SAP Signavio solutions, methodology, and value accelerators to help you drive successful business process transformations
Human Experience Management
SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics offers a wide variety of report types and tools to work with SAP SuccessFactors data. Reporting enables organizations to monitor how different areas of an organization are performing, and analytics extracts meaningful insights that can be used to better understand and improve organizational performance.
This session does not require prerequisite knowledge.
Attend this seminar to:
- Gain an understanding of different solutions and proper use cases for the range of tools
- Utilizing SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics relies on data from Employee Central as the HRIS system, both of which are separately licensed modules for SAP SuccessFactors
How can you provide a core HR system that meets your global business needs and engages your workforce? With SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, you can manage your total workforce while delivering personalized experiences that improve everyday work life.
In this training, you will learn how to keep track of all critical HR information in line with country-specific requirements across your workforce. You will see how embedded localization helps ensure compliance and standardize HR processes globally.
This session does not require prerequisite knowledge.
Attendees will learn:
- How to increase workforce productivity with powerful self-service that provides fast and easy access to important tasks
- How to understand the security concepts for sensitive data
Customer Experience
This full-day pre-conference seminar will provide a detailed overview of the SAP customer experience (CX) suite of solutions to help meet your front- and back-office goals, as well as sustainability solutions that support your green initiatives.
Gain an understanding of how these solutions relate to other business-line solutions, including SAP Commerce, Re-Commerce, Green CX, and SAP Sales, Service, and Customer Engagement. Hear from SAP product managers about how the SAP CX suite can deliver innovations in CX, as well as insights from partners and customers who are already using these solutions.
Attend this seminar to:
- Understand how to adopt and transition to Sustainable business models
- Learn how One Office can add value by connecting back office with front office to provide a complete end-to-end digital solution
- Explore Composable CX to complement and extend your existing CRM/CX solutions
- Understand how to contribute to True Zero: zero waste, zero inequality, and zero emissions
Supply Chain
This pre-conference session is a deep dive into SAP capabilities in manufacturing execution and insights, quality management, and safe and sustainable operations. We’ll review technical architecture, as well as customer use cases, and we will also provide a detailed update on the product roadmap.
Attendees will learn:
- How SAP Digital Manufacturing solutions enable both discrete and process industries
- How SAP EHS solutions for environment management and workplace safety enable safe and sustainable operations
- What is the migration path for current MES and MII customers to SAP Digital Manufacturing
Companies leverage SAP solutions to digitalize their supply chain processes from end to end, including how products are designed, planned, manufactured, delivered, and serviced. This enables them to manage disruptions better, faster, and at a lower cost by becoming more connected, agile, and productive.
Attend this seminar to learn:
- How to address supply chain challenges today and in the future
- About SAP supply chain solutions that span the entire Design-to-Operate
- About the benefits of accelerated supply chain digitalization
- Best practices in creating differentiated cross-functional processes
Enterprise Architecture
| What an SAP Enterprise Architect (EA) needs to know for digital transformation success is changing as we mature into the Cloud. As the role of Enterprise Architects evolves, they must know the current thinking and strategy of SAP across many areas. This session will provide updates on new EA thinking across Business, Application, Data, and Technology architecture from an SAP point of view. Hear about updates to the SAP EA Framework and how this can support you in your influencer role as an Enterprise Architect. During this workshop, you’ll learn about SAP vision and strategy across topics relevant to EAs and those who manage this function. Key Outcomes:
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Cyber Security
| Join this pre-conference seminar to learn more about the SAP approach to Zero Trust and how to implement security in your SAP environment. This session will cover the latest security products that support Zero Trust efforts and the basics of securing any SAP system. Best practices, SAP Cybersecurity, and Data Protection tools will be covered. Take away ideas to secure your SAP system and leverage Zero Trust principles! Confidentiality, integrity, and data availability are essential parts for secure operations and trusted relationships, especially in an SAP environment that holds customer mission-critical systems and data. During this half-day seminar, hear from customers on how they address challenges such as secure cloud migration and implementing safeguards to keep the business up and running. Get an overview of SAP Security Strategy. Tim McKnight, Chief Security Officer for SAP, will kick off this pre-conference seminar. Learn how SAP secures customer cloud operations for business continuity and learn about the security features available in SAP S/4HANA, RISE with SAP, and SAP Business Technology Platform (formerly the SAP Cloud Platform). Hear from customers on how to approach securing their SAP systems and managing cyber risk. Key Outcomes:
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