ASUG Georgia Chapter Meeting Friday, September 20, 2013, 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET

Newell Rubbermaid

3 GlenLake Parkway

Atlanta, GA 30328

Directions & Facility Map

Thank You to Our Hosts:

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Time/Room Topic Speaker(s)

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast Compliments of our sponsors

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Room: Auditiorium Chapter Welcome & ASUG Update

Rajeev Kapur,

ASUG Georgia Chapter

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Room: Auditorium

KEYNOTE:

SAP Solutions for Governance, risk, and Compliance (GRC):

Product Updates, Strategy, and Roadmap

Michael Lortz, Vice-

President, SAP

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break

Morning Breakout Sessions 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Applications & Services Track

Room: Irwin Guided Chart-of-Accounts Conversion in Four Steps

Level: Beginner Bernd Noll, SNP America

Mobility Track

Room: Graco/Aprica

Enterprise Mobility Demo – How Lifetime Brands is Using

SMP to Revolutionize the Supply Chain on a Tablet Device

Level: Beginner

Jay Westberg,

Dickinson + Associates

Cliff Siegel, Lifetime Brands

Data Governance

Track

Room: Sharpie

Tap the Full Value of SAP HANA through Effective Data

Governance

Level: Beginner

Will Crump,

DATUM LLC

Analytics & HANA Track

Room: Rubbermaid

Analyzing Social Media Data Using SAP

EIM & Analytics Solutions

Level: Beginner

Hillary Bliss

& Bruce Labbate,

Decision First Technologies

Full Day Workshop

Room: Calphalon

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and SAP

BusinessObjects BI

(Full Day Workshop – Limited Availability)

Rohit Kamath, SAP

11:15 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. Break

Morning Breakout Sessions 11:35 a.m. – 12:35 a.m.

Applications & Services Track

Room: Irwin The Hidden Truths About Software Support

Level: All Spinnaker Support

Mobility Track

Room: Graco/Aprica

Learn How to Build a Mobility Road Map in 3 Simple Steps

Level: Intermediate

Piyush Bhandari,

Softtek

Room: Sharpie

SAP Screen Personas & How They Enhance User

Experience

Level: All

Stacy Hapgood

& Randy Geoghagan,

Tracepoint Consulting

Analytics & HANA Track

Room: Rubbermaid

EMC Global IT: How We Transformed SAP Using

Virtualization

Level: Beginner

Mark Terry,

EMC

Full Day Workshop

Room: Calphalon

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and SAP

BusinessObjects BI Rohit Kamath, SAP

12:35 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Compliments of our sponsors

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Room: Auditorium

KEYNOTE:

Risks to Your Data When it Gets “Out of the Box”

Sponsored by: SECUDE

Scott Baker,

The Coca-Cola Company

2:00 p.m. – 2:05 p.m. Break

Afternoon Breakout Sessions 2:05 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.

Applications & Services Track

Room: Irwin Is There An Edward Snowden in Your Company?

Level: All

Simon Thorpe,

SECUDE

Room: Graco/Aprica Tips and Tricks for Being a More Productive SAP User

Level: All

Richard Rauch,

HCL-AXON

Data Governance Track Room: Sharpie

Getting started with Data Monitoring in 45 Minutes a Day

Level: Intermediate

Richard King,

DataIntent LLC

Analytics & HANA Track

Room: Rubbermaid

Effectively Manage Data Volumes and Reduce TCO of SAP

BW on HANA Using Sybase IQ as Near Line Storage (NLS)

Solution

Level: Intermediate

Shiva Kalikiri,

NTT Data

Full Day Workshop

Room: Calphalon

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and SAP

BusinessObjects BI Rohit Kamath, SAP

3:05 p.m. – 3:25 p.m. Break

Afternoon Breakout Sessions 3:25 p.m. – 4:25 p.m.

Applications & Services Track

Room: Irwin

Improve Efficiency of Delivery Picking with SAP Extended

Warehouse Management (EWM)

Level: Beginner

Angela Woody,

Kimberly-Clark

Room: Graco/Aprica Speed Implementation and Lower Implementation Costs

Level: All Rick Ogburn, SAP

Data Governance Track

Room: Sharpie Real Time, Excel-based SAP Reporting in Excel. Easy.

Level: Intermediate

Melissa Neal,

Excel4apps

Analytics & HANA Track

Room: Rubbermaid

Learn How Habasit Leveraged SAP BusinessObjects Edge to

Transform Standard Reporting into Pervasive BI

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Ginger DeLong, Habasit

America & Kevin Hutto,

Consultancy by KingFisher

Full Day Workshop

Room: Calphalon

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and SAP

BusinessObjects BI Rohit Kamath, SAP

4:25 p.m. – 4:35 p.m. Break

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Room: Auditorium Closing Comments, Surveys, and Prize Giveaways

Rajeev Kapur, ASUG

Georgia Chapter Chair

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Room: Networking Reception Compliments of our sponsors

Driving Directions

Newell Rubbermaid

3 GlenLake Parkway NE

Atlanta, GA 30328

From the airport:

1. Take the ramp to I-85 N

2. Slight right at GA-400 N (signs for Buckhead/State Hwy 400 N/Cumming)

3. Take exit 5B toward Sandy Springs

4. Merge onto Abernathy Rd NE

5. Turn right at Glenlake Pkwy NE

6. Destination will be the first entrance on the right

7. The Newell Rubbermaid building is the first building on your left.

8. The parking deck is just past the building.

Thank You to Our Sponsors:

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Gold Sponsors

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Presentation Abstracts

Keynotes

SAP Solutions for Governance, risk, and Compliance (GRC): Product Updates, Strategy, and Roadmap

SAP continues to invest in solutions that enable customers to proactively prevent risk events and compliance

violations. This session will share how the latest innovations in SAP’s solutions for governance, risk, and

compliance help to protect the value of your organization. See the newest solution added to the GRC portfolio

— SAP Fraud Management, powered by SAP HANA® — and learn how it can enable your organization to

detect fraud earlier — and improve prevention. Learn what’s new since the release of GRC 10.0 and what’s

coming in GRC 10.1. Hear examples of how customers are leveraging the latest innovations in SAP’s solutions

for GRC to maximize business performance and sharpen their competitive edge, and how you can do the same.

Michael Lortz, Vice-President, SAP

Risks to Your Data When it Gets “Out of the Box”

Our sensitive corporate data is safe and secure when it is tucked away in our ERM systems, but what happens

when it is removed. This is a look at the loss of security and increase in risk as information is extracted from

SAP for use by users on end user systems.

Scott Baker, CISSP, MSIA, Sr. Information Assurance Manager, Information Assurance, The Coca-Cola Company

Scott Baker is currently a Senior Information Assurance Manager in the Strategic Security and Aviation

Department of The Coca-Cola Company and has just celebrated his 27th year. He has worked in the

Information Assurance and Information Security fields for the past 17 years.

Scott entered the Information Technology field in 1983, and prior to moving to Information Security in 1996,

worked in many different roles including; IBM Midrange system operator, programmer, database designer and

administrator, help desk and field level support engineer, computer literacy instructor, Software QA analyst,

Novell and Microsoft Server Administrator, Firewall administrator, Network Security Engineer and general

“Jack-of-all-trades”.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a

Master of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University. He has held a CISSP since 2002, and was

awarded the ISE Southeast Rising Star Award in 2006.

Scott lives in Atlanta Georgia with his wife, two sons, and a menagerie of pets. During his few “off hours” he is

a painter, sculptor, bonsai slave, runner (knees, weather and time permitting), a golfer / duffer, and a semi-

professional DJ.

Applications & Services Track

Guided Chart-of-Accounts Conversion in Four Steps

A chart- of- accounts conversion is becoming more of a priority in enterprises today. Most organizations use

chart-of-accounts that were designed and deployed many years ago and they do not reflect the business

processes or requirements of today. But, because of the complexity and impact on business operations a

redesign of the chart-of-accounts is a risky and high impact project to undertake. Even the best reporting

products available cannot provide accurate and detailed reporting capability if the chart-of-accounts does not

accurately reflect how the business is TODAY. With the movement to Hana the opportunity to correct and

redesign the chart-of-accounts is even more important. SNP’s Transformation backbone provides for a guided

chart of accounts conversion in four steps. Software automation greatly lowers the risk and speeds up the

redeployment of the new chart of accounts including full data history.

SNP, the Transformation Company is the leading independent vendor of standard software for SAP

transformation. SNP has a huge track record and experience in consolidating SAP landscapes based on using

their standard software: SNP Transformation Backbone. Companies like Siemens, ABB, l'Oreal and many others

have significantly reduced the footprint of their SAP installation by leveraging SNP’s software and vast

experience.

Presentation Level: Beginner

Bernd Noll, VP, CTO, SNP America

With over 20 years of experience in the SAP space Bernd spent most of his professional career as an IT

manager, project manager and software architect. Since he joined SNP in 2001 he managed the design and

development process of some innovative and powerful SAP related software products that are the foundation of

SNP being a very successful business landscape transformation company.

In 2011 Bernd was given the opportunity to take part in SNP’s global expansion by becoming vice president and

CTO of the newly formed SNP America Inc. In this new role he is now conveying the products he formerly

created to the US market.

The Hidden Truths About Software Support

With the high cost of software support and maintenance, it is important to understand that there are options

beyond software publisher provided maintenance and large vendor outsourcing models. Gartner reports that

80% of IT operating budgets are allocated to ongoing operations and maintenance while 20% is allocated to new

IT initiatives . . . an IT allocation model that needs to be flipped on its head. .

In this presentation, you will learn about:

The state of the software support industry

What the analysts are saying about third-party options

How much other organizations are saving by switching to third-party support

Spinnaker Support

Is There an Edward Snowden In Your Company?

Level: All

Companies spend a significant amount of time and money deploying Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

technologies from SAP to run their critical business processes. Such applications house a range of sensitive data,

information about their employees, customers, finances, how their product is built and other important

company communications. Complex access controls ensure only authorized users have access to appropriate

data.

However, once information leaves the application in a format such as PDFs or spreadsheets. Previous access

control mechanisms are obsolete, rendering the data exposed and vulnerable.

Traditional data protection technologies such as DLP- and storage encryption solutions are often too late in the

process or are poor in classifying and detecting what is important content. The problem grows larger when huge

amounts of data ends up in cloud storage, such as Dropbox or SkyDrive.

So what is the right approach? How can organizations do a better job of finding and securing this data?

In this session Simon Thorpe will explain a better approach and attendees will learn;

Risks associated with data leaving applications.

The common methods deployed today and why they are failing.

Better ways to approach the problem

o Enabling users to easily classify information

o Securing sensitive data at the source

o Tracking activity for better compliance

Simon Thorpe, Project Manager, SECUDE IT

Simon Thorpe is the Product Manager and the newest addition to SECUDE’s executive team. He is responsible

for leading the company’s efforts in the area of securing exposed data, protecting the vast amount of confidential

information flowing from enterprise applications. He focuses on the design and building of SECUDE products,

while working with customers to define and deliver new solutions.

Simon has over15 years of experience and expertise in the technology and security industry. Simon joined

SECUDE from Microsoft, where he played a key role in facilitating Microsoft’s latest effort in the field of

information protection and was focused on document security, identity and access management, and secure

remote access solutions.

Simon previously worked at Microsoft and Oracle, where he played key roles working with customers,

developing solutions for document security, identity and access management and secure remote access. He is a

published author; most recently Simon contributed to the revised publication of The Complete Reference,

Information Security.

Improve Efficiency of Delivery Picking with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

Level: Beginner

See how Kimberly-Clark improved efficiency of picking and shipping of inter-company stock transfer orders by

using EWM Direct Outbound Delivery functionality.

Angela Woody, Senior Business Systems Analyst, Kimberly-Clark

Angela Woody is a Senior Business Systems Analyst at the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. For the last 12 years,

Angela has been leading strategic supply chain software implementations at Kimberly-Clark. Her first strategic

implementation was encoding the very first Kimberly-Clark RFID tag read by Wal-Mart. She then led the

implementation of SAP PI and SAP gATP during Kimberly-Clark’s Order-to-Cash rollout. Most recently, Angela

led Kimberly-Clark’s first implementation of SAP EWM.

Angela graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire with a degree in Management Information

Systems.

Mobility Track

Enterprise Mobility – How Lifetime Brands is Using SMP to Revolutionize the Supply Chain

Lifetime Brands is North America’s leading resource for nationally branded kitchenware, tabletop, home décor

and lifestyle products. Lifetime’s products make it easier for you to prepare food, serve meals, entertain guests

and decorate your home. They offer brands you trust, value without compromise and an unwavering

commitment to innovation. You may not have heard of Lifetime Brands the company, but you know what they

sell: brands like Farberware, KitchenAid, Mikasa, Cuisinart, Pfaltzgraff, Guy Fieri and Kamenstein, among others.

Lifetime Brands approached Dickinson + Associates with a requirement to bring Quality Management processes

into SAP and allow users to interact with them on a mobile device. By utilizing the SAP Mobile Platform, the

team from Dickinson + Associates was able to put together an application that can support source inspections,

social compliance and vendor audits, CT/PAT inspections and create quality notifications. The application can

do this from anywhere on the planet, even when not connected to WiFi. This application is currently deployed

to users in the United States and China with plans for rollout to the UK.

This presentation outlines the reasons SAP Mobility Solutions made sense for Lifetime Brands and outlines the

technical solution supporting the very robust, custom front end application. Finally, the presentation ends with a

live demo of the application and various features that Lifetime Brands is using in the field today.

Presentation Level: Beginner

Jay Westberg, Manager, Dickinson + Associates

Cliff Siegel, Executive Vice President of Supply Chain, Lifetime Brands

Learn How to Build a Mobility Road Map in 3 Simple Steps

Level: Intermediate

Mobility is no longer a “nice to have” feature, but a strategic necessity. Understanding how mobile solutions

extend your enterprise – and transform it – can help to pave the path to a successful mobile enterprise. We will

show you how to quickly and easily get your mobile application strategy up and running, with minimal disruption

to your business and share three examples of what other SAP customers did to jumpstart their own successful

mobility initiatives.

Piyush Bhandari, Vice-President - Technology & Delivery, ERP Practice NA, Softtek

Piyush Bhandari has more than 15 years of diversified SAP experience in leadership, analysis, design

development, upgrade, training, support, implementation, mobility and hosting. He has helped numerous SAP

customers achieve IT business transformation providing strategic advice. He is a certified SAP NetWeaver

technical consultant and SAP mobility architect. He specializes in helping improve SAP user experience and

solution integration. He holds an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Data Governance Track

Tap the Full Value of SAP HANA through Effective Data Governance

Level: Beginner

The introduction of SAP HANA to the enterprise architecture brings efficiencies in both hardware and software

architecture. In the same way that introducing a highway presents a more direct route, the skills necessary to

traverse that path at high speed also need to be developed within the organization. In this presentation, we will

discuss how organizations making the leap to SAP HANA will also face strains in cultivating the “culture of data”

necessary to support data governance, data quality and data policy management to achieve the full value from

HANA.

Will Crump, President, DATUM LLC

With over fifteen years invested in building high-performance, cross-functional teams to compete in global

venues, Will Crump brings a wealth of experience in team selection, alignment and motivation. Will has 12 years

of management experience in software product development for consumer, OEM, and enterprise business-to-

business web-application technologies. In his prior role of Global Vice President of Sales for BackOffice

Associates, he led the company’s sales effort for 5 years of consecutive double digit growth and helped diversify

the revenue to include new products and services in information governance.

In addition to hands-on product cultivation, Will has 10 years of senior executive experience in guiding business

development, international expansion, partnerships, line of business profit & loss as well as strategy consultation

to key accounts.

Getting started with Data Monitoring in 45 Minutes a Day

Level: Intermediate

This discussion will first envision what an institutionalized data quality monitoring program looks like and why it

is an important part of a balanced data governance approach, followed by a discussion of the relationship of

business standards and rules to data quality. Next we will discuss the critical pathway of query development.

Additional building blocks of quality test organization including using the ASUG Data Quality taxonomy as a

guide and tool requirements complete the roadmap

Richard A King, Partner, DataIntent LLC

Since 2003 Richard has focused on Master Data Governance primarily in SAP based environments. He is

currently a Partner at DataIntent LLC, a recent purchase of the gicom LP Master Data Governance Business

where he was the COO. Prior to gicom LP Richard’s consulting experience included barenakeData and PwC.

Before consulting, Richard first spent 25 years in the chemical industry as a Data Consumer. His experience

includes managing a specialty chemical business for a major multi-national where data management played a key

role because of reorganizations and acquisition integrations. He has built and managed a divisional level supply

chain and later organized the SAP master data governance organization for Bayer Chemicals. He has presented

at ASUG in as well as the ASUG SIG for Data Governance on 10 occasions. He is currently on the steering

committee for the ASUG Data Governance SIG working group for data quality metrics.

Real Time, Excel-based SAP Reporting in Excel. Easy.

Level: Intermediate

For SAP users, the process to maintain and report on financial data can be often inefficient, time consuming,

cumbersome, and technically challenging.

Learn how SAP® Certified Integration Solutions, such as GL Wand by Excel4apps, remove these barriers to

simple SAP financial reporting by delivering real-time financial data using the familiarity and ease of Microsoft

Excel, all without additional hardware or data warehouse requirements.

This presentation will review the capabilities and provide a product demonstration of the GL Wand solution,

including:

• Ability to report balances from SAP New GL, Classic GL, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center

Accounting, CO Orders, Activity Types, SKFs, Alternate GL Accounts, and New Custom GL Accounts all with

the ease of Excel

• Generate dashboard, management, statutory, monthly reconciliation, audit compliance and other

reports complete with ad-hoc enquiries and full drill-downs to line item and document detail

• Mass distribution of reports all through a secure HTTP connection

Melissa Neal, Business Development, SAP Partnerships, Excel4apps

Melissa Neal manages partnerships in the SAP space for Excel4apps, a provider of best-in-class Excel-based

reporting for Oracle and SAP clients worldwide. Melissa has more than 20 years of experience working with

partner relationships and building sales channels, and is familiar with financial reporting and business intelligence

products, document management software and procurement/supply chain solutions. Melissa has Bachelor’s

degrees in Business Management and Spanish, and an MBA with concentration in New Technology

Commercialization from North Carolina State University.

Analytics & HANA Track

Analyzing Social Media Data using SAP EIM & Analytics Solutions

Level: Beginner

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and other social networks are generating comments good and bad about

your company, products, and rivals...how do you harness this data to identify brand passion and sentiment as

well as uncover important trends and areas for improvement?

In this session, we will focus on leveraging SAP Data Services, SAP HANA, Text Data Processing and SAP

Predictive Analytics to collect and analyze customer sentiments from social media outlets such as Twitter and

Facebook. By analyzing social data, you can shape future company strategy and messaging while improving

existing products and services.

In this session:

Learn how to understand the natural language engine

Understand how out-of-the-box entities, relations, and requests pre-configured extract key information

for sentiments: strong positive, weak positive, neutral, weak negative, strong negative

Maximize the use of this information in your downstream analytics and applications

Discover how social data can live with your existing enterprise data warehouse and the quality insight it

might provide

Hillary Bliss, Analytics Practice Lead, Decision First Technologies

Bruce Labbate, BI Consultant , Decision First Technologies

Hillary is a Business Intelligence consultant specializing in data warehouse design, ETL development, statistical

analysis, and predictive modeling. Hillary works with clients and vendors to integrate business analysis and

predictive modeling solutions into data warehouses based on their data and business needs. With Decision First

Technologies, Hillary uses Data Services, Web Intelligence, Predictive Analysis, and HANA. Hillary has her

Masters in Statistics and an MBA from Georgia Tech.

Bruce is a business intelligence consultant specializing in data warehousing, data quality, and ETL development.

Bruce delivers customized SAP Data Services solutions for customers across all industries. With Decision First

Technologies, Bruce utilizes Data Integrator, Data Quality, Information Design Tool, and a variety of database

technologies, including SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Netezza, and HANA.

EMC Global IT: How We Transformed SAP Using Virtualization

Level: Beginner

Interested in discovering Best Practices for SAP application migrations and virtualization, and for SAP HANA,

from EMC Global IT? Join us for this exclusive behind-the-scenes look into EMC IT’s own Journey to the SAP

Cloud & SAP HANA, and the benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. Ask your toughest questions and gain

practical advice on how to transform your SAP environment with EMC and VMware.

Attend this session and find out how you can:

• Better enable your customers in IT.

• Help build cloud through virtualization.

• Challenge the Status Quo on virtualizing mission critical applications.

• Transform your IT organization with new roles.

• Realize why Big Data = Big Opportunity for SAP customers with HANA.

Mark Terry, Advisory Systems Engineer, EMC

Effectively Manage Data Volumes and Reduce TCO of SAP BW on HANA Using Sybase IQ as Near Line

Storage (NLS) Solution – A Step by Step Approach & SAP HANA Migration Strategy

Level: Intermediate

Migrating existing BW platforms to BW on HANA or implementing BW on HANA can be an expensive

proposition when you factor in the initial H/W and S/W costs required for migrating to HANA DB.

Additionally, if no strategy is defined for organic data growth the costs can pile up and drive the overall cost of

ownership – structured data alone has grown on average 40% per year.

During the course of this presentation we will illustrate using a customer use case – How organizations can

effectually control the growth of the system by offloading non-active data to the Sybase NLS, and reduce storage

costs without compromising the availability & performance of archived data in existing reporting & analytics. The

overall solution directly results in lower TCO and an uptick in agility due to reduced system administration

effort.

Presentation will highlight:

About SAP HANA for Netweaver BW – Overview

Business case summary

Data analysis gathering & findings

Solution Overview & Step-by-Step Approach

Cost benefit ratio with & without archival

Lessons learned

Best Practices

Business Benefits

Significantly reduced data volume and growth in online BW database

Less administrative effort and Less downtime

Controlled system growth

Improved performance/cost ratio

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Excellent query response for all data

Shiva Kalikiri, Project Manager, NTT Data

Shiva Kalikiri is the Lead HANA SME responsible for BI & HANA solutions at NTT Data HANA COE. He has 8

years experience with SAP BI with extensive experience at multiple & diverse group of customer bases in

architecting, design and rolling out SAP implementations in BW & BO.

Speed Implementation and Lower Implementation Costs

The new service “live scoping for accelerated innovation” allows customers from select industries to experience

their own business as a live, running company on solutions such as SAP Business Suite software, SAP HANA

platform, and others. This approach provides the experience of fully integrated, end-to-end business processes

with your own data, customers can predict and accelerate their implementations and help reduce risk at the

same time. The offering provides customers scenario walk-throughs, guided demonstrations and scope and

interface discussions to show transparent estimates for deployment efforts of SAP projects.

Rick Ogburn, SAP

Learn How Habasit Leveraged SAP BusinessObjects Edge to Transform Standard Reporting into

Pervasive BI

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

In this session you will learn how Habasit, a leading manufacturer of belt gears and motors evolved the business

utilizing SAP BOBJ Edge. From the centralization of reports to rich dashboard applications Habasit has utilized

the SAP BOBJ suite of tools to meet the various needs of the business. Learn how this strategy has helped

increase visibility to the business and help decision making become quicker and easier.

Ginger DeLong, Business Intelligence, Habasit America

Kevin Hutto, Principal Solution Advisor, Consultancy by KingFisher

Ginger DeLong

14 years of IT experience including application support, report design, database administration, ERP

administration and data warehouse architecture. Over the past 2 years at Habasit America, I have redesigned

our data warehouse, revamped our reporting structure and recently implemented Business Objects as our BI

solution which has already significantly improved our reporting abilities.

Kevin Hutto

Kevin is a regular speaker at the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference and various SAP Insider events and

seminars. Kevin has expertise in the design and development of enterprise systems and scalable application

work-flow processes. He has also been instrumental in deploying SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise and Edge

architectures across a number of Industrial, Government, Healthcare, and Entertainment verticals. As a Principal

BI Solution Advisor with an SAP Gold Partner, Kevin has been focusing on delivering scalable solutions utilizing

the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite of products.

You can reach Kevin through a number of mediums, some of which are listed below:

E-mail: Kevin.Hutto@kingfisherinc.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Hutt1

Additional Presentation

SAP Screen Personas & How They Enhance User Experience

Level: All

It is broadly perceived that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have complex and unintuitive user

interfaces that negatively affects usability, frustrate users, and ultimately hinder their successful adoption and

utilization in organizations. With SAP Personas Delivery Program you can personalize targeted business

processes and screens of the SAP ERP application for different users without programming. SAP Personas

Delivery Program Drives Employee Enablement and SAP ERP Usability Less time spent in transactions driven by

beautiful and intuitive screens that promote transactional usability, decrease users errors, confusion and

frustration. SAP Personas Delivery Program Benefits- Example The VA01 transaction to create a customer sales

order is one of the most critical – and complex, multi tab/field transactions in SAP. It allows companies across a

variety of industries to capture the information they need to meet their customers’ order requirements.

Using SAP Personas, the sales order process can be simplified and streamlined through the use of dashboards

and the removal of all but the required data entry fields. Personas can also eliminate the requirement for data

entry staff to memorize transaction codes, customer codes, and other field level data abbreviations. The

scripting tool will allow users to combine information from other transactions onto a single screen and can

automate data entry with the push of a button. In addition, standard SAP Personas functionality will enable users

to look up order status information without leaving the dashboard screen they are currently using to create new

sales orders. It is important that you follow the steps in line with best practice to attain the foundational

elements you need for an easy and successful set up and end user training program.

SAP Usability Analysis: Foundational Element

The SAP Usability Analysis is conducted to evaluate user adoption pre- and post- go live, identify barriers to

successful use, and develop the business case for implementing SAP Screen Personas. Approach and Deliverables

Identify issues impacting SAP usage and determine the most appropriate options for addressing any

issues uncovered.

Recognize usage successes and best practices within the organization, and provide recommendations for

repeating success across the user base.

Create a business case for SAP Screen Personas usage, along with adopting and developing the custom

user interfaces available through SAP Screen Personas for ECC.

Support Project Team Leads, Consultants, and Stakeholders throughout this effort.

Process and Role Documentation: Foundational Elements 2 &3 Ensure that you take the time to attain “One

Source of the Truth” process and role documentation that has been achieved via alignment between IT and the

business. This foundational documentation along with approved Business Process Procedures is used to guide

the SAP Screen Personas solution and provide the base materials needed for a successful end user profile set up

and training program.

Stacy Hapgood & Randy Geoghagan, Tracepoint Consulting

Tips and Tricks for Being a More Productive SAP User

Level: All

Over the years we all discover little known features of SAP that make life easier. I have searched FAQs and

begged and borrowed from all of my SAP loving friends to assemble a group of these little tidbits that I'd like to

share with the world. This will include:

1. Tips to make Users more productive

2. How to find Transaction Codes, Programs, Menu paths and which SAP Table has your data

3. Things that you knew there must be a way to do but you never figured out how.

Richard Rauch, Managing Consultant, HCL-AXON

Richard is an SD Consultant with HCL-AXON helping companies maximize the effectiveness of their IT

investments.

He has 14 years of SAP OTC experience with his primary focus being in the areas of SD / MM / LE and EDI. He

has been active in ASUG since 1999 having been selected as a speaker 9 times for various events and has served

as the "Program Chair" for the ORDER MANAGEMENT SIG for several years. He is active in the discussion

forum on ASUG.com.

Training Track – Full Day Workshop

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects BI

(Hands On Workshop, limited availability – Pre-registration required)

This workshop is a hands-on focused workshop and is designed for SAP NetWeaver BW and BI team members,

which require a deeper understanding of SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, the migration from SAP

NetWeaver BW to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, and the integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI with

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA.

Attendees of this workshop are going to learn about, and will have the opportunity to perform the needed

steps for the following topics on a live system:

Detailed steps for the migration of SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

New data modeling options with SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and SAP HANA Analytical

Foundation

Integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI with SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP

HANA

Target Audience:

SAP BW team members with focus on data modeling

SAP BW team members with focus on upgrades

SAP BusinessObjects BI team members with focus on report design

SAP BusinessObjects BI / SAP NetWeaver BW Project leads

Focus Topics:

Value scenarios of SAP BW on SAP HANA

New and additional functionality with SAP BW on SAP HANA

Data modeling with SAP BW on HANA

Data modeling with SAP BW on HANA in combination with HANA analytical foundation

Deploying and configuring SAP BusinessObjects BI in combination with SAP BW

Leverage SAP BusinessObjects BI clients with SAP BW

Pre-requisites

Attendees should have good knowledge on SAP NetWeaver BW Data modeling options

Attendees should have basic knowledge in SAP BusinessObjects BI

Workshop material

Attendees will receive all used workshop in electronic form.

This includes:

Detailed overview of SAP NetWeaver BW migration to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

Detailed overview and step by step exercises for the new data modeling capabilities with SAP

NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

Detailed overview of the integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI with SAP NetWeaver BW on

SAP HANA (including step by step exercises)