Human Capital Management Community Presents a Pre-Conference Session:

Fully Integrated Talent Management with SAP HCM Solution: Insight from the Experts

As companies emerge from the current recession, business leaders are demanding more value from human resources…[but] most HR departments are still not equipped to help grow the bottom line, quantify talent needs, find and hire the best candidates, and develop and retain the highest performers… HR can use technology to focus in on the best recruits, provide higher-quality service for employees, and produce more actionable human capital data.

- 10 Minutes on Transforming HR ( © 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)

This seminar is geared towards enabling a comprehensive understanding of the latest enhancements and the best methods to maximize the value of an integrated SAP talent management solution to meet HR and business needs – from recruiting through training, assessing performance, compensating, and retaining top talent in the millennium generation. You know that SAP provides integrated talent management. But how does it all work? What will it take for you to enable managers to have the answers they need at their fingertips for recruiting, retaining, and managing the best talent? How can you link employee training to corporate strategy? You will have an opportunity to get the answers you need directly from SAP and from leading consultants in the HR field. Get detailed information on how to enable self-services with out-of-the-box SAP-delivered functionality and receive guidance on how to maximize the rest of SAPPHIRE® NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference – learning where and how to get detailed information tailored to your needs. Picture this seminar as a “Day in the Life” of a company managing their talent…

Starting the Conversation: SAP or Best in Breed? Get the straight facts from Harry West, former Director of Solution Management at SAP and now a leading HR authority with Knowledge Infusion.

First things First: Build an Organizational Structure to Feed Your Talent Pipeline Take home expert guidance from noted HR expert and COO of Symphony Management Consulting, Kellie Fitzpatrick. Learn how to build the essential foundation for an effective integrated talent management system and how that foundation is managed thru the career lifecycle.

Recruit and Onboard into Your Organization Venki Krishnamoorthy, co-author of E-recruiting with SAP ERP HCM, will give attendees insight into the latest SAP developments and how SAP optimized e-recruiting for maximum user adoption and a superior end user experience.

Integrate Your LMS: Qualifications, Competency Assessment, and Skill Gap Analysis Sharon Wolf Newton, recognized expert in enterprise learning and CEO of hyperCision Inc., will bring clarity to the complexities of tracking skills and competencies against business requirements, assessing employees, and measuring the gap between job requirements and employee proficiencies.

Hands On: SAP® StreamWork™ and Usability Testing Get insight into SAP development and usability from, Julie Lemieux, Sr. Director of Product Consumability at SAP – and an expert at the center of the Product Management and User Experience teams for SAP.

Manage Performance and Tie Performance to Compensation Gain expert knowledge on necessary elements for integrating Performance Management with Enterprise Compensation Management through customer case studies and expertise shared by Luc Hedou, President of /n SPRO and former SAP Platinum consultant.

Identify and Retain Top Talent: Plan for Succession Take home lessons learned and the keys to implementing Succession Planning with SAP Enhancement Pack 4 in this detailed session presented with expert insight from SAP’s Venki Krishnamoorthy along with first-hand customer experience from Arun Govindaraju of W. W. Grainger.

Getting the Data Out of SAP: Workforce Analytics Be among the first to learn how SAP solves the challenges of analyzing your workforce with Enhancement Pack 5, Business Objects and out-of-the-box dashboards. Judith Roess from SAP will take us beyond the basics to show attendees how to provide managers and decision makers with easy-to-process, simplified and visually clear HCM analytics.

Wrapping up the Day: Trends in Human Capital Management C. James Erickson, Solution Principal in SAP’s HCM Center of Excellence, will examine current HCM trends and measures, and will present the SAP roadmap to attain greater efficiencies and effectiveness for your employee stakeholders.