The 2008 ASUG Annual Conference Pre-Conference Seminars are designed specifically to further your education before the actual conference even begins.
This year there are several Pre-Conference Seminars to choose from. Click on the title of the Pre-Conference Session for a detailed abstract.
All Pre-Conference Seminar Sessions will take place Sunday, May 4 at the Orange County Convention Center. A separate registration fee, varied by session, is involved, and starting times differ. Details for each session can be found in Agenda Builder.
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APO TP/VS Implementation at Eastman Chemical,
General Mills, and IP
Sunday, May 4
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
$295 ASUG member/$395 non-member
These three companies have all implemented transportation planning/vehicle scheduling (TP/VS) in SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO). Learn how they accomplished this implementation and the resulting benefits to each company. Receive an overview of the TP/VS and SAP ERP planning functionalities deployed.
Key Learning Points include:
- Overview of the TP/VS and R/3 planning processes as deployed
- Lessons learned from the first implementations
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Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
$495.00 ASUG member/$595 non-member
If you are a functional as well technical IT member and business process expert, with limited exposure to enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), this full-day session is for you.
Gain a general overview on enterprise SOA, covering topics over the broad spectrum of enterprise SOA, including both customer and partner examples. Delivered via presentation, demonstration, and attendee interaction, this pre-conference seminar will cover: Overview of enterprise SOA, how to extend SAP software functionality with enterprise SOA, how to develop and leverage enterprise services, how to drive successful enterprise SOA adoption, and how to achieve resources and help for an enterprise SOA program/project.
The following areas will also be covered:
- Overview of enterprise SOA – meeting business requirements:
Start the day by learning terminology and concepts in regards to enterprise SOA. Explore the differences between enterprise SOA and receive an overview of reasons for investing in this product. Finally, enterprise SOA will be put in the context of your overall enterprise architecture.
- How to extend SAP software functionality with enterprise SOA – customer and partner case studies:
The next portion of the session presents case studies of companies who use SAP ERP with enterprise SOA. Learn how customers leveraging enterprise SOA can benefit from SAP ecosystem partners and communities. Examples from SAP Co-Innovation Lab will be included to show how SAP partners and customers collaborate to develop new applications as well as optimizing technology infrastructure for enterprise SOA.
- How to develop enterprise services:
Understand the details on when to use enterprise services vs. traditional APIs. Uncover the typical situations where enterprise services may be a potential option. Next, provide a summary of the tools used to develop enterprise services and view recorded demonstrations of a few key tools.
- How to leverage enterprise services:
Discover enterprise services using the Enterprise Services Workplace (ES Workplace). Explore how the enterprise services Wiki can be used to learn about scenarios that may help leverage a set of enterprise services to perform a scenario. Then, learn how a selected enterprise service can be tested before use. Finally, uncover how the enterprise service can be consumed in an application or business process using the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE) offering.
- How to drive successful enterprise SOA adoption:
Visit different approaches on how to start working on enterprise SOA. Discuss enterprise SOA adoption topics such as the governance organization, technologies, business case outline, potential timeline, and risks. Relate these enterprise SOA adoption topics to current projects underway.
- How to get resources and help for an enterprise SOA program/project – wrap-up: Wrap-up by learning where to go for next steps such as Web site resources, upcoming programs, standard SAP services, and SAP Discovery system.
Key Learning Points include:
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Overview of Enterprise SOA – Meeting Business Requirements (NCC)
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How to extend mySAP with Enterprise SOA– customer case study
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Overview of one or more detailed Customer Showcase
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Business requirements, implementation, and demo
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How to develop Enterprise Services
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How to leverage Enterprise Services and how to build applications/scenarios on top of Enterprise Services
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Success, how partners integrate based on Enterprise SOA, a partner case study
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Achieve a successful Enterprise SOA Adoption – build your individual roadmap
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Organization, technology, business case, timeline, and risks
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How to get resources and help for an Enterprise SOA Program/Project
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Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
$495 ASUG member/$595 non-Member
In this intermediate boot-camp experience, a full end-to-end adoption and understanding of the steps and required procedures to model, design, and implement a business process starting from the business requirement gathering, down to the IT implementation, will be discussed.
This session will be interactive and provides a theoretical understanding of the delivered concept. The last section of the workshop will provide an overview of the required roles, tasks, and processes needed to develop, consume services, and build composite applications.
In the last section of this workshop you will get an overview of the required roles, task and processes, needed to develop, consume services, and build composite applications
Key Learning Points include:
- How to model a high level process flow, based on business requirements
- Assign roles and additional information to process steps
- Develop a consumer model
- Identify the needed services
- Map services against a provider model
- How to design and model non-existent Enterprise Service Definitions
- High level design of a Composite Application
- Consumption of Enterprise Services
- Understand the roles, rules, and responsibilities throughout the design and development process
Required Knowledge:
- Basic understanding of Business Process Modeling
- Advanced knowledge of service provisioning
- Basic understanding of data modeling
- Advanced understanding of open standards
- Advanced understanding of service consumption
- Expert understanding of Web services
- Basic UI design
- Advanced application design
This session will be limited to 60 people in order to guarantee a Workshop-Character in the Breakouts.
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Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
$495 ASUG member/$595 non-member
Do you want to improve your business process expertise?
If your answer is "yes", this event is for you. It will cover:
- Why it pays to improve your business process expert skills
- How process management is related to business network transformation
- The relationship between BPM and Business Architecture
- How to use benchmarking as an "enabler for change"
- A preview on SAP's product roadmap
At the end of the day, the key takeaways will include knowing what a business process expert does and how they interact with enterprise architects, developers, and others. Hear from customer business process experts who will discuss their daily tasks and best practices for interfacing with IT and the business. Know how to become a Business Process Expert community member and what sessions to attend at the 2008 ASUG Annual Conference and SAPPHIRE 2008.
During this session, a customer will present its "Business Process Expert Community Project: Project Diary of Your Average BPXer." The customer's Business Process Expert community pilot demonstrates how enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) can be put to work. This interactive role play session shows how Business Process Expert community members are creating a true life story of a business process improvement project complete with a cast of characters and scenarios. Follow a project from process analysis, design, and implementation using a Web 2.0 Wiki and IM capabilities.
Attendees will participate in roundtable workshop format activities. Discuss user-driven innovation, migrating to SAP ERP using modeling tools, an SOA training course for business process experts, an SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment overview along with a modeling tools overview. Further uncover what the organizational model of the future looks like and best practices.
At the end of the session there will be a wrap-up on how to get the most out of your 2008 ASUG Annual Conference and SAPPHIRE Orlando experience.
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In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant - A Business and Technical Guide
Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
$495 ASUG member/ $595 non-member
Craft your vision for the perfect plant and then imagine concrete steps to make that vision a reality. Look at the big picture and examine the payoff for doing the job better; examine the people and systems that run the plant; the pressures forcing improvement; and the shape and requirements of a comprehensive vision.
Discuss examples across many different industries including manufacturing, chemicals, oil and gas, utilities, and pulp and paper. Each area of the plant is examined in this session, from traditional challenges like planning and asset management, to newer concerns such as energy management and sustainability. In looking at each area, examine its history, who is involved, how to keep score, information needed to succeed, levels of maturity, patterns of success, and culture. In analyzing each area, continue to examine the way it interacts with all other areas. To move forward in one area doesn't mean a move backward in others.
Address the problems of change and program management during this session. Once you have crafted a vision of a perfect plant, learn how to move toward it as fast as possible, avoiding disruption. What methods and techniques for communicating the vision and moving toward it are friendly to the heterogeneous mix of people in a plant? What motivates people? What incentives work to change their behavior? Attendees of this session will receive a copy of the book “In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant – A Business and Technical Guide,” that will be released in April 2008.
A combination of more than 100 experts in every area covered from SAP partners, analysts, and customers, have been interviewed and joined the authors in providing their distilled experience for this book and session.
Material from this session and from the book "In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant - A Business and Technical Guide," can be used for a variety of purposes and by a number of different roles in your organization.
- Senior management at the corporate level can refresh their knowledge about the details of each important area in a plant
- Plant managers can use this to help educate others in the plant about the bigger picture
- VPs, managers, and operators in the plant can gain a broader perspective to learn how to better communicate with other sections of the plan
- Operators, engineers, and technologists in the plant can use it to understand the implications of their actions on the plant as a whole
Key Learning Points include:
- The Transformation Challenge
- Reaping the rewards for managing change
- Processes and systems in a Perfect Plant: Enterprise
- Architecture on the Plant floor
- Pressure on the Plant: Forces demanding improved performance
- The vision of the Perfect Plant: Coordination, planning, execution, integration, and intelligence
- Making Progress toward Perfection
- Strategy and coordination at the corporate level
- Planning in the Perfect Plant
- Production
- Energy management
- Quality management
- Visibility, compliance, risk, and opportunity in the Perfect Plant compliance
- Architecture, standards, and interoperability
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The UI for SAP NetWeaver – Get the Lay of the Land for Your UI Landscaping Needs
Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
$495.00 ASUG member/$595 non-member
Receive an overview of UI strategy in SAP NetWeaver. During the session, topics such as the SAP NetWeaver Business Client software on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, the future of SAP NetWeaver Portal, and others are discussed and positioned within the overall strategy. In addition, this session provides an update on the latest developments in the different topic areas. Discuss each of the UI development tools and their roadmap moving forward. Participate in demonstrations of the new Flex Client for Web Dynpro as well as Flex Islands and Silverlight Islands.
This workshop covers:
- Overview of SAP's UI Strategy and Roadmap
- High level introduction to UI with SAP NetWeaver
- Web Dynpro for Java and ABAP Demo
- Adobe Forms Demo
- Visual Composer Demo
- Rich Internet Applications Demos (Flex Client, Flex Islands, Silverlight Islands, etc.)
- Comprehensive Overviews of Key UI Development Tools
- Capabilities
- Ease/Complexity of Use
- Pros/Cons
- Advice on the Best Usage Cases for Different UI Development Tools
- NetWeaver Portal Client or the NetWeaver Business Client
- Web Dynpro or Java and ABAP
- Web Dynpro or Visual Composer
- Standards - JSF (and NetWeaver UI Integration with JSF)
- Integrate with the NetWeaver UI tools
- Overview on How to Integrate the Best Technologies in the UI Space (e.g. Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight) into Existing Tools
- NetWeaver Integration with JSF Demo
- Customer Presentations Demonstrating Use Cases
- Q&A with Customer Panel and SAP Presenters
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Becoming a Best Run Center of Excellence (CoE): Improve Business Value and Reduce Costs
Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
$494 ASUG member/$595 non-member
New SAP customers will learn why establishing a center of excellence (CoE) can reduce costs up to 17 percent. Existing customers can learn leading practices to enhance customer satisfaction and business value.
Receive a roadmap for creating a best run CoE. The session content is based on the CoE strategy and design service from SAP Value Realization services. The entire value lifecycle from planning, building, and running SAP solutions will be discussed.
Examine case studies of common customer situations and lessons learned. The case studies will discuss the reasons to create a CoE and be certified as well as organization and process preparations prior to an upgrade. This session will introduce leading practices to enhance:
- Business alignment – moving from order taker to strategic partner.
- Governance – Enterprise, program, process, and operations.
- Delivery and operations excellence – SAP and ITIL-based service catalog, process framework, and key roles are introduced. KPIs that lead to improved customer satisfaction, enhanced business value, and reduced TCO are also presented.
- Talent management – leverage benchmarking to assess current productivity and leading practices to grow desired capability.
- Organization – leading organizational designs for a variety of customer models including the management of off-shore partners, multi-divisional and global operations, and virtual teams.
Each participant is encouraged to complete the CoE Best Practices survey by ASUG/SAP. Submissions will be analyzed and an individual findings report will be reviewed.
Key Learning Points include:
- New Customers - Understand the business case and leading practices to establish a CoE
- Current Customers who complete ASUG survey - Understand current maturity level and areas for improvement
- Leading practices to enhance business alignment, improve project planning, pre-requisites to out-tasking services, and leading KPIs
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SAP and Business Objects:
Understanding Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance, Risk, and Compliance, and the Integration with SAP NetWeaver
Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
$495 ASUG member/$595 non-member
Business Objects solutions have always been designed to be open and provide strong integration with industry-standard middleware, applications, and databases. Business Objects’ certified integration points work seamlessly with SAP NetWeaver – meaning customers always have the ability to combine Business Objects software with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and leverage the best of both worlds. Learn about the architecture for GRC and enterprise performance management, the integration with Business Objects and SAP NetWeaver, product roadmap, added value of the combined companies, and overview of the portfolio that enables business insight, performance management, and compliance that is agnostic to the underlying business applications and data stores while offering integrated solutions for SAP customers.
Key Learning Points include:
- Discuss the Architecture for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
- Understand the Value of Business Objects with SAP NetWeaver
- Discuss the Options Available for Choosing the Underlying Applications and Technology Platform
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SAP and Business Objects: Understanding the New Business Intelligence Platform in Detail
Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
$495.00 ASUG member/$595 non-member
SAP and Business Objects have come together to deliver the most complete line of business intelligence (BI) functionalities for SAP customers, optimized for SAP applications and the business process platform. This is a "must attend" session for anyone wanting to know what offerings are available today, how to integrate into existing software landscapes (including the SAP NetWeaver technology platform), and what the roadmap looks like for the new business intelligence platform.
This session provides technical deep-dives on the enhanced query, reporting, analysis, visualization, and information management capabilities provided by Business Objects, and features live demonstrations with product experts. Learn how to make informed decisions for your future BI strategy.
Key Learning Points include:
- Understand the Roadmap for the New Business Intelligence Platform
- Learn in Detail about the Features and Capabilities of the New Business Intelligence Platform
- Understand the Value of Business Objects with SAP NetWeaver
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