Supply Chain Optimization with SAP
Where are you burning money? Diagnostics for procurement, planning, inventory, warehouse, production, and fulfillment activities
This session examines common and costly inefficiencies in the areas of procurement, materials management, inventory and warehouse management, planning, production, logistics, and fulfillment. You will receive updates and guidelines to root out these inefficiencies using standard tools and reports within your current SAP ERP, SAP Business Suite, or SAP R/3® systems.
This session offers in-depth lessons on:
- The top 5 purchasing practices that inflate your costs and inventory
- The top 5 causes for inaccurate lead-time estimates
- The top 5 causes for inventory overages and shortages
- The top 5 causes for production delays that jeopardize customer service
- The top 5 SAP setup decisions that adversely impact process performance and costs
- The real-world impact of poor data on operations and supply chain costs
Customers report that with these techniques they have been able successfully identify, prioritize, and launch a wide range of opportunities for cost savings and process improvements within their own enterprise.
10 principles that SAP customers can adopt right now to cut costs and improve process performance
This session offers guiding principles to shape and measure your optimization efforts, from identifying and implementing optimization measures through their introduction to end users. Customers report that application of these principles has lowered costs and enhanced performance of key processes, including: procurement, planning, inventory and warehouse management, production, and fulfillment.
In this session, you will:
- Examine the most important principles for process optimization in the areas of procurement, planning, inventory and warehouse management, production, and fulfillment
- Review the key principles for process integration and optimization across these areas
- Gain a better understanding of the tools within your existing SAP environment that enable this
- Explore the data management techniques with the biggest impact on business value and your options for harnessing real-time information and improving master data accuracy in your SAP environment
- Get guidelines to reduce frequencies and lot sizes, and minimize holding and setup costs in your production environment
- Learn the right way to establish and enforce supply chain rules
- Hear how other companies align organizational structure with an integrated process environment
- Take home tips to manage events and exceptions
- Set and track practical KPIs that measure improvement — and don’t just measure to report
- Leave with techniques to secure buy-in for these principles, criteria to determine which principles should be adopted first, and guidelines to move forward
Is your data really trustworthy? Steps that ensure decisions and optimization activities are based upon timely, accurate, and complete data
This session provides techniques to ensure timely, accurate, and complete data. Learn steps to improve data flow within and across procurement, inventory, production, and customer service organizations. You will also examine best practices for establishing business rules and standards and for managing master and transactional data.
This session covers:
- Guidelines for aligning data definitions across procurement, inventory, warehouse, production, and fulfillment organizations
- Lessons to establish trustworthy inventory-on-hand data in order to use SAP available-to-promise (ATP) functionality with greater confidence
- The top 7 problems that corrupt materials requirements planning (MRP) data
- Comprehensive techniques other companies are using to keep their goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) account clean and in balance
- Updates on the pros and cons of centralized versus decentralized master data management, and expert guidelines for choosing the right approach for your organization
- 3 ways to leverage data for greater visibility, predictive capabilities, and as a foundation for process optimization
- How to locate and use reports that are readily available in your SAP systems to identify areas where data needs to be cleaned up
- Why you need reliable master data in preparation for “real time” management dashboarding as a future initiative
Leveraging standard, readily available SAP reports to reduce costs and promote process efficiencies
Standard reports from your SAP systems provide valuable views into your day-to-day operations. This session offers guidance on locating and leveraging these reports. It also covers SAP tools and best practices for real-time alerts.
- Learn which standard (and often overlooked) SAP reports provide the best indicators of inventory levels, supplier activities, production status, service levels, and costs
- Find out how to interpret these reports, as well as adapt them for your organization’s specific needs with little or no customization
- Hear how other SAP customers leverage these reports to create integrated plans, cut costs, increase process visibility, and foster interdepartmental collaboration
- Drill down into SAP analytic reports that identify inventory that is fast moving, slow moving, or out-of-stock
- See how your SAP ERP system supports the setting and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) as a way to measure performance improvements at an organizational and departmental level
- Gain real-time visibility into business processes that involve suppliers, customers, and transportation carriers with alert functionality, so that corrective action can be taken
- Learn the top 5 mistakes made when defining report types and information to report upon within SAP
- Get tips for leaner IT operations — meeting increased reporting requirements with fewer IT resources and with less cost
Purchasing, MRP, and inventory practices that accelerate inventory turns and reduce warehouse costs
This session offers a comprehensive guide to using metrics within your SAP system to establish inventory levels that meet fulfillment promises — without incurring unnecessary inventory carrying costs. It also provides lessons to interpret and act upon these metrics.
- Explore, in detail, numerous standard SAP metrics that are available within your SAP system, what they convey, and how to interpret them
- Acquire proven techniques for leveraging materials management (MM) and MRP settings, along with purchasing automation functionality that can help you to reduce inventory levels up to 15% within 6 months!
- Explore the inventory reduction steps to take first for immediate cost savings
- Find out how lowering inventory averages can help you better optimize inventory turns
- Get best practices to prevent stockouts
- Learn techniques to better meet customer demand and achieve target service levels
- Get tips to better control lot sizes and frequencies using standard MRP policies
- See how to use standard consumption graphics to measure and control inventory levels
- Take home examples of how other companies have balanced inventory levels with production schedules and lead times
Improve your lead-time accuracy 15% – 20% as you optimize processes and realize incalculable benefits across your supply chain
This session shares techniques that improve the accuracy of forecasts and planning activities. You will also learn how to properly establish, update, and adjust lead times within your SAP systems.
In this session, you will:
- Explore the relationship between lead-time accuracy, purchasing costs, production schedules, and delivery performance
- Understand how lead-time performance impacts the overall cost and performance of your supply chain
- Learn the right way to build lead-time buffers between your production department and the customer, as well as between your purchasing department and suppliers
- Explore techniques to track lead-time performance, taking into account suppliers, warehouses, planning, scheduling, release dates, and ship times
- Get valuable methods to build lead-time buffers into your material master, and understand at which points in the supply chain they should be built in — before or after production, or during certain warehouse activities
- Learn the right ways to set up and leverage available-to-promise (ATP) functionality within sales and distribution, production planning, and plant maintenance applications to establish delivery dates you can meet and that your customers can trust
- Discover the frequency with which lead-time estimates really need to be updated
- Get best practices for monitoring and optimizing
Using logistics information system (LIS) to reduce stock-out situations, accelerate inventory turns, and improve delivery times
Although many SAP customers are familiar with the standard logistics information system (LIS) analysis tool, there are little-known, often overlooked — yet invaluable — ways of using LIS to optimize inventory levels and fulfillment performance.
In this session, you will:
- Learn how to use LIS drill-down capabilities to generate real-time, visual representations of process performance and to make better inventory decisions
- Examine ways to navigate from LIS into other analytic areas, such as the purchasing information system (PIMS), to obtain an integrated view of procurement and inventory management
- Get best practices for leveraging LIS reports and analyses to better align your company’s purchasing policies with inventory targets
- Explore LIS graphical capabilities
- Learn how to segment data by time period and hone in on specific problems, like high purchasing averages
- Get expert tips for using the exception monitor, LIS, and inventory analysis tools in your current SAP systems to pinpoint master data problems that could lead you to purchase and stock more inventory than you need
- Get expert recommendations to interpret and confirm the accuracy of your LIS results
- Find out how these tools can be used as a foundation and a complement to SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization(SAP APO)
Customers report that through these techniques they have achieved better visibility into inventory levels and established more effective inventory plans and strategies.
How to get your materials management and production teams dancing to the same tune
Production sits at the crossroads between demand and supply, so it’s no surprise that exceptions between materials management and production are a leading cause of poor service and fulfillment performance. This session provides proven methods to better align purchasing, inventory, and warehouse management with production for faster throughput and on-time delivery.
In this session, you will:
- Learn the best ways to align inventory quantities with lead times and service levels
- Find out how to use the exception monitor to determine whether an excess or shortage of raw materials is being routed to the shop floor
- Hear how other SAP customers have established purchasing and inventory policies that ensure their production department gets the raw materials it needs to optimize uptime
- Learn how to create “what-if” scenarios within core SAP systems to help you make better production decisions, automate lot sizes and lead times, and optimize inventory and service activities
- Get best practices to integrate materials management (MM) and production planning (PP) activities
- Explore the relationship between the standard MM and PP functionality running on your ERP system and the SAP functionality for production planning and detailed schedule that runs on SAP APO
- Get expert tips to align exception monitoring activities with service-level targets
- Learn how to integrate raw material planning, sales, and production capacity so that everyone is working for a common and understood outcome
- Find out how to avoid hidden works in progress (WIP) tactics that are often used to ensure production is on target, but ultimately create workarounds that impede integration, compromise delivery promises, and pile on costs
Best practices and SAP functionality to monitor exceptions and manage events
This session provides education and updates on SAP functionality for event management, criteria to help you determine if it’s appropriate for your circumstances, and best practices for leveraging it to meet your business needs.
In this session, you will:
- Hear how other SAP customers manage supply by exception
- Explore the pros and cons of using out-of-the-box SAP functionality for event management to monitor events within your SAP environment and across multiple third-party or legacy systems
- Explore documents and alerts that show you what can happen to an order during processing in production, logistically, and along a delivery route, and see what tools are available to handle exceptions
- Step through the process of setting an alert
- Learn how to diagnose an alert and determine what corrective action, if any, should be taken
- Find out how to set up SAP functionality for event management that lets you know when your procurement chain is out of sync — from purchase order and acknowledgment all the way through goods delivery and invoice receipt
- Get expert tips for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) for event management
- Examine your options for reporting on event management data to determine whether an exception is a one-time occurrence or symptomatic of a larger problem
7 best practices to ensure broad-based adoption, measurable improvements, and ongoing success of your optimization initiatives
This session offers change-management examples, along with practical lessons based on the experiences of other companies that have implemented the techniques outlined in this seminar. Learn how to go beyond SAP system modifications to implement a broad-based change management strategy that not only addresses technology, but also strengthens interdepartmental cooperation and communication, enhances individual “ownership,” and invigorates the supply chain.
- Learn how to establish rules for how processes will be executed and technology will be utilized, as well as methods for holding users accountable to these rules — while keeping them inspired and motivated by measurable improvements
- Learn how to define and enforce rules across your user base to ensure a single, standardized process for making changes to and properly utilizing your SAP system for process optimization
- Gain insight into the best methods to respond to the most common reactions from users as you roll out new methods of process execution
- Explore powerful team evangelization techniques, exercises, and train-the-trainer strategies for inspiring users to adopt your new plan
- Learn how to educate your users as they go about their daily tasks to minimize disruption of the work environment
- See how to apply change management techniques that work within small, flexible organizations as well as within more structured organizations where change doesn’t come easily
- Find out how other companies are using PAT (process aligned teams) that meet regularly to review exceptions and make decisions on corrective actions
- Learn how to structure your own PAT: who should be represented, how often the team should meet, and the process for escalating problems
This session examines common and costly inefficiencies in the areas of procurement, materials management, inventory and warehouse management, planning, production, logistics, and fulfillment. You will receive updates and guidelines to root out these inefficiencies using standard tools and reports within your current SAP ERP, SAP Business Suite, or SAP R/3® systems.
This session offers in-depth lessons on:
- The top 5 purchasing practices that inflate your costs and inventory
- The top 5 causes for inaccurate lead-time estimates
- The top 5 causes for inventory overages and shortages
- The top 5 causes for production delays that jeopardize customer service
- The top 5 SAP setup decisions that adversely impact process performance and costs
- The real-world impact of poor data on operations and supply chain costs
Customers report that with these techniques they have been able successfully identify, prioritize, and launch a wide range of opportunities for cost savings and process improvements within their own enterprise.
10 principles that SAP customers can adopt right now to cut costs and improve process performance
This session offers guiding principles to shape and measure your optimization efforts, from identifying and implementing optimization measures through their introduction to end users. Customers report that application of these principles has lowered costs and enhanced performance of key processes, including: procurement, planning, inventory and warehouse management, production, and fulfillment.
In this session, you will:
- Examine the most important principles for process optimization in the areas of procurement, planning, inventory and warehouse management, production, and fulfillment
- Review the key principles for process integration and optimization across these areas
- Gain a better understanding of the tools within your existing SAP environment that enable this
- Explore the data management techniques with the biggest impact on business value and your options for harnessing real-time information and improving master data accuracy in your SAP environment
- Get guidelines to reduce frequencies and lot sizes, and minimize holding and setup costs in your production environment
- Learn the right way to establish and enforce supply chain rules
- Hear how other companies align organizational structure with an integrated process environment
- Take home tips to manage events and exceptions
- Set and track practical KPIs that measure improvement — and don’t just measure to report
- Leave with techniques to secure buy-in for these principles, criteria to determine which principles should be adopted first, and guidelines to move forward
Is your data really trustworthy? Steps that ensure decisions and optimization activities are based upon timely, accurate, and complete data
This session provides techniques to ensure timely, accurate, and complete data. Learn steps to improve data flow within and across procurement, inventory, production, and customer service organizations. You will also examine best practices for establishing business rules and standards and for managing master and transactional data.
This session covers:
- Guidelines for aligning data definitions across procurement, inventory, warehouse, production, and fulfillment organizations
- Lessons to establish trustworthy inventory-on-hand data in order to use SAP available-to-promise (ATP) functionality with greater confidence
- The top 7 problems that corrupt materials requirements planning (MRP) data
- Comprehensive techniques other companies are using to keep their goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) account clean and in balance
- Updates on the pros and cons of centralized versus decentralized master data management, and expert guidelines for choosing the right approach for your organization
- 3 ways to leverage data for greater visibility, predictive capabilities, and as a foundation for process optimization
- How to locate and use reports that are readily available in your SAP systems to identify areas where data needs to be cleaned up
- Why you need reliable master data in preparation for “real time” management dashboarding as a future initiative
Leveraging standard, readily available SAP reports to reduce costs and promote process efficiencies
Standard reports from your SAP systems provide valuable views into your day-to-day operations. This session offers guidance on locating and leveraging these reports. It also covers SAP tools and best practices for real-time alerts.
- Learn which standard (and often overlooked) SAP reports provide the best indicators of inventory levels, supplier activities, production status, service levels, and costs
- Find out how to interpret these reports, as well as adapt them for your organization’s specific needs with little or no customization
- Hear how other SAP customers leverage these reports to create integrated plans, cut costs, increase process visibility, and foster interdepartmental collaboration
- Drill down into SAP analytic reports that identify inventory that is fast moving, slow moving, or out-of-stock
- See how your SAP ERP system supports the setting and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) as a way to measure performance improvements at an organizational and departmental level
- Gain real-time visibility into business processes that involve suppliers, customers, and transportation carriers with alert functionality, so that corrective action can be taken
- Learn the top 5 mistakes made when defining report types and information to report upon within SAP
- Get tips for leaner IT operations — meeting increased reporting requirements with fewer IT resources and with less cost
Purchasing, MRP, and inventory practices that accelerate inventory turns and reduce warehouse costs
This session offers a comprehensive guide to using metrics within your SAP system to establish inventory levels that meet fulfillment promises — without incurring unnecessary inventory carrying costs. It also provides lessons to interpret and act upon these metrics.
- Explore, in detail, numerous standard SAP metrics that are available within your SAP system, what they convey, and how to interpret them
- Acquire proven techniques for leveraging materials management (MM) and MRP settings, along with purchasing automation functionality that can help you to reduce inventory levels up to 15% within 6 months!
- Explore the inventory reduction steps to take first for immediate cost savings
- Find out how lowering inventory averages can help you better optimize inventory turns
- Get best practices to prevent stockouts
- Learn techniques to better meet customer demand and achieve target service levels
- Get tips to better control lot sizes and frequencies using standard MRP policies
- See how to use standard consumption graphics to measure and control inventory levels
- Take home examples of how other companies have balanced inventory levels with production schedules and lead times
Improve your lead-time accuracy 15% – 20% as you optimize processes and realize incalculable benefits across your supply chain
This session shares techniques that improve the accuracy of forecasts and planning activities. You will also learn how to properly establish, update, and adjust lead times within your SAP systems.
In this session, you will:
- Explore the relationship between lead-time accuracy, purchasing costs, production schedules, and delivery performance
- Understand how lead-time performance impacts the overall cost and performance of your supply chain
- Learn the right way to build lead-time buffers between your production department and the customer, as well as between your purchasing department and suppliers
- Explore techniques to track lead-time performance, taking into account suppliers, warehouses, planning, scheduling, release dates, and ship times
- Get valuable methods to build lead-time buffers into your material master, and understand at which points in the supply chain they should be built in — before or after production, or during certain warehouse activities
- Learn the right ways to set up and leverage available-to-promise (ATP) functionality within sales and distribution, production planning, and plant maintenance applications to establish delivery dates you can meet and that your customers can trust
- Discover the frequency with which lead-time estimates really need to be updated
- Get best practices for monitoring and optimizing
Using logistics information system (LIS) to reduce stock-out situations, accelerate inventory turns, and improve delivery times
Although many SAP customers are familiar with the standard logistics information system (LIS) analysis tool, there are little-known, often overlooked — yet invaluable — ways of using LIS to optimize inventory levels and fulfillment performance.
In this session, you will:
- Learn how to use LIS drill-down capabilities to generate real-time, visual representations of process performance and to make better inventory decisions
- Examine ways to navigate from LIS into other analytic areas, such as the purchasing information system (PIMS), to obtain an integrated view of procurement and inventory management
- Get best practices for leveraging LIS reports and analyses to better align your company’s purchasing policies with inventory targets
- Explore LIS graphical capabilities
- Learn how to segment data by time period and hone in on specific problems, like high purchasing averages
- Get expert tips for using the exception monitor, LIS, and inventory analysis tools in your current SAP systems to pinpoint master data problems that could lead you to purchase and stock more inventory than you need
- Get expert recommendations to interpret and confirm the accuracy of your LIS results
- Find out how these tools can be used as a foundation and a complement to SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization(SAP APO)
Customers report that through these techniques they have achieved better visibility into inventory levels and established more effective inventory plans and strategies.
How to get your materials management and production teams dancing to the same tune
Production sits at the crossroads between demand and supply, so it’s no surprise that exceptions between materials management and production are a leading cause of poor service and fulfillment performance. This session provides proven methods to better align purchasing, inventory, and warehouse management with production for faster throughput and on-time delivery.
In this session, you will:
- Learn the best ways to align inventory quantities with lead times and service levels
- Find out how to use the exception monitor to determine whether an excess or shortage of raw materials is being routed to the shop floor
- Hear how other SAP customers have established purchasing and inventory policies that ensure their production department gets the raw materials it needs to optimize uptime
- Learn how to create “what-if” scenarios within core SAP systems to help you make better production decisions, automate lot sizes and lead times, and optimize inventory and service activities
- Get best practices to integrate materials management (MM) and production planning (PP) activities
- Explore the relationship between the standard MM and PP functionality running on your ERP system and the SAP functionality for production planning and detailed schedule that runs on SAP APO
- Get expert tips to align exception monitoring activities with service-level targets
- Learn how to integrate raw material planning, sales, and production capacity so that everyone is working for a common and understood outcome
- Find out how to avoid hidden works in progress (WIP) tactics that are often used to ensure production is on target, but ultimately create workarounds that impede integration, compromise delivery promises, and pile on costs
Best practices and SAP functionality to monitor exceptions and manage events
This session provides education and updates on SAP functionality for event management, criteria to help you determine if it’s appropriate for your circumstances, and best practices for leveraging it to meet your business needs.
In this session, you will:
- Hear how other SAP customers manage supply by exception
- Explore the pros and cons of using out-of-the-box SAP functionality for event management to monitor events within your SAP environment and across multiple third-party or legacy systems
- Explore documents and alerts that show you what can happen to an order during processing in production, logistically, and along a delivery route, and see what tools are available to handle exceptions
- Step through the process of setting an alert
- Learn how to diagnose an alert and determine what corrective action, if any, should be taken
- Find out how to set up SAP functionality for event management that lets you know when your procurement chain is out of sync — from purchase order and acknowledgment all the way through goods delivery and invoice receipt
- Get expert tips for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) for event management
- Examine your options for reporting on event management data to determine whether an exception is a one-time occurrence or symptomatic of a larger problem
7 best practices to ensure broad-based adoption, measurable improvements, and ongoing success of your optimization initiatives
This session offers change-management examples, along with practical lessons based on the experiences of other companies that have implemented the techniques outlined in this seminar. Learn how to go beyond SAP system modifications to implement a broad-based change management strategy that not only addresses technology, but also strengthens interdepartmental cooperation and communication, enhances individual “ownership,” and invigorates the supply chain.
- Learn how to establish rules for how processes will be executed and technology will be utilized, as well as methods for holding users accountable to these rules — while keeping them inspired and motivated by measurable improvements
- Learn how to define and enforce rules across your user base to ensure a single, standardized process for making changes to and properly utilizing your SAP system for process optimization
- Gain insight into the best methods to respond to the most common reactions from users as you roll out new methods of process execution
- Explore powerful team evangelization techniques, exercises, and train-the-trainer strategies for inspiring users to adopt your new plan
- Learn how to educate your users as they go about their daily tasks to minimize disruption of the work environment
- See how to apply change management techniques that work within small, flexible organizations as well as within more structured organizations where change doesn’t come easily
- Find out how other companies are using PAT (process aligned teams) that meet regularly to review exceptions and make decisions on corrective actions
- Learn how to structure your own PAT: who should be represented, how often the team should meet, and the process for escalating problems
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The SAP Solution Manager Bundle
This highly-detailed collection of video-based training and SAP PRESS books is specifically focused on helping you understand and master the vast capabilities of SAP Solution Manager. If expert advice and practical guidance on SAP Solution Manager is what you and your team need, then this is the bundle for you.
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SAP Solution Manager Enterprise Edition and Support
This course provides optimization strategies, best practices, and SAP guidelines and updates for SAP Solution Manager Enterprise Edition and Support.
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SAP ERP Upgrade & Enhancement Packages
When an SAP ERP upgrade or enhancement package installation can significantly advance your organization’s business strategy
This session highlights innovative strategies being used by leading companies to initially prove — and then continually demonstrate — the value of an SAP ERP upgrade in order to secure and retain management buy-in and support. It offers strategies and tactics to increase your return on SAP ERP long after your initial upgrade project. During this session, you will:
Build a bullet-proof business case for your upgrade that can win over the most skeptical decision maker
Find out how to increase the ROI of your upgrade by tightly integrating this project with strategic business improvement and cost savings initiatives
Get expert instruction and examples of how to build a multi-dimensional project roadmap that accounts for business, functional, and technical requirements
See why most companies underestimate the return on their upgrade because they don’t account for the benefits across all key functional areas
Evaluate the pros and cons of three different upgrade strategies — upgrade, migrate, and consolidate — and determine which approach yields the highest ROI for your organization
Identify the key components that must be factored into your upgrade cost and ROI model
Reduce risk in your organization by using your upgrade to launch a more stringent change management process
Determine whether your upgrade is the right time to get functionality you’ve previously paid for “off the shelf”
Critical steps and considerations for choosing and optimizing your upgrade approach: Technical upgrade, functional upgrade, or SAP enhancement package installation
Your decision to perform a purely technical upgrade versus a combined technical-functional upgrade or SAP enhancement package installation has a profound impact on the upgrade project itself, as well as downstream support and maintenance activities. Walk through the pros and cons of each approach, and gather recommendations to help you make the right long-term decision for your organization. In this session, you will:
Get a firm understanding of how technical upgrade, functional upgrade, and SAP enhancement package installation projects differ in terms of cost, time, resources, and benefits
Determine whether a purely technical upgrade project truly reduces expenses and risks and what the tradeoffs are in terms of long-term ROI and support for the business
Explore the major financial, HR, logistics, and corporate functional deltas between SAP R/3® and SAP ERP releases and SAP enhancement packages and understand prerequisites for activating new functionality
Find out how technical upgrades, functional upgrades, and enhancement package projects have varying effects on testing and downtime
Determine when you should include an SAP enhancement package installation and activation with your upgrade
Understand the prerequisites for using various pieces of functionality in SAP ERP 6.0
A guided tour of SAP enhancement packages: Everything you need to know to successfully evaluate, activate, and optimize new functionality
Sharpen your knowledge of SAP enhancement packages and get a summary of the new functionality they provide. Find out how an enhancement package installation differs from a traditional upgrade, and explore the recommended approach for getting started with, installing, and activating enhancement packages — either as part of your upgrade or as a standalone project. In this session you will:
Broaden your knowledge of the business functionality that is included in SAP enhancement package 4 (Hint: It includes functionality from enhancement packages 1, 2, 3 and much more)
Get an understanding of the SAP enhancement package installation process, when it is best to apply them, and how an installation differs from a traditional upgrade
Examine important differences between installation versus activation of SAP enhancement packages with advice on the potential time, effort, and complexity associated with configuring specific pieces of functionality
Learn why it is crucial that you have installed all of the latest support packages and are running SAP NetWeaver® enhancement package 1 in order to install SAP ERP enhancement package 4
Fortify your understanding of the SAP tools available to assist you with your installation: the solution browser, the scenario and process component list, and The Enhancement Package Information Center
Get the latest updates on the release of enhancement package 5, including a sneak peek at what’s coming via the “Ramp-up” program
Is your SAP landscape ready for an SAP ERP 6.0 upgrade or SAP enhancement package
installation? Essential preparation considerations to optimize cost, stability, and performance
Starting an upgrade project without evaluating and properly preparing your landscape can result in poor system performance, instability, and extended downtime. This session walks you through the process of preparing your landscape for your upgrade or SAP enhancement package project. Understand different landscape, CPU, memory and release compatibility requirements to ensure your applications run smoothly together. By attending you will:
Understand SAP’s five-system landscape requirement (Hint: This is a recommended minimum!) and how this approach reduces downtime and provides a complete productive support landscape during the course of the upgrade
Learn how to conduct a comprehensive compatibility analysis with other SAP and third-party applications to avoid being surprised by integration gotchas
Identify the right questions to ask your vendors so that you know whether or not third-party applications need to be upgraded at the time of your project
Explore typical landscape scenarios that support a technical upgrade, functional upgrade, or SAP enhancement package installation
Recognize the largest opportunities for landscape cost savings, including an OS/DB migration upgrade
Gain insight into how functionality requirements, such as the use of SAP NetWeaver Portal to support selfservices and cockpits, impact your landscape
Assess the hardware reduction and cost-savings opportunities that virtualization could provide
Determine whether you should convert to Unicode at the time of your upgrade and what that entails
Evaluate your use of ABAP™ and Java to determine whether they should run on a dual stack or individual application stacks
Avoiding the would-haves, could-haves, should-haves: Strategies for planning, scoping and executing a fail-safe SAP ERP upgrade or SAP enhancement package project plan
Obtain expert guidance to plan, scope, execute, and derive maximum value from your upcoming SAP ERP upgrade. Avoid the common mistakes that commonly trip up SAP ERP upgrade and SAP enhancement package projects. Learn how to maximize the reward and mitigate risks associated with an SAP ERP upgrade project. You will:
Learn how to build a project plan, create the project timeline and milestones, and assemble the right mix of business and technical resources for your project
Examine the five factors that directly impact an upgrade timeline, such as the decision to do a technical or functional upgrade, amount of resources available, and landscape decisions
See the right way to analyze current system usage and understand why that is important for your project plan, specifically with regard to testing
Learn how to assess gaps between current functionality in production versus functionality in the upgrade sandbox to get a precise scope of what no longer works and whether to add new functionality
Acquire expert advice to manage the “red zone—” the phase in which all other projects and development activities should be frozen
Step through an end-to-end analysis of an upgrade cycle, from preparation to blueprint, to realization to finalization, and get examples of pitfalls to watch for and avoid
Explore the anatomy of a typical cut-over weekend, including an overview of the technical upgrade phases and best practices for orchestrating a flawless cut-over
Expert instruction for choosing and using the best methods and tools to accelerate your upgrade or enhancement package project and minimize downtime
Deadline and downtime are two of the most critical benchmarks used to measure the success of any upgrade project. Through lecture and demonstration, become familiar with dozens of SAP tools that help you conquer these objectives, and identify scenarios that may be best supported by third-party tools. You will:
Weigh specific criteria to help you determine if, whether, and how SAP Solution Manager should play a role in your upgrade project and which specific functionality, such as the upgrade roadmap, could be most useful
Learn how to utilize the solution browser tool to identify functional deltas in your SAP R/3 or SAP ERP system
See how the upgrade dependency analyzer works to uncover dependencies that could affect other SAP components in your landscape when you upgrade
Identify and eliminate obsolete custom modifications in your system using the custom development management cockpit
Acquire expert advice to deftly navigate The Enhancement Package Information Center to quickly get the information you need
Reveal the good, the bad, and the ugly with regard to near zero downtime upgrades (Hint: They are not recommended for every situation)
Ascertain if and when it makes sense to license the test data migration server (TDMS) to better manage your QA environment
If, when, and how SAP Solution Manager adds value before, during, and after your upgrade or SAP enhancement package installation
This session offers advice to help you decide what role SAP Solution Manager can play in helping you manage your upgrade project, proactively resolve issues in your SAP ERP system, and optimize performance. Come away with a clear understanding of the benefits of utilizing SAP Solution Manager during an upgrade project. By attending, you will:
Learn how to leverage the project administration tool to provide the framework for running a transparent, efficient, upgrade project by cataloging transactions, tracking progress, and storing key project documents
See how project administration can be used to export information into other project management tools, like Microsoft Project
Step through a demonstration that shows you how to access and utilize the template business processes from within the Business Process Repository
See how to use SAP Solution Manager as a central storage and check-in/check-out tool for critical project documentation that can be reused throughout the project and for new projects
Understand how to track, manage, and resolve project issues using Service Desk functionality
Find out how the Service Desk integrates with popular third-party incident management tools, as well as how it works with satellite systems to pinpoint the causes of problems
Find out why SAP Solution Manager may be a requirement for SAP enhancement package support and maintenance, particularly for SAP enhancement package 4
Do your testing processes and procedures measure up? Practical advice to ensure the quality and stability of your upgraded system long after your project ends
Testing, while absolutely critical to avoiding errors, downtime, and productivity lapses, can add considerable time and complexity to an upgrade or SAP enhancement package project. Find out how to prioritize, optimize, and streamline your testing efforts throughout your project life cycle without compromising the quality of your system.
Explore, in detail, how to create a landscape-wide testing strategy that accounts for interdependent SAP applications and third-party applications and interfaces
Review tools and techniques to build a testing catalog that optimizes the number of test scripts and that covers your critical business processes
Receive guidelines for segmenting your testing strategy into phases and manageable work packages
Learn how to create a scorecard to drive each testing phase with metrics that not only track results, but reduce the effort and time
Understand the unique goals and objectives of diagnostic, unit, transactional, string, and regression tests
Identify opportunities to convert from manual to automated testing to minimize the drain on human resources, strengthen your system’s compliance, and more effectively test new functionality
Boost your knowledge of when, why, and how to use testing tools such as eCATT and the SAP Quality Center application by HP
Expert advice, lessons, and guidelines for maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting your newly upgraded SAP environment using SAP Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager has become the de facto resource for managing and supporting your SAP ERP 6.0 landscape. The key to maximizing its value as a support tool is knowing its capabilities and when and where to use them. This session is designed to help customers evaluating their support strategy consider whether SAP Solution Manager could reduce TCO and offers insights and best practices for maintaining a newly upgraded or enhanced system. You will:
Learn the basics of central system monitoring capabilities within SAP Solution Manager and the advanced features it provides when paired with the project administration tool
Determine if, whether, and how your users can contact support and track SAP issues more easily via the Service Desk and what the limitations are (Hint: It might not be a good replacement for your IT help desk)
Find out how to monitor business conditions using business process monitoring and what the requirements are for using this tool
Gain insight into what SAP EarlyWatch® reports can reveal about your system’s patch levels, commonly used transactions, and database report — and examine your options for running these reports
Explore new background job management tools that can be used to maintain batch jobs more effectively
Learn how to prioritize which tools to use based on their ability to help you reduce TCO of your newly upgraded system, including recommendations for the minimum number of tools needed
Creative strategies for doing more with less: How to get the most from internal project teams and external consultants
With tight budgets and limited human resources, organizations must think creatively in order to assemble their upgrade project teams, hit key deadlines and milestones, and achieve desired business outcomes — all while keeping costs down. In this session, you will:
Obtain best practices for conducting an internal resource assessment to identify and select the right people to staff your project
Determine how many resources you will need for your project and which roles should come from inside versus outside the company
Acquire expert advice to negotiate for resources from your non-technical business teams and utilize them smartly
Find out how to clearly define project team roles, assign tasks and deliverables, and measure outcomes
Determine if and when you need to hire outside consulting resources and understand how to go about it wisely with a well-defined RFP and statement of work (SoW)
Assess your organization’s internal core competencies to ensure you use consultants only to augment — not replace — internal talent
Learn how to proactively formulate a plan to manage your upgrade after your consultants leave with a sound training, knowledge transfer, and post-project support strategy
Walk through the four key factors you must consider when deciding whether to outsource development, either onshore or offshore (Hint: There can be an impact on the realization phase of your project)
Leveraging your upgrade or enhancement package project to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
SAP and IT teams are under greater pressure than ever to achieve more while reducing costs. Find out how an SAP ERP upgrade provides a unique opportunity to make changes that reduce the overall costs of operating and maintaining your SAP landscape as well as position the enterprise to react faster to changing business requirements. In this session, you will:
Find out how to assess the usage of custom modifications and code in your system and eliminate what’s obsolete so you don’t have to keep maintaining it on your new system
Acquire expert guidance to assess your landscape for unnecessary, expensive, or slow hardware that can be eliminated or replaced
Quantify productivity gains that can be achieved from better performing systems and streamlined business processes
Find out if all the data on your original system needs to be kept live or if it can be archived and retained offline
Determine whether multiple instances of applications can be consolidated into a single instance to reduce infrastructure and licensing costs
Retire legacy interfaces, third-party applications, business processes, and indices that are out of date or have traditionally been expensive and time-consuming to maintain
Clean up client-dependent data to reduce errors and enable better testing
Learn how to incorporate the permanent resolution of long-standing, nagging system issues that could not previously be justified as their own projects into the upgrade
This session highlights innovative strategies being used by leading companies to initially prove — and then continually demonstrate — the value of an SAP ERP upgrade in order to secure and retain management buy-in and support. It offers strategies and tactics to increase your return on SAP ERP long after your initial upgrade project. During this session, you will:
Build a bullet-proof business case for your upgrade that can win over the most skeptical decision maker
Find out how to increase the ROI of your upgrade by tightly integrating this project with strategic business improvement and cost savings initiatives
Get expert instruction and examples of how to build a multi-dimensional project roadmap that accounts for business, functional, and technical requirements
See why most companies underestimate the return on their upgrade because they don’t account for the benefits across all key functional areas
Evaluate the pros and cons of three different upgrade strategies — upgrade, migrate, and consolidate — and determine which approach yields the highest ROI for your organization
Identify the key components that must be factored into your upgrade cost and ROI model
Reduce risk in your organization by using your upgrade to launch a more stringent change management process
Determine whether your upgrade is the right time to get functionality you’ve previously paid for “off the shelf”
Critical steps and considerations for choosing and optimizing your upgrade approach: Technical upgrade, functional upgrade, or SAP enhancement package installation
Your decision to perform a purely technical upgrade versus a combined technical-functional upgrade or SAP enhancement package installation has a profound impact on the upgrade project itself, as well as downstream support and maintenance activities. Walk through the pros and cons of each approach, and gather recommendations to help you make the right long-term decision for your organization. In this session, you will:
Get a firm understanding of how technical upgrade, functional upgrade, and SAP enhancement package installation projects differ in terms of cost, time, resources, and benefits
Determine whether a purely technical upgrade project truly reduces expenses and risks and what the tradeoffs are in terms of long-term ROI and support for the business
Explore the major financial, HR, logistics, and corporate functional deltas between SAP R/3® and SAP ERP releases and SAP enhancement packages and understand prerequisites for activating new functionality
Find out how technical upgrades, functional upgrades, and enhancement package projects have varying effects on testing and downtime
Determine when you should include an SAP enhancement package installation and activation with your upgrade
Understand the prerequisites for using various pieces of functionality in SAP ERP 6.0
A guided tour of SAP enhancement packages: Everything you need to know to successfully evaluate, activate, and optimize new functionality
Sharpen your knowledge of SAP enhancement packages and get a summary of the new functionality they provide. Find out how an enhancement package installation differs from a traditional upgrade, and explore the recommended approach for getting started with, installing, and activating enhancement packages — either as part of your upgrade or as a standalone project. In this session you will:
Broaden your knowledge of the business functionality that is included in SAP enhancement package 4 (Hint: It includes functionality from enhancement packages 1, 2, 3 and much more)
Get an understanding of the SAP enhancement package installation process, when it is best to apply them, and how an installation differs from a traditional upgrade
Examine important differences between installation versus activation of SAP enhancement packages with advice on the potential time, effort, and complexity associated with configuring specific pieces of functionality
Learn why it is crucial that you have installed all of the latest support packages and are running SAP NetWeaver® enhancement package 1 in order to install SAP ERP enhancement package 4
Fortify your understanding of the SAP tools available to assist you with your installation: the solution browser, the scenario and process component list, and The Enhancement Package Information Center
Get the latest updates on the release of enhancement package 5, including a sneak peek at what’s coming via the “Ramp-up” program
Is your SAP landscape ready for an SAP ERP 6.0 upgrade or SAP enhancement package
installation? Essential preparation considerations to optimize cost, stability, and performance
Starting an upgrade project without evaluating and properly preparing your landscape can result in poor system performance, instability, and extended downtime. This session walks you through the process of preparing your landscape for your upgrade or SAP enhancement package project. Understand different landscape, CPU, memory and release compatibility requirements to ensure your applications run smoothly together. By attending you will:
Understand SAP’s five-system landscape requirement (Hint: This is a recommended minimum!) and how this approach reduces downtime and provides a complete productive support landscape during the course of the upgrade
Learn how to conduct a comprehensive compatibility analysis with other SAP and third-party applications to avoid being surprised by integration gotchas
Identify the right questions to ask your vendors so that you know whether or not third-party applications need to be upgraded at the time of your project
Explore typical landscape scenarios that support a technical upgrade, functional upgrade, or SAP enhancement package installation
Recognize the largest opportunities for landscape cost savings, including an OS/DB migration upgrade
Gain insight into how functionality requirements, such as the use of SAP NetWeaver Portal to support selfservices and cockpits, impact your landscape
Assess the hardware reduction and cost-savings opportunities that virtualization could provide
Determine whether you should convert to Unicode at the time of your upgrade and what that entails
Evaluate your use of ABAP™ and Java to determine whether they should run on a dual stack or individual application stacks
Avoiding the would-haves, could-haves, should-haves: Strategies for planning, scoping and executing a fail-safe SAP ERP upgrade or SAP enhancement package project plan
Obtain expert guidance to plan, scope, execute, and derive maximum value from your upcoming SAP ERP upgrade. Avoid the common mistakes that commonly trip up SAP ERP upgrade and SAP enhancement package projects. Learn how to maximize the reward and mitigate risks associated with an SAP ERP upgrade project. You will:
Learn how to build a project plan, create the project timeline and milestones, and assemble the right mix of business and technical resources for your project
Examine the five factors that directly impact an upgrade timeline, such as the decision to do a technical or functional upgrade, amount of resources available, and landscape decisions
See the right way to analyze current system usage and understand why that is important for your project plan, specifically with regard to testing
Learn how to assess gaps between current functionality in production versus functionality in the upgrade sandbox to get a precise scope of what no longer works and whether to add new functionality
Acquire expert advice to manage the “red zone—” the phase in which all other projects and development activities should be frozen
Step through an end-to-end analysis of an upgrade cycle, from preparation to blueprint, to realization to finalization, and get examples of pitfalls to watch for and avoid
Explore the anatomy of a typical cut-over weekend, including an overview of the technical upgrade phases and best practices for orchestrating a flawless cut-over
Expert instruction for choosing and using the best methods and tools to accelerate your upgrade or enhancement package project and minimize downtime
Deadline and downtime are two of the most critical benchmarks used to measure the success of any upgrade project. Through lecture and demonstration, become familiar with dozens of SAP tools that help you conquer these objectives, and identify scenarios that may be best supported by third-party tools. You will:
Weigh specific criteria to help you determine if, whether, and how SAP Solution Manager should play a role in your upgrade project and which specific functionality, such as the upgrade roadmap, could be most useful
Learn how to utilize the solution browser tool to identify functional deltas in your SAP R/3 or SAP ERP system
See how the upgrade dependency analyzer works to uncover dependencies that could affect other SAP components in your landscape when you upgrade
Identify and eliminate obsolete custom modifications in your system using the custom development management cockpit
Acquire expert advice to deftly navigate The Enhancement Package Information Center to quickly get the information you need
Reveal the good, the bad, and the ugly with regard to near zero downtime upgrades (Hint: They are not recommended for every situation)
Ascertain if and when it makes sense to license the test data migration server (TDMS) to better manage your QA environment
If, when, and how SAP Solution Manager adds value before, during, and after your upgrade or SAP enhancement package installation
This session offers advice to help you decide what role SAP Solution Manager can play in helping you manage your upgrade project, proactively resolve issues in your SAP ERP system, and optimize performance. Come away with a clear understanding of the benefits of utilizing SAP Solution Manager during an upgrade project. By attending, you will:
Learn how to leverage the project administration tool to provide the framework for running a transparent, efficient, upgrade project by cataloging transactions, tracking progress, and storing key project documents
See how project administration can be used to export information into other project management tools, like Microsoft Project
Step through a demonstration that shows you how to access and utilize the template business processes from within the Business Process Repository
See how to use SAP Solution Manager as a central storage and check-in/check-out tool for critical project documentation that can be reused throughout the project and for new projects
Understand how to track, manage, and resolve project issues using Service Desk functionality
Find out how the Service Desk integrates with popular third-party incident management tools, as well as how it works with satellite systems to pinpoint the causes of problems
Find out why SAP Solution Manager may be a requirement for SAP enhancement package support and maintenance, particularly for SAP enhancement package 4
Do your testing processes and procedures measure up? Practical advice to ensure the quality and stability of your upgraded system long after your project ends
Testing, while absolutely critical to avoiding errors, downtime, and productivity lapses, can add considerable time and complexity to an upgrade or SAP enhancement package project. Find out how to prioritize, optimize, and streamline your testing efforts throughout your project life cycle without compromising the quality of your system.
Explore, in detail, how to create a landscape-wide testing strategy that accounts for interdependent SAP applications and third-party applications and interfaces
Review tools and techniques to build a testing catalog that optimizes the number of test scripts and that covers your critical business processes
Receive guidelines for segmenting your testing strategy into phases and manageable work packages
Learn how to create a scorecard to drive each testing phase with metrics that not only track results, but reduce the effort and time
Understand the unique goals and objectives of diagnostic, unit, transactional, string, and regression tests
Identify opportunities to convert from manual to automated testing to minimize the drain on human resources, strengthen your system’s compliance, and more effectively test new functionality
Boost your knowledge of when, why, and how to use testing tools such as eCATT and the SAP Quality Center application by HP
Expert advice, lessons, and guidelines for maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting your newly upgraded SAP environment using SAP Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager has become the de facto resource for managing and supporting your SAP ERP 6.0 landscape. The key to maximizing its value as a support tool is knowing its capabilities and when and where to use them. This session is designed to help customers evaluating their support strategy consider whether SAP Solution Manager could reduce TCO and offers insights and best practices for maintaining a newly upgraded or enhanced system. You will:
Learn the basics of central system monitoring capabilities within SAP Solution Manager and the advanced features it provides when paired with the project administration tool
Determine if, whether, and how your users can contact support and track SAP issues more easily via the Service Desk and what the limitations are (Hint: It might not be a good replacement for your IT help desk)
Find out how to monitor business conditions using business process monitoring and what the requirements are for using this tool
Gain insight into what SAP EarlyWatch® reports can reveal about your system’s patch levels, commonly used transactions, and database report — and examine your options for running these reports
Explore new background job management tools that can be used to maintain batch jobs more effectively
Learn how to prioritize which tools to use based on their ability to help you reduce TCO of your newly upgraded system, including recommendations for the minimum number of tools needed
Creative strategies for doing more with less: How to get the most from internal project teams and external consultants
With tight budgets and limited human resources, organizations must think creatively in order to assemble their upgrade project teams, hit key deadlines and milestones, and achieve desired business outcomes — all while keeping costs down. In this session, you will:
Obtain best practices for conducting an internal resource assessment to identify and select the right people to staff your project
Determine how many resources you will need for your project and which roles should come from inside versus outside the company
Acquire expert advice to negotiate for resources from your non-technical business teams and utilize them smartly
Find out how to clearly define project team roles, assign tasks and deliverables, and measure outcomes
Determine if and when you need to hire outside consulting resources and understand how to go about it wisely with a well-defined RFP and statement of work (SoW)
Assess your organization’s internal core competencies to ensure you use consultants only to augment — not replace — internal talent
Learn how to proactively formulate a plan to manage your upgrade after your consultants leave with a sound training, knowledge transfer, and post-project support strategy
Walk through the four key factors you must consider when deciding whether to outsource development, either onshore or offshore (Hint: There can be an impact on the realization phase of your project)
Leveraging your upgrade or enhancement package project to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
SAP and IT teams are under greater pressure than ever to achieve more while reducing costs. Find out how an SAP ERP upgrade provides a unique opportunity to make changes that reduce the overall costs of operating and maintaining your SAP landscape as well as position the enterprise to react faster to changing business requirements. In this session, you will:
Find out how to assess the usage of custom modifications and code in your system and eliminate what’s obsolete so you don’t have to keep maintaining it on your new system
Acquire expert guidance to assess your landscape for unnecessary, expensive, or slow hardware that can be eliminated or replaced
Quantify productivity gains that can be achieved from better performing systems and streamlined business processes
Find out if all the data on your original system needs to be kept live or if it can be archived and retained offline
Determine whether multiple instances of applications can be consolidated into a single instance to reduce infrastructure and licensing costs
Retire legacy interfaces, third-party applications, business processes, and indices that are out of date or have traditionally been expensive and time-consuming to maintain
Clean up client-dependent data to reduce errors and enable better testing
Learn how to incorporate the permanent resolution of long-standing, nagging system issues that could not previously be justified as their own projects into the upgrade
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The SAP BusinessObjects Seminar
Straight answers on the future of your business intelligence investment
Hear directly from SAP about the role SAP BusinessObjects will play in your current – and future – SAP investment and business intelligence (BI) strategy. Get answers to your most pressing questions, such as:
How has the SAP BI strategy evolved and how will that affect my future decisions?
Where do SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) tools fit into this strategy?
Which solutions and tools are phasing out, and what will replace them?
Can I still leverage my BEx queries and existing BI content in SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP?
Will BEx Query Designer continue to play a fundamental role in the SAP BI strategy?
How will Crystal Reports and Xcelsius dashboards be embedded as delivered content in SAP Business Suite?
Do I have to start using all these tools today?
Which versions of SAP BusinessObjects XI or SAP NetWeaver BW do I need?
What is in store for the next release of SAP BusinessObjects, what new features and functionality will be released in the coming months?
Map the right tool to the right job: Strategies, updates, selection criteria
Dive into the extensive capabilities of the BI solutions available in SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects, and explore which tools map best to your organization’s specific business requirements.
Step through the key functionality of tools in the SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions suite, including Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and determine where, why, and how each can add value to your organization
Identify key considerations to determine which tools are best suited for your requirements, including:
Mapping specific data sources to each tool to achieve optimum performance
Understanding which tools are best for specific types of users
Selecting tools that will offer the highest ROI for your requirements
Compare the capabilities of the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools to those of traditional BI tools, and then map them to real-world scenarios to better understand:
Which tools are best suited to report off SAP ERP data versus data from SAP NetWeaver BW
Which tools are best suited to report off of non-SAP data sources, like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Hyperion Solutions
When departments should use BEx Analyzer versus Crystal Reports
When to employ SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence versus Crystal Reports
Why SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence can’t report directly off SAP ERP
Which reporting tools are best for executive-level reports, financial reports, and business user reports
Different approaches for delivering reports via the business intelligence portal (formerly called InfoView), SAP ERP, and OpenDoc calls
Step through some real-world scenarios to better understand how other organizations have selected the right tools for their jobs
Proving ROI: How to demonstrate the value of your SAP BusinessObjects implementation and integration effort
Perhaps one of the greatest challenges of any initiative is demonstrating a clear business benefit to key players in your organization. This session provides metrics and strategies to illustrate the value your SAP BusinessObjects integration effort to key stakeholders:
Anticipate the most pressing concerns of decision makers, and learn how to directly map the benefits gleaned from the BI tools to those issues
Understand how to measure the direct value each tool can have on your existing reporting and BI processes
Hear how other organizations have demonstrated the value of their SAP BusinessObjects implementation and integration to decision makers
Technical details for bringing SAP BusinessObjects into your current BI architecture
This session steps through the complex architecture of an integrated BI environment. Understand the details of how SAP BusinessObjects solutions fit into an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW landscape, and what technical resources are needed for a successful integration initiative.
Step through an architectural “map” of the SAP BI landscape, and see how the reporting and analytics tools available within SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects tie together
Explore distinct integration points, and understand how these points will differ depending on the make-up of your SAP landscape
Get tips on which drivers, transports, and data sources are needed for a successful integration
Learn which transports are best leveraged with SAP ERP and which are best for SAP NetWeaver BW
Explore the differences in how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius communicate with your SAP platform
Gain additional insight on how to connect to other SAP Business Suite solutions, such as SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) and SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM)
Gain a thorough understanding of the resources available in the SAP Integration Kit, and how to:
Extend data connectivity for Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and Voyager using drivers that enable communication with SAP systems
Integrate SAP roles and users with the SAP BusinessObjects systems and extend functionality to single sign-on
Leverage SAP NetWeaver BW publishing to publish Crystal Reports objects from SAP NetWeaver BW systems to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Integrate the SAP BusinessObjects repository into SAP NetWeaver Portal to provide functionality such as feedback, ranking, and collaboration from Knowledge Management
Integrate SAP BusinessObjects content with SAP NetWeaver Portal
10 surefire tips for seamless integration between SAP BusinessObjects and your BI landscape
Integrating SAP BusinessObjects solutions with your existing BI landscape can be fraught with pitfalls and “gotchas.” This session offers key considerations to help you avoid the roadblocks that stand in front of optimal integration between SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP systems.
Learn which patch and release levels are needed before starting the integration process
Know which key resources you must have aligned in the pre-integration phase
Understand the order of operations for a successful SAP BusinessObjects integration project, from end-user training to the installation of essential transports and drivers
Hear an overview of which of your current BI investments can still be leveraged in an integrated SAP BusinessObjects environment, and which cannot, including queries, reports, table authorizations, hierarchies, and roles
Get testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance best practices for your post-integration landscape
Proven practices, strategies, and advice to integrate SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius with your SAP systems
Each SAP BusinessObjects solution comes with its own integration opportunities and challenges. This session will make you aware of the specific nuances of tying SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius to your SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW systems.
Discuss which questions to ask when integrating each of these specific SAP BusinessObjects BI tools into your existing landscape, such as:
What are my data sources?
Which tools am I already leveraging?
What resources do I have available?
What is my project scope?
Who are my BI consumers?
What is my reporting delivery strategy?
Dive into recommended practices for integrating Crystal Reports
Find out which metadata layer will offer the best performance when using Crystal Reports to report off of SAP NetWeaver BW
Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects report bursting capabilities to optimize reporting delivery strategy
Learn tips to develop Crystal Reports against SAP data sources
Unearth tips and techniques for integrating SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Understand the differences between OLAP universes and relational universes, and how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence leverages OLAP universes as a fundamental building block for reporting off of SAP NetWeaver BW
Gain insight into the differences between pointing to an SAP NetWeaver BW query vs. an InfoCube
Learn when, why, and how to tweak your existing SAP NetWeaver BW queries for optimal report performance (and when you may need to build new queries)
Delve into the differences between the available connectivity options for delivering quality Xcelsius dashboards, including LiveOffice, QaaWS, and BI Consumer Services (BICS)
Strategies that yield a high-performing, scalable SAP BI environment
You can have the best tools with the greatest features and functions, but if they don’t scale and perform, they’ll be useless to your business. This unique session pulls together key best practices and concepts in the areas of sizing, virtualization, and scalability from those who are building these platforms every day. Arm your teams with insight, tips, and tricks to create and size an SAP BI platform that can support the ever changing needs of your business.
Understand the difference between vertical and horizontal scalability
Walk through a system sizing exercise and identify key questions to determine your specific sizing requirements, such as:
Number of users
Types of reports
User activity
Assess whether virtualization makes sense for your SAP landscape, specifically within the latest VMware ESX Server environments
Get seven scalability tips and tricks for optimizing platform performance, including:
Support for a 32-bit vs. 64-bit Windows platform
Which operating system, Microsoft Windows, Unix, or Linux, is best for scalability and performance
Which Web platform, .NET or Java, offers the greatest performance for specific scenarios
How to troubleshoot common bottlenecks, such as simultaneous users and high volumes of throughput on report processing
SAP BusinessObjects security: Features, requirements, and integration with your existing policies
You already have a security strategy to protect your critical data and reports. In this session find out the key security issues and challenges that come with these new tools, and learn how to leverage your existing security policies and strategies. Examine the native security features of SAP BusinessObjects, explore how these features differ from those of more traditional BI tools from SAP, and dive into the specific roles and characteristics that can be leveraged in your newly-integrated environment.
Bolster your knowledge of the native security features in SAP BusinessObjects and how they can best compliment traditional SAP security
Get expert advice on security design and workflow processes developed from real-world scenarios
Explore the core security feature and terminology differences between the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools and the more traditional BI tools in SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP, including:
Roles versus groups
Object-level security as compared to role-level security
The distinction between authentication and single sign-on
A comparison of client-side and server-side single sign-on
Learn how to leverage and map your pre-existing SAP roles from your SAP platform into SAP BusinessObjects
Dive deep into the single sign-on features within SAP BusinessObjects, and examine how Secure Network Communications (SNC) can be used to leverage true single sign-on capabilities
Understand the methodologies behind coupling Active Directory and SAP security in order to simplify your security matrix and streamline user maintenance
Receive answers to some of the most common, and most challenging, security-related questions
Find out how the disablement of a role in SAP will affect your roles within SAP BusinessObjects
Learn what maintenance levels are required after roles have been mapped
Understand the workflow architecture of importing roles from SAP NetWeaver BW into SAP BusinessObjects
Discover ways to employ the monitoring and auditing of accounts and user activity in SAP BusinessObjects
Data sources made simple: A comprehensive guide to understanding, customizing, and leveraging hierarchies in SAP BusinessObjects
Learn how hierarchies serve as the basis for reporting and analysis within your SAP environment, and explore how SAP BusinessObjects employs hierarchies differently than SAP BEx or other traditional SAP business intelligence tools. This detailed session simplifies the concept of hierarchies and offers easy to understand guidelines for using
them at your company.
Investigate the importance of hierarchies, and learn why they are a crucial component within your SAP environment
Find out how each of the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools handles hierarchies and how that differs from handling hierarchies within SAP BEx
Explore how hierarchy and hierarchy node variables behave in the various SAP BusinessObjects BI tools
Examine methods to leverage SAP NetWeaver BW hierarchies, and get tips on developing custom hierarchies within SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports
Understand the different hierarchy-related limitations that exist in the various SAP BusinessObjects tools
Take away tips and tricks on developing savvy reports by utilizing hierarchies
Tuning SAP BusinessObjects solutions for optimal performance: Tips from the trenches
This session delivers proven practices to help you anticipate and manage performance issues and bottlenecks related to using SAP BusinessObjects solutions in your landscape. Understand what workloads and tasks can drag down your system, get advice for bolstering query performance, and learn how to deal and troubleshoot slow response times.
Prepare for the key culprits behind lagging performance of the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools, including:
Running queries through the OLAP BAPI® layer as opposed to running native to SAP
Hitting optimized BEx queries and putting them in SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator versus hitting queries, InfoCubes, and multiproviders directly
Misidentifying data volume limitations
Issues with contention of database activity in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW while running reports
Step through demos showing performance scenarios for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius, and learn how performance varies depending on whether you report off of SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP ERP
Examine the preferred back-end metadata objects used to boost system performance
Learn how reporting off data store objects (DSOs) versus InfoCubes plays a crucial role in your SAP BusinessObjects system performance
Determine which connectivity methods are best suited for optimized system performance, and specifically investigate how BICS uses BEx queries off OLAP to deliver content
Find out why limiting data volume is essential for performing what-if analysis within Xcelsius dashboards
Learn how to open Xcelsius within Crystal Reports, and the ways this affects overall system performance
Gain insight into the common bottlenecks that negatively affect system performance, and hear how SAP tracing can be leveraged to monitor and identify performance issues
The SAP business intelligence roadmap: What’s in, what’s out, and what it means to you
Understand the next generation of SAP’s reporting and business intelligence solutions, and learn how these future BI offerings will work within your SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP Business Suite, and SAP BusinessObjects environments.
Review SAP’s current BI strategy and the role SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions play in that strategy
Hear directly from SAP on many of the enhancements planned for the core SAP BusinessObjects BI platform (SAP BusinessObjects XI 4.0)
Learn about many new user enhancements that make the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools much easier to use
Get a glimpse into the new semantic layer and see how it will provide a more robust environment for managing disparate data
Explore future enhancements to reduce the administrative task of running the SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver platforms in parallel
Learn the product details for Pioneer, the much anticipated next generation analysis tool that will be replacing BEx Analyzer and SAP BusinessObjects Voyager, and how it will be an integral part of the future SAP BusinessObjects portfolio
Get the information you need to decide if you should implement, upgrade, or integrate your BI solutions now or wait until the next release
Manage your ongoing SAP BusinessObjects implementation and integration initiative
Whether you’re evaluating, starting a new project, or are in the process of bringing more solutions into your landscape, you will learn valuable and practical advice to manage and validate your current project plan and ensure you aren’t missing any critical items. This session offers insight into key decision points as you plan your next steps.
Get tips and best practices for creating a clear project plan before implementation, including the specification of timelines and how you will phase out your deployments
Glean the benefits of taking an iterative approach to BI implementation
Understand the importance of a Business Intelligence Competency Center
Weigh the pros and cons of a top-down vs. bottom-up approach to BI implementation
Identify the key milestones of the project and who within your organization needs to be involved at each phase
Find out how to get key stakeholders’ and managements’ buy-in
Map user requirements to available tooling, and be confident that you are selecting the correct tools for various groups of users
Learn how to determine the sequence of installation, upgrade, or integration steps, taking into account the dependencies between BI solutions
Get lessons and insights to avoid the most common challenges companies face when integrating their BI landscape
Get advice on how to strategically phase out unsupported, or unneeded, solutions
A comprehensive introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
This session examines SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated. Learn how it differs from the standard version of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, and the benefits it can provide managers, business teams, and casual users with immediate insights into vast amounts of data.
Get an overview of the features in SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated, and learn how it allows users to slice and dice massive volumes of data in seconds, without the need for formal report development or IT intervention. Discover:
How SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer interoperate
The SAP BusinessObjects Explorer end-user interface and see how it differs from other BI tool interfaces
How to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated for data analysis, even outside of SAP NetWeaver BW
Explore the specific features of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated, that allow for rapid search and analysis of data
Identify technical requirements, such as the use of SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, to properly index and partition large volumes of data before they are queried and analyzed
Hear the SAP two-year roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated, to ensure you are up to speed and aligned with the most up-to-date SAP BI strategy
Hear directly from SAP about the role SAP BusinessObjects will play in your current – and future – SAP investment and business intelligence (BI) strategy. Get answers to your most pressing questions, such as:
How has the SAP BI strategy evolved and how will that affect my future decisions?
Where do SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) tools fit into this strategy?
Which solutions and tools are phasing out, and what will replace them?
Can I still leverage my BEx queries and existing BI content in SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP?
Will BEx Query Designer continue to play a fundamental role in the SAP BI strategy?
How will Crystal Reports and Xcelsius dashboards be embedded as delivered content in SAP Business Suite?
Do I have to start using all these tools today?
Which versions of SAP BusinessObjects XI or SAP NetWeaver BW do I need?
What is in store for the next release of SAP BusinessObjects, what new features and functionality will be released in the coming months?
Map the right tool to the right job: Strategies, updates, selection criteria
Dive into the extensive capabilities of the BI solutions available in SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects, and explore which tools map best to your organization’s specific business requirements.
Step through the key functionality of tools in the SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions suite, including Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and determine where, why, and how each can add value to your organization
Identify key considerations to determine which tools are best suited for your requirements, including:
Mapping specific data sources to each tool to achieve optimum performance
Understanding which tools are best for specific types of users
Selecting tools that will offer the highest ROI for your requirements
Compare the capabilities of the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools to those of traditional BI tools, and then map them to real-world scenarios to better understand:
Which tools are best suited to report off SAP ERP data versus data from SAP NetWeaver BW
Which tools are best suited to report off of non-SAP data sources, like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Hyperion Solutions
When departments should use BEx Analyzer versus Crystal Reports
When to employ SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence versus Crystal Reports
Why SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence can’t report directly off SAP ERP
Which reporting tools are best for executive-level reports, financial reports, and business user reports
Different approaches for delivering reports via the business intelligence portal (formerly called InfoView), SAP ERP, and OpenDoc calls
Step through some real-world scenarios to better understand how other organizations have selected the right tools for their jobs
Proving ROI: How to demonstrate the value of your SAP BusinessObjects implementation and integration effort
Perhaps one of the greatest challenges of any initiative is demonstrating a clear business benefit to key players in your organization. This session provides metrics and strategies to illustrate the value your SAP BusinessObjects integration effort to key stakeholders:
Anticipate the most pressing concerns of decision makers, and learn how to directly map the benefits gleaned from the BI tools to those issues
Understand how to measure the direct value each tool can have on your existing reporting and BI processes
Hear how other organizations have demonstrated the value of their SAP BusinessObjects implementation and integration to decision makers
Technical details for bringing SAP BusinessObjects into your current BI architecture
This session steps through the complex architecture of an integrated BI environment. Understand the details of how SAP BusinessObjects solutions fit into an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW landscape, and what technical resources are needed for a successful integration initiative.
Step through an architectural “map” of the SAP BI landscape, and see how the reporting and analytics tools available within SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects tie together
Explore distinct integration points, and understand how these points will differ depending on the make-up of your SAP landscape
Get tips on which drivers, transports, and data sources are needed for a successful integration
Learn which transports are best leveraged with SAP ERP and which are best for SAP NetWeaver BW
Explore the differences in how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius communicate with your SAP platform
Gain additional insight on how to connect to other SAP Business Suite solutions, such as SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) and SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM)
Gain a thorough understanding of the resources available in the SAP Integration Kit, and how to:
Extend data connectivity for Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and Voyager using drivers that enable communication with SAP systems
Integrate SAP roles and users with the SAP BusinessObjects systems and extend functionality to single sign-on
Leverage SAP NetWeaver BW publishing to publish Crystal Reports objects from SAP NetWeaver BW systems to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Integrate the SAP BusinessObjects repository into SAP NetWeaver Portal to provide functionality such as feedback, ranking, and collaboration from Knowledge Management
Integrate SAP BusinessObjects content with SAP NetWeaver Portal
10 surefire tips for seamless integration between SAP BusinessObjects and your BI landscape
Integrating SAP BusinessObjects solutions with your existing BI landscape can be fraught with pitfalls and “gotchas.” This session offers key considerations to help you avoid the roadblocks that stand in front of optimal integration between SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP systems.
Learn which patch and release levels are needed before starting the integration process
Know which key resources you must have aligned in the pre-integration phase
Understand the order of operations for a successful SAP BusinessObjects integration project, from end-user training to the installation of essential transports and drivers
Hear an overview of which of your current BI investments can still be leveraged in an integrated SAP BusinessObjects environment, and which cannot, including queries, reports, table authorizations, hierarchies, and roles
Get testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance best practices for your post-integration landscape
Proven practices, strategies, and advice to integrate SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius with your SAP systems
Each SAP BusinessObjects solution comes with its own integration opportunities and challenges. This session will make you aware of the specific nuances of tying SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius to your SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW systems.
Discuss which questions to ask when integrating each of these specific SAP BusinessObjects BI tools into your existing landscape, such as:
What are my data sources?
Which tools am I already leveraging?
What resources do I have available?
What is my project scope?
Who are my BI consumers?
What is my reporting delivery strategy?
Dive into recommended practices for integrating Crystal Reports
Find out which metadata layer will offer the best performance when using Crystal Reports to report off of SAP NetWeaver BW
Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects report bursting capabilities to optimize reporting delivery strategy
Learn tips to develop Crystal Reports against SAP data sources
Unearth tips and techniques for integrating SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Understand the differences between OLAP universes and relational universes, and how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence leverages OLAP universes as a fundamental building block for reporting off of SAP NetWeaver BW
Gain insight into the differences between pointing to an SAP NetWeaver BW query vs. an InfoCube
Learn when, why, and how to tweak your existing SAP NetWeaver BW queries for optimal report performance (and when you may need to build new queries)
Delve into the differences between the available connectivity options for delivering quality Xcelsius dashboards, including LiveOffice, QaaWS, and BI Consumer Services (BICS)
Strategies that yield a high-performing, scalable SAP BI environment
You can have the best tools with the greatest features and functions, but if they don’t scale and perform, they’ll be useless to your business. This unique session pulls together key best practices and concepts in the areas of sizing, virtualization, and scalability from those who are building these platforms every day. Arm your teams with insight, tips, and tricks to create and size an SAP BI platform that can support the ever changing needs of your business.
Understand the difference between vertical and horizontal scalability
Walk through a system sizing exercise and identify key questions to determine your specific sizing requirements, such as:
Number of users
Types of reports
User activity
Assess whether virtualization makes sense for your SAP landscape, specifically within the latest VMware ESX Server environments
Get seven scalability tips and tricks for optimizing platform performance, including:
Support for a 32-bit vs. 64-bit Windows platform
Which operating system, Microsoft Windows, Unix, or Linux, is best for scalability and performance
Which Web platform, .NET or Java, offers the greatest performance for specific scenarios
How to troubleshoot common bottlenecks, such as simultaneous users and high volumes of throughput on report processing
SAP BusinessObjects security: Features, requirements, and integration with your existing policies
You already have a security strategy to protect your critical data and reports. In this session find out the key security issues and challenges that come with these new tools, and learn how to leverage your existing security policies and strategies. Examine the native security features of SAP BusinessObjects, explore how these features differ from those of more traditional BI tools from SAP, and dive into the specific roles and characteristics that can be leveraged in your newly-integrated environment.
Bolster your knowledge of the native security features in SAP BusinessObjects and how they can best compliment traditional SAP security
Get expert advice on security design and workflow processes developed from real-world scenarios
Explore the core security feature and terminology differences between the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools and the more traditional BI tools in SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP, including:
Roles versus groups
Object-level security as compared to role-level security
The distinction between authentication and single sign-on
A comparison of client-side and server-side single sign-on
Learn how to leverage and map your pre-existing SAP roles from your SAP platform into SAP BusinessObjects
Dive deep into the single sign-on features within SAP BusinessObjects, and examine how Secure Network Communications (SNC) can be used to leverage true single sign-on capabilities
Understand the methodologies behind coupling Active Directory and SAP security in order to simplify your security matrix and streamline user maintenance
Receive answers to some of the most common, and most challenging, security-related questions
Find out how the disablement of a role in SAP will affect your roles within SAP BusinessObjects
Learn what maintenance levels are required after roles have been mapped
Understand the workflow architecture of importing roles from SAP NetWeaver BW into SAP BusinessObjects
Discover ways to employ the monitoring and auditing of accounts and user activity in SAP BusinessObjects
Data sources made simple: A comprehensive guide to understanding, customizing, and leveraging hierarchies in SAP BusinessObjects
Learn how hierarchies serve as the basis for reporting and analysis within your SAP environment, and explore how SAP BusinessObjects employs hierarchies differently than SAP BEx or other traditional SAP business intelligence tools. This detailed session simplifies the concept of hierarchies and offers easy to understand guidelines for using
them at your company.
Investigate the importance of hierarchies, and learn why they are a crucial component within your SAP environment
Find out how each of the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools handles hierarchies and how that differs from handling hierarchies within SAP BEx
Explore how hierarchy and hierarchy node variables behave in the various SAP BusinessObjects BI tools
Examine methods to leverage SAP NetWeaver BW hierarchies, and get tips on developing custom hierarchies within SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports
Understand the different hierarchy-related limitations that exist in the various SAP BusinessObjects tools
Take away tips and tricks on developing savvy reports by utilizing hierarchies
Tuning SAP BusinessObjects solutions for optimal performance: Tips from the trenches
This session delivers proven practices to help you anticipate and manage performance issues and bottlenecks related to using SAP BusinessObjects solutions in your landscape. Understand what workloads and tasks can drag down your system, get advice for bolstering query performance, and learn how to deal and troubleshoot slow response times.
Prepare for the key culprits behind lagging performance of the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools, including:
Running queries through the OLAP BAPI® layer as opposed to running native to SAP
Hitting optimized BEx queries and putting them in SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator versus hitting queries, InfoCubes, and multiproviders directly
Misidentifying data volume limitations
Issues with contention of database activity in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW while running reports
Step through demos showing performance scenarios for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius, and learn how performance varies depending on whether you report off of SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP ERP
Examine the preferred back-end metadata objects used to boost system performance
Learn how reporting off data store objects (DSOs) versus InfoCubes plays a crucial role in your SAP BusinessObjects system performance
Determine which connectivity methods are best suited for optimized system performance, and specifically investigate how BICS uses BEx queries off OLAP to deliver content
Find out why limiting data volume is essential for performing what-if analysis within Xcelsius dashboards
Learn how to open Xcelsius within Crystal Reports, and the ways this affects overall system performance
Gain insight into the common bottlenecks that negatively affect system performance, and hear how SAP tracing can be leveraged to monitor and identify performance issues
The SAP business intelligence roadmap: What’s in, what’s out, and what it means to you
Understand the next generation of SAP’s reporting and business intelligence solutions, and learn how these future BI offerings will work within your SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP Business Suite, and SAP BusinessObjects environments.
Review SAP’s current BI strategy and the role SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions play in that strategy
Hear directly from SAP on many of the enhancements planned for the core SAP BusinessObjects BI platform (SAP BusinessObjects XI 4.0)
Learn about many new user enhancements that make the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools much easier to use
Get a glimpse into the new semantic layer and see how it will provide a more robust environment for managing disparate data
Explore future enhancements to reduce the administrative task of running the SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver platforms in parallel
Learn the product details for Pioneer, the much anticipated next generation analysis tool that will be replacing BEx Analyzer and SAP BusinessObjects Voyager, and how it will be an integral part of the future SAP BusinessObjects portfolio
Get the information you need to decide if you should implement, upgrade, or integrate your BI solutions now or wait until the next release
Manage your ongoing SAP BusinessObjects implementation and integration initiative
Whether you’re evaluating, starting a new project, or are in the process of bringing more solutions into your landscape, you will learn valuable and practical advice to manage and validate your current project plan and ensure you aren’t missing any critical items. This session offers insight into key decision points as you plan your next steps.
Get tips and best practices for creating a clear project plan before implementation, including the specification of timelines and how you will phase out your deployments
Glean the benefits of taking an iterative approach to BI implementation
Understand the importance of a Business Intelligence Competency Center
Weigh the pros and cons of a top-down vs. bottom-up approach to BI implementation
Identify the key milestones of the project and who within your organization needs to be involved at each phase
Find out how to get key stakeholders’ and managements’ buy-in
Map user requirements to available tooling, and be confident that you are selecting the correct tools for various groups of users
Learn how to determine the sequence of installation, upgrade, or integration steps, taking into account the dependencies between BI solutions
Get lessons and insights to avoid the most common challenges companies face when integrating their BI landscape
Get advice on how to strategically phase out unsupported, or unneeded, solutions
A comprehensive introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
This session examines SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated. Learn how it differs from the standard version of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, and the benefits it can provide managers, business teams, and casual users with immediate insights into vast amounts of data.
Get an overview of the features in SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated, and learn how it allows users to slice and dice massive volumes of data in seconds, without the need for formal report development or IT intervention. Discover:
How SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer interoperate
The SAP BusinessObjects Explorer end-user interface and see how it differs from other BI tool interfaces
How to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated for data analysis, even outside of SAP NetWeaver BW
Explore the specific features of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated, that allow for rapid search and analysis of data
Identify technical requirements, such as the use of SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, to properly index and partition large volumes of data before they are queried and analyzed
Hear the SAP two-year roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated, to ensure you are up to speed and aligned with the most up-to-date SAP BI strategy
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Reporting and Business Intelligence with SAP and Business Objects
This course acquaints you with the expanded range of BI options now available for SAP customers.
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