Pre-Conference Activities

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SAP InnoJam

Saturday Evening, September 17–
Monday Afternoon, September 19
Palazzo Ballroom, Level 5

Compete at SAP InnoJam for a spot at DemoJam. Separate registration fees apply. Participants can register as teams, or as individuals and we will assign you to a team. Teams have 30–36 hours to conceive of and build a real, working solution to a given challenge, using specific SAP technologies. Judges review each team's demos and choose the finalists, who will move on to compete at DemoJam on Wednesday evening.

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ASUG Seminars

Monday, September 19
Lando and Marcello Ballrooms, Level 4

Make even more of your SAP TechEd experience by attending one of the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) pre-conference seminars. These intensive full-day sessions bring together the best minds in the industry to provide deep-dive knowledge sharing in a unique setting. The seminars are available for many experience levels and in a number of skill sets. Please note that an additional fee is required and each seminar is priced separately.

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ASUG Pre-Conference Seminars

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Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA – The Ultimate Transformation Guide

Lecture | Full-Day, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Fee: $645 ASUG Member | $745 ASUG Non-Member

Digitization has reached each of us and each and every business. The SAP S/4HANA suite, the digital core of SAP’s solution portfolio, addresses the needs to redefine all kinds of business processes and will help you to integrate, in a modular manner, digital practices that are evolving around the core.

Once you've made the decision to move to SAP S/4HANA, or even if you are still just considering it, you need to understand the challenges and opportunities you will face in moving to the solution. As with any major software implementation, performing this transformation effectively and correctly is a major task, but it is essential to get the most from SAP S/4HANA and ensure that you will realize the full benefit from the solution.

In this session, we will explain how to mitigate risk and get the most out of your implementation of SAP S/4HANA by finding the right transformation path. Whether you want to convert your existing SAP software system into SAP S/4HANA or start with a fresh system featuring clean, valid, business-ready data, we provide guidance and best practices. We walk you through the prerequisites, basic preparation steps, and the transformation process.

Agenda Overview

SAP S/4HANA – Overview and Business Value
Demystify SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA versus SAP S/4HANA 1605 versus SAP S/4HANA 1610 and conversion options.
How do the SAP S/4HANA Value Assurance service packages, SAP Activate methodology, and tools from SAP help you to plan and execute the conversion?
SAP S/4HANA – Transformation choices and deployment scenarios in detail
SAP S/4HANA – The voice of the customer
SAP S/4HANA – Get prepared: Your toolbox
SAP S/4HANA – Steps to take before you start your project: Sizing, unicode conversion, custom code remediation
Data volume management, data quality, and data services
Extending the solution using SAP HANA Cloud Platform
Interactive discussion with SAP experts: “Your situation – Our response”

Key Outcomes

Learn about the next generation of SAP Business Suite applications and business application strategy from the experts.
Hear from SAP experts about SAP Activate, SAP’s consumption experience for SAP S/4HANA and the SAP S/4HANA Value Assurance service packages.
Get an overview about all available deployment models and transition scenarios and learn which is right for you.
Learn from SAP experts which SAP Best Practices packages are available for consuming SAP S/4HANA and converting your system landscape to SAP S/4HANA.
Understand how you can extend the solution using SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
Hear from customers how they have successfully run their transformation projects.
Meet face-to-face with SAP experts and customers to get your questions answered about the next-generation business suite, what it means to you, and how you can start to plan for it.

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Information Security is a Journey without a Destination

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to SAP HANA: A Comprehensive Technical Introduction

Lecture | Full-Day, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Fee: $645 ASUG Member | $745 ASUG Non-Member

This full-day ASUG Pre-Conference Seminar will provide a detailed technical overview of the what, why, and how of the SAP HANA platform. This interactive session with the product management team of SAP HANA will take you through the database, data processing, data integration, and application development features that SAP HANA provides and explain the capabilities and features available within the platform. Customer examples and use cases will be used throughout the day to detail how to best take advantage of SAP HANA. Additionally, an introduction to SAP HANA Vora software will be provided to explain how SAP HANA can be combined with Big Data lakes and open source deployments.

As SAP HANA is a very extensive platform, the session will be broken down to focus on the features specifically applicable to the Systems Administration, Developers, Advanced Data Analysts, Security Architects, the Data Integrators, the Data center Infrastructure architects, and the enterprise data architect roles.

Key Topics or Agenda Overview:

SAP HANA Platform Strategy and Value Proposition
SAP HANA Platform Architecture, Components, and Core Engines
Landscape and Deployment Options
SAP HANA Platform Modeling and Data Management
Advanced Data Processing and Analytics
SAP HANA Platform Native Development Tools
Security and Audit Capabilities
Big Data and SAP HANA Vora
Data Acquisition into and from SAP HANA
Cloud and Infrastructure Options
Data Center Operations, Administration, and Operations
Interactive Q&A with SAP HANA Platform Product Management Team

Key Outcomes or Benefits of Attending:

Knowledge of the SAP HANA platform and its use cases
Knowledge of SAP HANA platform tooling and capabilities
Understanding of where to find additional knowledge at SAP TechEd and online

Target Audience: Systems Administration, Developers, Advanced Data Analysts, Security Architects, Data Integrators, Data Center Infrastructure Architects, Enterprise Data Architects

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Internet of Things and SAP – What You Need to Know

Lecture | Full-Day, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Fee: $645 ASUG Member | $745 ASUG Non-Member

For over 40 years, SAP has been helping customers map their journey through Digital Transformation. No one has more knowledge and experience in business processes, while giving our customers a 360-degree view of their entire business operation. The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to drive the largest segment of growth in new business value with the right solution infrastructure. SAP can help you know where opportunities exist, evolve your business processes to take action, and create new business value and ecosystem advantages.

Key Topics/Agenda Overview:

The pre-conference is designed as a day full of conversations, demonstrations and real life experience sharing by experts in the SAP Internet of Things solutions, platform, architecture, big data and design thinking of solutions for SAP customers looking to leverage the IoT to connect the operational technology and business information technology systems in the enterprise to connect the shop floor to the top floor.

The agenda includes deep dive conversations on:

SAP Internet of Things Strategy
Data as a Foundation for Digital Transformation
Overview of the SAP IoT Platform, Solutions and Accelerators
SAP IoT Intelligent Edge
SAP IoT Platform

The session is designed to comprehensively inform the needs of the community of data scientists, architects, consultants, developers and solution design thinkers working with the Internet of Things.

Key Outcomes

Get an architectural deep dive on the IoT platform from SAP and solutions that are built using the platform.
Understand the various capabilities that make up the analytics functionality available within the IoT platform, both at the edge and at the center to be able to create the right set of analytical solutions for customers wanting to leverage the Internet of Things platform to review operations.
Learn about the IoT platform streaming analytics capabilities and benefits for the IoT.
SAP and its partner ecosystem will provide information in this session on how to secure IoT deployments using the IoT platform and partner components.
Learn about the standards and protocols that need to be kept in mind as people go about working with IoT. SAP will also bring in relevant ecosystem partners.
SAP will bring in a partner to talk device and thing management to the audience and its implications on the IoT platform and capabilities offered to address this need.
Take away what it takes to build the various solutions and accelerators that make up the portfolio of SAP solutions for the Internet of Things.

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SAP and Enterprise Information Management (EIM) 101 – What You Need to Know

Extend the Core: Drive Innovation with SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Hands-On* | Full-Day, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Fee: $745 ASUG Member | $845 ASUG Non-Member

Traditional governance of core business applications such as ERP has stifled the innovation required to meet today’s real-time business challenges and Digital Transformation initiatives. Now more than ever, developers need the right platform to quickly extend, build, and run cloud applications that securely extend core business solutions in order to drive continuous and frequent innovation to the business.

Attend this informative and hands-on session to learn how you can extend the core to drive additional value from your existing SAP investments, whether on premise or in cloud. Different types of use cases for extending the core will be discussed, including User Experience and SAP Fiori, integration, Internet of Things (IoT), and more.

You will gain an understanding of the comprehensive set of services and capabilities in SAP HANA Cloud Platform for facilitating extensibility of SAP solutions, participate in hands-on exercises, and view demonstrations of advanced scenarios that will enable you to utilize SAP HANA Cloud Platform to extend the core in your organization.

Key Topics

Rapid app prototyping with business users
Develop a functional app consuming enterprise data
- While leveraging your core, learn about new models for developing cloud-native applications using Cloud Foundry
Deploy an SAP Fiori app to the SAP Fiori launchpad SAP HANA Cloud Platform portal site
Mobilization of apps built on SAP HANA Cloud Platform
- Learn the key elements of the new developments with Apple and the importance of native mobile apps
Understand integration capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud Platform
Stream IoT sensor data to SAP HANA Cloud Platform and connect to a business process

*Please note, this hands-on session will utilize shared computers, with two attendees per computer.

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – Advanced Class

Manage Your Digital Transformation – Simple, Transparent, and Personalized with SAP Solution Manager

Hands-On* | Full-Day, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Fee: $745 ASUG Member | $845 ASUG Non-Member

Be up to the task when you have a major IT project approaching. Take control of your agile innovation project and extend the transparency and control of IT more quickly, efficiently, and reliably than ever before with the SAP Solution Manager solution software layers on top of the core SAP Solution Manager solution capabilities. Gain hands-on experience with the turnkey requirements-to-deploy extension to expedite the capture and delivery of new business models and related requirements, integrate on-site and remote teams, and simplify reporting. The walk-through of Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager will include business demand and requirements management, integrated risk management, and clear-cut collaboration features that allow users to orchestrate business and IT units as well as global development teams. This methodology and toolset have been established as the standard implementation method for innovation projects for SAP S/4HANA.

Upon transition to operations, understand how Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager, a software extension that provides a set of prepackaged simple, transparent, and personalized role-based dashboards, accelerate the set-up of your Operations Control Center (OCC). With Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager, CIOs manage their IT objectives, IT managers monitor SLA compliance, and IT professionals gain insights into technical system parameters.

Join this session to get direct, hands-on experience about the ready-to-run, and integrated, tool-supported methodology to manage requirements and software development in agile projects. Learn how to build and distribute powerful, customer-specific dashboards in minutes, using state-of-the-art User Experience:

The entire process from requirements to build, test, deploy, go-live, and run in an integrated methodology and tool set.
Agile build with constant business feedback in waves and sprints.
Build customer-specific, powerful dashboards for IT and business in minutes.
Enable top-level, strategic, KPI-driven management for the IT and Business solution.
New efficient, simple, and easy-to-use interfaces.
Simple consumption as it is available as a preconfigured image.

SAP Solution Manager is a highly stable and robust platform that offers integrated, end-to-end management processes to all SAP support customers, which equals about 98 percent of all SAP customers. With these focused solutions, customers are able to extend the scope of SAP Solution Manager and benefit from the productivity provided without incurring costs for coding, documentation, and training and onboarding staff, as well as costly maintenance activities. The solutions, which are offered on a subscription basis, are the latest additions to the Digital Business Services organization’s portfolio of offerings.

Focused solutions on top of SAP Solution Manager deliver simple and ready-to-run solutions for specific requirements.

The benefits are obvious:

Turnkey approach – SAP delivers a standard solution ready for consumption
Significantly less training cost – SAP delivers all knowledge required
No upgrade risk – SAP delivers standard upgrades
Simple licensing and maintenance – SAP provides rental license

No integration issues – SAP delivers based on the SAP Solution Manager solution standard

Target audience: All Attendees (ASUG member and non-members) such as CIOs, IT Management/Architecture/Design Teams, Business Management Teams, Business Process Teams

*Please note, this hands-on session will utilize shared computers, with two attendees per computer.

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