Mastering · 2017. 2. 13. · Paul Hawking Associate Professor & SAP Mentor Victoria University (AUS) (SAP Mentor) The Digital Economy: Business Intelligence: Where is It Heading

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Meet some of the key influencers of analytics and reporting, business and innovation leading us into the digital economy. Be inspired and encouraged by their fresh thinking, straight-talking ideas and insights. Empowering you to fully realise the benefits of big picture thinking in your business.

Simon Carpenter Chief Technology Advisor

SAP Africa (Pty) Ltd

The Digital Economy: You’ve Heard It All Before, But This Time It’s Different (or is It?)Unless you’re Rip van Winkle you are fully aware of the Digital Economy. You’re living and leveraging it in both your private and organisational life. You’ve got it all under control and have a very clear roadmap for automation, optimisation, digitalisation, deep learning, innovation and business model change. That being the case, you may want to grab a coffee and relax.

In response to the ubiquitous wrestling with this broad and somewhat over-hyped concept, Simon offers you a few thoughts on why it’s important, what it might mean for you and what some SAP customers are already doing that may inspire you.

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Paul Hawking Associate Professor & SAP Mentor

Victoria University (AUS)

(SAP Mentor)

The Digital Economy: Business Intelligence: Where is It Heading & Future Trends FinanceIndustry is experiencing rapid improvements; in processing power, storage availability, access to data, mobile pervasiveness, social collaboration, intelligence processing and user experience. These improvements and their convergence is having a dramatic impact on the design and use of Business Intelligence solutions. If this speed of evolution continues, what form will Business Intelligence take in the future? What will the impact on companies and their decision-making processes be? This keynote discusses some of these developments, vendor offerings and what to expect in the future. It is underpinned by Paul’s academic knowledge and practitioner experience.



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Ian MayorSenior Director, Analytics Product Management

SAP SE (GER)

The Digital Economy: Seizing New Opportunities in Analytics FinanceDigital transformation is catalysing a renaissance in the world of analytics. From the Internet of Things, to digital economies, to the emergence of the cloud, the amount of data and the number of data-savvy users has exploded. Hear how SAP’s analytics portfolio enables you to seize these new opportunities today and tomorrow with a roadmap for simplification and innovation - from the Digital Boardroom all the way down to the shop floor.



Greg Taylor Change Lead - HCM Program

Woolworths Limited Australia (AUS)

Change Management for Humans - The Digital Age If change was easy we’d all be chameleons. Although constant struggles regarding change reign, ever increasing ‘change adoption with confidence’ strategies are emerging. Approaching change is made simpler and easier in this re-imagining session with practical takeaways. Greg will show you how to apply an agile mindset to the change journey, focus on the goal and understand the user experience, mobilise people to be change leaders, incorporate social media tools into your engagement strategy and redirect your limited resources on supporting your success.

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John Sanei Trend Specialist, Business Innovation Strategist,

Speaker & Entrepreneur

Inspiring Genius (Pty) Ltd

The Gamification of Everything From a young age, we create games for ourselves; games that make an ordinary activity into something fun and rewarding. This concept of creating and playing games in everyday life can also be applied to enhance routine tasks in the workplace. Our new-age need for instant gratification means that we are able to alleviate a lot of the stress around projects and are motivated to act differently if we are being rewarded. Allow John to show you how to introduce gamification principles into your company and how it can become part and parcel of attracting, inspiring and motivating staff.


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Diving into Design Studio & Lumira This full-day, hands-on seminar is a series of activities focused on a subset of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 products in combination with SAP BW and SAP BW on HANA. The workshop will focus on a subset of the portfolio so that attendees can go beyond the basic steps and also learn some advanced techniques.

The session will provide you with hands-on experience for the following products:• SAPBusinessObjectsDesignStudio• SAPLumiraDesktop

The workshop will be based on the latest product releases available at the time of the conference.

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Wednesday 15 March 2017, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

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SAP BusinessObjects Cloud Hands-On SAP BusinessObjects Cloud provides business intelligence, planning and predictive analytics as a single cloud application. In this workshop, key capabilities will be covered using step by step show and tell techniques of:

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Effective Data Visualisation with SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioLearn best practices of dashboard design and data visualisation in a detailed, practical, step-by-step, and ready-to-use way. Focus is placed on a common set of dashboard design rules, such as the usage of different visualisation, colours, and text, as part of an overall dashboard design process. These best practices are contrasted with less successful design examples in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio. You will also learn an approach to gather requirements and quickly turn these into compelling dashboards.

How It’s Made: The SAP Digital BoardroomThe SAP Digital Boardroom is transforming the nature of business by closing the gap between data and decision-making. Come and see board members in action as they slice and dice business data, make plans and predict the future. Then, as the dust settles, indulge yourself in the finer details of the solution. We’ll unwrap the layers one by one to reveal all that lies beneath: The Visuals, The Models, The Data and The Connections.

Ingo HilgefortVP Product Management Visual BI (CAN)

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Paul Vermaak Senior Solutions Specialist: Predictive Analytics & Business Intelligence SAP Africa (Pty) Ltd


deep diveinteractive sessionsOn Day 2 there will be deep dive sessions taking place, which will allow you the opportunity to spend more time

unpacking a topic with like-minded community members, being led by a professional in the space. This double session offers the time needed to get stuck into the details and ask the questions you are needing answers to.

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Opening Keynote: The Digital Economy; You’ve Heard It All Before but This Time it’s Different (or is It?)SimonCarpenter-ChiefTechnologyAdvisor,SAPAfrica(Pty)Ltd

Keynote Presentation: The Digital Economy: Business Intelligence: Where is It Heading & Future TrendsPaul Hawking - Associate Professor & SAP Mentor, Victoria University (AUS) (SAP Mentor)

The Under Armour Self-Service Reporting & Analytics Framework: BI in the CloudDavid Roberts - VP, Enterprise Transformation, Under Armour (USA)

Lumira 2.0: A Sneak PeekIan Mayor - Senior Director, Analytics Product Management, SAP SE (GER)

Tools & Strategies to Advance Self-Service for Business Analysts & End UsersTammy Powlas - Senior Business Analyst, Fairfax Water (USA) (SAP Mentor)

SAP BW/4HANA - SAP’s Next Generation Data WarehouseLotharHenkes-VPofProductManagementforSAPEDW (BW/HANA), SAP SE (GER)

Guest Keynote Presentation: The Gamification of EverythingJohnSanei-TrendSpecialist,BusinessInnovationStrategist,Speaker&Entrepreneur,InspiringGenius(Pty)Ltd

Operational Self-Service BI From a Non-IT PerspectiveGary Glen-Young - Manager of Global Process Development, Metso

Logistics Control Centre… Making Data Come AliveSajitKalidas-SeniorManager:GlobalIT,LogisticsSolutions Lead,CHEPSouthAfrica

The Chief Data Officer - Leader of the Next Generation Data AnalystsDr Richard van der Wath - Chief Data Officer, MyBucks

Dealing with Your Master Customer Data: ‘Where’ Are They?Magnus Rademeyer - Managing Director, AfriGIS

Bridging the Gap Between HR & Predictive Analytics Dirk Nieuwoudt - Associate Partner, EPI-USE Africa

The Shift of Information Architectural Thinking Towards Data-As-a-Service to Enable Data-As-a-BusinessChristine Paulig - Head of Data Architecture, Barclays Africa GroupLimited

BO Design Studio: The Art of the PossibleDomingo Banuelos - Business Intelligence Senior Manager, Accenture

Leading Change in the Analytics Space - a Discussion Facilitated by Paul Hawking - Associate Professor & SAP Mentor, Victoria University (AUS) (SAP Mentor)

Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Lunch & Exhibition Viewing

Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

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Conference Opening and Welcome

DAY 1 - Monday 13 March 2017

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Opening Keynote: The Digital Economy: Seizing New Opportunities in AnalyticsIan Mayor - Senior Director, Analytics Product Management, SAP SE (GER)

Focus on BI: Top 10 Ways to Squeeze Value From SAP BI & Analytics Investments Tammy Powlas - Senior Business Analyst, Fairfax Water (USA) (SAP Mentor)

Interactive Deep Dive Session: How It’s Made: The SAP Digital BoardroomPaul Vermaak - Senior Solutions Specialist: Predictive Analytics & Business Intelligence, SAPAfrica(Pty)Ltd

SAP HANA Data Warehousing - Overview & ComponentsLotharHenkes-VPofProductManagementforSAPEDW (BW/HANA), SAP SE (GER)

Maximising Reporting Effectives Through Standardisation Paul Hawking - Associate Professor & SAP Mentor, Victoria University (AUS) (SAP Mentor)

Closing Keynote: Change Management for Humans - The Digital AgeGregTaylor-ChangeLead-HCMProgram,WoolworthsLimitedAustralia(AUS)

Creating a Big Appetite for Big Data & AnalyticsZjaenCoetzee-TeamLead:EnterpriseInformation Management,TelkomSASOCLtd

Powering Eskom Efficiency Through SAP HANAPeane Petje - SAP COE Business Intelligence Manager, Eskom Holdings (SOC)

How to Bridge the Business-IT Gap with Real Business User Self-ServiceJacques Adriaansen - Director, Every Angle Academy

Interactive Deep Dive Session: Effective Data Visualisation with SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioIngo Hilgefort - VP Product Management, Visual BI (CAN) (SAP Mentor)

How Do CIO’s Support Analytics & Big Data Business Case in Their Business? Mthoko Mncwabe - Chief Information Officer, South African PostOfficeSOCLtd

Integrated Thinking with Exxaro’s Strategic Performance DashboardSaretVanLoggerenberg-Manager:Risk&Complicance, Exxaro

Team + Data = BI SuccessMornéNigrini-BIManager,SouthernViewFinanceSA(Pty)Ltd t/a Capfin



Conference Close

Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

DAY 2 - Tuesday 14 March 2017

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8:30 AM

3:30 PM

9:00 AM Workshop 1: Diving Into Design Studio & LumiraIngo Hilgefort - VP Product Management, Visual BI (CAN) (SAP Mentor)

Workshop 2: SAP BusinessObjects Cloud Hands-On PaulVermaak-SeniorSolutionsSpecialist:PredictiveAnalytics&BusinessIntelligence,SAPAfrica(Pty)Ltd

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Maximising Reporting Effectives Through Standardisation Many companies find that they create reports which are under-utilised or ineffective. This costs the company money and causes end users to lose faith in the Business Intelligence initiative. The establishment of an accepted reporting process based on best practices enhances report development as well as the associated decision making. This presentation discusses the different aspects that ought to be considered in the establishment of a reporting process.

Paul Hawking Associate Professor & SAP Mentor, Victoria University (AUS) (SAP Mentor)

Tools & Strategies to Advance Self-Service for Business Analysts & End Users See how Fairfax Water empowers casual users with direct access to both corporate and external data for analysis purposes, including its use of SAP BusinessObjects Lumira; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; and SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics.Fairfax Water also leverages self-service capabilities available inside the SAP ERP system for real-time managerial and external financial reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office and SAP Crystal Reports.

Tammy Powlas Senior Business Analyst, Fairfax Water (USA) (SAP Mentor)

Lothar Henkes VP of Product Management for SAP EDW (BW/HANA), SAP SE (GER)

SAP BW/4HANA - SAP’s Next Generation Data WarehouseThis session will provide a comprehensive overview of SAP’s latest innovation in the area of Data Warehousing - SAP BW/4HANA. We will initially cover the highlights of SAP BW/4HANA in the area of Simplification, Modern UIs, Openness and Performance. Additional focus areas will consist of the BW/4HANA Roadmap, the joined positioning with S/4HANA Analytics as well as upgrade paths for existing BW customers.

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Focus on BI: Top 10 Ways to Squeeze Value from SAP BI & Analytics Investments On your journey with SAP’s Business Intelligence/BusinessObjects solutions you are looking for opportunities to gain more business value from your SAP investments, while reducing your total cost of ownership. This remains a significant topic of interest whether your industry is growing rapidly or facing challenges. Learn the top ten ways to drive more value from current and future SAP BI investments. Lessons as to squeezing more value from your SAP BI Investments, as well as actionable key takeaways are assured.

Tammy Powlas Senior Business Analyst, Fairfax Water (USA) (SAP Mentor)

Operational Self-Service BI From a Non-IT PerspectiveMost BI analysis is driven by business requirements, and is fulfilled by IT. Yet, how does Business know what questions to ask of IT? Operational day-to-day and ad-hoc analysis can indicate areas of improvement, especially as processes expand and mature. Having a business-centric self-service BI offering which is driven and controlled by Business, allows for quicker response times and greater operational flexibility.

The Chief Data Officer - Leader of the Next Generation Data AnalystsIn recent years, not only have data and data generating devices become ubiquitous, but business management are increasingly realising the potential competitive edge that can be gained if the information encapsulated in their organisation’s data can be extracted. In this presentation I will talk about how, as Chief Data Officer at MyBucks, I’ve built the data analytics team of the future and also demonstrate the advantages of having a dedicated c-level management role overseeing the full value chain of data.

Dr Richard van der Wath Chief Data Officer, MyBucks

Gary Glen-YoungManager of Global Process Development, Metso

Ian Mayor Senior Director, Analytics Product Management, SAP SE (GER)

Lumira 2.0: A Sneak PeekDelivering on our commitment to simplify our BI portfolio, SAP is bringing together the advanced app building capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio together with the easy-to-use data manipulation and visualisation capabilities of SAP Lumira into one single product: SAP Lumira 2.0. This session will give you a sneak preview of this new release.


David Roberts VP, Enterprise Transformation, Under Armour (USA)

The Under Armour Self-Service Reporting & Analytics Framework: BI in the CloudNumerous sources of data can be daunting to manage. Under Armour has pledged to drive a consistent customer experience within our “Single View of the Consumer” (SVoC) initiative - representing tight integration across the entire platform. Learn how Under Armour has driven a 31% increase in top line revenue through their integration project, as well as the need for detail analytics, incorporation of data science and how they turned their 14,000 teammate organisation into an army of business analysts using extremely simple, self-service reporting and analytics.

SAP HANA Data Warehousing - Overview, Components & Further StrategyThe strategic scenarios for SAP HANA data warehousing include SAP BW/4HANA, SQL data warehousing (DW) on SAP HANA, and mixed-component scenarios. Join this session to understand how these components will evolve and become more tightly integrated in the future, and what typical customer scenarios can look like.

Lothar Henkes VP of Product Management for SAP EDW (BW/HANA), SAP SE (GER)


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How Do CIO’s Support Analytics & Big Data Business Case in their Business? SAPO/Postbank is focusing on hybrid cloud strategies that seek to optimise performance, leverage functionality and drive operational overheads down. The inherent security challenges must be adequately addressed to secure and mitigate potential data losses and reputational risks. SAPO is investigating the technologies that offer these features whilst fitting within legacy systems. SAPO continues to grow a core banking platform with related support and reporting systems, striving towards a cost-effective platform strategy. SAPO is investing in CRM, ERP, data warehousing and master data management, including innovative mobile channels.

Mthoko Mncwabe Chief Information Officer, South African Post Office SOC Ltd

How to Bridge the Business-IT Gap With Real Business User Self-Service People have been working intensely for many years to close the gap between Business and IT, yet the gap doesn’t seem to shrink. Real Business User Self-Service bridges that gap since ‘users can answer more than 90% of their questions within 3 minutes, without asking IT’. This presentation focuses on the causes of the abovementioned gap, and vitally, how to get Business User Self-Service. This presentation also explores the experiences of various companies using Real Business User Self-Service on SAP-ERP.

Creating a Big Appetite for Big Data & AnalyticsWith the Big Data buzzwords slowly fading away, people are still scared to address the Elephant (Hadoop) in the room. By driving innovation and working on a “start small, fail fast” principle, we have managed to start this journey. With major competitors heading to our shores, we need to look at driving true innovation in our organisations to not only leverage data as an asset, but also to build robust analytical capabilities. There might just be a silver bullet…

Jacques Adriaansen Director, Every Angle Academy

Zjaen Coetzee Team Lead: Enterprise Information Management, Telkom SA SOC Ltd


Team + Data = BI Success Capfin’s BI strategy is to increase business insights through analytical maturity, enable business through value-added reporting, build an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and to develop a multi-skilled BI team. This presentation focuses on how to develop a creative and self-organising BI team that holds a culture of trust, collaboration, knowledge transference and respect. A team where 1 + 1 = 3. Practical examples will illustrate how to develop creative analytical individuals who provide BI services which are customer focused and ensure BI success.

Morne Nigrini BI Manager, Southern View Finance SA (Ptyd) Ltd t/a Capfin

Logistics Control Centre… Making Data Come Alive Efficiently managing a dedicated transport fleet requires real-time information from numerous sources. Simple reports don’t necessitate information coming alive, instead a well-defined presentation layer, meaningful alerts and accurate data are pivotal. CHEP’s Logistics Control Centre (LCC) delivers on all of this and more. More than just a reporting solution, the LCC transforms the service experience of our customers. Built using BW on HANA and BusinessObjects, CHEP’s LCC is a testament to what can be achieved when IT and Business stakeholders collaborate meaningfully.

Sajit Kalidas Senior Manager: Global IT, Logistics Solutions Lead, CHEP South Africa

Dealing with Your Master Customer Data: ‘Where’ Are They? Realities of South African data boundaries: From Postal Code to SG Town and the challenge not only the IEC faces in KYC (Know Your Customer). This presentation provides a 101 overview of the boundary challenges South Africans have created and are dealing with. Takeaways include key lessons learnt and how current challenges are being addressed; from KYC and risk analysis in terms of geography, through to why an SA Post Code is not a ZIP-Code.

Magnus Rademeyer Managing Director, AfriGIS


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Powering Eskom Efficiency Through SAP HANAEskom has embarked on initiatives for Finance and Capital Planning to improve the service delivery from these functions to the business. Eskom implemented HANA Live within four months for SAP Business Intelligence platform as a sidecar to ERP, with the aim of reducing month-end reporting. The approach sought to align HANA Technology with the business initiatives and anticipated changes on the operating model, governance and organisation structure. This session will detail this journey and show you how HANA is not only a technology, but a business tool for CFO’s.

Peane PetjeSAP COE Business Intelligence Manager, Eskom Holdings (SOC)


BO Design Studio: The Art of the PossibleBusinessObjects Design Studio is proving to be a powerful tool in the SAP stable, with new and exciting functionality being released continuously. In this session we will look into real life applications of Design Studio and the benefits that can be reaped. This will include delving into advanced topics such as SDK, multisource reports and complex dashboards. We will also explore lessons learned and what can be expected and leveraged in the future.

Domingo Banuelos Business Intelligence Senior Manager, Accenture

Bridging the Gap Between HR & Predictive AnalyticsHow do you go from looking at HR through your rear-view mirror to focusing on the road ahead? By applying Predictive Analytics, your organisation can move from hindsight to foresight by exploiting patterns found in historical and transactional data. Models capture relationships, among many factors, to allow assessment of risk or potential associated with a particular set of conditions, guiding decision making for candidate transactions. During this session, we will explore how to link commercial SuccessFactors Analytics offerings and the EPI-USE Predictive offering to bring you the best of both worlds.

Dirk NieuwoudtAssociate Partner, EPI-USE Africa

The Shift of Information Architectural Thinking Towards Data-As-a-Service to Enable Data-As-a-BusinessCustomers, regulators and management continue to grow the demand for accurate, real-time data, insights and complex analytics. This requires models and algorithms that have deep learning and predictive capabilities to manage risks, reduce operational cost, and provide excellent customer engagement and experience. One cannot provide data as a service without good meta- and reference data management, but how can this be done in a sustainable manner?

Integrated Thinking with Exxaro’s Strategic Performance DashboardLearn how Exxaro, a mining company based in South Africa, developed a highly unique and innovative performance dashboard based on SAP GRC solutions and SAP ERM solutions to track performance against strategic objectives. Evolving from their renowned risk management implementation, the performance dashboard is now used by the board and senior management as a key tool for managing the business.

Leading Change in the Analytics Space - a Discussion A company can have the best analytics strategy, processes and technology but, without buy-in from people the projects will be destined for failure. All people react differently to change and yet change is critical for organisations to stay on the competitive edge. User adoption won’t happen spontaneously – it requires strategic communication and effective change management. Join us in a discussion to hear what your peers are doing to ensure success in this space.

Paul HawkingAssociate Professor & SAP Mentor, Victoria University (AUS) (SAP Mentor)

Christine Paulig Head of Data Architecture, Barclays Africa Group Limited

Saret van Loggerenberg Manager: Risk & Compliance, Exxaro

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The Digital Economy: You’ve Heard It All Before, But This Time It’s Different (or is It?)Unless you’re Rip van Winkle you are fully aware of the Digital Economy. You’re living and leveraging it in both your private and organisational life. You’ve got it all under control and have a very clear roadmap for automation, optimisation, digitalisation, deep learning, innovation and business model change. That being the case you may want to grab a coffee and relax.

In response to the ubiquitous wrestling with this broad and somewhat over-hyped concept: Importance, meaning and how-to’s will inspire.

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Rolf Schumann SVP, General Manager Platform & Innovation

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Digital Transformation - The New Reality of Today & TomorrowiEvery company is facing the challenge of having to transform their business for the digital age. Yet what does digital transformation really mean, and what is the real impact on the business? Discover how companies can deal with the rapid changes of the digital age and solve the dilemma of optimising their business processes for new requirements while driving innovation simultaneously. This keynote will also showcase how some SAP customers are already mastering their journey towards a digital enterprise.



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Gareth RyanEnterprise Architect

AgilityWorks (UK)

(SAP Mentor)

Accelerate UX Led Innovation with SAP Build & HANA Cloud PlatformanceUser Experience (UX) is everything in the modern SAP world, but can often seem like a dark art. Often it is overlooked in favour of more “valuable” efforts in a bid to control costs, and the benefits of user adoption and satisfaction are ignored. This keynote is a walk-through the new Build toolset available on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. It also demonstrates how anyone can apply good UX practices and build working prototypes quickly and easily, whilst properly engaging with one’s target user base.






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John Sanei Trend Specialist, Business Innovation Strategist,


Inspiring Genius (Pty) Ltd


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The Gamification of Everything From a young age, we create games for ourselves; games that make an ordinary activity into something fun and rewarding. This concept of creating and playing games in everyday life can also be applied to enhance routine tasks in the workplace. Our new-age need for instant gratification means that we are able to alleviate a lot of the stress around projects and are motivated to act differently if we are being rewarded. Allow John to show you how to introduce gamification principles into your company and how it can become part and parcel of attracting, inspiring and motivating staff.


Why Not Cloud First? The Case for SAP on AWS From dev and test to DR for on-premise to large-scale HANA production deployments, enterprise usage of SAP on AWS is rapidly growing across all verticals and geographies. Gain insights on the AWS SAP offering, including first-hand enterprise deployment experience. Also find out why taking a cloud-first approach can make business, technical and financial sense for the numerous SAP solutions that are certified and ready to be deployed today.

Michael Needham Snr Manager Solution Architecture

CIS Russia Middle East Africa

Amazon Web Services

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Bridging the Gap Between On-Premise & On-Demand During this hands-on workshop you will learn to bridge the gap between on-premise and on-demand by consuming and extending the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA using the SAP HANA Cloud Platform. You will learn how to read information from, and write it back to, SAP S/4HANA as well as external providers. You will then go on to create a User Interface using the SAP Fiori UX templates, leveraging the application logic and data of SAP S/4HANA. Finally, we will complete the application by embedding it into the SAP Cloud Portal.

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Derek Wood SAP Technical Architect & Director

Kamoeba (Pty) Ltd

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

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Opening Keynote: The Digital Economy; You’ve Heard It All Before but This Time it’s Different (or is It?)Simon Carpenter - Chief Technology Advisor, SAP Africa (Pty) Ltd

Keynote Presentation: Digital Transformation - The New Reality of Today & TomorrowRolf Schumann - SVP, General Manager Platform & Innovation, SAP SE (GER)

Complex Application Design in FioriChris Rae - Independent Thought Leader & SAP Mentor, D’Alrae Solutions (AUS)(SAP Mentor)

S/4HANA Explained in Simple Terms - No Sales Pitch!Tony de Thomasis - SAP Technical Specialist, SAPWORKS Pty Ltd (AUS)(SAP Mentor)

Moving from Play to Production - What the Tutorials Don’t Tell YouGareth Ryan - Enterprise Architect, AgilityWorks (UK) (SAP Mentor)

Digital Transformation: An Integration ViewpointSindhu Gangadharan - VP & Head of Product ManagementSAP HANA Cloud Integration, FSN & SAP Process IntegrationP&I, SAP SE (GER)

Guest Keynote Presentation: The Gamification of Everything John Sanei - Trend Specialist, Business Innovation Strategist, Speaker & Entrepreneur, Inspiring Genius (Pty) Ltd

Mastering SAP: CIO as Innovator & OrchestratorBradley Coward - Chief Information Officer, Sappi Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd

Identifying & Building a Business Case for SAP HANA: Where Do You Start?Rukhshaan Omar - Senior Director, SAP HANA, Global Marketing, SAP South Africa (Pty) Ltd (SAP Mentor)

SPAR’s Journey to S/4HANABernard Le Tourneur - Systems Architect, The SPAR Group LTD Alan Beningfield - Group DC & Corporate Systems Manager, The SPAR Group LTD

How Innovation Got People Buying Storage From a BooksellerMichael Needham - Snr Manager Solution Architecture, CIS Russia Middle East Africa, Amazon Web Services

This is Your Future - IoT & the 4th Industrial RevolutionMichael Bell - SAP Analytics Lead, Deloitte Consulting

Protecting your Business through ComplianceNishan Naicker – Cloud & Platform Technology Solution Architect, SAP South Africa (Pty) Ltd

At Work - A Better User Experience. On-premises & in the CloudMornè Muller - ERP Technical Services, EPI-USE Africa

Vodacom Business... More Than You ThoughtGrant Tate - Managing Executive, SAP HANA Cloud & Hosting, Vodacom Group Limited




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Opening Keynote: Accelerate UX Led Innovation with SAP Build & HANA Cloud PlatformGareth Ryan - Enterprise Architect, AgilityWorks (UK) (SAP Mentor)

Breakfast Session: Why Not Cloud First? The Case for SAP on AWSMichael Needham - Snr Manager Solution Architecture, CIS Russia Middle East Africa, Amazon Web Services

Future Proofing the Core: Under Armour’s Adoption of S/4HANADavid Roberts - VP Enterprise Transformation, Under Armour (US)

SAP HANA: Feedback From the TrenchesRobert Heneke - SAP Basis Team Lead, Pick ‘n Pay Retailers (Pty) Ltd

SAP Solution Manager - the Latest and GreatestTony de Thomasis - SAP Technical Specialist, SAPWORKS Pty Ltd (AUS)SAP Mentor

IoT Services on HANA Cloud PlatformChris Rae - Independent Thought Leader & SAP Mentor, D’Alrae Solutions (AUS)SAP Mentor

Beyond Mobile with Neptune UX Platform - a Session About UX, Fiori, HCP & Mobile Njål Stabell - CIO & President, Neptune Software Inc. (US) SAP Mentor Arjen Van De Voort - Advisory Board Member, Neptune Software Inc. (US)

Closing Keynote: Change Management for Humans - The Digital AgeGreg Taylor - Change Lead - HCM Program, Woolworths Limited Australia (AUS)

Making Sense of the Data: Preparing your Staff for SAP Through Digital Learning & SupportAdrian Ziller - Performance Workshop Head, Blue Pencil Education Services

Developing a Clear & Agile Integration Strategy: Lessons Learnt at Wesizwe PlatinumKobus Pienaar - Chief Information Officer, Wesizwe Platinum

PokéTech - Go™: Be more active in the real-world by augmenting your Enterprise with Innovation & Digital Tech Enablers Johann Marx - Strategy Execution Centre of Excellence Manager, Eskom Holdings SOC Limited

Making Buzzword Bingo Real - What is HANA Cloud Platform & How to Use it?Willem Pardaens - HANA Cloud Platform Presales Solution Architect, SAP South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Building a Cloud Conveyor BeltWarren Eiserman - Senior Vice President, ISV Solutions, EPI-USE Labs

Thriving in the New - SAP Innovations from AccentureAshley Govender - Senior Manager, HANA Platform & SAP Technologies, Accenture South AfricaJean Birkett - Associate Director, SAP Innovation & Technical Architecture, Accenture South Africa

Leveraging the Digital CoreDerek Wood - SAP Technical Architect & Director, Kamoeba (Pty) Ltd

Integrating On-Premise SAP ECC & Cloud-Based Ariba: Technical & Business Lessons Learned Michiel Visser - Architecture Executive: ERP, Nedbank Limited & Shafiequa’h Valli - Head: Procurement Operation, Nedbank Limited

How to Create a Superior Mobile StrategyEdwin Molenkamp - Director, Consnet Mobility

An Update on SAP’s Strategy for Cloud IntegrationSindhu Gangadharan - VP & Head of Product ManagementSAP HANA Cloud Integration, FSN & SAP Process IntegrationP&I, SAP SE (GER)



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Digital Transformation: An Integration Viewpoint Many trends drive digital transformation and the digital economy impacts our lives greatly. All technologies and assets must work together in ever new ways to ensure that digital is made to work, value is created for your customer and a business model is innovated. Digital isn’t about one technology, but about making multiple digital assets work that were never designed to work together. This is the definition of integration. See how SAP’s holistic integration strategy is the key to unlock digital transformation.

Sindhu Gangadharan VP & Head of Product Management, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, FSN & SAP Process Integration, P&I, SAP SE (GER)

Moving from Play to Production - What the Tutorials Don’t Tell YouInnovation is driving increasing uptake of SAP’s cloud products, especially HANA Cloud Platform. Customers are able to create PoC’s and demo’s with ease, utilising varied resources to exploit the latest technology capabilities. Yet, what does production look like? How is a hybrid cloud landscape structured when using SAP HCP? This session introduces key considerations when setting up productive HCP landscapes and working methods, to help architects and development teams understand how development works with the HCP.

Gareth Ryan Enterprise Architect, AgilityWorks (UK) (SAP Mentor)

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How to Create a Superior Mobile StrategyDo current business processes represent yesterday’s reality? Mobility defines how we work and live and how organisations reach their customers. It requires a holistic view of many different information technology disciplines. In this presentation Edwin discusses how to create a mobile strategy that satisfies business requirements and meets user needs.

Edwin Molenkamp Director, Consnet Mobility

An Update on SAP’s Strategy for Cloud IntegrationWhen it comes to cloud integration, the question that always comes up is the need to have various integration patterns supported. Patterns of integration include user-centric, data-centric, process-centric, mobile-centric, and device-centric integration. SAP HANA Cloud Platform provides core integration services, an API management edition, a cloud connector, and so on to address cloud integration challenges. This session will explore these capabilities in detail.

SAP Solution Manager - the Latest & GreatestThis close-up look at SAP Solution Manager 7.20 illumines why you would use it, how to use it to deploy S/4HANA, and how to map business processes. This session will also cover topics like how to take your own test drive, where to get on-line training, how to extend your Business Process models, and the roadmap for the 7.20 upgrade.

Tony de Thomasis SAP Technical Specialist, SAPWORKS Pty Ltd (AUS) (SAP Mentor)

Chris Rae Independent Thought Leader & SAP Mentor, D’Alrae Solutions (AUS) (SAP Mentor)

Complex Application Design in FioriWith some of the largest and most complex applications running in Australia under his belt, Chris presents some of his inside tips to design and build Fiori applications for complex environments. This session will delve into aspects like mass design, concurrency control and design for Fiori at scale.

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Protecting your Business through Compliance There are many challenges that come with compliance, yet in considering how technology might help in addressing these, there are three that are particularly relevant. Business Process Management, Business Process Mining and Governance Risk & Compliance play an important role. Join us to learn more about important use cases, features and functions. The story will be delivered in the form of whiteboards, demos and role-plays.

Nishan Naicker Cloud & Platform Technology Solution Architect, SAP South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Sindhu Gangadharan VP & Head of Product Management, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, FSN & SAP Process Integration, P&I, SAP SE (GER)


Identifying and Building a Business Case for SAP HANA: Where Do You Start? The digital economy is changing everything, and both businesses and the systems that support them must adapt or die. Learn how the SAP HANA platform can disrupt the limitations of the past, allowing you to create new value and reimagine your business. Join this session to understand the possibilities of transforming your work and everyday life with SAP HANA, and explore customer successes to gain inspiration on value drivers.

Rukhshaan Omar Senior Director, SAP HANA, Global Marketing, SAP South Africa (Pty) Ltd (SAP Mentor)


IoT Services on HANA Cloud PlatformChris, along with his children Bella and Santo, will run you through how to get started on IoT services. You will be taken through a demo on real-life scenarios of IoT and why these could not be solved previously. The team will also take you through setting up the first scenario and building a User Interface on those services within this.

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S/4HANA Explained in Simple Terms - No Sales Pitch!This session will provide honest information about S/4HANA. It covers an explanation of all S/4HANA versions, naming patterns and software release strategy, the difference between cloud and on-premise versions and how custom developments are performed on the cloud. Also covered are migration approaches from a current ECC system, how to simplify (and prepare) your current ECC system for S/4HANA and how the activate methodology is used to safeguard the migration.

Making Sense of the Data: Preparing Your Staff for SAP Through Digital Learning & SupportThere is a massive gap in knowledge between what the average person knows and what one needs to know to function as an effective member of an organisation. Trying to empower someone to use SAP without first giving them the foundations is a losing battle. Through innovative, digital, “micro” learning, and support, these gaps in knowledge can quickly be addressed and filled in a sustainable, and easy way, to allow for maximum effectiveness from each employee.

Mastering SAP: CIO as Innovator & OrchestratorFor CIOs who have embarked on the SAP journey, there is a need to be both innovative when implementing SAP HANA or S/4HANA, as well as having the ability to orchestrate or pull together business and IT. Essentially we are challenged to “think by design” - in other words, utilise our ability to embrace design thinking and simultaneously direct this orchestra made up of IT, business and vendor to create a melodious symphony. Drawing on my experience, I endeavour providing some thoughts on what works and what doesn’t.

Future Proofing the Core: Under Armour’s Adoption of S/4HANAAt Under Armour, we started a revolution with the battle cry “Protect this House”! For the athletes that trust our products, the “House” is their bodies, sacrificed for the love of athletics. Inside of our Corporate headquarters, the “House” is SAP - the foundation for our global operations. Hear about why we chose to move to S/4HANA to simplify, strengthen and enhance our House; about the drivers in our business case to move to S/4HANA; how to organise the right team for enabling digital transformation; key metrics for gauging success of the program; and how we were successful at driving full adoption of the enhanced capabilities delivered in S/4HANA.

David Roberts VP Enterprise Transformation, Under Armour (US)

Adrian Ziller Performance Workshop Head, Blue Pencil Education Services

Bradley Coward Chief Information Officer, Sappi Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd


Making Buzzword Bingo Real - What is HANA Cloud Platform & How to Use it?The SAP HANA Cloud Platform is a crucial building block in your digital strategy. Being an agile, cloud-based playground, it is very well positioned to enable a two-speed IT environment and make innovation real. Join us to learn more about the breadth of its components and services, and explore different use cases where it delivers tangible value. This session will be whiteboard-led, and demo-flavoured.

Willem Pardaens HANA Cloud Platform Presales Solution Architect, SAP South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Chris Rae Independent Thought Leader & SAP Mentor, D’Alrae Solutions (AUS) (SAP Mentor)

Tony de Thomasis SAP Technical Specialist, SAPWORKS Pty Ltd (AUS) (SAP Mentor)


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Leveraging the Digital CoreHana Cloud Platform, Cloud Integration, Process Orchestration, API Development and Management, Workflow Management and Operational Intelligence. How can we exploit the myriad of technologies available in a way that makes sense and delivers tangible business value? This talk unpacks the components and shows how they can be used together to unlock and extract value from your organisation’s digital core.

Derek Wood SAP Technical Architect & Director, Kamoeba (Pty) Ltd

This is Your Future - IoT & the 4th Industrial RevolutionCharles Darwin said that “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” The 4th industrial revolution is a Digital Disruptive era and a stepping stone in the evolution of the world enabled by the exponential use of technology. This session will explain how you utilize an Agile IoT Eco System to drive value immediately and stay one step ahead of the competition. Your disruptive advantage starts here.

Michael Bell SAP Analytics Lead, Deloitte Consulting

Integrating On-Premise SAP ECC & Cloud-Based Ariba: Technical & Business Lessons LearnedNedbank has implemented an integrated SAP ECC, on premise, and Ariba at the end of 2014 to support their procurement functions. This was one of the first deployments where a true cloud solution was integrated with a locally deployed SAP ECC system. In doing so, a number of key business and technical challenges had to be dealt with. This presentation spells out the approach we took as well as lessons learned, both technically and more importantly with regard to business impact. Learn what portions of SAP we used, what we learned in doing so, and what this meant to the user community.

Shafiequa’h ValliHead: Procurement Operation, Nedbank Limited

Michiel Visser Architecture Executive: ERP, Nedbank Limited

Beyond Mobile with Neptune UX Platform - a Session About UX, Fiori, HCP & MobileA flexible UX platform for both front-end and back-end app development that empowers enterprises to use their existing resources and build on existing knowledge. A drag and drop designer that enables developers to create, customize, extend, and deploy Fiori apps cost-effective and greatly reduce the need to learn new programming languages such as JavaScript, HTML5 etc. The session will include how a great User Experience (UX) drives ROI. An overview of the platform and how it is embedded into SAP from R/3 to S/4. Live demonstrations of creating Hybrid Mobile Fiori apps and exporting applications to the HANA Cloud Platform as web applications or using the HCP Mobile Services for Hybrid Apps. Learn how companies like Pick ‘n Pay are using Neptune to mobilise their store operations.

Arjen Van De VoortAdvisory Board Member Neptune Software Inc. (US)

Njål Stabell CIO & President, Neptune Software Inc. (US) (SAP Mentor)


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SPAR’s Journey to S/4HANA The SPAR Group has started their migration journey from ECC6 onto S/4HANA EM. In this session they share some of the technical and functional challenges they have encountered to date. SPAR required a like-for-like migration using a roadmap that is not typical in most migrations. The original plan incorporated moving from ERP on DB2 through ERP on HANA to Simple Finance and ultimately to EM. This was changed to a straight migration from ECC6 to EM. The learnings include, among other things, the work needed for project preparation, document preparation, environment requirements, approach on porting custom-built standard SAP workflows to a Fiori-based paradigm, change management for business and the approach to introducing in a phased manner the technical and functional impact.

Bernard Le Tourneur Systems Architect, The SPAR Group LTD

Alan Beningfield Group DC & Corporate Systems Manager, The SPAR Group LTD

Johann Marx Strategy Execution Centre of Excellence Manager, Eskom Holdings SOC Limited

PokéTech - Go™: Be More Active in the Real-World by Augmenting Your Enterprise with Innovation & Digital Tech EnablersIn true spirit of the gaming concept, digital enablers need to merge with real-world enterprise systems, people and process to achieve desperately needed innovation and business outcomes. Increasing enterprise physical activity (maturity) for digital transformation through unknown and sometimes complex tech becomes a science in its own right, having to re-train the organisational paradigm to re-think their tech selection, and its application, to adapt to and innovate for the ever-increasing fast-paced business demand. See how a large enterprise has innovated on digital tech, integrated to or based on SAP, to augment value elements in a real-world.

Vodacom Business… More Than You ThoughtVodacom Business leverages off Vodacom’s African footprint with Networks and Data Centers across the Continent. Vodacom provides global CoE offerings to Vodafone and its global client base. Vodacom Business provides customers globally and across industries with solutions including Certified SAP HANA Cloud platforms, Virtualised Hosting, Big Data Solutions, IOT , EDI Services, GIS Solutions and Enterprise Mobility.

How Innovation Got People Buying Storage From a BooksellerAmazon’s CTO, Dr Werner Vogels, said that they originally “built stuff nobody had built before with development process and methodologies that didn’t exist”. So how does this global giant add hundreds of major new features in AWS every year despite their massive scale? What does pizza, the cost of failure and reading in silence have to do with their process? Get the inside track from a company that is built by taking big bets on new ideas.

Michael Needham Snr Manager Solution Architecture, CIS Russia Middle East Africa, Amazon Web Services

Developing a Clear & Agile Integration Strategy: Lessons Learnt at Wesizwe PlatinumEveryone is talking about Integration, Agile, Strategy, Business Alignment, etc. But how do these buzzwords translate into real-world scenarios where you operate? Let’s look at the process towards developing a clear and agile integration strategy and roadmap for your organisation, using the journey of Wesizwe Platinum as a real-world case-study.

Kobus Pienaar Chief Information Officer, Wesizwe Platinum

Grant TateManaging Executive, SAP HANA Cloud & Hosting, Vodacom Group Limited



Warren EisermanSenior Vice President, ISV Solutions, EPI-USE Labs

Building a Cloud Conveyor BeltAs SAP acquires and delivers more cloud solutions, what the “HEC” should you do? Warren will share some real-world strategies and approaches for leveraging the cloud. He will show a live demo of how its possible for one person to support 150 internal SAP systems; how to get HANA Express in the cloud and how to build smart data pipelines using functional paradigms from over 30 years ago.

SAP HANA: Feedback From the TrenchesPick ‘n Pay migrated 5 SAP landscapes to SAP HANA in 18 months. This was no easy feat and we have the scars to prove it. This session intends to share the lessons learnt in migrating an 18TB BW database to HANA, getting the most “bang for your buck” when it comes to hardware and revealing the good, the bad and the ugly when we talk about real time performance tuning of a CRM HANA system.

Robert HenekeSAP Basis Team Lead, Pick ‘n Pay Retailers (Pty) Ltd

Thriving in the new - SAP Innovations from AccentureWe are excited to share the latest news and innovations from our Liquid Studio and results from our SAP Hackathons and other key innovations in the new SAP space. Our Accenture Liquid Studios are designed for rapid application development. We help companies become built for change through new skills, processes, products and ways of working. The Studios bring the world of liquid, intelligent and connected applications to life.

Jean BirkettAssociate Director: SAP Innovation & Technical Architecture, Accenture South Africa

Ashley GovenderSenior Manager: HANA Platform & SAP Technologies, Accenture South Africa

At Work - A Better User Experience. On-Premises & in the CloudAt Work is a mobile product offering by EPI-USE focusing on ease of use, employee engagement, automation and digitisation. Big claims, but as a platform independent solution with a simple month to month pricing model and zero lock-in, it is set to rejuvenate client interest in mobile solutions whether they are firmly on-premises, successfully in the cloud or somewhere in between and unsure of how to continue to leverage the investments they have made. As part of the session we will share customer experiences, roadmaps and success stories.

Mornè Muller ERP Technical Services, EPI-USE Africa


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The Digital Economy: You’ve Heard It All Before, But This Time It’s Different (Or Is It?)Unless you’re Rip van Winkle you are fully aware of the Digital Economy. You’re living and leveraging it in both your private and organisational life. You’ve got it all under control and have a very clear roadmap for automation, optimisation, digitalisation, deep learning, innovation and business model change. That being the case, you may want to grab a coffee and relax.

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David LudlowGroup Vice President

SAP SuccessFactors (USA)

Driving Digital from the Top, Down!nceSuccessful leadership in the digital economy is contingent on how well leaders empower the workforce and equip them with data-driven strategies and technologies. For companies to truly take part in the digital economy and transform their business, it has to start at the top. While employees play an important role in bringing strategy to life, leadership sets the vision and tone for the digital transformation. This session covers the impacts of digital transformation and disruption, what leaders are doing about it, and how SAP SuccessFactors solutions can assist on your digital transformation journey. Recent product innovations are reviewed and exciting new functionalities are previewed.



John SaneiTrend Specialist, Business Innovation Strategist,


Inspiring Genius Pty Ltd.

The Gamification of Everything From a young age, we create games for ourselves; games that make an ordinary activity into something fun and rewarding. This concept of creating and playing games in everyday life can also be applied to enhance routine tasks in the workplace. Our new-age need for instant gratification, means that we are able to alleviate a lot of the stress around projects and are motivated to act differently if we are being rewarded. John will show you how you can introduce gamification principles into your company and how it can become part and parcel of attracting, inspiring and motivating staff.

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David RobertsVP, Enterprise Transformation

Under Armour (USA)

Culture: The Biggest Asset to Your BrandHear how Under Armour has pushed innovation beyond the bounds of technology, and successfully fulfilled the number one mission of the people agenda - “Equip and Empower the Team”. We will discuss the way organisation change management is executed, the passion behind creating the most diverse talent pool in the world, why we eliminated organisation charts in favour of responsibility charts, the technology solutions we use to drive collaboration around the world, and the way we encourage and inspire growth through the UA culture.

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SAP Human Capital Analytics; Where HR Drives Business Outcomes Through Data Driven Decisions & Actions At the heart of everything we do, of every product we make, every deal we close and every customer we serve; are our People and the daily decisions they make about our business and about their careers; and then, the actions that they take on our behalf. When we combine our people and business data we create valuable insights which enable our people to make better decisions; and take informed action. This way we are more successful. At SAP, we call this capability Human Capital Analytics where HR drives business outcomes through data driven decisions and actions. This session will show how, with the digital revolution under way, HR and the HR Business Partner role is undergoing a rapid and seismic shift; - blending digital strategy, data science, storytelling and manager coaching (on the use of data) to their traditional portfolio of activities. We will show how Business Partners are the key that unlocks the value of workforce analytics outside HR and how SAP SuccessFactors provides tools, frameworks, content and methodologies to enable them to do so. The session will provide both theory and practical advice on how to approach Workforce Analytics in a way that starts delivering value as soon as possible, with lots of examples of how other companies have done so.

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Kim FischerBusiness Domain Principal, Europe, Middle-East

& Africa, SAP Human Capital Analytics

SAP SuccessFactors (UK)

Wednesday 15 March 2017 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

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Employee Central: From Implementation Strategy to Hands-On Configuration When, why and how, should you implement SuccessFactors Employee Central? This workshop gives you the confidence and tools to cut through marketing speak, build your bespoke implementation strategy, and actually deliver it. We start with putting Employee Central into the broader context of SuccessFactors and SAP HCM solutions and build a roadmap for implementation. You’ll then get a good understanding of features and UX with an end to end demo, which also sheds some light onto value adding non-core features like T&A, service centre or apprentice management. Next stop: configuration. You’ll learn which options are available to you to configure and enhance EC and get a good feeling about complexity and effort from live configuration demos including workflow and MDF (Meta Data Framework = extension centre). We’ll round the workshop off by looking at EC’s built in reporting capabilities and then look back to the whole session to understand the change challenges customers transitioning from SAP HCM will be facing. Throughout the day you’ll be encouraged to put your own ideas and challenges forward, so we can discuss real world requirements and help you to take home tangible solutions.

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Sven RinglingDirector

iProCon Ltd. (UK)

Wednesday 15 March 2017 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

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deep diveinteractive sessionsOn Day 2 there will be deep dive sessions taking place, which will allow you the opportunity to spend more time

unpacking a topic with like-minded community members, being led by a professional in the space. This double session offers the time needed to get stuck into the details and ask the questions you are needing answers to.

Tuesday, 14 March 2017


Where is Time & Attendance Going, When HR Goes Into the Cloud?Some customers have been shocked realising that SAP’s cloud transformation still includes the familiar payroll, yet excludes good old time management. Employee Central Time Off and Time Sheet have since developed significantly, new partner solutions have been presented, and a variety of operating models for payroll are now on offer. Both customer choice and confusion has increased as a result.

Walk away from this session understanding your options:

• Howlongcanweuse“old”timemanagement? • WhatdoesECoffer(expectinterestinglivedemos!) • Whendoweneed3rdpartysolutions? • Howdoespayrollfitin?

And be surprised what you can achieve with the simple solutions of EmployeeCentralTimeSheetandTimeOff!

Australia’s Largest Retailer Reshapes the Line Manager - Employee RelationshipOur implementation journey for over 180,000 employees transformed thewaylinemanagersandteammembersworktogetherinHR.Whether you are on-premise or cloud-focused, this session shares a “wartsandall”viewofourstorywithpracticalexamplesandtipstohelp you navigate your system journey. I’ll share the challenges and benefits in delivering full self-service to line managers and employees, lessons learned around confident adoption and positive change management, the impact of going mobile and how we achieved optimal user experience and training to safeguard the system.

Greg TaylorChange Lead - HCM Program, Woolworths Limited Australia (AUS)

Sven RinglingDirector, iProCon Ltd. (UK)

To Infinity & Beyond - Preparing for Launch of Your SuccessFactors Journey Thecountdownhasbegunaswepreparetoconquernewhorizons!Preparation is necessary to make sure we are prepared to undertake this journey. Join this in-depth session to explore the different phases of our journey - Onboard, Implement, Launch, Utilise - and how you can prepare for this journey. We will work through case studies of implementations that worked and implementations that didn’t. The key take away points will focus on practical preparation work that you can startworkingontoday.ToInfinityandBeyond!

Liezl van Rensburg Customer Engagement Executive, SAP South Africa


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Opening Keynote: The Digital Economy; You’ve Heard It All Before But This Time it’s Different (or is it?)Simon Carpenter - Chief Technology Advisor, SAP Africa (Pty) Ltd

Keynote Presentation: Culture: The Biggest Asset to Your BrandDavid Roberts - VP, Enterprise Transformation, Under Armour (USA)

Building Your Journey to Digital Transformation of HRDavid Ludlow - Group Vice President, SAP SuccessFactors (USA)

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Mastering · 2017. 2. 13. · Paul Hawking Associate Professor & SAP Mentor Victoria University (AUS) (SAP Mentor) The Digital Economy: Business Intelligence: Where is It Heading

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