During this session you will gain a new understanding of the SAP Partner Ecosystem in 2022 and what SAP customers need to know to help them on their SAP journey.

Get an understanding of how SAP is executing a business strategy aligned to their partner ecosystem progression.This is the foundation for how SAP is working with partners, driving a strategic engagement model to support the success of customer cloud transformation.

So you have a SAP Customer CoE already, great. But how driven are you in building real Customer Success from your huge investment in SAP? 

During this session you will learn about the four Best Practices that I have identified over the last 24 years as an SAP Analyst and in leading SAP Best Practice Forums. These are best practices that you need to be using today? 

Be honest, how closely are you aligned with your Business Strategy and how good at S/4HANA are you right now?

Join me to discover and take away impactful and actionable insights that will make a difference for your organization. 

The SAP Innovation Awards honors and celebrates the achievements of forward-thinking companies and individuals that have harnessed the power of the latest SAP solutions to disrupt industries, help the world run better, and improve people’s lives.​ Hundreds of organizations worldwide have shared their stories, but only 60 were chosen as this years finalists, representing a select group of the most innovative companies in the world.

Join this session to know who they are, and learn more about how they are moving ahead of their peers using technology.

A recent market report showed that 92% of IT managers report difficulty finding enough talent, as they also struggle to hold onto existing talent in the face of fierce competition. This is a contributing factor to why 74% of companies that started modernizing their legacy IT systems never completed their projects.

At the same time, supply-chain costs are going up. The business units need IT organizations to quickly respond to the changing business needs, innovate, and bring new technologies and processes to business functions.

What can be done?

There is no one-solution-fits-all. In this presentation, the speaker will explore the possible paths to innovation and modernization including ABAP automated transformation, Pre-built tailor-made business applications, low-code/no-code platform and how it can all simplify complex SAP landscape.

Attendance of this presentation will get to explore:

• The different options you should consider to accelerate business improvements, cleaning SAP core and simplify S/4HANA migrations
• What to look for in a low-code/no-code solution and what role it can play in accelerating business improvements
• How enterprises can expedite business process modernization and innovation in the face of talent shortage and complex landscapes

Customer COEs comprise a very brought knowledge about the SAP ecosystem and respective services and tools.

To shape an innovation roadmap and work on daily tasks it’s important to know where to find the necessary information.

But it’s not only to know about the right repositories and references within SAP but also to put them based on the purpose into the right context.

Based on the Customer COE Core functions you’ll learn during this session which resources, tools and services are relevant to continuously improve and innovate.

And also how to operate your hybrid system landscape more efficient and effective using the right tooling and methodologies.

John Gibson – SVP & Global Head, SAP Business Technology Platform Centre of Excellence
SAP

Of course, the SAP Centre of Excellence teams think that an event focused on SAP Customer COEs is the event of the year! 

With over 2,200 separate customer engagements in 2021, the SAP Business Technology Platform COE team is well placed to understand trends within the overall SAP community.  Hear about some of the experiences and techniques from the SAP team plus suggestions as to how your Customer SAP COE team can connect with the SAP COE team to help address complexity, drive a faster time to value and improve how you work with your business users.

Agile and DevOps call for the decentralization of testing resources. But is fragmented control really the right approach? In addition to creating and running tests, COEs drive tool standardization, create best practices, train users, maintain documentation for critical business processes, and maintain end-to-end tests that cover multiple applications and project teams. How do you determine the best approach for your organization? Join us as we unpack key considerations for the testing COEs and how automation can play a critical role in ensuring consistency and QA across your enterprise.

• The forces of change in modern IT environments and their impact on testing
• The pros and cons of three approaches to modern test management
• Best practices for incorporating automation into testing methodologies
• How to leverage reusable automation to ensure quality and scale value

Aidan McCullen – Host of The Innovation Show, Keynote Speaker and author of “Undisruptable”

Warren Buffett famously said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” but what happens when the tide comes back in?

The pandemic has certainly caught many of us with our pants down if we had any on in the first place. Now that we are returning to a new way of working: we must be deliberate about what are we expecting, things to return to normal, a new normal?

The challenge we face is that not only do we need to adapt to a new way of running an organization and adopt a new are flexible mindset, but we also need to adapt to shifting consumer demands. The pandemic has proved an accelerant for changes that were already underway. It brought us closer to a digital world, but it also gave customers a taste of products that made have taken many more years to diffuse into society. As a result, we must adapt to many shifting forces. This is a challenge, but as humankind has shown since our first days on the planet, we are resilient, we are innovative and we are adaptable.

Some organisations benefitted hugely from the changes while others were obliterated, but for many, their victories lead to their defeats.

When the tide goes out again, will you be ready?

It depends on how you react when the tide is in.