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Achieve Fully Automated System Refreshes on SAP HANA Oct 20, 2020 — In this session, you will be presented with a demonstration of specific workflows, methodologies, and strategies you can use to deliver system refreshes on SAP HANA faster, more accurately, and with fewer IT resources. By attending this session, you will: - Learn how to manage pre-, copy-, and post-processing phases of the system refresh process (homogenous system copy) with the help of full-scale automation; - Learn how to eliminate manual processes and speed up critical steps like BDLS (Conversion of Logical System Names), automate the database copy, and deploy additional automated tasks like data masking; and - See a live production refresh of ECC on HANADB using the Libelle SystemCopy refresh solution, including all pre-processing steps, a full database copy, all post-processing, and a data masking phase.

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Key Considerations when Migrating to SAP BW/4HANA or SAP HANA Native Data Warehouse Oct 20, 2020 — SAP offers two ways of data warehousing using SAP HANA - the data warehouse application approach using SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA or the SAP HANA Native Data Warehouse. This session will outline the methodology used by two different companies on how one chose the SAP BW/4HANA solution, while the other one used SAP HANA Native Data Warehouse approach. Each solution has put into their companies roadmap so they can run their business more efficiently by utilizing newer technologies such as SAP Analytics Cloud. Attendees will gain an understanding of: - How each company weighted the pros and cons each data warehousing solution to help them arrived at decide which option to use - How they setup their organization to support self-service reporting and analytics with the optional SAP Data Warehouse solution for their company - Reviewing the road map on how tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Predictive Analytics and SAP Artificial Intelligence with Machine Learning will change how they do business

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How to Achieve Agile Integration with SAP and Side-By-Side Extensibility with Red Hat Integration Oct 20, 2020 — This session explores how the Red Hat Integration portfolio can help SAP customers on their path to becoming an Intelligent Enterprise. Attendees will discover how Red Hat Integration can help with both SAP and non-SAP workloads’ agile integration. In this session, you will also learn: - How to enable open hybrid cloud while getting the highest value from your SAP investments - How to enable cloud-native development using microservices architectures - How to centralize your API lifecycle management for both cloud and on-premise services and run your APIs anywhere - How to digitally transform your company so you can respond to market needs faster, scale your services automatically, and be more agile

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Smart Cloud Automation: Are you Scaling In and Saving Costs?Oct 20, 2020 — The migration to HANA gives companies the opportunity to move their SAP environment to AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Moving SAP to the cloud promises to improve operations, offer better security, and reduce costs, but to experience significant cost reductions, the cloud size needs to change dynamically based on the systems’ actual performance and changing needs. Avantra automates cloud scaling like no one else can, ensuring companies only pay for the cloud resources their SAP systems actually need. Enterprises and Managed Service Providers are finding that implementing and leveraging the cloud’s scaling capabilities is not as simple in an SAP environment. IT and basis teams are facing many challenges when trying to manage the cloud in an SAP environment, including scaling out and scaling down, multi-cloud and hybrid environment management, and planned maintenance. What you’ll learn in this session: - What is cloud automation, and why it is important today - “Scaling in or out, up or down” - what to think about when you hear those phrases - Save time and reduce costs by running SAP on public cloud and automating planned maintenance

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Case Study: Tips and Tricks to Build High-Powered Semantic Layers with SAP BusinessObjects Oct 20, 2020 — Gain practical advice from the American Red Cross on how to build semantic layers to support complex reports, dashboards, and structured Big Data. Based on real-world lessons using the information design tool (IDT) to create universes for its deployment of self-service BI to a portion of its 6,000 users nationwide, attendees will: - Learn how and why to create fact tables from dimension tables, and to build derived dimension tables within the IDT tool when there is no equivalent table that exists in the data source - Gain insight into when and how to use the IDT tool as the semantic layer for SAP HANA data sources - Discover techniques for creating “smart measures” and coding useful custom conditions in the IDT business layer - Be presented with a methodology that uses the concepts of “shared and private dimensions” and “area of analysis” to simplify the business layer for self-service BI users - Obtain use cases for using the IDT projection function feature Plus, take home a step-by-step document of use cases and the various techniques demonstrated in the session

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Case Study: Alphabet’s SAP on Google Cloud Journey-Experiences and Innovations Oct 20, 2020 — The world’s 17th largest company, Alphabet, shares its real-life technical experiences implementing a comprehensive SAP S/4HANA landscape on Google Cloud. Learn about some of Alphabet’s key implementation challenges and how these challenges were overcome by creative Google Cloud and SAP S/4HANA innovations. Get a glimpse into the practical application of Google’s development philosophies such as “Focus on the user and all else will follow” and “Great just isn’t good enough”, and how these tenets lead to continual Google Cloud and SAP S/4HANA improvement and an enhanced user experience. Key takeaways: - Lessons learned from Alphabet’s SAP S/4HANA journey to the cloud - Building a “Connected Enterprise” with integrated data - Benefits of running SAP workloads on Google Cloud

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Drive Better Business Outcomes with SAP Analytics Cloud Oct 20, 2020 — This session will demonstrate how to successfully utilize SAP Analytics Cloud to streamline your financial planning and analysis processes. Walk through key activities for performing budgeting, forecasting, and driver-based planning with SAP Analytics Cloud such as variance analysis, enterprise reporting and what-if analysis. Discover how features such as Smart Insights and Smart Discovery focus your attention on key insights and accelerate FP&A and explore SAP Analytics Cloud’s intuitive UI and see what’s possible for self-service reporting.

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Retail and eCommerce

Case Study: National Vision Creates Data Buy-in, Single Version of Truth with Common Core Measures Oct 20, 2020 — Learn how National Vision, one of the largest optical retailers in the United States operating 1,000 retail locations, established enterprise-wide best practices for developing common core measures, and successfully implemented a core metrics infrastructure and governance that feeds all business reporting and analytics. Learn firsthand from the planning, rollout, and ongoing strategy and maintenance which provides a single version of truth to users across the business. Find out how National Vision: - Collected core measures across the company and now maintains a mart of that aggregated data which has become a core to business reporting and analysis - Created central data repositories and pre-aggregated and defined key metrics to be used across the business - Established buy-in and reliance on the data by having a single truth to core business questions - Recognized the critical role of people, process, and technology to ensure successful adoption of the core measures - Maintains the program to keep adoption rates high

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Case Study: How Jabil is Transforming SAP Governance using Robotic Process Automation Oct 20, 2020 — As part of the maturing the governance processes at Jabil, the company leverages several automation techniques to reduce manual tasks and streamline repetitive activities. The governance team leveraged robotic process automation (RPA) technology and the use of standard web services to automate various activities. This session shares specific examples of how RPA and web services are being used at Jabil to support SAP Access Control governance tasks. Attendees will: - Identify access control processes that can be automated using RPA and web services - Gain an understanding of how RPA and web services can be integrated with SAP Access Control •Obtain specific examples and use cases where RPA is being used to automate governance tasks - Understand how to make a case for operational efficiency and improve risk posture - See specific examples of how RPA and web services are being used to support Access Control governance tasks - Identify Access Control processes that can be automated using RPA and web services Gain an understanding of how RPA and web services can be integrated with Access Control Obtain specific examples and use cases where RPA is being used to automate GRC tasks Understand how to make a case for operational efficiency and improve risk posture

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How MARS, Inc. is Achieving Unrivaled Visibility into SAP Data Access & Usage Oct 20, 2020 — The SAP team at MARS knows that deep visibility into application activity is no longer a “nice to have” option. With newly discovered vulnerabilities (RECON) and growing data privacy mandates (GDPR, CCPA), understanding SAP data access and usage is as critical as maintaining a secure network. In this session, join Matt Pecorelli, Director of Cyber Security Operations at MARS, and the SAP Security Experts at Appsian as they explore how fine-grained visibility is being leveraged to address a myriad of security, compliance and business process risks. Attend this session to: - Learn how MARS is leveraging visibility beyond what is captured by existing SAP logs - Gain an understanding of how to better capture, visualize, and analyze SAP user activity - Review use cases that address today’s top security and compliance concerns - Explore how deep visibility can advance your risk management strategy

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