Keynote Presenters
All Keynote presentations will be uploaded in mid July 2009. For an insight into the calibre and scope of the event, the following were the 6 keynote presentations delivered at the event in October this year:
Keynote Presentations
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Next Generation Business Intelligence
Ian Parker - Director, SAP Asia Pacific & Japan |
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Leveraging the Strategic Investment in an Enterprise Data Warehouse - The Challenge of Moving to the Next Level in Decision Support
Dave Scullin - Manager, Reporting and Analytics, Rio Tinto Limited |
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“Meet the Experts - Debate the Big Issues” - Expert Panel Discussion
Facilitated by Peter O’Donnell - Lecturer - Centre for Decision Support and Enterprise Systems Research, Monash University |
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From BI to Beyond…
David Théroux-Bénoni - Global BI Technical Lead, MolsonCoors (Canada)
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The Power to Perform
David A.J. Axson - President, The Sonax Group (USA)
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Special Guest Speaker: Journey to the Ends of the Earth - Turning the Dream into Reality
Matt McFadyen
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Track Presentations
All speakers and their abstracts for the 2009 event will be uploaded in mid July 2009.
Forums
All forums will be uploaded in mid July 2009. For an insight in to the calibre and scope of the forums this year, the following were the 2 delivered at the event in October:
Forums were facilitated by content experts and provided participants with the opportunity to interact with other Business Intelligence professionals in a more intimate environment. Running from 9.00am to 3.30pm, the in-depth forums allowed participants to take away answers and a plan for their organisation.
1. SAP Financial and Human Resource Reporting - Aligning Your Financial Solution with Your Business Needs
- Do you understand SAP's financial reporting strategy?
- Do you believe that the "latest" is also automatically the "greatest" solution?
- Do you find decisions for or against SAP solutions are easy?
This forum looks to address clarification of SAP financial reporting and delivery options. It is aimed at business representatives who are keen to understand what they can realistically expect from their SAP system. Those with a technical interest will also benefit from understanding how the functional side of financials works. The forum will provide guidance to understand the SAP alphabet soup and get practical advice for SAP decision making and risk assessment:
- What are today's SAP financial reporting options and what needs are met by each of these tools?
- What reporting comes standard with your SAP systems - and what should be customised and developed in-house?
- Understand and compare the types of planning and budgeting solutions that SAP is offering
- Where is SAP going - and who should follow?
- What is "New G/L" all about? What are the risks?
- Understand the implications of SAP acquiring Outlooksoft/Business Objects/Cartesis/ Pilotworks
- What is SAP offering in terms of financial consolidation - and what's right for you?
- Will upgrading to BI7 provide any benefits for Financial and HR Reporting?
This forum will provide a complete overview of SAP's R/3, BW (and recent acquisitions) budgeting and reporting tools as they relate to financial reporting. You will gain a big picture view of what is best for your environment and answer the ever present question of "what's in it for me?"
This one day forum is a chance for you to gain knowledge which will allow you to conduct a "health check" on some of your reporting processes and will provide guidance to conduct risk assessments and assist your decision making. It will enable you to look at your long term financial reporting requirements and develop a strategy to support this.
Topics Covered:
SAP Financial Journey - In Simple Terms
- SAP's solution offering is ever evolving - however, for many years the finance area has not changed all that much. This is changing as we speak. Get to a position with allows you to understand, decide and manage risk
Reporting Management and Reporting Solutions: Evaluation of Different Reporting Tools
- Compare R/3 for reporting transactional data vs. BW and other solutions. Take an in-depth look at using alternative tools
- See how Business Objects affects SAP Financial Reporting
Planning and Budgeting Solutions
- Evaluate the different options and compare the solutions available
- Understand what is best for your environment
SAP BW Architecture and Implementation
- BI 7 tools and processes for supporting Financial processes
- Understand the implications of SAP acquiring Outlooksoft/Business Objects/Cartesis/ Pilotworks
- Create a roadmap of the reporting functionality within BI, including reports that can be directly migrated and the reporting tasks that are best left in R/3
New General Ledger
- Understand the differences and enhancements delivered with the new General Ledger in mySAP ERP Financials as compared to the classic G/L. Learn how the new G/L can assist you in simplifying your overall financial reporting environment
HR Reporting in BW
- Learn how BW can support your reporting requirements around Human Resource Management
2. SAP BI Premium Offering - What's in it For You?
- Do you understand SAP's roadmap for SAP BI?
- Do you know how the roadmap affects your current decision making?
- Have you seen Business Objects running on SAP BI?
- Do you know the steps involved in implementing Business Objects on SAP BI?
This forum is aimed at helping you develop a much clearer understanding of the vast number of tools that are currently on offer within the SAP BI suite, how these tools could help you meet your business requirements, and the practical implications of implementing and using them. The forum is jam-packed with
live demonstrations of Business Objects tools running on top of SAP BI. The forum will help you make informed decisions on which Business Objects tools should be part of your short term BI roadmap. The forum also discusses the current SAP BI base offering (without any Business Objects) and whether that on its own could perhaps serve your current needs.
The forum will discuss:
- The most popular Business Objects tools currently used by Business Objects customers
- What are the fundamental differences between SAP BI and Business Objects?
- How Business Objects products and SAP products complement each other
- The introduction of some foreign concepts (to SAP customers), such as Universes and InfoViews
- How does the Business Objects ETL tool (Data Integrator) stack up?
- Gartner ratings for Business Objects and SAP BI
Topics Covered:
Business Objects, the Company
An overview of the Business Objects story, including the company's history and the evolution of the products.
Business Objects Reporting Tools
An overview of the Business Objects reporting tools, with special emphasis on the more popular products that offer additional value to existing SAP customers. The following products will be discussed and demonstrated live on top of SAP:
- Crystal Reports
- Web Intelligence
- Voyager
- Dashboard Builder
- Xcelsius
SAP Integration Kit
A practical overview of the SAP Integration Kit, and how this enables SAP Customers to take advantage of Business Objects. The discussion also briefly covers the steps required to install Business Objects and the SAP Integration Kit, and indicative hardware sizing.
Business Objects Consolidations
SAP has indicated that Cartesis takes a solid position in the CPM roadmap. This discussion will provide a brief overview of Cartesis and its place in the roadmap.
Business Objects Planning Tools
This discussion will provide a brief overview of Business Objects planning tools and their place in the BI roadmap.
SAP BI Roadmap
In this final discussion for the day, the SAP BI roadmap will be revisited, now with a clearer understanding of how the tools fit together.
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The full conference program will be available from mid July 2009. If you wish to receive the program, please fill out the form below.
If you believe that you have a story to share as a valued presenter at
"Mastering Business Intelligence with SAP" 2009, please email
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