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Content Areas
Fuelled by in-depth research with over 120 Australian and New Zealand organisations the SAP Business Intelligence community drove the content of the 2008 agenda. These themes were addressed across all the track presentations by a combination of business process focused customer case studies, experts, functionality discussions and demo's. Financial Performance Management Effect of SAP acquisitions including: Integrated Planning, SAP BPC, Cartesis; breaking the reliance on excel; understanding the available budgeting solutions; improved monitoring of budgets and actuals; business reasons for moving to new tools Presentation & Visualisation Good practice visual design; achieve consistency in front end presentation; key visual perception principles; best forms of report distribution; understanding the user experience; create powerful and effective interfaces; Visual Composer; new SAP front-end tools; dashboards and scorecards Business Objects Tools Integration Identifying risks and challenges for BO/BI7 integration; building an execution roadmap; development of the business case; design, development and deployment of the BI applications; benefits Performance Management Make the most of exciting new technology; revive your BI implementation; allow your BI team to focus where it really counts; deliver a new level of high-performance; BI Accelerator; what price performance?; sustain and enhance the solution post project Team structure for a BI Team Changing skills requirements to implement BI; managing the relationship with external consultants; empower the masses without killing the system; understanding the benefits a Business Intelligence Competency Centre can deliver; understanding the critical skills of an effective BI team member Developing a Business Case Gaining senior management buy-in - effectively selling the business case; senior decision makers actively involved in BI projects; linking BI Strategy to the business case; embedding yourself in the business User Adoption Users actively using and owning the BI system; techniques to manage user expectations around ease of use; developing a transition strategy to migrate from other tools to SAP BI; exceeding user expectations BI Strategy Developing a BI strategy which is aligned with the business strategy; challenges of building on your investment; sustainability and reusability; roadmap for the development of BI technology; coexistence of multiple BI tools (SAP and non SAP); defining a strategy for an implementation that is already live; tools, templates and structures for the BI framework; re-positioning BI in your organisation - obtaining stakeholder commitment Implementations and Upgrades Upgrades: different strategies available, benefits and risks associated, implications of a parallel ECC6 upgrade, steps involved in a successful BI7 upgrade and what are the costs to the business, technical dependencies that need to be considered in an upgrade, dependencies between upgrading to BI7 and integrating SAP's new acquisitions New Implementations: basic approaches in getting a BW implementation successfully started, understanding the various system architecture options that need to be considered, positioning to senior management, approaches to resourcing and skills - realistic expectations
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