YOUR CONTENT

The content areas for Mastering SAP Technologies will be uploaded in November 2010.

More than 120 Australian and New Zealand organisations will participate in in-depth research to identify the content areas for this year's program. If you would like to contribute to creating the program by being part of the research please email Steve Morris or contact Steve on:

mobile: +61 403 809 312
landline: +61 2 9955 7400

In the meantime, please take a look at the content areas that our most recent Mastering SAP Technologies (March 2010) program addressed.

Solution Manager

Implementing Solution Manager for support purposes and understanding what is required to meet SAP Support requirements; overcoming the perception that Solution Manager adds infrastructure, complexity, administrative and support overheads without any real benefits; justifying the investment to the business; change management and Root Cause Analysis functionality; integrating ChaRM (Change Request Management) and CTS+; getting Solution Manager to work in a complex system environment; federated deployment scenarios; leveraging SAP’s ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library); involving users in the Change Management system; SAP’s continued support of Solution Manager

Enhancement Packs and Upgrades

Understanding the difference between Enhancement Packs and upgrades; identifying the value and the new functionality of enhancement packs; SAP’s strategy and roadmap for Enhancement Packs; picking and choosing what to implement; scoping and resourcing an Enhancement Pack implementation project; determining the operational and technical impact of the Enhancement Pack; find out about the Basis and ABAP testing required; investigating what other helpful tools SAP provides to help; testing Enhancement Pack changes; getting the most out of ECC6

Development Tools and UI Technologies

Discovering the latest in developer and UI tools, capabilities and features from SAP; viewing the soon-to-be released NetWeaver 7.0 EhP 2; using Floor Plan Manager; leveraging Workflow; understanding how and where SAPs’ BPM tools fit into the development cycle; establishing what skill sets should be built in-house as opposed to what should be outsourced; effectively extracting business requirements; viewing the capabilities of NetWeaver Business Client; hear SAP’s overall UI future plans; learning best practise for SAP Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); the rationale behind key architectural decisions; challenges around SOA and BPM

SAP Roadmap

Hearing SAP’s product strategy and direction specifically for NetWeaver, Applications, BusinessObjects, Java and Database strategies

Environment and Landscape Management

Optimising the SAP environment; reducing TCO; managing complex system landscapes; the value proposition of virtualisation (VMWare and other technologies); automated application testing; knowing what tools are available; finding out about the value of automated testing regimes; proactive impact analysis of changes; disaster recovery; Storage Area Network (SAN)

Security

Exploring SAP’s Identity Management product and how to implement it; understanding how Identity Management works with non-SAP users; Central User Administration (CUA); updating auditors on new functionality; utilising SAP Portal and SAP HR to manage user compliance; learning how SAP GRC addresses security and segregation of duties issues; the roles and responsibilities of the SAP Security team

Portals

Deployment options and Federated Portals; network architecture design and security, SSO and external-facing Portal issues; integration and interoperability (especially Sharepoint); portal administration; web 2.0 collaboration tools; Web Dynpro Java and Web Dynpro ABAP considerations; Visual Composer; user management

Enhancing SAP

Understanding the new enhancement strategy and the components that it encompasses; enhancement guidelines and best practise advice; the Enhancement Framework, Switch Framework and the new BADI technology

Workflow

Using Workflow as a tool for streamlining business processes; finding ways to run analysis over workflows to identify the “health of the workflow”; identifying unusual escalations and delays and reporting on the business process as the business sees it; techniques for designing and developing focussed workflows; understanding the frameworks, BPM, ABAP, Java, Web Dynpro and ISR scenarios

Business Intelligence and SAP BusinessObjects

Consolidation of the SAP and BusinessObjects products and the product roadmap; the affect of the BusinessObjects product suite on existing SAP BI implementations; getting started with BusinessObjects products; the impact on current system landscape; deployment strategies to be considered; administering BusinessObjects applications

Developing Sustainable and Maintainable Applications

Developing applications with long yet evolving lifespan; implementing an SOA Strategy to support interaction between multiple business applications; getting more from your SAP maintenance dollars; methodology and tools for Application Lifecycle Management

Archiving

Develop a solid strategy for managing data from creation to destruction; understand Data Management vs. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM); SAP NetWeaver ILM Solution

People and Organisational Change

Supporting what you already have vs. continual improvement; bridging the gap between IT and the business and IT and the end-users; effective change management; getting the most out of the system and your people; motivating your teams; Centres of Excellence