Welcome to SAP Insider Webinars

If you’re running 50, 75, 100 or more barcode printers, the “cross your fingers” approach to printer management in your SAP system just isn’t working. On the other hand, with bi-directional communication between your SAP system and every one of your printers, you know precisely how the jobs are going, and precisely when a problem occurs... in realtime.  No more guesswork, worries or surprises.

This webinar hosted by PEAK Technologies and Zebra Technologies will outline the tips and techniques to:

• Monitor, test, troubleshoot and reset label printers/applicators from a central cockpit

• Store all necessary label formats and images on the printer, maximizing performance

• Inform users and supervisors of any printing errors or potential errors

• Validate production line processes

• Identify printers/applicators availability and utilization information

• Minimize downtime by allowing labels to be re-directed to other available printers

Attendees will be able to take a brand new approach to their enterprise label printing challenges with an easy to use, quick to deploy, seamlessly integrated

labeling solution tailor-made for the SAP environment. From confirmation-of-action to compliance labeling, PEAK Technologies and Zebra Technologies’ new solution designed for use with your SAP enterprise label printing makes your thermal printers…and internal staff…more productive than ever before.

Key Learning Points:

·                Tips and techniques for optimizing real-time, industrial barcode label printing from your SAP system

·                What are the key similarities and differences between the different methods of approaching barcode label printing from your SAP system?

·                Examine the business benefits of bi-directional communication between your industrial barcode printers and your SAP system

·                Evaluate new approaches to SAP enterprise label printing to save your company time, resources, and money

Learn how McKesson upgraded its Business Critical Global SAP systems, overcoming the challenges of a huge database (of over 23 TB), with Unicode conversion, and with no business disruption

McKesson partnered with Infosys Technologies Ltd to overcome acute challenges in upgrading their Business Critical SAP platform with 23 Terabyte database to a Unicode compliant ECC 6.0.

Manish Kalyani, Michael Gallagher and Ron Thompson walk you through the detailed SAP Upgrade journey that led to a best-in-class experience for McKesson.

Key Learning Points:

• What was the Business case for upgrade & how was it built?
• How an options based approach (TUUC vs. CUUC/ With MDS/without MDS) was used to unearth & mitigate risks in the overall process
• How Upgrade and Unicode conversion of a large databases was done with shorter business downtime
• How an optimal cutover planning and execution was ensured during the short downtime window
• How to manage parallel SAP programs along with Upgrade
• How upgrade methodology & toolsets provided by Infosys helped McKesson in realizing its ultimate goal

Formal performance-management (PM) methodologies and solutions can give organizations the dscipline to prosper during difficult economic times while providing the flexibility to pursue opportunities as they arise. Although many organizations have strong practices for individual PM processes such as budgeting or financial close, integration of these processes is key to closing the loop between strategic planning and tactical execution.

Join this Webinar in which IDC industry expert Brian McDonough reveals that companies that rely on a fact-based, formalized PM methodology are more competitive than companies that don’t. Accompanying Brian will be Richard Barrett, director of solution marketing at SAP.

In this Webinar you will learn:

• How closed-loop performance management is helping leading organizations maximize revenue, minimize risk, and improve forecast accuracy
• Best practices from a case study of an SAP customer
• How to best leverage PM solutions to rapidly assess the resource requirements needed to address new levels of demand

SAP® customers face strategic decisions about how to deliver world-class performance for SAP software while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). Companies must learn to manage their current investments better, lower risk, and optimize performance – while operating under cost constraints and ever-increasing amounts of data.

Many customers are unsure about where to begin because the landscapes they inherit are unique in terms of number of instances, SAP software deployed, and customization. Learn why companies are migrating to IBM DB2 and realizing significant cost savings, lower TCO, and better performance.

Please join technology industry analyst and SAP software expert, R "Ray" Wang for a Webinar on how to optimize performance in your SAP software environment and reduce the TCO of infrastructure support for SAP software. Attendees will hear:

• An overview of the components of cost structures in SAP software
• How database optimization can drive significant savings
• What IBM and SAP have done to optimize IBM DB2 for SAP software

If your company is receiving sales orders by fax or email, you want to be able to process them electronically. But what’s the right solution? Is it a mix of stand-alone applications for imaging, workflow and archiving? Or an all-in-one platform that goes beyond fax and email?

This new webinar outlines key considerations for integrating fax-to-order and email-to-order automation with SAP solutions. Join us to learn how you can:

• Treat fax and email orders like EDI
• Reduce order processing time and costs by at least 40%
• Prioritize and automatically convert fax and email orders to IDoc
• Make orders accessible through SAP interfaces
• Get started simply by taking paper out of the process

You’ll get an overview of different automation levels and critical success factors. Plus, learn from real-life case studies and results that other businesses running SAP have achieved. Don’t miss this opportunity to take the next step toward completing your vision of electronic order processing!

Struggling to find the best-fit ERP strategy for your business? Here is your chance to learn from the industry role models at Intel IT. Finding the
right-sized server to run a specific ERP production instance is a crucial step toward obtaining predictable, high performance — while minimizing
disruption to the business and server TCO. In this dynamic webcast, you’ll learn how to select the appropriately sized server and avoid under-sizing.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Sudip Chahal, Principal Engineer, and ERP Infrastructure Architect, Karl Mailman, discuss Intel ITs decentralized approach to implementing ERP
applications. Here, you’ll learn firsthand how Intel IT's server deployment strategy in support of its decentralized ERP environment offers significant advantages including:

   ·  Lower server acquisition costs
   ·  Flexible scalability
   ·  Faster development of new ERP capabilities
   ·  Reduced support costs through standardization
   ·  High availability through clustering

Come hear Rudy Temiz, Chief Operating Officer at Sixth Avenue Electronics, describe how Sixth Avenue automated and manages their complex performance-based incentive programs to enhance performance and profitability using SAP® Solution Extensions.

Sixth Avenue recently completed their implementation of SAP® ERP/ECC, including SAP’s Industry Solution-Retail and Point-of-Sale (POS) Solution. A key aspect of their overall strategy was automating and managing business-critical processes such as chargeback claims, sales commissions, and supplier (purchasing) rebates using the SAP® Paybacks & Chargebacks by Vistex and SAP® Incentives Administration by Vistex.

In this webinar, a brief overview of both solutions will be presented, and Rudy will explain how Sixth Avenue uses the solutions to manage a variety of complex inter-related incentive programs involving their suppliers and sales associates. Rudy will also share his perspectives regarding the implementation lessons learned and the benefits of using fully-integrated Solution Extensions from SAP.

The primary goals of most industrial data collection SAP solutions are typically the same; implement a cost-effective system that meets the company’s needs, makes its users more efficient, reduces errors and is maintainable. However, imagine an industrial data collection solution with a great SAP application utilizing a user interface that is slow, constantly losing its connection with the host or uses a poor choice of mobile device for the given application.

This webinar hosted by PEAK Technologies and Intermec Technologies will explore the tips and techniques to implementing a successful and usable data collection system for industrial SAP environments. The webinar will cover various characteristics of SAPConsole and ITSmobile user interfaces such as solution maturity, availability/support, architecture, application platforms, device compatibility, ease of use, development environment, and much more. The presentation will also feature an update from Intermec on how data collection and printing solutions all from one vendor work “Better Together” than other disparate hardware options.

Attendees will also be able to receive real-world ITSmobile tips and techniques that have been developed from several recent large SAP supply chain deployments.

Key Learning Points:

• Tips and techniques for implementing a successful industrial data collection solution for SAP
• What are the key similarities and differences between ITSmobile and SAPConsole?
• SAPConsole to ITSmobile migration path
• Real-world learning from several recent large ITSmobile deployments
• Discover the advantages of Intermec solutions that work “Better Together” than other data collection and printer hardware options
• What other interface approaches exist today?
• Beyond the SAP interface – key application and integration considerations

As you prepare to embark on an ERP implementation or to upgrade an existing system, you have a lot to juggle and plan. You know the horror stories of go-lives going bad but you aren’t sure how to avoid the pitfalls. A recent Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) research study found that 93 percent of projects are delayed; they incur cost overruns; and they’re significantly impacted by data issues. So how do you ensure that you’re among the successful seven percent?

Join this one-hour Webinar hosted by SAP Insider to learn proven best practices for planning a successful data migration effort. This session will cover:

• An outline of the data migration methodology
• How to leverage SAP BusinessObjects enterprise information management (EIM) solutions for the project go-live date and beyond
• Real-life examples of how to avoid common, costly pitfalls and ensure that your business is ready for a successful data migration

Everyone wants immediate, easy access to vast amounts of information that help make the best business decisions possible.   Oh, and one more thing … no additional requests that place a heavy burden on IT.  But how do you achieve that kind of “information nirvana”?  With in-memory analytics you can gain instant insights into large amounts of data from anywhere in the organization—and improve your ability to make sound, timely decisions.  SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version enables innovative new applications that combine high-volume transactions with analytics.  All of this—while reducing the burden on IT and lowering your TCO.

In this Webinar, you will learn:

• An overview of SAP’s in-memory technology featured in SAP BusinessObjects Explorer software
• How SAP BusinessObjects Explorer can benefit your organization by becoming the foundation for improved business performance
• How HP has perfected the concept of the “appliance” and made in-memory an obvious choice
• How SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version fits into an overall data-acceleration strategy

You have made investments in SAP solutions, and constant change requires even quicker response to business needs at an ever-accelerated pace. Your challenges include doing more with less, building more flexibility in your systems, and making the most from your IT investments.

Discover Best Practices for IT Transformation
In this special Webinar sponsored by the SAP Services organization, you'll learn how to accelerate IT transformation while delivering the flexibility to adapt to business changes, rapidly implement technology innovations, and standardize and optimize operations of your SAP solutions.

• Discover how to effect structural transformation, including how to standardize, consolidate and harmonize information, consolidating and optimizing your SAP Landscape and designing an architecture and roadmap to minimize overall complexity.
• Learn how to transform your operations, including realizing new efficiency while reducing TCO, driving new initiatives to achieve operational excellence, and leveraging automated testing and managing the lifecycle of your SAP solutions.
• Develop strategies for efficiently adopting new technologies and enabling new functionality.

All registrants receive the new SAPinsder solutions overview, “IT Transformation Services Special Report”, courtesy of SAP Services.

Those with Twitter accounts, we encourage you to tweet your thoughts, opinions and questions before and during the event. Please use the hashtag #SAPITTS so that others may follow along.

In addition to offering a proven methodology and experts to efficiently manage comprehensive data migration projects, BackOffice Associates® now offers an augmentation strategy for a Boring Go Live® delivery with our cloud-based data migration service, called DataFactory™. This augmentation strategy leverages the full capabilities of our data migration experts on-site and also provides access to resources around the globe and around the clock, in a cost-efficient, time-saving option.

Key Benefits of a Cloud-Based Migration Strategy:

• Maximizes your data migration budget while maintaining quality
• Reduces risk by establishing a repeatable and scalable process for customers with long-term rollout projects
• Increases the resource pool available to support customers in a 24/7 environment

Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Newell Rubbermaid Inc. is a global brand and a household name with consumers and commercial products that touch millions of people every day. As a leading company with complex IT infrastructure, Newell quickly realized the need to reduce the cost of compliance management though automation and centralization. The company implemented SAP's Access Control Solution to reduce cost of compliance and improve visibility of security and compliance issues. In this session, Newell will share the key highlights of their journey, the lessons learned and benefits realized.

The cost and complexity of ensuring availability for multi-tier SAP installations can be challenging. Traditionally it involves multiple clustering products and over-provisioned hardware. If you’re unwilling to accept the “performance tax” of virtualization-based alternatives, what do you do to stop the madness?

This webinar will address these issues head-on. Join Manfred Stein Project Development Manager, SAP, and Ken Oestreich, VP Marketing, Egenera, as they discuss how converged infrastructure, (aka unified computing) changes the game by delivering business-critical availability without clustering and without hypervisors. Using technologies such as I/O virtualization and converged networking, entire SAP landscapes and databases can be scaled, cloned, or failed-over, regardless of O/S and regardless of whether virtualization is in use.

Join this expert panel to learn how converged infrastructure can bring your SAP landscape to a new level of management simplicity, reliability and availability.

Following the webinar, you’ll know how to:

• Apply real-world customer experiences of running SAP landscapes on a converged infrastructure
• Provide SAP fail-over in minutes, whether or not you use VMs
• Deliver 100% verifiable disaster recovery of multi-tier landscapes in minutes – not days
• Reduce the cost / complexity of managing your entire SAP landscape – including production, testing and QA
• Evaluate availability alternatives based on SAP insights and recommendations

The requirement to close books quickly and with quality is emerging again as an important project for today’s global finance function, especially with the increasing amount of regulatory changes, including the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and requirements to file financial statements in Extended Business Reporting Language (XBRL).

Attend this Webcast and hear from Deloitte, a market leader in providing finance transformation solutions to CFOs and their organizations, and SAP, the market leader in enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions, on how companies can speed their closing cycles and reduce the cost of compliance. Attend this Webcast to discover how to:

• Meet the evolving challenges faced by the CFO
• Discern the key barriers to a fast, high-quality group financial close
• Learn more about solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times

Want to get rid of paper in your company, but facing some resistance from customers? Trying to get all your company’s customers to move over to e-invoicing can be next to impossible. The truth is you simply can’t force changes to their systems and processes that they’re not ready to make.

The good news: you don’t have to! Register for this webinar and learn best practices to make invoicing completely electronic on your end while customers go paperless at their own pace. Discover tactics you can use to:

• Increase visibility into your accounts receivable process
• Cut the cost of sending billing documents by 40%-80%
• Reduce document handling time by up to 96%
• Minimize billing errors and prevent lost invoices
• Improve focus on providing quality customer service

Don’t miss this opportunity to find out how you can integrate electronic invoicing with your SAP solution to achieve your ”quit paper” objectives!

You have made investments in SAP and SAP BusinessObjects solutions, and new initiatives bring an opportunity to plan for and implement SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions. SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation allows you to keep up with the pace of business by modeling new business scenarios; transitioning from a static forecasting model to rolling forecasts; streamlining processes; and reducing budget-cycle times—while retaining the ability to plan long-term.

You want to optimize performance by translating business strategies into operational objectives and metrics. If successful, you will quickly realize the cost savings, compliance, and strategic advantages that are possible when you improve overall performance throughout your organization via these solutions. The question is: Where to begin?

In this special Webinar sponsored by the SAP Services organization, you'll learn how to leverage a best- practices approach and solutions expertise to minimize total cost of implementation (TCI) and achieve reduced time-to-value. Discover how to accelerate implementation of the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application using a best-practices approach and a proven portfolio of services delivered by the SAP Consulting organization. Learn how to minimize overall project risk and maximize the probability of successful projects. Also, learn how to leverage proven approaches to upgrade from SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation versions 4.2 and 5.1 to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.0.

Those with Twitter accounts, we encourage you to tweet your thoughts, opinions and questions before and during the event. Please use the hashtag #SAPWC11 so that others may follow along.
Register now and receive a complimentary Aberdeen Group white paper,  How Best-in-Class Plan, Budget, and Forecast in Today’s Dynamic World, and the informative solution brief, Services for Enterprise Performance Management: Expertise That Helps You Optimize Your Business, courtesy of SAP.

The majority of business users today do not have adequate access to the information they need to make informed decisions. Consequently, many of these organizations lack the responsiveness and competitive edge to keep ahead of the pack. Join us for a live Webinar to hear how the latest release of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version promises to open the door to analyze and explore information from any data silo or information source across your organization. You’ll see for yourself how the software enables all information workers to benefit from an intuitive interface to quickly answer “on-the-fly” business questions with minimal training or dependency on IT.

Learn how this next wave of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, helps you:

• Gain a 360-degree view of your business with the software’s ability to reach across all data sources
• Manage and scale your business intelligence (BI) implementation to serve more users and increase their autonomy without impacting budgets more easily and efficiently
• Allow users to search and explore large volumes of enterprise data to answer questions, discover relationships, and uncover root cause
• Explore information with no knowledge of the underlying data structures intuitively and share results with others for improved collaboration and decision making

Do these challenges sound familiar?

• Escalating requirements to prove sound corporate governance
• Inefficient and / or manual processes to maintain
compliance
• Ongoing increased demands on not just provisioning users, but tracking when they access your corporate resources to ensure compliance and security
• Growing operational demands regarding your company compliance requirements including the range of segregation of duty (SoD) polices
• Lack of systematic processes for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing all critical business risks

The SAP-certified Novell Compliance Management Platform for SAP environments can drive continuous compliance through a seamlessly integrated identity, access management and event monitoring infrastructure that lets you always know who is doing what and when. The solution helps eliminate uncontrolled access.

Please join industry expert Birger Tödtmann, Principal Consultant from SAP and Leo Castro, Senior Solution Manager from Novell to listen how the joint SAP and Novell solutions can drive continuous compliance and address the challenges.

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, is the first and only unified planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation application built directly on SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW).

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear David Dixon, Vice President and Chief Architect – Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management of TekLink International, discuss the reasons why organizations should consider SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, for new projects. Gain a better understanding of how this application differs from other products in the marketplace and learn how leading organizations are deriving value from the application. Register now and receive a complimentary white paper, Creating Value with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, Version for SAP NetWeaver.

Your organization’s SAP solution is designed to help you achieve high scores on key performance indicators (KPIs): increased revenue and profit, greater customer satisfaction, and lower risk. To get the most out of your SAP investment, your workforce must be empowered to use it effectively—that means training.

Investments in training can increase employee productivity; reduce costs associated with errors and support; and ensure that business processes are executed effectively. But despite signs of economic recovery, studies show that training budgets aren’t returning to previous levels. Also, changing employee demographics, the ever-increasing pace of business, and workforce mobility make it difficult to follow traditional education strategies.

SAP can help. The SAP Education organization offers flexible learning methodologies and innovative training solutions such as live virtual classroom training, on-demand modules, and learning maps that make your education investments much more effective.

Join SAP’s Richard Campitelli, senior vice president of education North America, and thought leader Elliott Masie, a pioneer in the learning and technology arena, in a discussion on how leading organizations leverage new modes of learning to achieve best-run business success. Topics will include:

• Learning Goes Social, Video, Mobile, and Contextual
• The Role of Performance Support and ERP Systems
• The Empowered Learner: Changing Expectations and
Habits
• Collaboration: Harnessing the Wisdom of the Qualified Crowd

Training is a high-impact opportunity to increase the return on your investment in SAP software. Leveraging the latest learning techniques makes it much easier for your team to maintain or enhance their skills.

The world and the ways that we train and learn have changed forever. The “learning revolution” and the impact of technology and social learning means there is no going back to the old status quo. How can you adapt to this brave new world and not only survive, but thrive and grow with SAP?

When SCA Hygiene, a multinational enterprise who produces personal care and forest products in over 100 countries, found that they were no longer capable of fulfilling their day-to-day operations it became clear that the outdated technology needed to be replaced in order to better satisfy business demands and position themselves for future market demands.

They turned to SAP to gain greater control and flexibility over their organization and SEEBURGER to enable the communication to their business partners by uniting under a single platform and resulted in streamlined, more efficient operations with a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Find out not only what enhancements are coming with the SAP NetWeaver product line, but also how SCA Hygiene is leveraging SAP NetWeaver and SEEBURGER to consolidate their businesses globally and give them better control over their business partner trading processes.

Learn:
• The advancements to the SAP NetWeaver product line and future product roadmap
• How SCA Hygiene leveraged their SAP investment to satisfy all business demands from a single platform
• Learn how to configure a successful global consolidation project or SAP NetWeaver implementation

Attend this session and learn how even with budgets cuts, Microsoft, in collaboration with Capgemini and SAP can help your organization thrive. Today's businesses face the dual challenges of increasing top-line growth while reducing bottom-line operating costs. Responding to these challenges and developing new opportunities requires flexible innovative business processes, as well as the information infrastructure and software applications that support them.  

ERP+ Consolidate brought to you by Microsoft and Capgemini can help you deliver solutions that can lower total cost of ownership while maintaining enterprise-class performance.  Post the presentation, you will walk away with a good understanding of how we can help:

* Lower Costs, and
* Get More Value out of your existing systems 

With business networks now the primary source of competitive advantage, SAP® customers should be asking themselves how they will accelerate information exchange and process collaboration with their ecosystem of partners, suppliers and customers. Because of broken supply chain and financial processes, organizations are left with 20-30% higher working capital than necessary, compromised cash flow, lower profitability, and declining stock prices.

In this seminar, learn how to utilize SAP NetWeaver Process Integration to reduce the cost of integrating internal application landscapes. Additionally, this session presents an introduction to SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate, a Solution Extension from SAP that provides a pragmatic evolution from legacy integration solutions and offers an intelligent repository of re-usable trading partner profiles and processes.

Find out how to use the tool to eliminate the redundant mapping and point-to-point integrations required to collaborate with trading partners. Understand how to use SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate to attain a fixed cost for B2B integration projects.

Learn how to use the tool to free your organization from data standards concerns or your trading partners’ EDI capability, and ultimately connect compliantly with any partner worldwide. Gain a comprehensive knowledge of this new solution and get expert advice to evaluate how SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate can improve your organization’s supply chain integration.

The soon-to-be-released Duet Enterprise, a new joint product from SAP and Microsoft, enables the interoperability between SAP applications and Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Duet Enterprise will empower all employees to consume and extend SAP processes and information from Microsoft SharePoint and Office 2010.

Customers will be able to expand the value of their existing investments in SAP and Microsoft, respond to their business needs rapidly and effectively and drive the productivity of their people and teams.

Smaller manufacturers traditionally have either avoided EDI deployments or utilized EDI translators that fail to fully automate trading partner communications. Until 2008, tile producer Florim USA fell into the second category. The 250-employee company’s POP mailbox-based EDI solution was not integrated with Florim’s SAP system, forcing customer service staff to spend at least 30 minutes of processing time per order. Related delays in generating advance shipping notices and customer invoices frequently led to angry customers and later-than-expected customer payments.

With the need to create more supply chain efficiency by streamlining order-related message exchanges with key customers, tile manufacturer Florim looked to its SAP NetWeaver platform for answers and was able to leverage the NetWeaver technology with SEEBURGER Adapters to eliminate invoicing and ASN transmission delays that affected the company’s order-to-cash cycle and customer relationships.

Learn:

• How to utilize SAP NetWeaver & SEEBURGER to more easily respond to customer requirements and changes
• Best practices with SAP NetWeaver and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
• How Florim improved cash flow, slashed order processing time, saved VAN fees and streamlined their supply chain

If your company is receiving sales orders by fax or email, you want to be able to process them electronically. But what’s the right solution? Is it a mix of stand-alone applications for imaging, workflow and archiving? Or an all-in-one platform that goes beyond fax and email?

This new webinar outlines key considerations for integrating fax-to-order and email-to-order automation with SAP solutions. Join us to learn how you can:

• Treat fax and email orders like EDI
• Reduce order processing time and costs by at least 40%
• Prioritize and automatically convert fax and email orders to IDoc
• Make orders accessible through SAP interfaces
• Get started simply by taking paper out of the process

You’ll get an overview of different automation levels and critical success factors. Plus, learn from real-life case studies and results that other businesses running SAP have achieved. Don’t miss this opportunity to take the next step toward completing your vision of electronic order processing!

Find out how to save time off of your monthly financial reporting and increase data integrity by eliminating reliance on manual data exports and rekeying to Microsft Excel from SAP® systems. Receive key concepts and best practices for how SAP users can leverage their MS Excel environment in SAP.

Understand the challenges Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated faced prior to the deployment of Global's spreadsheet automation tools and learn how they utilized familiar MS Excel functionality to get intuitive, formula-driven, dynamic and accurate results. This session will illustrate how to move beyond static spreadsheets and create the ultimate dynamic SAP financial spreadsheet experience using Microsoft Excel.

• Improve productivity by automating your SAP financial spreadsheet environment
• Populate spreadsheets with ‘live' balances and descriptions from SAP to Microsoft® Excel
• Learn more effective ways to handle classic and special ledgers in spreadsheets from the SAP General Ledger
• Drill-down dynamically from the spreadsheets to the lowest level of detail in SAP

Effective data governance requires the design and implementation of an end-to-end process for managing master data that spans multiple application environments and is not just limited to the MDM tool. Successful data governance requires the facilitation of human workflow and system integration across the various application components involved in this process. Herein lies the opportunity to leverage BPM to enable effective data governance.

During this Webinar, you will hear directly from SAP and Deloitte specialists on ways to realize an end-to-end MDM process with BPM. By attending this Webinar, you will have an opportunity to:

• Understand ways process, governance, and architecture are realized for master data management
• Learn the importance of designing an architecture-agnostic master data process
• Discover the ways in which an SAP technical architecture including BPM can support data governance
• View a demonstration of a master data process enabled through BPM
• Explore the benefits that a BPM governed MDM solution provides including reduced implementation effort, accelerated project deliveries, and increased reaction to new business requirements

Host Lee Dittmar is joined by SAP’s Stephanie Buscemi, Group Vice President, Marketing for EPM, GRC Solutions, and Jane Griffin, Principal and National Service Line Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP, to discuss insights, lessons from the field, an update on SAP strategy for Business User solutions, and insights for the future of Enterprise Information Management.

In this sixth program of the series, we will step back and review the state of the market, highlight successful strategies and programs, and discuss what lies ahead on the journey to achieve “high IQ” – Information Quality. Organizations will continue investing to improve their information management capabilities. From data management through presentation tools, from risk monitoring to external reporting, and from budgeting to profitability analyses, the opportunities and need to improve are pervasive. That’s why this arena is among the hottest in world of information technology.

Join us to hear a candid report from the field, learn about successes and ongoing challenges, and how organizations will continue to invest in improving their information management capabilities. Also hear about SAP’s strategies to enhance and integrate their Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management, GRC and Enterprise Information Management solution with ERP and other transactional systems.

Here’s your chance to hear about Mercedes-Benz’s practical experience in using upgrade automation software to save 50% of the development and testing time devoted to its recent upgrade from SAP 4.6C to SAP ERP 6.0.

Join Sanjeev Sharma, SAP Regional Support Manager at Mercedes-Benz USA, in this live event and engage him with your own questions about Mercedes-Benz’s upgrade experience and how that might pertain to your own organization.

Also presenting at this event is Helmuth Gümbel of Strategy Partners. Learn first-hand from him how to make the most of your SAP ERP version migration.

This webinar will provide you with:
• Lessons learned from Mercedes-Benz’s use of a SaaS-based solution to analyze and address potential upgrade problems
• An understanding of how to save up to 50% on ERP lifecycle costs and minimize risk associated with system changes
• Tips for leveraging an upgrade to make a positive impact on your business

Attend this live and interactive event, hosted by Panaya’s CMO, Amit Bendov, and engage our panel in a lively discussion.

Linux has become a mature technology to support SAP systems at high performance and high availability. To give you a deep insight, REALTECH and Novell published their first version of the white paper “The Trend from Unix to Linux in SAP Datacenters” in 2008. The whitepaper has been updated in August 2009, focussing on the architectural aspect of Linux installations and their influence on Green IT.

Join this interactive webinar featuring a real business case presented by Hugo Boss AG. Learn more about the meaning of virtualization in SAP landscapes and how Linux will help you to reduce operational costs. See which predictions we made in the first version of the white paper have become true and how they will influence SAP system landscapes in the future.

Linux has become a mature technology to support SAP systems at high performance and high availability. To give you a deep insight, REALTECH and Novell published their first version of the white paper “The Trend from Unix to Linux in SAP Datacenters” in 2008. The whitepaper has been updated in August 2009, focussing on the architectural aspect of Linux installations and their influence on Green IT.

Join this interactive webinar featuring a real business case presented by Hugo Boss AG. Learn more about the meaning of virtualization in SAP landscapes and how Linux will help you to reduce operational costs. See which predictions we made in the first version of the white paper have become true and how they will influence SAP system landscapes in the future.

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, is the first and only unified planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation application built directly on SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW).

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear David Dixon, vice president, SAP research and advisory at Business & Decision, discuss the reasons why organizations should consider SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, for new projects. Gain a better understanding of how this application differs from other products in the marketplace and learn how leading organizations are deriving value from the application. Register now and receive a complimentary white paper, Creating Value with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, Version for SAP NetWeaver.

Is your IT infrastructure meeting the SLA levels that are promised and required by your business? Are you able to understand application performance and measure SLA's promised to customers, employees and partners? Can you map customer acceptance and satisfaction against application infrastructure to properly recognize the business impact of poorly performing transactions?

Like most IT organizations, your composite and Web application environment is growing in size and complexity at an increasingly rapid rate. Your environment may include a combination of legacy mainframe, distributed, Web services and emerging architectures. While these technologies can add significant value, they can also add significant IT complexities.

Join SAP for an interactive webcast to learn how to adopt an effective application performance management strategy to ensure you are delivering high-quality, high-performance applications to your end users. During this webcast, you’ll see firsthand how SAP Extended Diagnostics by CA Wily can help you:

• Monitor transactions from end-to-end and measure transaction success and failure rates
• Manage complex and heterogeneous application environments to ensure superior application performance and availability
• Predict emerging problems and implement repairs before they affect end users and customers
• Share critical performance data throughout the enterprise
• Record data needed to comply with governance demands
• Measure the cost of downtime in money and in terms of customer impact

You'll also see a live demonstration of SAP Extended Diagnostics by CA Wily to see how its 24x7 Web application monitoring, incident detection, rapid triage, and root-cause analysis capabilities can ensure you are delivering high-performing applications to your end users.

In today's competitive market, you want to make available what your customers want to buy. In fact, retailers could increase store sales by an average of 3.7 percent if they could manage to avoid "out-of-stock" situations. Likewise, spotting a hot selling item ahead of your competition, can have a significant impact on sales and profitability. The first step is getting the answers to some of the most relevant questions:

• Which of my promoted items are selling faster than planned? Slower?
• Is something not selling, because the stock is sitting in the back room?
• Is there a change in the environment that is leading to more rapid  item sales?
• Is there enough inventory on-hand /on-order to handle the rate of sales?
• Which departments or categories need to be addressed immediately?

As organizations move to standardize and streamline core business processes, they increasingly find the need to interconnect unstructured information with those highly structured processes. Open Text Extended ECM for SAP Solutions® can help you meet this challenge.

Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar with Craig LeClair, Principal Analyst with Forrester Research Inc. who will discuss how Enterprise Content Management (ECM) can help tame your un-tamed SAP processes. Among the topics to be discussed:

• What are untamed processes?
• What are the top challenges of un-tamed processes like Quality Management, Order Automation/Administration and Customer Service?
• What are the benefits of integrating content, collaboration and records management with content-centric business processes?

The Open Text Extended ECM for SAP Solutions application is integrated with the SAP Business Suite ERP, SCM, CRM, SRM, HCM applications and thus enables management of unstructured content in the context of the processes and transactions supported by your enterprise applications.

Join SAP's Dave Anderson and Fiona Williams, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP, as they visit with host Lee Dittmar to share and discuss insights related to GRC management principles, practices and state-of-the art technologies.

Organizations the world over are investing to improve their ability to better manage risks and more efficiently comply with laws, regulations and internal policies. SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions are an increasingly important part of these initiatives. Organizations are working to automate manually intensive processes, to standardize, and to provide an enterprise perspective on sometimes fragmented GRC activities.

Learn how and why clients are using Access Control, Process Control, Risk Management, and Global Trade solutions. Hear how SAP's portfolio of GRC solutions is being used to deal with some of the toughest risk and compliance management tasks, activities, and processes.

Business processes are the nervous system of your company. Ignore them, and your company's competitive advantage deteriorates. Improve them, and you can shorten product cycles, reduce operating costs, and maintain your competitive advantage. But, how do you improve a business process? Is it simply a matter of reconfiguring the software that supports it? Is it picking the brains of the people who are most familiar with it? Or should you first try to document the process by drawing a schematic flow chart of all the steps that it contains?

Join SAP and Rockwell Automation in this informative, interactive webcast to learn how with SAP enterprise modeling applications by IDS Scheer you can model and represent your entire IT infrastructure in a graphical format, identify problem areas, and make rapid improvements. Built on the ARIS platform, the solution supports the complete business process life cycle – including process design, analysis, optimization, implementation, and measurement enabling you to:

• Decrease process costs and resource requirements
• Respond better and more quickly to internal and market changes
• Continually improve process quality and transparency
• Reduce risk of compliance failure
• Lower total cost of ownership

Plus, you'll hear from SAP customer Rockwell Automation about how they are using SAP enterprise modeling applications to increase their process efficiencies, productivity, and transparency to support their complete business process life cycle.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to:

• Improve documentation and communication of organizational changes and system landscape optimization
• Develop and standardize process-driven benchmarking and identify best practices
• Continuously evaluate process performance indicators and visualize bottlenecks

Implementing e-Pedigree is seen as a major business and technology challenge by Pharmaceutical companies. This presentation will address the different options that SAP customers have for serialization of products, identifying products and performing data collection with barcodes or RFID, and assembling necessary data to construct an electronic pedigree record.

This webinar will address:

• What is serialization?
• What is e-Pedigree?
• How are serial numbers managed in SAP?
• How is e-Pedigree used in SAP?

Key learning points include:

• Understand who InfoLogix is and how we can assist in your future projects
• Understand how SAP can manage serial numbers in ERP and in AII
• Understand what e-Pedigree is and how it is managed in SAP

Join series host Lee Dittmar of Deloitte Consulting LLP, Richard Barrett, SAP, and Bill Thomas, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, as they discuss recent experiences, new developments and insights concerning the implementation and use of SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions.

Organizations are investing to improve their planning, monitoring and reporting capabilities to better manage execution of their strategies and optimize the use of limited resources. SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions are an increasingly important part of these initiatives.  Some companies have been focused on improving planning processes, for some across the entire enterprise, for others in specific business areas. Some companies have focused on replacing their financial consolidation with SAP solutions. Another hot area is improving capabilities to monitor and report on profitability, at product SKU levels, by region and/or by customer segments.

Properly applying and using technology for Enterprise Performance Management is critical to managing strategy through execution. The risks and consequences of not having relevant, accurate and timely performance information have become increasingly costly, often painful and sometimes fatal. Deloitte and SAP are helping their clients improve their EPM processes and enabling technologies.

Learn how you can improve enterprise performance. Hear reports from the field about why and how organizations are implementing and using EPM solutions from SAP. See a demo of SAP’s PCM solution (Profit and Cost Management).

The eXtended Business Reporting Language (XBRL) specification is quickly evolving into the global standard for the digital exchange of financial and business information.

The US SEC has recently mandated the use of XBRL for filing financial results meaning that companies must now publish their income and cash flow statements as well as their balance sheets in "interactive data" format.

Join SAP BusinessObjects and Deloitte & Touche LLP for an important Webcast that explains the impact and scope of publishing financial statements in XBRL and outlines how to ensure your transition to XBRL is successful.

In this Webcast You'll Learn:

• The impact of XBRL on group financial reporting
• Critical decision points that you must address and practical approaches to help ease adoption
• Low technology solutions from SAP BusinessObjects can help you

Breakthroughs in automation are letting IT departments like yours slash days off the time required for SAP system copy—freeing up valuable resources for other projects.

Learn how companies are blasting through SAP system copy jobs, keeping all systems fully in sync with production.

• How to take hours, not days to point the index, allocations, and data of a copied system in the right direction
• How to harness the power of parallel processing, pulling time and resources away from creating system copies—and putting them right where you need them
• How to render the system copy process up to 90 percent automated
• How to comply with corporate governance and audit requirements, providing test and quality assurance departments with production images

UC4 automates SAP processes together with other non-SAP processes for even greater efficiency.

Join SAP and Tire & Battery Corporation for an informative, interactive webcast to learn how a comprehensive testing and quality management strategy can help reduce the risks associated with your IT projects, ensuring that you get the most from your SAP investment, now and in the future. You'll learn best practices about how to develop an effective, repeatable testing and quality assurance strategy and, most importantly, how to execute on that strategy. You'll also hear from SAP customer Tire & Battery Corp on how they are executing an integrated, automated testing strategy with SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization (SAP TAO) and SAP Quality Center by HP.

Attend the webcast and learn:

• How an automated testing approach can cut your testing costs by as much as 40% and decrease your implementation time by 10%
• How to leverage tools like SAP LoadRunner by HP, SAP Quality Center by HP and SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization to optimize your application deployment and lower your TCO
• How to build a testing center of excellence to create repeatable, measurable testing processes and centrally monitor those processes and results in SAP Solution Manager
• How to incorporate best practices and lessons learned presented by our project professionals when developing your testing strategy

Don't miss the unique opportunity to hear from SAP and TBC Corp. on how an automated, integrated, repeatable testing strategy can help to ensure your SAP applications are performing optimally, delivering the results your business owners expect.

The next wave of the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is just around the corner and this release promises to open the door to any data anywhere in the organization to provide users a 360 degree view into business operations.

With this next release of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, users continue to benefit from a dead simple  intuitive BI tool that allows all users to answer "on-the-fly" questions and get to the root cause of business situations all at incredible speeds. But now users can get a 360 degree view of the business thanks to SAP BuinessObjects Explorer’s ability to go beyond SAP BW data to access all data sources needed for analysis and exploration.

This one-hour webinar will:

• Introduce you to 'what's new' in SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version
• Outline the solutions key benefits by providing examples of how other customers are using Explorer to understand and analyze data for immediate value
• Walk you through a live demonstration of this next generation solution

So be sure to join us for this one-hour session to learn more and align yourself with one of the SAP’s most strategic goals for Business Intelligence.

Host Lee Dittmar is joined by SAP's Dave Maloney, Senior Director, SAP BusinessObjects BI Center of Excellence, Richard Starnes, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, to discuss insights, lessons from the field, and recent experience regarding how SAP ERP customers are leveraging SAP's new and expanded portfolio of Business Intelligence solutions.

Many organizations are improving their utilization of information assets, including how to better understand market forces, trends, and events affecting their performance – enabling them to make timely decisions with confidence. Deloitte and SAP BusinessObjects are working with leading organizations to leverage their investment in information assets and to achieve what we call "Information Quality."

Join this webinar to learn about recent experiences, ongoing implementations, and roadmaps for the future. Learn how your peers are:

• Providing dashboards, scorecards and visualization to "net-out" performance against key performance indicators
• Delivering greater end-user independence in reporting through improved ad hoc capabilities
• Lowering the end-user "effort threshold" for finding information to support micro-decisions and delivering "BI to the masses" through BI search
• Enabling decision making to respond quickly to both internal needs and market forces
• Delivering timely information to the right people in the right form Executing plans that drive value and build competitive advantage.

While automating the application testing process provides benefits in terms of time and cost savings, automation in the absence of a quality management process can merely result in doing the wrong things faster. SAP and HP will present how their comprehensive quality management solutions address the key issues that improve the quality and reduce the time, cost and risk of deploying or maintaining SAP applications.

• Quality Management – Addressing the entire quality process from requirements, releases, test cycles, and risk based testing through defect management
• Lifecycle support - Functional and Performance verification
• Cross functional Collaboration support for Quality Process

Join us for this informative webcast to learn more about SAP LoadRunner by HP, SAP Quality Center by HP and the SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization application. Also, see first-hand how these solutions work together with your SAP Solution Manager to provide a robust, integrated end-to-end quality solution.

Kim is a proven leader and innovator in the SAP enterprise systems and solutions market and brings over sixteen years of project management and proven technical expertise to Infologix. Currently as Vice President of Mobile Development at Infologix and previously as President and CEO of Aware Interweave, Inc., Mr. Obermair leads the organization with unprecedented drive and leadership, industry presence and marketing experience, having successfully built past companies and practices in the SAP and related technical solutions industry. His milestones include more than ten complete SAP lifecycle projects, the formation of an SAP RFID and Mobile Business Group within Catalyst International, Inc., and the design and execution of the SAP Web Development Strategy at Siemens Medical Solutions.

Kim, fluent in both German and English, holds two MBA degrees, one from Queens University in Kingston Canada and the Koblenz School of Corporate Management in Koblenz, Germany, majoring in Information Systems, International Business and International Business Policy. He earned a Bachelor of Mathematics, graduating with honors, from Waterloo University in Waterloo, Canada, majoring in Computer Science and Information systems.

Attend this live webinar and explore flexible options to extend the AR invoicing capabilities of your SAP solution beyond auto-faxing and emailing. You'll learn about a practical, step-by-step approach to gain these automation advantages:

• Eliminate manual processes for customer invoicing — even postal mail or fax delivery
• Cut AR costs as much as 80%
• Accelerate cash collection by reducing DSO at least 2 days
• Help customers go paperless with a self-service tool for subscription to e-invoicing
• Support compliance with international invoicing requirements

You'll see a demo of the technology, plus case studies of what it has done for Samsung and other businesses running SAP. Don't miss this opportunity to find out how you can reach your AR automation goals and achieve additional ROI from your SAP solution with minimum risk and maximum reward!

Companies have invested significantly in SAP to automate business processes and yet vastly under-utilize the potential because they have not really adapted to how business users interact with the system, extract information, and gain insights to act.  The result: unproductive business users or inability to make informed decisions, a recipe for inefficient operations and missed opportunities in today’s environment.  Business executives are clamoring for a solution that empowers business users, while IT executives are looking to better enable business functions harness the terabytes of data that resides in disparate systems across the organization.

If you are looking to unlock value from your SAP and Microsoft investments to increase your business velocity, our experts will show how the Infosys Business Velocity Solution for Microsoft & SAP can help you do it:

• Better: increase business user productivity by empowering them to interact seamlessly with transactional systems to make quick, informed decisions using a familiar Microsoft Office-like interface
• Faster: get results immediately by equipping IT to connect Microsoft technology on SAP platform and support business functions with standardized applications that can be quickly created, configured and contextualized (by role, function, etc)
• Cheaper: lower upfront implementation and ongoing ownership costs with Infosys' deep SAP AND Microsoft platform experience and Microsoft-based solution

Come see and hear two Business Technology experts from Graybar explain how their company boosted profitability by implementing embedded and fully-integrated solution extensions developed for SAP by Vistex, a global SAP Software Solution Partner.

Specifically, Paul Hoock will explain how Graybar manages millions of changing prices for 729,000 product SKUs and 670,000 customers using the SAP Data Maintenance for ERP (Pricing) by Vistex solution. Graybar has been able to reduce its corporate pricing administration/support staff by more than 50% while still improving the timeliness and accuracy of their pricing information for internal and external use.

Additionally, Tony Muscarella will explain how Graybar implemented the SAP/Vistex "Incentives and Paybacks" (IP) solutions to automate and manage Graybar's chargeback claims-based cost recovery process, as well as their performance-based incentives, including sales commissions and supplier rebates. Using the IP solution extensions within their SAP ERP system, Graybar has been able to increase their cost recovery; reduce their administrative labor expense; minimize errors, disputes, and delays with suppliers, thereby accelerating their cash flow.

Collectively, the SAP-warranted and supported solution extensions from Vistex have enabled Graybar to improve the visibility and quality of information within their company, make it "easier to do business" with Graybar for both their suppliers and customers, generate increased credibility and trust with their trading partners, gain market share, and improve their overall profitability.

Due to typical heterogeneous nature of SAP and non-SAP applications and platforms, organizations are hindered to establish a common security and compliance framework. This leads to duplication in effort, higher administrative overhead and inconsistent enforcement of controls. Extending roles and provisioning between systems to ensure governance, risk management and compliance can be an intensely manual process in such an environment. You need a versatile solution that extends a common access control and security framework you rely upon in your SAP system to a non-SAP applications across the enterprise. Novell delivers that solution using Infosys services.

Novell Compliance Management Platform is SAP certified. It offers a tight and an out-of-box integration with SAP and host of non-SAP systems that not only provides a cohesive security platform but also significantly reduces your implementation time and cost. Novell offers the entire gamut of security and identity services including role management, access certification, automated workflow-driven provisioning, security information and event management, compliance-driven reporting, self-service tools for account and password management, delegated administration and bi-directional communication; all aimed to enable you in establishing closed-loop compliance and security with decreased administrative overhead and improved productivity.

Join industry experts Rick Wagner, Compliance Management Product Manager, Novell and Amit Saha, Practice Lead of Infosys Enterprise Security & Risk Management group as they discuss how to extend SAP GRC Access Control policy across your SAP and non SAP systems. Learn how to:

• Create a comprehensive risk and compliance management framework across SAP and non-SAP systems
• Implement a hierarchical role-based provisioning and SOD framework for enterprise applications
• Deploy an effective closed-loop compliance system by integrating automated provisioning, periodic entitlement review and real-time event management
• Ensure an accelerated and risk-free implementation that provides reduced administrative overhead and improved security posture
• Leverage Infosys proven Accelerated Implementation Methodology to quickly achieve compliance needs across enterprise platform

Join SAP’s Byron Banks, VP of Marketing, Enterprise Information Management, and Sudeep Singh, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, as they visit with host Lee Dittmar to share and discuss insights related to enterprise information management principles and state-of-the art information management tools.

Organizations the world over are investing to improve their enterprise information management capabilities. Why? Because achieving and maintaining "Information Quality" depends on the integrity of the underlying data. Deloitte and SAP are collaborating to help clients optimize performance by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of information management.

Learn how our clients are implementing governance, policies, and procedures to achieve higher standards of data quality and improve enterprise information capabilities. Hear how SAP’s broad portfolio of solutions is being used to deal with some of the toughest information management tasks, activities, and processes.

Greene, Tweed & Co (GT) has leveraged SAP-centric tools for maximum use of SAP-offered solutions, one of them being SAP NetWeaver™ Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) 7.0. GT has successfully implemented SAP NetWeaver PI 7.0 for B2B integration with Baker Hughes Inc., one of its strategic customers, using industry standards RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF Adapter), Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX Messages), and HTTPS protocol for data security and integrity.

GT has also used SAP NetWeaver PI 7.0 for a successful implementation of EDI communications with its customers using SEEBURGER adapter with FTP protocol to communicate with the EDI VAN GXS. This implementation has helped GT in retiring its old EDI software, Gentran, and migrating all EDI transaction to PI/SEEBURGER.

Key Learning Points:

• Discover what is involved in using SAP NetWeaver Process Integration for B2B
• Learn about migration from Gentran architecture to SEEBURGER/PI to support EDI
• Receive lessons learned in GT’s SAP NetWeaver PI journey

Do you find yourself spending more time compiling data in piecemeal so you can get a consolidated view of business performance?

Do you feel confident that you have the information you need to make the right decisions?

Many executives struggle to make effective decisions because they don't have a complete and real-time view of how the business is performing. Now that struggle is over. Watch this webcast and learn how interactive dashboards, connected to an integrated business intelligence platform, improve business performance, enhance decision making capabilities, and much more.

Join Richard Starnes, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP and two experts from SAP BusinessObjects, Mary Brigden, Vice President, Enterprise Sales, and John Porter, Vice President, Solution Engineering, as they discuss the value that Executive and Functional Dashboards delivered through the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform can bring to your business.

Through a demonstration of industry-specific dashboards that illustrate the power and flexibility of SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise, you will learn how to:

• Develop a rapid delivery approach that brings together data from both SAP and non-SAP sources
• Gain actionable insight that can be consistently shared with executives and staff
• Understand the basics on how to integrate dashboards with the SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio

Richard and John will walk through a real-world example of how this solution was architected and delivered in less than two months.

If you've invested in cutting edge technology — whether SAP, or Microsoft, or both — but aren't getting all the processing power and productivity you expected, we've got some practical information you'll want to hear.

For example, can you access SAP software through Microsoft products and, in this way, reduce the complexity, time, and costs of running your business? Can your business users — no matter where they are in the world —easily store, access, and share documents and data? Are you able to leverage new technologies — such as Microsoft SharePoint — to improve workflows and collaboration?

You can realize these operating advantages with your current systems!  We'll show you how.

A new service offering from Capgemini — ERP + — standardizes your technology platform so that you can do more without spending more. SAP and Microsoft have interoperable, complementary functionality: you can use them together to achieve true business benefits. Your Microsoft Office applications (you're already paying for these!) can make your SAP ERP system user-friendly and agile. And your overall "cost of ownership" will drop significantly. In our webinar, we'll demonstrate ERP+ and what it could do in your business.

ERP+ is a better, faster, and cheaper way to make the most of all your systems' functional and technical capabilities. Also, since users will be working with familiar products, the "learning curve" is slight; our training hones in on understanding the benefits and on working in new, streamlined business processes. Finally, a simpler system landscape means lower maintenance costs.

Modern personnel departments are transforming from a purely administrative role to a value-added strategic enterprise function.

How a personnel department manages its expanding volume of work can be largely impacted by mergers and acquisitions (M&A), outsourcing, offshoring, centralization or decentralization, expansion and layoffs.

In these challenging times, simplifying processes, minimizing errors and reducing operating costs are key to creating an efficient and effective personnel department. Join us for this informative webinar and discover how to streamline your HR processes and add strategic value to your organization.

Join series host Lee Dittmar of Deloitte Consulting, with Robert Cummings, VP Solution Management Suite Integration, SAP and Bill Thomas, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, as they discuss recent experience, new developments and insights concerning a truly integrated, enterprise approach to information management. Organizations the world over are investing to improve their information capabilities. Why? Because the recognized value of "high IQ" (Information Quality) has never been greater. Or, put another way, the risks and consequences of not having accurate, timely, and transparent information have become increasingly costly, often painful and sometimes fatal. Deloitte and SAP are helping their clients address the challenges and opportunities of achieving "high IQ."

Learn how you can improve enterprise performance by treating information as a strategic asset and information capabilities as a competitive advantage. Hear reports from the field about how to integrate Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Risk and Compliance Management, and Enterprise Data Management as well as with Enterprise Resource Planning and other executional systems.

Application integration is one of the most complex and time consuming portions of a new system rollout. Complicating the integration is the variety of legacy tools already in use within a company, or the deployment of new tools without a consistent integration strategy. The redundancy of multiple tools brings additional cost and architectural complexity along with larger resource demands.

With the help of adapter software from SEEBURGER, NewellRubbermaid, Inc. has begun the migration to consolidate on a single integration technology platform, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) 7.1.

This presentation will provide an overview of the migration project, lessons learned, and insights for other customers who may be considering a similar consolidation.

Your organization dedicates significant resources to maintain compliance across SAP and non-SAP systems without impacting business productivity. The absence of seamless integration of SAP and non-SAP systems, impacts your ability to automate and enforce common controls across application and IT landscapes, and manage risk.

The SAP-certified Novell® Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments provides a real-time, holistic view of all provisioning, access and security events across both SAP and enterprise IT infrastructure. Get added value from your SAP investments while enhancing organizational efficiency, compliance and security.

Join industry experts Rick Wagner, Compliance Management Product Manager, Novell and a featured guest speaker from Deloitte's Security & Privacy group as they discuss how to consistently enforce compliance across your SAP and non-SAP systems. Learn how to:

• Extend SAP GRC Access Control policy across your SAP environments.
• Reduce compliance costs by automating provisioning and access across SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Identify and remediate suspicious activity, in real-time, enterprise wide.
• Sustain compliance with company policy by ensuring that users have access to the appropriate resources—and nothing more.

When implementing operational systems, whether enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or other transactional systems, it's essential to connect the dots between new and existing data. As raw data enters operational systems, organizations must execute on a data management strategy that adds value and integrity to the data set. This is accomplished in part by ensuring data accuracy and completeness – not only at the point of entry, but through the entire information supply chain. With information management processes in place at the operational system level, all downstream activities, such as data warehousing and analytical reporting, will be able to treat data as a true corporate asset.

Attend this live Webcast to find out how SAP® BusinessObjects™ information management (IM) solutions play a critical role in building data management best practices into operational systems to alleviate the challenge of data expansion. You will learn how to:

• Integrate IM software at the onset of any solution implementation to identify and resolve data concerns before going live
• Ensure data in your sales, marketing, service, or back-office systems remains accurate, complete, and consistent
• Leverage IM processes within your systems to centrally manage business rules and monitor data on an ongoing basis

You'll also see a live software demonstration of SAP BusinessObjects data quality and data migration software. Don't miss this chance to see firsthand how you can update, validate, cleanse, and consolidate data at the point of entry or periodically to streamline, shorten, and optimize workflows. You'll also see how to access, profile, and move data to create a single version of the truth.

The SAP Central Process Scheduling application by Redwood provides sustained business value by improving the efficiency of the underlying systems that support business processes. SAP Central Process Scheduling delivers customers a solution that dynamically adapts IT workload automation to the innovation and rapid changes demanded in today's new economy.

Join this free of charge webinar to learn how SAP Central Process Scheduling will support your business through:

• Real-time response to business events
• Increased business agility
• Advanced business process automation
• Optimizing IT resources to maximize return on investment

The webinar will include the latest information on how SAP Central Process Scheduling supports advanced capabilities in SAP Financial Closing cockpit, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW). The exciting new capability to support remote monitoring and control from the iPhone mobile platform will also be discussed.

Oftentimes cost and profitability information is neither accurate enough nor sufficiently detailed to support the decisions that managers need to make to protect margins today and ensure profitable revenue growth in the future.

During this session, Mark Stevens of PCS Consulting and Richard Barrett of SAP share a 7 point checklist to help you assess your current cost and profitability capability and set out best practices for cost and profitability reporting that combines the best of SAP® ERP Financials and SAP BusinessObjects™ enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions as well as the pitfalls to avoid.

The session concludes with a day-in-the-life demonstration of how business managers can be truly empowered with better decision support by combining best practice costing methodologies with the analysis, visualization, and reporting tools in SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions.

Time and resources are always limited, but never more so than now. However, annual validation of SOX Compliance is not an option. Significant resources continue to be expended on managing this critical mandate However, with the right tools, your team can realize significant cost savings in addressing SOX compliance. In this webinar, we'll explore the following areas:

• How do you set up SAP to realize cost savings for SOX compliance?
• How do you leverage automation tools to replace and/or minimize the business expertise and time required in the validation of SOX controls?
• Can you virtualize testing and still be in compliance?

In this session you will hear how companies are now leveraging test automation to do certification of SOX application controls, significantly reducing business involvement, yet providing detailed results and work papers that make even external auditors happy. You will also learn how to use specific reporting tools to assess your current environment and determine what has changed and what needs to be tested, helping to manage your controls environment more efficiently and effectively. This webinar will demonstrate how the application of specific tools can streamline your company's annual SOX compliance and give you a positive return on your investment.

If you've made significant investments in SAP and you're running on a Microsoft platform, we are hosting an event you absolutely do not want to miss.

Why? There's a high probability that you're underutilizing your IT power.  Because few systems integrators deeply understand SAP AND deeply understand Microsoft, solutions are usually implemented in "silos." Customers are left with an IT infrastructure that doesn't live up to its potential, one that only takes advantage of a fraction of its capability.

The solutions from SAP and Microsoft have been developed to provide a deeply integrated experience for customers.  Join the interoperability experts from Hitachi Consulting, SAP and Microsoft, as we help you understand:

• When to connect the two platforms (and when NOT to!)
• How real-life customers have gained advantages from interoperability
• How the user experience changes
• The areas that get the most benefit from integration of information (mobility, business intelligence, collaboration, etc.)
• Tips for getting started

In today's climate you are forced to do more with less. In this challenging situation, traditional IT approaches often do not scale to meet growing stakeholder demands. Systematic IT process optimization is needed. And when IT budgets are cut without warning, IT optimization needs to deliver almost immediate payback.

How can IT best prepare its business for the future today? How can IT realize immediate IT savings?

Hear from David Dea, Senior Manager, Applications, Peabody Energy, about how the world's largest private-sector coal company has successfully consolidated mainframe, client-server and third party applications and optimized IT operations with the right tools and methodologies like SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood.

Discover best practices to:

• Improve control and reduce costs by centralizing IT process management across SAP and non-SAP systems
• Deliver optimized business processes through better process orchestration
• Ensure best practices to optimize end-to-end IT management

SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood is only one of several leading IT Optimization offerings that can all be deployed independently and quickly. All are part of an end-to-end IT optimization offering and strategy leading to significant IT savings with a fast return on investment.

Learn how companies in your industry are improving service levels and increasing their Return on Capital Employed. Hear about how companies in the Chemical, Life Science, Consumer Products and High Tech industries are using SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization to achieve their goals. During this webcast you will hear these success stories and more, as Joel Hooker from Eastman Chemical Company talks about their inventory optimization journey.

Using SmartOps, companies such as Eastman Chemical Company, Celestica, Hewlett-Packard, Wyeth, Schering-Plough, Kellogg, ConAgra, Unilever and many others have achieved significant benefits including:

• 10% - 25% reduction in inventory
• 20% - 30% reduction in inventory carrying cost
• 3% - 5% increase in order fill rates and on-time delivery
• 10% - 25% reduction in lost sales
• Payback on their SmartOps project in less than 12 months

Companies that are prepared for the future are finding ways to free up capital that can be used for strategic initiatives.

Depending on your industry and business environment, there are several key drivers for implementing a WMS. Some companies may need a WMS to help them improve warehouse space utilization, some to improve inventory and shipping accuracy, some to improve order and inventory visibility, some for customer compliance, and of course some to help manage the ever growing labor costs. It is important to be able to identify and quantify the benefits that are most important to your organization.

For a company that is running the SAP ERP solution, justifying a WMS can be an easier task with the improved enterprise visibility that is enabled with the integrated solution. There are also many benefits when leveraging an existing SAP support organization and internal resources.

You will learn about:

• Industry trends in WMS solutions and industry requirements
• The benefits of implementing SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) depend on your existing systems. InfoLogix will review the most common scenarios and the key areas for developing your justification
• How to quantify the benefits of a single platform solution, leveraging your existing SAP investment
• Review of the best practices for developing a business case and how to establish buy in from operations and management

Organizations today need to think big - to break down their information silos and get a holistic view of their organization's content via an Enterprise-wide content management strategy. Join our presenters as they discuss the enterprise wide implementation by McKesson Corporation of SAP Archiving, Document Access, and Content Dependent business processes such as AP Invoice Processing, AR Lockbox Processing and Travel Expense Processing solutions by Open Text. Learn how McKesson is able to:

• Reduce operational and support costs
• Reduce response times
• Manage growth
• Lower backup and restore time

Companies run on people making business decisions. Does everyone in your organization have the power of real-time business answers in their hands so they can make informed decisions and take action now?

Business analysis must offer simplicity that delivers instant, one-click business answers for all users without having to depend on IT and power users. More and more organizations that run SAP solutions now sprint to business answers with QlikView.

Join us for this webinar and learn how to:

• Develop powerful analyses, reports and dashboards – seamlessly integrating all available data from SAP and other systems – with drill-down access in just a few clicks.
• Deploy and update applications to tens or thousands of users from desktop to laptop to browser to mobile – with anywhere accessibility and reliable security.
• Explore information intuitively to spark the insights you need to act, or investigate down to the lowest detail, for answers in an instant.
• Collaborate through shared applications and findings while integrating analysis directly with your other desktop applications for unparalleled productivity.

While automating the application testing process provides benefits in terms of time and cost savings, automation in the absence of a quality management process can merely result in doing the wrong things faster. SAP and HP will present how their comprehensive quality management solutions address the key issues that improve the quality and reduce the time, cost and risk of deploying or maintaining SAP applications.

• Quality Management – Addressing the entire quality process from requirements, releases, test cycles, and risk based testing through defect management
• Lifecycle support - Functional and Performance verification
• Cross functional Collaboration support for Quality Process

Join us for this informative webcast to learn more about SAP LoadRunner by HP, SAP Quality Center by HP and the SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization application. Also, see first-hand how these solutions work together with your SAP Solution Manager to provide a robust, integrated end-to-end quality solution.

Learn how one of the world's largest medical research centers, Baylor Colleges of Medicine, is successfully running a custom application for handheld devices based on the latest version of SAP NetWeaver Mobile. This custom solution was designed, developed, and deployed by InfoLogix for Baylor's Wireless Asset Tracking System (WATS).

Paul Sammons from Baylor and Kim Obermair from InfoLogix will discuss the solution that was developed for Baylor as an SAP NetWeaver 7.1 ramp-up project, enabling them to capture and record data in real-time, automatically uploading the latest identification and location information into the organization’s tracking system.

Breakthroughs in automation are letting IT departments like yours slash days off the time required for SAP system copy—freeing up valuable resources for other projects.

Learn how companies are blasting through SAP system copy jobs, keeping all systems fully in sync with production.

• How to take hours, not days to point the index, allocations, and data of a copied system in the right direction
• How to harness the power of parallel processing, pulling time and resources away from creating system copies—and putting them right where you need them
• How to render the system copy process up to 90 percent automated
• How to comply with corporate governance and audit requirements, providing test and quality assurance departments with production images

UC4 automates SAP processes together with other non-SAP processes for even greater efficiency.

Organizations are expected and required to develop business cases for any software selection and implementation. The current business environment means these business cases are coming under increased scrutiny prior to management approval. The recognition and quantification of benefits is particularly difficult when many are intangible. This webinar will focus on the framework and functionality of SAP Process Control and highlight specific examples of benefits that can be translated into the business case.

This webinar will provide you with:

• An overview of the core functionality of the SAP Solutions for GRC and the linkages between components
• An understanding of the functionality of SAP GRC Process Control and specifically where the benefits to the organization are derived (for example increased productivity)
• Lessons learned from automating risk management and compliance activities including automated application control testing
• Tips on developing a sound business case, what to include and how to present it to management