Virtual SAPPHIRE NOW 2012

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May 112012
 

Watch SAPPHIRE NOW keynotes and customer-sessions Live on May 14-17.

SAP KEYNOTES: SAP executives share their vision for using SAP solutions to transform your business and run like never before. Log on to watch our keynote broadcasts online from Orlando, Florida.

  • Monday, May 14, 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m. EDT — SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott
  • Tuesday, May 15, 8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. EDT – SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe and Lars Dalgaard, member of SAP Executive Board
  • Wednesday, May 16, 8:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. EDT — Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board, and Vishal Sikka, member of SAP Executive Board, Technology and Innovation

Press Virtual Activites:

  • Tuesday, May 15, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.  EDT — Co-CEO Q&A with Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe
  • Wednesday, May 16, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.  EDT — Executive Q&A with Vishal Sikka, member of SAP Executive Board, Technology and Innovation

View SAPPHIRE NOW From Orlando Online

You can also watch live events – such as campus keynote speeches and customer-driven sessions – streamed live from the SAPPHIRE NOW broadcast centers and campus theaters. Share your favorite sessions with colleagues, view the most popular discussions from Orlando, or watch especially valuable presentations again, all at your convenience. All sessions broadcast online (except microforum, demo stations and discussion tables) will be available as replays – most within 24 hours. You can even build a playlist for replays.

Please register in advance to access the online platform for SAPPHIRE NOW from Orlando. If you are attending the event in Orlando, use your SAPPHIRE NOW registration name and password to access the online assets. For more information, visit www.sapphirenow.com.

SAP Database & Mobile Strategy – Collection of Content

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Apr 132012
 

Upon announcing SAP’s database and mobile strategy on April 10 a burst of information about what this means went viral. In this post I hope to capture a lot of that content.

- Press Conference Recording: Let’s start the content with what SAP actually announced. Stick around to the end of the recording and listen to a great Q&A session.

- Additional Perspectives: Read what others outside of SAP have to say about SAP’s database and mobile strategies

- SAP’s Database Vision: David Lahl responsible for Sybase database marketing writes a post about what SAP’s database strategy means to its customers

- Questions & Answers: Follow #SAPQA on twitter. This was a Q&A session set-up after the press conference to answer additional questions people had about SAP’s database strategy

- Press Releases:

    • SAP to Acquire Syclo: Read more about this planned acquisition with the leading provider of mobile applications & technologies
    • SAP Database Strategy: SAP announced the full integration of Sybase and unveiled the company’s vision for the SAP real-time data platform, comprising the SAP HANA platform, Sybase data management offerings and SAP solutions for enterprise information management (EIM).
    • SAP Mobile Strategy: SAP announced agreements with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha to provide customers with an open mobile apps development framework

SAP 2012 Event Calendar

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Mar 222012
 

SAP has a full event calendar this year.  If you want to plan ahead take note of the listed events below, which includes SAPPHIREs, TechEds, SAP earnings day and more. Go to the SAP events page to see all of SAP upcoming and past events.

Year Round Events:

  • SAP Forum Events, February – October, Global
    SAP holds regional conferences called the SAP Forums, which brings SAP closer to its customers.  The Forums offer focused interactive presentation and discussions, customer-driven content.  Replays of keynotes and sessions are available after each event.

April Events:

  •  SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week, April 17 – 19, Palo Alto, California
    Learn how to deploy and manage SAP applications within cloud and virtual environments using best practices, customer experience, and the latest strategic developments to guide your way. The keynote will be broadcasted live and sessions will be recorded.
  •  SAP Q1 Earnings, April 25, Conference Call
    Join SAP when they announce their Q1 earnings.  The press conference will be broadcasted live and recorded.

 May Events:

  •  SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference, May 14 – 16, 2012, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida
    SAPPHIRE NOW gives participants the opportunity to learn and network with customers, SAP executives, partners, and experts across the entire SAP ecosystem. SAPPHIRE NOW will be live and recorded on SAP’s virtual platform.

July Events:

  • SAP Q2 Earnings, Tuesday, July 24, Conference Call
    Join SAP when they announce their Q2 earnings.  The press conference will be broadcasted live and recorded.

 October Events:

  • SAP TechEd Las Vegas, October 15 – 19, The Venetian, Palazzo Congress Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
    SAP TechEd is the premier technical conference offering over 1,000 hours on SAP platform technologies.
  •  SAP Q3 Earnings, Wednesday, October 24, Conference Call
    Join SAP when they announce their Q3 earnings.  The press conference will be broadcasted live and recorded.

November Events:

  • SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd Madrid, November 13­­­­ – 15, Madrid, Spain
    SAPPHIRE NOW gives participants the opportunity to learn and network with customers, SAP executives, partners, and experts across the entire SAP ecosystem. SAPPHIRE NOW will be live and recorded on SAP’s virtual platform.  SAP TechEd is the premier technical conference offering over 1,000 hours on SAP platform technologies.
  • SAP TechEd Bangalore, November 28 – 30, KTPO Trade Center, Bangalore, India
    SAP TechEd is the premier technical conference offering over 1,000 hours on SAP platform technologies.
  • SAP TechEd China, November 4 – 5, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China
    SAP TechEd is the premier technical conference offering over 1,000 hours on SAP platform technologies.

 

2013 Events:

  • SAP Q4 Earnings, Wednesday 23, 2013, Conference Call
    Join SAP when they announce their Q4 earnings.  The press conference will be broadcasted live and recorded.

 

 

 

Winning through Innovation with SAP’s Sanjay Poonen

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Mar 122012
 

SAP’s Sanjay Poonen, president & corporate office, global solutions  will be giving a keynote at the SAP Insider event for financials, HR and GRC on Tuesday, March 13 from 11:30am-1:00pm EST.  If you know Sanjay you know that he feels strongly about investing in people. During his keynote he will speak specifically about companies that nurture talent and innovations can be risk adverse and experience stronger returns.

His keynote will span technologies, such as analytics, applications, database & technology, mobility and cloud computing  for enabling employees to make better decisions for overall business success. He will discuss:

  • Financials and HR best practices via customer examples
  • The announcement of  SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solution available on SAP HANA. Checkout John Appleby’s latest post about BPC on HANA, The Realtime Organisation – Planning when you need it with SAP BPC on HANA
  • Show sample mobile apps for HR professionals
  • The mobilization of governance, risk and compliance solutions

Please join the keynote live to hear first-hand about these innovations.

You can follow the event at:

#HR2012
#FINANCIALS2012
#GRC2012

 

In Zero to 60 Seconds People Can…

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Feb 012012
 

A colleague shared this slide with me and I was amazed by how much can be achieved; well I guess that might not be the right term. Maybe a better term is bought/created/consumed in just 60 seconds. I know we depend on technology, but WOW this much!  I guess everything else takes too much time. As I sit at my desk, I look outside to the beautiful sunshine and unusual warm temperature and have the urge to go outside to play ball with my dogs.  It might take more than 60 seconds, but I feel it would be just as or more fulfilling than using technology.  Everyone needs to take a break and let their eyes adjust to natural light. But of course I must wait until the work day is over.

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Varian Medical Expects to Save with SAP

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Jan 252012
 

SAP and customer Varian Medical Systems hosted an event, unfortunately we do not have a recording.  The customer spoke about how they are using SAP to support their sustainability and compliance efforts. Varian is doing this by understanding the chemical composition of its products for redesigning them, eliminating hazardous substances and compling with regulations such as RoHS and REACH. 

By re-engineering their products at a much faster pace (down from 18 to five days), Varian is expecting they will save 870,000 annually on ROH-S-related charges alone. In addition, the company can now safeguard its $700 million revenue exposure in the European Union from regulatory fees.

To learn more read the press release.

Brazilian Retailer to Use Cloud-based Solution to Reduce Gas Emissions

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Jan 172012
 

SAP has announced that a leading retailer, The Grupo Pão de Açúcar selected SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand solution.  I found this story interesting to blog about because the retailer is not only a leader in its industry, but also a company recognized as a sustainability leader for retailers in Latin America and globally.  This to me shows that the SAP’s carbon emission solution has what retailers need to track their carbon footprint. 

The Grupo Pão de Açúcar has been committed to sustainability best practices since 2008 by outsourcing the collection and reporting of their sustainability efforts.  With SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand solution the retailer will now bring their reporting efforts in-house to give them better operational control of their reporting efforts. 

Here is a quote from the vice president of The Grupo Pão de Açúcar

“Before selecting SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand, we used an external firm to collect and report on this information,” said Hugo Bethlem, vice president, The Grupo Pão de Açúcar. “The new solution will allow us to bring this process in-house, making it more efficient and providing us with more operational control. We will gain both valuable insight and a robust tool for proactively managing emissions and energy consumption. The Grupo Pão de Açúcar will be one of the first retail companies in Latin America to inventory its carbon emissions. From this measurement, we will be able to create plans to reduce the GHG emissions and carbon footprint of our operations.”

A benefit for selecting an ondemand solution is that the retailer is expected to be up and running with SAP Carbon Impact by early 2012 in 1,832 stores!!!

Read more about the story

SAP World Tours in North America

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Sep 192011
 

It is that time of year again that the SAP World Tours get around to North America

The theme for the SAP World Tour’s, “Business In The Moment” is where participants will experience SAP HANA, business analytics and mobility. If you could not attend SAPPHIRE NOW the World Tours are the next best event to get access to SAP innovations, customers and executives.  The tours are also virtual at World Tour – Virtual Attendance (Oct. 20).
These FREE tours are coming to a city near you:
  • World Tour – Chicago (Oct. 5) Hear keynotes from Bob Courteau, President, SAP North America and Gary Hamel,
  • World Tour – San Francisco (Oct. 20) This event’s key notes are anchored by Bob Courteau, President, SAP North and Guy Kawasaki. Kawasaki
  • World Tour – New York (Oct. 25) This event features a keynote by Steve Lucas, global senior executive leading Business Analytics for SAP and Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia.
  • World Tour – Toronto (Nov. 10) In Canada our three key note speakers include: Mark Aboud, responsible for SAP’s business operations in Canada, Gary Hamel and  Amanda Lang, Gemini-award winning business journalist and CBC’s senior business correspondent, reporting for its flagship nightly news program, The National.
 Each conference has a separate registration and is free!  Hope to see you there!

SAP Customers Gain Instant Access to BI Reports on iPad

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Jul 182011
 

Another mobile app from SAP BusinessObjects is available for iPads called SAP BusinessObjects Mobile. Existing customers can view their business intelligence reports, metrics and data instantly; basically giving them access to their business intelligence content.

Download it free on your iPad:  SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI for the iPad 

By touching the iPad screen a customer can go deeper in the data to see different views and scenarios. The app has received high ratings from those who downloaded and used it.

What’s more useful are demos of the app:  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB0687C7DA45DE028

SAP TechEd 2011 DEMO JAM!

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Jun 222011
 
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It’s that time of the year and the SAP TechEd Demo Jam is ramping into full force, but never fear you still have time to submit your ideas and MAYBE become one of the elite Demo Jammers yourself!

As with years in the past SAP has decided to make someone available to discuss your ideas and submission with prior to actually submitting it! So with keeping with that tradition this year you’ve got two folks stepping up to take over the process, this short podcast will give you all the information and more importantly let you know who these two guys are and when you can find out more!

Las Vegas   Bangalore  Madrid

Submissions Closing Date       8 July           5 Aug          5 Aug

Finalists Announced                 8 Aug            12 Sept       12 Sept

Demo Jam (at SAP TechED)  13 Sept           19 Oct        8 Nov

 

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