As more orga­ni­za­tions move toward dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tions and adop­tion of intel­li­gent tech­nolo­gies, hav­ing the frame­work and tal­ent in place to archi­tect every­thing will become essen­tial to suc­cess. Orga­ni­za­tions need to have a strat­e­gy that involves data, process­es, tech­nol­o­gy, and peo­ple, and no one role is bet­ter equipped to man­age that than an enter­prise architect. 

How­ev­er, many SAP enter­prise archi­tects need to add one key new skill set that is essen­tial for mod­ern busi­ness trans­for­ma­tions: cloud skills. The cloud is quick­ly becom­ing the land­scape for inno­va­tion — the place where archi­tects can help their orga­ni­za­tions meet their increas­ing busi­ness chal­lenges, mod­ern­ize work­loads on world-class infra­struc­ture, pro­tect data with mul­ti-lay­ered secu­ri­ty, dri­ve deci­sion-mak­ing with intel­li­gent ana­lyt­ics and insights, and adopt hybrid and mul­ti-cloud infra­struc­tures with­out ven­dor lock-in. 

Please join us for a spe­cial inter­ac­tive boot camp for SAP enter­prise archi­tects. We will cov­er the fol­low­ing top­ics from the per­spec­tive of real-world enter­prise archi­tects who have learned the skills nec­es­sary to trans­form them­selves into cloud archi­tects. This three-part pro­gram with in-between self-study will cov­er the fol­low­ing topics:

Agen­da Topics:

• How to Become a Next-Gen­er­a­tion Cloud Architect
• Cloud Insights: What You Need to Know and Do
• Archi­tect­ing and Adopt­ing a Cloud Mindset
• Accel­er­ate Your Cloud Knowl­edge and Skills: On-Demand Playlist and Resources
• Liv­ing in the Cloud: New Oppor­tu­ni­ties to Accel­er­ate Inno­va­tion and Value
• Smart Ana­lyt­ics in the Cloud
• Inno­vate in the Cloud with Machine Learn­ing and Arti­fi­cial Intelligence

Part 3: New Oppor­tu­ni­ties to Accel­er­ate Inno­va­tion and Value 

Intro­duc­tion and What We’ve Learned so Far
Paul Kurchi­na – Com­mu­ni­ty Builder and Evan­ge­list, ASUG

Liv­ing in the Cloud: Cus­tomer Sto­ry of New Val­ue at New Speed and Reduced Cost

Smart Ana­lyt­ics in the Cloud
Danielle Bran­non – Part­ner Tech­ni­cal Lead, Google Cloud

SAP cus­tomers glob­al­ly are strug­gling to inno­vate, fac­ing pres­sure unlike any­thing ever expe­ri­enced. Busi­ness lead­ers are rac­ing to make data more read­i­ly avail­able through­out the orga­ni­za­tion and incor­po­rate new capa­bil­i­ties like arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) and machine learn­ing. When SAP is paired with Google Cloud it sig­nif­i­cant­ly cuts down the time and effort required to run com­plex queries over your data, allow­ing you to make improve­ments and imple­ment new ini­tia­tives rapid­ly, at a frac­tion of the cost, mean­ing no chal­lenge is ever too big, and no oppor­tu­ni­ty is missed. Join us to learn how you can unlock the poten­tial of your SAP data with Google Cloud and solve for smarter ana­lyt­ics and oth­er intel­li­gent enter­prise capabilities. 

Inno­vate in the Cloud with Machine Learn­ing and Arti­fi­cial Intelligence

Dinesh Van­da­yar – Indus­try Strate­gist, Google Cloud

McK­in­sey ana­lyzed the poten­tial of infus­ing AI into com­mon busi­ness process­es and work­flows. They eval­u­at­ed over 400 use cas­es across 19 indus­tries and 9 LoBs for Return on Invest­ment if these use cas­es were to be infused with AI/ML. Their analy­sis proved to be an eye-pop­ping $3.5T to $5.8T ROI for com­pa­nies that adopt­ed AI/ML to inform their busi­ness process­es. Our goal at Google Cloud is to democ­ra­tize AI by mak­ing it acces­si­ble, fast, and use­ful for enter­pris­es and devel­op­ers. Join us to learn how to use Google Cloud’s AI/ML plat­form and unlock the val­ue and invest­ment in SAP applications. 

Cus­tomer Presentation

Bar­ry Hen­sch– Head of Tech­nol­o­gy Enable­ment, ATB 

From Insights to Actions and Going Deep­er on Your Cloud Journey 
Paul Kurchi­na – Com­mu­ni­ty Builder and Evan­ge­list, ASUG

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