With many indus­try changes and chal­lenges occur­ring, it is impor­tant to con­tin­ue to come togeth­er to learn. 

Join us on April 27 for our ASUG Express: Util­i­ties Insights 2021 vir­tu­al event to gain access to SAP util­i­ty experts, build new indus­try con­nec­tions, and learn about cut­ting-edge solu­tions that will help you enhance your exist­ing enter­prise. We will also help you gain a bet­ter under­stand­ing of how you can ​“sweat your exist­ing SAP assets,” dri­ve more val­ue, and reduce costs. We will also share key insights from the 2020 ASUG Best Prac­tices: SAP Indus­try vir­tu­al event that includ­ed a focus on utilities. 

Key top­ics that we will cov­er include: 

• With trans­for­ma­tion hap­pen­ing with the util­i­ty indus­try, learn how you can pre­pare for the future.
• Get the lat­est updates from SAP’s util­i­ty indus­try busi­ness unit.
• Learn about RISE with SAP and what util­i­ty cus­tomers need to know.
• Hear util­i­ty cus­tomer sto­ries of tran­si­tion and value.
• Gain key Insights from last year’s ASUG Best Prac­tices: SAP for Industries.
• Extract more val­ue and reduce costs from your SAP investment.

How Util­i­ties Can Dri­ve Smarter Cities

An ener­gy rev­o­lu­tion is under­way. In addi­tion to an accel­er­a­tion in renew­able ener­gy adop­tion, a new gen­er­a­tion of home and busi­ness own­ers are demand­ing greater con­trol over their ener­gy man­age­ment and a deep­er under­stand­ing of its use. Fueled by new and low­er-cost tech­nolo­gies, smart grid, data net­works, and ana­lyt­ics, a new future of ener­gy gen­er­a­tion and use is ahead. It’s all part of the prospect of a smarter and more sus­tain­able future in the world’s urban areas. Dr. Reichen­tal’s talk pro­vides an overview of these dynam­ics and their inter­sec­tion with the future of cities.

Using SAP for Util­i­ties — A Strat­e­gy for the Intel­li­gent Utility

Util­i­ties are fac­ing chal­lenges from many dif­fer­ent direc­tions: from the emerg­ing pro­sumer to the impact of decar­boniza­tion on ener­gy sup­ply and grid man­age­ment, and from dig­i­tal­iza­tion and its increased secu­ri­ty threads to mar­ket and reg­u­la­to­ry changes. Meet­ing those chal­lenges, trans­form­ing the util­i­ty to thrive in this envi­ron­ment requires clear strate­gic pri­or­i­ties and the right set of solu­tions to sup­port this jour­ney. Learn in this ses­sion what impacts we see on util­i­ties and what SAP can offer you to mas­ter them.

How Lead­ing Util­i­ties Are Plug­ging in AI-Pow­ered Test­ing to Improve Cus­tomer Expe­ri­ence and Speed Innovation

In this ses­sion, AGL Ener­gy will share how they are pow­er­ing their $300 mil­lion Cus­tomer Expe­ri­ence trans­for­ma­tion project by:

• Shrink­ing SAP test­ing times through automation
• Accel­er­at­ing SAP updates from quar­ter­ly to month­ly and even dai­ly releases
  
• Adopt­ing tools to inte­grate SAP test­ing into their CI/CD pipelines

Fire­side Chat with AES on Their SAP S/4HANA Jour­ney and RISE with SAP

Join us for a sit-down con­ver­sa­tion with Ale­jan­dro Reyes from AES Cor­po­ra­tion and Bhagya Sub­bared­dy from SAP, and learn more about AES’ jour­ney to cloud lever­ag­ing RISE with SAP offer­ings and SAP S/4HANA.

Why Nebras­ka Pub­lic Pow­er Dis­trict Decid­ed This Year Was the Time to Move to SAP S/4 HANA 

NPPD is tak­ing action on its ini­tia­tives to sim­pli­fy, stan­dard­ize, and inno­vate by mov­ing its SAP ERP and ISU to SAP S/4HANA. Join this ses­sion to hear about its trans­for­ma­tion jour­ney and the key deci­sions made along the way, including:

• NPPD’s three-stage road map
• Busi­ness and IT collaboration 
• Key dri­ver that influ­enced the move to the cloud
• Lessons learned along the way

CISO to CISO: The 5 W’s for Suc­cess­ful & Secure SAP Transformations

SAP trans­for­ma­tions can help you extract more val­ue and reduce costs from your SAP invest­ments, but for them to be suc­cess­ful, orga­ni­za­tions must address secu­ri­ty from the start. Join the for­mer CISO of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Edi­son, Glenn Had­dox, and the for­mer CISO of Fos­sil, Jason Fruge, as they dis­cuss the who, what, when, where, why, and how regard­ing secur­ing SAP trans­for­ma­tions. Learn from their first­hand expe­ri­ences with build­ing SAP cyber­se­cu­ri­ty pro­grams to pro­tect their crit­i­cal sys­tems — what events to pre­pare for when approach­ing the board, how to eval­u­ate part­ners, and what chal­lenges they faced so you can avoid them. 

You’ll walk away with a check­list for suc­cess­ful SAP trans­for­ma­tions, including:

• Essen­tial items and areas to bud­get for
• Best prac­tices to fol­low and how to build a cyber­se­cu­ri­ty pro­gram for SAP
• Com­pli­ance impli­ca­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly SOX and how to imple­ment controls
• Tests to per­form before going live and first­hand ​“lessons learned.”
• What you need to know about SAP RISE and how it affects util­i­ty customers

As an attendee, you will have oppor­tu­ni­ties to pro­vide feed­back and ask ques­tions through­out the event. Please take advan­tage of this chance to engage with us dur­ing this dialogue.

If you have a suc­cess sto­ry to share, a non­mem­ber who would like to reg­is­ter, or are inter­est­ed in spon­sor­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties, please email us at asugexpress@​asug.​com.

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