IT is under increas­ing pres­sure to deliv­er val­ue to the busi­ness, either by reduc­ing oper­at­ing costs, improv­ing agili­ty to reach new mar­kets, or both in par­al­lel. With more employ­ees work­ing remote­ly, how can you trans­form your SAP sys­tems to be eas­i­er to use, espe­cial­ly on home com­put­ers and mobile devices? And how can you build apps more quick­ly to inno­vate into new mar­kets or adjust to new busi­ness models?

Join the ASUG Seat­tle, South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, and Ontario Chap­ters for a vir­tu­al and inter­ac­tive pan­el dis­cus­sion focused on var­i­ous strate­gies for improv­ing the usabil­i­ty of SAP appli­ca­tions. We will focus on proven solu­tions that you can imple­ment with­in the next quar­ter, using resources and skills that you already have. Bring your ques­tions for the Q&A and active dis­cus­sion with our pan­elists, chap­ter lead­er­ship, and fel­low attendees.

The top­ics for Tues­day, Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. CT / 2 p.m. ET will include: 

• How good UX deliv­ers mea­sur­able busi­ness benefits
• How IT lead­ers can improve col­lab­o­ra­tion with their busi­ness coun­ter­parts to unlock hid­den value
• Exam­ples of prac­ti­cal UX trans­for­ma­tion that fit today’s busi­ness climate

Pan­elists:

• Andy Duran – Direc­tor of ERP, Los Ange­les Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege District
• Gur­jeet Dhali­w­al – Senior SAP Bus Process/​System Spe­cial­ist, Toron­to Dis­trict School Board
• Damean Chen – Man­ag­er of Enter­prise App Archi­tec­ture, Brown-Forman
• Mod­er­at­ed by Peter Spielvo­gel – Senior Direc­tor, Prod­uct Mar­ket­ing, SAP UX Engineering

Gain vis­i­bil­i­ty into the chal­lenges and suc­cess­es oth­er SAP cus­tomers are expe­ri­enc­ing, and acquire new ideas for real-world solutions. 

If you are expe­ri­enc­ing chal­lenges and would like to lead your own case study, fill out the sur­vey here. 

Think Tank Links:

Learn more about:

SAP Fiori https://​com​mu​ni​ty​.sap​.com/​t​o​p​i​c​s​/​fiori

SAP Fiori ele­ments https://​com​mu​ni​ty​.sap​.com/​t​o​p​i​c​s​/​f​i​o​r​i​-​e​l​e​ments

SAP Fiori tools https://​com​mu​ni​ty​.sap​.com/​t​o​p​i​c​s​/​f​i​o​r​i​-​e​l​e​m​e​n​t​s​/​t​o​o​l​s-faq

SAP Screen Per­sonas https://​com​mu​ni​ty​.sap​.com/​t​o​p​i​c​s​/​s​c​r​e​e​n​-​p​e​r​sonas

SAP Mobile app devel­op­ment https://​devel​op​ers​.sap​.com/​t​o​p​i​c​s​/​m​o​b​i​l​e​.html

SAPUI5 https://​sapui5​.hana​.onde​mand​.com/

SAP Busi­ness Appli­ca­tion Stu­dio https://​com​mu​ni​ty​.sap​.com/​t​o​p​i​c​s​/​b​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​-​a​p​p​l​i​c​a​t​i​o​n​-​s​tudio

Think Tank Insights:

• Andy’s lessons learned: vision, speed to deploy, staff capabilities.
• Gur­jeet’s lessons learned: (1) think about the human ele­ment — how quick­ly can the cul­ture absorb change (2) look at SAP as mix of func­tion­al­i­ty AND ease of use (3) IT is part­ner to the busi­ness — con­sid­er how to lead with inno­va­tions such as mobile first, push notifications,
• Damean’s lessons learned: (1) focus on users, not tools (2) under­stand the users — might be dif­fer­ent by region