As is our tra­di­tion, ASUG will present sev­er­al pre-con­fer­ence sem­i­nars in advance of SAP Sap­phire and ASUG Annu­al Con­fer­ence in Orlan­do, giv­ing atten­dees valu­able oppor­tu­ni­ties to deep dive and strate­gize with SAP peers and experts ahead of the famous­ly mile-a-minute flag­ship conference.

Intend­ed to set atten­dees up for suc­cess in max­i­miz­ing their learn­ing and net­work­ing poten­tial through­out the rest of the con­fer­ence, ASUG’s pre-con­fer­ence sem­i­nars con­sist of full-day ses­sions (from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.) and half-day ses­sions (from 8 – 12 p.m. or 1 – 5 p.m.), all on May 15. 

In pre­sent­ing these sem­i­nars, ASUG seeks to cre­ate a space for atten­dees to meet with peers, build their knowl­edge base, pur­sue con­tin­u­ous edu­ca­tion, and facil­i­tate future peer-to-peer meet­ings and net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties. In past years, sem­i­nars have also pro­vid­ed exclu­sive first-look updates on SAP prod­uct releas­es, serv­ing as an inside track for atten­dees eager to make the most of their vis­it to Orlan­do. In this way, ASUG’s pre-con­fer­ence sem­i­nars reflect its core mis­sion to help its mem­bers get the most val­ue out of their exist­ing SAP tech­nol­o­gy investments.

Atten­dees can select their sem­i­nar by key top­ic areas such as SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form, Sup­ply Chain, Human Expe­ri­ence, Cus­tomer Expe­ri­ence, Cloud ERP, and Busi­ness Process Trans­for­ma­tion. Below, here’s your first look at the full line­up, ordered by top­ic area:

SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Platform

• Fast Track Your Move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form (Full Day, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Learn how to seam­less­ly inte­grate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with appli­ca­tions in your land­scape to achieve 360-degree insights with a sin­gle, con­nect­ed platform
  • Under­stand how to extend SAP S/4HANA Cloud to accel­er­ate inno­va­tion with a clean dig­i­tal core
  • Sem­i­nar con­sists of a morn­ing ses­sion (“Fast Track Your Move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form”) and three choose-your-own-adven­ture-style after­noon ses­sion tracks, not­ed below

• Track 1: Cre­ate SAP S/4HANA Exten­sions Using ABAP Cloud and SAP Build (Hands On, Half Day, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Devel­op an ABAP Rest­ful Appli­ca­tion Pro­gram­ming Mod­el (RAP) ser­vice as a cus­tom exten­sion to the SAP S/4HANA offer­ing with­in ABAP Cloud on SAP S/4HANA
  • Using this ser­vice, cre­ate an appli­ca­tion and a process using SAP low-code appli­ca­tion devel­op­ment and automa­tion offer­ing SAP Build on the SAP BTP
  • Learn how pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ers in an ABAP envi­ron­ment and cit­i­zen devel­op­ers in SAP Build can col­lab­o­rate to con­struct pow­er­ful exten­sions to SAP S/4HANA0

• Track 2: Uni­fied Data and Ana­lyt­ics with SAP Data­s­phere and SAP Ana­lyt­ics Cloud (Hands On, Half Day, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Get hands-on expe­ri­ence with SAP Data­s­phere, data mod­el­ing, data flows, ana­lyt­i­cal mod­el­ing, SAP Ana­lyt­ics Cloud, visu­al­iza­tion, and pre­dic­tive scenarios
  • Learn how to enable a Busi­ness Data Fab­ric across enter­prise data stores, elim­i­nate data dupli­ca­tion, and under­stand how BW Bridge can help you tran­si­tion from BW or BW/4HANA to SAP Datasphere
• Track 3: Get Your Hands-On SAP Inte­gra­tion Suite: The World-Class Inte­gra­tion Plat­form (Hands On, Half Day, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Bet­ter under­stand SAP Inte­gra­tion Suite and its role in ful­fill­ing all enter­prise inte­gra­tion requirements
  • Learn more about appli­ca­tion inte­gra­tion, API-led inte­gra­tions, async/event-based inte­gra­tion, data inte­gra­tion, and non-SAP integration 

SAP S/4HANA

• Auto­mate Your Finance Process­es with SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Half Day, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
  • Under­stand the breath and depth of finance capa­bil­i­ties in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, includ­ing record-to-report, finan­cial plan­ning, quote-to-cash, trea­sury, embed­ded com­pli­ance, and sus­tain­able finance
  • Hear from cus­tomers about their finance trans­for­ma­tions with SAP
  • Hear from SAP S/4HANA finance experts about the cur­rent scope and future roadmap
• RISE with SAP: A Guid­ed Jour­ney to Dri­ve Our Busi­ness Trans­for­ma­tion (Half Day, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Get a com­plete overview of RISE with SAP and the unique val­ue it can bring to your organization
  • Explore the end-to-end jour­ney from busi­ness process trans­for­ma­tion to con­tin­u­ous innovation
  • Under­stand how you can deploy SAP S/4HANA Cloud and evolve to a clean core
  • Hear direct­ly from cus­tomers about their expe­ri­ences with RISE with SAP

SAP Sig­navio

• Accel­er­ate and De-Risk Your Busi­ness Process Trans­for­ma­tions: Build Enter­prise Resilience to Change (Hands On, Full Day, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Learn about the ingre­di­ents for a suc­cess­ful busi­ness process trans­for­ma­tion and how SAP Sig­navio offers them on a Cloud-based plat­form for busi­ness process management
  • Hear from trans­for­ma­tion lead­ers whose com­pa­nies are lever­ag­ing SAP Sig­navio solu­tions to estab­lish a data-dri­ven con­tin­u­ous improve­ment cul­ture across the organization
  • Expe­ri­ence hands-on the SAP Sig­navio solu­tions, method­ol­o­gy, and val­ue accel­er­a­tors to help you dri­ve suc­cess­ful busi­ness process transformations

Human Expe­ri­ence Management

• Under­stand the Key Aspects of SAP Suc­cess­Fac­tors Employ­ee Cen­tral for a Suc­cess­ful Imple­men­ta­tion (Half Day, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Learn how to increase work­force pro­duc­tiv­i­ty with pow­er­ful self-service
  • Under­stand secu­ri­ty con­cepts for sen­si­tive data

Cus­tomer Experience

• From Start to Fin­ish: Inno­vate Your Cus­tomer Expe­ri­ence (Full Day, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Gain knowl­edge of the SAP cus­tomer expe­ri­ence (CX) suite of solu­tions to meet front- and back-office goals
  • Under­stand how to adopt and tran­si­tion to sus­tain­able busi­ness models
  • Learn how One Office can add val­ue with a com­plete end-to-end dig­i­tal solution
  • Explore Com­pos­able CX to com­ple­ment and extend exist­ing CRM/CX solutions
  • Under­stand how to con­tribute to zero waste, zero inequal­i­ty, and zero emissions

Sup­ply Chain

• SAP Dig­i­tal Man­u­fac­tur­ing: Solu­tion Deep-Dive and Roadmap (Half Day, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
  • Learn about the inte­grat­ed roadmap for Ser­vice Man­age­ment solu­tions from SAP
  • Under­stand capa­bil­i­ties in SAP Ser­vice Cloud, SAP S/4HANA Ser­vice, SAP Field Ser­vice Man­age­ment, and SAP Ser­vice and Asset Manager
  • Hear about cus­tomer use cas­es and val­ue dri­vers for ser­vice transformation

• Achiev­ing a Risk-Resilient and Sus­tain­able Sup­ply Chain from Design-to-Oper­ate (Half Day, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Learn how to address sup­ply chain challenges 
  • Gain insight into SAP sup­ply chain solu­tions that span the entire Design-to-Operate
  • Learn about the ben­e­fits of accel­er­at­ed sup­ply chain digitalization
  • Under­stand best prac­tices in cre­at­ing dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed cross-func­tion­al processes

Enter­prise Architecture

• SAP Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture Update: Resources, Tools, and Frame­works for Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion (Half Day, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
  • Get the tools you need to suc­ceed with the SAP EA Frame­work and content
  • Hear the EA per­spec­tive for dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion through busi­ness-process mod­el­ing with SAP Signavio
  • Learn about evolv­ing EA think­ing for the Cloud — SAP ref­er­ence archi­tec­ture as it applies to liv­ing in a mul­ti­cloud world
  • Learn how to archi­tect SAP solu­tions to sup­port sus­tain­abil­i­ty initiatives

Cyber Secu­ri­ty

• Run Secure with SAP (Half Day, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
  • Under­stand how SAP address­es secu­ri­ty at a holis­tic enter­prise lev­el and what this means for your business
  • SAP Cloud Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy, how to address key secu­ri­ty con­cepts, such as Cloud Secu­ri­ty and Zero Trust
  • Hear from SAP senior lead­er­ship on the future of secur­ing the SAP ecosystem

Pre-con­fer­ence sem­i­nar details sourced from leads Vikas Lod­ha, Ido Shamhat, Pat­tab­hi Ped­din­ti, Olivi­er Bare, Seema Kesser­ling, Alex Karim, Diane Pick­ett, Car­los Por­tillo, Sandy Markin, Anne Mar­i­oe Colom­bo, Erin Hugh­es, and Mar­tin Mysik.