ASUG mem­bers have a robust array of in-per­son and vir­tu­al events to attend this year, includ­ing the first-of-its-kind 2023 ASUG Best Prac­tices: SAP S/4HANA and SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form (BTP) con­fer­ence.

The com­bo event will spot­light SAP cus­tomer orga­ni­za­tion speak­ers and solu­tion updates in the March pro­gram. The agen­da is under­go­ing care­ful cura­tion by the Con­fer­ence Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee, which includes sub­ject mat­ter experts, SAP lead­ers, and ASUG staff. Com­mit­tee par­tic­i­pants share insights on the con­fer­ence work-in-progress.

In this first in a series of ​“Insid­er Insights,” Vin­cent Petit offered a recap on his con­tri­bu­tions to com­mit­tee work to date, what con­tent will be of par­tic­u­lar inter­est and val­ue, and why the ASUG com­mu­ni­ty should attend. Petit said he brings not only his views from his Inch­cape day job but also offers expe­ri­ences from events and con­tent with SAP user groups in the U.K and Europe in his com­mit­tee work.

For Petit, the SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP pro­gram­ming will pro­vide mean­ing­ful learn­ing and net­work­ing opportunities. 

“Inch­cape is look­ing to move towards an S/4HANA trans­for­ma­tion now that the Rise with SAP project is com­ing to an end,” he not­ed. ​“I see the con­fer­ence as a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to not only under­stand more about S/4HANA but also ben­e­fit from the expe­ri­ence of oth­er SAP cus­tomers. I also want to explore how to make the most of BTP.”

Petit char­ac­ter­ized the con­fer­ence as ​“a fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn, to under­stand what is new in the SAP world, and to ben­e­fit from SAP cus­tomers’ experiences.

“This is about cre­at­ing a com­mu­ni­ty bound by tech­nol­o­gy and how it can sup­port growth and effi­cien­cy in a fast-mov­ing tech­no­log­i­cal ecosys­tem,” he added.

For indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions con­sid­er­ing event atten­dance, Petit pin­point­ed the val­ue propo­si­tion. Why attend? For Petit, the rea­sons include the following:

• Direct inter­ac­tions with SAP tech­nol­o­gy and solu­tion experts
• Infor­ma­tion on the evolv­ing tech­nol­o­gy world in gen­er­al and the SAP ecosys­tem in particular
• Great learn­ing opportunities
• Fan­tas­tic networking

Vin­cent Petit is ERP & Finance Sys­tems IT Direc­tor with Inch­cape Dig­i­tal and a mem­ber of the Con­fer­ence Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee. Inch­cape was one of the first ear­ly adopters of RISE with SAP, mov­ing its cur­rent ECC envi­ron­ments to the cloud. He said he sees the move to the cloud and man­aged tech­ni­cal ser­vices of our ECC envi­ron­ments as a first step towards S/4HANA. Petit not­ed Inch­cape is cur­rent­ly shift­ing to a wider adop­tion of BTP.