Application Life-cycle Management SIG (Enhancement Packs and Upgrades Theme)

This SIG is to be held on Thursday 14th July 2011 at SAP Clockhouse Place, nr Heathrow the SIG will be sponsored by Atos Origin and Intellicorp.

Joerg Rudat from SAP AG will deliver the session Drive accelerated innovation via SAP ERP 6.0

• Upgrades and SAP Enhancement Packages

John Dinwoodie fromSAP UK will present Get started with SAP Enhancement Packages

• Technology
•  Implementation (Demo)
•  Customer‘s experiences and Best Practices

Joerg Rudat from SAP AG will present SAP offerings to accelerate innovations

• SAP Solution Browser, Business Function Prediction, Innovation Roadmaps and others

Joerg Rudat from SAP AG will present the session Innovate your business with SAP Business Suite

• Overview
•  Examples SAP Business Suite 7 Innovation 2010 

Chris Trueman from Intellicorp will deliver on behalf of Coca Cola Best practices from The Coca Cola Company in leveraging technology for improving change management across a complex SAP Landscape
Three Key Learning Points:

1. Effective change management across complex SAP landscapes
2.  How to leverage innovative technologies to improve SAP ALM
3.  How to avoid common pitfalls when introducing change to your SAP landscape

The IT department at The Coca-Cola Company is advanced in leveraging innovative technologies to improve operations. Understand why it has made technology a standard practice in its SAP ALM strategy. With IT struggling to balance project and time management effectively, the business was being put at risk. Find out how Coca-Cola moved to a pro-active approach to change management, allowing them to introduce high volume change quickly and with minimal effort or impact on the business. Hear how Coca Cola experience resource savings of between 30-40% and a 98% reduction in effort.

In the afternoon we will be delivering the following 3 Breakout Sessions:

Breakout Session 1: James Willis from SAP UK will deliver New Function in FINANCE (EhP 5) 

Breakout Session 2: Lucy Withnall from SAP UK will present New Functions in HCM (EhP 5)

Breakout session 3: SAP Upgrades: Why, When and How to achieve Success

Hillary Mason from Atos Origin will present this Breakout Session. Sharing over 8 years of SAP upgrade hands on project experience, this presentation will cover why you should upgrade, when you should upgrade, and give practical tips on how to achieve a successful SAP upgrade project.   

Hillary Mason from Atos is happy to provide a free upgrade awareness session to discuss a customers specific upgrade requirements, and would be happy to run such a session at any organisation considering upgrade. If you would like to get in touch with Hillary,this can be arranged. Please see the contact details below:

Hilary Mason
SAP Upgrade Solution Lead
T +44 (0)1928 598934
M +44 (0)7733 313274
1 Evendon Close
Manor Park
Runcorn
WA7 1SH
 

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