In this session, you'll discover how the worlds largest jewelry brand blends traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques, using SAP DMC to move closer to becoming a SMART FACTORY. We'll also share our current state, challenges and opportunities, and implementation highlights. Who are we? (Company profile and global footprint) Why SAP DMC Challenges and Opportunities and Implementation highlights.

You will learn:

• Why to choose SAP DMC.
• Pilot deployment learnings and implementation highlights.

Experience the power of the Joule copilot in SAP Build solutions to accelerate your development process. Dive into the latest AI features designed for developers that enable you to extend SAP S/4HANA. Explore generative AI-powered fusion development firsthand and learn how to automate processes and workflows productively with AI capabilities. 

You will: 

• Engage with the Joule copilot in SAP Build solutions to expedite your development process and enhance productivity. 
• Immerse yourself in the newest AI functionalities tailored for developers to extend SAP S/4HANA effectively. 
• Experiment with generative AI-powered fusion development to automate processes and workflows efficiently.

Explore the latest capabilities in SAP Build solutions to extend SAP S/4HANA Cloud while keeping your core clean. The extensibility wizard in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition provides direct access to various extension options both on stack and side by side on SAP Business Technology Platform. New remote function call connectivity in SAP Build enables clean core extension of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition using tier-two business application programming interfaces.

Immerse yourself in creating comprehensive intelligent applications using SAP Build solutions in this hands-on session. Gain comprehensive knowledge of full-stack development, process automation, and business site creation with SAP Build. Learn how SAP Cloud Application Programming Model is leveraged in a highly productive development environment with Joule technology. Please ensure you complete the prerequisites for this session before you arrive. Briefly, you will need an SAP BTP Trial account, specifically in the US East (VA) - AWS zone (known as "US10") and you will need to have set up SAP Build Code & SAP Build Apps. All the details can be found in the Prerequisites section of the labs content: https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-AD181/blob/main/README.md#prerequisites.  

You will: 

• Create comprehensive intelligent applications with SAP Build solutions through a hands-on session focused on full-stack development and process automation.
• Gain expertise in developing business sites and automating processes using SAP Build to enhance your application development skills. 
• Leverage the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model and Joule technology to optimize productivity in a highly efficient development environment.

Learn how to leverage interoperability between SAP’s low-code and pro-code solutions. In this session, you will learn how the graphical modeler in the development environment of SAP Build Code can be leveraged for ABAP and how your ABAP projects are integrated into the SAP Build lobby. 

You will: 

• Learn how to utilize the graphical modeler within the SAP Build Code development environment. 
• Discover how to seamlessly integrate ABAP projects into the SAP Build lobby. 
• Gain insights into optimizing your ABAP development processes by leveraging SAP's advanced tools.

Explore the transformative power of building custom mobile applications on top of SAP technology. This conference lecture will delve into innovative strategies, best practices, and real-world case studies to demonstrate how organizations can enhance efficiency, user experience, and overall business agility by tailoring mobile apps to their unique SAP landscapes.

You will learn: 

• Customization Strategies for Mobile Apps.
• User-Centric Design tips for SAP Mobile Apps.
• Emerging Technologies Impacting Integrated Mobile Apps. 
• Realizing Business Process Optimization through custom UI Development.

Learn how to develop transactional SAP Fiori apps in ABAP Cloud using ABAP RESTful application programming model supported by generative AI. Explore features such as business events for loosely coupled integration scenarios and read-only "treeviews" for displaying hierarchical data. ABAP Cloud is our comprehensive development model for building clean-core-compliant apps, services, and extensions on SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP S/4HANA, both in the cloud and on premise.

You will:

• Develop transactional SAP Fiori apps in ABAP Cloud with the ABAP RESTful application programming model, leveraging generative AI for enhanced functionality.
• Explore business events to create loosely coupled integration scenarios and utilize read-only "treeviews" for hierarchical data visualization.
• Build clean-core-compliant apps, services, and extensions on SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA, applicable to both cloud and on-premise environments.

Validating data loaded into SAP can be a daunting and labor-intensive challenge. For many organizations, traditional methods like statistical sampling or end-user reviews often result in incomplete and inconsistent validation, leaving gaps in data quality. Errors may only surface after go-live, causing costly operational disruptions, reduced profitability, or even critical delays while the data is cleansed. These challenges become even more pronounced during mergers and acquisitions, SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migrations, or first-time SAP implementations. Relying on partial data validation introduces unnecessary risk, as the "acceptable" error threshold often means settling for less-than-ideal outcomes. But what if you could validate 100% of your migrated data—quickly, reliably, and efficiently? Join us for a live demonstration of Data Validation Management (DVM), our innovative Excel add-in designed to revolutionize the data validation process. You'll see how this intuitive solution ensures complete data accuracy, eliminates manual effort, and creates clean, reliable data for testing. Don't miss this opportunity to streamline your migration process and set your organization up for long-term success with error-free SAP data.

You will:

• Eliminate manual data validation.
• 100% of your migrated data—quickly, reliably, and efficiently.
• Simple to use Excel add-in.
• Provide test teams "known good data".

Of course, testing is time consuming, but is automation the answer? Is it too good to be true? What are the vendors not telling you? 

In this session, we will discuss: 

• Can automation really replace manual testing? 
• What is the SME's role in automation?
• What about the data?  

You will learn how to ask the right questions and set realistic expectations. Leverage the experience of some of the largest companies in the world and their test automation journey.

In this high-impact 20-minute technical workshop, uncover how Worksoft's SAP GUI Converter can fast-track your SAP testing journey with automation speeds up to 70% faster than traditional methods. Designed to eliminate the burden of manual scripting, the SAP GUI Converter transforms SAP GUI transactions into fully automated, reusable tests, boosting both efficiency and test coverage across complex SAP landscapes.

Here's what to expect:

• Rapid Automation & 50% Cost Savings: Automate SAP tests in minutes, cutting test creation costs in half while ensuring high-quality, script-free workflows.
• Up to 40% Fewer Defects: Improve system reliability by catching critical issues earlier and more consistently, thanks to robust, automated end-to-end testing.
• Live Demo of Real-World Application: See the SAP GUI Converter in action with best practices for maximizing automation ROI.

Unlock the power of seamless SAP automation, free your team from repetitive tasks, and drive business agility. Don't miss this chance to discover how Worksoft's SAP GUI Converter can transform your testing strategy and deliver tangible business impact.

Discover how our customers are able to transition from manually managing a complex SAP landscape to leveraging automation for consistent and predictable operations. Catered to deliver insightful takeaways to CIOs and SAP operations leaders, this session will highlight the challenges of manual processes, the benefits of adopting AIOps, and the measurable impact of automation on reducing downtime, cutting costs, and enhancing reliability. Attendees will gain actionable insights into modernizing SAP operations, integrating with ITOM systems, and preparing for the end of SAP Solution Manager.

You will learn:

• How automation of SAP operations reduces costly downtime.
• How advanced monitoring and observability allow SAP teams to proactively deliver higher efficiency, future proofing SAP estates.
• How adopting and rolling out the Avantra AIOps platform is a key component to stabilizing and modernizing SAP operations.
• How Avantra observes the whole environment - not just the application layer but the throughout the full stack.
• How to future proof for the end of Solution Manager and understand the gaps and gotchas you may be exposed to.

Join us for an in-depth session on how RunMyJobs by Redwood empowers SAP customers to automate and orchestrate their most complex and mission-critical business processes. As the only workload automation (WLA) solution included in SAP’s RISE reference architecture, offered through SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS), RunMyJobs is purpose-built with out-of-the-box integration with SAP’s latest technologies, including RISE, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP BTP as well as other widely adoption non-SAP applications and enterprise systems.

This session, led by product experts, will showcase real-world SAP customer examples using the robust capabilities of RunMyJobs, from managing high-volume, mission-critical processes to maintaining SLA performance standards across financial closing, supply chain operations, manufacturing, large-scale data pipeline management and much more. A live demo will highlight how RunMyJobs simplifies automation across SAP and non-SAP landscapes, eliminates custom workarounds, and adheres to clean core principles. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore why SAP customers rely on RunMyJobs to orchestrate their operations, overcome complexity, and fully leverage the potential of their SAP investments.

In an era of rapid digital transformation, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has emerged as a critical strategy for enterprises seeking to optimize operational efficiency and reduce manual workload. This session explores a leading Energy company’s transformative RPA journey, demonstrating how strategic automation can drive significant business value across complex operational landscapes. The case study showcases how a Fortune 500 energy provider, serving over 7 million customers across six states, partnered with Resolve Tech Solutions to systematically identify, design, and implement RPA solutions that dramatically streamline business processes. The presentation will delve into the comprehensive approach taken by the Energy company, beginning with an innovative RPA roadshow and conducting detailed mini-sessions to map out repeatable, time-consuming processes across business units. Leveraging deep SAP expertise and a Center of Excellence model, the organization successfully transitioned from a single bot to a robust automation ecosystem comprising over 10 bots managing 45+ business processes. The session will highlight the critical success factors, including technical acumen, process understanding, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Participants will gain insights into the tangible outcomes of this RPA implementation, including remarkable metrics such as $16 million in cost savings, over 100,000 manual hours recovered, and the transformation of 5-hour processes to mere 15-minute automated workflows. The presentation will also address key challenges in RPA adoption, emphasizing the importance of change management, technical expertise, and dedicated post-production support in ensuring seamless technological integration. By sharing this comprehensive case study, the session aims to provide strategic insights for organizations looking to harness the power of RPA along with SAP, demonstrating how thoughtful automation can drive operational excellence, reduce costs, and create competitive advantage in today's dynamic business environment.

You will learn:

• How to Identify and Prioritize Repetitive Processes in SAP operations.
• How to Build a Center of Excellence (CoE) for RPA Implementation for SAP.
• How to Leverage Deep Technology Expertise for Seamless Integration with SAP system.
• How to measure and Communicate RPA Success Through Tangible Metrics to Leadership.

One of the main uses for SAP BTP is the idea of Keeping the Core Clean. But where do you build your extensions? On premise? On SAP BTP? The answer is not always straight forward. This is a developer focused session where are going to show you how to create a hybrid service, persisting some information in standard tables using standard services, extending them on SAP BTP using CAP, and persisting new fields in SAP HANA Cloud.

You will learn:

• Identifying scenario’s where this may or may not be a good fit for you.
• A use case of ours where this idea was developed.
• Practical code samples and code walkthrough to show you exactly what we did.
• Pros, cons, pitfalls.

Empower enterprise development and QA teams to release high-quality software quickly. See how Tricentis SeaLights blocks untested code changes from reaching production and executes only the changed based tests, for every test type and stage. With SeaLights, development and QA teams can:

• Increase speed: Shorten your testing cycles by 50%-90% by executing only relevant tests with Test Impact Analytics.
• Cut testing costs: Reduce the number of your failed tests, save cloud and infra costs, and reduce troubleshooting time.
• Increase quality: Identify and block untested code changes from production for any test stage.

Challenge:  An American leading food manufacturing conglomerate was looking to improve IT operations to shorten timelines, reduce rework and improve efficiency in the teams.  

Solution: The conglomerate achieved a significant milestone by implementing a Near Zero Downtime Refresh (NZDT) in their SAP landscape, resulting in a remarkable 90% reduction in system downtime with a click of a button. This strategic initiative of implementing AI driven unified fullstack cloud orchestration platform- Symphony, not only minimized operational disruptions but also boosted the company's business continuity and enhancing customer satisfaction. The successful execution of the NZDT process underscores the effectiveness of full stack orchestration in streamlining IT operations and ensuring seamless service delivery. advantages of operational orchestration and automation empower the team to concentrate on driving innovation and achieving operational.

You will learn:

• AI-Driven Unified Orchestration: Leveraged Symphony, a full-stack AI-driven orchestration platform, to seamlessly integrate and automate processes across.
• Significant Downtime Reduction: Achieved an impressive 90% reduction in system downtime, significantly boosting operational efficiency. 
• Enhanced Business Continuity: Maintained near-continuous service, minimizing disruptions and ensuring consistent business operations. 
• Improved Agility and Speed for competitive advantage: Enabled faster execution of critical processes, allowing the company to quickly adapt to business needs and market demands.

Antibes Sophia-Antipolis, a dynamic French city, has emerged as a leader in smart cities. This forward-thinking city has garnered international recognition, with two Smart50 Awards and a 2023 CIO of the Year title for its Chief Digital Officer (CIO). The city has adopted an ambitious green budget, aligning its financial allocations with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A partnership with industry leaders: Kyndryl, NVidia and SAP, positions Antibes as a frontrunner in pioneering responsible financial practices for a greener tomorrow. The 2024 Finance Act (implementation of the Green Administrative Account) will require identifying, within each budget allocation of municipalities with more than 3,500 inhabitants, the proportion related to each Sustainable Development Goal. For a budget consisting of several thousand lines and a dozen objectives, the workload can quickly become substantial. The City of Antibes has decided to semi-automate this tedious task with the help of artificial intelligence using SAP Joule. The strengths of this project lie in managing end-to-end security, as budgetary data is sensitive. The speed of inference is crucial because it involves comparing over 4,000 lines with 17 SDGs and assigning a percentage to each element of these 68,000 combinations, along with a priority index and the nature of the impact on the environment. The result has been extremely satisfactory, as it has saved hundreds of hours of work and costly meetings. The technical challenges of integration with Joule will be described in this session.

You will learn:

• How to select the most appropriate GenAI use case for a vertical (what LLM can do and what they cannot).
• How to setup a dataset.  
• Finetuning principles. 
• About pruning and quantizing. 
• SAP Joule integration. 
• End to end security with prompt anonymisation. 
• Tiny LLM descriptions + capabilities, and limitations
• BI restitution in end user front end.

The Hyperscaler Cloud not only provides a foundation for scalable infrastructure but also offers valuable business insights into the SAP ecosystem. In today's data-driven and AI-enabled enterprises, SAP and the Hyperscaler cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) together play a significant role in enabling the GenAI initiative for the enterprise. This session covers real-world use cases of companies leveraging GenAI to better manage their IT environment, how GenAI works with SAP, SAP's AI capabilities, the foundation and machine learning models it utilizes, integrating GenAI into the SAP ecosystem, and offerings for AI-enabling SAP Enterprise. Attendees will understand how to access SAP data using GenAI and ways it can be applied to gain advantages, learn how organizations are using GenAI to improve business processes, and how to start building a strategy around GenAI.

You will:

• Learn how Enterprises are leveraging GenAI to improve business processes.
• Understand how to access SAP data using GenAI and methods that can be applied to gain advantages. 
• Explore which SAP and Hyperscaler solutions include or can access AI capabilities.
• Receive guidance on Building a strategy around GenAI in an SAP enterprise."

"In this interactive session, participants will engage in a condensed version of SAP AppHaus' renowned Business AI Explore Workshop. Designed to inspire and identify high-value AI use cases, this hands-on experience will guide you through the process of leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Generative AI to transform your business operations. Attendees will collaborate in small groups to brainstorm, prioritize, and outline AI-driven solutions tailored to real-world challenges. By the end of the session, you will have a clear understanding of how to strategically integrate AI into your enterprise, driving innovation and enhancing business value. Whether you're new to AI or looking to expand its impact in your organization, this session provides the tools and insights needed to take the next step in your AI journey with SAP.

You will:

• Discover: Learn how to identify and prioritize AI opportunities that align with your business goals. 
• [Ideate: Engage in collaborative brainstorming to generate AI-driven solutions for your specific challenges. 
• Prototype: Outline actionable AI use cases and understand the key components needed for implementation. 
• Strategize: Gain insights into best practices for integrating AI into your business processes using SAP BTP."

Everyone's buzzing about Business AI, so let's dive into what it means for SAP Cloud ALM for Operations. In this session, Learn about the features of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations and see how Business AI is integrated now & planned use cases of Business AI in the future. Share your thoughts and feedback with SAP during the session.

You will:

• Learn about current and planned SAP Cloud ALM leverages AI use cases for Operations.
• See how SAP Cloud ALM plans to use AI for anomaly prediction and alert mitigation recommendations.

In 2008, SAP deployed the first SAP System into cloud, marking the initial step toward SAP Cloud Transformation. By 2023, Generative AI had reached a maturity level that encouraged the commencement of AI transformation in our businesses. Let's delve deeper into what is possible, how to approach AI transformation responsibly, Lemongrass's journey in this regard, and the lessons learned in bootstrapping such a massive mission. This session will include various live demonstrations and discussions on business strategy, business value, and architectural patterns.

 You will:

• Define a Company Strategy for AI. 
• Learn about Architect and Design AI inside your Business. 
• Implement AI Transformation. 
• Operate the AI (this is the Ops of AIOps).

In the ever-evolving realm of artificial intelligence, businesses continuously seek innovative solutions to boost efficiency and drive growth. This demo highlights the transformative potential of Business AI, featuring hands-on demonstrations of the SAP HANA Vector Engine with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities, and Joule integrated with SAP SuccessFactors.

You will:

• Learn about SAP HANA Vector Engine with RAG Capabilities: Delve into how the SAP HANA Vector Engine uses RAG to deliver advanced data retrieval and generation, streamlining business processes. Real-world examples illustrating improved data analysis, faster decision-making, and enhanced customer insights. 
• Understand Joule and SAP SuccessFactors Integration: Explore how Joule, integrated with SAP SuccessFactors, revolutionizes HR management by automating workflows, boosting employee engagement, and providing actionable insights. A live demo showcasing the seamless interaction between Joule and SAP SuccessFactors, emphasizing practical business benefits. 
• Participate in an interactive Workshop: Engage in a 2-hour hands-on workshop where attendees will learn to implement one of these cutting-edge AI solutions within their own systems. Step-by-step guidance and support to ensure successful deployment, providing a tangible take-away from the session.

Are you being bombarded with news about AI? Are you trying to get an understanding of how AI figures in SAP's product portfolio? Are you wondering how AI will help you in running your business in SAP in a more intelligent manner? Do you want to start your AI journey with SAP but do not know where to start? If the answer is 'yes' to all of these, then this session is for you. Get started on your SAP business AI journey by attending this session wherein I will cover all these areas.

You will:

• Get an understanding of the key AI terms & phrases.
• Get acquainted with SAP's approach to business AI.
• Obtain an overview of how SAP embeds AI in SAP cloud applications & enables Generative AI. Become acquainted with a few popular SAP AI apps.

This session aims to equip attendees with actionable knowledge to leverage SAP BTP and Gen-AI effectively for enhanced business process optimization. would focus on exploring on how SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Generative AI (Gen-AI) can be strategically applied to enhance Customer’s SAP business processes. This session will cover: Practical Applications: Discover real-world examples of integrating external data sources within the corporate data for Manufacturing, Utilities, Retail, and Distribution sectors. Learn how to make smarter, faster decisions and maintain market competitiveness. Explore how AI can process unstructured data, enhancing its relevance to SAP business contexts, and how sentiment analysis can optimize Sales and Procurement processes, improving productivity and supplier onboarding. BTP & GEN-AI Architectural Insights: Gain a deep understanding of the decision-making tree and its impact on your BTP foundation. Learn best practices for designing effective SAP BTP architecture, defining use cases, and selecting the right Large Language Model (LLM) for specific AI-driven scenarios within the SAP ecosystem. Licensing Implications: Receive insights into the licensing aspects of BTP PaaS and SaaS components, Gen-AI engines, and LLM models to ensure compliance and optimize your investment.

 You will:

• Learn about practical, real-word examples of how SAP BTP & Gen-AI can be leveraged to optimize existing SAP business processes: How Fetch external data for Manufacturing, Utilities, Retail and Distribution organizations, and combine it with your corporate data to make better, faster and smarter decisions, while ensuring market competitiveness. Introduce AI features to make sense of your unstructured data and then feed it into SAP business-context perspective. Optimize Sales or Procurement processes by generating a sentiment analysis, based on products or suppliers. Boost sales productivity and fast track supplier on-boarding.
• Understand the decision-making tree and inherent impacts on your BTP Foundation and Best practices for designing the right SAP BTP architecture from the outset: How to Define your use cases. Design the right SAP BTP architecture from the get-go. Choosing the right Large Language Model (LLM) for a specific AI-driven scenario within the SAP ecosystem.
• Gain Insights into the licensing implications of: SAP BTP Paas and SaaS components. Gen-AI engine o LLM Models, etc..

When doing enterprise architecture, it is important that you define guidelines, standards and templates, for how development and architecture should function. What if instead of just defining principles, you could utilize Devops to enforce Governance. By using an example based on SAP Integration Suite DevOps we will delve deep into this.

You will:

• Learn what is DevOps from an Enterprise Architecture view. Understand how it can be used to enforce Governance.
• See how you can use Generative AI to automate work for you in DevOps.
• Review how a DevOps pipeline could look like for SAP Integration Suite.

Line of Business leaders are under pressure to deliver superior business results. Leveraging SAP AI for the right use cases can unlock high value and the potential to drive business results to new highs. Attend this panel discussion, hosted by the SAP Chief Customer Office, and hear from customers who have implemented unique and innovative AI business use cases.  AI use cases include Embedded AI use cases in SAP Cloud solutions, and custom AI use cases leveraging SAP BTP.  This session will be informative for organizations that are deciding on their SAP AI journey, in the midst of transforming their business with SAP AI, or are looking at what’s next for their innovation journey. 

Questions this session can help answer include:

• How did these customers work with their business to identify use cases?
• What were the immediate benefits from their innovative implementation?
• What best practices were considered as part of their program?
• What’s next on these customers’ innovation road maps?

For decades, the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) has captivated our imaginations - from science fiction and film to algorithms that can approximate conversation, to the predictive text programs that can produce new Harry Potter fan fiction today. AI is no longer a concept, it is real and here, leaving business leaders asking what it can do for their complex ERP systems like SAP? Join representatives from Tricentis and an industry-leading customer as they discuss:

• How this customer is using AI across their technology ecosystem including SAP.
• How AI-driven quality assurance is accelerating and safeguarding SAP Cloud ERP transformations.
• The promise of AI to accelerate innovation and improve the quality of SAP releases.

The potential of AI and process automation are boundless, unlocking new opportunities to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and innovate processes. But can you optimize both your SAP processes and leverage AI for its advantages without disturbing your SAP environment? In this session, we will explore how decisions for SAP solutions and Generative AI are transforming process discovery, design, and execution, enabling businesses to reimagine their operations and achieve unprecedented levels of agility and innovation. This session includes live demos of real-world success stories, providing actionable insights to help you achieve results immediately.

What you'll gain:

• Seamless SAP Integration: Discover how DECISIONS FOR SAP SOLUTIONS integrates AI into your SAP environment without disrupting existing systems or requiring custom ABAP installation, aligning with “clean core” principles.
• Faster, Smarter Processes: See how DECISIONS FOR SAP SOLUTIONS and AI fine tune SAP processes to make them more adaptable and robust with far less effort.
• Intelligent Process Discovery & Design: Explore how AI and process mining tools can intelligently analyze existing processes, identify areas for improvement, and generate optimized process flows.

In this business session we take a practical look at how the SAP AI Core service can work as part your organization’s AI platform. You will see a real-time demonstration of the tool from a business perspective, and you will learn how this service in the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) can handle everything from simple to complex AI models and can serve as an open platform for industry leading AI languages and programming tools used by data scientists and analysts world-wide, including Python and R programs.

You will learn:

• How SAP Open AI integrates with other SAP tools. 
• How to leverage existing R and Phyton programs. 
• How to plan and build a scalable robust AI platform for the future.

For Solvay, ensuring compliance is critical for global expansion and avoiding costly penalties and reputational damage. Solvay implemented data obfuscation and data segregation to achieve these security objectives and support the upcoming SAP S/4HANA transformation and migration to a single global instance in the cloud.

You will:

• Learn the importance of applying dynamic policies with ABAC to enforce need-to-know access through segregating and masking critical data in SAP applications with a zero trust policy engine.
• Understand how security and compliance can be automated and simplified with a common language across applications, including those driven by ML and AI.
• Discover how to prevent violations and data breaches in systems with large data sets, including ML and AI applications, with fine-grained access control and real-time enforcement.

SAP is in a unique position as a provider of cloud services and a large-scale user of public cloud providers. This comes with a significant responsibility, but also provides broad visibility and understanding of cybersecurity, physical security and compliance risks. SAP implements security controls and detections across both the enterprise and cloud solutions landscapes, and protects employees, events and facilities. In addition, SAP operates its secure development and operations lifecycle for SAP applications and cloud services.   Sebastian Lange, Chief Security Office at SAP, co-leads SAP Security and Cloud Compliance with Chief Security Risk and Compliance Officer Marielle Ehrmann. The role provides a rare perspective on the global threat landscape. Hear from Sebastian about the adversaries SAP faces, how to defend against them, and what it is like to manage security risks for a key pillar in the functioning of society.

You will:

• Learn what threats SAP prepares for.
• Hear what SAP does to protect against these threats. 
• Understand how SAP prioritizes and mitigates security risks.
• Discover what it takes to manage security risks across a complex organization and cloud service provider.

Transitioning to the cloud simplifies system maintenance but raises security concerns. This session explores SAP S/4HANA cloud and general SAP cloud security best practices, covering data protection, access management, compliance, and incident response. We will address common customer questions to build trust and provide actionable insights for robust security and compliance in SAP's cloud environment. Join us to enhance your cloud security expertise. 

You will:

• Understand the fundamentals of cloud security, including encryption, access management, compliance, and incident response.
• Explore specific security features and best practices for SAP S/4HANA.
• Gain insights into how SAP ensures product security and addresses common customer concerns in the cloud.

With new offerings like SAP BTP, RISE Public Edition, and RISE Private Edition, the SAP world has exploded into a new realm, moving more and more towards a cloud-first approach. Additionally, SAP S/4HANA and different deployment models and service offerings are making it difficult for SAP customers who are still on the fence. This is even more complex for security folks to understand as you can't protect what you don't know. Many customers are assuming that with RISE, especially the Private Cloud Edition, you transfer security responsibilities to the SAP Cloud Service Providerwhich is not true. This new world involves the shared responsibility model as with any cloud offering and we need to truly understand it from the ground up as well as deeply understand RACI.

You will:

• Understand RISE. Understand different RISE offerings (Public/PCE).
• Learn the shared responsibility in RISE.
• Learn 5 key things you should be doing to make sure your SAP S/4HANA in RISE is secured properly.

Join us for an interactive session unveiling the future of SAP Enterprise Threat Detection, Cloud Edition. Discover new AI-driven advancements like Smart Recommendations, designed to enhance your cybersecurity response and posture. We'll delve into the pros and cons of utilizing both large and small language models for planned innovations, offering valuable insights on leveraging these technologies. Learn about our strategic approach to staying ahead of evolving security challenges and meeting customer needs in SAP RISE and GROW environments. Gain essential insights to optimize your security posture with cutting-edge AI technologies and a managed service approach.

You will:

• Discover new AI-driven features and enhancements in SAP Enterprise Threat Detection, cloud edition. 
• Understand how AI innovations address emerging security threats and industry trends. 
• Learn how to optimize your current security setup to fully leverage SAP's AI capabilities in threat detection.

One of the advantages of cloud applications is that you don’t have to take care of security. While most of the security responsibilities and tasks are taken over by the cloud service provider, there are some things that you are still responsible for, such as the security responsibilities in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Discover how SAP, together with you and our partners, act more securely to help ensure protection of data and processes.

You will:

• Learn Shared Security Responsibilities: Understand the division of security responsibilities between you and your cloud service provider, specifically focusing on your role in managing security within SAP S/4HANA Cloud. 
• Understand the Collaborative Security Approach: Learn how SAP collaborates with customers and partners to enhance the security of data and processes, ensuring robust protection in cloud environments. 
• Explore Proactive Security Measures: Discover actionable steps and best practices to effectively manage your security responsibilities, helping to fortify your enterprise against potential threats.

SAP applications are complex. Diverse technologies, multiple components, countless versions. All of these building blocks are interconnected to serve business processes on time, but how do we ensure these applications are secure? Additionally, organizations today run on-premise, in the cloud, and everything in between. Threat Intelligence indicates that threat actors are evolving to target and exploit SAP applications to deploy ransomware, perform financial fraud, access SAP information, and use SAP application infrastructure.

Join this workshop to gain an understanding of the known exploited vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and indicators of compromise that can help organizations efficiently detect incidents affecting SAP applications. It will incorporate practical security measures that organizations must take to secure their SAP landscape covering the traditional SAP ABAP based technology, including SAP S/4HANA, as well as SAP Netweaver Java applications, SAP Cloud Connector, and SAP Netweaver ABAP on SAP BTP.

You will:

• Uncover threat actors that target SAP applications and understand their tactics, techniques, procedures, and motivations.
• Learn the latest attacks and vulnerabilities affecting SAP applications.
• Discover mitigations and controls to secure SAP applications against known attacks.
• Hear the simple steps to improve the security of SAP applications on premise and in the cloud.

The SAP GUI front end is widely used by SAP users when they logon to SAP systems (ECC or SAP S/4HANA). Some of the users have access to confidential or sensitive data, or have elevated access after they logon. Through the use of success stories, we will demonstrate how companies have implemented strong multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect the business data and the access to the system without effecting user productivity and at minimum extra cost.

We will also give a live demo of the CyberSafe TrustBroker product being installed, configured and used so you can see how easily and quickly results can be achieved,

Furthermore, we will explain how TrustBroker is designed to allow companies to move to a password-less future and take advantage of zero trust.

You will:

• Find out why other companies have found they need MFA for SAP GUI users

• Learn how to implement MFA for SAP GUI users without any implementation complexities. 

• Understand the installation and configuration steps required for a quick and easy implementation of the CyberSafe TrustBroker products. 

• Discover how to arrange a free evaluation or proof-of-concept and get any questions answered.

There are many ways to authenticate users when they logon to SAP systems, including passwords, single sign-on (SSO) and also two/multi-factor authentication (2FA/MFA). In this session you will learn how best to combine these and hear details of many customer success stories. Maybe you will be able to relate to one of these customer success stories which will help you define your own company’s approach.

You will:

• Learn how to reduce the use of passwords and protect access to the ‘crown jewels’ inside your SAP systems.

• Understand how other companies have used CyberSafe staff expertise, and TrustBroker products to strengthen security and deliver success.

• Understand that each company has different requirements and TrustBroker product’s flexibility can help you meet your objectives easily. MFA may be required and can be enforced only when needed, as it is not essential for every user and every action they perform.  

• Find out how to take advantage of a free workshop where CyberSafe can help you solve your authentication challenges, even if you already have an SSO solution implemented.

There are quite a number of challenges for SAP customers today. Number one for sure is security but also migration topics like ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA and SAP PO/PI to Integration suite are waiting just around the corner. In this session you will learn about the options you have tackling the above challenges. You will also hear how SUSE can support you as a trusted partner on your journey safeguarding your SAP operations.

You will learn:

• How to increase security levels of your SAP Landscapes.
• Learn about migration options ECC6 to SAP S/4HANA.
• Learn about migration options SAP PO/PI to SAP Integration Suite (SaaS) / Edge Integration Cell.

With the SAP S/4HANA deadline approaching, time is running out to upgrade from SAP ECC. Many organizations hope a technical upgrade can reduce business process disruption and implementation costs. Learn what critical security decisions are needed and how they can impact required activities.

You will:

• Consider how UI decisions will impact your security activities. 
• Understand how to bring controls along for the ride. 
• See where GenAI can help streamline the security upgrade process.

Discover how you can improve the security of your SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) environment as we guide you through the latest security baseline documentation to help you configure your SAP BTP services securely. From identity authentication to leveraging the audit log service, learn essential techniques to fortify your SAP BTP environment against security threats and protect your valuable assets effectively.

After completing the RISE with SAP transformation, organizations must focus on optimizing their new landscape and ensuring ongoing security and compliance. This session will provide insights into maximizing the value of the transformation, including continuous improvement strategies and effective governance models. Attendees will learn how to monitor performance, assess security posture, and adapt to changing business needs in their new SAP environment.

You will:

• Learn strategies for optimizing the SAP landscape post-transformation to drive business value while maintaining cybersecurity. 
• Understand the importance of ongoing security and compliance measures to protect against evolving threats. 
• Gain insights on best practices for establishing governance frameworks that ensure alignment between IT, business objectives, and cybersecurity requirements. 
• Hear examples of organizations that successfully leveraged their new SAP capabilities for sustained growth and innovation while addressing cybersecurity challenges.

In today’s digital landscape, where data breaches and cyber threats are constantly evolving, safeguarding critical business systems like SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is paramount. This session will provide attendees with information about how and why it is important to secure their SAP BTP environments against cyber threats, as well as practical strategies for fortifying the platform. This will include subject matter experts discussing the SAP BTP security landscape, the latest security features and functionalities offered by SAP BTP, advanced security configurations, and best practices for implementation and maintenance.

You will:

• Discover the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of securing SAP BTP. 
• Receive an in-depth overview of authentication mechanisms, authorization controls, and encryption protocols. 
• Learn about proactive measures for threat detection, incident response, and compliance adherence. 
• Explore tips and tricks for optimizing security settings and configurations tailored to your organization’s needs.

In today’s dynamic landscape, organizations are increasingly running hybrid environments, with critical components spanning on-premises, cloud, and mixed infrastructures. As transitions like SAP RISE gain momentum, organizations face unique security challenges with vulnerabilities, credential compromises, ransomware, and stringent regulatory demands. This session explores security strategies tailored for SAP landscapes, with actionable controls and practices to secure key assets and systems. We’ll discuss the security responsibilities essential for SAP customers and share insights into security implementations for SAP environments. Plus, get an exclusive preview of our upcoming book which focuses on SAP cyber security including the transition to SAP RISE.

You will:

• Understand the shared responsibility model for security in RISE. 
• Learn how to ensure the right controls are in place in these scenarios. 
• Discover the top 5 critical controls for SAP S/4HANA in RISE.

In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity threat and regulatory compliance landscapes, safeguarding SAP systems and protecting sensitive data within these business-critical applications has become paramount. As businesses increasingly rely on SAP to streamline operations and manage critical business processes, SAP is a more attractive target for threat actors now more than ever. In fact, in 2023 there was a 400% increase in ransomware incidents that involved compromising SAP systems and data at victim’s organizations.  Unfortunately, many organizations still have a security gap when it comes to protecting their SAP environments. Whether due to a lack of visibility, inadequate security controls and processes, or insufficient staff and budget, many organization’s SAP systems and data are at risk of exploitation. Considering these challenges, adopting a comprehensive SAP cybersecurity strategy that integrates both application security controls and data security controls is crucial to protect your SAP environment and prevent costly breaches.  Join Pathlock for a session that explores and demonstrates the capabilities of integrating Dynamic Access Controls with Vulnerability Management and Threat Detection to drive complete cybersecurity protection for SAP environments. 

You will:

• Learn the importance of implementing data-level security controls to protect against internal and external threat actors.  

• Utilize effective Vulnerability Management processes to proactively harden SAP systems. 

• Discover strategies for leveraging Threat Detection and Response to detect and respond to internal and external security threats.  

• Learn best practices for implementing Attribute-Based Access Controls (ABAC) and Dynamic Data Masking to safeguard sensitive SAP data in production and non-production environments.  

• Gain insights on real-world use cases illustrating the effectiveness of data security and application security controls in mitigating cyber risks, enforcing fine-grained data governance, and protecting sensitive SAP data.

Discover how Lexmark addresses security and compliance challenges for Cloud ERP. In this presentation, you will learn from their experiences, including key wins that strengthened their security framework, lessons learned while navigating complex regulatory landscapes, and their vision for the future. Gain valuable insights into how they collaborate with SAP Enterprise Cloud Services to mitigate risks, manage compliance, and optimize security. This session is essential for organizations using Cloud ERP or considering a transition of their SAP systems to the cloud, all while maintaining a strong security posture and robust compliance strategies.

 You will:

•  Understand strategies for approaching the shared responsibility model.
• Discuss the importance of developing a sound communication path.
• Explore Identifying and defining responsibilities through a thorough threat assessment.

Discover how Bayer has reimagined its approach to securing Cloud ERP systems while navigating complex regulatory requirements. This session highlights their transformative journey, showcasing critical milestones in strengthening cloud security, overcoming compliance challenges, and setting a course for future advancements. Explore Bayer’s collaboration with SAP Enterprise Cloud Services, focusing on proactive risk management and innovative security solutions. Whether you’re already utilizing Cloud ERP or considering a transition, this session provides fresh perspectives and actionable strategies for maintaining security and regulatory excellence in a dynamic cloud landscape.

You will:

• Learn how Bayer transformed cloud security for ERP systems while meeting complex regulatory standards.
• Discover key milestones in overcoming compliance challenges and implementing proactive risk management.
• Explore Bayer’s collaboration with SAP to drive innovative security solutions for future advancements.

Dive into dashboard design and data visualization in a detailed, practical, step-by-step, and ready-to-use way. Understand the key dashboard design rules, such as the usage of different visualization, colors, and text, as part of an overall dashboard design process and find out what to avoid. This best practice, hands-on lab will enable you to take your dashboards to new heights.

You will:

• Start with a complete run down of best practices for building easy to consume dashboards.
• Get detailed, step-by-step material that you can apply right away as part of your next dashboarding project.
• Uncover the key dos and donts that will make your data visualization projects shine.

Join this session to understand how Dodge modernized their Data & Analytics strategy with SAP Datasphere. After a comprehensive initial assessment, Dodge adopted a modern technology platform, leveraging SAP Datasphere, to centralize and streamline its data management process. Learn how the company significantly simplified its architecture with a more agile approach that facilitates analytics for both SAP and non-SAP BI tools.

You will:

• Learn how the SAP Datasphere Extract Load Transform (ELT) approach simplified data management.
• Understand how Dodge approached provisioning data from SAP and non-SAP data sources.
• Hear how Dodge was able to achieve a single version of the truth, increased governance and increased delivery agility.

SSM went live on SAP S4\HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud in 2021. After the project went live, SSM felt there was an opportunity to make their reporting more impactful. During a series of workshop, SSM approved a roadmap that laid out a plan to transform their financial reporting packages. The execution of this roadmap remediated existing financial reports with improved usability and faster run times.

You will:

• Learn how to transform data grids to meaningful dashboards to support better decision making.
• Understand the steps to take to reduce story run times by 30%.
• Review how SSM leverages DataSphere to do the heavy lifting on calculating operational hospital KPIs.

Jump into SAP Analytics Cloud with both feet to kickstart the creation of top-notch dashboards and data visualizations. This workshop walks you through a series of hands-on activities where you learn to use all the different components in SAP Analytics Cloud, get started building dashboards, and much more. Walk away with the skills and knowledge you need to build and deliver the data visualizations your company needs.

You will:

• Take a guided tour of all the different areas of Sap Analytics Cloud and then get firsthand experience with the technology.
• Learn how to use the most important components, such as charts, maps, and tables.
• Get a glimpse at some advanced features such as Linked Analysis and more.

As businesses evolve in the digital age, effective data management and real-time insights are critical for innovation and strategic decision-making. Join us for this hands-on workshop on SAP Datasphere, SAPs cutting-edge solution for integrated data management, designed to simplify how organizations connect, model, and analyze data. In this interactive session, you will gain practical experience with SAP Datasphere, learning how to connect diverse data sources, streamline data integration, and build robust models for business analytics. Through real-world scenarios and guided exercises, participants will explore key features such as data governance, security, and real-time insightsall in a unified environment that supports both IT and business teams.

You will:

• Understand Basic Navigation in SAP Datasphere.
• Understand SDI and Connections in SAP Datasphere for Data Ingestion.
• Upload Sample Data in SAP Datasphere. Create Views following Analytics Best Practices in Data Builder.
• Build your first Analytic Model.
• Consume your Model in SAC (Sap Analytics Cloud) Stories.

Dive deep into SAPs Integrated Data and Analytics Portfolio and see first-hand how your organization can run better analysis and data management with less effort by leveraging a mature portfolio of cloud native applications dedicated to the enterprise. If you're already on BW, this is a unique opportunity to modernize your landscape easily. Here's your first chance to get your hands on the latest and greatest from SAP and take it for a test drive:

You will:

• Dig into the new analytics offering for the front end.
• Get up close with the most advanced data management solution in the cloud.
• Understand the best practice BW Modernization approach.

In this workshop you dig into SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud Analytics Designer to experience first-hand what makes these three options a powerful combination for SAP Analytics strategy. Start by creating a data model in SAP Datasphere, then learn how to leverage that model in SAP Analytics Cloud as well as SAP Analytics Cloud, Analytics Designer.

You will:

• Understand the key differences between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud, Analytics Designer.
• Dive into the details on how these three experiences work together so you can provide your end-users with a self-service analytics platform.
• Experience live SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud, Analytics Designer and learn how you can leverage your SAP data and provide more insights.
• Step through hands-on exercises that take you from simple data to an analytical model in SAP Datasphere and from simple charts to interactive stories and being able to just communicate with your data.

Traditional monolithic ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes within SAP data environments are often burdened by large, complex workflows that pose significant challenges in terms of management, scalability, and debugging. These monolithic structures can become bottlenecks, leading to slower data processing and making it difficult to implement changes or optimizations within SAP landscapes. In this presentation, we explore the approach of decomposing monolithic SAP ETL processes into micro tables—smaller, modular components that handle specific tasks within the data transformation workflow. By adopting micro tables, organizations can achieve greater scalability, improved performance through parallel processing, and enhanced maintainability within their SAP environments. This approach not only simplifies troubleshooting but also fosters increased agility in adapting to evolving data processing needs specific to SAP systems. Our discussion will focus on the practical implications and benefits of this transition, providing insights into how micro tables can revolutionize traditional ETL operations in SAP data landscapes.

You will:

• Understand the Limitations of Monolithic ETL Processes: Learn about the common challenges and inefficiencies associated with traditional monolithic ETL workflows.  
• Learn the Benefits of Decomposing ETL Processes: Discover how breaking down monolithic ETL processes into micro tables can enhance scalability, performance, and maintainability.  
• Gain Implementation Strategies for Micro Tables: Gain practical insights on how to transition from a monolithic ETL architecture to a micro table-based approach.  
• Understand Troubleshooting and Debugging Simplified: Explore how micro tables make it easier to identify, isolate, and resolve issues within the ETL process.  
• Enhance Agility in ETL Operations: Learn how adopting micro tables can improve the ability to quickly adapt to changing data processing requirements and evolving business needs.

Many IT executives are trying to consolidate tools to save money. Often, they think that newer SAP BI analytics platforms like the SAP Analytics Cloud can totally replace traditional reporting tools like SAP Business Objects. Often, trying to do so turns out to be an expensive mistake.

In this session you will learn:

• Why traditional SAP BI tools like SAP Business Objects are still relevant.
• The architectural differences that make each platform more suitable for different Use Cases.
• Why SAP Business Objects & the SAP Analytics Cloud together are an unbeatable analytics combination.
• The future direction of both platforms.

Join us for this dynamic discussion session on the key issues, challenges, and opportunities in the world of SAP Data, Analytics, and BI. Take this opportunity to share whats on your mind and engage directly with top experts and your peers. Session leaders will facilitate Q&A and peer to peer group exchanges, letting the discussion go wherever the group takes it. By allowing the conversation to be driven by you, the participants, this session will cater to your specific interests and needs, ensuring a highly personalized and informative experience.

Learn how Spectrum Brands revolutionized their planning, forecasting, and reporting capabilities on a global scale. Join this engaging session to hear how Spectrum Brands harnessed the power of SAC Planning and the HANA data warehouse to orchestrate a seamless transition from a legacy regional BPC platform. Explore the intricacies of this strategic migration as we unpack the critical stages of the BPC-to-SAC transition and its harmonious integration with the robust HANA enterprise data warehouse. Delve into the innovative design that not only empowers a consolidated view of financial performance but also paves the way for comprehensive insights and informed decision-making across the organization.

In this session, attendees will gain an understanding of:

• Lessons learned in transitioning from BPC to SAC.
• Key design considerations when implementing SAC planning.
• Key design considerations of utilizing HANA database and S4 datasource.
• Best practices to consider for post-deployment and maintenance.

In this session, we will unfold WR Grace's extraordinary story of managing data transformation and reducing risk throughout their transition to SAP S/4HANA. You'll learn how WR Grace faced the intimidating task of purifying legacy data, redefining data elements and hierarchies to enhance analytics capabilities, and setting up robust processes for comprehensive data management and governance. Additionally, part of WR Grace's strategic plan involves implementing SAP Master Data Governance (MDG). This initiative is designed to reinforce their commitment to maintaining future integrity by ensuring high quality and consistent master data across the organization.

You will:

• Learn how W.R. Grace tackled significant data management challenges during its SAP S/4HANA transformation by employing a structured Phase 0 program that focused on efficient data management.
• Understand W.R. Grace's approach to purifying legacy data and redefining data elements to enable enhanced analytics capabilities within its new system.
• Discover how W.R. Grace established comprehensive processes for robust data governance, ensuring the integrity and consistency of the company's data throughout the transformation.
• Gain insights on the critical role of SAP Master Data Governance in maintaining high-quality and consistent master data across the organization, contributing significantly to the success of the company's SAP S/4HANA journey.

SAP Analytics Cloud deployments often have a targeted set of information consumers who need to have reports pushed out to them to simplify and support their decision making. In this session, you’ll first discover how the Publications function within SAP Analytics Cloud commonly falls short of meeting customer objectives for scheduling and broadcasting their SAC stories, applications, and Analysis for Office reports. Find out how SAC’s Publications function is notably different from that of SAP BusinessObjects or BEx Broadcaster and very limited in its ability to ‘Push’ out the reports that users depend on. Then you’ll learn how APOS Publisher for Cloud (from long-time SAP Build partner APOS), the primary solution that fills this reporting gap, has helped a number of SAC customers with report broadcasting and scheduling needs. Dive into specific customer examples for automated scheduling and distribution of SAP Analytics Cloud Story reports, SAC Applications, and Analysis for Office reports. See how you can deliver the expanded scheduling and broadcasting capabilities required to meet your reporting objective with a secure solution that uses a data-driven methodology to dynamically adjust to information recipient changes, resulting in a process that is both enterprise-level and low-maintenance for IT resources.

You will learn how to:

• Assess the boundaries of SAC Publications.
• Use data-driven dynamic broadcasting to reach internal and external stakeholders.
• Schedule and broadcast Analysis for Office reports.
• Enable simplified self-service scheduling and broadcasting in a Web UI.

Kemira, a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions, faced challenges in modernizing their financial analytics and enterprise-wide data management. The reliance on aging hardware and disconnected data systems hindered their ability to make real-time, data-driven decisions. By leveraging SAP S/4HANA and SAP Datasphere, Kemira successfully transformed their operational framework, enabling centralized, high-quality data integration across the organization. This session explores the key steps and strategies Kemira employed to unlock the full potential of SAP Datasphere for advanced analytics and reporting. Attendees will gain insights into how centralized data landscapes can enhance transparency, support critical business functions like finance, and drive innovation. Discover how the right combination of technology and strategy can revolutionize decision-making processes and position your organization for long-term growth.

You will:

• Hear how Kemira implemented SAP Datasphere to streamline financial analytics and enable data-driven insights. 
• Understand the role of SAP S/4HANA in creating a centralized data platform for enterprise-wide integration. 
• Learn strategies to overcome challenges in transitioning from legacy systems to modern cloud solutions. 
• Gain insights on best practices for leveraging analytics to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.

Discover how business integrators help companies achieve a higher return on investment by maximizing benefits and lowering cost. Join this session where we discuss the business integrator role, how it has evolved and fits within your transformational journey, and share examples of how business integrators drive value, accelerate adoption and contribute to an organization’s strategic goals and objectives.

It is often said that if you fail to plan you plan to fail.  Join this session to learn how leveraging a Phase 0 framework can help to clearly define your SAP S/4HANA Journey and reduce the overall risk of your SAP S/4HANA initiative.  By assessing and defining business process alignment, data quality, application architecture and integrations, companies can clearly define the program scope, deployment strategy and roadmap to better position the program to achieve its desired outcomes. This phase focuses on assessing and establishing future state business processes, solution design, data and analytics, and the associated deployment strategy for the program.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• How the Phase 0 Framework can help outline a comprehensive plan and build alignment with key stakeholders related to scope, approach and the roadmap for implementation.
• How to significantly reduce program risk by defining and implementing the governance model and other critical strategies early in the process.
• How to pull forward key "big rock" activities to streamline the implementation timeline.

This back-to-basics session identifies the most important areas to address when training all end users on SAP functionality, including analysis, display, environment, and reporting. Take home 30 tips that will accelerate the end-user learning curve and reduce calls to the help desk.

You will:

• Learn how to help users get the most from reporting tools to maximize their productivity.  
• Learn how to teach end users to set key default values. Identify the most frequently used transaction codes to assist end users in quickly navigating SAP. 
• Show users how to get the most from SAP GUI and SAP Fiori.  
• Walk away with a list of key parameter IDs for all users.

The existing IT landscape consisted of various unconnected systems, making integration complex. A thorough analysis was conducted to ensure seamless connection between SAP BRIM and these legacy systems. Custom data transformation rules were developed to facilitate smooth data flow and maintain functionality across all platforms. Moving a massive amount of critical data objects (product details, customer information, contracts, pricing, etc.) required meticulous planning. This process ensured accurate migration and minimal disruption. A robust and adaptable infrastructure was crucial to navigate industry changes and evolving business demands. This approach positioned the system to meet both immediate and long-term strategic goals. In essence, this project successfully overcame significant integration challenges to implement a new billing system, ensuring flexibility, scalability, and the ability to meet diverse customer needs of Spectrum Reach.

You will:

• Learn strategy to handle large volumetric data.
• Understand dealing with the complexity of the integration challenges.
• Discover customization and Flexibility in the Solution Architecture to diverse client needs.
• Uncover building Future-Ready Infrastructure.

Learn about Synopsys implementation of SAP BRIM Solution as a platform for enablement of Cloud Business model. Accelerate digital transformation and automate Usage to Cash business process for as-a-service model. Get an overview of what Synopsys did to simplify Cloud model, automate contract setup, provisioning, renewals, consumption processing and revenue recognition with a solution that has the required sophistication and a comprehensive set of capabilities.

You will:

• Learn key learnings and implementation Considerations using BRIM on RISE with SAP and integrating it with SAP on-Premise solution. 
• Implement a unique pricing and monetization model leveraging BRIM. 
• Leverage full set of BRIM solution capabilities of Convergent Mediation, Convergent Charging, Convergent Invoicing and Subscription Order Management for implementing as-a-service model. 
• Discover how to make BRIM work with SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) without using FI-CA and rationale for selecting this option, how to navigate integration challenges.  
• Gain insights on project methodology for accelerated implementation of BRIM on RISE with SAP.

In today's globalized business environment, organizations need to navigate a complex web of accounting principles and regulations. Universal Parallel Accounting, which was introduced by SAP in S/4HANA Cloud 2105 and then in SAP S/4HANA On-Premise 2022, empowers companies to streamline their financial accounting processes for Overheads, Assets, Inventory and Production by enabling simultaneous adherence to multiple accounting standards. This session will explore the core components and benefits of SAP Universal Parallel Accounting, including the use of multiple ledgers in the Universal Journal, parallel postings, and flexible valuation methods. Attendees will gain insights into how this functionality ensures compliance, enhances efficiency, and provides real-time financial transparency. Through real-world examples and best practices, we will demonstrate how to configure and implement Universal Parallel Accounting to meet diverse regulatory requirements and support agile decision-making. Join us to discover how SAP Universal Parallel Accounting can transform your financial operations, drive compliance, and deliver robust financial insights for your organization.

You will:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of what SAP Universal Parallel Accounting is and its role within SAP S/4HANA.
• Understand the configuration of multiple ledgers to meet different regulatory requirements.
• Explore the flexibility in applying different valuation methods for financial transactions across various ledgers.
• Understand the integration of Universal Parallel Accounting with other SAP modules to ensure seamless data flow and reduce errors.
• Learn best practices for configuring and implementing this functionality to meet your organization's specific needs.

REI modernized their financial planning process by integrating SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) with SAP S/4HANA. Previously reliant on Oracle Essbase and Excel for data management and planning, REI faced challenges with manual data handling and disparate sources. The SAC implementation streamlined their planning capabilities, automating data updates and reducing manual intervention. This integration enhanced data accuracy and efficiency, consolidating planning and reporting into a unified tool. The transition also enabled REI to phase out outdated systems like ECC and Essbase, lowering maintenance costs and simplifying IT infrastructure. Join this session to learn how REI’s transformation has laid a strong foundation for future enhancements.

You will:

• Learn how integrating SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4HANA can unify and automate financial planning and reporting processes, reducing reliance on manual data handling and disparate systems.
• Discover best practices for improving data accuracy and efficiency through automated updates, unified input templates, and enhanced version control.
• Understand the benefits of transitioning from legacy systems like ECC and Essbase to modern solutions, including reduced maintenance costs and simplified IT operations.
• Gain insight into the importance of strong Organizational Change Management for a successful digital transformation.

Dive into the transformative journey of Giorgi Global Holdings(GGH), as it harnesses the power of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) to redefine its planning landscape. Explore how planning in SAC provides GGH seamless unification of data, enhanced data governance, and enables faster and increased visibility to their customer sales/plans, capex plans and overall financial statements to drive better business outcomes throughout their CANPACK organization.

You will:

• Explore how CANPACK successfully created a single version of truth needed for completing their forecasts.
• Learn how CANPACK transformed their fragmented sales, capex and P&L planning process to a standardized and streamlines process across all its companies.
• See in action how latest SAC planning features helped the move from disparate excel sheets to a centralized solution in the cloud.
• Peek into the future and see what's in store for GGH's future SAC planning landscape.

Starting from SAP S/4HANA 1809, the Consolidation solution is known as Group Reporting, which provides the best of both worlds because it is embedded in the SAP S/4HANA core system (hence providing a seamless alignment of Local and Group closing activities) and can also consolidate data from other systems. An added benefit is that it uses the same data model as the Universal Journal (although it has its own table – ACDOCU) by harmonizing the fields from several modules such as General Ledger Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Fixed Assets, and so on. Also, real-time consolidation tasks can be performed in order to provide a detailed view of the business at any point in the period, which could help to accelerate the time-to-close at the end of the month. Join us for an insightful presentation on how a leading biotech company transformed its financial consolidation process using SAP Group Reporting. This case study will highlight the challenges faced by the organization, the strategic implementation of SAP Group Reporting, and the significant improvements achieved in financial accuracy, efficiency, and compliance. Discover how the integration of SAP Group Reporting enabled real-time data analysis, streamlined reporting workflows, and enhanced decision-making capabilities, ultimately driving the company’s growth and success in the competitive biotech industry.

You will:

• Understand Fundamental Data Model and Master Data Concepts.
• Discover the relationship and harmonization between Universal Journal (ACDOCA) and Consolidation (ACDOCU).
• Understand the consolidated process for SAP S/4HANA and the benefits to your business.
• Learn how Group Reporting Can Help Streamline consolidation close.
• Hear about the suggested Key Design Decisions to Consider when Implementing Group Reporting.

Customers may have dozens of individual operational systems, each with massive volumes, containing one-sided transactional data. These systems do not have any means of translating single events into 2-sided journal entries, which are required to post to the General Ledger. These customers often use home-grown custom legacy solutions which are manually intensive and where the technical knowledge to maintain and enhance these sub-ledgers is limited to a few resources. Moreover, these Subledgers are not integrated with an SAP GL. SAP has recently introduced a new feature set on top of the PaPM Cloud Platform, which can fully support a customer's Subledger requirements and more.

You will:

• Learn about PaPM ARE Permanently storage (archiving).
• Understand how to enter inputs as granular accounting documents, either imported or manual adjustments.
• Learn how to leverage advanced account determination & GL posting rules framework.
• Explore how to utilize the advanced multi-level workflow capability & granular authorizations.
• Learn how to establish advanced data validations and controls enabling ability to drill-down from aggregated GL postings back to detailed Subledger records.
• Understand how to leverage advanced reporting framework to generating multi-GAAP, IFRS, Statutory, Local reports.

This session walks through four essential practices to increase the efficiency of accounts receivables management, including insight into: Whats new with SAP S/4HANA, AI-powered cash application, including the advanced rules engine, with SAP Cash Application software, lessons to streamline various accounts receivables processes, from tracing open items to checking for missing AR invoices.

You will:

• Learn how S/4HANA SAP Cash Application works both from a process overview and detailed configuration steps.
• Understand whether and how to use Special G/L Indicators.
• Take home a list of SAP correction reports and their uses, useful SAP Notes, and supplementary articles.
• Learn how to quickly trace complex clearing documents.
• Understand that a customer invoices is actually two SAP documents and how AR invoices may fail to post in FI.
• See how number range configuration can be adapted to make it easier to trace finance documents.

For finance professionals, executives, and IT leaders ready to revolutionize their financial management and take an ERP-centric approach to EPM, this session offers a cutting-edge look into SAP's transformative approach. Elevate your strategy and stay ahead in the digital finance era.

You will:

• Discover SAP's dynamic vision for the next era of finance and the groundbreaking developments poised to reshape the finance-tech nexus.
• Look at the power of SAP's finance portfolio to unlock additional business benefits along the finance business processes, and see firsthand how they redefine financial processes and decision-making.
• Engage with the freshest updates and game-changing Gen AI solution enhancements, including new ERP Cloud commercial offerings from SAP, ensuring you understand the full potential of planned features.

Has your organization decided to move to SAP S/4HANA? Whats going to change for you as a finance professional? How will AI affect your role? What will your experience be, and how can you get the most out of your ERP? Be sure to attend this session to learn more.

You will:

• Learn about the 10 biggest changes for finance teams that are using SAP S/4HANA.
• See how finance teams interact with their data and how AI will make your lives easier.
• Hear how business processes have been redesigned to take advantage of new technologies.
• See examples of how finance teams are empowered to make changes and own their processes (as opposed to IT!)

As a key stakeholder, you want to transition from the classic General Ledger to the latest and greatest and there are many options: SAP General Ledger, SAP S/4 HANA Finance, Central Finance, and more. Attend this in-depth, three-hour session to gain a deep understanding of various strategic and technical considerations you must be ready with before you start your SAP S/4 HANA Finance journey, so that you can choose the most optimal roadmap for your SAP S/4 HANA transition.

You will:

• Examine the key differences between SAP S/4 HANA Finance-based financial solutions and SAP General Ledger, and the classic version of the general ledger in SAP R/3.
• Learn how recent developments in SAP S/4 HANA Finance can influence your plans for SAP General Ledger migration.
• Learn how to prepare balanced books for any dimension and determine whether document splitting on characteristics such as profit centers or segments is right for your organization.
• Get tips and tricks to deploy parallel ledger to support your local and statutory reporting requirements without affecting the corporate reporting needs.
• Unearth hidden tips and tricks to ease the SAP S/4 HANA Finance Migration challenges and learn from the hard-won successes and lessons from other customers for a much smoother migration.
• Carefully review the strategic and technical considerations one must consider for planning the SAP General Ledger or SAP S/4 HANA Finance deployments

SAP provides cutting-edge solutions for all your financial planning and analysis needs. This can’t-miss session offers an insider’s look at these powerful solutions and how they enable transformational planning and profitability. In this session, you’ll get exclusive access to SAP’s FP&A vision and product direction.

You will:

• Discover the latest, greatest capabilities in FP&A and how SAP is delivering continuous innovation.
• Get the inside track on how SAP’s product roadmap will take your solutions to the next level.
• Learn about groundbreaking new planning capabilities like predictive planning and scenario modeling.
• Hear real-world stories of customers using SAP to master complex planning in volatile times.

Your SAP S/4HANA Finance budget is approved, but, are you ready to start your SAP S/4HANA Finance project? Is your existing data consistent for you to successfully migrate? Understand the key data objects (such as customers/vendors, consistent items and balances, consistent FICO setup and more) that you need for clean and safe transition.

You will:

• Be prepared to be shocked at how extensive data clean-up efforts may be required for you to be ready for your SAP S/4HANA Finance migration.
• Learn about the pre-migration consistency checks and validations that you must perform to be ready for SAP S/4HANA Finance, as well as post-migration validations.
• Learn the options available to you to fully exploit the power of SAP S/4HANA Finance parallel currencies.
• Learn about some of the most common challenges faced while migrating from classic to new asset accounting.

You have been on ECC for all these years and now on the way to transitioning to SAP S/4HANA. Attend this session to learn about the Top-7 major enhancements you are about to collect when you move to SAP S/4HANA Finance.  Based on philosophy of delivering superior enhancements with simplifications, SAP S/4HANA Finance promises significant value. Gone are the olden days of G/L Account playing two separate roles in FI and CO – now, simply a unified G/L Account. Major enhancements in the areas of Ledgers and Document Splitting functions to support your multi-dimensional multi-valuation processes. Great improvements in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), New Fixed Assets and Cost-of-Goods-Sold (COGS) make the transition to SAP S/4HANA super-rich with benefits.  All these enhancements nicely packaged as a Universal Journal – the core of the core for finance processes.

You will:

• Learn about the major Finance enhancements offered in SAP S/4HANA. 
• Evaluate the key considerations to get the most out of these enhancements.
• Understand how to plan for deploying these processes carefully in your organization.

Authorities around the world are taking advantage of digitalization to tight audit and reporting requirements, increasing risks and creating operational challenges for businesses around the world. Join this session to learn how SAP Document and Reporting Compliance helps you to standardize compliance operations worldwide and embed AI to both increase automation and minimize compliance risks.

You will:

• Learn about latest innovations to enable sales & use tax reporting for US.
• Learn about regulatory change manager and how Joule can help you to be ahead of upcoming changes.
• Learn about upcoming AI features to accelerate invoice corrections and simplify your VAT trend analysis.

With SAP's recent release of the Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA) solution, SAP has finally delivered a true end-to-end solution for parallel accounting within the SAP Finance area. This solution has been in development for cloud customers but now in SAP S/4HANA 2022 has been released for On-Premise as well. As a feeder system to the GL, Asset Accounting has had to make significant changes around how values are tracked in parallel to support the new UPA requirements. Delivered alongside UPA, the new Intelligent Asset Accounting (IAA) solution represents the biggest re-write of fixed asset functionality in SAP ERP and will be the go-forward solution for all SAP customers.

You will:

• Hear about the full feature release of UPA's impacts and changes on Asset Accounting.
• Understand the integration related topics cover APIs, equipment integration and cFIN.
• Review the flexibility changes regarding depreciation

SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting is the latest Financial Close and Consolidation software from SAP. The solution assists an organization with unifying and streamlining local and group consolidation closing activities. In addition, the solution supports an organization's finance department by collecting, processing and then presenting consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP requirement such as US GAAP or IFRS.

You will:

• Receive a basic Overview of Group Reporting consolidation.  
• Learn the streamlining consolidation close process. 
• Understand Group Reporting Preparation Ledger. 
• Hear the legal consolidation for multiple consolidation groups.  
• Discover options and key design decisions for implementing Group Reporting. Hear lessons learned from previous implementations.

Rapid digitalization is increasing the number of global tax regulations around the world. In addition, authorities are starting to involve themselves in the business transactions, disrupting well established business processes and taking controls of the invoicing flow between suppliers and buyers. As a result, they have all the data they require to prevent tax evasion and start auditing taxpayers automatically or even auto-populating tax returns moving toward tax bills. Join this session to learn recent innovations and what is planned for the future.

You will:

• Learn about recent and upcoming regulations, including system demonstrations.
• Learn about SAP planned functionalities to automatically reconcile draft returns issued by authorities and subsequent submissions.
• Learn about SAP planned functionalities to handle Learn about SAP planned functionalities to automatically reconcile draft returns issued by authorities and subsequent submissions.

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are seeking seamless, secure, and cost-effective payment solutions that can scale across their entire enterprise. The key to success lies in robust integration between payment sources and banking systems. Discover how SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud are transforming payment management with cutting-edge capabilities. Join us to explore: Next-Generation Payment Factory: Enhance visibility, control, and agility in your payment operations. In-House Banking: Streamline internal financial transactions and optimize cash management. Advanced Payment Management: Leverage SAP's latest innovations for end-to-end payment processing. Multi-Bank Connectivity: Seamlessly connect with multiple banks, including integrated SWIFT functionality.

Discover how you can embark on a transformative journey towards an intelligent finance function with the powerful capabilities of AI and SAP S/4HANA.

Join this session to gain a comprehensive understanding of:

• Opportunities to increase automation in core processes.
• Benefits of incorporating intelligence into your standard capabilities.
• Additional capabilities and services that can change your approach from an "operational" to a "lean, strategic, intelligent" mindset.

Join this session to learn how Caleres successfully executed a full migration from SAP's Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) on ECC to SAP Analytics Cloud Planning (SACP) on SAP S/4HANA. This was accomplished as part of its overall SAP S/4HANA finance transformation. Caleres' successful transformation leveraged several key strategies and processes that facilitated a smooth transition and helped the company overcome obstacles along the way. This led to significant benefits from integrating advanced planning capabilities into the new financial landscape.

You will:

• Understand the intricacies and effective strategies required for managing a simultaneous finance transformation and system migration.
• Explore the challenges typically encountered during such integrations and the practical solutions used to overcome them.
• Learn the benefits of aligning advanced planning capabilities with financial transformations to enhance organizational efficiency and accuracy.

Through this case study, learn how to automate daily exchange rates in SAP with standard functionality. We will discuss tips and tricks for how to implement this solution across many countries within all industries.

You will:

• Learn standard transaction functionalities.
• Understand how to customize in a technical setting through execution.
• Discover a major global healthcare company's experience in several countries.

SAP is embarking on a journey to revolutionize carbon accounting with the green ledger. Explore how the green ledger operationalizes sustainability data as part of the business steering model, ensuring the company's long-term value.

You will:

Discover SAP's visionary roadmap to the green ledger, anchored in transactional carbon accounting.

Explore breakthrough capabilities that can transform the way businesses are managed and steered towards net zero.

See how SAP can enable resilient, sustainable, and profitable business models to safeguard long-term value.

Leading finance organizations have a significant performance advantage, delivering higher and fast impact beyond cost saving. They are better prepared and have a head start in Gen-AI adoption. In this session we will review the latest performance metrics and insights from leading finance organizations across industries, drawing on use cases, return on AI investments and ways executives can adopt AI to enhance operations and improve decision making.

You will:

•    Hear about the latest performance metrics and areas where top-performers excel.

•    Understand the opportunity and impact of Gen-AI in Finance.

•    Discover what strategies should be prioritized to accelerate the Finance Gen-AI journey.

In today's complex corporate landscape, financial operations often span multiple systems and platforms, leading to challenges in consolidating financial data and gaining real-time insights. As companies continue to streamline financial operations, centralizing payment processes offers substantial benefits such as enhanced cash flow visibility, simplified vendor payment workflows, and increased compliance across diverse ERP landscapes. 

You will:

•    Understand the foundational architecture of SAP Central Payment and its seamless integration with Central Finance to enable unified payment processing across multiple ERP systems.

•    Explore real-life business benefits of centralizing payments, including improved cash flow management, streamlined vendor relationships, and enhanced financial oversight.

•    Learn the essential configuration steps in SAP S/4HANA and Central Finance for setting up and customizing Central Payment to meet specific business requirements.

•    Discover how Central Payment reduces manual processing, accelerates reconciliation, and improves operational efficiency through automation and streamlined workflows.

•    Gain practical insights on implementing Central Payment across multiple ERPs, including data alignment and exception handling, and achieving stakeholder buy-in.

Your organization is either planning to go to SAP S/4HANA  soon or you have begun the journey.  This talk takes a business look at your options on how best to prepare your organization for the SAP S/4HANA journey or how to make the most of your new SAP S/4HANA  system and self-fund the efforts.  How do we measure the success of an implementation? Is it when we know at go-live that the transactions work or is it when we know the users/managers know how to optimally run the business using SAP S/4HANA ? What have we learned since the previous implementations back in the ‘90’s and 2000’s.  Technology has moved on since then, but has human behavior, or process best practices or management techniques?  This talk will help executives better understand the pitfalls, the opportunities and approaches to moving to SAP S/4HANA .

Learn how United Therapeutics transformed their cash expenditure reporting process using SAC Planning with Datasphere—dramatically improving Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Treasury planning functions while reducing report processing overhead.

In today's evolving financial landscape, organizations are increasingly focused on automating accounts payable (AP) invoice management processes to address key challenges such as manual workloads, business growth demands, and the need to reduce payment errors and fraud risks. To achieve this, companies are prioritizing the digitization of workflows, implementing electronic invoice tracking, eliminating paper-based processes, and integrating automation solutions with their ERP systems. Many are turning to technologies like ERP integration, AP invoice automation, invoice scanning, and electronic payments software to streamline their operations. For those embarking on this journey, it's crucial to align resources for transformation initiatives, prioritize standardization and intelligent technologies. By embracing these strategies, organizations can significantly enhance their AP processes, leading to improved efficiency, accuracy, and financial control.

You will:

• Identify and eliminate manual workloads in your AP processes.  

• Prepare your AP systems for business growth and scalability.  

• Implement robust fraud detection and error reduction measures.  

• Digitize workflows and transition to electronic invoice tracking.  

• Integrate automation solutions with your existing ERP system *Considering SAP Cloud solutions and/or Clean Core initiatives.

The due date to migrate to SAP S/4HANA is rapidly approaching and companies must act now to ensure a smooth digital transformation. This session will take a deep dive into SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and the SAP Clean Core strategy and walk you through xSuite's intelligent invoice workflow on SAP BTP.  

xSuite is the first APIA provider to receive the SAP Clean Core certification, underscoring its commitment to innovation and compliance. By leveraging BTP and large language models (LLM) to automate accounts payable processes, you can optimize productivity, reduce costs, and ensure a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA. xSuite's accounts payable automation integrates seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA, providing real-time invoice processing, approval workflows, analytics, and more.

You will:

• Explore the journey to SAP S/4HANA.

• Learn about SAP Business Technology Platform.

• Discover why you should you keep your SAP core clean.

• Understand how an AP automation solution on SAP BTP can accelerate your SAP S/4HANA transition.

The intersection of technology, financial data & tax strategy covering essential areas like Transfer Pricing, Pillar Two, etc. Gain insights on how organizations can harness SAP's suite of products to help streamline and enhance global data management and drive your tax strategy at various stages.

You will:

• Learn how SAP supports tax strategy.
• Understand how SAP can wrangle data to support tax regulations.
• Gain insights on how SAP supports tax calcs.

Learn how Omnicell, a multi-national health technology company, transformed complex financial data into actionable insights. Discover how Omnicell's accounting team creates detailed financial statements and seamlessly pulls GL balances in real-time, eliminating IT dependencies and accelerating reporting cycles.  Whether you're in accounting, finance, or IT, this session will provide valuable insights on how to empower finance teams, reduce reliance on technical resources, and unlock the full potential of your SAP data.

You will:

• See how Omnicell leverages Wands for SAP to generate dynamic, drill-down reports straight from Excel, delivering both accuracy and timeliness during critical close processes. 
• Explore how Omnicell consolidates data across multiple currencies, facilitating smooth financial operations on a global scale.

Discover how Brown-Forman, a global leader in the spirits industry, has managed their SAP financial data for the past decade. Over ten years ago, Brown-Forman integrated Process Runner GLSU into their SAP landscape to streamline financial postings and automate essential data processes. This session reveals how they have empowered their teams to expedite financial data entry, minimize manual errors, and enhance efficiency across financial operations. Join us to hear firsthand insights on Brown-Forman's journey, best practices, and the measurable impact of financial automation within SAP.

You will:

• Hear optimized methods Brown-Forman uses to streamline SAP financial postings, reducing manual effort and errors. 
• Learn about automation strategies that minimize the need for custom scripting, enhancing workflow efficiency across SAP financial data processes. 
• Gain insights on key takeaways from Brown-Forman's experience, including best practices for maximizing the benefits of GLSU in financial management.

Global complexity and complicated regulatory demands are reshaping the way finance organizations approach intercompany financial consolidation. Finance leaders must drive long-term profitability, ensure compliance, and create efficiencies across the global value chain—all while managing increasingly intricate intercompany transactions. But how can this be achieved?

The answer lies in obtaining transparency across the entire value chain—from cradle to grave. In this case study, discover how to establish a next generation intercompany consolidation system that is based on data accuracy across all systems, provided by a single source of truth. Learn how group finance, customs, supply chain, and tax professionals can leverage this transparency to unlock operational and financial benefits. 

EXA’s Global Intercompany Management Suite on SAP provides an SAP-standard solution to streamline intercompany processes, ensuring tax compliance and strong internal controls for all stakeholders.

You will:

• Learn why adopting an end-to-end perspective on the global value chain is critical for finance leaders.

• Understand why SAP transformation projects present the perfect opportunity to optimize intercompany management.

• Gain insights on how EXA’s offerings can summarize intercompany SOX internal controls, related to change logs.

• Discover what actionable insights dashboards with cost transparency at group and local levels can deliver—featuring a product demo.

TDS simplified their A/P system architecture by implementing xSuite, through consolidation of four systems to one single solution that supports invoice scanning, OCR, document storage, workflow management, and reporting.  This transformation has simplified and streamlined processes by reducing manual tasks and increasing automation, allowing TDS to reduce their cost per invoice and increase their invoices processed per FTE. In this session, TDS Senior Manager, Matt Dolezel will share insights into the success they found in implementing xSuite’s intelligent automation solutions to streamline their AP processes. Supported by xSuite’s Senior SAP Consultant, Sanjeev Gupta will further explore Clean Core concepts, that will future-proof plans for TDS. Whether they choose On-Prem, Private Cloud or Public Cloud, all scenarios implemented with SAP’s best practices are supported by xSuite’s intelligent solutions.

You will:

• Integrate multiple business processes into one comprehensive solution to reduce complexity and improve efficiency. 

• Leverage intelligent automation to reduce costs and manual tasks that decrease processing expenses and boost team productivity. 

• Understand the benefits of choosing flexible technology solutions with future-proofing in mind that align with SAP best practices.

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting has emerged as a critical tool for sustainable growth and long-term value creation. This presentation explores the multifaceted benefits of ESG reporting, highlighting how it enhances transparency, builds stakeholder trust, and drives competitive advantage. We will discuss businesses that have successfully leveraged ESG metrics to improve operational efficiency, mitigate risks, and access new markets.

You will:

• Gain insights into best practices for implementing ESG reporting and learn how it can serve as a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and corporate responsibility in the face of global challenges.

Explore how General Motors transformed its tax operations through digital innovation. Learn about GM's journey from manual, post-transaction tax calculations to a fully integrated, centralized tax engine across all business lines and e-commerce platforms. Discover the impressive outcomes: 90% reduction in manual work, improved compliance, and enhanced customer experience. This case study showcases the power of digital solutions in modernizing tax operations, offering valuable lessons for organizations seeking to boost efficiency and compliance in today's dynamic regulatory environment.

You will: 

• Learn how General Motors’ proactive tax management facilitated reverse audits and bolstered the tax team's strategic capabilities.

Tax teams often struggle with inefficient processes, data duplication, and limited visibility into their organization's tax position. To address these challenges, embedding ONESOURCE Sales & Use Tax in SAP S/4HANA DRC streamlines tax reporting and enhances efficiency. This integration eliminates data duplication, fosters collaboration, and automates processes, allowing tax and IT teams to shift focus from data preparation to strategic analysis. As a result, they can better meet evolving tax authority demands and add greater value to the business.

You will:

• Discover how integrating ONESOURCE Sales & Use Tax with SAP S/4HANA DRC improves tax reporting, reduces inefficiencies, and enables teams to focus on strategic decision-making.

Enhance your tax operations by unlocking the potential of tax provision data.  Moving data from an ERP to provision software is time-consuming, tedious, and exposes risks. Explore how ONESOURCE Tax Provision, the SAP Connector, APIs and Dashboards can take your tax provision and other processes to the next level.

You will:

• Understand how to bring standardization, accuracy, and efficiency to provision obligations. 
• Learn how to increase the accuracy and speed of financial close using the ONESOURCE Tax Provision integration with SAP S/4HANA to calculate corporate tax estimates and automate the close.

Kemira, a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions, faced challenges in modernizing their financial analytics and enterprise-wide data management. The reliance on aging hardware and disconnected data systems hindered their ability to make real-time, data-driven decisions. By leveraging SAP S/4HANA and SAP Datasphere, Kemira successfully transformed their operational framework, enabling centralized, high-quality data integration across the organization. This session explores the key steps and strategies Kemira employed to unlock the full potential of SAP Datasphere for advanced analytics and reporting. Attendees will gain insights into how centralized data landscapes can enhance transparency, support critical business functions like finance, and drive innovation. Discover how the right combination of technology and strategy can revolutionize decision-making processes and position your organization for long-term growth.

You will:

• Hear how Kemira implemented SAP Datasphere to streamline financial analytics and enable data-driven insights. 
• Understand the role of SAP S/4HANA in creating a centralized data platform for enterprise-wide integration. 
• Learn strategies to overcome challenges in transitioning from legacy systems to modern cloud solutions. 
• Gain insights on best practices for leveraging analytics to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.

As organizations navigate an increasingly complex and dynamic business environment, the need for scalable and sustainable financial controls has never been greater. Traditional methods of financial oversight often struggle to keep pace with evolving regulatory requirements and growing volumes of transactional data. Automated solutions such as Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) offer a transformative approach to this challenge, leveraging advanced technologies to enhance Segregation of Duties (SoD) management and streamline control processes. This session will explore how CCM solutions are driving innovation by providing real-time insights and automating  control processes. We will discuss how integrating a CCM solution with SAP environments can address common issues such as compliance risks and operational inefficiencies, empowering organizations to maintain accuracy and resilience in their financial reporting. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how a CCM solution can future-proof financial controls and inspire new approaches to oversight, ensuring organizational success in a rapidly changing world. Join us to uncover innovative strategies and practical applications that redefine financial control excellence.

You will:

• Explore Innovative Control Automation Strategies: Discover how Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) solutions can revolutionize financial management by integrating real-time insights and automated controls into SAP landscapes. 

• Enhance Segregation of Duties Management: Learn how to effectively leverage CCM solutions to improve Segregation of Duties (SoD) management, mitigating compliance risks and strengthening internal controls. 

•  Address Operational Inefficiencies: Identify and overcome common operational challenges related to financial oversight and audit processes through practical applications of CCM technologies. 

• Gain actionable strategies for adapting to evolving regulatory requirements and business transformations, ensuring resilient and accurate financial reporting. 

• Learn about companies that have implemented CCM in their organizations, efficiencies they have gained and benefits they have realized.

The shift from legacy SAP consolidations, such as SAP ECCS, to SAP Group Reporting for financial consolidations is driven by the need for better data integration, improved reporting capabilities, and compliance with evolving regulations. Participants will gain insight into the benefits of adopting SAP Group Reporting, which offers a unified platform leveraging SAP S/4HANA for near real-time financial data consolidation with accurate and timely financial reports, streamlined reconciliation process and enhanced operational efficiency. The enhanced analytical capabilities of SAP Group Reporting allow finance teams to handle complex consolidations more efficiently and make informed decisions that support strategic business goals. We will discuss the migration process, covering technical architecture, data migration strategies, and challenges, while focusing on critical success factors and best practices to enable a smooth transition. This transition is crucial for organizations aiming to modernize their financial processes and align with digital transformation objectives.

You will:

• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of current financial consolidation processes and develop a detailed migration plan, including timelines, resources, and risk management strategies.

• Establish a robust data migration strategy to transfer and integrate financial data from legacy SAP systems to SAP Group Reporting, enabling data integrity and accuracy.

• Implement a comprehensive training program for finance teams and stakeholders to ensure familiarity with SAP Group Reporting features and promote smooth adoption.

• Leverage the advanced features of SAP Group Reporting to streamline consolidation workflows, improve reporting accuracy, and enhance financial transparency across the organization.

Discover how PayFabric, in collaboration with Delego, can transform payment collection processes for enterprises using SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Designed to address the challenges of managing global payment workflows, PayFabric and Delego enable organizations to simplify payment collection, enhance security, and reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) while improving overall cash flow. In this session, learn how PayFabric seamlessly integrates with Delego applications to provide a comprehensive solution tailored to the needs of large enterprises. From automating payment acceptance to ensuring PCI DSS compliance, these tools empower your organization to collect payments faster and more securely. Attendees will gain a deep understanding of how PayFabric and Delego enhance efficiency, support global transactions, and provide the flexibility required to adapt to evolving business needs. By leveraging these integrated solutions, enterprises can reduce manual interventions, mitigate payment risks, and achieve measurable improvements in cash flow management.

You will:

• Learn how PayFabric and Delego integrate with SAP to optimize payment collection.
• Discover strategies for reducing DSO and improving cash flow with secure payment solutions. 
• Gain insights on best practices for enhancing operational efficiency with SAP-integrated tools.

The shift from legacy SAP consolidations, such as SAP ECCS, to SAP Group Reporting for financial consolidations is driven by the need for better data integration, improved reporting capabilities, and compliance with evolving regulations. Participants will gain insight into the benefits of adopting SAP Group Reporting, which offers a unified platform leveraging SAP S/4HANA for near real-time financial data consolidation with accurate and timely financial reports, streamlined reconciliation process and enhanced operational efficiency. The enhanced analytical capabilities of SAP Group Reporting allow finance teams to handle complex consolidations more efficiently and make informed decisions that support strategic business goals. We will discuss the migration process, covering technical architecture, data migration strategies, and challenges, while focusing on critical success factors and best practices to enable a smooth transition. This transition is crucial for organizations aiming to modernize their financial processes and align with digital transformation objectives.

You will:

• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of current financial consolidation processes and develop a detailed migration plan, including timelines, resources, and risk management strategies.

• Establish a robust data migration strategy to transfer and integrate financial data from legacy SAP systems to SAP Group Reporting, enabling data integrity and accuracy.

• Implement a comprehensive training program for finance teams and stakeholders to ensure familiarity with SAP Group Reporting features and promote smooth adoption.

• Leverage the advanced features of SAP Group Reporting to streamline consolidation workflows, improve reporting accuracy, and enhance financial transparency across the organization.

Are you a financial or operational auditor seeking to learn how to efficiently and effectively test controls in an SAP system, or someone in management looking for a primer on what your auditors may be looking for?  Attend this session to learn how to assess SAP ITACs / ABACs, including those common to compliance regulations like SOX, as well those aligned with better-practices.

You will:

• Review some of the most common controls supporting financial reporting integrity, and learn of typical mis-configurations and how to spot them
• Understand emerging areas of audit focus, such as controls governing price x quantity (PxQ) 
• Learn valuable control settings that are not enabled by default and often missed by implementation teams, including Dual Control over Sensitive Fields, Budget Tolerances, and Inventory Adjustment Tolerances
• Explore how key tables and files related to ITACs / ABACs can be used to facilitate continuous monitoring in tools like Process Control"

To address the challenges of risk assessment and control governance acceptance within business communities, leveraging SAP GRC Process Controls’ Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) can be an effective solution. SAP GRC Process Control can be utilized to enhance compliance processes and foster better collaboration between the business and IT through efficient risk management and facilitating user certification.

To enhance efficient risk management, the system’s automated monitoring capabilities provide a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of risk levels, thereby supporting a more robust compliance framework that aligns with the GRC AC ruleset. Additionally, automating the user certification process via SAP GRC Process Control promotes efficient interaction between business and IT departments. This alignment not only streamlines internal processes but also helps prepare organizations for annual SOX reviews to ensure a second level of risk remediation. Join this insightful session to explore these features in depth and understand how to effectively leverage SAP GRC Process Control for your organization.

You will:

• Explore the CCM capabilities of SAP GRC Process Control, focusing on automation at a risk level for both Segregation of Duties and Sensitive Access.
• Gain insights into how the automated user certification process enables businesses to achieve a deeper understanding of security role design. This process also provides transparency and an in-depth review of the associated risks and issues at hand.
• Understand how CCM can offer real-time visibility to business operations and function as a central repository for critical business data.
• The importance of maintaining your ruleset regularly, validating your mitigating controls and risk mapping, and aligning the risks to the correct owner in a dynamically changing organizational environment for success.

Integrating your Identity and GRC solutions can empower your organization with enhanced governance and security processes. But managing identity and access in SAP systems is often more complicated than other applications. GRC tooling defines the risks associated to the access and allows you to meet principles of "least-privilege," while IGA solutions allow you to reduce the overheads associated with provisioning and reviewing the access. At Barrick Gold, we wanted to take advantage of the capabilities of both solutions to minimize the overhead on our internal teams in user lifecycle management and enable greater focus on other areas of reducing risk. In this session, Barrick's Application Risk Manager and Director of Application Support will delve into the practical strategies and best practices used to establish an efficient integration between SailPoint and SAP GRC and demonstrate how you can establish operational efficiency of both solutions.

You will:

• Understand technical compatibilities between SailPoint and GRC.
• Gain data synchronization best practices.
• Learn how to deal with customizations and configuration complexities.
• Discover how to ensure a seamless user experience and adoption.

Eli Lilly and Company uses Continuous Control Monitoring to automate control performance for over 300 controls in our ECC S/3 system. Attend this session to learn how Eli Lilly and Company's SAP Process Controls Team approached, tested and navigated the impacts of the conversion to SAP S/4HANA. To prepare for the migration, all controls needed to be evaluated for impacts and tested to ensure system changes would not adversely affect CCM results. Learn the approach to completing this testing, lessons learned along the way and how Lilly ensured that all controls remain effective for the year, despite the change in environments.

You will:

• Understand how Eli Lilly and Company uses SAP Process Control Continuous Control Monitoring (CCMs).
• Understand the approach Lilly took to test all CCM business rules for impacts.
• Learn about issues found during testing and steps taken to resolve them.
• Discuss the tricky timing of scheduling and executing business rules when converting from one primary system to another.

Learn how The Hershey Company, one of the largest snacking manufacturers in the world, collaborated with their SAP S/4HANA ERP control integration partner to maintain an effective and reliable system of internal controls throughout their multi-year, phased implementation of SAP S/4HANA. This session will cover how Hershey redesigned their SAP GRC Access Control ruleset and incorporated pre go-live access risk analyses. You will also hear about how Hershey effectively manage elevated cut-over access and implemented a hypercare controls strategy which reduced the risk of control failures while control owners adapted to new systems, processes, reporting and technology.

You will:

• See how Hershey maintained a strong security and control posture during their SAP S/4HANA implementation journey.
• Hear how they took a risk-based approach to redesign their SAP GRC Access Control ruleset to prioritize the critical/impactful financial reporting risks and facilitate more effective access reviews.
• See how they aligned their redesigned SAP GRC Access Control ruleset with their external auditors to increase reliance.
• Discuss how they collaborated with their SAP S/4HANA ERP implementation team to incorporate the redesigned SAP GRC Access Control ruleset as part of the implementation team’s security design strategy to identify roles with inherent Segregation of Duties (SODs) prior to provisioning to end users.
• Explore how they prepared for a well-controlled go-live by designing a strong access control strategy for elevated access during the cutover and hypercare period.

Whether you are an early adopter of SAP S/4HANA or a recent implementation, there are tips for managing risks better within your environment. Did you choose your upgrade strategy on cost alone? Did your implementation partner only focus on SAP S/4HANA? The choices you made impact the required scope of an implementation project. Many SAP customers shortcut security and access controls without knowing how a brownfield or technical upgrade directly impacts their risk profile.

You will:

• Learn how a brownfield or technical upgrade impacts security.
• Discover GRC access control required activities.
• Understand the impact of Compatibility Mode with SAP S/4HANA.

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT will permanently change the way systems work and how we interact with them. That is why we need to consider how we can use them effectively in SAP landscapes. Using the example of ChatGPT and SAP GRC, we will show specific use cases and integration scenarios.

You will:

• Discover ways to integrate an SAP system with ChatGPT.
• Consider ideas on which GRC process steps can be extended with ChatGPT.
• Explore theses for the future development of LLMs.

In this hands-on lab, participants will explore SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG), a cloud-based solution designed to streamline access management and governance. The session will focus on the key features of SAP Cloud IAG, such as role management, access request approvals, access risk analysis, and audit reporting. Attendees will gain practical experience in configuring and managing cloud-based access controls, integrating with on-premise systems, and automating governance processes. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped to enhance compliance, reduce risk, and ensure secure access management across their organization's cloud infrastructure.

Moving to the cloud introduces a new paradigm of shared responsibilities between cloud service providers (CSPs) and their customers. This shift requires a reevaluation of traditional internal controls and audit practices, and a deeper understanding of the delineation of responsibilities to ensure data integrity, security, and compliance.

You will:

• Learn about the differences in responsibility across various cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Understand the impact on compliance considerations and internal controls.
• Hear best practices for collaborating with your cloud service providers, and where you can find the information you need as you evaluate the impact on your internal controls environment.

Step into the future of auditing with our session on the transformative benefits of continuous threat monitoring and comprehensive audit trails. While legal regulations like KRITIS, DSGVO, GDPR, and NIS2 don't mandate these practices, they significantly enhance audit capabilities and streamline compliance. Discover how tracking user behavior and maintaining detailed logs within an SAP OP or Cloud environments can fortify your security posture, provide actionable insights, and facilitate smoother, more efficient audits. Join us to understand the crucial role these advanced practices play in today’s rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and learn how to leverage them for unparalleled audit accuracy and reliability.

You will:

• Understand the value of real-time threat detection and response in improving your overall security infrastructure.
• Learn the importance of comprehensive audit trails and how maintaining detailed logs of user behavior can provide critical insights and streamline audit processes.
• Discover strategies to utilize continuous monitoring and audit trails to ensure compliance with KRITIS, DSGVO, GDPR, NIS2, and other regulations.

Join us for an in-depth session on SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance and SAP Access Control, where we will explore the latest features, integrations, and best practices to enhance your organizations access governance processes.

You will:

• Receive a comprehensive understanding of SAPs access governance features and best practices.
• Gain insights into the strategic direction and future developments of SAP GRC. Discover practical knowledge of partner integrations and their benefits.
• Hear an overview of advanced access governance capabilities and their application.
• Learn detailed information on the new features and updates in the 2026 GRC product release.

In this technical information session, gain hands-on expertise in identifying and mitigating risks within your custom SAP code. This presentation equips you with actionable, repeatable skills using a blend of standard SAP tools and common office software. Learn to effectively data-mine your custom code to uncover vulnerabilities that impact user-facing transactions and general computing controls. Discover how to detect gaps in categorization within GRC rulesets. We'll delve into practical techniques for scanning your codebase, highlighting critical areas where vulnerabilities might lurk. You'll understand how to systematically review and enhance your security posture that can be used even if you lack access to advanced SAP GRC tools. By the end of the session, you'll be able to apply these techniques immediately, enhancing your system's compliance and security. This session is ideal for SAP administrators, developers, and security professionals who want to proactively manage and secure their SAP environments. Join us to transform your approach to custom code categorization and compliance.

You will:

• Learn how to utilize standard SAP tools and office software and learn how to leverage a combination of SAP’s built-in tools and common office software to analyze custom code effectively.
• Discover how to conduct custom code data mining and implement techniques to systematically search your custom code for user-facing transactions and general computing controls.
• Understand how to categorize code for GRC rulesets and learn to identify and rectify instances where custom code lacks proper categorization in GRC rulesets, even without advanced GRC tools.
• Explore how to enhance security posture by applying the skills learned to proactively manage and strengthen your SAP system's security and compliance stance.
• Consider ways to implement immediate improvements and use the actionable techniques and insights from the session to make immediate, impactful changes to your custom code and risk management practices.

This session will explore the details of functionality, differentiators, and important platform aspects in the latest GRC Private and Public Cloud provisioning and compliance solutions from SAP. Customers will gain detail insight into the SAP Compliance applications of SAP GRC Access Control 12.0 and SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance and which application, platform, and functionality is best suited for their current and long-term compliance and provisioning requirements. We will also explore system connectivity capabilities and how the two applications can work together for customers rising to the cloud and need to support hybrid environments while transitioning from on-premise to cloud applications while maintaining consistent compliance and security standards.

You will:

• Learn the wide selection of functionality available in GRC AC 12.0 and IAG. 
• Explore the differentiators been the On Premise/Private Cloud GRC Access Control 12.0 and Public Cloud SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance products that can provide compliance solutions for both near and long-term requirements. 
• Provide a detailed analysis of the Technical platform and User Interface differences between the 2 applications to enhance usability and end user adoption. Detail key ROI and application differentiators that customers need to contemplate to determine which solution is best for them. 
• Explore integration points between the Public and Private cloud compliance applications which provide a holistic Compliance and provisioning solution for Hybrid or Rise transition environments.  This will include the interaction of GRC Access Control 12.0 with IAG and the IAG Cloud Bridge.

AI has great potential to create opportunity for businesses and society in general, yet is simultaneously disruptive and, over time, will change how businesses run and how decisions are made. This presents both opportunities and challenges for auditors. As AI systems increasingly automate decision-making, risk assessment, and even fraud detection, auditors must adapt their methodologies and understand the underlying technologies to effectively evaluate the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of these systems.

You will:

• Understand the fundamentals of AI and SAPs approach with SAP Business AI.
• Learn some of the risks associated with AI.
• Learn how SAP solutions can help you manage AI risks, and where SAP is leveraging AI capabilities to enhance GRC capabilities.

User access is a constant and everchanging thing. From the creation of a person’s User account, their changing roles in an organization, to the day that it gets locked or deleted, potentially hundreds of access assignment changes will be required to make sure that a person has the right access to do their job over their career. Facilitating those access changes in an efficient, compliant, and simplistic way is critical, especially in today’s growing IT environments. This session will deep dive into the many challenges customers face in the “Compliant Access Provisioning Process” and the proven real-world solutions that SAP Access Control and IAG provide to enable customers to automate, control, and empower end users to make sure that people have the right access at the right time to do their jobs.

You will:

• Examine critical issues that customers face in the quest for “compliant access provisioning” processes in today’s sophisticated environments including Fiori, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Apps, Non-SAP systems, and Complex Multi-Landscape SAP environments.
• Explore proven solutions, techniques, processes, and configuration opportunities to leverage SAP GRC Access Control 12.0, and IAG (SAP Identity and Access Governance) functionality to provide comprehensive access provisioning for a full lifecycle of a user account.
• Deep dive into the setup, configuration, and functionality of “SAP Access Control HR Triggers” and integration with SAP HR and SuccessFactors to provide event-driven access provisioning automation.
• Explore GRC Access Control and SAP Cloud IAG functionality that assists with simplifying the Access Selection process to facilitate End User Access Request Self Service. This includes deep diving into the functionality, setup, and proper utilization of Default Roles, Role Mapping, and Business Roles.
• Highlight SAP Access Control integration points to incorporate GRC Access Control functionality with Identity Management Systems, LDAP Active Directory, SAP Cloud applications via Version 12.0 and the SAP GRC IAG Cloud Bridge, as well as non-SAP systems.

Join this session to learn how L3Harris navigated unanticipated excessive user access issues due to project timeline constraints during their SAP S/4HANA go-live. Despite the rush to meet critical deadlines, which led to an overlooked security cleanup, L3Harris effectively addressed the situation. Discover how the company quantified Segregation of Duties (SoD) exposures, identified mitigating controls, and developed a comprehensive plan for a security redesign.

You will:

• Understand how to quantify user level SoDs leveraging transactional and master data to determine potential exposure with actual occurrences and dollar amounts.
• Explore how to map IT Application Controls (ITACs) and IT General Controls (ITGCs) to SoD risks and then upload mitigating controls to GRC.
• Discover how to determine if the current security roles can be made SoD-free or if a security redesign is needed by performing a technical SAP security role assessment.
• Learn how to determine options, timeline, and level of effort needed to remediate or redesign for the existing security roles and future rollouts.

Organizations always strive to optimize their SAP security and controls framework and strengthen their GRC capabilities. Introducing / embedding AI into the mix is highly beneficial – it enables AI-powered risk assessment, deficiency impact assessment, automation of repetitive manual tasks (such as control operation, control testing), data-driven decision making and overall greater precision of compliance. Longer term, AI-powered GRC capabilities will put you ahead of the curve and reduce your overall cost of compliance. In this session, we will learn from a Fortune 10 Tech company how they have been managing AI considerations within their broader controls strategy with primary focus on SAP.

You will:

• Understand AI capabilities to augment SAP controls/security from a people and processes perspective.
• Identify AI use cases to enhance GRC powered technology capabilities.
• Develop a robust governance framework around AI capabilities that are an integral part of the compliance effort.
• Integrate the ‘science’ and the ‘art’ by getting the balance right, and make compliance more efficient yet cost effective.

With the SAP S/4HANA deadline approaching, time is running out to upgrade from SAP ECC. Many organizations hope a technical upgrade can reduce business process disruption and implementation costs. Learn what critical security decisions are needed and how they can impact required activities.

You will:

• Consider how UI decisions will impact your security activities. 
• Understand how to bring controls along for the ride. 
• See where GenAI can help streamline the security upgrade process.

As organizations navigate an increasingly complex and dynamic business environment, the need for scalable and sustainable financial controls has never been greater. Traditional methods of financial oversight often struggle to keep pace with evolving regulatory requirements and growing volumes of transactional data. Automated solutions such as Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) offer a transformative approach to this challenge, leveraging advanced technologies to enhance Segregation of Duties (SoD) management and streamline control processes. This session will explore how CCM solutions are driving innovation by providing real-time insights and automating  control processes. We will discuss how integrating a CCM solution with SAP environments can address common issues such as compliance risks and operational inefficiencies, empowering organizations to maintain accuracy and resilience in their financial reporting. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how a CCM solution can future-proof financial controls and inspire new approaches to oversight, ensuring organizational success in a rapidly changing world. Join us to uncover innovative strategies and practical applications that redefine financial control excellence.

You will:

• Explore Innovative Control Automation Strategies: Discover how Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) solutions can revolutionize financial management by integrating real-time insights and automated controls into SAP landscapes. 

• Enhance Segregation of Duties Management: Learn how to effectively leverage CCM solutions to improve Segregation of Duties (SoD) management, mitigating compliance risks and strengthening internal controls. 

•  Address Operational Inefficiencies: Identify and overcome common operational challenges related to financial oversight and audit processes through practical applications of CCM technologies. 

• Gain actionable strategies for adapting to evolving regulatory requirements and business transformations, ensuring resilient and accurate financial reporting. 

• Learn about companies that have implemented CCM in their organizations, efficiencies they have gained and benefits they have realized.

In the dynamic landscape of enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP S/4HANA offers organizations unprecedented flexibility and power. However, one critical challenge many organizations face is aligning user access controls with license compliance to manage costs and mitigate audit risks. Traditional approaches to authorization often lead to over-provisioning, resulting in unnecessary expenses and compliance concerns. The concept of license-optimized authorization addresses this issue by ensuring that user roles are not only aligned with security and operational needs but are also optimized to the specific license types required for each role's activities.  This session explores how organizations can implement license-aware access controls to streamline costs and enhance compliance in SAP S/4HANA environments.

You will:

• Understand License-Optimized Authorization.
• Learn about Xiting Tools and Techniques for Optimization.
• Hear about mitigating Audit Risks.
• Gain insights on Best Practices for Continuous Optimization.

For contemporary organizations in the digital age cloud and hybrid Integrations are becoming the number one strategic priority. On their long way to the cloud SAP customers must integrate applications across diverse and complex application landscapes and ecosystems. Seamless and stable integration between cloud and on-premises application is a top requirement. This session provides deep insights into the SAP based iPaaS solution (Integration Platform as a service) based on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Attendees will learn how to leverage integration needs with prepackaged integrations scenarios provided by SAP. Additionally, they will also gain insights on when and how to develop custom integrations to establish business processes across your hybrid system landscape.

You will:

• Receive a deep knowledge in modern cloud and on-prem hybrid integration scenarios. 
• Achieve a good overview of technical SAP BTP functionalities to establish cloud and on-prem Integrations. 
• Earn insights of predefined integration content providing by SAP supporting your integration projects. 
• Learn how to develop your custom integrations with SAP BTP Integration Services.

Join us for this session to meet peers and figure out how we can better utilize Enterprise Architecture reference content and tools to support IT transformations including a migration to SAP S/4HANA. Understand SAP’s Enterprise Architecture Framework approach which is closely aligned with industry standards like TOGAF and APQC. Learn about available tools and services which can help setting up and operating an Enterprise Architecture practice. Share stories with other customers, lessons learned and best practices.

You will:

• Understand the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and find out what reference content and tools SAP is offering.
• Discuss the role of change management in establishing an Enterprise Architecture practice.
• Learn what role a solid governance concept plays in implementing and running an Enterprise Architecture practice.
• Discuss typical customer situations like application retirement or rationalization.
• Share experiences and best practices with your peers Discuss typical paint points and ways to address and overcome the same.

Running SAP HANA on bare-metal servers has proven costly for Honeywell, with a higher total cost of ownership (TCO) and limited high availability (HA) options in the event of hardware failures. By virtualizing our SAP HANA on-premise environment, we significantly reduced TCO while enhancing system robustness and resilience. The new architecture offers improved uptime, minimized downtime windows, and optimized resource utilization, ultimately lowering operational costs and increasing overall efficiency for Honeywell.

You will:

• Understand the benefit of virtualizing SAP HANA application when hosting on prem. 
• Learn about reduction in TCO for running SAP HANA on prem.

In this session, we will explore effective strategies for overcoming the challenges of migrating to SAP S/4HANA in multi-segment companies. By leveraging the comprehensive 360-degree view offered by SAP LeanIX modeling capabilities alongside SAP Signavio Business Process Mapping, organizations can achieve a clearer understanding of their processes and dependencies. This integrated approach facilitates better decision-making, enhances collaboration across segments, and minimizes disruption during migration. Participants will gain insights into best practices for utilizing these tools to streamline their SAP S/4HANA migration journey, ensuring a smoother transition and improved operational efficiency.

You will:

• Understand how LeanIX enhances decision-making.
• Gain insights into utilizing SAP Signavio to effectively map and optimize business processes.
• Explore the synergy between LeanIX and SAP Signavio during transformation phases and learn how to leverage their combined capabilities for a successful transition while using strategic data to plan for the future.

Many organizations overlook the SAP user off-boarding process, even after employees have been disabled in Enterprise Identity Management tools. As a result, user accounts of off-boarded employees may remain active in the SAP system, leading to potential issues such as non-compliance with security audits, discrepancies in license counts, and increased risk of unauthorized access, which can leave the SAP system vulnerable to cybersecurity threats and fraud.

• At Giorgi Global Holdings, we faced a similar challenge where SAP accounts were not properly off-boarded, and some remained active despite being manually disabled. To address this, we implemented a straightforward solution using basic tools and services available in SAP BTP's CPI Suite to automate the user off-boarding process.
• The automation proved highly effective, ensuring SAP accounts were deactivated in a timely manner. This not only reduced security risks, such as unauthorized access to productive systems but also freed up resources, allowing our team to focus on other important projects related to SAP security. While the off-boarding process may seem simple, it plays a critical role in maintaining the overall security of the enterprise.
• The success of this initiative highlights how SAP BTP’s services can be leveraged to automate processes, whether simple or complex, leading to significant positive outcomes for the organization.

You will;

• Get an Overview of the Solution.
• Leverage SAP BTP CPI Suite tools.
• Experience Organizational Advantages.
• Discover Future Scope.

SAP Advanced Event Mesh is a fantastic tool, but in order to enable events out of SAP, it can be cumbersome and time consuming. What if you could do this easily using simple configuration and standard SAP tools? In this session we will show you how this is possible via a live demo and give you guidance on how to start doing it yourself.

You will:

• Learn what SAP Events are and how you can utilize them in business context.
• Understand how to make events and related data available via SAP AIFEM.
• Learn how to expose Change Pointers and Business Object Events to SAP Advanced Event Mesh.
• Understand how to send out customized events real-time to SAP Advanced Event Mesh.
• Learn how to start your own PoC and/or solution.

SAP PO is soon out of support, so how do we migrate from SAP PO and what are our options? There is not a single answer that fits every organization, but there is a process everybody needs to go through. We will go through the challenges and possibilities this migrating gives us and what value you can get from migrating away from SAP PO. This includes discussing Migration Governance and Available tools, and will be based on customer cases who are either in process or done with migrating their SAP PO system.

You will:

• Identify challenges when migrating from SAP PO. What is the scope? Where do we migrate to?  
• Help define Migration Governance. What can be automated? What needs to be redesigned? How do we handle testing? How do we handle releases? 
• Learn what tools are available from SAP to help you, such as automating migration, automating testing, and automating Go-Live.

Our fast-evolving digital world requires a proactive and holistic approach in managing the enterprise and its ecosystem. The tool set for building out meaningful enterprise architecture artifacts has never been richer. In this session we will take an Enterprise Architects view of the integration between SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio Business Transformation Suite and how this enables you to drive seamless enterprise transformations. We will review the reports and artifacts that will enable you to tell a compelling transformation story.

You will:

• Learn how to generate compelling current and future State comparison architectures.
• Hear what-If scenarios simulations.
• See data-driven, actionable outcomes.

Over the past decade, companies have been transitioning to cloud-based technologies to get better speed and cost effectiveness. Many organizations have grown their middleware footprint to connect their business processes established through various technologies. This session will help similar customers to understand, why Florida Crystals transitioning to iPaaS, what are the key drivers and motivators as well as outlines the benefits that were achieved as a result.

You will:

• Learn why Florida Crystals is transitioning to SAP IS and how it can benefit your organization. 
• Discover the key drivers and motivators behind Florida Crystals' shift to cloud-based technologies. 
• Understand the benefits achieved by Florida Crystals through SAP IS implementation.
• Explore the process of growing a middleware footprint to connect business processes using various technologies. 
• Gain insights into achieving better speed and cost-effectiveness with cloud-based technologies.

Take your enterprise landscape to new heights and revolutionize your integration by embracing a hybrid integration approach. Participate in a hands-on experience where you can discover the Migration Assessment capability, migration accelerator, and Edge Integration Cell runtime to ease your move from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite.

You will:

• Embrace a hybrid integration approach to elevate your enterprise landscape and transform your integration processes.
• Discover and utilize the Migration Assessment capability, migration accelerator, and Edge Integration Cell runtime to facilitate the transition from SAP Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite.
• Participate in a hands-on experience to streamline and enhance your migration strategy with advanced integration tools and techniques.

“Edge Integration Cell” is the new flexible hybrid integration runtime, offered as an optional extension to SAP Integration Suite, enabling customers to manage APIs and run their integration scenarios within customer-managed private landscapes. The solution is Generally Available (GA) since SAP TechEd 2023, it has been announced by Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Board of SAP in his Executive Keynote at SAP TechEd 2023.  Key Highlights are for sure: flexible deployment option in customer managed private Kubernetes environments (Azure AKS, Amazon EKS, SUSE Rancher), supports use cases of data compliance and governance by processing data locally, design, configure and monitor APIs and integrations in the cloud but run them within your private landscape, configure and manage multiple Edge Integration Cells with an SAP Integration Suite cloud tenant, offers a migration path for SAP PI/PO customers, to move to SAP Integration Suite, and still be able to run scenarios within their private landscape So, the technology is the logical successor of SAP PI/PO (which has an end of maintenance) for those interfaces which needs to be remained in a private environment. As this is still a young product, which needs to be installed & operated within a customer environment, customers face the following challenges: Kubernetes as new technology, missing knowledge on customer side, installation steps, infrastructure sizing and minimal requirements unclear, new technical personas are required, new design artifacts like the API artifact need to be understood, software lifecycle of SAP Cloud meets customer owned landscape + lifecycle, which leads to operational and versioning questions, and new monitoring environment is introduced, which is not always known on customer side.

You will learn:

• The architecture of SAP Integration Suite, Edge Integration Cell.
• How to preform SAP Integration Suite, Edge Integration Cell Sizing & Installation.
• How to use effectively existing SAP PO content in the Edge Integration Cell runtime.
• How to perform SAP Integration Suite, Edge Integration Monitoring & Operations.

Join us for a discussion on best practices for integrating SAP data into your organization’s cloud data platform. Whether you utilize a Data Lake, a Data Warehouse, a Data Lakehouse, or a combination of all three, this session will explore how SAP data can be integrated in a streamlined process with optimal efficiency.

You will:

• Discover how to reduce IT resource time and costs by automating SAP data integration with minimal maintenance.
• Receive an overview of how to keep your SAP source data and central data repository synchronized through near-real-time replication.
• Explore the flexibility of data integration options, from large table extractions to change data capture (CDC), from views to queries and reports, across your SAP landscape.

Transition seamlessly from legacy landscapes to the cloud using SAP Integration Suite and its cloud-based integration services, specifically designed for migrating from SAP Process Orchestration software. Discover the migration tools and services available to assist you in this process. Gain insights into available options, identify potential technical challenges, and explore assessment, migration, and testing services to ensure a smooth transition.

Key Takeaways:

• Seamless Migration: Learn how SAP Integration Suite facilitates a smooth transition from legacy systems to the cloud, offering specialized integration services to replace SAP Process Orchestration software.
• Comprehensive Migration Tools: Discover the various tools and services available to support your migration, including assessment, migration, and testing services that help identify and address technical challenges.
• Assessment and Risk Management: Understand how to evaluate your current landscape, check for potential technical showstoppers, and use available assessment services to mitigate risks and ensure a successful migration.

Learn from industry leaders how to bring modernization into your SAP transformation journey - explaining best practices with practical learning and examples along the way!

Overview of Red Hat’s value for SAP workloads with practical customer examples, to accelerate your journey!

Practical experience from Red Hat’s field organisation.

Get an exclusive look into the colorful book on Enterprise Architecture with SAP.  This book is unique and one of its kind which will provide the story of active architecture transformation with real-life customer use cases using a stringent framework and methodology with a strong and comprehensive SAP reference architecture, as well as an end-to-end toolchain around SAP LeanIX.  This book is a call for change. Meet the book author Anup Das as he unpacks the book which is designed for enterprise architects, SAP professionals, and C-level executives who are navigating the complexities of modern IT landscapes. 

This new book is divided in five interesting parts:

• SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework
• SAP Enterprise Architecture Use-Cases and Patterns
• SAP LeanIX
• Enterprise Architecture Practice
• Outlook and Conclusion

SAP Test Automation by Tricentis (STA) is designed to simplify the implementation of process changes by enabling continuous, automated testing across complex, heterogeneous IT landscapes. Its tight integration with SAP Cloud ALM supports test orchestration for all browser-based SAP products and applications, including FIORI, Ariba, and SuccessFactors. In this demo session, we’ll show you:

• How to set up your tenant and start creating automated test cases in Cloud ALM within minutes. 
• Model-based test automation capabilities that allow our customers to reach automation rates of 90%+.

Discover how a global manufacturing leader revolutionized their supply chain operations using a simple, yet scalable low-code integration solution powered by Boomi for SAP. Learn how they seamlessly accessed data from SAP S/4HANA and connected it to a non-SAP demand planning application, unlocking real-time insights and driving measurable outcomes.

How can you efficiently migrate from SAP BW 7.5 before its end-of-maintenance in 2027? In this 20-minute demonstration, discover how Boomi can help you streamline the transition to any modern data warehouse with SAP-certified integration. Join us to see real-world scenarios and best practices that will simplify your SAP BW transition.

You will watch our experts showcase:

• Effortless DataSource extraction via Boomi’s SAP-certified connector.
• Flexible deployment options: on-premises, cloud, or hybrid.
• Proven strategies for consolidating critical data while ensuring business continuity.

You've chosen the best enterprise applications, including SAP, to run your business-critical processes. Now, maximize the value of both SAP and non-SAP applications with AI-powered integration from the world's most widely used Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about Boomi’s vision for AI-powered integration and gain valuable insights into maximizing SAP’s full potential, positioning your organization for successful transformation in the AI era!

Join this action-packed session to:

• Discover how Boomi's unique, SAP-certified native connector reduces manual integration time and effort between SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Learn about how Boomi AI-agents can help you become radically more productive by drawing on 300 million integrations to autonomously perform tasks while ensuring security.
• See a live demo of  a Boomi AI agent that allows finance users to ask questions to any financial data across ERP systems, databases, data lakes, and documents using natural language.

Facing the 2027 end-of-maintenance deadline for SAP PI/PO? Learn how Boomi for SAP reduces migration efforts by over 30% while simplifying the transition to SAP Integration Suite. Discover how our low-code, AI-powered platform accelerates timelines, minimizes disruptions, and connects SAP and non-SAP systems seamlessly.

Share the overview of Red Hat’s value for EIC, along with practical examples sharing best practices along the way.

Discover tools and strategies for your transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud with RISE with SAP. Learn about key resources such as Lean SDT, SAP Cloud ALM, Compatibility Packs, and Clean Core. Understand the best practices for conversion projects and how to effectively utilize these tools to maximize efficiency. Benefit from SAP's coordinated lifecycle management, ensuring these practices are applicable across the SAP portfolio. 

You will: 

• Explore tools and strategies provided by RISE with SAP to facilitate your transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. 
• Learn about key resources and best practices for conversion projects. 
• Benefit from SAP's coordinated lifecycle management approach, ensuring that these practices are not only applicable but also optimized across the SAP portfolio.

In today's rapidly evolving landscape, Basis administrators must adeptly manage complex SAP environments to effectively support business operations. As organizations undergo swift changes, the Basis team has become increasingly agile in addressing new projects and requirements while efficiently maintaining the existing landscape without disrupting business continuity. However, the challenge arises from the need to juggle multiple business requests, as the Basis team often serves as the final point of support within the organization. This session will highlight best practices for the Basis team to effectively meet business needs while ensuring minimal disruption and maintaining high performance. Attendees will gain actionable insights into balancing responsiveness with operational stability to drive success across the organization.

You will:

• Learn how to utilize Cloud ALM to effectively monitor your SAP landscape, ensuring optimal performance and quick issue resolution.
• Explore automation opportunities within the Basis area, enhancing efficiency and reducing manual effort in system management.
• Gain insights into developing a comprehensive Basis repository and Runbook, providing structured documentation and streamlined processes for your SAP operations.

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. manages a complex SAP environment with over 30 production systems hosted in Google Cloud (GCP). Previously, manual SAP system health checks consumed 50% of a dedicated resource, offering only limited, point-in-time insights and leaving the team vulnerable to unforeseen production issues. Additionally, the lack of integration between SAP and non-SAP data created visibility gaps and hindered efficient issue resolution. In this session, learn how KDP leveraged GCP’s tools to automate health checks, gain real-time visibility, and correlate SAP and non-SAP data on a single platform, driving improved system performance and operational efficiency.

You will:

• Learn how Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. automated manual SAP system health checks, providing their SAP Basis team more time for higher-value tasks.
• Explore how KDP leverages real-time monitoring tools for comprehensive visibility into SAP system health, ensuring proactive issue resolution.
• Discover how KDP improved error remediation by correlating SAP and non-SAP data, breaking down data silos between teams for more efficient operations.

In today's IT landscape, organizations must balance optimizing SAP performance with controlling hosting costs. As more businesses adopt hybrid models that integrate on-premise infrastructure with cloud solutions, managing these complex environments becomes increasingly challenging. In this session, the Global IT Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Services from The Hershey Company will share insights on their Hosting Optimization initiative, which focuses on enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and improving user experience across their SAP environment. Key strategies include repurposing existing hosting locations, negotiating with Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) for cost-effective solutions, rehosting workloads for better performance, and implementing continuous monitoring and autoscaling to ensure optimal resource utilization. Network optimization plays a critical role in improving scalability and traffic flow. By leveraging hybrid cloud solutions and diversifying across CSPs, Hershey aims to reduce dependency risks while delivering faster response times, improved reliability, and significant cost savings. This approach aligns with long-term business goals, offering a roadmap for sustained operational success in a cloud-centric world.

You will:

• Learn to resize and repurpose resources to achieve substantial cost savings. 
• Apply optimized hosting solutions for quicker response times and increased reliability.
• Leverage cloud rehosting to scale operations effortlessly as business demands increase.
• Diversify hosting solutions across multiple CSPs to minimize dependency on a single provider.

Business Resiliency has evolved over the period of last 30 years.  During the 1990s the focus was to preserve data using backup technologies by backing up and moving to offsite for recovery during a disaster.  Next during the early 2000s, with the improvements in storage and network technologies, online replication became the standard to achieve the RPO and RTO SLAs for the business.  Next came the Public Cloud Providers who made the business resiliency completely transparent to the businesses.  However, even with all these changes and improvements the monolithic ECC systems running on-premises had some technical challenges.  The biggest challenge was due to the number of end points (both internal and external) that created challenges when the systems failed over to alternate data centers.   B2B VPN configurations, Firewalls for internal and external traffic depended on the IP address of the system that would change when failed over to another data center.  Logical change at the DNS will help few applications but will not help the firewall and B2B configurations. Now, we are in the 2020s with networking and firewall virtualization.  This session will present Honeywell’s case study and configuration on how we set up the business resiliency across entire SAP production landscape to “seamlessly” failover to alternate data center without any changes to the IP addresses.  We will go over the technical details of network and firewall virtualization technologies that enabled us to do so.

You will:

• Learn business resiliency technology for seamless DR implementation.

This session delves into Tile Shop’s journey one year after migrating SAP to the cloud. Attendees will gain insights into the tangible and intangible benefits the company has realized from running SAP S/4HANA in Azure, such as improved scalability, cost optimization, and increased operational agility. Additionally, the session will cover the cloud-native tools Tile Shop has utilized to effectively manage and enhance their SAP environment, offering practical lessons for organizations seeking to maximize the value of their cloud migration.

You will:

• Learn how to optimize the cost structure of SAP S/4HANA in the cloud using native cost management tools.
• Discover automation techniques for streamlining maintenance and improving operational efficiency.
• Explore proactive cloud monitoring and alerting tools to predict and address potential issues before they arise.

Maintaining a clean core while managing extensions to your SAP S/4HANA Cloud is essential for streamlined operations and future-proofing your IT landscape. With SAP Cloud ALM, you can effortlessly orchestrate change and deployment management, seamlessly integrating SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) developments. SAP Cloud ALM provides robust tools specifically designed for modern application lifecycle management, including comprehensive change and deployment management capabilities. This ensures that all changes and extensions are meticulously planned, tested, and deployed without compromising the integrity of your core system. By using SAP Cloud ALM, you gain real-time insights into your SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP environments, facilitating smoother deployments and proactive monitoring. This powerful integration allows for enhanced collaboration across development teams, ensuring that each extension aligns with your strategic goals while preserving your clean core strategy. Discover how SAP Cloud ALM can revolutionize the way you manage extensions to your SAP S/4HANA Cloud, making your deployment processes more efficient, reducing downtime, and keeping your core system streamlined and efficient.

You will:

• Streamline changes and deployments across SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP BTP.
• Maintain a clean core SAP S/4HANA Cloud system, ensuring agile and efficient operations. 
• Enable better team collaboration and gain real-time insights for proactive monitoring and informed decision-making.

Transitioning from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM is a priority for many customers looking to improve implementations, operations, and service deliveries. Obtain guidance on what tools, methodologies, best practices, and support are available to execute the transition process. See how the Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM helps you plan and scope your transition based on current SAP Solution Manager usage and maps the equivalent capabilities in SAP Cloud ALM. As part of this hands-on lab, you will take the analysis results of the Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM directly into SAP Cloud ALM to be used as the basis of your transition project. In addition, you will learn how to smoothly move your relevant data from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM using Selective Data Transfer, while allowing the flexibility to modify the data during the transfer process.

You will:

• Understand the possible adoption scenarios and obtain guidance on how to plan and execute your transition.
• Learn how to execute the Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM on your SAP Solution Manager system and use the results to plan your transition project.
• Discover how the Selective Data Transfer app moves relevant data from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM.

SAP Integration Suite offers SAP Edge Integration Cell, a hybrid integration runtime that connects your on-premises applications and data with the cloud. The advantage: your confidential data is protected. SAP Edge Integration Cell is designed to run in a Kubernetes-based container environment. SUSE Rancher Prime offers a robust, enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution that meets the requirements of modern IT infrastructures. Join the session to learn how you can achieve optimal performance, enhanced security, and streamlined operations, and meet the requirements of modern IT infrastructures with the SAP application and a robust, enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution.

You will:

• Understand the architecture of SAP Edge Integration Cell.
• Move to a cloud-native infrastructure either on-prem or in the public cloud (IaaS).
• Enhance security with SUSE Security (formerly known as NeuVector).
• Implement comprehensive monitoring and advanced analytics with SUSE Observability (formerly known as StackState).

In the hybrid landscape of Cloud and Application OP, effective monitoring and observability have become critical for ensuring the performance and reliability of custom-built applications. This success story highlights how Panasonic North America has leveraged SAP Cloud ALM and open Telemetry to monitor its custom-built applications on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry effectively. By integrating these powerful tools, Panasonic North America has achieved unparalleled visibility into their application performance, streamlined troubleshooting processes, and enhanced overall operational efficiency. This case study explores the journey, challenges, strategies, and outcomes of Panasonic’s implementation, showcasing the benefits of adopting SAP Cloud ALM for robust application observability.

Discover SAP's strategy for RISE with SAP Migration and Modernization, with a focus on SAP Cloud ALM as a platform for a clean core. Understand how to fortify your competitive edge by streamlining complexity, separating standard extensions, and managing data following the most recent standards. Uncover methods to preserve a reliable, adaptable infrastructure while retaining operational productivity and competence.

You will:

• Get to know SAP Cloud ALM as a platform for a clean core projects.
• Understand how to fortify your competitive edge by streamlining complexity, separating standard extensions, and managing data following the most recent standards.
• Uncover methods to preserve a reliable, adaptable infrastructure while retaining operational productivity and competence.

SAP customers are increasingly moving their applications to the cloud to benefit from its scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. However, not every application can be run exclusively in the cloud. SAP Integration Suite offers SAP Edge Integration Cell, a hybrid integration runtime that connects your on-premises applications and data with the cloud. The advantage: your confidential data is protected. SAP Edge Integration Cell is designed to run in a Kubernetes-based container environment. SUSE Rancher offers a robust, enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution that meets the requirements of modern IT infrastructures. Join the session to learn how you can meet the requirements of modern IT infrastructures with the SAP application and a robust, enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution.

You will:

• Understand SAP Edge Integration Cell.
• Connect SAP On-Premise with the cloud.
• Move to a cloud-native infrastructure.

The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) is an irrigation district that serves the Imperial Valley and a large portion of the Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert region of Southern California. Established under the State Water Code, the IID supplies roughly 500,000 acres of Imperial Valley farmland with raw Colorado River water to support irrigation. IID also supplies electrical energy to the Imperial and Coachella valleys. Hear how IID is leveraging monitoring dashboards to complement standard SAP tools like SAP Solution Manager.

You will learn about:

• Processing thousands of payments daily, IID has been leveraging monitoring tools from Splunk to help identify disruptions to customer payment processes within SAP to provide a high degree of resilience. 
• How IID has improved visibility to their customer experience by monitoring 80 communication channels (online customer payments, call center, mobile, phone) providing huge benefits and time saving to both their business/functional teams.

Updated for 2025, this popular session explores the role of enterprise architects in leveraging the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to drive digital transformation within organizations. It highlights the key components and capabilities of the SAP BTP and provides insights on how enterprise architects can effectively design and implement solutions using this platform. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the SAP BTP's potential for enabling innovation, enhancing agility, and optimizing business processes within their organizations with a special section on AI.

You will:

• Understand the capabilities and design principals of SAP BTP.
• Learn how EA’s put SAP BTP knowledge to practical use.
• Gain Top Resources to enable learning and adoption of SAP BTP for EA’s.

Southwest Gas has been engaged with their SAP BTP CSP since 2023 with a goal of adopting the SAP BTP products that they feel give them the most value. In January 2024, the Southwest Gas team started a journey to build their SAP BTP knowledge and skills. Using the SAP Future Ready Enterprise methodology, Southwest Gas is completing their initial (L1) set of activities as they upskill and gain experience in SAP BTP technologies.   We will describe Southwest Gas' decision to adopt BTP throughout their landscape so they can achieve greater efficiencies and keep their ERP core clean. In an effort to build their inhouse skills in SAP BTP, Southwest Gas worked with their BTP CSP to develop a customized enablement plan consisting of FRE activities to help build their BTP skills. They have completed their goal of L2 maturity in BTP, and will give their feedback on this experience. Some of the activities in SWG’s enablement plan include: -Onboarding activities for SAP BTP products -Guidance sessions with SAP CoE on Process Orchestration migration to Integration Suite -SAP Integration Workshop -Data-to-Insight Workshop -1:1 sessions with SAP BTP CoE experts …many more  We will discuss the possibilities that are unlocked as this customer gains experience and skills in SAP BTP to help them through their move to SAP S/4HANA. 

You will:

• Learn how Southwest Gas is taking advantage of the Future Ready Enterprise methodology to build their SAP BTP skills and experience.
• Review a brief overview of SAP BTP Future Ready Enterprise.
• Understand the details and customer experience feedback on several FRE activities.
• Learn how SAP BTP FRE participation is helping Southwest Gas efficiently adopt SAP BTP products such as SAP Integration Suite, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and more…

This case study identified the development, implementation, and advantages of a QR code application integrated with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to efficiently access and manage employee and contractor training data stored in SAP SuccessFactors Learning Management System (LMS). By automating the process of retrieving LMS information through QR code scans, organizations can significantly enhance training management, improve data accuracy, and streamline operations. The proposed solution leverages SAP BTP's robust capabilities to create a seamless integration between the QR code app and SAP SuccessFactors LMS, enabling real-time data exchange and efficient information retrieval. The core functionalities of the QR code app include generating unique QR codes for each employee and contractor, scanning these codes to access individual training records, and displaying relevant training details such as completed courses, certifications, and upcoming training events.

You will:

• Review Business Cases.
• Understand existing 3rd Party e-wallet QR code scanner.
• Learn major concerns with non-SAP apps.
• View the architecture to build the QR app using SAP BTP Services & SF Instances,
• Understand SAP BTP Services & Components used for Build Apps Integration with SF LMS.
• Review benefits of new Build Apps QR Code Scanner.
• Look & Feel on the Mobile.

Integration of GenAI within SAP BTP, highlighting key components such as SAP AI Core, SAP AI Foundation, and SAP Datashpere  Delves into the methodologies for building and deploying GenAI models, emphasizing the importance of data management, model training, and continuous learning Discusses the potential applications of GenAI in enhancing business processes, improving customer experiences, and driving innovation across various industries. Lesson Learnt in the GenAI Application Development.

You will:

• Understand key components of GenAI on SAP BTP.
• Learn methodologies for GenAI development.
• See model training and deployment. 
• Hear use cases on GenAI.

Explore the latest enhancements in speed of project implementation and personalization in SAP Discovery Center. See the powerful advantages of guided implementation projects and reference architectures curated by SAP. Learn how to effectively use the service catalog in SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), the extensive list of real-world use cases, and your control center. Whether a new or experienced user, you’ll get the knowledge and tools to accelerate your SAP BTP journey.

Terraform has become the de facto standard for infrastructure as code (IaC) in the IT industry and is used by many SAP customers to manage their IT infrastructure. Find out how to use the Terraform provider for SAP BTP to manage the infrastructure of your accounts on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).

Discover how SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Automated Document Processing (ADP) can be combined to streamline operations and boost efficiency. Real-world case studies and forward-looking trends will be shared, offering practical strategies for optimizing workflows. Join us to explore the powerful synergy of SAP BTP and ADP in driving business success.

You will:

• Explore SAP BTP AI capabilities on document processing.
• Understand how to use SAP BTP as the central integration point with other AI model suppliers.
• Learn how to gain operational efficiency using SAP BTP.

Learn lessons learned from projects to enhance your success with SAP BTP. Pieter-Jan has been actively engaged in over 50+ projects on SAP BTP over the past decade. Gain valuable knowledge and practical advice that can positively impact your endeavors with SAP BTP.

You will:

• Learn the do's and don'ts of SAP BTP.
• Understand SAP BTP Governance.
• Hear SAP BTP Architecture advice.

Learn how United Therapeutics transformed their cash expenditure reporting process using SAC Planning with Datasphere—dramatically improving Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Treasury planning functions while reducing report processing overhead.

Line of Business leaders are under pressure to deliver superior business results.  Leveraging SAP BTP, organizations can solve business challenges and drive business results to new highs.  Attend this SAP Customer panel, hosted by the SAP Chief Customer Office, and hear from companies who have implemented unique and innovative business use cases leveraging SAP BTP.  These customers will discuss a multitude of use cases, that have delivered innovative business results from SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud. This session will be informative for organizations that are reviewing their SAP BTP strategy and want to leverage SAP’s innovative technologies.  

Questions this session can help answer include:

• What motivated the use of SAP BTP? 
• How these organizations worked with their business to identify use cases?
• What best practices or lessons learned can be shared?
• What were the immediate benefits from their innovative implementation?
• What’s next on their innovation road map?

In the hybrid landscape of Cloud and Application OP, effective monitoring and observability have become critical for ensuring the performance and reliability of custom-built applications. This success story highlights how Panasonic North America has leveraged SAP Cloud ALM and open Telemetry to monitor its custom-built applications on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry effectively. By integrating these powerful tools, Panasonic North America has achieved unparalleled visibility into their application performance, streamlined troubleshooting processes, and enhanced overall operational efficiency. This case study explores the journey, challenges, strategies, and outcomes of Panasonic’s implementation, showcasing the benefits of adopting SAP Cloud ALM for robust application observability.

The due date to migrate to SAP S/4HANA is rapidly approaching and companies must act now to ensure a smooth digital transformation. This session will take a deep dive into SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and the SAP Clean Core strategy and walk you through xSuite's intelligent invoice workflow on SAP BTP.  

xSuite is the first APIA provider to receive the SAP Clean Core certification, underscoring its commitment to innovation and compliance. By leveraging BTP and large language models (LLM) to automate accounts payable processes, you can optimize productivity, reduce costs, and ensure a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA. xSuite's accounts payable automation integrates seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA, providing real-time invoice processing, approval workflows, analytics, and more.

You will:

• Explore the journey to SAP S/4HANA.

• Learn about SAP Business Technology Platform.

• Discover why you should you keep your SAP core clean.

• Understand how an AP automation solution on SAP BTP can accelerate your SAP S/4HANA transition.

Want to better understand how SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) can help unleash your business potential? See how SAP BTP brings together application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities into one unified environment optimized for SAP applications. Get insights on our strategy for SAP BTP and the role of AI. Hear data center updates and explore upcoming innovation highlights.

You will:

• Explore how SAP BTP integrates application development, automation, data, analytics, integration, and AI into a unified environment.
• Gain insights into the SAP BTP strategy and the role of AI in enhancing business potential.
• Review data center updates and upcoming innovation highlights to stay informed about future developments.

Unlock the power of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) with the SAP Cloud ALM solution. Streamline your changes, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation. Explore how to control your SAP BTP changes using SAP Cloud ALM.

You will: 

• Understand how SAP Cloud ALM empowers organizations to leverage the full potential of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
• Explore the functionalities of SAP Cloud ALM in managing and controlling changes within SAP BTP.
• Learn best practices and practical insights on how to utilize SAP Cloud ALM effectively to optimize your SAP BTP environment.

This session is a comprehensive approach designed to assist organizations in maximizing the potential of SAP's powerful cloud-based platform. SAP BTP offers a vast array of services and capabilities catering to business needs. This framework aims to provide clear instructions, best practices, and methodologies to harness the potential of SAP BTP.

You will:

• Learn the core features offered by SAP BTP understanding how they can address business needs and challenges.
• Understand how to navigate the various tools, resources, and documentation available within the SAP BTP ecosystem. 
• Follow best practices recommended by the Guidance Framework for SAP BTP to optimize application customization, innovation, and integration with other SAP products and services.
• Gain insights into trends and advancements in cloud-based solutions, runtime technologies, and agile development practices.

Discover how you can improve the security of your SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) environment as we guide you through the latest security baseline documentation to help you configure your SAP BTP services securely. From identity authentication to leveraging the audit log service, learn essential techniques to fortify your SAP BTP environment against security threats and protect your valuable assets effectively.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, maintaining the performance, reliability, and security of your SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is essential for seamless business operations. This 20-minute presentation will delve into the key components and best practices of monitoring SAP BTP, providing valuable insights for both IT administrators and business stakeholders.  We will explore some core tools available within SAP BTP for real-time monitoring. We will highlight critical metrics to track such as system performance, application health, BTP daily costs and security, ensuring that your SAP environment is optimized and secure.  By the end of the session, you will be equipped with practical knowledge on setting up effective monitoring alerts, troubleshooting common issues, and implementing best practices to proactively address potential challenges before they impact your business operations.

You will:

• Understand SAP BTP Monitoring Tools – Gain familiarity with the essential monitoring tools and how to use them effectively for system and application oversight.
• Learn Critical Metrics for Monitoring – Learn which key metrics to focus on to ensure optimal performance, cost, security, and uptime across your SAP BTP environment.
• Understand Proactive Issue Detection – Discover strategies for setting up alerts and notifications to identify and address issues before they disrupt business processes. 
• Gain Best Practices for Continuous Improvement – Explore best practices for refining monitoring strategies, optimizing resource usage, and ensuring long-term system health and compliance.

Discover tools and strategies for your transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud with RISE with SAP. Learn about key resources such as Lean SDT, SAP Cloud ALM, Compatibility Packs, and Clean Core. Understand the best practices for conversion projects and how to effectively utilize these tools to maximize efficiency. Benefit from SAP's coordinated lifecycle management, ensuring these practices are applicable across the SAP portfolio. 

You will: 

• Explore tools and strategies provided by RISE with SAP to facilitate your transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. 
• Learn about key resources and best practices for conversion projects. 
• Benefit from SAP's coordinated lifecycle management approach, ensuring that these practices are not only applicable but also optimized across the SAP portfolio.

At 4flow, we frequently hear from organizations asking us to reevaluate their SAP S/4HANA implementation strategies. Their main concern is that the anticipated business value is at risk due to issues with their current approaches. SAP S/4HANA has the power to unlock significant value for businesses, especially in supply chain management. However, reaching this potential requires an expert implementation. We will explore 10 key considerations and best practices for any SAP S/4HANA implementation. Keep these in mind to ensure the maximum benefits for your business.

You will learn:

• Key considerations and best practices for any SAP S/4HANA implementation.

Are you intrigued by SAP HANA, but you don’t know where to start and where to achieve the best ROI? This session will demonstrate how you can build a business case and a roadmap of your SAP HANA implementation. Based on your current As-Is situation we will present an approach to generate fact-based results derived from your current SAP landscape to identify and quantify performance gains and reduction of database space, business process and other potential areas of improvements.

You will:

• Understand how to establish your SAP S/4 HANA road map, project plan and how to validate the best approach for your organization.
• Gather Best Practices how to calculate and simulate potential performance improvements and database space savings. 
• Discover where SAP HANA will have a real impact on your current real life SAP usage.
• Learn how to build a business case for SAP HANA in your organization. 
• Take home a methodological approach to collect strategic goals, requirements and technical input to calculate an ROI for your SAP HANA investment.
• Review common challenges and lessons learned from our assessments in the last 5 years +.

The SAP S4 RISE - Brownfield Migration and Role Redesign with Optimized FUE project aimed to modernize and optimize the existing SAP system roles, which had been in place for over two decades. This initiative was driven by the need to move to SAP S4 RISE, align roles with current user positions, integrate new Fiori applications, and manage SAP licensing counts effectively. The project involved a comprehensive review and redesign of user roles and removal of obsolete and unused transaction codes (Tcodes) and unnecessary custom Tcodes. By focusing these areas, the project sought to help the client enhance system functionality, maintain compliance with SAP licensing requirements, and reduce costs associated with unused licenses.  In this session, we will delve into the SAP S4 RISE - Brownfield Migration and Role Redesign with Optimized FUE project, focusing on the challenges and solutions implemented to modernize the SAP system. The project was initiated to help the client address the outdated role design, which no longer aligned with current user positions and responsibilities. Additionally, the integration of new Fiori applications and the need to manage SAP licensing counts effectively were key drivers for this initiative. The session will cover the following key areas: Security during SAP RISE Brownfield Migration, SAP licensing (Full Use Equivalent) with reduced cost and continued compliance, and Role redesign with new S4 Rise functionalities and job alignment.

You will learn:

• Ways to implement a process for monitoring and managing SAP licensing counts to maintain compliance and cost-effectiveness.
• How to redesign user roles to align with current positions and responsibilities, incorporating necessary access and compliance measures.
• How to identify and remove obsolete and unused Tcodes to streamline the system and enhance user experience.
• How to integrate new Fiori applications to improve functionality and productivity.
• Why removing unnecessary custom Tcodes reduces system complexity and aids ongoing maintenance efforts.

Join this session to explore the key lessons learned from Dodge Industrial's brownfield migration journey. We will delve into the importance of a holistic view, incorporating data analytics, security, and business processes. Discover how effective use of accelerators can expedite the migration process and how risks were managed and mitigated during this crucial transition. We'll also discuss the vital role of upskilling the team for future challenges. This session provides valuable insights that you can apply to your own migration endeavors.

You will:

• Learn the value of performing pre-work to reduce the risk for the overall migration.  
• Hear lessons learned from the Brownfield Migration to SAP S/4HANA.
• Understand how to integrate Data & Analytics into the process.
• Ensure GRC, security & controls are intact throughout the process.

This session is meant for the SAP Security and Business SME teams working on an SAP S/4HANA implementation project.  Please join me in sharing our experience as we go through a greenfield SAP S/4HANA security implementation, including topics such as methodology, naming conventions, UAT, SOD, challenges, and lessons learned.

You will:

• Learn our experience as we go through a greenfield SAP S/4HANA security implementation, including topics such as Role structures, Naming Convention, SOD, UAT, Go-live, Challenges, Lesson learned.

Benjamin Moore is a growing organization with an expanding international footprint. Their goal is to support their core US business while providing a foundational core to their growing international business. Join to hear why they decided on a 2-tier ERP, lessons learned, and future plans.

You will:

• Learn reasons to consider a 2-tier ERP landscape, 
• Understand Public cloud capabilities & SAP BTP, Best Practices, localization, and lessons learned.

In the context of a circular economy, where sustainability and resource efficiency are paramount, traceability within SAP systems plays a crucial role in achieving these goals. Traceability in SAP enables organizations to track and manage the lifecycle of products, from raw material sourcing through production, distribution, and eventual recycling or disposal. This capability is essential for companies aiming to minimize waste, optimize resource use, and ensure compliance with environmental regulations. However, implementing effective traceability in SAP for a circular economy presents significant challenges, such as integrating data across complex supply chains, managing vast amounts of information, and ensuring accurate and real-time reporting. These challenges are further compounded by the need for collaboration across multiple stakeholders, including suppliers, manufacturers, and recyclers, each with their own systems and processes. This session will explore the key aspects of traceability in SAP, focusing on the technical and strategic challenges of implementing a traceability framework that supports circular economy principles. It will also discuss best practices and innovative solutions to overcome these challenges, enabling companies to not only comply with regulations but also drive sustainability and competitive advantage through improved resource management. By the end of the session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how SAP traceability can be leveraged to support a circular economy, reduce environmental impact, and create value through sustainable practices.

You will:

• Implement SAP Traceability: Design and configure SAP modules to track the complete lifecycle of products, from raw material sourcing to end-of-life disposal or recycling. 
• Integrate Data Streams: Seamlessly connect data across various supply chain nodes within SAP to ensure real-time visibility and traceability throughout the product lifecycle. 
• Enhance Compliance: Utilize SAP’s traceability features to meet and exceed environmental regulations, ensuring that all processes are documented and verifiable. 
• Optimize Resource Management: Leverage traceability data in SAP to identify opportunities for reducing waste, reusing materials, and improving overall resource efficiency. 
• Facilitate Cross-Stakeholder Collaboration: Develop strategies for aligning and integrating systems across suppliers, manufacturers, and recyclers to support circular economy objectives within SAP. 
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess and refine the traceability processes within SAP to enhance sustainability efforts and drive long-term competitive advantage.

Marco Verhoef guides us through the world of SAP event driven architecture. He focusses specifically on the new Event Enablement functionality within SAP S/4HANA. Both standard and custom (notification) events can be sent via SAP Event Mesh to SAP Integration Suite. Many ins & outs will be presented.

The cannabis industry in the United States is a rapidly evolving landscape, with recreational use being legalized in many states for less than a decade. This dynamic environment presents unique challenges, including regulatory fluctuations and the need for enhanced operational control. Verano, a prominent cannabis producer operating across 14 states, is addressing these challenges through the nationwide implementation of SAP S/4 HANA. This case study explores how Verano leverages SAP S/4 HANA to streamline operations, improve data management, and enhance decision-making processes. By integrating this advanced enterprise resource planning system, Verano aims to drive efficiencies across its organization, positioning itself for sustained growth and success in a competitive market.

You will:

• Learn to integrate SAP with compliance systems.
• Explore strategies to coach users in ERP systems.
• Understand how to build a robust master data governance process.

This session is a detailed review of the preparing for SAP tools and methodologies for making a successful the move to SAP S/4HANA.  Strategies for Greenfield, Brownfield, and Selective Migrations. Detailed understanding for using the SAP Readiness tools, Simplification Checks, and ATC Checks Customer Code remediation and preparing for Fiori end user interface. There are multiple Hands-on Labs included in this session, which will provide more clarity of the entire process.

You will learn:

• Tools - Deeper insights on the conversion tools being used for moving to SAP S/4HANA system like Migration Cockpit, Custom Code Migration tool, DTV tool, CVI and other tools. Customer Vendor master conversion and Custom Code Migration.
• Better Strategies - Planning for Downtime Optimized strategies such as NZDT and DOC being considered to have a seamless conversion/upgrade to SAP S/4HANA. Learn the key aspects of the downtime optimized conversion/Upgrade strategies to minimize business disruptions.
• SAP Fiori - Deep understanding on SAP Fiori Launchpad UI and business management using the interface for end users. 
• GenAI - Understand how Innovative GenAI acting as an Upgrade Assistant which assists in project migration and reduces project timeline. It further detects migration errors and provides a detailed log of issues, root causes and potential solutions.  
• Sizing - Insights on SAP S/4HANA sizing which plays a key role for better optimal performance and improved ROI.

Please note, that attendees will maximize their learning experience by first participating in the “Hands-On Lab: Preparing for Moving to SAP S/4HANA Successfully with Proven Strategies and Methodologies While Leveraging the Powerful Tools Used for Migrations, Upgrades, and Conversions" to explore proven strategies, methodologies, and tools for SAP S/4HANA migrations, upgrades, and conversions, and then attending the "LECTURE with Live Demonstrations:  Getting Down to Business and Stepping Through the Details to Actually Perform an Implementation, Upgrade, Conversion, and Migration to SAP S/4HANA" for a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough of performing these implementations.

Join our interactive, hands-on lab to master the use of SAP Cloud ALM and the SAP Readiness Check for efficient system conversions. This session will demonstrate how SAP Cloud ALM’s robust planning, execution, and monitoring capabilities align seamlessly with the SAP Readiness Check’s insights into system prerequisites, custom code adaptation, and data volume management. Gain practical experience with these tools to ensure a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA while adopting a Clean Core approach. This hands-on lab will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage system conversion projects effectively. Learn to strategically plan, execute, and monitor your projects to enhance your SAP transition strategy.

You will:

• Discover the integrated Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA.
• Leverage the RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition roadmap for your conversion project. 
• Adopt clean core principles.

Customers are struggling in their S/4HANA transformation because it is a complex lifecycle project, and they don’t have a solid understanding of their current As-Is SAP usage to start with. Many customers would like to leverage SAP standard tools like SAP Solution Manager, SAP Signavio or Test Automation tools, but they feel it is too much effort and they don’t have the time or resources to implement and jumpstart their As-Is Documentation. A comprehensive Solution Documentation can help in many aspects and since you can’t manage what you can’t measure it lays the foundation for any process improvement initiative in your organization. We will show best practices and present how you can cover your legacy transaction based ECC system but keep S/4HANA in mind to build a sustainable Solution Documentation. We will provide examples how SAP Solution Manager can help you in your S/4HANA Transformation.

You will:

• Take home a comprehensive framework for establishing a business blueprint, maintain it over time and learn how it can help you to support different project scenarios.
• Hear about proven techniques to model different project scenarios and learn best practices to analyze, differentiate and use the analysis results for your existing projects.
• Learn how to establish the best solution documentation for your requirements how you can effectively increase the acceptance of your business process structure, 
• Reduce the amount of time and effort needed to keep it up to date and truly establish a single point of truth. 
• Review common project pitfalls, do’s and don’ts and how to make your Solution Documentation a lasting success.

Following the decision to move to SAP S/4HANA, review the proper method and strategy and gain the details of how to actually perform the tasks to implement SAP S/4HANA including the upgrade process and conversion/migration based on specific needs and requirements. Walk through implementation on SAP Rise managed Cloud or own managed Cloud environments.  Strategies and techniques will be covered including details for the tools used to perform the preparation steps and actual installation, upgrade, or conversion.

You will learn:

• Implementing on Cloud – SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Cloud Version – With SAP Rise (Survive with Rise).
• Upgrading techniques from on-premise to Cloud.
• Tools for Data Migration and Conversion including Selective Migration.
• SAP DMO with a migration server technique.
• Downtime optimization (NZDT) (replay replication).
• SAP Fiori rapid activation and managing content and what’s new (spaces/pages)
• Integration of Cloud Connector and SAP BTP.
• SAP Datasphere and Analytics Cloud (SAC).
• SAP Solution Manager – Focus Build, Insights.
• New Online Help using Enable Now.

Please note, that attendees will maximize their learning experience by first participating in the “Hands-On Lab: Preparing for Moving to SAP S/4HANA Successfully with Proven Strategies and Methodologies While Leveraging the Powerful Tools Used for Migrations, Upgrades, and Conversions" to explore proven strategies, methodologies, and tools for SAP S/4HANA migrations, upgrades, and conversions, and then attending the "LECTURE with Live Demonstrations:  Getting Down to Business and Stepping Through the Details to Actually Perform an Implementation, Upgrade, Conversion, and Migration to SAP S/4HANA" for a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough of performing these implementations.

Many SAP projects focus on implementation costs and time to value rather than application risks. Early adopters, brownfield, bluefield or greenfield projects all have different risks to be aware of in 2024. We will discuss cloud versus on-prem solutions, SAP Security by Design, SAP Fiori UI and risks in a modern world.

You will:

• Understand the impact of upgrade choices with SAP S/4HANA.
• Learn about SOD Risk Requirements with Fiori Apps.
• Review cyber-risk and SAP.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is SAP’s intelligent Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ERP solution. This ""ERP in the Cloud"" application delivers the capabilities you need right out of the box and therefore allows you to run your business processes with minimal ""implementation"" effort. Scalability, adaptability, resilience, innovation, security, and intelligence are embedded in this application thereby generating high Return on Investment (RoI) and Fast Time-to-Value (FTV). Companies are able to accelerate their business and cloud transformation by deploying the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. It is also a core component of SAP GROW. Attendees will emerge with a good understanding of the capabilities of this application and the benefits that it brings to enterprises.

You will:

• Obtain a holistic overview of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
• Get familiar with the benefits of deploying this application.
• Get a deep understanding of how you this application helps you achieve a clean core with its integration & extension capabilities.
• Understand the concepts of the 2-tier cloud ERP model.
• Get acquainted with selected success stories of customers live on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

For most SAP Customers, Cost and profit Center hierarchies (or groups) are usually utilized in reporting, planning and allocations. In the fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to adapt organizational structures swiftly is paramount. However, when business requirements have changed, it is sometimes cumbersome to update these hierarchies to reflect those changes. Flexible Hierarchies were introduced with S/4HANA 1709 to provide the agility needed to meet dynamic business requirements by allowing the seamless modification and management of hierarchical structures across various dimensions and accommodate frequent and complex organizational changes. It allows the customization of these hierarchies to fit business reporting needs and the flexibility to adapt them to changing business requirements, through dedicated Fiori Apps. Furthermore, you can use this feature to add custom fields to the Cost Center and Profit Center master data. This session will delve into the core concepts and advantages of Flexible Hierarchies, highlighting their role in enhancing financial reporting, planning, and analytics.

You will:

• Gain a thorough understanding of what Flexible Hierarchies are in SAP S/4HANA and their significance in business environments. 
• Learn the steps and considerations for setting up these hierarchies to ensure they align with your business requirements.
• Learn how to leverage these hierarchies to support complex and multi-dimensional reporting needs.
• Find out how to add Custom fields to Cost Centers and Profit Centers.
• Understand how you can quickly reflect changes in the business environment within your SAP system without disrupting ongoing operations.

This session will include an overview of Deployment models including Greenfield, Brownfield, and Selective data migration. We will also explore Tools for SAP S/4HANA, Simplification, Readiness Checks, and Conversions. Join this session to learn how to leverage the SAP BTP – Business Technology Platform, SAP Fiori Launchpad, and Content for SAP S/4HANA.

You will learn:

• The Three Deployment models for SAP S/4HANA upgrades.
• Understanding the Architecture on a Cloud Rise-Managed or Self-Managed.
• Conversions or Migrations Required based on Strategies Chosen
• Sizing SAP S/4HANA and specifically the SAP HANA database.
• Tools for SAP S/4HANA upgrades, conversions, and migrations.
• SAP BTP Technology Platform and why it is needed.
• Migration Challenges.
• Managing and Deploying SAP Fiori and Single Sign On.

Join this session to learn how Caleres successfully executed a full migration from SAP's Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) on ECC to SAP Analytics Cloud Planning (SACP) on SAP S/4HANA. This was accomplished as part of its overall SAP S/4HANA finance transformation. Caleres' successful transformation leveraged several key strategies and processes that facilitated a smooth transition and helped the company overcome obstacles along the way. This led to significant benefits from integrating advanced planning capabilities into the new financial landscape.

You will:

• Understand the intricacies and effective strategies required for managing a simultaneous finance transformation and system migration.
• Explore the challenges typically encountered during such integrations and the practical solutions used to overcome them.
• Learn the benefits of aligning advanced planning capabilities with financial transformations to enhance organizational efficiency and accuracy.

Join this session to learn how L3Harris navigated unanticipated excessive user access issues due to project timeline constraints during their SAP S/4HANA go-live. Despite the rush to meet critical deadlines, which led to an overlooked security cleanup, L3Harris effectively addressed the situation. Discover how the company quantified Segregation of Duties (SoD) exposures, identified mitigating controls, and developed a comprehensive plan for a security redesign.

You will:

• Understand how to quantify user level SoDs leveraging transactional and master data to determine potential exposure with actual occurrences and dollar amounts.
• Explore how to map IT Application Controls (ITACs) and IT General Controls (ITGCs) to SoD risks and then upload mitigating controls to GRC.
• Discover how to determine if the current security roles can be made SoD-free or if a security redesign is needed by performing a technical SAP security role assessment.
• Learn how to determine options, timeline, and level of effort needed to remediate or redesign for the existing security roles and future rollouts.

Join us during this discussion amongst peers and figure out how we can translate a business requirement into incremental steps supported by various technologies as well as a solid governance concept. Share stories with other customers who have started implementing a clean core approach, including lessons learned and best practices.

You will:

• Understand the general concept of clean core.
• Find out what tools and services SAP is offering to support a clean core strategy.
• Figure out the role of change management in establishing a clean core concept.
• Learn decision criteria for embedded vs side-by-side extensions.
• Discuss typical paint points and ways to address/overcome them.

Join us for this session to meet peers and figure out how we prepare for an SAP S/4HANA migration. Understand the different migration options as well as learn about available tools and services to make your life easier. Share stories with other customers who have started or have completed a journey to SAP S/4HANA, including lessons learned and best practices.

You will:

• Understand the migration paths to SAP S/4HANA and its pros and cons. 
• Find out what tools and services SAP is offering to support the preparation and execution of a transition to SAP S/4HANA.
• Discuss the role of change management.
• Understand the advantage of phasing in and establishing a clean core concept as part of the transition to SAP S/4HANA.
• Learn decision criteria for embedded vs side-by-side extensions.
• Share experiences and best practices with your peers.
• Discuss typical pain points and ways to address and overcome them.

In this session, we will unfold WR Grace's extraordinary story of managing data transformation and reducing risk throughout their transition to SAP S/4HANA. You'll learn how WR Grace faced the intimidating task of purifying legacy data, redefining data elements and hierarchies to enhance analytics capabilities, and setting up robust processes for comprehensive data management and governance. Additionally, part of WR Grace's strategic plan involves implementing SAP Master Data Governance (MDG). This initiative is designed to reinforce their commitment to maintaining future integrity by ensuring high quality and consistent master data across the organization.

You will:

• Learn how W.R. Grace tackled significant data management challenges during its SAP S/4HANA transformation by employing a structured Phase 0 program that focused on efficient data management.
• Understand W.R. Grace's approach to purifying legacy data and redefining data elements to enable enhanced analytics capabilities within its new system.
• Discover how W.R. Grace established comprehensive processes for robust data governance, ensuring the integrity and consistency of the company's data throughout the transformation.
• Gain insights on the critical role of SAP Master Data Governance in maintaining high-quality and consistent master data across the organization, contributing significantly to the success of the company's SAP S/4HANA journey.

Your organization is either planning to go to SAP S/4HANA  soon or you have begun the journey.  This talk takes a business look at your options on how best to prepare your organization for the SAP S/4HANA journey or how to make the most of your new SAP S/4HANA  system and self-fund the efforts.  How do we measure the success of an implementation? Is it when we know at go-live that the transactions work or is it when we know the users/managers know how to optimally run the business using SAP S/4HANA ? What have we learned since the previous implementations back in the ‘90’s and 2000’s.  Technology has moved on since then, but has human behavior, or process best practices or management techniques?  This talk will help executives better understand the pitfalls, the opportunities and approaches to moving to SAP S/4HANA .

Companies of all sizes are moving to or live on RISE with SAP.  Join this RISE with SAP customer panel to learn directly from SAP Customers and the SAP Chief Customer Office, about their RISE with SAP success stories.  The discussion will revisit their successful RISE with SAP implementations, discussing best practices and lessons learned at each phase of the program, from building the business case to successful Go-Live activities.  This session will most benefit companies that are looking into RISE with SAP, or at the beginning of their Cloud ERP journey.   

Questions that this panel can help answer include:  

• How did these customers work with their business to start their RISE with SAP journey?
• What are the best practices and lessons learned from each phase of their program?
• What business outcomes were achieved at Go-Live?  
• What’s next for these customers?

A successful SAP S/4HANA or RISE migration requires addressing legacy data completeness, AI readiness, and system size control. Accurate legacy data ensures compliance and minimizes risks, while decommissioned data remains accessible for AI-driven innovation. Managing system size reduces costs, enhances performance, and streamlines migration. TJC Enterprise Legacy System Application (ELSA) is a leading cloud solution that consolidates historical data into its platform, offering SAP® Certified decommissioning on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). ELSA ensures compliance, cost efficiency, and data accessibility throughout the transformation journey, whether Greenfield, Brownfield, or Hybrid/Bluefield. By leveraging ELSA from the start of the transformation project, organizations benefit from reduced costs, shortened timelines, and seamless data control. ELSA provides seamless access to operational and legacy data, predictive analytics, a complete tax archive, and AI-driven insights while efficiently managing database growth. Its Fiori-like interface improves user adoption, and modular decommissioning of outdated systems generates immediate cost savings. Plan data decommissioning from the start of your transformation project to avoid delays and extra costs. With ELSA, you can phase out legacy systems, optimize your system landscape, extract all relevant data, and achieve significant savings during the project. This approach ensures a faster, more efficient migration to SAP S/4HANA, complete with agility for future needs. Learn how ELSA enables a cutting-edge, cost-effective transition to SAP® S/4HANA while optimizing your system landscape by decommissioning your legacy systems.

You will learn:

• How to craft a better SAP S/4HANA transformation strategy and plan that ensures GenAI Readiness.
• What the architecture components of ELSA are.
• What a compliant tax archive is. 
• How effortless an ELSA implementation can be.
• What additional use cases the ELSA application offers you. 
• How to keep your data size and costs under control (avoid running out of your RISE T-Shirt size) once on SAP S/4HANA.

See how a global enterprise accelerated their SAP enterprise software modernization by eliminating transformation blind spots through intelligent quality engineering solutions, AI-powered test automation, and best-of-breed QA practices. Join us as we delve into some of the most overlooked, yet crucial, aspects to speed up modernization projects, and how addressing these led to this company’s success. Experts from Tricentis and this customer will discuss how they:

• Implemented risk-based testing to focus resources on critical areas and identify potential issues early, ensuring smooth and reliable SAP application rollouts.
• Leveraged test automation to streamline testing cycles, reduce manual effort, and accelerate delivery times without compromising quality.
• Integrated continuous quality assurance within their SAP environment to monitor and improve performance at every stage, minimizing business disruption and ensuring stability post-deployment.

Come learn how Watco replaced several niche cloud solutions used across the Finance and Construction space with an integrated EPPM solution to deliver a full end-to-end experience.  The new solution covers from idea through project execution to closeout.  We will discuss the cloud applications EPPM replaced, key integration points related to Procurement, Field Application, SAC Analytics, and workflow to deliver the end-to-end solution for Watco.  The solution includes capital budgeting, Executive approvals, field entry of daily activities, integrated procurement, and management oversight of all capital projects. 

Presentation highlights:

• Learn how to determine which EPPM “pieces“ to select for your organization.
• Hear advice on building an EPPM road map that gives due consideration to the importance of UX (SAP Fiori, SAC Analytics, Excel..) in determining maximum adoption.
• Learn how SAC Analytics supported Executive Reporting.
• Learn how Watco Engineering replaced its Field Application.
• [newline][bullet] Learn how Watco’s Continues to Improve EPPM.

Managers and budget holders are often overwhelmed by the need to manage decisions across multiple inboxes, portals, and apps, leading to inefficiency and delays. Their over-reliance on email inboxes as the primary tool for managing workflows further compounds the problem, making it harder to maintain control and ensure timely decision-making. In this session, discover how to centralize workflows and streamline actions within Microsoft Teams. Attendees will learn how to reduce risks, accelerate processes, and improve collaboration by transforming Teams into the central hub for enterprise workflows. Through live demonstrations, the session will showcase how key processes like approvals, notifications, and data capture from systems such as SAP S/4HANA can be managed directly within Teams. These examples will highlight modern approaches to simplifying enterprise workflows while improving visibility and control. Whether you’re struggling to manage scattered workflows, over-relying on email inboxes, or seeking inspiration for modernizing enterprise processes, this session offers practical insights and forward-looking strategies to transform your organization’s workflows. Join us to reimagine how work gets done.

You will learn:

• How to bring SAP notifications into Teams, reducing internal emails.
• How SAP workflow actions can be processed by managers without leaving Microsoft Teams.
• Real customer examples of this in action.

Migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA can be a daunting journey, often accompanied by an overwhelming amount of information, plethora of options and unclear starting points. In this session, we cut through the clutter to provide a practical, proven approach to planning and executing your migration with confidence. This session offers the strategic insights to your IT leadership that will enable a successful transition to SAP S/4HANA.  We’ll start by focusing on the essential planning and preparation phase, which lays the groundwork for a smooth migration. This session will outline actionable steps your internal SAP team can take to kickstart the process before involving external consultants, helping to lower costs and shorten timelines. You’ll gain valuable insights into utilizing SAP tools and third-party solutions to optimize the transition, along with strategies to simplify decision-making amidst various options. Additionally, we’ll share best practices to accelerate your migration while minimizing potential disruptions.  Walk away with a comprehensive checklist, practical tips, and an actionable roadmap to achieve a cost-effective, smooth migration tailored to your organization's unique goals.   Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock the full potential of your SAP journey!

You will:

• Build a comprehensive checklist: Get a step-by-step guide to ensure no Critical migration steps are overlooked. 
• Optimize the planning phase: Learn strategies to streamline timelines, while prioritizing the key elements of the SAP S/4HANA migration. 
• Conversion methodology and key tasks: Understand our SAP S/4HANA Conversion methodology and key tasks in each phase. 
• Real life examples: Hear about some real-life examples of what customers had to undergo during their SAP S/4HANA migration.
• Reduce risks and accelerate timelines: Implement strategies to mitigate common pitfalls and speed up your migration process. 
• Achieve cost-effective transformation: Learn how to maximize ROI and business drivers while minimizing overall migration expenses.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, the tasks that rely on people increasingly require collaboration to bring experts together to solve hard business problems. Real-time collaboration tools embedded into apps allow knowledge workers to combine their unique skills while working with a single source of truth in the ERP system. The SAP Fiori elements framework integrates collaboration features into every app you build. This session will explore recent UX innovations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud that create a modern, collaborative, and intelligent ERP, powered by the built-in functionality in SAP Fiori elements.

You will:

• Discover how real-time collaboration tools enhance teamwork and problem-solving.
• Explore SAP Fiori elements innovations that enable a modern, collaborative experience within SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
• Gain insights into the roadmap for future UX innovations designed to maximize value from ERP systems.

The three-tier extensibility model is crucial for maintaining a clean core in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA. In this hands-on lab, learn how to use ABAP Cloud and the 3-tier model to effectively manage your custom on-stack extensions.

Key Takeaways:

• ABAP Cloud is the future for ABAP based development.
• Custom wrappers around the required non-released SAP objects can be built in the Tier 2 layer and then be released for use in cloud development. 
• The development of wrappers can be speed up by using the latest version of transaction ACO_PROXY.

How Wegmans used the Custom Fields app with Margin Analysis without any ABAP codes, and the successful use of Universal Allocation with the Margin Analysis.

You will:

• Understand multi level allocations using Margin Analysis code blocks.
• Learn the functional use of Custom Fields app with Margin Analysis.

SAP S/4HANA migrations are notoriously complex, and for some organizations, the journey has ended in costly disaster. From operational breakdowns to skyrocketing expenses, many companies have faced severe consequences due to underestimating the challenges of migration. In this workshop, we'll dive deep into real-life case studies of organizations that failed during their SAP S/4HANA migrations, exploring the critical missteps that led to those outcomes.

Through the lens of these worst-case scenarios, we will extract key lessons on how to avoid the same fate. Learn how intelligent automation and comprehensive testing strategies can safeguard your business from similar pitfalls. We'll focus on managing system complexity, mitigating risks from customizations, and ensuring business continuity throughout the transition process.

By analyzing these failures and leveraging advanced automation, your organization can navigate the SAP S/4HANA migration landscape with confidence, avoiding disruptions and ensuring a successful, seamless transformation.

Powering the Edge to the SAP Core: A Practical example of Edge solutions for Utilities and Regulated Industries - leveraging our partnerships.

As business models rapidly evolve and technology changes accelerate, enterprises such as yours are striving to enable the former by fully utilizing the latter. SAP’s capabilities and offerings allow your enterprise can run in an efficient, agile, scalable, intelligent, secure, and sustainable manner.  RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP are the two frameworks SAP provides to simplify and accelerate customer’s journey to the cloud and thus enable them to run in an efficient, agile, scalable, intelligent, secure, and sustainable manner. Attend this session to obtain a comprehensive understanding of RISE and GROW.

You will:

• Learn about the drivers for RISE and GROW.
• Discover in a deep dive of RISE about its components & benefits.
• Delve into GROW including its components & benefits.
• Hear from selected RISE & GROW customer success stories.

As organizations begin or continue their SAP S/4HANA journey, data management strategies and solutions are critical for a successful transition. This panel will explore the value of using of SAP's data archiving capabilities to reduce ECC system data volume to streamline the migration process and ensure future data accessibility. Panelists will also address compliance challenges associated with data remaining in legacy ECC systems and explore decommissioning solutions that maintain regulatory compliance while minimizing costs. Gain insights into data management best practices and actionable strategies to prepare your data landscape for the future with confidence.

You will:

• Leverage SAP's standard data archiving functionality to reduce the ECC data volume.
• Review options to access to archive data in SAP S/4HANA.
• Determine the use case for archiving vs decommissioning.
• Key considerations for maintaining compliance for legacy data access.

Many companies are currently running multiple legacy SAP ECC environments and are now evaluating the impact as they begin their SAP S/4HANA journey.  The three most common implementation paths are Greenfield, Brownfield, or a Hybrid approach, where one ECC environment is converted as a Brownfield approach, and any remaining ECC environments are converted using a Greenfield approach.  This presentation will discuss the considerations between these approaches, and the impact on areas such as:

Opportunity to optimize business processes.

Effort and duration.

Change management.

Deployment approach.

Downtime during transition.

Master data.

Discover how PayFabric, in collaboration with Delego, can transform payment collection processes for enterprises using SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Designed to address the challenges of managing global payment workflows, PayFabric and Delego enable organizations to simplify payment collection, enhance security, and reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) while improving overall cash flow. In this session, learn how PayFabric seamlessly integrates with Delego applications to provide a comprehensive solution tailored to the needs of large enterprises. From automating payment acceptance to ensuring PCI DSS compliance, these tools empower your organization to collect payments faster and more securely. Attendees will gain a deep understanding of how PayFabric and Delego enhance efficiency, support global transactions, and provide the flexibility required to adapt to evolving business needs. By leveraging these integrated solutions, enterprises can reduce manual interventions, mitigate payment risks, and achieve measurable improvements in cash flow management.

You will:

• Learn how PayFabric and Delego integrate with SAP to optimize payment collection.
• Discover strategies for reducing DSO and improving cash flow with secure payment solutions. 
• Gain insights on best practices for enhancing operational efficiency with SAP-integrated tools.

As business models rapidly evolve and technology changes accelerate, enterprises such as yours are striving to enable the former by fully utilizing the latter. SAP’s capabilities and offerings allow your enterprise can run in an efficient, agile, scalable, intelligent, secure, and sustainable manner.  RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP are the two frameworks SAP provides to simplify and accelerate customer’s journey to the cloud and thus enable them to run in an efficient, agile, scalable, intelligent, secure, and sustainable manner. Attend this session to obtain a comprehensive understanding of RISE and GROW.

You will:

• Learn about the drivers for RISE and GROW.
• Discover in a deep dive of RISE about its components & benefits.
• Delve into GROW including its components & benefits.
• Hear from selected RISE & GROW customer success stories.

Many ERP transformation programs take longer than planned and/or are more expensive than planned. Some fail completely! We show how a structured approach can be used to successfully set up an powerful SAP S/4HANA transformation program in just a few weeks! Based on practical examples and lessons learned, the content of our session can be put directly into practice.

You will learn:

• What distinguishes successful from unsuccessful SAP transformation programs? 
• Approaches to set up a successful SAP S/4HANA program.
• Insights based on practical examples.
• Lessons Learned to avoid typical pitfalls
• A concrete plan for your SAP S/4HANA transformation program.

An industry leading premium industrial polymer business, divested from DuPont 11/2023, had 365 days to exit the legacy system. To meet the timeline, planning hard was key to executing quickly. This session focuses on adoption of a Clean Core, Cloud First mindset. Tight timelines require rapid decision making and strong partnership of IT, business and SI. Hear how upfront planning is key.

You will learn:

• Leveraging “Clean Core” and a “Cloud Mindset” is paramount to rapidly exiting a legacy system.
• Adopting a “Two in the Box” mentality increases synergy and quick decision making.
• Core End User involvement is key to a program's success.

Explore how UiPath strategically enhanced its control environment during its SAP S/4HANA transformation, reflecting a commitment to robust internal auditing and process optimization. With a focus on bolstering automated controls, reducing manual processes, and ensuring accurate data management throughout the project lifecycle,  UiPath prioritized a comprehensive approach to risk management within their new systems and processes. Internal Audit played a pivotal role in collaborating across various workstreams to identify and address all potential risks, embedding these considerations into the planning for future operations.

You will learn:

• How to overcome the challenges of adapting an existing control framework to a new SAP landscape and complex company environment.
• Insights gained on both planned and unexpected risks associated with an SAP implementation from the Internal Audit perspective.
• Risk mitigation strategies for the data migration workstream.  
• How automated tools can help expedite testing of new controls while maintaining completeness and accuracy.