SAP Inside Track Calgary - "Focus on Mobile, Analytics and Enterprise Architecture"
Get on the inside track for SAP Mobile and Analytics solutions at this SAP Community Network (SCN) event. Gather with your fellow peers and SAP experts to learn all about SAP’s Mobile / Analytics strategies and solutions at the ConocoPhillips Auditorium in Calgary on Friday June 15th, 2012.
We are pleased to kick off the day with a presentation from SAP 's Nayaki Nayyar, Global Vice President of Corporate Strategy. She will present "SAP's Strategy in Action - Cloud, Mobile, Analytics, Apps and Hana". This will be followed by SAP presentations on Mobile by Kim Obermair and Analytics by Blair Wheadon.
In the afternoon we will also have three breakout tracks focused on Mobile, Analytics and Enterprise Architecture. This is your opportunity to hear from SAP Customers and experts in these areas. In the Enterprise Architecture breakout track come prepared to contribute your own thinking on the impact of SAP's architectures in the areas of HANA, Data / Analytics, Mobile and Cloud.
SAP Inside Track is an "un-conference" style community event, typically organized by local, avid members of the SAP community to learn, share, and connect with each other around SAP related topics.
Expect a fun and interactive day that will include expert-led sessions on current and relevant mobile and analytics topics. We will also feature open discussion and "ask the experts" breakout sessions in the afternoon.
See full agenda and session abstracts below.
** Please note that there is no charge to attend this SAP Community Network (SCN) event.
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SAP Inside Track Calgary - Focus on Mobile, Analytics and Enterprise Architecture
Learn, Share, Collaborate
Date: June 15, 2012
Location: 3rd floor, Gulf Canada Square, 401 9 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 3C5, ConocoPhillips Auditorium (Access via West Elevator Bank)
Meeting Duration: 845 am to 300 pm ( registration from 8:00 am to 8:45 am )
Agenda
8:00 am to 8:45 am Registration and Networking
8:45 am to 9:00 am Introductions
9:00 am to 9:15 am - Key Learnings from SAPPHIRE 2012 Orlando - Paul Kurchina, SAP Mentor and KurMeta
9:15 am to 10:15 am - SAP's Strategy in Action - Cloud, Mobile, Analytics, Apps and Hana - Nayaki Nayyar, SAP
10:15 to 10:30 am - Break
10:30 to 11:15 am - Whats New in Analytics: Data Discovery and it's impact on Line of Business and IT - Blair Wheadon, SAP
11:15 to 12:00 pm - The Future of Mobile is Here Today: The New User Experience Enhances Process Efficiency - Kim Obermair, SAP
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 to 2:45 pm - Breakouts ( Mobility, Analytics, Enterprise Architecture )
1) Mobility
Customer Experiences Presentation - Rick Bellis, Syclo ( 30 minutes )
Facilitated Discussion and " Ask the Experts " - 75 minutes
2) Analytics
Customer Experiences Presentation - TBD ( 30 minutes )
Facilitated Discussion and " Ask the Experts " - 75 minutes
3) Enterprise Architecture for SAP Customers
Customer Experiences Presentation: Martin Mysyk, TransAlta ( 30 minutes )
Facilitated Discussion and " Ask the Experts " - 75 minutes
245 pm to 3:00 pm - Close of Meeting
Speakers:
Nayaki Nayyar, Global Vice President, Corporate Strategy, SAP
Kim Obermair, Head of Mobile Industry Solution COE, SAP
Blair Wheadon, SAP
Rick Bellis, Industry Principle-Energy, Syclo
SAP Customer ( SAP Analytics Speaker ) - TBD
Martin Mysyk, Senior Enterprise Architect, TransAlta
Paul Kurchina, SAP Mentor and KurMeta
Session Abstracts
SAP's Strategy in Action - Cloud, Mobile, Database, Analytics, Apps, and Hana
SAP HANA and mobile, cloud, data management, analytics and applications will unleash new ways for companies to innovate, compete, and transform at record speeds. Learn from real-world examples of how customers can bring this transformation without disruption:
* How HANA can become the ultimate integrated data and application platform for your company. How it can not only enable you to create new ways of doing business by providing real-time insights, but also drive enormous TCO reduction through convergence of OLAP and OLTP landscapes and hybrid (on-premise and cloud) deployment model
* How proliferation of mobile devices and SAP¹s mobile solutions will mobilize your employees, suppliers, partners, and end-consumers for closed-loop, always-on² connectivity
* How SAP analytics solutions combined with HANA or Sybase IQ will empower your workforce to analyze big data to make real-time decisions, transforming your company into a real-time enterprise
* How the ease of cloud computing will stimulate a new wave of business innovation and how SAP's secure, open-standards based cloud platform will help you effectively deploy and scale your solutions while keeping the cost and complexity of your technology-stack low.
* Lastly, how SAP's people-centric business applications will deliver delightful user experience to help you efficiently run business processes seamlessly across desktop, web, and mobile channels.
Speaker: Nayaki Nayyar - Global Vice President, Corporate Strategy, SAP
The Future of Mobility is Here Today: The New User Experience Enhances Process Efficiency
This discussion with SAP Mobile Services COE details innovative software that is used to simplify business processes through enhanced user experience. Experts will present the SAP architecture and how SAP is incorporating visual enterprise, augmented reality and M2M architecture. Come and discover the mobile worker of the future !
Speaker: Kim Obermair, SAP
Whats New in Analytics: Data Discovery and it's impact on Line of Business and IT
Learn about the latest innovations in Business Intelligence from SAP, highlighting the new data discovery solution from SAP focused on the needs of the line-of-business analysts. This easy to install and intuitive solution empowers analysts in any department to mash up data from multiple sources, cleanse and deduplicate data, then rapidly perform the analysis they need to address urgent business questions. We'll also review our Business Intelligence roadmap, and other recent BI innovations.
Speaker: Blair Wheadon, SAP
Breakout Tracks
Mobile Track
In this track you will hear SAP Customer experiences as well has participate in facilitated discussion with SAP Mobile experts.
Analytics Track
In this track you will hear SAP Customer experiences as well has participate in facilitated discussion with SAP Analytics experts.
Enterprise Architecture Track
In this track you will hear SAP Customer Enterprise Architecture experiences as well as participate in facilitated discussion with other Enterprise Architects. SAP has many new and challenging technology architectures that they are proposing customers adopt. Come prepared to contribute your own thinking on the impact of these new architectures in the areas of HANA, Data / Analytics, Mobile and Cloud. The fundamentals of how SAP is architected and deployed is being challenged, and we need to explore how we can adapt our thinking to embrace and extend these latest developments. We will explore together what the solutions mean and how to incorporate these new designs into our existing landscapes.