7:45

Breakfast and registration open

8:15AM to 8:30 AM

Start General session: Welcome

Bhanu/Michelle/Tammy

8:30AM to 8:45 AM

Welcome address

Gary Matula, CIO Molex

8:45AM to 9:00 AM

Icebreaker

Bhanu/Michelle

9:00AM to 9:45 AM

Virtual Key Note

Peter McNulty, SAP

9:45AM to 10:30 AM

Session 1

Tammy Powlas / Bala Prabahar

10:45AM to 11:30AM

Session 2

Michelle Crapo / Ginger Gatling

11:45AM to 1:00PM

Lunch / Networking

1:00PM to 1:45PM

Session 3

Ginger Gatling / Ina Mutschelknaus

2:00 to 2:45

Round Table / 60 Minute University

Michelle Crapo / Bala Prabahar

3:00PM to 3:45PM

Session 4

Ivan Femia / Ginger Gatling

4:00PM

Open House

BusinessObjects Analysis, MS Edition for Office Use Cases

This session will review the use cases for BusinessObjects Analysis, MS Edition for Office.  BusinessObjects Analysis for Office allows you do multi-dimensional / OLAP reporting against Business Warehouse Data using Excel, with no training required.  This session will review what BusinessObjects Analysis, MS Edition for Office is, how to use it, and the use cases for it.

See the presentation here.  Thank you Tammy!

Tammy Powlas

9:45

Table Partitioning- What and how?

Databases offer a feature called Partitioning to "divide and conquer" very large tables. This is a great feature but SAP implements this feature only in very few scenarios. And not all types of partitioning is implemented by SAP as well. In this session, I would like to discuss what is partitioning and how to develop and implement a partitioning strategy for very large tables using database tools. Level of discussion: What is partitioning? This would be discussed at 10,000feet level How to develop and implement? This would be discussed at Ground-zero.

The presentation is here.   Thank you Bala for sharing!

Bala Prabahar

9;45

Moving from old to new technology

There are many of us that still use structure style of programming, we are the grey haired programmers!  So how do we move from our "old" programming ways.   What types of things will help?  And are our old programming skills useless?  This session will explore some of the ways to integrate what you already know into the newer technologies.  "Newer" is as in touching briefly on Object based programming and Webdynpro.  The focus will be on where to find help, how to start using technologies, and finally some code examples.

Here's the Presentation .

Michelle Crapo

10:45

Comprehensive Guide to Data Migration

This session takes a deep dive into SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and offers best practices for using both the integration and data quality management capabilities provided in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services.  Get step-by-step instruction for getting started with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, such as leveraging the pre-delivered migration content it provides and understanding the various connectivity options. Walk though a demonstration of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services migration content for SAP ERP and SAP CRM data migrations, showing the connectivity to SAP configuration tables for data validation and how to map common structures such as customer basic data.   Explore the jobs, workflows, and transformation capabilities within SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, and learn how to ensure SAP application configuration is referenced for data validation.  Discover the data quality major capabilities that can ensure your data migration project enables data management and data governance.   Learn the pitfalls to avoid when using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services for data migration, such as not taking into consideration the customizations – such as Z tables – within your target SAP systems. Take home links to the data migration content within SAP BusinessObjects Data Services.

The link to the presentation  - Ginger was nice enough to Supply

Ginger Gatling

10:45

Understanding SAP Business Workflow and how it fits in with SAP's BPM Strategy

Sharpen your knowledge of SAP Business Workflow, what it can and can’t do, and how it fits into your SAP
architecture. Find out how other companies are leveraging workflows to improve and streamline processes,
and the business drivers that make SAP Business Workflow a critical piece of the SAP infrastructure. In this session
you will:
Get an up-to-date look at workflow features and best practices to:
Standardize business processes
Automate processes to ensure you get the right work to the right people at the right time
Build a process audit trail
Create a foundation for process improvement
Offer the ability to manage a shared queue of work, resulting in better customer service
Enhance user productivity
Improve process performance
Understand how SAP Business Workflow compares to similar technologies, such as SAP NetWeaver® Business
Process Management, SAP BusinessObjects™, and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
Examine the tradeoffs of SAP Business Workflow and learn to identify when it is — and isn’t ---
your best option for process automation
Gain a new understanding of where SAP Business Workflow fits into SAP’s strategy for business process
management
Discover what resources SAP Business Workflow requires

Here is the presentation link .

Ginger Gatling

1:00

Faster and Cheaper Information Governance. Seriously.

If implementing data governance sounds like a 5-year plan involving more meetings than you can stand, then this is the session for you. Whether you are just getting started in your governance initiatives, or whether your company is struggling to reach *success* with governance, we can help. In this session, we’ll discuss common pitfalls of data governance programs. Most of our time, however, will be spent on how to start small to ensure future success. In this session, you'll learn these skills: - identify good target projects - shape lean teams to accomplish the work - identify which technologies will accelerate your project - prove the value of the initiative to your organization.

The link to the presentation  - Thank you Ina!

Ina Mutschelknaus

1:00

60 Minute University

Each person that would like will have 5 minutes to introduce a topic that she feels passionate about, followed by a 5 minute Q&A before the next presenter takes the stage. Within an hour we could get 6 we amazing introductions to different themes.

Sadly we did not have time for this event.  That just means we had a lot of interaction in the other sessions - so that is a good thing,

Michelle Crapo / All

2:00

Dirty Upgrade + Unicode Conversion + Dual Stack Split - What,Why and How

Experience from a "Upgrade, Unicode Conversion and dual stack split" project. This project was completed in less than three months. The database size was 1.4TB, Oracle DB running on Solaris. The landscape has four systems: Production like sandbox, Dev, Production like QA and Production system. This project was managed using existing resources. We didn't hire additional consultants. How did we do it? I'll present that story in this session. What is the benefit? You would definitely save dollars and time.
In this session, I'll explain:
   1) What is "Dirty Upgrade"?
   2) Why is it better? and
   3) How to do it?

The Presentation is here.  Thank you Bala for sharing!

Bala Prabahar

2:00

abap2xlsx - Generate your professional Excel spreadsheet from ABAP

An introduction to the opensource project abap2xlsx, the most popular on SAP Code Exchange. Demo examples and case of study, why community is so enthusiastic for this project and how SDN is working to improve it.

Here's the presentation on SlideShare and SDN.
Here's the PodCast.

Ivan Femia

3:00

Enterpirse Information Management and how it relates to business processing

This session will provide a  'what is Enterprise Information Management" and then discuss what this means for the SAP Business Suite, business processing, and business process experts.  The goal of this session is to provide insight into Enterprise Information Management including what it is, why it’s important to business, how it fits into SAP’s strategy and where you can go to get more information.

Here's the link to the presentation .

Ginger Gatling

3:00

Bhanu Gupta

BW to BI to BW to BO to BA....It has been 6 years since I ventured on this track. I have been at Molex for most of this time and my experience includes CRM-BW and RPM-BW integration. I like to talk to my users to know what they want, what works for them - what doesn't, how their part of the business works and I try to tempt them with new features. I have been an SAP Mentor since 2007 and have been the ASUG Chicago chapter chair for 3 years. I am also a Moderator on the BI forums and try to get people through problems (or tell them how to Search)

Michelle Crapo

Michelle has been using and learning SAP since 1997.   She started on 3.1H.   She is currently a developer.  She has worked in several different areas including Business Analyst and Sr. Project Manager.  She moved back to her primary love of development.   She has a wide range of experience in QM, PP, WM, MI, PI, Portals, ABAP, ABAP Webdynpro, and Adobe.   (Sapscript and Smartforms)   She has a love for promoting community involvement.

Tammy Powlas

Tammy is a Certified Public Accountant, Project Management Professional, SAP certified in SAP BW NetWeaver, FI, CO, SEM and ASAP tool. She is an ASUG Volunteer with the BI and BITI Communities. She is an SAP Mentor.

Bala Prabahar

Developer, Database Administrator, SAP BI Basis Administrator, Co-authored IBM's Redbook "Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 UDB for z/OS V8" and Shell scripting in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in client/server and relational database design using Oracle, DB2, and Informix on Unix/Linux environments. Always interested in migration projects, as well as close interaction with the DB vendors. High level of aptitude to solve performance issues for very large databases. More than 15+ years experience in DW/BI with 21+ years of overall experience in software development, design and administration.

Ginger Gatling

Ginger Gatling works in the Enterprise Information Management Solution Management organization. Previous to covering EIM topics she focused on workflow and integration topics. She is an SAP Mentor and active with her local North Texas ASUG Chapter.

Ivan Femia

Ivan has more than 10 yrs of experience in IT born as Windows Basis Administrator he moved rapidly to his real passion: web programming and R&D. He has been at Techedge since 2007 and he is a member of Sergio Ferrari's Development Team known also as Techedge Labs, He focuses his researches in emerging technologies, mobile, WebDynpro ABAP and ABAP.  He is also Techedge Edu teacher for ABAP, ABAP OO, WebDynpro ABAP and Basic Basis. Experienced especially in ECC, WAS and SRM 7.0.  He is owner of the SCN Community Projects: abap2xlsx, augmentedSAP, abap2GApps, abap2docx and Clone Hunter .

Ina Mutschelknaus

Ina L. Mutschelknaus is a Director of Solution Manager with SAP BusinessObjects’ Enterprise Information Management products. She has been with SAP BusinessObjects since 1997. Ina currently works on information governance and end-to-end use scenarios. She has managed data cleansing, matching, profiling and assessment, and user experience. She has also focused on bringing these rich capabilities to Master Data Management. She has spoken at several conferences on these topics.

Peter McNulty

Peter McNulty works for SAP Labs as a Product Manager for the SAP NetWeaver Application Server specializing in custom development topics.

Thomas Jung

Thomas is an SAP Mentor and employee of SAP Labs with a background as an ABAP developer for SAP ERP implementations. He is a frequent speaker on SAP development and UI technology topics as well as a founding member of the Enterprise Geeks. He is also the co-author of the SAP Press books - Advanced BSP Programming and Next Generation ABAP Development (Edition 1 and 2).