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Time

Topic

Speaker

8:15 am – 9:00 am

Registration, Coffee, and Vendor Fair
– Lobby

9:00 am–
9:40 am

ASUG Chapter Update and Introductions – (Main Room)

An update on what’s
going on in our local chapter and our National Organization

Blake Whitaker, Bell Helicopter

ASUG Chapter Chair

9:40 am –
10:05 am

Keynote – SAP
In-Memory Computing and SAP HANA: A Comprehensive
Review

Discover how SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA), a flexible,
multi-purpose, data source agonistic in-memory appliance, combines both
hardware and software components and allows organizations to analyze their
business operations, based on huge volumes of transactional information, as
business happens. Attend this session to get a closer look at SAP’s in-memory technology and innovations in action
with a firsthand look at the speed, power, and results delivered by SAP HANA.

Stuart
Rowland – Director, Strategic Solutions Group – Business
Analytics, SAP America

Stuart joined Business Objects in 1999 and became
part of SAP with their
acquisition in 2007. He manages a team of senior, technical “deep-dive”
experts who focus on Enterprise-level deployment considerations of SAP Business
Objects in both SAP and non-SAP companies. The
18 years prior to joining Business Objects were spent at EDS with
assignments in the US, England, Sweden and Japan.

Room TBD

This meeting will
consist of five tracks:

TRACK 1 – SAP Productivity Tools

TRACK 2 – ECC Functional

TRACK 3 – SAP Business Intelligence / SAP BusinessObjects

TRACK 4 – Technical & Mobility

TRACK 5 – Change Management & End User Training

10:05 am –
10:15 am

Move to Break-out Rooms (10 minutes)

10:15 am –
11:05 am

Morning Breakout Session 1

Improving SAP’s UI Can Help Ensure User Adoption and Compliance

It is no secret that SAP is typically
thought of as “hard to use.” Discuss
various options to improve the SAP user experience to result in higher user
adoption and compliance. Walk through
two cases studies showing how SAP’s user
interface was dramatically improved by placing a new front-end on top of SAP. One dramatically simplifies the end-user
shopping experience and increases compliance with SAP SRM, MM, MDM, PM, CS, and PS; and the other simplifies the HR
open enrollment process.

Mark
Kenney – Simplifying-IT

Mark has over 17 years of business and technical
experience and focuses on improving SAP to increase
user adoption. He has worked for large consulting organizations including
KPMG Consulting, SAP, EDS, and HP. Mark has presented at many events,
including SAP Insider and
ASUG.

Room TBD

Multi-Carrier
Shipping from SAP

In our session you
will learn how to perform shipping from within SAP. Have full visibility into the entire supply
chain from time of shipment to delivery. Find out how to retrieve current
package status from the carrier. We communicate real time to all the major
carriers such as FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, Purolator, LTL/LT, and Freight Forwarders. Discover how your
global warehouses will benefit from one standard shipping solution. See how
you can automate electronic export information (EEI) filings to AESDirect.

Learn how to:

·

Streamline your
manifesting/shipping process

·
Ship and print
shipping labels within SAP

·
Track a
shipment within SAP and view POD
information

·
Eliminate
manual steps and improve productivity

Martin Garza – Sales Director, North America Sales & Customer Operations, ProcessWeaver

Martin Garza is Sales Director, North America Sales and
Customer Operations. In this role he oversees sales and customer support for
the company customers.

Room TBD

OLTP Universe Design

A universe for an
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) system should have a dramatically
different design than a universe for a star schema. A design methodology for OLTP universes will
be presented that will provide a better reporting experience for your end
users.

Dennis
W. Disney, BO4EBS

Dennis has been developing universes for Oracle
E-Business Suite for over 10 years.

Room TBD

SAP ERP and BW Archiving Solutions, Process, Major Challenges,
Key Elements for Success

Roland
Bahadoor- Managing Partner, Sigma Business Solutions
Inc.

Professional Accountant of over 30 years with 18
years of SAP experience (12
years in SAP archiving and
data management).

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Power In Numbers – Change
Network/Super User Program to Ensure User Adoption

Leveraging the power of change networks / power
users is critical to ensuring end-user adoption of SAP. Often times, the power of this network is
untapped. Ensuring that you can reach the impacted users is critical, and the
project team is not typically in a position to touch everyone that will be
affected by SAP. This type of program has helped clients achieve
overwhelming success wave after wave. It is proving to be a program that
people want to participate in – not run away from immediately post go-live.

Michele
Snead, Director of Performance Consulting – The Abreon Group

Michele Snead is a change management / education
consultant for The Abreon Group. Michele has worked with various Fortune 1000
organizations to ensure that the human side of change is considered on all
technology projects with focus on ERP and specifically SAP. Michele has
been working in this capacity with clients for 15 years.

Room
TBD

11:05am –
11:15am

Break (10 minutes)

11:15 am – 12:05 pm

Morning Breakout Session 2

Simplifying SAP

Data Management using Excel

Process Runner is
software designed for Business users to enable them easily manage SAP data. Process Runner is simple but powerful
automation software that allows one to upload and download information
between SAP and Excel – without writing any programs or
codes. See live in action how to manage data directly from Excel into various
SAP processes in MM, SD, FI, HR and other business
processes in ECC, CRM, APO and other new dimension products.

Mickey
Shah, Founder and Chief Solution Architect – Innowera

Mickey Shah is the founder and chief solution
architect of Innowera. Mr. Shah is responsible for the product design,
delivery, and technology that drives Innowera ‘s enterprise class software.
With more than two decades of in-depth experience in information technology,
Mr. Shah has an intimate knowledge in and around SAP, Office, and
many sub-systems. He has designed and developed numerous applications running
on Microsoft and SAP business
platforms.

Room
TBD

BNSF Railway Company’s
Successful Upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects GRC Access Control 5.3

Review a case study on
BNSF Railway Company’s successful upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects GRC Access Control 5.3, including the use of new
features. GRC Access Controls is heavily utilized to evaluate
security roles as they are designed, tested, and modified in order to
minimize segregation of duties violations at go-live and beyond. We also rely
heavily on super-user privilege management to respond to requests for emergency
access and to review the associated activity logs. The additional workflow
capabilities within compliant user provisioning had important advantages when
auto-provisioning access. Finally, we will discuss our efforts to leverage
enterprise role management to its full extent to facilitate compliant
security role changes.

Cynthia
McConathy, Director - SAP

Security & Controls, BNSF Railway
Company

Cynthia McConathy is the Director of SAP Security &
Controls for BNSF Railway Company. She joined BNSF in 2007 as their SOX
Director and has been on the SAP implementation
team for three years. Previously, she
was the Director of Internal Audit for The Bombay Company, and served on the
National Retail Federation’s Internal Audit Advisory Council. Cynthia
presented a case study at SAP’s GRC 2010 event in Orlando and will be
speaking at GRC 2011 in Las Vegas.

Room TBD

A Comprehensive Guide to
Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Data Services for Your Data Migration Needs

This session will provide you what you need to know to get started
with a data migration project using SAP’s Data Migration solution based on SAP BusinessObjects Data Services.  You’ll
learn about the solution offering, how it works, as well as what SAP’s future investment with data migration and data
management tools.

Ginger Gatling – SAP Solution Management, SAP Labs,
LLC

Ginger is a Senior Solution Manager with SAP focusing on
Information Management, including data migration.

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Automation and
Optimization of SAP Technical Processes

Many IT processes for the SAP environment are complex and costly. Adventier
has been working with customers for many years in optimizing SAP technical processes and in reducing cost for SAP support by introducing new concepts and new
automation tools. In this presentation, together with Rockwell Automation, we
will be discussing some challenges facing the global SAP implementations, and we will be presenting SAP security and QA solutions that have been
successfully implemented at Rockwell. We will also be presenting some data
collected through various implementations with ROI information.

Jean-Paul
Calabio – Sr.
Manager of IT, Rockwell Automation Inc.

Jean-Paul (JP)
Calabio is Sr. Manager of IT at Rockwell Automation for last three years. JP
has been working with SAP
implementations for over 15 years. Over the years, he has shown leadership in
providing efficient and cost-effective SAP IT solutions for enterprises large and small.

Eric
Kang – President of Adventier Inc.

Eric Kang is a frequent speaker in the SAP community. Eric is CEO of Adventier, a technology and
security solution provider for SAP
customers. Eric Kang began his SAP career in 1996
and quickly gained a reputation as an innovative troubleshooter and a “go-to”
professional for complex problems. He became an SAP Platinum
Consultant and has considerable experience assisting U.S. multinationals
across the entire spectrum of SAP technology and
security. He pioneered many
single-sign-on solutions for many customers, and his innovative designs for
the defense industry have been integrated into SAP NetWeaver BI.
Eric was formerly with SAP America for over 10
years, and served as its North America security/QA
practice leader.

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Best Practices for
Designing and Delivering Effective SAP HCM Training to End Users

In this session, learn
how to get best practices for effective end-user training, identify key
factors for delivery dynamic training, understand how to incorporate feedback
to continuously improve, and get users excited about using their SAP tools.

Steve
Horn – Director of Training, Aspire HR

Over the last 14 years, Steve has designed,
developed, and delivered project team training and end-user training for
clients throughout North America.  He
currently serves as the Director of Training for AspireHR and heads up their
University which delivers project team and end-user training to Aspire
clients that are implementing or upgrading their SAP systems.

Room
TBD

12:05 pm –
12:50 pm

Networking lunch

12:50 pm – 1:40 pm

Afternoon Breakout Session 1

ASUG Value Discussion

What value are you getting from ASUG?
What additional opportunities or information would you be looking for
from ASUG.

Ginger Luttrell –
ASUG Communications
Chair, Texas – DFW
ASUG Chapter

Room TBD

Campaigning &

Targeting Using SAP CRM

TXU Energy completed implementation SAP ECC (6.0) & CRM (5.0) modules in 2009 the first electric utility
in the US to do so.  Implementation of SAP was a critical element to TXU Energy being able to effectively compete in the
highly competitive retail electric market in Texas.  Through use of standard and custom
development TXUE has created a highly flexible CRM engine that delivers the ability to dynamically
create differentiated sets of offers across all of its’ sales channels for
existing and prospective customers.  Presentation recaps conceptual
approach of how the solution design, the lessons learned, challenges and
successes along the way.

Scott
Evans – IT Manager CRM,
TXU Energy

Scott Evans is the CRM Development
Manager for SAP Applications
supporting Marketing, Sales and Customer Service at TXU

Energy.   Prior to his role in IT, Scott worked in Marketing and
Promotions at TXU Energy, Dr
Pepper/Seven-Up and several agencies.

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Enterprise
Business Objects Implementation at Southwest Airlines, leveraging SAP Business Objects Rapid Marts and Data Services.

Southwest Airlines and Fusion will
review methodologies employed, success factors, and other details of an
enterprise implementation of BusinessObjects SAP Rapid
Marts (AP, AR, GL, Cost Center, Projects), and custom development of an HR
Data Mart using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, providing Southwest Airlines a
conformed, enterprise data integrated platform and reporting
environment. Success criteria such as a simultaneous ‘go live’ with
BusinessObjects and SAP ERP (HCM, Payroll, Finance, and Controlling Modules) at Southwest
Airlines will be reviewed at the presentation.

KarthikVishwa – Practice
Director, Fusion

Karthik is a Practice Director at Fusion
Consulting, Inc.  Before joining Fusion in 2007, Karthik was Principal
Data Warehouse Delivery Manager for Business Objects PSO.

Cecil Woodley – Senior Developer, Southwest Airlines

Cecil Woodley is a Senior Developer at Southwest
Airlines and played a major role in the Enterprise Implementation
of Business Objects (and related SAP ECC simultaneous
‘go live’) at SWA.

Room
TBD

Modern
Networking for SAP
Applications: Case Studies in SAP Upgrades, Consolidation, Virtualization,
and Optimization

Discover how to get
the most out of your SAP today, and
prepare for tomorrow with Application Delivery Networking. Learn how modern
infrastructure and approaches help drive business ahead with SAP applications. Solutions will be highlighted through customer
business cases including Colgate, SAP, BMW, and British American Tobacco. At the conclusion of the presentation, the
audience will have an appreciation for why the network is such a critical
element for the performance, availability, and security of SAP.

Mike
Schrock – SAP
Global Alliance Manager, F5 Networks

Mr. Schrock, SAP Global Alliance and Business Development
Manager, has been with F5 since 2005, where he is responsible for all aspects
of this partner alliance.  Mr. Schrock brings over 22 years of
technology understanding to his role as well as extensive hands on experience
in IT, business management consulting and network solution engineering across
enterprise software, computer hardware and internet industries.

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Boost Your SAP ROI with SAP’s FMLA Workbench

Over 52% of employers are granting FMLA (Family
Medical Leave Act) requests to avoid litigation simply because they cannot
determine FMLA eligibility. SAP’s FMLA
workbench is a powerful tool to efficiently manage federal and state FMLA
requirements. Protect your company from FMLA lawsuits with automated
approvals or denials based on facts not emotion. Discover reporting tools
that provide a comprehensive audit trail and document FMLA compliance. Increase
your company’s productivity with absence analysis backed by solid reporting
tools. Reduce administrative costs and increase your  ROI with an FMLA
solution already built into SAP.  A tour
of SAP’s FMLA workbench will be included.

Key Learning Points: Discover how you can use SAP’s FMLA workbench to complete all tasks
concerning FMLA request. Going Green…. Eliminate the need to store paper
documents in your file cabinets. Learn about the new FMLA Toolkit, which
offers a new level of FMLA reporting as well as the ability to upload
documents such as medical clearance documents on-line.

Patrick
Hemphill – HCI

Patrick has 14
years of SAP HCM Time
Management functional implementation, configuration assistance, production
support and training experience on all phases of implementation life
cycle.  He is an Time Management and FMLA specialist and was an
instructor for SAP America (taught the HR306 Configuration of Time
Recording)

Room
TBD

1:40 pm –
1:50 pm

Break (10 minutes)

1:50 pm –
2:40 pm

Afternoon Breakout Session 2

How to get more out of
your SAP systems

Learn how you can provide a game changing user and customer experience
with a rich, intuitive user interface using Adobe Flex/LiveCycle – which can
be completely integrated with SAP.
Come see the demo and experience the off the charts user productivity and
user adoption possibilities. In this session you will also learn how a single
Role-Based User Interface works in an on-line or off-line mode, gain an
appreciation of the underlying application architecture that links Adobe and SAP, and see the power of the Adobe tools

Jaco Van Eeden – Global SAP
and Adobe Solutions Lead, Deloitte
Consulting

Jaco van Eeden the Global SAP and Adobe
Solutions Lead in Deloitte Consulting, has over 18 years of ERP system
implementation and International Strategic IT experience with demonstrated
career success developing and executing technology transformation
initiatives.  His experience includes more than 17 years of SAP ECC that include
over 7 years of SAP CRM implementation
experience including CRM Service,
Interaction Center and Sales resulting in successful business benefits to
Fortune 500 clients.  He has managed multiple SAP CRM 7.0 Sales,
Service and Customer Interaction Center implementations with a Rich Adobe
Flex User Interface and Web Services (SOA) integration to legacy systems
including marketing systems, work force management and Customer Service and
Order Management.

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Leverage the Sales Force
Automation Tools from SAP CRM to Increase Productivity and Compliance

Learn how some companies have migrated from Siebel to SAP CRM and have
utilized some of the tools to enhance not only the user productivity but
their customer experience. Understand some of the reporting tools provided by
SAP CRM to tailor
reports for your organization. Step through a demo of how a medical solutions
company utilized SAP CRM to transform its quote to order creation
process.

Anand Kumar – Fujitsu
America

Anand Kumar is the director of the SAP CRM practice at
Fujitsu America. He has led
over 12 full-cycle implementations in the areas of CRM sales,
service, marketing, interaction center, and Web-channel across various
industry sectors. During his tenure at SAP Labs, Anand
was instrumental in the design and development of some CRM solutions like
KAM(Key Account Management), and TPM (Trade Promotion Management).With the
experience of almost all the releases of SAP CRM (from 2.0c to
7.0) Anand has been advising several clients on their CRM roadmaps and
different solutions to fit their requirements

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Kaushal
Kurasa – BI Practice Lead, Optimal Solutions

Room TBD

A Discussion on Mobility

This session examines
the current trends & projections; the technologies available; common
mobile applications in use; pricing components of the mobile initiative; the
business case for the mobile project; and managing the mobile environment
going forward. The presentation is ideal for those companies that expect to
mobilize their business operations as well as those that are already doing so
but must move from a point solution to a mobile enterprise application
platform.

Greg Rodgers – Mobility Practice Lead, Diagonal Consulting

Greg Rodgers leads the mobility practice for
Diagonal Consulting, a 2e2 company. Diagonal Consulting, founded in 1988,
with its US office in Berwyn, PA, is an SAP-certified
services partner that,in addition to its mobility practice, provides SAP Global Support
Services; assessment, build & upgrade projects for SAP ERP, supply
chain, business intelligence, BusinessObjects; instance consolidation /
re-organization, and a construction solution.

Greg has helped build out four mobile software
technology providers during the past nine years and has implemented mobile
solutions for thousands of end users from large and medium-sized companies.
He will share some of his experiences from implementing field service, asset,
inventory, and warehouse management mobile solutions, as well as CRM, GPS, MRM, and MDM solutions.

Room TBD

2:40 pm –
2:50 pm

Break (10 minutes)

2:50 pm – 3:40 pm

Afternoon Breakout Session 3

Intelligent
Automation for SAP

We will share best practices for introducing automation into your SAP environment and thereby increasing basis
productivity—use cases include pre & post system copy/refresh activities,
daily admin checklists and reports as well as automated troubleshooting of
performance impacting issues

Kevin Harbuck – National SAP
Specialist, Cisco Systems

Marcus Holm – Automation Product Specialist, Cisco Systems

As a key developmental partner for SAP, Cisco has
become the preferred and strategic solution provider for Run Book Automation.
Kevin and Marcus have successfully introduced automation into SAP environments
for a combined 7+ years and currently consult with some of their largest
global customers.

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Ensure Success with your Next SAP®
Application Upgrade or Enhancement

Learn how IBM’s
internal SAP project team resolved such SAP

application lifecycle challenges during their last upgrade and system
migration project. Learn how the IBM team
anticipated the impact of SAP system
changes to custom programs to ensure a smooth application delivery. And hear
how they were able to streamline test and development cycles, and improve
test accuracy to ensure a successful upgrade, on time and on budget.

Jay Hiremath – Senior Architect, IBM Information Management

Jay Hiremath is a senior architect in the IBM Information
Management division for the IBM Infosphere
Optim product line. He has over 20 years of experience in the computer
software industry with a proven record of product architectures that bridge
high level strategy/vision into practical product/solution offerings. Current
role in IBM involves model
driven architecture for the Information Lifecycle and Data Management
products. He specializes in packaged application support and Data Privacy for
SAP, Peoplesoft,
Oracle E-Business, etc., His past experience includes Enterprise Middleware and
System Management software and Service Oriented Architectures/Web Services
Management.

SAP BI Roadmap and the New SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence 4.0

Come see the latest
version of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Road Map along with a demo of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0. This
is an opportunity for input to roadmap content as we continue to
improve/evolve effectiveness in customer communication.

Susan Guess – Director, Solution Management, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, SAP Labs,
LLC

Susan Guess is
a Director in the Solution Management organization for SAP BusinessObjects solutions. She has most recently
focused on the successful introduction of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer globally after focusing
on product adoption for the SAP NetWeaver
solutions of BW and BWA. Previously,
Susan led the SAP Regional
Implementation Group in the U.S. where she focused on account management and
customer adoption and led efforts in consumer products and pharmaceutical
projects. During her career she has implemented leading-edge data warehouse
solutions in telecommunications firms and developed the first repeatable,
structured data warehouse implementation methodology. Susan has a BS in
Computer Science and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

She is currently
focused on business intelligence road map creation and coordination and
portfolio planning for business intelligence within SAP.

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Transforming the Future
into the Present – SAP Transformation

Do you think your SAP work is over? It is just starting. Companies are
expecting a new wave of transformation, much more intense. This session
expects share perspectives and pain points for the next 5 years; integrating
business requirements, processes, people and technology. I expect to share 2
case studies.

Mauro Okamoto – VP
Enterprise Applications, Softtek

Mauro joined Softtek in 1998 as a SAP
consultant. Throughout his career with Softtek, Mauro has held many positions
ranging from consultant, pre-sales, sales manager, sales director, project
director, general manager to vice president. In these capacities, Mauro has
led multi-million dollar, multi-national ERP implementations in North
America, Latin
America and Europe.

Room TBD

3:40pm – 3:50 pm

Break (10 minutes)

3:50 pm– 4:30 pm

Closing
Session (Room TBD)

Comments, Surveys, and
Prize Giveaways

Blake Whitaker, Bell Helicopter

ASUG Chapter Chair

4:30 pm –
5:30 pm

Happy Hour / Networking