SESSIONS
Benefit from the knowledge of top SAP software developers, product managers, and business process experts. Premium content from SAP TechEd 2009 is delivered free of charge, in local languages, at many SAP events around the world. Session availability varies by event. Please visit the locations page for local agendas and additional content.
Session Themes
Key technical overview and roadmap sessions address how SAP's portfolio of technology helps you to better run your SAP business applications, extend business process in a service-oriented architecture, and gain insight from your business information.
Best Practices — Take advantage of SAP's comprehensive application lifecycle management tools and methodology to efficiently run and optimize your SAP solutions. Create custom applications to enhance your existing SAP solutions. Related session topics include SAP Solution Manager, SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, and SAP NetWeaver Identity Management.
Business Insight — Leverage SAP BusinessObjects tools that provide insight into your business information, and quickly enable informed and accurate decisions for your business needs. Build a trusted and reliable foundation for enterprise information and master data from SAP and non-SAP sources using SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator, and SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management in combination with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services.
Own Practice — Learn how to use the SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration to extend your business processes in a model-driven environment and benefit from service-oriented architecture (SOA) to integrate processes and applications end-to-end across the business network.
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Abstract |
Level |
| Business Intelligence Roadmap |
This extended intermediate session will give a comprehensive update on SAP’s Business Intelligence roadmap. This yearly update session will cover the latest integration status of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and SAP BusinessObjects integration and detail future product releases and functional enhancements planned for delivery in 2009 and 2010. It is recommended that all SAP NetWeaver BW and/or Business Objects customers attend this session. It is a prerequisite that all attendees have prior working knowledge of the SAP NetWeaver BW solution, have overview knowledge of the SAP BusinessObjects product portfolio, and are familiar with the most recent BI roadmap (available on sdn.sap.com). This session is targeted at IT and Project Managers, BI developers, and system administrators. |
Intermediate |
| SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management Overview and Roadmap |
Get an understanding of the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management solutions. Learn about the forward direction of the products. See the products for reporting, admin, and data management capabilities first hand. |
Beginner |
SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management and
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services: A Perfect Match |
This session sheds light on the synergies gained from combining SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services. In particular, you will see how you can ensure master data excellence in heterogeneous landscapes by integrating best-of-class data quality capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, (such as data cleansing and enrichment), with SAP NetWeaver MDM being the overall master data persistency layer. |
Beginner |
What is Behind
SAP BusinessObjects Project Pioneer? |
SAP will ship a new OLAP analysis client offering in 2010, currently known as “Project Pioneer”.
The first release of the products is specifically tailored to fulfill the requirements of SAP NetWeaver BW customers who are looking for an advanced and user-friendly analytical interface for their business users that can leverage the specific OLAP capabilities of the BW OLAP engine. Open data access will also allow customers to use the clients on 3rd party OLAP engines such as MS Analysis Services.
Project Pioneer will result in two different offerings, a Web client specifically catering for the ad-hoc needs of business analysts, as well as an Microsoft Office-integrated analytical offering for designers, business analysts and information consumers. |
Beginner |
Introduction into SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer |
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) Accelerator has been proven a breakthrough technology for boosting performance of business intelligence applications at lowest cost of operation. In addition, the accelerator is the basis for the new SAP BusinessObjects Explorer that brings real self-service business intelligence to the business user. This lecture on SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer discusses the value for your business as well as the roadmap of this strategic business intelligence solution. |
Beginner |
| SAP Data Migration |
Innovation in IT drives business change and growth, and smooth, well-planned data migration is key to implementing new software solutions, but data migration projects can catch unprepared companies off guard. According to Data Migration in the Global 2000, published by Bloor Research International Limited in September 2007, more than 80% of data migration projects run overtime, over budget, or both, with average cost overruns of 30%, and average time overruns of 41%. This session looks in detail at SAP Data Migration services. These provide a standardized and proven approach to planning, designing, and implementing data migration projects. You will learn about the SAP Data Migration software framework based on SAP BusinessObjects technologies, templates, and proven methodologies to help you face the challenges inherent to data migration. Also, in the session we will look at a new and exciting offering to accelerate Data Migration for SAP Business All-in-One. The new offering includes SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, version for data migration to SAP solutions for midsize companies, and the new SAP Best Practices for Data Migration v1.603 package. |
Beginner |
SAP BusinessObjects Information Management for
SAP Deployments: Solution Positioning and Roadmap |
Today, SAP's market leading enterprise application solutions, as well as SAP's business intelligence and performance optimization solutions are being used vastly in organizations around the world. Consequently, SAP applications and SAP business intelligence solutions create, access, use, and manage a large part of the world's corporate data. It is not surprising that the success of the SAP Business Suite or SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence rely on good data and information management practices and tools. In this session, we will introduce SAP's strategic information management solutions that help you address these challenges. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, data integration, and data quality today support scenarios to migrate data for a new SAP Business Suite or SAP NetWeaver MDM initiative, cleanse operational data directly embedded with the SAP Business Suite, enhance data quality for an SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) implementation, or enable SAP or non-SAP data loads into the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) system. We will present how going forward, SAP will invest in an even tighter integration of data services with the SAP Business Suite, SAP NetWeaver MDM and SAP NetWeaver BW. |
Beginner |
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