| How Top Notch Customers Manage Their Application Lifecycles |
Business continuity, accelerating innovation, and reducing risk as well as total cost of operations while protecting your investment is the key challenge for each IT organization. Application lifecycle management builds a standardized and up-to-date knowledge base to foster fact-based decision making instead of trial and error approaches. Based on a phased structure following ITIL, preconfigured standards, services, and powerful tools support you to map your requirements frictionless to processes, organization, and roles - and to go live in time and on budget. In this session, you will get an overview of the complete application lifecycle management offerings of SAP with a special focus on SAP Solution Manager as the central ALM platform of SAP. |
Beginner |
| How to Optimize Your Application Lifecycle Management Processes: Define Your ALM Roadmap |
IT organizations have managed business applications for many years, but are your existing IT processes still sufficient to manage IT solutions of an increasing number of systems and complexity? This session will discuss how to find an answer to this question and which possibilities you have to define and execute your roadmap to improve your Application Lifecycle Management processes if required. |
Beginner |
| The New Service Desk for Incident and Problem Management in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 |
IT Service Management (ITSM) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) are key elements for efficient and effective solution operations. So far, they are supported by two solutions from SAP: SAP CRM and SAP Solution Manager. With the release of SAP Solution Manager 7.1, SAP plans to embed both elements in one platform, which facilitates integrated and scalable IT management. Learn how the latest SAP CRM 7.0 ITSM processes will be integrated into the SAP Solution Manager environment, and how the integration into other proven ALM-processes, such as change control management, test management and solution implementation, helps accelerate resolution times and increase process quality. |
Beginner |
| Upgrade Tools: An Overview of Helpful Tools for Your Upgrade Project |
Did you ever ask yourself which tools are available from SAP and how they can support you in your upgrade project? This session will provide an answer and help you to find your way through the different tools and utilities. We will help you to understand which SAP tool can be used for which purpose and how you can make sure to reap the benefits of this or that tool. Furthermore, we will explain which tools can be used in which phase of your upgrade project and how they tie into each other. This overview will cover many different SAP tools, beginning from easy-to-use check tools on the SAP Service Marketplace or other Web platforms like the solution browser tool or the Upgrade Dependency Analyzer and range to sophisticated management tools available with SAP Solution Manager like the Custom Development Management Cockpit (CDMC). The session also includes demos of some of the tools. SAP has a lot to offer to make your upgrade projects easier. Attend this session to explore the world of SAP tools for upgrade projects and see for yourself how you can benefit from them. |
Beginner |
| How to Manage the Lifecycle of SAP Business Objects Systems in SAP Landscapes |
When extending your SAP Business Suite landscape by SAP BusinessObjects solutions, you manage the entire lifecycle for these additional components. This session explains the main similarities and differences between SAP NetWeaver based and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise based systems focusing on business use cases, architecture and landscape recommendations, transport mechanisms, security essentials, and supportability. |
Beginner |
| Implementing Enhancement Packages With SAP Solution Manager 7.1: A Project View |
SAP Solution Manager delivers everything required to safely implement enhancement packages. This session outlines what capabilities are offered and how they contribute to making the implementation of enhancement packages a non-event from a project point of view. Going from the initial discovery of desired functionality via SAP Service Marketplace and the download via Maintenance Optimizer, you will discover how to define business processes and realize their relationship to business functions. In addition, you will see how SAP Solution Manager minimizes disruptions by offering an impact analysis of business functions before activation. Central configuration and testing complete the overall process of implementing enhancement packages. This end-to-end approach minimizes risk and allows you access to SAP's innovations in a painless manner. |
Beginner |
| SAP Systems in the Cloud |
Private and Public Clouds will help to lower TCO and increase agility for all SAP solutions. In this session, you will hear about the offering from SAP that will enable you to quickly provision and experience SAP solutions in real time and at low cost. We will discuss our strategy and roadmap and share how the offering will be integrated with various Cloud Providers and the services offered to our ISV eco system. |
Beginner |
| System Landscape Governance to Ease the Use of SAP Products |
The session outlines SAP's approach and current offerings to reduce complexity in system landscapes covering multiple SAP applications. Learn how SAP is tackling the most important challenges customers face when designing and managing their system landscapes. Understand how landscape governance will help to standardize and automate the management of your system landscape. Furthermore, we will provide an update of the SAP System Landscape Governance Board, covering the newest deployment recommendations, how to design system landscapes for certain SAP products. |
Beginner |
| Overview Test Management |
During this overview session participants will get a comprehensive overview of the ALM process Test Management with emphasis on functional testing. This includes the discussion of recommended change management and test activities, overview of test options using SAP Solution Manager, SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization, as well as partner applications from HP, IBM, and Worksoft. The session will feature customer examples of the three test options as well as an overview of the new Test Automation Framework of SAP Solution Manager 7.1. |
Beginner |
| Application Lifecycle Management Roadmap - What Is New in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 |
SAP plans to deliver the new release of SAP Solution Manager just before SAP TechEd 2010. This session will provide an overview of the new features and enhanced functionality included. Learn how you can benefit from the investments of SAP to optimize processes within your IT organization. |
Intermediate |
| Best Practices and Tips for Best Performance of SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 on SAP NetWeaver BW |
This session discusses the best practices, tuning, and tips and tricks for maximizing performance of SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 running on an SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) 7.0x deployment. This session discusses the accompanying white paper which encompasses the significant amount of knowledge reviewed and condensed in this area along with input from key SAP field personnel. Attendees will receive a good overview of the relevant best practices along with the insight from experienced SAP field personnel on what you can do to ensure best performance of SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 running on SAP NetWeaver BW deployments. |
Intermediate |
| Choosing the Right UI Technology for the Right Project |
SAP offers a wide variety of UI technologies and tools for custom development: Web Dynpro for Java, Web Dynpro for ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, etc. How should you choose? In this session we will provide an overview of these technologies as well as provide decision criteria for your next project, based on the "Best Built Apps" guide. |
Beginner |
| SAP Enhancement Package Installation Made Easy |
This session demonstrates how to efficiently manage the technical enhancement package installation process, with a focus on SAP Business Suite 7 innovations 2010. This session contains: discovering and explaining the complete enhancement package installation from planning to successful execution, including the usage of all relevant tools (Landscape Verification Wizard, Maintenance Optimizer, SAP Enhancement Package Installer); covering all implementation scenarios (new installation, upgrade from older releases, SAP enhancement package installation); providing best practice advice derived from SAP Business Suite 7 innovations 2010 ramp-up customer projects; and statistics and tips and tricks for a successful enhancement package installation. |
Intermediate |
| Duet Enterprise Overview: Consume and Extend SAP Applications Through Microsoft SharePoint and Office |
Introduce yourself to Duet® Enterprise, a new joint product from SAP and Microsoft addressing the need to connect SAP applications with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. Get an insight on how Duet Enterprise helps IT serve the business more effectively and enables all employees to consume and extend SAP applications from Microsoft SharePoint and Office. See a demo of the software and the way users benefit from unified and simplified access to the Information and actions they need, which, as a result, increase personal and team productivity. Step through the product functionality, solutions and architecture, as well as the planned timeline. |
Beginner |
| Best Practices for Designing Web Dynpro ABAP User Interfaces |
Within this lecture you will learn about important concepts and practical guidelines for building state-of-the-art freestyle Web Dynpro ABAP user interfaces. We show which container layouts (including the new form layout) are appropriate for specific scenarios and provide rules for the horizontal and vertical sizing of UI element containers, container cells, and UI elements. We will also cover additional UI design aspects like using Floorplan Manager (FPM) to increase UI consistency, visual design standards, performance optimization, and how to avoid the most common mistakes that affect UI implementation. |
Intermediate |
| Sybase Replication Server Overview |
Sybase Replication Server handles your data with no bias to the type of database at the source or target. With Replication Server, your business can leverage existing applications across multiple locations and geographies. You can make decisions based on today’s information and feel secure in the stability and reliability of your distributed enterprise environment. |
Beginner |
| SAP NetWeaver Identity Management - Highlights Of The Next Release |
New features have been developed for the next release of SAP NetWeaver Identity Management. This session will describe the planned features available in the next version. We will look into some examples of the new user interfaces, and the additional new processes. This session will include a demo of some of the new features. |
Beginner |
| How to Migrate from SAP CUA to SAP NetWeaver Identity Management 7.1 |
This session gives an example on how to migrate a set of live ERP landscapes from a SAP CUA driven user administration to a user and authorizations administration with SAP NetWeaver Identity Management 7.1. Certain best practices will be given on what steps to keeps an eye on and what pitfalls to avoid. The presentation is based on a real customer environment. |
Beginner |
| SAP Security Overview Presentation |
This is a 101 session that will give attendees a holistic and comprehensive overview about the current features, functions, and products that SAP offers for security and identity management. Topics will include, but are not limited to, single sign-on (SSO), especially SAP's new Identity Provider (IdP) for standards-based SSO and identity federation with SAML 2.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language), SAP NetWeaver Identity Management to manage, govern, and provision identities for heterogeneous landscapes, and SAP's offerings for security for composite business processes. Finally, attendees will get a glimpse at the roadmap and planned innovations for advanced security technologies by SAP. |
Beginner |
