Technology Overview and Infrastructure
Get an overview of the SAP technology portfolio as well as insights into planned innovation and evolution of the portfolio. This track also lays out the guidelines for technology implementation and system landscape planning, with emphasis on virtualization and cloud solutions from SAP.

• SAP Technology Strategy and Roadmaps
• Technical Infrastructure and Technology Guidance
• Virtualization and Cloud Technology

Application Lifecycle Management
SAP Solution Manager is the central management platform to start, monitor, and control your application lifecycle management (ALM) tasks. It gives you a complete picture of your solution landscape, provides role-based access to relevant tools by SAP's partners and to the installation, upgrade, and maintenance tools provided by SAP NetWeaver. It offers a comprehensive methodology that supports your ALM processes — starting from blueprint and system landscape design to testing, deployment, successful operations, and change. With SAP Solution Manager, IT organizations can effectively operate mission-critical business applications, improve applications' availability, and optimize daily operations to reduce the total cost of ownership across their IT landscape.

• ALM Overview
• Requirements and Design
• Build and Test
• Deployment
• Operations
• Optimization

Business Intelligence and Performance Management
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions users can make informed decisions based on reliable data. They can access, format, analyze, navigate, and share information using a range of techniques adapted to each user’s needs: from intuitive data exploration tools to advanced analytic engines. The introduction of in-memory backend not only accelerates the data access but transforms the way users approach their search for information. And with the increased presence of smartphones and tablets in businesses, users not only access this information but can also analyze and make decisions from anywhere.

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management solutions capitalize on the value of existing data assets and close the gap between strategy and operational execution. Each tool and application within the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio complements each other and fits well in an existing SAP NetWeaver landscape.

• Analysis, Reporting, and Dashboarding
• In-Memory, Mobile Analytics, and Data Exploration
• Business Intelligence Platform
• BI in the Cloud
• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions
• Suite Integrations
  

Enterprise Information Management
Enterprise information management is the business activity of gathering, cleansing, integrating, managing, and governing all information assets used by an organization. It enables corporate initiatives such as business transaction processing, business intelligence, data warehousing, data quality management, data migration, data integration, master data management, and information lifecycle management. SAP helps companies with their business strategies for enterprise information management by providing software and technology within the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, and SAP Business Suite software. With SAP solutions, companies can optimize their business performance by empowering their users and business processes with trusted information that is complete, accurate, and always accessible.

• Content Management and Search
• Enterprise Data Warehousing
• Data Integration and Data Quality Management
• Master Data Management and Data Governance
• In-Memory Computing
  

Business Process Management, Integration and Collaboration
The SAP NetWeaver technology platform provides comprehensive tools to design, develop, run, and optimize business processes — spanning from structured process execution to collaborative decision making. Gain hands-on experience with process integration, modeling, and composition with SAP NetWeaver Process Integration and SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management, process governance and blueprinting with SAP Business Process Blueprinting, and collaboration with SAP NetWeaver Portal and SAP StreamWork. Learn about best practices and planned innovation to develop process-centric and collaborative solutions.

• Business Process and Rules Management
• Process Integration
• Repository and Governance
• Portal Collaboration

Custom Development
SAP solutions like the SAP Business Suite are built on the proven SAP NetWeaver technology platform.SAP NetWeaver offers development tools and methodologies to develop applications, extend the SAP Business Suite, and deliver innovation through the SAP NetWeaver hubs. In addition, SAP NetWeaver paves the way for development targeted to on-demand platforms.

• Custom Development Overview
• Development for the SAP Business Suite
• Development for the SAP NetWeaver Hubs
• Development for On-Demand Platforms

Security, Compliance, Identity and Access Management
Organizations face a challenge managing identities, roles, authentication, and single sign-on across their heterogeneous system landscapes in a consistent fashion. With SAP NetWeaver Identity Management, IT organizations can provision users with appropriate privileges to execute the business processes required in their particular role. In addition, IT organizations can safeguard and protect their business, while helping users to proceed unhindered with the security capabilities of SAP NetWeaver. Learn how to take advantage of these security capabilities — variable, standards-based, multi-method authentication and single sign-on; secure and standards-based connectivity; and integration enhancements of their business processes.

• Identity Management
• Governance, Compliance, and Risk Management
• Security and Secure Interoperability
• Authentication Capabilities: SSO and Federation

Mobile
SAP mobilizes the enterprise with a portfolio of access, management, development, and security tools as well as a variety of mobile messaging services. Attend these sessions to learn how to develop, deploy, and manage mobile solutions on major mobile platforms, which bring data from your SAP landscape to the mobile devices of your choice.

• Mobile Synchronized Application
• Mobile Hybrid Web Container
• New Generation Online Mobile Application
• Mobile Device Management