Conference Activities Sap Netweaver: Strategy Sessions (Customers Only)

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Participate in a strategy session for the SAP NetWeaver technology platform for a unique opportunity to influence the future direction of the development of SAP NetWeaver by giving SAP greater visibility into your current and emerging business requirements. Strategy sessions bring small groups of SAP customers with expertise in a particular functionality of SAP NetWeaver together with the appropriate product definition professionals of SAP NetWeaver. This enables the groups to discuss strategy, business challenges, the product road map, and solution needs. These sessions provide firsthand insights on product enhancements, help you lower implementation risk factors, and strengthen your ties with SAP and fellow customers.

Strategy sessions are open to customers only.

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Strategy Session Seats

Plan to arrive at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start of a strategy session to check in and claim your reserved seat. We reserve the right to release any unclaimed seat at the start of a session. Full Conference registrants may attend any strategy session with open seats remaining at the start of the session on a first-come, first-served basis.

	Session ID Title and Abstract Who Should Participate? Day, Time, Room SS01 The Vision You Would Like SAP to Bring into Reality with the Next Generation of SAP NetWeaver The IT world faces dramatic and exciting technological and business changes. In this strategy session we would like to outline some of the major technology trends we believe will be crucial for the IT world. We would like to get your view on the impact you believe those trends will have on your organization and the vision you would like to see in the next generation of SAP NetWeaver to better serve your organization. IT Architects, IT Consultants, Business Analysts, Power Users Tue, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS02 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Patterns In this strategy session we would like to jointly explore typical patterns which customers expect to be addressed by ESB. We will present a set of process integration-centric patterns, composite development-centric patterns, management-centric patterns, and information-centric patterns. Architect/Enterprise Architects, Business Analysts, Business Process Experts, (Workflow) Developer Programmers Tue, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS03 Business Intelligence: Reporting and Data Warehousing The strategy session will cover SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI). Customers can address operational and design aspects of SAP BW as well as business cases around the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator. In SAP NetWeaver BI, we would like to discuss your expectations and experiences on the integration of Business Objects front-end tools and possible usage scenarios. Information Managers, Strategists, and IT decision makers responsible for reporting Wed, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS04 SAP Clients for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and Rich Client Applications (RCA) What are the primary factors in evaluating and assessing an interface approach? (User type? Application? Business process? Delivery mechanism?) Should companies actively move toward one interface strategy or keep many, according to user type or application? What options are there for Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Flex, Microsoft WPF, AJAX, etc.)? Are there any ROI analyses around using the various interfaces or mix of interfaces? Do you have a UI strategy and how do you see your future UI deployments? IT Development Managers, Enterprise Architects, User Experience Specialists Wed, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m., Zeno 4801 SS05 Enterprise Search SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search is a key application enabling secure access to structured and unstructured information. To ensure success in an enterprise scenario, search must deeply integrate with business processes in order to support strategic goals. Information Managers, Strategists, and IT decision makers responsible for search technology Tue, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m., Zeno 4801 SS06 Identity Management Road Map Ensuring complete control over access to its business applications and data is a fundamental requirement of any organization. In order to do this in a most efficient, secure, and cost effective way, security and identity management functionality of SAP NetWeaver needs to be integrated into the overall security infrastructure of an organization. Security Experts, Managers, and Architects who are responsible for identity management strategy and implementation Tue, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Tue, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Fri, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS07 SAP NetWeaver Security: Directions Beyond Identity Management For dependable end-to-end management and governance of SOA applications, and business processes inside and across companies, security is essential. SAP NetWeaver security together with SAP NetWeaver Identity Management targets this need. Security experts, Managers, and Architects who are responsible for identity management strategy and implementation Wed, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS08 Life-Cycle Management: Linking Business Processes to IT Technical landscape implementations need to be aligned with business goals to deliver and sustain competitive advantage. Software and solution lifecycle management is a key prerequisite for adopting IT landscapes and installed SAP solutions to new business needs. Lifecycle management encompasses the processes of implementation, operation, change management, as well as problem analysis and resolution in the case of errors and exceptions. IT Architects and Managers Tue, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS09 Mobile Application Platform "Anywhere, anytime": Extending the reach of business processes to mobile workers requires mobile application platform capabilities such as mobile applications development tools, mobile middleware, and mobile device management. In this session we would like to discuss with you your strategy for a successful enterprise-wide deployment of mobile solutions. IT Enterprise Architects Tue, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS10 Information Management Foundation The Information Management Foundation refers to the technologies that enable an organization's Enterprise Information Management (EIM) strategy. These technologies cover the areas of data integration, metadata management, data quality, master data management, and analysis of unstructured information. While an effective EIM strategy includes a great deal more than just technology, this session will explore the ways that the associated technologies can be deployed as an integral part of such a holistic strategy. Business and IT professionals with an interest in financial or operational planning Tue, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Fri, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS11 SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management In this Strategy Session you will be able to address and discuss the critical factors for a successful enterprise-wide master data management solution. The discussions should follow use cases that will be provided by the SAP customer. This can include operational as well as analytical MDM use cases. Business Process Experts, Data Governance Experts, Enterprise Architects, and IT Managers Wed, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Fri, 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m., Zeno 4801 SS12 SAP NetWeaver Portal Portal content lifecycle management - How do you decentralize content management to business users, while keeping corporate governance in place? Total cost of ownership - What are the best practices you can adopt to lower your landscape TCO? Contextual intrinsic usage of collaboration services around and next to business processes User-facing services: What are the common, cross–process, cross-role needs users have when they invoke business applications? Discover how we plan for people first and business systems second. Portal flavors: The future portal offering will be diversified with different flavors. What is the right flavor for you? Portals enthusiasts Tue, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m., Zeno 4801 SS13 DocupediA SAP NetWeaver PM and SAP Developer Network (SDN) are launching a prototype to make the SAP Help Library documentation available to the SAP developer community to further enhance your knowledge discovery experience. We would like to get your input and feedback on this initiative. Information Managers, Strategists, and IT decision makers responsible for search technology Tue, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS14 Business to Business (B2B) with SAP NetWeaver Business to business (B2B) interactions are critical to your core business processes. In this council we will explore the current B2B offerings by SAP NetWeaver and paradigms to run B2B (P2P, hub, EDI, and XML industry standards). We would like to explore new opportunities of B2B driven by the need for business networks and their support by enterprise SOA. Architects/Enterprise Architects, Business Analysts, Business Process Experts Tue, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m., Zeno 4801 Fri, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS15 SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer: Bridging Business and IT from Prototyping to Development What role does SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer play in your development processes today? What are the main types of developments you are addressing (SAP NetWeaver BI/Analytics, forms, reporting, transactional) with SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, and where do you see the main advantages in the future? Aside from developers, which additional roles in the company would take an active part in the development of composite applications and business process innovation with the introduction of UI modeling tools? What are the scenarios where user-driven mashups can play a part? IT Architects and Business Process Experts Tue, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Wed, 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS16 Contextualized Business Collaboration How can SAP’s future direction for collaboration and mashup services enable situational collaborative processes on top of the SAP business applications and on top of the Business Objects information management platform? What are the business scenarios supported by contextual collaboration and what are the business semantics for these scenarios? How can contextual collaboration extend SAP applications with business-aware collaboration and situational composites capabilities across the business network? How can contextual collaboration enhance end-user productivity? Portals enthusiasts Wed, 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Thu, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 SS17 Duet Software: A Vanguard in Contextualized Business Applications By participating in this session, you will have a unique opportunity to influence the future roadmap and capabilities of one of the fastest growing products in the software market. This interactive discussion will be led by SAP Product Management, and will solicit your input on business requirements, product ideas, and planned features. This forum will also provide an opportunity to exchange ideas and share experiences with other Duet and SAP customers. Professionals integrating SAP with Microsoft Office Wed, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Zeno 4801 Fri, 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m., Zeno 4801