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Orlando • November 20–22

The premier event for organizations that rely on SAP® for reporting,business intelligence, planning, and budgeting

For more information and to register, visit www.reporting2013.com or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700

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Pre-conference workshops Conference, November 20-22

Tuesday, November 19

8:00 am Registration Opens

9:00 am Jumpstarts 1

2:00 pm Jumpstarts 2

5:00 pm Registration Closes

Wednesday, November 20

7:00 am Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast

8:30 am Keynote

9:45 am Exhibit Hall Opens

10:00 am Break

10:30 am Breakout Sessions

11:45 am Lunch

1:00 pm Breakout Sessions

2:15 pm Break


4:00 pm Refreshment Break

4:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closes


5:15 pm Exhibit Hall Re-opens

5:30 pm Opening Night Reception

5:45 pm Ask the Experts


Thursday, November 21



9:30 am Exhibit Hall Opens

9:45 am Refreshment Break


11:15 am Break


1:00 pm Lunch


3:30 pm Extended Break

3:30 pm Ask the Experts



Friday, November 22







12:45 pm Lunch


3:00 pm Conference Concludes

Analytics continues to be crucial for a company’s long-term success and competitive advantage. Having a well-defined analytics strategy will help your organization deal with volatility, stay ahead of competitors, and help you innovate and enter into new markets. 2013 marks an unprecedented year for innovation and change in analytics:

• According to Gartner, analytics and business intelligence is the #1 priority for CIOs

• Mobile BI continues to gain steam with nearly half of enterprises looking to implement mobile applications in 2013

• There continues to be more and more data for us to digest and disseminate, with the world’s data doubling every 16 months

These trends are igniting a decision-making revolution impacting every company and executive globally, making this the ideal time to review your current investment in analytics, learn what best practices leaders are implementing, and explore the new technologies and innovations required to meet these opportunities head-on. Reporting & Analytics 2013 represents a great opportunity for you to get ahead of these technology trends by:

• Learning about the new and emerging BI technologies for enterprise BI, mobile analytics, self-service, and big data

• Talking to colleagues who have implemented solutions and discover how they were able to be successful in their firm

• Meeting with SAP and SAP BusinessObjects™ experts one-on-one

• Exploring project guidelines, methodologies, and accelerators

We look forward to having you join us in Orlando, November 20-22, to accelerate your analytics program and help ignite a decision-making revolution at your company.

Jason Rose Adam BinnieVP SAP BI Marketing GM and GVP Business IntelligenceSAP SAP


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Special pre-conference sessions hosted on this day fortify your understanding of critical reporting, analysis, and BI concepts

and the SAP and SAP BusinessObjects solutions that enable them. Attend any pre-conference sessions of interest to you, and

participate in a networking lunch with other attendees. See page 5 for details.

Tools and topics covered in this conference include:

BI strategiesBI implementations and upgradesCenters of excellenceChange managementData management and governance Data warehousingExtraction, transformation, and

loading (ETL)Mobile BIPower user programsPicking the right BI tool for the job

Report performanceSAP Business Planning and

Consolidation SAP BusinessObjects Web

Intelligence®SAP BusinessObjects BI (XI 3.x, 4.x,

FP3, and SP4-6)SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerSAP BusinessObjects AnalysisSAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects EIM SAP Crystal Reports®SAP HANA®SAP EPM SAP Lumira™SAP NetWeaver® BW 7.3SAP NetWeaver BW AcceleratorSAP Predictive AnalyticsSAP product updates and roadmapsSelf-service and ad-hoc reporting

Pre-conference workshops, Tuesday, November 19

Conference, November 20-22 • 10 comprehensive tracks

Track 1 Reporting strategies and investment decisions Page 8

Track 2 Technology roadmaps and demos Page 11

Track 3 Power user development and end user engagement strategies Page 14

Track 4 Dashboards Page 18

Track 5 Mobile BI Page 20

Track 6 SAP HANA Page 22

Track 7 Report design Page 24

Track 8 Self-service BI, data exploration, and analysis Page 27

Track 9 BI performance and data optimization 1

Track 10 BI implementations, upgrades, and enhancement projects Page 33

Track 11 Business Objects for platform independent customers Page 35

Track 12 SAP business planning and consolidation Page 41

BONUS! BPC Seminar is co-located with Reporting & Analytics 2013. Conference attendees may attend sessions at BPC Seminar for no additional cost. See Page 46.


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Educational and networking opportunitiesMore than 140 educational sessions and forumsExpand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your industry counterparts.

Pre-conference workshop Take advantage of comprehensive workshops to build skills and fortify your understanding of critical SAP reporting and analytics technologies and solutions. Advance sign-up is required.

Ask-the-expertsSit down one-on-one with the leading experts to ask questions and get detailed, authoritative answers.

Customer-led case studiesTake away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics.

Interactive discussion forumsHear about your peers’ projects, challenges, and ongoing initiatives during forums facilitated by an expert moderator.

Exhibit Hall receptionsInteract with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. Build a lasting network of peers and meet with leading product and service vendors.

Social networking loungeFor the first time ever, those attending Reporting & Analytics 2013 will have their very own social media space! Located in the exhibit hall, the lounge will provide you with a space to mingle with other Reporting & Analytics attendees, blog or tweet about the event, and relax in a comfortable environment.

Luncheon roundtablesSit with your colleagues by topic area, industry, or job function and discuss solutions to your most difficult problems. Learn about the projects your colleagues are tackling, what strategies they’re using, and why.

Speed networkingYou’ve heard of speed dating, now try speed networking! Participants will have 5 minutes to make their initial introductions and converse before moving on to meet another contact. An emcee will proved instructions and keep things moving. Forge new relationships and build a lasting network of peers you can call on for years to come.

Hands-on labsRoll up your sleeves and get valuable hands-on experience with the latest technologies from SAP. Experts will guide you through step-by-step exercises to help you develop a comprehensive understanding of each solution’s functionality and arm you with skills you can use right away.

Advance your career and keep your certification current. Earn 28 CPE credits by attending sessions offered at Reporting & Analytics 2013. No prerequisites or advanced preparation required.* The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) awards CPE credits in:

AccountingAdministrative PracticeBusiness Mgmt and Org

Personnel/HRSpecialized Knowledge and Apps

FinanceComputer Science

*Attendees must have a basic knowledge of an SAP system, and an understanding of the Reporting function in an organization.SAPinsider is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org. If you have any concerns or complaints, please contact customer service at +1-781-751-8700.


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Pre-conference workshops Sessions

Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

The people piece of project management: Things they didn’t teach you about managing projects that can make your job so much easier

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Critical considerations, requirements, and guidelines to ensure a successful SAP HANA initiative page 6

Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

How to bring business and IT leaders together to develop a well-defined BI strategy and run a successful BI competency center

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Hands-on lab: Don’t speed up bad data! Critical (and often overlooked) steps to prepare your data for SAP HANA page 7

Special deep-dive sessions that enable you to: Fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions

Explore new trends and strategies

Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

By registering for Pre-conference workshops, you can: Attend any sessions of interest to you

Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated question-and-answer time

Gain online access to the session slides and take-homes

Participate in a networking lunch with other attendees

Join us for Pre-conference workshops — Tuesday, November 19

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Pre-conference workshops

Unleashing the Power of Collective InsightWe live in a connected world where data, people, machines, and processes are interlinked in an internet of everything. Immense value can be unleashed by connecting this information to the work we do every day, enabling us to quickly discover what is happening, and then acting with the power of collective insight. In this keynote, learn how customers can leverage analytics, big data, and mobile solutions to transform busi-ness processes, win new customers, de� ne disruptive new business models, and innovate faster and more e� ectively than their peers. Understand the impact of these solutions and o� erings on existing project methodologies and strategies. See real-world customer innovations in the areas of analytics, big data, and mobility and hear how SAP services can ease your transition to these new technologies so that you can make your businesses run better than ever before..

Christian Rodatus

SVP and General Manager,

SAP Analytics

Keynote Address


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The people piece of project management: Things they didn’t teach you about managing projects that can make your job so much easierDoug Whittle, Whittle Consulting Group

For many project managers, managing the technical and project-based components of an SAP initiative is the simple part of their jobs. With so many diverse personalities involved in the project, it’s no wonder that managing the human side of an SAP project is what presents the greatest challenge to project managers. In this three-hour interactive pre-conference workshop you will:

Receive useful tools and techniques to increase your skills in five people-based challenges faced by project managers:

– Communication – Organizational change – Facilitation and meeting management – Coaching – Individual working styles

Review two models for managing the organizational change that accompanies every SAP project and review five stages of a change curve that you and your team members will typically experience during an SAP initiative

Explore simple, but effective tools and techniques that can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your team and project meetings

Learn the differences between traditional management and coaching styles and discuss how a coaching approach can increase the motivation and productivity of your team members

Walk through a coaching decision tree that helps you address unsatisfactory performance of team members

Understand the impact of working styles on individual and team performance and on stakeholder relationships

Leave this session with practical tools and templates, tricks, and tips that will increase your self-confidence as well as your competency in leading and managing others through your SAP project

Critical considerations, requirements, and guidelines to ensure a successful SAP HANA initiativeDon Loden and Jonathan Haun, Decision First Technologies

The comprehensive three-hour session walks you through the critical phases of a standalone SAP HANA implementation, from load-ing data into SAP HANA to presenting the results to business users via front-end reports and dashboards. Attendees will:

Understand the advance effort and skills required to prepare data for SAP HANA, including tools and techniques for data modeling and provisioning

Understand what type of data models perform best on SAP HANA and why

– Evaluate multi-dimensional modeling capabilities of SAP HANA using SAP HANA Studio and how it compares to traditional data modeling

– See live demos illustrating data modeling for robust analytics and complex calculations for executive-level dashboards

Obtain an overview of the various methods for extracting and loading data into SAP HANA using both batch and real-time data processing

– Understand the best ways to use SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to streamline the data loading process

– Get lessons for bringing data into SAP HANA from SAP and non-SAP data sources

– Discern whether to install your ETL technology onto your SAP ERP system server, a dedicated server, or a virtual machine

Understand how to present SAP HANA results to business users via reports and dashboards

– Learn to view and interpret SAP HANA results through integration with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP Lumira, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

– Determine your options for manipulating SAP HANA results in the various BI tools

– Learn to leverage the Information Design Tool to enable access to SAP HANA data

Lessons from this session can be applied to brand new implementations, as well as to new iterations or rollouts of existing SAP HANA landscapes.

Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm



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Hands-on labDon’t speed up bad data! Critical (and often overlooked) steps to prepare your data forSAP HANASue Waite and David Steinbruck, SAP

As the old adage goes, “Garbage in, garbage out,” SAP HANA is only as good as the data you’re feeding it. The benefits of SAP HANA will not be realized if it’s simply processing bad data more quickly. This hands-on session examines the importance of enterprise-wide data integrity and the steps you need to take to ensure the data you’re loading into SAP HANA is of the highest quality. By attending, you will get step-by-step lessons to:

Combat common (and costly!) problems that arise from bad source data by exploiting SAP EIM tools and techniques to identify and resolve data quality issues prior to loading into SAP HANA

Leverage SAP Information Steward’s new Data Quality Advisor to assess the quality of your data and determine data cleansing requirements

Create a single ETL job that extracts data from a source system, cleanses it based on the data cleansing rules, and loads it into SAP HANA

Use the SAP Data Services Workbench and its Data Replication Wizard to accelerate the ETL process so that multiple tables can be loaded into SAP HANA simultaneously


Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

How to bring business and IT leaders together to develop a well-defined BI strategy and run a successful BI competency centerDeepa Sankar and Pat Saporito, SAP

In this highly interactive, 3-hour session, attendees will learn the key elements of an effective BI strategy that benefits both IT and the core business, and supports enterprise goals with better strategic, tactical, and operational decision making. Attendees will learn how to use a solid framework to identify business pain points, pinpoint technology gaps, and develop and deploy a clear, well-artic-ulated BI strategy.

Find out how an effective BI approach benefits IT and line-of-business teams alike, from aligning business partners and formalizing business needs to removing the limitations of departmental silos

Understand the key components of a BI and analytics roadmap, including stakeholder and management buy-in, research initiatives, and implementation approach

Get recommendations to help you plan, scope, assign resources to, and assess the financial impacts of future BI initiatives

Learn best-practice approaches to execute this plan enterprise-wide, including guidelines to define and run a successful BI competency center

Hear key recommendations to achieve high-level executive sponsorship that can help mandate change and organize cross-functionally for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome

Come away with a repeatable framework for building an analytics strategy that engages and brings together the priorities of both CIOs and business executives to address the organizational challenges that a BI strategy can resolve.


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Reporting strategies and investment decisions

Expert recommendations for picking the right SAP BusinessObjects BI solution for your reporting and analysis needsIngo Hilgefort, SAP CanadaThis is a “must attend” session at the con-ference year after year! Our resident SAP BusinessObjects BI expert examines each of the solutions included in the latest BI portfolio – including the latest releases and updates – and evaluates their capabilities and suitability to meet specific reporting and dashboarding requirements. Attend to learn:

Why some solutions are not an appropri-ate choice for certain reporting and analytic scenarios, such as high-level man-agement KPIs or detailed, drill-down analyses

How the various SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions can be integrated and leveraged in a complementary manner and under-stand the effort and cost required to do so

The best ways to prioritize which tool to use when you can only choose one

Come away with a “time-tested” set of crite-ria to make sure your organization selects the appropriate mix of BI tools to align withspecific business and user requirements.

Tools and techniques to monetize data as a strategic asset Jerome Feltracco, SAP Attend this session to learn how to leverage in-memory predictive analysis solutions from SAP to become more proactive, while minimizing IT disruption. You will:

Learn how to leverage predictive analytics capabilities to evolve your organization from reactive to proactive, including expert recommendations on where to start and who to involve

Identify which functional areas to tackle as a priority for maximum results

Explore the most compelling use cases for advanced predictive analysis in specific industries, including financial services, high tech, retail, energy and resources, public sector, and manufacturing

A field-tested approach for identifying KPIs for both executive and operational reporting Anuj N. Babel, Deloitte This session examines a framework to effec-tively identify and define key performance indicators (KPIs) that provide actionable insights for both executive and operational reporting. By attending you will:

Understand the importance of upfront KPI identification and learn strategies for incorporating it into the blueprint phase of an implementation

Find out how executive-level and opera-tional-level report requirements differ, and get tips to determine KPIs that deliver target analytics to both groups

Get strategies for ensuring the adoption of this KPI framework within your organization

Take home a sample catalog of KPIs, along with sample report and dashboard layouts.

What (non-SAP application) Business Objects customers need to know when picking the right BI tool for their unique requirements Ty Miller, SAPDo you run SAP BusinessObjects BI tools, but not an SAP transactional system? If so, then this session is for you. By attending you will:

Evaluate critical criteria for determining which SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions best fit your unique landscape, business, and user requirements

Examine typical use cases for SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions against non-SAP relational data sources such as SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, and Teradata; OLAP data sources such as Analysis Services, Essbase, Oracle OLAP, Teradata; and more exotic data sources like Hadoop and oData

Understand which solutions are recom-mended for high-level management KPIs, financial statements, search and explora-tion, and detailed, drill-down analyses

Learn about which BI tools that have similar capabilities are best suited for a non-SAP appli-cation environment.

Case study

Best practices from The Irvine Company for deploying and optimizing SAP Predictive AnalysisKen Wong, The Irvine CompanyAttend this session for insight into how The Irvine Company enhanced its BI strategy to include predictive analytics capabilities and get lessons on:

SAP Predictive Analysis data source inte-gration, Open-Source R configuration, visualization, and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 integration

Required skill sets associated with SAP Predictive Analysis, including the new role of a “data scientist” and proficiency in sta-tistics analysis and predictive algorithms

Identifying appropriate use case to include in initial proof of concept

Come away with lessons from the company to determine the business scenarios in which predictive analytics can provide the greatest value.

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Creative strategies for doing more with less: How to get the most from internal project teams and external consultantsDan Wilhelms, Symmetry CorporationWith tight budgets and limited resources, organizations must think creatively in order to assemble project teams, meet key deadlines, and achieve desired business outcomes — all while keeping costs down. This session offers expert advice on the best ways to:

Negotiate for resources from your non-technical business teams and utilize them smartly

Hire outside consulting resources and understand how to go about it wisely with a well-defined RFP and SOW

Assess your organization’s internal core competencies to ensure you use consultants only to augment — not replace — internal talent

Decide whether to outsource develop-ment, either onshore or offshore, and understand the potential impact on your realization phase

SAPexperts panel discussion

Alignment strategies for IT and business users for 2014Thierry Audas, SAP; Anurag Barua, GyanSys; Andrew Joo, IBM; and Mico Yuk, BI Dashboard FormulaAs BI technology is developed and adapted for self-service use, the need for tight collabo-ration between the business and IT has never been greater. Attend this interactive panel of leading BI experts and gain:

New ideas for how IT and users can align business and technical requirements and work toward common goals

Real-life cautionary tales about pitfalls to avoid, such as underestimating the importance of change management when rolling out new tools or incorrectly assuming a high quality of data in projects

Practical communication techniques that have proven successful in other companies

Don’t forget to bring your own tough ques-tions for our panelists about how business and IT can best support each other as you launch or expand your self-service BI strategy.

Guidelines and best practices for managing a global SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 upgrade projectBob Zenker, Decision First TechnologiesThis session provides you with tips for plan-ning and executing a global migration and upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects 4.0. Using examples from a large SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 upgrade project that included 70,000 reports and 6,500+ users, this session provides you with real-world lessons for planning and exe-cuting your own BI upgrade. In this session you will explore:

The importance of prioritizing user adop-tion as an outcome of your SAP BusinessObjects BI upgrade projects, especially when content ownership is unclear and users are resistant to change

A best practice structure for analyzing and preparing your technical landscape and your business community for change

Each phase of an SAP NetWeaver BI upgrade project, including tips for con-tent rationalization, organizational change management, and project planning

Critical strategy and technical considerations when preparing for the SAP HANA paradigm shift Blake Duggan, Method360This session reviews the scope, benefits, and architecture of SAP HANA and assesses key considerations when evaluating or planning a deployment. Attend to:

Understand your options for exploiting the in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA, including SAP HANA as a standalone sys-tem and SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, and get criteria for determining which version your business needs require

Examine unique landscape, data, and per-formance factors you must address when adopting SAP HANA, and how require-ments differ depending on the version of SAP HANA being deployed

Get details on the SAP HANA migration path for SAP NetWeaver BW customers and how it compares to a traditional data-base migration effort

To mobilize or not to mobilize? Business and system considerations for determining the viability of mobile analytics Tony Guetersloh, TekLink InternationalWhile the demand for mobile analytics is increasing, not all reports and dashboards should be mobilized. This session provides key criteria to help determine which analyt-ics should be deployed to mobile devices (and which should not be). Attend to:

Examine six cornerstones of successful mobile analytics initiatives — from conve-nience, relevancy, and presentation, to the “cool” factor — that must be weighed carefully when determining a mobile BI initiative

Get expert guidance to properly evaluate mobile analytics, including an under-standing of the scenarios in which mobile reports and dashboards can provide the greatest value

Step through a sample evaluation process for various report types — field sales, IT operations management, and plant line efficiency — to see firsthand how the considerations presented in this session can be used to determine the best candi-dates for report mobilization

Take home a scorecard framework for evaluat-ing future mobile reporting initiatives.

Case study

How McKesson is delivering business insights and analysis to users anywhere, anytime Gabriel Orthous, McKessonIn this session, McKesson discusses decision criteria, best practices, and lessons learned from its recent mobile BI deployment.

Get recommendations from the company to build and prove a solid business case for mobile BI, including tips to help quan-tify ROI on mobile technology investments and recommendations for gaining executive buy in

Examine technical and business require-ments needed to provide robust enterprise benchmarks for implementing a flexible mobile BI solution

Gain tips for how to sell and brand mobil-ity as a product to current end users

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5 simple, proven steps for successful dashboard designMico Yuk, BI Dashboard FormulaDon’t miss this opportunity to meet SAP men-tor and BI guru Mico Yuk – and walk through her five-step dashboard design process that has been used successfully to build over 400+ enterprise dashboards globally. Explore the formula’s key ingredients, including:

Scoping – The art of gathering requirements

Prototyping – Developing the perfect dashboard

Data validation and connectivity – The moment of truth

Go-live – Living through dashboard Armageddon

Knowledge transfer – The key to job security

Your approach to dashboard development will never be the same after this session.

Leveraging SAP solutions for EPM and analytics to drive value from your existing investmentsHenner Schleibs, SAP Attend this session for a detailed look at how to derive business value from alternative ana-lytics solutions from SAP for specific audiences -- including finance, marketing, and operations.

Evaluate tools within the overall SAP ana-lytics portfolio and get best practices to integrate them into existing business processes

Identify methods to leverage SAP and SAP BusinessObjects solutions in conjunc-tion with new technologies to drive self-service reporting

Get strategies to drive user adoption at all levels of the organization –- from execu-tives to shop floor

Step through use case examples for finan-cial and operational reporting to demonstrate exactly what functions align with what tools.

Mico Yuk’s top 5 BI guerrilla tactics to overcome user resistance!Mico Yuk, BI Dashboard FormulaLet’s face it. IT teams are fighting to remain relevant in most organizations as they contin-uously struggle to engage the business users, or show value. Not only are the business users distracted by the buzz of big data, and the IT-free promise land known as the “cloud,” but they are resisting any IT engagement at an alarming rate. With Gartner predicting that in 2013 that “70% of all BI projects will be a fail-ure,” IT has to change... and quickly! Attend this session to learn how to:

Avoid outlook scoping – learn how to gather requirements correctly

Watch what you say – learn how to speak the business lingo… not BI

Stop running – learn how to embrace new BI solutions… and shock the busi-ness into engaging

Design mobile first – the iPhone has changed the BI game… apps are a thing of the past

Deploy faster – long, drawn out deploy-ments are a thing of the past

Operationalizing analytics for business executives at SAP Dean J. Eiwanger and Stewart Johnstone, SAPAttend this session to learn how SAP uses its SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence solutions to give its sales leadership the tools and information for effective, timely decision making. Go behind the scenes and get SAP’s best practices for running its sales operations more effectively, including:

How forecasting and pipeline analysis coming directly from SAP CRM is put directly into the hands of the business users and sales leaders running the business

Leveraging a centralized BI platform to ensure effortless business reviews

From Explorer to mobile BI, see how to get up and running quickly and win the confidence of business leaders

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The 2013 strategic and technical guide to SAP BusinessObjects BI functionalityJason Rose, SAP This “standing-room only” session is back again and updated with the latest SAP BusinessObjects BI roadmap information, including new functionality and its impact on your existing BI landscape. Hear critical infor-mation directly from SAP, including:

How the new SAP Predictive Analysis and SAP Lumira (formerly known as SAP Visual Intelligence) tools provide analysts with self-service data visualization and publish-ing capabilities

Implications of new dashboard function-ality that supports iOS and HTML5 for broader deployment via tablets and smartphones

The latest updates on support packs avail-able for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0

Tools and techniques to derive greater value from your SAP EPM solutions Elizabeth Milne, SAP Come to this session for lessons to optimize the performance of your SAP EPM applications by leveraging them in conjunction with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. Attendees will examine:

Features, functionality, and integration points of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, including the specific ways it has been optimized to enhance the performance of your EPM applications

Strengths and limitations of using specific SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions such as SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in conjunction with EPM, and map each of these reporting tools to specific EPM report types

Mobile reporting and analysis options for SAP EPM solutions

Benefits of a combined analysis, planning, and performance management solution, from increased reporting flexibility to reduced risk of data entry errors

Live demo

SAP BusinessObjects AnalysisThierry Audas, SAP Attend this live demo to explore the analytical capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis. By attending you will:

Learn how this revamped BI solution can be leveraged to boost self-service BI in your organization – while minimizing TCO

Walk through common, real-world use cases to understand how the tool could be leveraged in your BI landscape

Understand key differences between the Microsoft and OLAP editions

A comprehensive overview of the rapid deployment solutions available for implementing SAP HANAMarian Harris, SAP Labs Learn how your project teams can leverage the SAP Simplified Rapid Deployment Solu-tion Experience to reduce costs and deliver the right business processes and insight in weeks with cloud and on-premise deployment options for SAP HANA. In this session you will:

Understand the four key elements in a pre-assembled rapid deployment solution and what each means in the different use cases for SAP HANA

Identify and choose the right option to bring SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, SAP HANA Live and more into your own landscape, whether it is on-premise, in the SAP or certified SAP Partner Cloud, or in your own private cloud

Walk through the project documentation that accompanies each implementation option, and learn how to use it as the starting point for your own end-user documentation and training.

A guide to SAP solution updates that accelerate the financial close and publication of financial statementsElizabeth Milne, SAP This session provides an up-to-date and com-prehensive overview of SAP solutions that help streamline the production and publication of financial statements. You will:

Examine how to leverage SAP solutions for enterprise performance management (EPM) to ensure all stakeholders’ require-ments are met, including internal management reporting and external reg-ulatory requirements

View demos that show how SAP Disclo-sure Management functionality can be used to reduce the time, risk, and cost of regulatory disclosures

Explore tools and strategies to help stan-dardization, streamlining, automation, collaboration, and centralization of the accounting and financial close process

Come away with practical tips to enable more efficient, timely, accurate, and compliant finan-cial processes – from entity close management and intercompany reconciliation to consolida-tion and disclosure management.

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Technology roadmaps and demos


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Introducing Innovations in Finance: Empowering Finance with Real Time Insight Birgit Starmanns, SAP Attend this session to see how new functionality delivered in SAP’s finance port-folio, powered by SAP HANA, can be used to empower finance teams with real-time insight to proactively enable strategic, forward-look-ing decisions. You will learn how to:

Exploit key capabilities of SAP’s financial solutions to improve end-to-end compli-ance and predict the financial implications of strategic decisions

Leverage customizable dashboards with key performance indicators that are calcu-lated in real time to gain instant access to information

Use comprehensive modeling and simu-lation tools with predictive capabilities to better prepare the organization to respond to anticipated market situations

Step through live demos for insight into the latest innovations in applications, analytics, cloud, mobility, and collaboration available.

Driving real-time business value with SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA Puneet Suppal, SAP AmericaThis session is an opportunity for customers to hear directly from SAP about the best ways to leverage the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA to drive business value in real time. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of:

New analytical capabilities delivered in SAP HANA Live for SAP Business Suite

Deployment options for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, including SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Key factors and criteria you should con-sider as you evaluate SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA for your organization

Leveraging Analytics solutions from SAP to drive value from your existing investmentsHenner Schliebs, SAPAttend this session for a detailed look at how to derive business value from analytics solu-tions from SAP for dedicated audiences -- including finance, HR, marketing, and operations.

Evaluate solutions within the overall SAP analytics portfolio and get best practices to integrate them into existing business processes


Get the basics to drive user adoption at all levels of the organization: executives, managers, analysts and everybody

Step through use case examples to understand what business value (advanced) Analytics solu-tions can bring into each department.

Live demo

SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioIngo Hilgefort, SAP CanadaAttend this live demo to gain firsthand knowl-edge about new functionality offered with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, and see how to:

Design interactive visualizations via mobile dashboards and Web applications

Create scalable, multi-dimensional dash-boards and visualizations for your BI apps

Leverage existing analyses by operating directly on SAP BEx queries, InfoCubes, and SAP HANA views

SAP Predictive Analysis: Latest updates and future roadmap Charles Gadalla, SAP This session offers product updates and best practices for leveraging in-memory predictive analysis and data mining solutions from SAP to enable near real-time analysis on large data volumes and reduce long-term IT platform costs. Attend to:

Get an overview of existing predictive capabilities delivered in SAP HANA as well as the new SAP Predictive Analysis tool and how they interoperate

Learn to exploit the latest capabilities in SAP Predictive Analysis to enable greater use of the algorithms with the customiz-able SDK and HTML 5 interface

Understand how SAP Predictive Analysis works within your existing data environ-ment and get tips to exploit key integration points with the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

Understanding best-in-class planning, budgeting, and forecasting using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Pras Chatterjee, SAPThere’s so much to do and implement when it comes to planning and budgeting within your organization. Do you restrict to a specific prob-lem or tackle an enterprise-wide situation?

Learn how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation can be leveraged to per-form leading budgeting and forecasting practices

Walk through examples used by other organizations that have leveraged BPC functionality to help them overcome gaps in areas with limited visibility and clarity

Learn about various planning options including: headcount planning, opex planning, capex planning, revenue plan-ning, and unified planning framework

Come away with a clear understanding of the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation roadmap including new features and panned improvements.

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Hands-on labEnterprise self-service with SAP Lumira, SAP Lumira Cloud and mobile BI Patrick Sims and Aaron Graber, SAP Take an in-depth look at how end users can use SAP Lumira to access data in real-time, and share their insights in the cloud and through any device. Examine the tools that comprise SAP’s vision with hands-on exer-cises using SAP Lumira, SAP Lumira Cloud, and mobile BI. Attendees will:

Learn how SAP Lumira fits into an enter-prise BI strategy and not just a departmental use of tools

Gain a better understanding of SAP’s strategy and vision for self-service BI

Discuss strategies to satisfy the often con-flicting desires of end users and IT for data access

SAPexperts LIVEWhat’s new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP customers?Ingo Hilgefort, SAP CanadaAttend this session to get the latest on SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 from SAP mentor and regular contributor to SAPexperts, Ingo Hil-gefort. Drawing on information provided in two recent articles, which will be provided to attendees, dive into:

New capabilities and functionality of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 suite

New features and functions you can lever-age when integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 with SAP NetWeaver BW/SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and SAP ERP

How you can upgrade from prior versions of SAP BusinessObjects BI to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

Uncover new business insights by combining SAP HANA with analytic solutionsHenner Schliebs, SAPExplore how you can leverage SAP HANA in combination with SAP’s analytics solutions to derive meaningful insights, in real time, and to predict and act decisively. By attending you will:

Examine key capabilities of SAP’s applied analytics solutions, such as Net Margin Analysis, Sentiment Intelligence, Store Insight, and Customer Engagement Intel-ligence, to help you quickly leverage new innovations in Analytics

Step through use case examples to see how integration of unstructured data such as social media or big data with internal business data using SAP HANA and SAP’s analytics solutions help deliver new insights to better model and predict business outcomes

Understand how to leverage SAP’s inno-vations in analytics to identify new business strategies and opportunities

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards: 2013 roadmap to current and planned functionalityTy Miller, SAP Attendees at the session will gain a com-prehensive understanding of the new functionality offered with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio. Learn how to:

Create interactive, scalable, data-driven BI applications and dashboards both for mobile devices and the Web

Leverage the flexible, free-form layout features in an Eclipse-based design envi-ronment to meet end-user demands

Determine the proper uses for each tool based on real-world case studies and how each tool can be leveraged in your BI landscape

Come away with the knowledge to take advantage of direct and native support for the SAP HANA platform and SAP NetWeaver BW.

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Power user development and end userengagement strategies Guidelines to implement and maintain a highly-effective and sustainable power user program that drives self-service BI and promotes business/IT alignment Anurag Barua, GyanSysThis session provides lessons for identify-ing the right individuals for your power user community, and offers expert guidance for properly leveraging them to meet the require-ments of your user community, from casual users to data analysts.

Explore criteria to help determine whether a power-user program might work well for specific groups of end users

Identify the role of power users in the requirements-gathering process, includ-ing the importance of identifying the features, functionalities, and data they require to satisfy ad hoc needs up front

Assess current SAP BI tools and how they best fit into a successful and sustainable power user program

Making change stick: Leveraging training and technology trends to improve user adoptionKerry Brown, SAPLearn how to build a flexible, sustainable train-ing, education, and change management strategy to drive user adoption and improve performance. This session offers insight into trends, such as social learning and mobility that can be leveraged to improve change man-agement. By attending you will:

Get insight into the impact of poor or insufficient training and best practices in building user self-sufficiency

Learn how to measure the impact of train-ing (or the lack of training) in your organization based on insights from the analyst community

Explore tools used by customers to suc-ceed, including documentation, learning management, social learning, and user performance monitoring

Proven design techniques that increase efficiency and boost user adoption of SAP Crystal ReportsAnurag Barua, GyanSysHow do you know if you are getting the most out of SAP Crystal Reports? Attend this ses-sion for concrete how-to’s and proven design techniques to optimize SAP Crystal Reports performance and boost user adoption, includ-ing how to:

Exploit the extensive formula language in SAP Crystal Reports to tightly control report formatting, complex logic, and data selection

Create alerts for exception reporting

Accelerate report creation and fine-tuning using the various “experts,” such as Tem-plate Expert, Group Expert, and Highlighting ExpertWorkshop

Examining your SAP initiative from your stakeholders’ points of view to manage expectations and deliver a no-surprises successful project Doug Whittle, Whittle Consulting GroupThe longer you are a member of an SAP project team, the farther removed you can become from your various stakeholders and their perceptions of your project. As time goes on, expectations of each stakeholder group can change, resulting in miscommunication, frustration, and ultimately, dissatisfaction on everyone’s part. This highly interactive ses-sion is a departure from traditional lecture. By attending, you will:

Examine common frustrations, issues, and expectations of four key stakeholder groups: end users, senior business man-agement, IT, and your SAP project team

Learn how to surface, manage, and mea-sure these issues throughout your project lifecycle through stakeholder mapping, ongoing communication, and practical change management techniques

Discuss practical ways to view your SAP project through the lenses of your key stakeholder groups, thereby managing expectations and delivering a no-sur-prises project that is declared “successful” by all involved

A field-tested guide for executing a BI strategy and roadmap that drives business alignment, user satisfaction, and adoption Hariharan Margabandhu, TekLink International Attend this session for insight into techniques proven to be successful at driving user adop-tion when deploying BI functionality from SAP — both SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects. Get an inside look at how roadmap definition, governance, your testing strategy, performance management, and train-ing play a key role in building trust with your user community. The speaker draws on per-sonal experience in the field to provide you with:

Leading practices for establishing techni-cal and data governance to ensure data quality, consistency, and long term align-ment with the business

Techniques for building, maintaining, and ensuring adherence to a robust, flexible, and scalable reference architecture

Methods to engage and train power users to improve adoption of SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects BI tools and solutions


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Case study

Advanced techniques from Fairfax Water to exploit the full potential of SAP BusinessObjects AnalysisTammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterThis session delves into Fairfax Water’s exten-sive use of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis and identifies the business scenarios, use cases, and functionality that have derived the great-est value from it. Attend to:

Step through examples and demos of report usage by role – IT developer, busi-ness analyst, and report consumer – to see how the company fully exploits the latest SAP BusinessObjects Analysis capabilities

Learn how the company integrates SAP BusinessObjects Analysis with other BI tools across its SAP landscape, including SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and the performance benefits it achieves as a result

Explore the ways in which Fairfax Water’s advanced usage of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office has reduced dependence on IT by simplifying self-service BI

Leveraging the self-service capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to reduce dependency on IT staffKevin Hutto, Consultancy by KingfisherThis session examines how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to give business users self-service access to data on a variety of platforms, including mobile. By attending you will:

Learn how to conduct unstructured anal-ysis and exploration without the need for queries or traditional data stores

View demos that illustrate the best ways to boost report delivery and overcome common reporting pitfalls, such as report duplication and proliferation

Get tips for leveraging search capabilities and filtering data for faster and more accurate decision making

Step through a demo that illustrates how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer can be used to dis-play analytics on the iPad.

Case study

3M increases business and user productivity with a self-service and mobile BI initiative Tammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterExamine critical success factors that enabled 3M to develop and deliver a comprehen-sive self-service BI strategy that substantially reduced IT workload while providing man-agers with a clear view of all business-critical data, along with robust ad hoc reporting capa-bilities, both at their desks and via mobile devices. Attend to learn how 3M:

Identified what information to surface for self-service BI and the right analytic tools for its business users

Engaged users and maximized adoption of self-service analytic and data visualiza-tion tools such as SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects exploration view, and SAP mobile BI

Took its self-service initiative one step fur-ther by deploying BI applications onto mobile devices, including a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy to increase user productivity and satisfaction

Self-service data discovery for business users and analysts using SAP Lumira (formerly SAP Visual Intelligence)Ashish C. Morzaria, SAP In this demo-heavy session, attendees will examine the ways in which SAP Lumira pro-vides business analysts with self-service access to real-time data without IT’s help.

Find out how SAP Lumira enables ad hoc discovery across all data types – from spreadsheets to sales, finance, marketing, customer, social, and other business data

Learn how to get started with SAP Lumira, including connecting to an SAP HANA analytic view, transforming data, creating visualizations, and applying filters

Understand how to combine and manip-ulate various data sources, perform robust analysis, and share interactive visualiza-tions and graphs via the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer applications

Interactive Q&A

SAP BusinessObjects DashboardsDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITDesigned to follow up the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards hands-on lab exercises throughout the day – but open to all – take this opportu-nity to get your most pressing dashboarding questions answered. Get insight from Dr. Bjarne Berg, as well as from your peers in this interactive setting about:

Strategies for creating visually pleasing, interactive dashboards and cockpits

Design and navigation techniques to enhance end user satisfaction and performance

How to connect your dashboard to back-end data sources

Hands-on exercises

Going beyond core functionality in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence for more sophisticated and dynamic reports Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITAttendees will walk through two intermediate exercises and come away with tips and tech-niques for creating more complex reports in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, includ-ing when and how to add:

Prompt filters and conditional formatting

Filters and rankings, charts, and tables

Sums and input controls; and custom variables

Hands-on exercises

Analyzing multi-dimensional data using SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft OfficeDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session reviews the basic steps for creat-ing reports in SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, with report data optimized for desired output. Attendees will learn how to:

Add dimensions and measures

Drag-and-drop data objects

Include sections and breaks, hide rows and columns, and add objects

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Hands-on exercises

Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to build queries and reports Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITAttendees at this session will work step-by-step through three exercises to learn how to build basic reports in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Attendees will create WebI reports with tables, titles, charts, and sections, learning how to:

Use dragging and dropping dimensions and measures, sections and breaks, and hide functions

Create filters, create breaks, and change tables into charts

Work with a universe

Hands-on exercises

Integrating and deploying your dashboardDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session provides step-by-step instruction for connecting your dashboard to back-end data. Working through two exercises, you will learn how to:

Add a gauge with alerts to your dashboard

Connect SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelli-gence reports to your dashboards

Use URL features in dashboard design

Case study

How Fairfax Water enlightens business users with mobile BI Tammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterAttend this session to learn from Fairfax Water’s experiences as part of SAP’s customer vali-dation process for SAP Mobile BI 5.0 and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. Learn how to:

Create interactive, scalable, data-driven BI applications and dashboards for mobile devices

Deploy mobile reports and analytics via SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, editions for OLAP/Office, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelli-gence, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Lumira solutions

Utilize new features and functions avail-able within the latest release of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 to deploy mobile reports

Mico Yuk’s top 5 BI guerrilla tactics to overcome user resistance!Mico Yuk, BI Dashboard FormulaLet’s face it. IT teams are fighting to remain relevant in most organizations as they contin-uously struggle to engage the business users, or show value. Not only are the business users distracted by the buzz of big data, and the IT-free promise land known as the “cloud,” but they are resisting any IT engagement at an alarming rate. With Gartner predicting that in 2013 that “70% of all BI projects will be a fail-ure,” IT has to change... and quickly! Attend this session to learn how to:

Avoid outlook scoping – learn how to gather requirements correctly

Watch what you say – learn how to speak the business lingo… not BI

Stop running – learn how to embrace new BI solutions… and shock the busi-ness into engaging

Design mobile first – the iPhone has changed the BI game… apps are a thing of the past

Deploy faster – long, drawn out deploy-ments are a thing of the past

Hands-on exercises

Using out-of-the-box capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to build a best-in-class dashboard prototype Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session provides a fundamental under-standing of dashboard design and takes you through two hands-on-exercises to learn basic strategies and components for creating visual dashboards. Attendees will learn:

Dashboard layout and location of tools

How to log into the BI Launchpad and view the dashboard

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Design and navigation techniques for enhancing dashboard performanceDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITAttend this intermediate level hands-on ses-sion to get best practices for incorporating drop-downs, charts and tables into your dash-boards. Walk through two exercises to learn how to:

Build and connect to Query as a Web Ser-vice (QaaWS)

Bring live data into the dashboard

Build and edit a Live Office query

Use dynamic filtering on multiple objects

Hands-on exercises

Techniques to customize and enhance SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAPDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session walks through advanced tips and techniques for creating customized reports and analyses in SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP. Attendees will get best prac-tices for incorporating sophisticated features such as:

Measure formats

Calculations and custom calculations

Conditional formatting

Hands-on exercises

Analyzing multi-dimensional data using SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAPDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session produces steps for creat-ing basic reports and analyses using SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP. Attendees will work through two exercises to learn techniques, including:

Adding dimensions and measures

Dragging-and-dropping data objects

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Best practices for building universe-driven dashboardsDavid Hudgins, Consultancy by KingfisherLearn how to quickly and effectively build and deploy SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 solutions using SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 infor-mation design tool universes via the query builder. Attendees will get proven, step-by-step instruction on how to:

Plan, implement, and deploy global KPIs and measures that are clearly defined and aligned the business

Personalize and filter dashboards based on the user or query conditions, such as security and authentication considerations

Build siloed vs. dedicated universes when prioritizing requirements, such flexibility to change report data, security, personal-ization, or standardization

Explore scenarios for building operational based dashboard tools for outside-the-box uses, such as shop floor quality control, in the field (mobile) competitive analysis, and busi-ness to consumer analytics.

Lessons for rolling out a financial dashboard that supports your most critical decisionsAnurag Barua, GyanSysIn today’s era of globalization, high levels of competition, and slow economic growth, companies need an ability to view their key financial performance indicators on a frequent – and often worldwide – basis in order to make quick decisions. This session identifies require-ments for building financial dashboards that meet these requirements. You will explore:

Best practices for gathering requirements for your financial dashboards across a diverse cross-section of stakeholders

Content and design techniques proven to enhance the efficiency of a financial dashboard

A comparative analysis of the various SAP dashboard tools and applications and the pros and cons of each

An overview of some of the best design practices related to implementing and rolling out a financial dashboard using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Building visually pleasing and interactive dashboards, cockpits, and scorecards using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITAttend this session to get a comprehensive overview of the capabilities and functionality of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Attend-ees will:

Learn tips for creating intuitive, interac-tive, and visually pleasing dashboards

Examine various types of dashboards including formatted, graphical, and operational

Evaluate both dashboard design tool and design studio tool for building dash-boards, and understand when and how each tool can be leveraged in your BI landscape

Case study

Results and feedback from Fairfax Water’s participation in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.1 beta testing Tammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterHear directly from SAP mentor and BI guru Tammy Powlas about her customer validation experience with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.1 and get lessons to:

Exploit key SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.1 features to support your dash-board, Web reporting, and mobile BI strategy

Create BI applications for mobile devices using new iPhone templates, including how Fairfax Water leveraged this feature for mobile financial and project reporting

Enable optimal interoperability between SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and the rest of the Analysis suite, including key integration points

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Techniques and tools to meet unique BI business requirements through embedded analytics Dell Stinnett-Christy, Decision First TechnologiesThis session provides expert guidance on when and how to embed SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards visualizations into SAP Crystal Reports to meet unique business require-ments, from saving dashboards as a point in time to scheduling to file or email them. Attendees will:

Become familiar with various integration scenarios available for embedded analyt-ics within SAP BusinessObjects to understand how they will fit within your overall BI landscape

Get an overview of data connectivity options for integrating visualizations into reports, including Crystal Reports Data Consumer and Flash Variables

Through live demos, learn how to embed visualizations into reports using each data connectivity approach, including key cri-teria to determine which option makes the most sense based on unique business requirements

Take home the SAP Crystal Reports .rpt files and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards .xlf files from the demonstrations and a back-up file of the SQL Server database used in the reports to utilize when you return to the office.

Case study

How and why McKesson gleans greater financial insights using dashboards and self-service Web analyticsRoss Wilson, McKessonThis session takes an inside look at McKes-son’s deployment of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to meet their financial reporting needs for their financial supply chain man-agement FSCM project. Attend to learn how McKesson:

Leveraged SAP BusinessObjects Dash-boards and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence tools for credit and dispute management reporting, and SAP NetWeaver BW data stores and InfoCubes as data sources

Optimized dashboard and report perfor-mance by using the BICS connector and the query stripping feature within SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Overcame top design and development challenges, including complete integra-tion between SAP BusinessObjects and the SAP NetWeaver landscape and perfor-mance optimization

Get an overview of McKesson’s implementa-tion roadmap, methodology, and project plan.

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To mobilize or not to mobilize? Business and system considerations for determining the viability of mobile analytics Tony Guetersloh, TekLink InternationalWhile the demand for mobile analytics is increas-ing, not all reports and dashboards should be mobilized. This session provides key crite-ria to help determine which analytics should be deployed to mobile devices (and which should not be). Attend to:

Examine six cornerstones of successful mobile analytics initiatives – from conve-nience, relevancy, and presentation, to the “cool” factor – that must be weighed care-fully when determining a mobile BI initiative

Get expert guidance to properly evaluate mobile analytics, including an understand-ing of the scenarios in which mobile reports and dashboards can provide the greatest value

Step through a sample evaluation process for various report types – field sales, IT oper-ations management, and plant line efficiency – to see firsthand how the consid-erations presented in this session can be used to determine the best candidates for report mobilization

Take home a scorecard framework for evaluating future mobile reporting initiatives.

Access analytics anywhere! Lessons to successfully configure SAP BusinessObjects analytic applications for iPad and iPhone Amandeep Aggarwal, PwC USAttendees at this session will get detailed guide-lines for configuring, running, and maintaining analytics and business intelligence functional-ity from SAP and SAP BusinessObjects on iPhone and iPad devices.

Understand the building blocks necessary, such as the right analytics engine to process data on the back end

Learn how you can retain the functionality of the native application – even with the modifications necessary to accommodate your device’s unique screen size and naviga-tion controls

View a proof of concept that illustrates how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is used to dis-play analytics on the iPad

Best practices to incorporate mobility into your BI strategy Oluwaseyi Ojo, PricewaterhouseCoopersThis session examines key elements of a successful mobile BI strategy and project implementation that delivers business-criti-cal information when and where it is needed. Attend to:

Review eight fundamentals to consider when developing a mobility strategy, including identifying a strong vision and mission and offering intuitive user experiences

Gain best practices for defining and build-ing a mobile governance framework for mobile BI deployment that suits the needs of your organization

Evaluate various deployment options, such as offline vs. online reporting, and identify benefits and drawbacks to deter-mine the best option for your organization

Come away with an understanding of SAP mobile BI tools and how to map them to your existing analytics strategy.

Case study

How McKesson is delivering business insights and analysis to users anywhere, anytime Gabriel Orthous, McKessonIn this session, McKesson discusses decision criteria, best practices, and lessons learned from its recent mobile BI deployment.




Mobile BI

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Best practices and technical considerations for deploying executive-level analytics to mobile devices via SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerNitin Rao, DeloitteThis session provides an A-to-Z look at devel-oping and deploying enterprise-wide, executive-level reports and data explora-tion capabilities to mobile devices via SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. Attendees will:

Examine required authorizations, connec-tivity options, and data storage considerations for mobilizing executive-level reports using SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Get recommendations for leveraging investments in SAP NetWeaver BW to consume data in SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Evaluate various design options to ensure alignment between the solution with enterprise-wide KPIs and reporting strategies

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Critical strategy and technical considerations when preparing for the SAP HANA paradigm shift Blake Duggan, Method360This session reviews the scope, benefits, and architecture of SAP HANA and assesses key considerations when evaluating or planning a deployment. Attend to:

Understand your options for exploiting the in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA, including SAP HANA as a standalone sys-tem and SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, and get criteria for determining which version your business needs require

Examine unique landscape, data, and per-formance factors you must address when adopting SAP HANA, and how require-ments differ depending on the version of SAP HANA being deployed

Get details on the SAP HANA migration path for SAP NetWeaver BW customers and how it compares to a traditional data-base migration effort

Driving real-time business value with SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA Puneet Suppal, SAP AmericaThis session is an opportunity for customers to hear directly from SAP about the best ways to leverage the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA to drive business value in real time. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of:

New analytical capabilities delivered in SAP HANA Live for SAP Business Suite

Deployment options for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, including SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Key factors and criteria you should con-sider as you evaluate SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA for your organization

Enabling real-time business decisions: Tools and techniques for exploiting key integration capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP HANA Thierry Audas, SAP This session examines how the integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions and SAP HANA in-memory computing enables greater insight into the business performance of your organization in real or right time. Through product demos and use case scenarios, attend-ees will learn how:

Deploying SAP HANA in combination with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 enables self-service data discovery and real-time analysis of large data volumes

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, SAP Lumira (for-merly known as SAP Visual Intelligence), and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio leverage the power of SAP HANA with direct native access to information models

SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards integrate with SAP HANA information models and underlying tables to display results in a meaningful and non-disruptive fashion

Tips for organizing, planning, and executing your SAP HANA implementation projectJonathan Haun, Decision First TechnologiesThis session provides you with a detailed understanding of how SAP HANA implemen-tation projects are structured and organized, how data models are designed, and how reports are developed. By attending you will learn how to:

Start provisioning data into your SAP HANA system using a multitude of data connections (SLT, DXC, and data services), and data modeling concepts

Integrate SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM tools with SAP HANA, including tips for integrating SAP Data Services and SAP BusinessObjects

Examine a typical architecture for SAP HANA and understand the benefits of architecting your solution using both SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM tools

Maximizing real-time analytic capabilities while minimizing licensing costs: New ideas for a hybrid SAP HANA solution Tony Guetersloh, TekLink InternationalThis session presents a cost-effective frame-work for leveraging a “mixed-scenario” of SAP HANA Enterprise and SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA to optimize real-time reporting capabilities at minimal licensing costs.

Review technical configuration settings on both systems to enable bi-platform integration while still adhering to SAP’s licensing requirements

Get integration best practices both in the back end (using various SAP NetWeaver BW virtual provider types) and the front end (using SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 tools)

Step through a live demo of a “mixed sce-nario” model that integrates data from SAP HANA Enterprise and SAP BW on SAP HANA and delivers the information to end-users via SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Take home an estimator template to help determine appropriate sizing requirements for leveraging a hybrid SAP HANA solution in your environment.

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Case study

Lessons from Animal Health International’s SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP HANA migration projectTim Hays, Animal Health InternationalAre you planning or considering a migration from SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP HANA? If so, get lessons from Animal Health’s firsthand experience so you don’t have to learn the hard way.

Get details on the steps Animal Health International took to prepare its SAP NetWeaver BW landscape for SAP HANA, such as performance tuning ETLs, ABAP code review, and regression test planning

Hear how the company managed infra-structure challenges associated with running SAP HANA in a highly virtualized environment

Get practical recommendations from the company’s experience to properly plan, budget, test, and size an SAP HANA implementation

Expert guidance for leveraging SAP HANA to enhance SAP Business Planning and Consolidation capabilities Sheldon Edelstein, SAP LabsLearn how to apply delivered functional-ity in SAP HANA to improve data insight for enhanced planning and consolidation pro-cesses. Attendees will:

Explore how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation powered by SAP HANA exploits capabilities like built-in calcula-tion engine, delivered function libraries (predictive, geo-spatial), and optimized data loading capabilities

Obtain field-tested techniques to merge SAP BPC data and non-SAP data sources to achieve optimal results for various reporting scenarios, such as accessing data via composite providers and gener-ating calculation views on SAP BPC models

Step through a demo of SAP BPC data being subjected to predictive analysis resulting in real-time forecast planning updates

Come away with comprehensive understand-ing of how SAP BPC on SAP HANA translates to better planning for the end user community, beyond speed and performance.

Tips and best practices for creating a robust data model for your SAP HANA implementationBing Chen, Method360Even with the many performance and scalabil-ity benefits of SAP HANA, good methodology and a well-designed data model are as impor-tant as ever. Attend this session and learn how to apply the principles of a well-known data warehouse design methodology to create a robust dimensional data model and ultimately drive a successful SAP HANA implementation. Gain insight into:

The benefits of a conformed dimensional data model and the tools you can utilize to build it, such as the bus matrix and data mapping

How to apply the fundamentals of dimen-sional data modeling to your SAP HANA implementation

How to build and import a logical data model into SAP HANA

Take home a sample bus matrix and data map-ping spreadsheet to leverage within your own organization, along with references to addi-tional resources.




Walk through the project documentation that accompanies each implementation option, and learn how to use it as the starting point for your own end-user doc-umentation and training

Leveraging Analytics solutions from SAP to drive value from your existing investmentsHenner Schliebs, SAPAttend this session for a detailed look at how to derive business value from analytics solu-tions from SAP for dedicated audiences -- including finance, HR, marketing, and operations.










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Report design Case study

Real-time financial and inventory reporting at Fairfax Water – no SAP HANA required! Tammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterThis session presents new techniques from Fairfax Water for leveraging embedded ana-lytics within SAP ERP to enable real-time reporting – without the need for SAP HANA. Attend to:

Get an overview of embedded analytics and how they are context relevant and actionable against real-time SAP ERP data

Step through examples for insight into how Fairfax Water is leveraging embed-ded SAP BusinessObjects analytic capabilities delivered in SAP enhance-ment packages 5 and 6 for SAP ERP to enable real-time financial and inventory reporting

Understand what’s required to configure and deploy embedded analytics within your organization

Hands-on lab

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Suite with SAP NetWeaver BWIngo Hilgefort, SAP CanadaAttendees of this workshop will gain a com-prehensive understanding of how SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Suite integrates with SAP NetWeaver BW, and how to leverage the solutions – including SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – to provide powerful analytics and reporting to users. Through lecture and detailed hands-on exercises, attendees will learn:

How SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Suite fits into your overall BI landscape and sup-ports your existing investment in SAP NetWeaver BW

Which requirements can be fulfilled using the SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Suite

Best practices for integrating SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Suite with SAP NetWeaver BW

Techniques for using SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio to create compelling mobile analytics

Determine best connection options for alternative SAP BusinessObjects reporting scenariosJason Kehl, Decision First TechnologiesDrawing on lessons from three recent project implementations, the speaker will provide rec-ommendations for when to use UNV universes versus BICS connectors versus UNX uni-verses to achieve best results for various SAP BusinessObjects reporting scenarios. Attend-ees will learn:

When it makes most sense to create UNV universe structures using the universe design tool, such as when hiding com-plexity of some data sources from end users is needed

Why the BICS connector might work best for sales data or other hierarchy depen-dent data

How to resolve the complex challenge of accessing multiple data source with the UNX universe

Leveraging Analytics solutions from SAP to drive value from your existing investmentsHenner Schliebs, SAPAttend this session for a detailed look at how to derive business value from analytics solu-tions from SAP for dedicated audiences --including finance, HR, marketing, and operations.





The how-to guide to an SAP Predictive Analysis implementation: From algorithms to visualizations and everything in between Hillary Bliss, Decision First TechnologiesThis technical session examines challenges commonly associated with an SAP Predictive Analysis initiative and provides critical imple-mentation and maintenance requirements to avoid or overcome them, including:

An overview of SAP Predictive Analysis implementation requirements and phases, from predictive algorithms and model development to writing scores in an application or database

Best practices for predictive data mainte-nance, from updating models to refreshing and documenting scores

Learn how to integrate visualizations from SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis into front-end reports and dashboards

You will leave this session with a comprehen-sive understanding of implementing predictive algorithms and how to present them to front-end users.

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Case study

Advanced techniques from Fairfax Water to exploit the full potential of SAP BusinessObjects AnalysisTammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterThis session delves into Fairfax Water’s exten-sive use of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis and identifies the business scenarios, use cases, and functionality that have derived the great-est value from it. Attend to:

Step through examples and demos of report usage by role – IT developer, busi-ness analyst, and report consumer – to see how the company fully exploits the latest SAP BusinessObjects Analysis capabilities

Learn how the company integrates SAP BusinessObjects Analysis with other BI tools across its SAP landscape, including SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and the performance benefits it achieves as a result

Explore the ways in which Fairfax Water’s advanced usage of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office has reduced dependence on IT by simplifying self-service BI

Improve financial report accuracy by exploiting the latest features and integration capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects information design tool Ilan Angwin, KPMGThis session provides expert recommendations to leverage new functional and integration capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects informa-tion design tool (IDT) to enhance financial reporting and analytical capabilities. Attendees will learn about:

Determining the best data connection for your financial reporting requirements, including SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS), multi-source universes connected to an OLAP datasource, and SAP HANA

Time-saving integration tips such as cubes in an IDT design, master data look-ups, key date function, and business foundation views

Enhancing financial reports with custom measures and dimensions and account rollups through navigational paths








From WebI prompt to Universe Filters — A best practices guide to BI personalizationDavid Hudgins, Consultancy by KingfisherIn the world of ad hoc reporting, the means in which one pulls a report can vary from user to user. This session will provide techniques to standardize filters and conditions in the uni-verse for the business users.

Learn how to use the SAP query tool to pull the queries from existing reports and deploy them in your universes

Get tips for standardizing global filters to proactively reduce the risk of future data errors, reduce dependency on IT, and pro-vide faster time to delivery

Discover how to build profiles to filter data for BI personalization, get recom-mendations for report bursting in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP Crystal Reports based on the user authorization, and deliver personalized analytics

Come away with practical techniques for building conditional prompts, objects, static fil-ters, and dynamic filters to enhance end user experience.

Case study

Results and feedback from Fairfax Water’s participation in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.1 beta testing Tammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterHear directly from SAP mentor and BI guru Tammy Powlas about her customer validation experience with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.1 and get lessons to:

Exploit key SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.1 features to support your dash-board, Web reporting, and mobile BI strategy

Create BI applications for mobile devices using new iPhone templates, including how Fairfax Water leveraged this feature for mobile financial and project reporting

Enable optimal interoperability between SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and the rest of the Analysis suite, including key integration points



26Track 7: Report design

Proven design techniques that increase efficiency and boost user adoption of SAP Crystal ReportsAnurag Barua, GyanSysHow do you know if you are getting the most out of SAP Crystal Reports? Attend this ses-sion for concrete how-to’s and proven design techniques to optimize SAP Crystal Reports performance and boost user adoption, includ-ing how to:

Exploit the extensive formula language in SAP Crystal Reports to tightly control report formatting, complex logic, and data selection

Create alerts for exception reporting

Accelerate report creation and fine-tuning using the various “experts,” such as Tem-plate Expert, Group Expert, and Highlighting Expert






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Self-service BI, data exploration, and analysis

Track 8

Case study

3M increases business and user productivity with a self-service and mobile BI initiative Tammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterExamine critical success factors that enabled 3M to develop and deliver a comprehen-sive self-service BI strategy that substantially reduced IT workload while providing man-agers with a clear view of all business-critical data, along with robust ad hoc reporting capa-bilities, both at their desks and via mobile devices. Attend to learn how 3M:

Identified what information to surface for self-service BI and the right analytic tools for its business users

Engaged users and maximized adoption of self-service analytic and data visualiza-tion tools such as SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects exploration view, and SAP mobile BI

Took its self-service initiative one step fur-ther by deploying BI applications onto mobile devices, including a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy to increase user productivity and satisfaction






Self-service data discovery for business users and analysts using SAP Lumira (formerly SAP Visual Intelligence)Ashish C. Morzaria, SAP In this demo-heavy session, attendees will examine the ways in which SAP Lumira pro-vides business analysts with self-service access to real-time data without IT’s help.




Leveraging SAP Lumira to combine and analyze data from a variety of enterprise and personal sources Kevin Hutto, Consultancy by Kingfisher Attend this session to explore how SAP Lumira can be leveraged to quickly and easily merge external and internal data and build interactive reports without IT support. You will:

Get an overview of SAP Lumira function-ality, limitations, and best practices to maximize development efforts

Step through a live demo showing how to leverage SAP Lumira to merge multiple datasources, create custom hierarchies, and create visualizations

Review the steps required to publish your SAP Lumira dataset to SAP HANA or SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Learn how and where SAP BusinessObjects Explorer information spaces and exploration views may be built for further analysis

SAP Predictive Analysis: Latest updates and future roadmap Charles Gadalla, SAP This session offers product updates and best practices for leveraging in-memory predictive analysis and data mining solutions from SAP to enable near real-time analysis on large data volumes and reduce long-term IT platform costs. Attend to:






28Track 8: Self-service BI, data exploration, and analysis






Case study




Identifying appropriate use case to include in initial proof of concept


Tools and techniques to monetize data as a strategic asset Jerome Feltracco, SAP Attend this session to learn how to leverage in-memory predictive analysis solutions from SAP to become more proactive, while minimizing IT disruption. You will:

Learn how to leverage predictive analytics capabilities to evolve your organization from reactive to proactive, including expert recommendations on where to start and who to involve

Identify which functional areas to tackle as a priority for maximum results

Explore the most compelling use cases for advanced predictive analysis in specific industries, including financial services, high tech, retail, energy and resources, public sector, and manufacturing

Case study






A beginner’s guide to SAP Predictive Analysis: Definitions, terminology, and best-practice techniquesCharles Gadalla, SAPThis session will introduce attendees to the basic elements of building a predictive analy-sis from scratch. Attendees will learn the best techniques for preparing the data, loading it, selecting an algorithm, and exporting the model, including:

Key questions to ask, such as: What prob-lem are we trying to solve? Where does the data come from? What algorithm or algorithms will be most applicable?

Determining the algorithms to use based on type of data and business problem

Using sensitivity and impact analyses to determine model robustness

Come away with a clear methodology to deter-mine where SAP Predictive Analysis may have an impact on your organization, and what steps are necessary to ensure the most benefit.

SAPexperts LIVEA case study about SAP Predictive AnalysisHillary Bliss, Decision First TechnologiesIn this session, the author of our exclusive, 34-page special report -- “An Introduction to SAP Predictive Analysis and How It Integrates with SAP HANA” – walks you through a case study that shows, in practical terms, how to use SAP Predictive Analysis. Come to this ses-sion to learn how to:

Frame predictive questions and goals to drive actionable predictive initiatives

Build predictive models and evaluate the related return on investment

Implement predictive insights quickly, making insights actionable within the organization

As a bonus, attendees to this session will receive free access to our special report on SAP Predictive Analysis.




Operationalizing analytics for business executives at SAP Dean J. Eiwanger and Stewart Johnstone, SAPAttend this session to learn how SAP uses its SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence solutions to give its sales leadership the tools and information for effective, timely decision making. Go behind the scenes and get SAP’s best practices for running its sales operations more effectively, including:

How forecasting and pipeline analysis coming directly from SAP CRM is put directly into the hands of the business users and sales leaders running the business

Leveraging a centralized BI platform to ensure effortless business reviews

From Explorer to mobile BI, see how to get up and running quickly and win the confidence of business leaders

Mastering the self-service and ad hoc reporting capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITAttend this session for a comprehensive over-view of the features and functionality of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Attendees will:

Examine use cases for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Explore drill-down functionality and chart type options for designing user-friendly reports

Understand how to build multi-dimen-sional queries from BEx queries, OLAP universes, and SAP BusinessObjects Anal-ysis workspaces

Leveraging SAP solutions for EPM and analytics to drive value from your existing investmentsHenner Schleibs, SAP Attend this session for a detailed look at how to derive business value from alternative ana-lytics solutions from SAP for specific audiences -- including finance, marketing, and operations.

Evaluate tools within the overall SAP ana-lytics portfolio and get best practices to integrate them into existing business processes


Get strategies to drive user adoption at all levels of the organization –- from execu-tives to shop floor

Step through use case examples for finan-cial and operational reporting to demonstrate exactly what functions align with what tools.

Hands-on labEnterprise self-service with SAP Lumira, SAP Lumira Cloud and mobile BI Patrick Sims and Aaron Graber, SAP Take an in-depth look at how end users can use SAP Lumira to access data in real-time, and share their insights in the cloud and through any device. Examine the tools that comprise SAP’s vision with hands-on exer-cises using SAP Lumira, SAP Lumira Cloud, and mobile BI. Attendees will:




Case study





Interactive Q&A

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITDesigned to follow up the hands-on lab exer-cises throughout the day – but open to all – take this opportunity to get your most press-ing SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence questions answered. Get insight from Dr. Bjarne Berg, as well as from your peers in this interactive setting about:

Strategies for utilizing SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to drive self-service BI

Basic, intermediate, and advanced WebI report design and formatting techniques

Exploiting key integration, report distribu-tion, and publication capabilities




Hands-on exercises





Hands-on exercises

Techniques to customize and enhance SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft OfficeDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITAttend this session to get advanced tech-niques for creating visually pleasing, highly formatted reports in SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office. Learn how to:

Use styles and create new style sheets to enhance visual appeal of reports

Apply conditional formatting, macro cus-tom calculations and converting to formulas

Incorporate custom measures, dynamic charts, and filters

Hands-on exercises





Hands-on exercises


Measure formats



Interactive Q&A

SAP BusinessObjects AnalysisDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT Designed to follow up the hands-on lab exer-cises throughout the day – but open to all – take this opportunity to get your most press-ing SAP BusinessObjects Analysis questions answered. Get insight from Dr. Bjarne Berg, as well as from your peers in this interactive set-ting about:

Strategies for utilizing SAP BusinessObjects Analysis to drive self-ser-vice BI in your organization

Basic, intermediate, and advanced report design and formatting techniques for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Microsoft Office and OLAP editions

Integrating SAP BusinessObjects Analysis with backend data sources

Hands-on exercises





Hands-on exercises





Hands-on exercises

Exploiting key integration, report distribution, and publication capabilities in your SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence environment Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session provides attendees with step-by-step, hands-on instruction for creating advanced SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelli-gence reports. Attendees will get expert advice for:

Adding filters, tables, and multiple filters

Including advanced conditions and rank-ings; sums and variables

Sharing, scheduling documents, and opening a WebI document

Utilizing the basic and advanced capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis — editions for Microsoft Office and OLAP Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session provides an in-depth look at the key capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Anal-ysis and best practices for using it to drive self-service BI and end-user autonomy in your organization. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Analysis can be used to:

Adapt to business scenarios by combin-ing, manipulating, and enriching data

Provide business analysts with sophisti-cated algorithms to take the next step in understanding their business and model-ing outcomes

Enhance your BI landscape and support your existing investment in SAP NetWeaver BW


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BI performance and data optimization

Track 9

A technical guide to integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x with SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, and SAP ERPIngo Hilgefort, SAP CanadaThis session provides an overview of integra-tion options for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.X with SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, and SAP ERP including technical prerequisites for each. By attending you will:

Examine key considerations for integrat-ing SAP BusinessObjects BI with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, including required software and available data sources

Gain insight into support levels for exist-ing metadata in SAP BusinessObjects BI in combination with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW across the toolset

Learn about known limitations applicable to customer projects and possible workarounds

A field-tested guide to implementing a high-performing SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solution that your users will love and adoptShankar Muthuswamy, Method360 Attend this session and learn how a senior BI consultant has helped dozens of companies overcome SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 imple-mentation challenges and pitfalls that can result in poor system performance after go-live. The speaker draws on personal experience in the field to provide you with:

Best practices to prepare and size systems in a heterogeneous landscape for optimal performance when working with large data volumes

Techniques to build better semantic layer (universe) models with the right data foundations and business layers

Methods to architect multi-source data federation scenarios across SAP NetWeaver BW and non-BW data sources

Come away with an understanding of BI front-end reporting tools and how to size and tune your back-end system to ensure that they per-form according to user expectations.

Identifying and overcoming the most common SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence performance problems Stephen Casaceli, DeloitteThis session provides proven tips and tech-niques to prevent or correct the most common causes of poor SAP BusinessObjects Web Intel-ligence performance. Attendees will:

Understand the impact universe design has on performance, including the differ-ence between OLAP and relational universes

Get tips for boosting Web report perfor-mance when SAP NetWeaver BW is the data source

Learn when it makes sense to use drill-down reporting rather than pulling all level data into a report

Explore enhanced data connectivity options that lead to improved self-service Web reporting

Take home an SAP BusinessObjects Web Intel-ligence performance flow diagram and a list of troubleshooting techniques for optimized report performance.

Interactive discussion forum

Effective, actionable, and repeatable data migration strategies for project managersShannon Baldwin, NIMBLThis exchange of ideas with experts and peers takes on data migration challenges that can occur with any SAP project. Find out how other SAP customers have addressed these chal-lenges, as you discuss questions like:

What are the key components of a stan-dardized and proven approach to planning, designing, and implementing a sound data migration strategy?

How should you address the key compo-nents of a holistic data migration strategy, such as a focused data migration team, data migration protocols, and repeatable testing phases?

What are the most effective ways to design, create, and use data validation and reconciliation scripts?

Learn from your peers’ experiences, discuss your unique data migration challenges, and walk away with real-world insights for effec-tively managing data during an SAP project.

Tools and techniques to derive greater value from your SAP EPM solutions Elizabeth Milne, SAP Come to this session for lessons to optimize the performance of your SAP EPM applications by leveraging them in conjunction with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. Attendees will examine:

Features, functionality, and integration points of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, including the specific ways it has been optimized to enhance the performance of your EPM applications

Strengths and limitations of using specific SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions such as SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in conjunction with EPM, and map each of these reporting tools to specific EPM report types

Mobile reporting and analysis options for SAP EPM solutions

Benefits of a combined analysis, planning, and performance management solution, from increased reporting flexibility to reduced risk of data entry errors



32Track 9: BI performance and data optimization

Expert guidance for leveraging SAP HANA to enhance SAP Business Planning and Consolidation capabilities Sheldon Edelstein, SAP LabsLearn how to apply delivered functional-ity in SAP HANA to improve data insight for enhanced planning and consolidation pro-cesses. Attendees will:

Explore how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation powered by SAP HANA exploits capabilities like built-in calcula-tion engine, delivered function libraries (predictive, geo-spatial), and optimized data loading capabilities

Obtain field-tested techniques to merge SAP BPC data and non-SAP data sources to achieve optimal results for various reporting scenarios, such as accessing data via composite providers and gener-ating calculation views on SAP BPC models

Step through a demo of SAP BPC data being subjected to predictive analysis resulting in real-time forecast planning updates

Come away with comprehensive understand-ing of how SAP BPC on SAP HANA translates to better planning for the end user community, beyond speed and performance.

5 ways to enhance your information governance program Don Loden, Decision First TechnologiesAttend this session for a field-tested approach for exploiting key capabilities in SAP Informa-tion Steward to validate and enhance your information governance program. View live system demos and come away with detailed information on how to:

Validate and cleanse data for reporting

Profile your data to proactively identify potential data quality issues

Use scorecards to measure the quality of data for reports, including tips to incorpo-rate scorecard validations into your data preparation processing

Add a quality index to your reports and measure source system rules

A field-tested guide for executing a BI strategy and roadmap that drives business alignment, user satisfaction and adoption Hariharan Margabandhu, TekLink International Attend this session for insight into techniques proven to be successful at driving user adop-tion when deploying BI functionality from SAP — both SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects. Get an inside look at how roadmap definition, governance, your testing strategy, performance management, and train-ing play a key role in building trust with your user community. The speaker draws on per-sonal experience in the field to provide you with:




Tips and best practices for creating a robust data model for your SAP HANA implementationBing Chen, Method360Even with the many performance and scalabil-ity benefits of SAP HANA, good methodology and a well-designed data model are as impor-tant as ever. Attend this session and learn how to apply the principles of a well-known data warehouse design methodology to create a robust dimensional data model and ultimately drive a successful SAP HANA implementation. Gain insight into:

The benefits of a conformed dimensional data model and the tools you can utilize to build it, such as the bus matrix and data mapping

How to apply the fundamentals of dimen-sional data modeling to your SAP HANA implementation

How to build and import a logical data model into SAP HANA

Take home a sample bus matrix and data map-ping spreadsheet to leverage within your own organization, along with references to addi-tional resources.


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BI implementations, upgrades, and enhancement projects

Track 10

Workshop

Practical advice for avoiding (or at least minimizing) the negative attitudes and behaviors that can sabotage SAP projects Doug Whittle, Whittle Consulting GroupEvery SAP project team needs to understand that the path to a successful implementation is well-worn by thousands of other teams who have already blazed that path before you! This path eventually forks into two directions — one way leads to success while the other takes you in a direction you don’t want (or need) to go. During this session you will:

Learn five of the most common pitfalls you can (and should) avoid, not only during your project, but while attending this week’s con-ference. Gain an understanding of how these statements can get you in trouble:

Silence is golden. Resistance is bad. We’re unique. We can’t because we don’t have … This is just a “small” change.

Guidelines and best practices for managing a global SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 upgrade projectBob Zenker, Decision First TechnologiesThis session provides you with tips for plan-ning and executing a global migration and upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects 4.0. Using examples from a large SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 upgrade project that included 70,000 reports and 6,500+ users, this session provides you with real-world lessons for planning and exe-cuting your own BI upgrade. In this session you will explore:

The importance of prioritizing user adop-tion as an outcome of your SAP BusinessObjects BI upgrade projects, especially when content ownership is unclear and users are resistant to change

A best practice structure for analyzing and preparing your technical landscape and your business community for change

Each phase of an SAP NetWeaver BI upgrade project, including tips for content rationalization, organizational change management, and project planning

Tips for organizing, planning, and executing your SAP HANA implementation projectJonathan Haun, Decision First TechnologiesThis session provides you with a detailed understanding of how SAP HANA implemen-tation projects are structured and organized, how data models are designed, and how reports are developed. By attending you will learn how to:

Start provisioning data into your SAP HANA system using a multitude of data connections (SLT, DXC, and data services), and data modeling concepts

Integrate SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM tools with SAP HANA, including tips for integrating SAP Data Services and SAP BusinessObjects

Examine a typical architecture for SAP HANA and understand the benefits of architecting your solution using both SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM tools

A field-tested guide for executing a BI strategy and roadmap that drives business alignment, user satisfaction and adoption Hariharan Margabandhu, TekLink International Attend this session for insight into techniques proven to be successful at driving user adop-tion when deploying BI functionality from SAP — both SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects. Get an inside look at how roadmap definition, governance, your testing strategy, performance management, and train-ing play a key role in building trust with your user community. The speaker draws on per-sonal experience in the field to provide you with:







Walk through the project documentation that accompanies each implementation option, and learn how to use it as the starting point for your own end-user doc-umentation and training



34Track 10: BI implementations, upgrades, and enhancement projects


BI disasters and how to avoid themGabriel Orthous, McKesson; Ken Wong, The Irvine Company; and David Hudgins, Consultancy by KingfisherBI projects going over budget. Tests reveal-ing design flaws. Creep scope. These and other problems can delay a BI endeavor and lead to destructive finger-pointing. Hear some real-life and anecdotal tales of survival from our panel of experts, who — through the bene-fit of hindsight — will provide lessons learned and tips to avoid similar problems. You’ll also have the opportunity to discuss you own BI project nightmares and pose questions to our panelists.

Examining your SAP initiative from your stakeholders’ points of view to manage expectations and deliver a no-surprises successful project Doug Whittle, Whittle Consulting GroupThe longer you are a member of an SAP project team, the farther removed you can become from your various stakeholders and their perceptions of your project. As time goes on, expectations of each stakeholder group can change, resulting in miscommunication, frustration, and ultimately, dissatisfaction on everyone’s part. This highly interactive ses-sion is a departure from traditional lecture. By attending, you will:

Examine common frustrations, issues, and expectations of four key stakeholder groups: end users, senior business man-agement, IT, and your SAP project team

Learn how to surface, manage, and mea-sure these issues throughout your project lifecycle through stakeholder mapping, ongoing communication, and practical change management techniques

Discuss practical ways to view your SAP project through the lenses of your key stakeholder groups, thereby managing expectations and delivering a no-sur-prises project that is declared “successful” by all involved

A field-tested guide to imple-menting a high-performing SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solution that your users will love and adoptShankar Muthuswamy, Method360 Attend this session and learn how a senior BI consultant has helped dozens of companies overcome SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 imple-mentation challenges and pitfalls that can result in poor system performance after go-live. The speaker draws on personal experience in the field to provide you with:

Best practices to prepare and size systems in a heterogeneous landscape for optimal performance when working with large data volumes

Techniques to build better semantic layer (universe) models with the right data foundations and business layers

Methods to architect multi-source data federation scenarios across SAP NetWeaver BW and non-BW data sources

Come away with an understanding of BI front-end reporting tools and how to size and tune your back-end system to ensure that they per-form according to user expectations.

SAPexperts LIVEWhat’s new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP customers?Ingo Hilgefort, SAP CanadaAttend this session to get the latest on SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 from SAP mentor and regular contributor to SAPexperts, Ingo Hil-gefort. Drawing on information provided in two recent articles, which will be provided to attendees, dive into:

New capabilities and functionality of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 suite

New features and functions you can lever-age when integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 with SAP NetWeaver BW/SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and SAP ERP

How you can upgrade from prior versions of SAP BusinessObjects BI to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

A leading expert shares lessons from real-world migrations to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANAJesper Christensen, COMERITThis session explores best practices for kick-starting and managing an SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA migration project. Find out which activities are critical to a smooth cutover without incurring unneces-sary costs. Come away from this session with:

An overview of the options available for executing an SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA migration project, such as migra-tion in place, selective migration, and setting up a parallel system

Examples of project plans, resource plans, and timelines that have been used suc-cessfully by major companies migrating from SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

Advice for structuring performance and stress testing to ensure that all functional-ity used in the system is tested

Guidelines for minimizing downtime by using the post copy automation (PCA) tool


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Business Objects for platform independent customers

Track 11








A beginner’s guide to SAP Predictive Analysis: Definitions, terminology, and best-practice techniquesCharles Gadalla, SAPhis session will introduce attendees to the basic elements of building a predictive analy-sis from scratch. Attendees will learn the best techniques for preparing the data, loading it, selecting an algorithm, and exporting the model, including:

Key questions to ask, such as: What prob-lem are we trying to solve? Where does the data come from? What algorithm or algorithms will be most applicable?

Determining the algorithms to use based on type of data and business problem

Using sensitivity and impact analyses to determine model robustness

Come away with a clear methodology to deter-mine where SAP Predictive Analysis may have an impact on your organization, and what steps are necessary to ensure the most benefit.

A field-tested approach for identifying KPIs for both executive and operational reportingAnuj N. Babel, Deloittehis session examines a framework to effectively identify and define key performance indica-tors (KPIs) that provide actionable insights for both executive and operational reporting. By attending you will:

Understand the importance of upfront KPI identification and learn strategies for incorporating it into the blueprint phase of an implementation

Find out how executive-level and opera-tional-level report requirements differ, and get tips to determine KPIs that deliver target analytics to both groups

Get strategies for ensuring the adoption of this KPI framework within your organization

Take home a sample catalog of KPIs, along with sample report and dashboard layouts.

Access analytics anywhere! Lessons to successfully configure SAP BusinessObjects analytic applications for iPad and iPhoneAmandeep Aggarwal, PwC USAttendees at this session will get detailed guidelines for configuring, running, and maintaining analytics and business intel-ligence functionality from SAP and SAP BusinessObjects on iPhone and iPad devices.

Understand the building blocks neces-sary, such as the right analytics engine to process data on the back end

Learn how you can retain the functional-ity of the native application – even with the modifications necessary to accommo-date your device’s unique screen size and navigation controls

View a proof of concept that illustrates how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is used to display analytics on the iPad








36Track 11: Business Objects for platform independent customers

Best practices to incorporate mobility into your BI strategyOluwaseyi Ojo, PricewaterhouseCoopersThis session examines key elements of a successful mobile BI strategy and project implementation that delivers business-criti-cal information when and where it is needed. Attend to:

Review eight fundamentals to consider when developing a mobility strategy, including identifying a strong vision and mission and offering intuitive user experiences

Gain best practices for defining and build-ing a mobile governance framework for mobile BI deployment that suits the needs of your organization

Evaluate various deployment options, such as offline vs. online reporting, and identify benefits and drawbacks to deter-mine the best option for your organization

Come away with an understanding of SAP mobile BI tools and how to map them to your existing analytics strategy.

Building visually pleasing and interactive dashboards, cockpits, and scorecards using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITAttend this session to get a comprehensive overview of the capabilities and functionality of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Attend-ees will:

Learn tips for creating intuitive, interac-tive, and visually pleasing dashboards

Examine various types of dashboards including formatted, graphical, and operational

Evaluate both dashboard design tool and design studio tool for building dash-boards, and understand when and how each tool can be leveraged in your BI landscape

Case study




Identifying appropriate use cases to include in initial proof of concept


Case study






Case study

How Fairfax Water enlightens business users with mobile BITammy Powlas, Fairfax WaterAttend this session to learn from Fairfax Water’s experiences as part of SAP’s customer vali-dation process for SAP Mobile BI 5.0 and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. Learn how to:




Case study

How McKesson is delivering business insights and analysis to users anywhere, anytimeGabriel Orthous, McKessonIn this session, McKesson discusses decision criteria, best practices, and lessons learned from its recent mobile BI deployment.







From WebI prompt to Universe Filters – A best practices guide to BI personalizationDavid Hudgins, Consultancy by KingfisherIn the world of ad hoc reporting, the means in which one pulls a report can vary from user to user. This session will provide techniques to standardize filters and conditions in the uni-verse for the business users.

Learn how to use the SAP query tool to pull the queries from existing reports and deploy them in your universes

Get tips for standardizing global filters to proactively reduce the risk of future data errors, reduce dependency on IT, and pro-vide faster time to delivery

Discover how to build profiles to filter data for BI personalization, get recom-mendations for report bursting in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP Crystal Reports based on the user authorization, and deliver personalized analytics

Come away with practical techniques for building conditional prompts, objects, static fil-ters, and dynamic filters to enhance end user experience.

Guidelines to implement and maintain a highly-effective and sustainable power user program that drives self-service BI and promotes business/IT alignmentAnurag Barua, GyanSysThis session provides lessons for identify-ing the right individuals for your power user community, and offers expert guidance for properly leveraging them to meet the require-ments of your user community, from casual users to data analysts.

Explore criteria to help determine whether a power-user program might work well for specific groups of end users

Identify the role of power users in the requirements-gathering process, includ-ing the importance of identifying the features, functionalities, and data they require to satisfy ad hoc needs up front

Assess current SAP BI tools and how they best fit into a successful and sustainable power user program

Hands-on exercises





Hands-on exercises






Hands-on exercises





Mastering the self-service and ad hoc reporting capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITAttend this session for a comprehensive over-view of the features and functionality of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Attendees will:

Examine use cases for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Explore drill-down functionality and chart type options for designing user-friendly reports

Understand how to build multi-dimen-sional queries from BEx queries, OLAP universes, and SAP BusinessObjects Anal-ysis workspaces

Hands-on exercises





Hands-on exercises








Hands-on exercises

Exploiting key integration, report distribution, and publication capabilities in your SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence environment Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session provides attendees with step-by-step, hands-on instruction for creating advanced SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelli-gence reports. Attendees will get expert advice for:

Adding filters, tables, and multiple filters

Including advanced conditions and rank-ings; sums and variables

Sharing, scheduling documents, and opening a WebI document

Hands-on labEnterprise self-service with SAP Lumira, SAP Lumira Cloud and mobile BIPatrick Sims and Aaron Graber, SAPTake an in-depth look at how end users can use SAP Lumira to access data in real-time, and share their insights in the cloud and through any device. Examine the tools that comprise SAP’s vision with hands-on exercises using SAP Lumira, SAP Lumira Cloud, and mobile BI. Attendees will:




Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptop with the Personal Edition of SAP Lumira installed in order to participate and follow along. The Personal Edition is free and can be downloaded at www.sap.com/getlumira .

Lessons for rolling out a financial dashboard that supports your most critical decisionsAnurag Barua, GyanSysIn today’s era of globalization, high levels of competition, and slow economic growth, companies need an ability to view their key financial performance indicators on a frequent – and often worldwide – basis in order to make quick decisions. This session identifies require-ments for building financial dashboards that meet these requirements. You will explore:

Best practices for gathering requirements for your financial dashboards across a diverse cross-section of stakeholders

Content and design techniques proven to enhance the efficiency of a financial dashboard

A comparative analysis of the various SAP dashboard tools and applications and the pros and cons of each

An overview of some of the best design practices related to implementing and rolling out a financial dashboard using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Leveraging SAP Lumira to combine and analyze data from a variety of enterprise and personal sourcesKevin Hutto, Consultancy by KingfisherAttend this session to explore how SAP Lumira can be leveraged to quickly and easily merge external and internal data and build interactive reports without IT support. You will:

Get an overview of SAP Lumira function-ality, limitations, and best practices to maximize development efforts

Step through a live demo showing how to leverage SAP Lumira to merge multiple datasources, create custom hierarchies, and create visualizations

Review the steps required to publish your SAP Lumira dataset to SAP HANA or SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Learn how and where SAP BusinessObjects Explorer information spaces and exploration views may be built for further analysis






SAP Predictive Analysis: Latest updates and future roadmapCharles Gadalla, SAPThis session offers product updates and best practices for leveraging in-memory predictive analysis and data mining solutions from SAP to enable near real-time analysis on large data volumes and reduce long-term IT platform costs. Attend to:







SAPexperts LIVEA case study about SAP Predictive AnalysisHillary Bliss, Decision First TechnologiesIn this session, the author of our exclusive, 34-page special report -- “An Introduction to SAP Predictive Analysis and How It Integrates with SAP HANA” – walks you through a case study that shows, in practical terms, how to use SAP Predictive Analysis. Come to this ses-sion to learn how to:

Frame predictive questions and goals to drive actionable predictive initiatives

Build predictive models and evaluate the related return on investment

Implement predictive insights quickly, making insights actionable within the organization

As a bonus, attendees to this session will receive free access to our special report on SAP Predictive Analysis.


Alignment strategies for IT and business users for 2014Thierry Audas, SAP; Anurag Barua, Gyan-Sys; Andrew Joo, IBM; Mico Yuk, BI Dashboard FormulaAs BI technology is developed and adapted for self-service use, the need for tight collabo-ration between the business and IT has never been greater. Attend this interactive panel of leading BI experts and gain:

New ideas for how IT and users can align business and technical requirements and work toward common goals

Real-life cautionary tales about pitfalls to avoid, such as underestimating the importance of change management when rolling out new tools or incorrectly assuming a high quality of data in projects

Practical communication techniques that have proven successful in other companies

Don’t forget to bring your own tough ques-tions for our panelists about how business and IT can best support each other as you launch or expand your self-service BI strategy.


BI disasters and how to avoid themGabriel Orthous, McKesson; Ken Wong, The Irvine Company; David Hudgins, Consultancy by KingfisherBI projects going over budget. Tests reveal-ing design flaws. Creep scope. These and other problems can delay a BI endeavor and lead to destructive finger-pointing. Hear some real-life and anecdotal tales of survival from our panel of experts, who — through the bene-fit of hindsight — will provide lessons learned and tips to avoid similar problems. You’ll also have the opportunity to discuss you own BI project nightmares and pose questions to our panelists.

Self-service data discovery for business users and analysts using SAP Lumira (formerly SAP Visual Intelligence)Ashish C. Morzaria, SAPIn this demo-heavy session, attendees will examine the ways in which SAP Lumira pro-vides business analysts with self-service access to real-time data without IT’s help.




Hands-on exercises


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Utilizing the basic and advanced capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis — editions for Microsoft Office and OLAP Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERITThis session provides an in-depth look at the key capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Anal-ysis and best practices for using it to drive self-service BI and end-user autonomy in your organization. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Analysis can be used to:

Adapt to business scenarios by combin-ing, manipulating, and enriching data

Provide business analysts with sophisti-cated algorithms to take the next step in understanding their business and model-ing outcomes

Enhance your BI landscape and support your existing investment in SAP NetWeaver BW

The 2013 strategic and technical guide to SAP BusinessObjects BI functionalityJason Rose, SAPThis “standing-room only” session is back again and updated with the latest SAP BusinessObjects BI roadmap information, including new functionality and its impact on your existing BI landscape. Hear critical infor-mation directly from SAP, including:

How the new SAP Predictive Analysis and SAP Lumira (formerly known as SAP Visual Intelligence) tools provide analysts with self-service data visualization and publish-ing capabilities

Implications of new dashboard function-ality that supports iOS and HTML5 for broader deployment via tablets and smartphones

The latest updates on support packs avail-able for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0




What (non-SAP application) Business Objects customers need to know when picking the right BI tool for their unique requirementsTy Miller, SAPDo you run SAP BusinessObjects BI tools, but not an SAP transactional system? If so, then this session is for you. By attending you will:

Evaluate critical criteria for determining which SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions best fit your unique landscape, business, and user requirements

Examine typical use cases for SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions against non-SAP relational data sources such as SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, and Teradata; OLAP data sources such as Analysis Services, Essbase, Oracle OLAP, Teradata; and more exotic data sources like Hadoop and oData

Understand which solutions are recom-mended for high-level management KPIs, financial statements, search and explora-tion, and detailed, drill-down analyses

Learn about which BI tools that have similar capabilities are best suited for a non-SAP appli-cation environment.

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards: 2013 roadmap to current and planned functionalityTy Miller, SAP Attendees at the session will gain a com-prehensive understanding of the new functionality offered with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio. Learn how to:

Create interactive, scalable, data-driven BI applications and dashboards both for mobile devices and the Web

Leverage the flexible, free-form layout features in an Eclipse-based design envi-ronment to meet end-user demands

Determine the proper uses for each tool based on real-world case studies and how each tool can be leveraged in your BI landscape

Come away with the knowledge to take advantage of direct and native support for the SAP HANA platform and SAP NetWeaver BW.

The how-to guide to an SAP Predictive Analysis implementation: From algorithms to visualizations and everything in betweenHillary Bliss, Decision First TechnologiesThis technical session examines challenges commonly associated with an SAP Predictive Analysis initiative and provides critical imple-mentation and maintenance requirements to avoid or overcome them, including:

An overview of SAP Predictive Analysis implementation requirements and phases, from predictive algorithms and model development to writing scores in an application or database

Best practices for predictive data mainte-nance, from updating models to refreshing and documenting scores

Learn how to integrate visualizations from SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis into front-end reports and dashboards

You will leave this session with a comprehen-sive understanding of implementing predictive algorithms and how to present them to front-end users.

Hands-on exercises





To mobilize or not to mobilize? Business and system considerations for determining the viability of mobile analyticsTony Guetersloh, TekLink InternationalWhile the demand for mobile analytics is increasing, not all reports and dashboards should be mobilized. This session provides key criteria to help determine which analyt-ics should be deployed to mobile devices (and which should not be). Attend to:

Examine six cornerstones of successful mobile analytics initiatives — from conve-nience, relevancy, and presentation, to the “cool” factor — that must be weighed carefully when determining a mobile BI initiative

Get expert guidance to properly evaluate mobile analytics, including an under-standing of the scenarios in which mobile reports and dashboards can provide the greatest value

Step through a sample evaluation process for various report types – field sales, IT operations management, and plant line efficiency — to see firsthand how the considerations presented in this session can be used to determine the best candi-dates for report mobilization

Take home a scorecard framework for evaluat-ing future mobile reporting initiatives.

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SAP business planning and consolidation

Track 12

A comprehensive guide to mapping SAP Business Planning and Consolidation to specific business scenariosDavid Roberts, SAPThis session provides a detailed overview of the most widely used business scenarios along with best practices for mapping them to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (also referred to as BPC) functionality.

Understand how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation fits into the overall SAP enterprise performance management portfolio

Pinpoint some of the key differences between BPC and other available SAP planning solutions such as SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning and the planning applications kit

Identify the key challenges associated with setting up planning and consolida-tion scenarios in BPC and understand how release-specific capabilities can help address these challenges

Learn how to leverage BPC solution accel-erators — out of the box — to implement a top-down planning and consolidation solution to set up business scenarios

Arm yourself with tips for getting your BPC project started, including how to accurately calculate the time and effort that will be required from a planning perspective

Walk through examples that illustrate how successful organizations have exe-cuted a BPC project

A leading expert’s guide to developing a rock-solid BPC reporting and analytics strategyAndrew Joo, IBMWhen it comes to financial planning and consolidation, reporting is key. This session provides detailed instruction for leveraging complementary SAP solutions to ensure accu-rate, user-friendly reports and analyses.

Navigate a decision tree to identify the pros and cons of two distinct reporting strategies:

– Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions in conjunction with BPC functionality

– Leveraging Microsoft Excel with BPC version for SAP NetWeaver

Step through demonstrations that illus-trate how to leverage the reporting tools native to BPC, including:

– SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for Microsoft Excel

– Microsoft Word – Microsoft PowerPoint – Live Reporting

Understand the requirements of using specific SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions with BPC, including:

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (for-merly Xcelsius®)

SAP Crystal Reports®

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®

Map each of these reporting tools to spe-cific report types, including profit and loss, balance sheets, and cash flow statements

Choose the best options for report cus-tomization — such as embedding a dashboard within your BPC workbook — to meet your specific financial reporting requirements

New opportunities to streamline your planning processes: BPC 10.0 and BPC on SAP HANAScott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesThis session illustrates the most important planning and forecasting scenarios within BPC and offers tips to help you achieve more streamlined and effective planning.

Learn how common financial calculations can now be executed in dimension mem-ber formulas, leading to fast performance

Understand what business functions SAP HANA can offer to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation applications

Learn how the SAP HANA optimized Info-Cube accelerates data reads and writes

Get best practices (such as leveraging the proper design of entity structures) for per-forming management and legal consolidations using BPC built on SAP HANA

Understand how to perform key financial calculations, such as allocations and distributions

See firsthand a live demonstration of allo-cations performed in SAP HANA for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation



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A step-by-step approach to map BPC to your closing and consolidation processDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesIn this session, get expert lessons to map SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 con-tent to your month-end closing activities and ensure accurate and compliant consolidated reports.

Evaluate the three distinct options for bringing pre-delivered planning and con-solidation content into your BPC environment

View a best practice approach for using BPC to execute five critical period-end closing steps:

– Load data from different sources – Create journal entries – Validate data – Ensure data integrity – Perform intercompany reconciliations

Explore the process involved in data sub-mission from ECC, flat files, and input sheets

Understand the concept of IC matching and learn how business process work-flows play a crucial role speeding up financial close

See how to create a transparent audit trail to ensure compliance with internal poli-cies as well as external regulations

Take home a detailed demonstration of how to perform the five most important financial clos-ing steps in BPC.

A step-by-step guide to successfully implement BPC script logicScott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesMany companies that leverage BPC only utilize a small fraction of the features that are avail-able. This session will provide advanced tips to execute script logic and business rules for both the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft platforms.

Review your options to automatically exe-cute script logic when you enter or load data onto an application

See how to perform specific data man-agement tasks by executing script logic file from the data manager

Decipher the key differences in executing script logic and business rules in the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation ver-sion for SAP NetWeaver versus SAP Business Planning and Consolidation ver-sion for Microsoft

Compare different types of business rules that you can create in SAP Business Plan-ning and Consolidation, which can be used to perform unique consolidation tasks (without the need for code)

Optimize automatic adjustment function-ality for legal consolidations between the various reporting unit and reclassifications

Get tips to calculate postings to support applicable rules for the accounting of long-term investments

Critical tips and project advice to fast-track your BPC upgrade or migrationDavid Roberts, SAPExplore critical factors involved in upgrad-ing or migrating and monitoring BPC and understand your upgrade alternatives for a stand-alone deployment, an add-on approach, and support pack options.

Examine the data integration implications of the different upgrade options and get tips to ensure data integrity

Gain best practices for generating a clear project plan before beginning your upgrade or maintenance project with tips for creating a viable timeline and instruc-tions on how to phase the project lifecycle

Learn how to determine the sequence of installation, upgrade, or integration steps for BPC while taking into account your existing SAP environment

Obtain lessons to properly identify any outstanding issues in all areas of your cur-rent production environment so you can fix them before the upgrade

Deliver a virtual, load-balanced produc-tion and development and disaster recovery environment without interrupt-ing existing financial reporting and planning processes

Find out how to eliminate unused records in BPC to reduce maintenance processing time and ease future upgrades

Get advice on how to strategically phase out unsupported, or unneeded, solutions

Get tips for migrating from the 7.0 and 7.5 releases to 10.0, including what areas will require the most effort – such as transi-tioning your data

Understand SAP’s support strategy for all releases of BPC

Get details on the SAP HANA migration path from SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and how it compares to a traditional database migra-tion effort




Data modeling techniques for architecting a high-performing planning and consolidation solutionScott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesExamine the various data modeling options available within BPC, such as creating distinct application sets or workbooks, and evaluate the impact each option has on your solution’s security, performance, and usability.

Explore best practices for determining dimension types and incorporating planned/actual data into your overall data strategy

Get criteria to help you decide whether to take a data mart versus enterprise data warehouse (EDW) approach to modeling BPC data

Gain insight into when you should lever-age application sets versus application modeling to ensure optimized performance

Leave with guidance for compounding time dependencies

Determine whether to limit the size of your characteristic values ahead of time or generate new characteristic values to integrate with BPC

Understand the impact your data model will have on script logic and custom coding

Discover best practices for pulling non-account-based models (e.g., from SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning) into BPC

Get a sneak peek into data modeling improvements available within the latest release of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

Key performance and sizing considerations for building and troubleshooting a more scalable BPC landscapeScott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesGet proven strategies and techniques that ensure your BPC solution runs as quickly and efficiently as possible, while uncovering key pitfalls and challenges.

Understand the architecture and land-scape requirements needed for strong BPC performance

Compare the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP to the Microsoft IIS Web Server requirements

Get recommendations for system config-uration that can securely and optimally support a large number of concurrent users

Learn how planning and consolidation logic formulas, member access rules, and data volumes per query influence BPC performance

Gain strategies to determine dialog instances and server requirements

Understand how variable queries impact performance overhead of the OLAP cache

Take part in sizing exercises to determine the resources required to support data consumption levels

Step through troubleshooting tips to solve common performance challenges

Take home BPC for SAP NetWeaver configura-tion and implementation guides.

Leading strategies and benchmarks for planning, budgeting, and consolidation in the post-recession economyAndrew Joo, IBMThis session provides an overview of the top financial industry benchmarks, best practices, and trends to help your team create a sound strategy for all planning and consolidation initiatives.

Prepare for the steps needed to achieve unified planning, consolidation, and man-agement reporting across your business, with emphasis on process alignment, data harmonization, and change management

See how your organization measures up to the top 2013 industry benchmarks for planning and consolidation, such as time-to-close and the overall time spent on planning

Get detailed answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including how to scale the solution to meet your organization’s unique needs

Understand and prepare for the effects of specific regulatory and economic initia-tives on the financial planning process

Explore the most important trends within the financials industry, such as the use of rolling forecasts, driver-based budgeting, and IFRS conversion, and examine how they can be applied in your organization

Walk through a scoping exercise you can use to outline your organization’s project drivers and resource allocation and calcu-late time-to-ROI for both a planning and/or consolidation implementation




Planning, budgeting, and forecasting: How to improve planning accuracy and shorten planning cycles through driver-based planningDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesAttend this session and learn how adopting a driver-based planning approach can enable more “real-time” budgeting and forecasting whether you are leveraging SAP HANA or not.

Learn what steps need to be taken to accurately define your financial planning drivers and guidelines

Find out how to develop scenario plans to continually adapt to changing conditions, such as economic changes that will affect the future physical and financial condition of the company

Examine how driver-based planning pro-vides finance with a much more effective way to help organizations manage in a dynamically changing world

Get actionable advice for integrating SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with your SAP ERP and transactional processes to drive more adaptive, driver-based planning

Walk through an example that illustrates how to implement a driver-based model to power your rolling reforecasts

Get tips for recalculating planning results based on demand signals, such as changes in promotion or sales order activity

Take home an integration framework for push-ing planning results out in real-time to other financial applications.

Practical advice for integrating data from SAP and non-SAP systems to ensure valid calculation plans and reportsDavid Roberts, SAPThis session offers strategies for success-ful data integration between BPC and your other SAP (SAP ERP, SAP BusinessObjects, and SAP NetWeaver BW) and non-SAP systems to ensure the accuracy of your financial reports and calculations.

Learn how to leverage the data manager in conjunction with the ETL engine to load flat files or SAP NetWeaver BW data into BPC

Discover how the BPC version for SAP NetWeaver versus the version for Micro-soft integrate differently with SAP systems

Understand how data should flow from other SAP systems into BPC to perform common functions, such as:

– Allocating IT costs – Cost-center accounting – Profitability analysis

Review the toughest data integration challenges experienced by BPC users — such as determining which allocations to execute — and get best practices for overcoming them

Obtain financial master data manage-ment and governance best practices that ensure valid data and reconciliations

Examine unique data requirements asso-ciated with integrating BPC with SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP HANA, from pre-paring data for extraction to modeling and loading it into SAP HANA

Streamline and increase the accuracy of overhead cost planning by properly integrating BPC with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BWDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesAttend this session and learn how to exploit key integration capabilities between SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP ERP to streamline overhead cost planning. Through demo and lecture, you will learn:

How to enhance the user experience by taking into account all cost elements, activity types, and statistical key figures for cost centers and internal orders

Best practices in loading SAP CO-OM data to SAP BPC, including mappings and mas-ter data setup

How to set up flexible allocation rules which can be automatically applied to allocate overhead costs and indirect expenses in SAP BPC

How to drill-through from BPC to your SAP NetWeaver BW and ERP reports for further analysis

Key design options and integration chal-lenges for performing overhead cost planning in SAP BPC

How to complete the data load process by making manual changes in SAP BPC and then retracting the data back into the SAP ERP system

Take away a CO retraction code sample and examples of cost planning design options.




The 2013 guide to evaluating and choosing the right BPC reporting functionality and optimizing it for your needsAndrew Joo, IBMThrough lecture and demonstration, familiarize yourself with the newest options for building reports and input schedules, required dimen-sions, and tools for extracting critical data, and customization techniques.

Weigh specific criteria to determine the right BPC reporting functionality for your organization, including:

– Drill-through functionality, such as EvGTS, EvGET, EvDRE, or EvINP

– Dynamic templates – Drag-and-drop reporting

Learn how these features compare to cus-tom report development

Implement drill-through functionality in BPC to view data from an external database

Get best practices for using the layout-building functionality in BPC and learn how to perform custom expansions in a workbook

Navigate the dynamic templates available in the library and how to quickly custom-ize them to fit your needs

Use drag-and-drop reporting to create reports using a graphical interface versus developing reports using BPC Excel functions

Learn to create a custom report using EvDRE

Discover how using multiple EvDRE func-tions in a workbook can accelerate data retrieval

Support data translations from local cur-rencies to one or more reporting currencies, intercompany elimination cal-culations, and other calculations

Demystify the complex organizational structures regarding ownership options for consolidation reports

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Leading strategies and benchmarks for planning, budgeting, and consolidation in the post-recession economy

The 2013 guide to evaluating and choosing the right BPC reporting functionality and optimizing it for your needs

A comprehensive guide to mapping SAP Business Planning and Consolidation to specific business scenarios

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting: How to improve planning accuracy and shorten planning cycles through driver-based planning

A step-by-step approach to map BPC to your closing and consolidation process

Streamline and increase the accuracy of overhead cost planning by properly integrating BPC with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW

New opportunities to streamline your planning processes: BPC 10.0 and BPC on SAP HANA Rapid-fire Q&A panel

A leading expert’s guide to developing a rock-solid BPC reporting and analytics strategy

Key performance and sizing considerations for building and troubleshooting a more scalable BPC landscape

Practical advice for integrating data from SAP and non-SAP systems to ensure valid calculation plans and reports

A step-by-step guide to successfully implement BPC script logic

Data modeling techniques for architecting a high-performing planning and consolidation solution

Critical tips and project advice to fast-track your BPC upgrade or migration

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