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Overview
New

BI 2017 is the only event of its kind, bringing together top technologists from SAP,
independent consulting firms, and leading global organisations. Join us this year
again or for the first time for a unique educational and networking experience.

Brand new content Exclusive take-home materials

40+ new sessions covering the hottest
topics, including:
yy Ensure project success, faster decision
making, and bottom line results through
new solutions, strategies, implementa-
tion and migration best practices
yy Practical advice to drive your SAP
BusinessObjects BI investments,
including business case development and ROI determination
yy Product updates, new releases, and business use cases for SAPs
new and upgraded solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira, SAP Analytics Hub, and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud
yy Hands-on labs provide the opportunity to experience new SAP
Lumira functionality
Get copies of every session, plus tips,
tricks, and recommendations to help you
throughout the year. Walk away with:
yy A BI strategy self-assessment and BI
strategy e-book to drive your strategy
when you return home
yy A comprehensive list of benefits,
upgrade prerequisites, and key steps needed for migrating exist-
ing SAP BW solutions to agile SAP HANA-optimised models
yy A useful Q&A document to kick-start discussions on value-based
analytics within your organisation and start you down the right path
yy An R coding example created to predict soccer outcomes to use
as a resource in creating your own predictive models when you
return home

2 NEW Pre-Conference Workshops Product road map sessions from SAP

Jumpstart your conference experience Sessions showcasing SAP product
on 13 June and tap into special sessions, innovations and road maps, such as:
including: yy Introducing SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0
yy Important considerations for designing yy Live Demo: Introduction to SAP Analytics Hub
successful SAP HANA analytic models
yy Introduction to SAP Digital Boardroom
yy A complete guide to the SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.2 release and yy SAP BusinessObjects Cloud: Leverage the
beyond: The latest innovations, why integrated capabilities of BI, predictive, and
upgrading to BI 4.2 matters, and the planning to empower day-to-day work
future road map of SAP BusinessObjects BI yy Whats new with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.2

Expanded networking opportunities Detailed case studies from leading

Learn from your peers and get access organisations
to focused networking events for like-
minded colleagues to discuss hot topics Gain strategic and technical insight
or projects, including: from recent BI initiatives. You will
get access to effective requirements
yy Speed networking
gathering and tool selection guide-
yy Ask the Experts lines, visualisation and dashboard
yy Luncheon networking development techniques, effective
strategies to maximise adoption, and practical lessons from real-
yy Facilitated networking sessions world SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects BI implementations,
upgrades, and migrations.

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 Overview

Pre-Conference Workshops Tuesday, 13 June

Special 3-hour Pre-Conference Workshops hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to fortify your Page 5
understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and enhance your
learning experience at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required.

Main Conference, 14-16 June More than 40 sessions spanning 8 tracks

Strategy
Track 1 Expert advice to optimise and extend your reporting and analytics investments, align business and IT, and Page 8
determine your future road map
SAP solution road maps and demos
Track 2 Product capabilities, planned enhancements, and use cases to help guide your strategy and investment Page 10
decisions

Track 3
Dashboards and data visualisation Page 12
Proven practices and hands-on guidelines for delivering visually pleasing, interactive experiences

Track 4
Cloud and analytics Page 14
Tools and techniques to deliver easily consumable interactions that drive decisions and results

Track 5
Web and mobile reports Page 17
Detailed instruction to create easy to navigate reports for desktop and mobile consumption

Track 6
Data management, modelling, and integration Page 18
Strategies and solutions to ensure high-quality data, optimised for speed and performance

Track 7
Administration and performance Page 20
Valuable tips and skills to architect and run customised, high-performing BI environments

Track 8
Implementations, migrations, and upgrades Page 21
Best practices and real-world lessons to ensure your critical BI projects are on-time and on-budget

Track 9
SAP solutions for financial and business planning Page 22
Tool selection, configuration, and user tips to optimise your planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes

Schedule
Pre-Conference
Workshops
Tuesday, 13 June Wednesday, 14 June
9.00 Registration Opens 8.00 Registration
10.00 Pre-Conference Workshops 8.00 Morning Coffee
13.00 Lunch 9.00 Keynote Address
14.00 Pre-Conference Workshops 10.30 Refreshment Break
11.15 Breakout Sessions
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Spotlight Session
14.15 Networking and Collaboration
Break
14.30 Networking Sessions
15.15 Breakout Sessions
16.15 Refreshment Break
16.30 Breakout Sessions
17.30 Welcome Reception
17.45 Ask the Experts
18.30 Day 1 Concludes
Main Conference
Thursday, 15 June
8.30 Registration
8.30 Morning Coffee
9.00 Breakout Sessions
10.00 Refreshment Break
10.45 Breakout Sessions
11.45 Refreshment Break
12.00 Breakout Sessions
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Breakout Sessions
15.00 Refreshment Break
15.15 Breakout Sessions
16.15 Refreshment Break
16.30 Breakout Sessions
17.30 Cocktail Reception
17.45 Ask the Experts
18.30 Day 2 Concludes
Friday, 16 June
8.30 Registration
8.30 Morning Coffee
9.00 Breakout Sessions
10.00 Refreshment Break
10.45 Breakout Sessions
11.45 Refreshment Break
12.00 Breakout Sessions
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Breakout Sessions
15.00 Refreshment Break
15.45 Breakout Sessions
16.45 Conference Concludes

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Event Highlights
Pre-Conference Workshops
Special Pre-Conference Workshops hosted the
day before the event offer you the opportunity
to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and
technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and
enhance your learning experience at the main conference.
Advance sign-up is required to ensure your spot.
6 Conferences 1 Location
BI 2017 is co-located with HANA 2017, GRC 2017,
Financials 2017, Basis & SAP Administration 2017,
and Customer Engagement & Commerce 2017. Registration
at 1 event provides access to sessions across all 6 events at
no additional cost.
Customer Case Studies
Hear how leading companies tackle their proj-
ects and initiatives. Take away best practices
and methodologies taught by the companies that use
them, and learn how to better utilise your existing tech-
nology and plan for the future. Hear how your peers have
shortened project times, cut costs, evaluated key criteria,
and ultimately achieved success on massive, high-stakes
initiatives.
In-Depth Sessions
Top experts from SAP, leading independent
consulting firms, and your industry counterparts
present road maps, tips, tricks, best practices, and strategic
recommendations that you can immediately put to use
upon returning to the office.
Exhibitor Meet and Greets
Compare and contrast market-leading solutions
and see for yourself how SAP and third-party
technologies fit into your IT infrastructure.
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Overview
The worlds foremost experts on
SAP technology
At BI 2017, you will hear directly from the best of
the best. Speakers at this conference are experienced
practitioners, industry visionaries, and subject matter
experts (SMEs) on whom you can count for reliable,
accurate information. No sales pitches, just practical
content to help you nail your next project, augment your
skills, and advance your career.
Panel Discussions
These sessions are informal, interactive get-to-
gethers where SAP customers can ask panelists
their most pressing questions. Each panel will be moder-
ated by a subject-matter expert. You do not need to sign
up in advance to attend, and there is no formal agenda.
Just come with your list of questions in hand.
Ask the Experts
Sit down with leading experts who manage,
deploy, and support SAP environments to get
detailed answers to your toughest questions. Draw on the
real-world experiences from some of the industrys top
technologists and tap into one-on-one time with experts
and walk away with detailed answers to the questions that
matter to you most.
Evening Reception
Have some fun after a day of intense learn-
ing, and attend the evening reception to relax,
catch up with your co-workers and colleagues, and build
your professional network. Plus, market-leading solution
providers will be on hand to answer your questions and
walk you through prerequisites, decision points, trade-offs,
and timelines for your ongoing initiatives and upcoming
projects.
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 Pre-Conference Workshops

Join us for Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday, 13 June
Special deep-dive sessions that enable you to:
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

10.00 13.00
Important considerations for designing successful SAP HANA analytic models
Don Loden, Protiviti
SAP HANA analytic models are incredibly powerful tools when used effectively, but sometimes just because you can do things in
SAP HANA does not mean that you should! This session examines real-world, tested solutions and best practices around SAP HANA
modelling, including:

yy How to provision data structures and designs that scale yy What operations work really well in analytic models
and perform incredibly well
yy When to persist logic vs. dynamically determine logic
yy Use cases for each of the 3 types of SAP HANA views
yy SAP HANA engine optimisation comparisons
and when to use each type
yy How advances in SAP BW/4HANA will allow for multiple
yy When ETL should be used to support a model
BI tools as well as unprecedented development
yy A realistic view of the trade-off on real-time vs. sub- flexibility
second performance
yy Live demos showing the results of a poor design
yy How you can use a linear performance curve to avoid compared with a proper design that adheres to best
scaling SAP HANA into a corner practices
yy Important new considerations for calculation views to
take advantage of the latest SAP HANA functionality

Pre-Conference Workshops continued on next page

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10.00 13.00
An in-depth look at pinpointing and addressing sources of performance problems in your SAP
BusinessObjects BI reports and dashboards
Dan Goodinson, BI Brainz
Attend this comprehensive session to learn a step-by-step process for analysing, identifying, and troubleshooting performance
issues in your SAP BusinessObjects BI reports and dashboards. Get detailed instructions and step through live demonstrations to
learn how to:

yy Pinpoint the causes of poor response times in reports and
dashboards whether its front-end report design, server
resources/configuration, back-end data execution, or
specific product code calls that require optimisation
yy Determine the right tools and methods for tracking
where time is spent per processing layer depending on
the front-end tool, back-end data source, and SAP
BusinessObjects workflows
yy Evaluate components in the architectural workflow that
could cause unexpected delays and influence execution
times
yy Leverage controlled and consistent testing methodologies
to ensure effective performance measurement
yy Use a variety of dedicated tools for collecting traces,
and learn how to read and find information in the
output trace files

14.00 17.00
A complete guide to the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 release and beyond: The latest innovations,
why upgrading to BI 4.2 matters, and the future road map of SAP BusinessObjects BI
Merlijin Ekkel, SAP
What are the latest features and functionalities in the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 release? What are the value propositions to con-
sider? What do you need to know to successfully move to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2? What are SAPs road map plans for SAP
BusinessObjects BI? Attend this 3-hour in-depth session to get the answers to these critical questions. You will:

yy Learn value drivers to move to the SAP BusinessObjects
BI 4.2 release, including the latest innovations such as BI
on BI, aka SAP Central Management Server DB driver
solution in the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP03 release
yy Get a glimpse of the latest features added to the SAP
BusinessObjects platform and client tools that make the
administrators and business users lives easier when it
comes to maintaining and consuming BI information
yy Understand how the installation of the SAP
BusinessObjects BI suite is easier and faster in the BI 4.2
release
yy Gain expert advice on how to plan your upgrade, both
from a platform and content perspective, and how to
leverage available SAP tools, solutions, and resources to
guarantee a smooth upgrade
yy Get a preview of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP04
release, and the plans beyond

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 Keynote Address

Keynote Address
Empowering companies to digitally transform at scale
Ivo Bauermann, SAP
Are we on the brink of the fourth technology revolution that will fundamentally change
the way we live, work, and relate to one another? Most CEOs see the next 3 years
as more critical for their business than the last 50. Digital companies are achieving
significantly higher revenue and profitability, yet only 5% of companies feel that theyve
turned digital into a competitive advantage. But how do you augment your systems of
record with new data-driven systems of intelligence to enable digital transformation
and new business models? How do you connect people, things, and business in the
digital age?
Ivo Bauermann
Join Ivo Bauermann, Global Vice President at SAP, as he shares SAPs vision for the digital
enterprise and demonstrates how SAP brings together your core business systems with
powerful new innovations in IoT, Big Data, Machine Learning, and Analytics.

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Strategy
Expert advice to optimise and extend your reporting and analytics
investments, align business and IT, and determine your future road map
Building blocks of a rock-solid BI
strategy that benefits business and
IT alike
Pat Saporito, SAP
In this session, you will learn critical success
factors to develop and deliver a forward-
looking BI strategy and road map for your
organisation. Learn the key components of a
BI and analytics road map including stake-
holder and management buy-in, research
initiatives, and implementation approach
and get recommendations to help you:
yy Assess your BI maturity and define your
desired future state
yy Create a prioritised road map for the enter-
prise of short-, medium-, and long-term
projects that aligns with strategic business
goals and delivers measurable results
yy Leverage a repeatable framework for build-
ing an analytics strategy that engages and
brings together the priorities of both CIOs
and business executives to address organ-
isational challenges
Take home a BI strategy self-assessment and
BI strategy e-book to drive your strategy when
you return home.
Value-based analytics A proven
process to demystify tool selection
and simplify analytics
Karthik Palanisamy, itelligence
This session provides a framework for how
to sift through the myriad of tools, options,
and buzz words surrounding todays complex
analytics landscape, and identify an approach
and solution that works best for your organ-
isation in the short-term, and that is scalable
and relevant for the long-term. You will:
yy Learn the criteria to identify quick wins for
rapid business value, and to prioritise focus
areas for analytics
yy Get tips for how to determine the right
BI tool for specific business uses and user
requirements, including operational report-
ing vs. strategic KPIs
yy Find out how to simplify your reporting
footprint using distributed core metrics and
capability-based analytics
Take home a useful Q&A document to kick-
start discussions within your organisation
and start you down the path to value-based
analytics.
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Track 1 Track 1
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Choosing the right SAP
BusinessObjects BI solution for
your needs
Blair Wheadon, SAP
Examine each of the solutions in the latest
SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio including
new releases and updates and evaluate
their capabilities and suitability to meet your
specific reporting and dashboarding require-
ments. Delegates will walk through the tool
selection process and learn:
yy Which solutions are, and which are not,
appropriate for certain reporting and
analytics scenarios, such as high-level man-
agement KPIs or detailed drill-down analyses
yy Use cases for SAP analytics solutions based
on user profiles, product capabilities, and
data sources
The power of becoming an insight-
yy When it makes sense to use multiple tools driven organisation Valuable
in conjunction with one another, and how techniques to engage and empower
to prioritise which tool to use when you
can only choose one
your user communities and embrace
the power of analytics and insight
Case study
Penny Silvia, Deloitte
Agile self-service reporting with New advances in tools and technology can
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio access and analyse billions of pieces of data
at Tetra Pak points in less than a second, but how do you
Sergei Leschinsky, Tetra Pak turn that power and speed into value in the
Tetra Pak, a global systems supplier of processing, hands of your user community and organisa-
packaging, and distribution systems for food, tion? Attend this session to:
is a strong believer in business user-driven yy Understand the benefits of becoming an
BI, and to support this strategic direction its insight-driven organisation
business users are allowed to create and adjust
yy Get proven strategies and tactics you
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio reports
can use to shift your user community to
and publish them on the BI platform without IT
embrace the power of analytics
involvement. Go behind the scenes to learn key
aspects of the companys implementation, yy Learn effective techniques to overcome barri-
migration, and user training, including how it: ers to adoption, such as data understanding,
tool preferences, reluctance to own the
yy Evaluated the pros and cons of SAP
solution, and historical reliance on IT
BusinessObjects BI tools for its business
analysis needs, including technical pre- yy Identify the challenge points for your organ-
requisites, visualisation possibilities, and isation and create plans to address and/or
development efforts mitigate the challenges before they arise
yy Optimised system setup for agile, busi-
ness-driven development of SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio reports
yy Clarified the responsibilities of business
users and IT
yy Determined which business users would
be allowed to develop SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio reports, and necessary
investments in training and support
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Customer panel discussion
Making the transition from BI to
analytics Real-world insights
from successes and challenges
Moderator: Mark Cooper, British American
Tobacco; Sebastian Walczyski, Shell; Omer
Gerson, Netafim
Analytics is not the same thing as business
intelligence. But how exactly do the areas
of Big Data and predictive analyses differ
from business intelligence and what should
IT leaders be doing differently? Attend this
insightful panel discussion to get practical
approaches to move your organisation
forward along the curve, and explore critical
topics such as:
yy Gaining executive support and funding
yy Impacts on IT, including staffing and
change management
yy Getting over looking at the past with
descriptive reporting, and driving perva-
sive analytics as part of decision-making
processes
yy Capitalising on analytics in highly disrup-
tive and changing environments
Case Study
How TowerJazz successfully
deployed SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira and leverages it for
enhanced user experience and self-
service analytics
Valentin Gorelik, TowerJazz
Attend this session to learn how the manage-
ments request for better, faster visibility into
vast amounts of spend data was satisfied
using SAP BusinessObjects Lumira at Tower-
Jazz, a global manufacturer of analog process
technologies with over 4,500 employees
worldwide. Find out why SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira was chosen, and get key learnings
from the implementation, completed in just 4
weeks from start to go-live. You will:
yy Examine SAP BW data modelling tools
and techniques utilised to ensure optimal
performance
yy Understand key functionality used to
deliver reports for different user levels with
detailed drill-down capabilities and real-
time analytics
yy Step through a live demo showing the SAP
BusinessObjects Lumira stories created and
the self-service data exploration capabilities
of TowerJazzs BI environment
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SAP HANA Spotlight Session SAPs business intelligence strategy
Modernise your data strategy to and vision: New innovations,
drive your digital business disruption, and transformation
Marie Goodell, SAP Timo Elliot, SAP
Take your business from surviving to thriving Digital disruption is battering the world of
with a data platform that lets you moder- analytics, upending old ways of working while
nise the digital core and innovate at the edge. introducing great new business opportunities.
Attend this spotlight session to: Join this session to:
yy Hear how you can safely navigate the new
yy Explore Big Datas future and new technol-
technologies and opportunities, and suc-
ogies for connecting to, processing, and
cessfully reimagine your organisation for
exchanging massive amounts of data with
the future
the SAP Database and Data Management
portfolio yy Take a fast-paced look at the big trends in
yy Learn how you can improve intelligence Big Data, analytics, and BI, including topics
with machine learning and advanced such as modern self-service BI, predictive
analytics and cognitive analytics, Hadoop and Spark,
and the death of Business Intelligence
yy Discover how you can optimise innovation Competency Centres
with SAP HANA 2 our next-generation,
in-memory platform
Case Study
How Netafim transformed its
analytics strategy A one-year
journey from vision to reality with
SAP BusinessObjects and SAP BW
on SAP HANA
Omer Gerson, Netafim
Learn how Netafim, a global irrigation
and agricultural company with 28 subsid-
iaries, 17 manufacturing plants, and 4,300
employees worldwide, developed and imple-
mented a forward-thinking BI strategy to
deliver analytics across the organisation to
both corporate and subsidiaries. Examine
key organisational, functional, and technical
aspects of the project, and learn:
yy How user requirements were deter-
mined for both corporate reporting and
self-service needs of local business users
and analysts, and how the right SAP
BusinessObjects tools were chosen for each
yy Steps taken to ensure ease of access,
such as establishing a BI portal, building a
mobile app, and improving performance
yy Key ingredients of the companys successful
migration to SAP BW on SAP HANA, such
as the importance of thorough preparation
and cooperation between Basis BW teams
yy Critical elements of the companys user
adoption success, including effective com-
munication, user training, and support
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SAP solution road maps
and demos
Product capabilities, planned enhancements, and use cases
to help guide your strategy and investment decisions
Live demo
Introduction to SAP Analytics Hub
Olivier Duvelleroy, SAP
Attend this session to discover the new SAP
Analytics Hub solution, a software as a service
(SaaS) offering that boosts your analytics
adoption. SAP Analytics Hub centralises the
access of analytics scattered around multiple
systems. You will:
yy Take a guided tour to see first-hand how
both IT and business users benefit from
new functionality, including how they can
search and access assets, publish items, and
moderate the content
yy Step through 2 real-world examples of how
the solution was successfully used to imple-
ment a central catalogue of analytics that
reduced report and KPI redundancy and
increased user engagement
yy Explore planned upcoming features and
future directions
Introducing SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira 2.0
Patrick Sims, SAP
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio are coming
together under a single name. Learn about
the next step in SAPs convergence strategy,
including:
yy The timeline and road map to combine the
agility of SAP BusinessObjects Lumira with
the dashboard and application capability of
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
yy Use cases for the combined solution, and
how it enables access to departmental data
while also allowing for the ability to upscale
to enterprise-level analytic applications
yy A look at the road map for SAP
BusinessObjects Lumira moving forward
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Hands-on lab
SAP Lumira 2.0, discovery component
Patrick Sims, SAP
Take this opportunity to get hands-on experi-
ence with SAPs newly released SAP Lumira.
Attend this in-depth, 2-hour session to find
out how SAP Lumira converges self-service
data discovery with the ability to create inter-
active dashboards and analytic applications in
a single solution, and learn first-hand how to:
yy Prepare your data using data groups, hier-
archies, and display formatting, and how to
create calculated measures and dimensions
yy Use the many charts and advanced geo-
mapping services in SAP Lumira to create
interactive visualisations (infographics)
yy Create stories which provide a graphi-
cal narrative to describe data by grouping
visualisations together to create simple pre-
sentation-style dashboards and publish
them to the SAP BusinessObjects platform
yy Customise the interface and configure
automatic updates, network settings, SQL
drivers, and mapping
Live demo
Whats new with SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence 4.2
Gregory Botticchio, SAP
Learn about new features and functionality
delivered in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intel-
ligence 4.2 and how they can be leveraged
to empower end users to create their own
reports and to enhance and simplify SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports.
You will:
yy Learn how to use some of the new innova-
tions such as geomaps, shared elements,
comments, and SAP HANA direct access
yy Step through live demonstrations to see
new capabilities
yy Get answers to your questions about
future enhancements and how SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence fits into
SAPs overall SAP BusinessObjects BI strategy
and road map
Track 1 Track 2
continued
Live demo
Introduction to SAP Digital
Boardroom
Alexis Sarat, SAP
Explore how SAP Digital Boardroom contex-
tualises the boardroom experience across
people, places, and devices into a real-time
enterprise experience. Examine key features
and functionality, and learn:
yy How the solution integrates with SAP
S/4HANA lines of business data, as well as
with other applications and data sources,
to provide a single source of truth about a
companys business metrics
yy Core use cases of SAP Digital Boardroom,
such as real-time business insight and deci-
sion making to act in dynamic markets
yy The key differentiating features which drive
the use cases
Introducing SAP Leonardo
Timo Elliot, SAP
Becoming a digital business requires business
model and business process changes that no
single technology can deliver. SAP Leonardo
brings industry-leading capabilities, solutions,
and services together to provide the indus-
trys only Digital Innovation System built
to not only drive innovation as companies
explore digital transformation, but also to
scale that innovation and allow businesses to
truly transform. Join this session to:
yy Hear how SAP Leonardo accelerates the
time from which a business recognises the
need for digital transformation to having
an active, working digital transformation
solution
yy Learn about the components and technol-
ogies that make up SAP Leonardo
yy Get an understanding of how SAP
Leonardo can help you to leverage your
existing investments and extend their value
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SAP HANA road map and vision:
Whats new and whats next?
Volker Haentjes, SAP
SAP HANA delivers modern data manage-
ment, advanced analytical processing, rapid
application development environment, and
flexible data integration capabilities, all in
one in-memory platform to innovate without
constraints. Attend this session to learn about:
yy SAP HANA capabilities, how they enable
digital transformation, and SAPs future
plans for SAP HANA
yy What makes SAP HANA an ideal platform
for digital transformation
yy Choices for deployment
yy Whats new in the latest SAP HANA release
and the road map
Live demo
SAP BusinessObjects Cloud:
Leverage the integrated
capabilities of BI, predictive, and
planning to empower day-to-day
work
Step through a detailed use case example
of a sales analyst to find out how SAP
BusinessObjects Cloud can enable users
to seamlessly transition between different
analytics needs. Walk through each step to
see how the analyst uses the solution to:
yy Explore the historical sales data of a prod-
uct thats heavily affected by seasonality
yy Run a time series forecast on this data
using the predictive capabilities in SAP
BusinessObjects Cloud
yy Incorporate the results of the time series
analysis in the planning process
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Live demo
An introductory walkthrough of
how to create a predictive model,
apply it, and verify accuracy
Jeroen van der A, Interdobs
Using a real-world example of predicting the
outcome of soccer matches, walk through the
process step by step to get a detailed intro-
duction to the key components of predictive
analysis, from making model choices, to
preparing the data, to applying the model.
You will:
yy Explore key considerations for how to
determine the optimal model to make your
prediction, and how to apply the model
yy Learn how to apply machine learning
techniques to data, and understand the
strengths and weaknesses
yy Create a learning set and a test set to verify
that the prediction is accurate
Take home the R coding example created to
predict soccer outcomes to use as a resource
in creating your own predictive models when
you return home.
Introducing SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation,
version for SAP BW/4HANA
Pras Chatterjee, SAP
This session provides an introduction to the
latest release of SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation for the SAP BW/4HANA
platform. Learn about the latest features for
this release, the future road map, use cases,
and potential migration opportunities. By
attending, you will:
yy Learn how to maximise planning and con-
solidation opportunities on SAPs new data
warehouse
yy See how the simplified SAP BW/4HANA
architecture can drive better finance trans-
formation and better success
yy Watch a demo of the new solution and its
next-generation interface
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Whats new in SAP BusinessObjects
Cloud for planning and whats on
the horizon
Ric Ratkowski, SAP
Join us at this session and learn how to exploit
the capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects
Cloud to provide actionable insight to users.
Examine the solutions cloud-based business
intelligence (BI), planning, predictive analytics,
data visualisation, and digital boardroom
tools, and learn how to:
yy Use the solutions contextual discovery,
visualisation, planning, and prediction
functionality to simplify data analysis and
accelerate decision making
yy Provide your employees and executives
with easy-to-use SaaS analytics so they can
anticipate and respond to new business
challenges and opportunities
yy Take advantage of the solutions native
integration with on-premise applications
and data sources
SAP Cloud Platform 101: What, why,
and how?
Emily Mui, SAP
Attend this session to get simple, straightfor-
ward answers to your questions about SAP
Cloud Platform: What is it? How does it work?
Whats the payoff? And what are the major
use cases? You will learn how to:
yy Rapidly build, deploy, and manage cloud-
based enterprise applications
yy Integrate cloud and on-premise solutions
to better connect customers with the infor-
mation they need
yy Extend on-premise or cloud solutions for
increased functionality and customisation
yy Determine how best to leverage SAP Cloud
Platform to meet current and future cloud
use cases for your business users, customers,
or partners
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Dashboards and data
visualisation
Proven practices and hands-on guidelines for delivering
visually pleasing, interactive experiences
Unlock advanced capabilities of
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
to create customised dashboards,
reports, analytical apps, and more!
Jeroen van der A, Interdobs
Explore capabilities available in SAP
BusinessObjects Dashboards that you can
leverage to create a variety of user-friendly,
visually appealing dashboards, reports, analyt-
ical applications, and even a comment editor.
Learn how to:
yy Use standard components in your CSS
classes to create fast prototypes of
dashboards
yy Leverage navigation panels, connection
components, scripting, and bookmarking
to build an analytical application
yy Use easy-to-build SDK extensions
to add your own text editor in SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio
Take home example apps of a dashboard, a
report, and an analytical application created
using SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio.
Live demo
Introduction to SAP Digital
Boardroom
Alexis Sarat, SAP
Explore how SAP Digital Boardroom contex-
tualises the boardroom experience across
people, places, and devices into a real-time
enterprise experience. Examine key features
and functionality, and learn:
yy How the solution integrates with SAP
S/4HANA lines of business data, as well as
with other applications and data sources,
to provide a single source of truth about a
companys business metrics
yy Core use cases of SAP Digital Boardroom,
such as real-time business insight and deci-
sion making to act in dynamic markets
yy The key differentiating features which drive
the use cases
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Introducing SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira 2.0
Patrick Sims, SAP
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio are coming
together under a single name. Learn about the
next step in SAPs convergence strategy, including:
yy The timeline and road map to combine the
agility of SAP BusinessObjects Lumira with
the dashboard and application capability of
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
yy Use cases for the combined solution, and
how it enables access to departmental data
while also allowing for the ability to upscale
to enterprise-level analytic applications
yy A look at the road map for SAP
BusinessObjects Lumira moving forward
Case study
Agile self-service reporting with
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
at Tetra Pak
Sergei Leschinsky, Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak, a global systems supplier of
processing, packaging, and distribu-
tion systems for food, is a strong believer
in business user-driven BI, and to support
this strategic direction its business users
are allowed to create and adjust SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio reports and
publish them on the BI platform without IT
involvement. Go behind the scenes to learn
key aspects of the companys implementation,
migration, and user training, including how it:
yy Evaluated the pros and cons of SAP
BusinessObjects BI tools for its business
analysis needs, including technical pre-
requisites, visualisation possibilities, and
development efforts
yy Optimised system setup for agile, busi-
ness-driven development of SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio reports
yy Clarified the responsibilities of business
users and IT
yy Determined which business users would
be allowed to develop SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio reports, and necessary
investments in training and support
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Hands-on lab
SAP Lumira 2.0, discovery component
Patrick Sims, SAP
Take this opportunity to get hands-on experi-
ence with SAPs newly released SAP Lumira.
Attend this in-depth, 2-hour session to find
out how SAP Lumira converges self-service
data discovery with the ability to create inter-
active dashboards and analytic applications in
a single solution, and learn first-hand how to:
yy Prepare your data using data groups, hier-
archies, and display formatting, and how to
create calculated measures and dimensions
yy Use the many charts and advanced geo-
mapping services in SAP Lumira to create
interactive visualisations (infographics)
yy Create stories which provide a graphi-
cal narrative to describe data by grouping
visualisations together to create simple pre-
sentation-style dashboards and publish
them to the SAP BusinessObjects platform
yy Customise the interface and configure
automatic updates, network settings, SQL
drivers, and mapping
7 steps to achieving the ultimate BI
visual quick win
Mico Yuk, BI Brainz
Lets face it building a great dashboard
today takes way too long for most business
users. Thats why you can benefit from The
Ultimate BI Visual Quick Win. After building
600+ data visualisations, weve cut the fat
out from the traditional delivery process, and
narrowed it down to the most vital compo-
nents you need to deliver a visual success. In
this session you will:
yy Find out where most BI visual projects fail
and how to avoid it
yy Learn how to qualify a BI visual quick win,
and when to say No
yy Learn what skillsets you must have to suc-
ceed, and what to do if you dont have them
yy Get a peek into a real-world example of BI
visual quick win and see why it worked!
Take home The Ultimate BI Visual Quick Win
cheat sheet to get started immediately.
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Turbo-charge geospatial analysis Case study How to become a better BI visual

with SAP BusinessObjects BI tools How Coca-Cola Group IL leverages storyteller in 4 easy steps
Anurag Barua, Independent Consultant SAP BusinessObjects Design Mico Yuk, BI Brainz
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Studio to build and deliver modern This session takes you through the funda-
business value delivered by using geospa- dashboards mentals of how to take your existing KPIs and
tial analysis and how it augments the value Hana Veshler, Coca-Cola Group IL metrics and create an actionable BI visual
of standard business intelligence approaches, storyboard that tells a compelling data story.
Step through Coca-Cola Group ILs recent
and explore the applications and tools within Use this technique to create data visualisa-
deployment of SAP BusinessObjects Design
the SAP BusinessObjects BI toolset that enable tions in up to 40% less time, while increasing
Studio and its initiative to deliver business
geospatial analysis. Attend to: your user adoption rates. You will:
analytics and operational reports to desktop
yy Get acquainted with the comprehensive set and mobile devices. Gain insight into the yy Learn how to gather requirements more
of features SAP Data Services delivers for not companys challenges and solutions, and effectively by using a simple 4-part visual
only adding geographical dimensions to your learn how it: storyboard template
data, but also cleansing this data
yy Evaluated the pros and cons of SAP yy Discover why visual storytelling is more
yy Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Lumira BusinessObjects Design Studio for its data effective than traditional reporting and why
enables advanced geospatial analysis and see visualisation needs, including technical pre- users love it
how easily you can leverage this information requisites, requirement specifications, and yy Find out how to use a visual storyboard to
for better decision making development cut down your requirements-gathering ses-
yy Learn how you can leverage SAP HANAs yy Designed and developed user interfaces sions by up to 50%
inbuilt (and prepackaged) geospatial features and customised functionality with SAP yy Learn how to handle gaps in your visual
for better analytics and decision making BusinessObjects Design Studio story
Case Study yy Enhanced out-of-the-box capabilities
to create specialised dashboards, and More than just a pretty face: Lessons
How TowerJazz successfully deployed mobilised its solutions for consumption to design truly functional financial
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and anywhere, anytime dashboards (that still look great!)
leverages it for enhanced user Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises
experience and self-service analytics Case study Dashboards mean different things to different
Valentin Gorelik, TowerJazz Shell user adoption hack people, so understanding the types of informa-
Attend this session to learn how the manage-
building the ultimate BI cockpit tion the consumer wants and how they want to
ments request for better, faster visibility into Sebastian Walczyski, Lucjan Lejkowski, and consume it is critical. Get step-by-step advice for
vast amounts of spend data was satisfied using Frantisek Lorenz; Shell developing and designing dashboards that not
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira at TowerJazz, a Discover how Shell, an innovation-driven only meet your organisations functional require-
global manufacturer of analog process technol- global group of energy and petrochemical ments, but do so in an easy-to-consume and
ogies with over 4,500 employees worldwide. companies, built the Retail BI Station cockpit, visually appealing way. By attending, you learn:
Find out why SAP BusinessObjects Lumira was combining various BI features in SAP to arrive yy How to lay out dashboards that consolidate
chosen, and get key learnings from the imple- at a simple, yet powerful solution that boosted your data into reliable visualisations that
mentation, completed in just 4 weeks from start user adoption. Learn how user adoption rates engage users
to go-live. You will: initiated the cockpit concept and take home
practical tips that you can utilise in your organ- yy New ways to enhance the end-user expe-
yy Examine SAP BW data modelling tools rience through key features like the
isation. In this session, delegates will learn
and techniques utilised to ensure optimal report-to-report interface and drag-and-
first-hand from Shell:
performance drop in the navigation panel
yy Key business criteria of success, such as
yy Understand key functionality used to deliver yy Critical factors to consider when building
high adoption and low maintenance
reports for different user levels with detailed mobile-ready visualisations
drill-down capabilities and real-time analytics yy The exact BI4 hacks used to engage the
business and build a powerful, user-friendly yy The most common mistakes made dur-
yy Step through a live demo showing the SAP ing dashboard design projects and how to
solution
BusinessObjects Lumira stories created and avoid them
the self-service data exploration capabilities yy An exploration of the Retail BI Station cock-
of TowerJazzs BI environment pit, through a live demo

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Cloud and analytics
Tools and techniques to deliver easily consumable
interactions that drive decisions and results
The power of embedded analytics:
Direct access to multiple data
sources, integration of BI directly
into applications, and a single
version of the truth
Kevin McManus, LaunchWorks
Learn how you can leverage an embedded
analytics strategy to get back to the single
version of the truth, which is often disrupted
by departmental best-of-breed tool choices,
data integration challenges, and cloud-
based analytics. Come away with a solid
understanding of the benefits of embedded
analytics and learn how to:
yy Embed a common set of reporting technol-
ogy within multiple applications to increase
ROI gained from platform improvements,
training, administration, and support
yy Create a common reporting interface and
utilise standardised maintenance and
reporting features that can be used across
multiple analytics applications to improve
adoption
yy Leverage SAP BusinessObjects BI as part of
an embedded analytics strategy, including
real-world examples from SAP customers
Live demo
SAP BusinessObjects Cloud:
Leverage the integrated
capabilities of BI, predictive, and
planning to empower day-to-day
work
Step through a detailed use case example of
a sales analyst to find out how SAP Business-
Objects Cloud can enable users to seamlessly
transition between different analytics needs.
Walk through each step to see how the
analyst uses the solution to:
yy Explore the historical sales data of a prod-
uct thats heavily affected by seasonality
yy Run a time series forecast on this data
using the predictive capabilities in SAP
BusinessObjects Cloud
yy Incorporate the results of the time series
analysis in the planning process
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
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Live demo
An introductory walkthrough of
how to create a predictive model,
apply it, and verify accuracy
Jeroen van der A, Interdobs
Using a real-world example of predicting the
outcome of soccer matches, walk through the
process step by step to get a detailed intro-
duction to the key components of predictive
analysis, from making model choices, to
preparing the data, to applying the model.
You will:
yy Explore key considerations for how to
determine the optimal model to make your
prediction, and how to apply the model
yy Learn how to apply machine learning
techniques to data, and understand the
strengths and weaknesses
yy Create a learning set and a test set to verify
that the prediction is accurate
Take home the R coding example created to
predict soccer outcomes to use as a resource
in creating your own predictive models when SAP BusinessObjects Predictive
you return home. Analytics: Whats now, whats new,
Best practices for making gorgeous and road map details?
Richard Mooney, SAP
stories with SAP BusinessObjects
Cloud Attend this session to explore the funda-
mentals of SAP BusinessObjects Predictive
Nick Wall, SAP
Analytics, learn whats new in the latest
If youre into data visualisation and want to update, and get road map details, including:
gain a deep understanding of whats possible
with SAP BusinessObjects Cloud, then this yy How data scientists, business analysts, and
session is for you. Join an SAP data visualisa- business users can use SAP BusinessObjects
tion expert for a highly interactive experience Predictive Analytics to solve complex busi-
where you will: ness problems and perform automated
predictive analytics on large volumes of
yy Step through a live demo showing visuali- structured and unstructured data
sation and story creation best practices
yy Where SAP BusinessObjects Predictive
yy Understand key considerations for select- Analytics may have the biggest impact on
ing the right visualisations for your stories your organisations bottom line, including
yy In an interactive format, utilise these best- tips to ensure that optimal ROI is realised
practice techniques to transform a poorly yy Detailed insight on current product fea-
designed report into a well-designed, inter- tures, how each can add value, integration
active story using SAP BusinessObjects Cloud scenarios, and planned functionality
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SAP HANA Spotlight Session
Modernise your data strategy to
drive your digital business
Marie Goodell, SAP
Take your business from surviving to thriving
with a data platform that lets you moder-
nise the digital core and innovate at the edge.
Attend this spotlight session to:
yy Explore Big Datas future and new technol-
ogies for connecting to, processing, and
exchanging massive amounts of data with
the SAP Database and Data Management
portfolio
yy Learn how you can improve intelligence
with machine learning and advanced
analytics
yy Discover how you can optimise innovation
with SAP HANA 2 our next-generation,
in-memory platform
Case Study
MUDOs journey to advanced
analytics with SAP BW on SAP
HANA Unlocking the full
potential of retail data to deliver
bottom-line results, as well as
business and IT efficiencies
Ali zge, MUDO
Learn how MUDO, an upscale retailer with
1,600 employees and 120 stores in 26 cities
across Turkey, transitioned its business from
a siloed data warehousing and reporting
environment to a simplified, condensed
SAP BW on SAP HANA platform, deliv-
ering enhanced dashboarding and mobile
reporting to users across all levels from C-level
to store staff. Gain valuable insight from
MUDOs implementation, carried out with
in-house resources and project methodology,
including:
yy Early steps taken that directly resulted in
project success, including specific steps
taken to reduce the number of reports,
define report design early on, and gain top
management support
yy How reports and dashboards were devel-
oped to enable self-service analytics
capabilities on historical and current data
extracted from multiple non-SAP sources
yy Quantification of business benefits,
including higher employee productivity,
increased revenue, IT staff efficiencies, and
data warehousing cost reductions
yy Ongoing optimisation and improvements
planned
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Innovate with SAP HANA using
advanced analytical processing
capabilities
Alexis Fournier, SAP
SAP HANA platform advanced analytics
capabilities enable you to build next-genera-
tion applications that leverage Big Data, IoT,
and machine learning. Attend this session to
learn about:
yy SAP HANA advanced analytics capabilities
such as predictive, spatial, text, graph, and
streaming
yy S AP HANA advanced analytics customer
use cases
yy A
dvanced analytics capabilities included
in the free SAP HANA, express edition, and
steps to get started
Exploit the capabilities of SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis for
Microsoft Office to enhance
analytics and improve self-service
Anurag Barua, Independent Consultant
Find out how you can leverage the compre-
hensive data enablement and analysis
features of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
for Microsoft Office to enable deeper data
insights and improve user engagement in
your enterprise. Learn how to:
yy Empower users with direct access to a vari-
ety of data sources for analysis, including
SAP HANA
yy Create sophisticated end-user and ad
hoc analysis by incorporating conditional
formatting, adding new measures, and cre-
ating prompts
yy Combine standard Microsoft Excel with
newer SAP BusinessObjects Analysis plug-
in formulas to enable powerful, interactive
analysis
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Harness the power of IoT and Big
Data with SAP BusinessObjects
Predictive Analytics
Chandran Sravana, SAP
Learn how to collect, analyse, predict, and act
on information using SAP BusinessObjects
Predictive Analytics with IoT and Big Data.
Delegates will:
yy Explore the impact of IoT and Big Data on
the enterprise and learn how to leverage
SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics
to transform business and realise bottom-
line results
yy Examine the predictive analytics lifecycle,
including roles and processes needed to
effectively leverage SAP BusinessObjects
Predictive Analytics
yy Learn how to identify the right entry point
for IoT and Big Data in your organisation
How British American Tobacco
transformed marketing and sales
planning by automating report-
packs with SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis for Microsoft Office
Samira Saverio, British American Tobacco
The British American Tobacco (BAT) planning
and reporting process was manual and
time-consuming, requiring analysts to pull
information from hundreds of Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets with inconsistencies in the
measures and under pressure to meet review
cycle timelines. Find out how BAT developed
an automated sales and operations planning
(SOP) pack, saving thousands of man hours in
manual preparation and focusing on analysis
of the numbers. Learn how BAT:
yy Prepared the data for its queries using
SAP BW queries and delivered in SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft Office
yy Utilised a Microsoft Office extension to
visualise the data in Microsoft PowerPoint,
producing high-quality graphs linked to
the data
yy Standardised information from the source
reporting system ensuring consistent and
accurate metrics are being used at all levels
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The new generation of SAP
analytics solutions: Using SAP
business intelligence with SAP
BW/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA
Andreas Krause, SAP
Attend this session to learn about the benefits
of using SAP BusinessObjects BI clients with
SAP BW/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA in an
end-to-end analytics scenario. You will:
yy Understand what the right client solutions
from SAP BusinessObjects Cloud or SAP
BusinessObjects Enterprise are, and when
to use which client
yy Experience the different connection
options and how to leverage different
security settings when connecting to SAP
BW/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA
yy Explore the concepts of online and offline
connections, and how to connect to SAP
BW/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA
yy Learn how you can leverage existing appli-
cation security
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Get started with SAP S/4HANA
embedded analytics What is
available and how to integrate with
your BI front-end solutions
Dmitry Kuznetsov, BI Consulting
Get to know the embedded BI content deliv-
ered in SAP S/4HANA that you may not be
aware of, such as analytic models and SAP
Fiori tiles. Explore their use cases, find out
what SAP best practices are, and get tips on
custom modelling. Attend to:
yy Understand considerations for consum-
ing SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics via
SAP BusinessObjects tools, SAP Fiori, and
SAP BW
yy Understand in which cases SAP BW is a
necessity to cover your BI needs and when
it is not necessary
yy Learn how to extend SAP-delivered core
data services (CDS) views and build your
own
yy Come away with a useful list of education
options to help train your team on SAP
S/4HANA analytics.
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Introducing SAP Leonardo
Timo Elliot, SAP
Becoming a digital business requires business
model and business process changes that no
single technology can deliver. SAP Leonardo
brings industry-leading capabilities, solutions,
and services together to provide the indus-
trys only Digital Innovation System built
to not only drive innovation as companies
explore digital transformation, but also to
scale that innovation and allow businesses to
truly transform. Join this session to:
yy Hear how SAP Leonardo accelerates the
time from which a business recognises the
need for digital transformation to having
an active, working digital transformation
solution
yy Learn about the components and technol-
ogies that make up SAP Leonardo
yy Get an understanding of how SAP
Leonardo can help you to leverage your
existing investments and extend their value
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Web and mobile reports
Detailed instruction to create easy to navigate reports
for desktop and mobile consumption
Visualise data on mobile devices,
SAP BusinessObjects Roambi style
Ian Grange, SAP
SAP BusinessObjects Roambi enables your
organisation to provide your team with
the information they need to make fact-
based decisions on the go. Learn how SAP
BusinessObjects Roambi can be leveraged to:
yy Deliver visualisations instantly on mobile
devices so data consumers can intuitively
understand and explore data, and share
information across the enterprise
yy Help transform data from diverse sources
into rich, interactive visualisations for users
yy Enable the publication of reports, dash-
boards, and analytics for data consumers
anytime and anywhere
yy Understand configuration and adminis-
tration best practices and tasks, including
application customisation, security man-
agement, and user management
Achieve reporting excellence
with SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence
Kristof Gramm, IT-Logix
Create your SAP BusinessObjects Web Intel-
ligence reports faster using templates,
stylesheets, and simple guidelines. First, learn
how to classify your reports into 3 categories,
and then gain a step-by-step process to create
easily consumable reports and dashboards
that will increase user adoption. You will:
yy Understand 3 categories of SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports
operational, analysis, and dashboard
and how to choose the elements that each
category should contain
yy Get useful tips on how to use templates to
streamline and accelerate the report cre-
ation process
yy See how quickly and easily you can create
cascading stylesheets to adapt corporate
branding to your reports and dashboards
yy Learn how to integrate SAPUI5 icons and
International Business Communication
Standards charts into your SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Track 1 Track 5
continued
International Business
Communication Standards (IBCS)
and SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence: A perfect match for
better, faster, and easier report
development and higher user
adoption
Kristof Gramm, IT-Logix
IBCS is a widely used standard to unify
reporting and increase user adoption. Attend
this session to understand the concepts of
IBCS, how it increases user adoption rates,
and how you can implement IBCS in your SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reporting.
You will:
yy Learn the basics of the IBCS standards and
how utilising these standards increases user
adoption rates
yy Get best-practice techniques for imple-
menting IBCS in SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence
yy Find out how to reuse the developed arte-
facts to reduce development costs in your
organisation
Live demo
Whats new with SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.2
Gregory Botticchio, SAP
Learn about new features and functionality
delivered in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intel-
ligence 4.2 and how they can be leveraged
to empower end users to create their own
reports and to enhance and simplify SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports.
You will:
yy Learn how to use some of the new innova-
tions such as geomaps, shared elements,
comments, and SAP HANA direct access
yy Step through live demonstrations to see
new capabilities
yy Get answers to your questions about
future enhancements and how SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence fits into
SAPs overall SAP BusinessObjects BI strat-
egy and road map
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Data management,
modelling, and integration
Strategies and solutions to ensure high-quality data,
optimised for speed and performance
Agile modelling in SAP BW on SAP
HANA as a preparation step for
migrating to SAP BW/4HANA
Sergei Peleshuk, ABSS Europe
Learn how agile modelling can simplify the
workload related to delivering business
analytics applications. Review examples and
compare modelling approaches in traditional
SAP BW vs. SAP BW on SAP HANA. Under-
stand the prerequisites needed for migrating
to SAP BW/4HANA. Attend to learn:
yy The basics of LSA++ architecture and the
benefits of agile modelling
yy New features and capabilities of SAP
BW/4HANA, as well as reasons for upgrading
yy How to leverage new SAP HANA-optimised
modelling objects to maximise the agility
of SAP BW solutions
yy Different examples of agile modelling
applications in SAP BW on SAP HANA for
financial reporting involving data flows
from FI and CO
Ensure data quality in your
reporting and analytics
Muna Ali, Accenture
Create a strategy and road map to improve master
data quality by using cleansing, de-duplication,
and golden record creation in existing or newly
acquired systems. First, take a look at the impact
of poor master data quality on reporting and
analytics, then learn a step-by-step process you
can take home to improve data quality in your
organisation, including instructions for how to:
yy Create golden records by deploying vari-
ous consolidation methods such as using
recently updated date, marketing refer-
ences, audit logs, and sales or transaction
history
yy Measure the reporting improvements by
comparing results before and after data
cleansing and de-duplication
yy Determine the appropriate tools to use
within the SAP ecosystem based on data
volumes small, large, or very large
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Case Study
Swisscoms SAP BW transformation
path Architectural and technical
details on the companys path to
SAP BW on SAP HANA and on to SAP
BW/4HANA
Tjarko von Lehsten and Jan Gmurczyk, Swisscom
Find out how Swisscom an international,
multi-billion-dollar telecom company is
making the transition to a central modern
data warehouse on SAP BW/4HANA. Learn key
elements of the companys transition, including
planning, methodology, governance, and
project timelines. Find out how Swisscom:
yy Leverages capabilities of its new SAP HANA
data warehouse, including native modelling,
hybrid scenarios, and SAP HANA extended
application services advanced functionality
yy Determined which SAP BW objects to con-
vert and upgrade from SAP BW 7.x to SAP
BW/4HANA
yy Leveraged critical remodelling techniques
to build an EDW layer on normalised tables
with the SAP BW/4HANA objects (ADSOs
and InfoObjects)
yy Enables self-service business analytics with
various reporting tools and interfaces to
planning and consolidation tools, includ-
ing how it set up a schema concept in SAP
HANA, and defined cross-authorisations
between SAP BW/4HANA and SAP HANA
database (privileges)
Take home a decision table for evaluation of
when to use SAP BW/4HANA functionality,
SAP HANA native modelling, or both (hybrid)
within your implementation.
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An introduction to SAPs next-
generation data warehousing
solutions
Gordon Witzel, SAP
This session provides a strategic and technical
guide to the current capabilities and future
road map for SAPs data warehousing
solutions, including SAP BW/4HANA SAPs
next generation of SAP BW software that
is specifically developed to run on the SAP
HANA in-memory database only. Attend to
explore real-world examples of how organ-
isations are leveraging new technologies and
techniques to:
yy Address new opportunities, such as logical
data warehousing, cloud, Hadoop, and edge
analytics, to deliver real-time decision making
yy Handle data sets that are too large and
diverse for traditional data warehouses
yy Simplify data warehouse architectures
yy Work with data stored in multiple locations,
including on-premise and cloud systems,
and gain a single, consolidated view of data
from multiple sources
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Manage data and its footprint: How Case Study Establishing a robust data
to leverage SAP HANA dynamic How British American Tobacco governance framework in your
tiering and nearline storage transformed marketing and sales enterprise
Sandeep Nelly, Deloitte planning by automating report- Anurag Barua, Independent Consultant
The session walks through key elements of an packs with SAP BusinessObjects Learn the key components of a robust data
effective dynamic tiering strategy and how it can Analysis for Microsoft Office governance strategy, from ensuring clean
be leveraged to reduce your data footprint, reduce data enters your IT systems, to establishing
Samira Saverio, British American Tobacco
costs, and improve performance. Learn what SAP and documenting an ownership hierarchy for
HANA dynamic tiering is, various implementa- The British American Tobacco (BAT) planning SAP master data. Get expert advice on how to:
tion choices, key capabilities, supportability, and and reporting process was manual and
time-consuming, requiring analysts to pull yy Identify business priorities, specific data ele-
deployment scenarios. Attend to:
information from hundreds of Microsoft Excel ments, and other critical building blocks of
yy Gain an introduction to multi-temperature spreadsheets with inconsistencies in the a successful enterprise-wide information
data stores (hot, warm, and cold) and bene- measures and under pressure to meet review governance programme
fits of using dynamic tiering cycle timelines. Find out how BAT developed yy Leverage SAP solutions for enterprise infor-
yy Understand deployment and setup consid- an automated sales and operations planning mation management (EIM) to support your
erations for different SAP HANA landscapes, (SOP) pack, saving thousands of man hours in overall governance strategy and monitor
and how to determine the best scenario for manual preparation and focusing on analysis adherence to governance standards
your organisation of the numbers. Learn how BAT:
yy Use SAP Information Steward to more
yy Explore real-world use cases of large com- yy Prepared the data for its queries using efficiently perform data profiling and meta-
panies that use dynamic tiering and the SAP BW queries and delivered in SAP data management
advantages such as simpler management BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft Office
of data aging, higher performance, and yy Utilised a Microsoft Office extension to
reduced costs visualise the data in Microsoft PowerPoint,
yy Learn the detailed steps involved in setting producing high-quality graphs linked to
up Dynamic tiering and how to easily man- the data
age dynamic tiering yy Standardised information from the source
reporting system ensuring consistent and
Do I still need SAP BW with accurate metrics are being used at all levels
SAP S/4HANA Finance? How to
leverage SAP BW within SAP
S/4HANA Finance for an all-in-
one operational and analytical
environment
David Dixon, TruQua Enterprises
Gain a better understanding of the role SAP
BW plays with SAP S/4HANA Finance. During
this session you will:
yy Learn how it is possible to activate and
leverage the SAP BW components directly
on SAP S/4HANA to create a virtual data
warehouse for performing reporting and
analytics directly in your operational system
yy Understand the key use cases and scenar-
ios where a separate, standalone SAP BW
instance still makes sense
yy See a live system demo of SAP BW running
in SAP S/4HANA to understand the new
capabilities and see the new design para-
digm in action
yy Gain an experts perspective of the future
of SAP BW and how it fits into the SAP
road map

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Administration and performance
Valuable tips and skills to architect and run customised,
high-performing BI environments
Monitoring for the zombie
apocalypse! Essential tools and
techniques to identify and fix
performance issues in your SAP
BusinessObjects system
Toby Johnston, SAP
Ever see problems that died long ago suddenly
reappear? Zombies do exist in many environ-
ments including SAP BusinessObjects, but
fortunately, we have life-saving tools at our
disposal that can flag those invaders and
dramatically improve the resilience and perfor-
mance of your system. Attend this session to:
yy Explore freely available monitoring tools
and use these tools to uncover the root
cause to the problem whether configura-
tion, memory, CPU, I/O, or network
yy Understand the key SAP BusinessObjects
metrics critical to system health
yy Use monitoring alerts to warn you before
errant processes take over
yy Listen to actual case studies where moni-
toring was used to quickly diagnose and
remedy potentially disastrous situations
All lessons learned will be condensed into a
checklist of effective monitoring tips.
Analysing and troubleshooting
performance issues in SAP
BusinessObjects BI reports and
dashboards
Dan Goodinson, BI Brainz
Attend this session to learn a step-by-step
process for analysing, identifying, and trouble-
shooting performance issues in your SAP BI
reports and dashboards. Get detailed instruc-
tions and step through live demonstrations to:
yy Pinpoint the source of slow response times
in your reports and dashboards whether
its content design, server resources/con-
figuration, back-end execution, or specific
code line function call
yy Determine the right tools and meth-
ods for tracking where time is spent per
processing layer depending on the front-
end tool, back-end data source, and SAP
BusinessObjects workflows
yy Evaluate components in the architectural
workflow that could cause unexpected
delays and influence execution times
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Track 1 Track 7
continued
Optimise BI platform
administration tasks with the new
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
support tool 2.1
Toby Johnston and Joshua Kuhn, SAP
In this session, the product owner presents
the very latest innovations included in the
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform support tool
2.1. Learn how to:
yy Leverage the new functionality to keep the BI
platform stable and save valuable time with
administrative and support-related tasks
yy Schedule landscape analysis reports in the
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
yy Keep tabs on system changes with change
analysis and prevent outages with land-
scape alerts
yy Take advantage of useful tools, such as
web intelligence document data masking/
obfuscation, dependency analysis, third-
party authentication aliasing, E2E tracing, Practical lessons from real-world
and more cases: Admin considerations for
your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x
Case study environment
How Newcastle University Joshua Kuhn, SAP
developed an annual, all-SAP If youre an SAP BusinessObjects administrator
system patching programme to or in charge of an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x
optimise and gain maximum value system, this is a must-attend session. Hear
from its SAP investments best practices blended with the hard-earned,
experience-based lessons for SAP BusinessOb-
Chris Burns, Newcastle University
jects BI 4.x installations, including how to:
Newcastle University developed a system of
annual patching in order to gain maximum yy Take advantage of parallel processing to
value from SAP investments, prepare for the optimise report performance
migration to SAP HANA, obtain full advantage yy Successfully set up and initialise platform
of all new available functionality and bug search
fixes, ensure harmony between SAP systems,
yy Understand the realities behind WebI pro-
improve UX, and build a solid platform for
cessing and timeout challenges
future developments and patching. Attend
this session to explore: yy Blend your own experiences with estab-
lished best practices for a tailored approach
yy Key ingredients of the strategy, including
to your system administration and
formulating the ideal scope, reacting to
monitoring
circumstance, and communicating with
stakeholders Take home a checklist of essential monitoring
tips to ensure your SAP BusinessObjects
yy The reality of how upgrading and/or
platform runs smoothly and efficiently.
patching 9 SAP Business Suite and SAP
NetWeaver systems simultaneously works
yy Lessons learned and problems encoun-
tered in 4 years of annual patching, such
as persuading stakeholders of merits, early
involvement of SAP in issues, and organising
quality testing
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Implementations,
migrations, and upgrades
Best practices and real-world lessons to ensure your critical
BI projects are on-time and on-budget
Case study
British American Tobaccos journey
to enable analytics alongside
SAP BW on SAP HANA and SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.2
Mark Cooper, British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco (BAT) is embedding
a single-instance global ERP and BI platforms
into the fabric of the organisation while
embarking on a new journey toward becoming
a data-driven organisation with analytics and
advanced analytics capabilities slowly being
enabled. Attend this technical session to gain
valuable lessons from the companys imple-
mentation and migration journey and:
yy Receive an update on BATs migration to SAP
BW 7.5 on SAP HANA while migrating from
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 to BI 4.2 and the
planned introduction of SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio and SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira alongside existing BI 4 products
yy Learn about BATs challenges, considerations, and
planning for deploying a data platform capable
of enabling analytics on IT governed data along-
sideline of businessungoverned data
yy Hear lessons learned and features and function-
ality required from SAP to overcome BATs final
hurdles to BI and analytics adoption
Journey toward a new and
innovative business user
experience with SAP Fiori: Tips for
successful implementation, setup,
and embedded deployment
Kurt Hollis, Deloitte
Gain an understanding of the business case for
implementing SAP Fiori to deliver business value
via intuitive, simplified user experiences. Take a
deep dive into the setup of various SAP Fiori apps
and best practices for deploying them. You will:
yy Explore the newest improvements delivered
with SAP Fiori 3.0, such as contextual naviga-
tion and on-screen notifications
yy Step through specific use cases to find out
how SAP Fioris modern design principles
can change the user experience and provide
real business value
yy Get recommendations on how best to build
a business case for SAP Fiori implementation
yy Discover customisation and extensibility
options for SAP Fiori
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Case study
Swisscoms SAP BW transformation
path Architectural and technical
details on the companys path to
SAP BW on SAP HANA and on to SAP
BW/4HANA
Tjarko von Lehsten and Jan Gmurczyk, Swisscom
Find out how Swisscom an international,
multi-billion-dollar telecom company is
making the transition to a central modern
data warehouse on SAP BW/4HANA. Learn key
elements of the companys transition, including
planning, methodology, governance, and
project timelines. Find out how Swisscom:
yy Leverages capabilities of its new SAP HANA
data warehouse, including native modelling,
hybrid scenarios, and SAP HANA extended
application services advanced functionality
yy Determined which SAP BW objects to con-
vert and upgrade from SAP BW 7.x to SAP
BW/4HANA
yy Leveraged critical remodelling techniques
to build an EDW layer on normalised tables
with the SAP BW/4HANA objects (ADSOs
and InfoObjects)
yy Enables self-service business analytics with
various reporting tools and interfaces to
planning and consolidation tools, includ-
ing how it set up a schema concept in SAP
HANA, and defined cross-authorisations
between SAP BW/4HANA and SAP HANA
database (privileges)
Take home a decision table for evaluation of
when to use SAP BW/4HANA functionality,
SAP HANA native modelling, or both (hybrid)
within your implementation.
Track 1 Track 8
continued
Case study
How Newcastle University migrated 9
SAP Business Suite, SAP BW, and SAP
Java-based systems to SAP HANA
Chris Burns, Newcastle University
Gain insight from Newcastle Universitys recent
implementation and migration from Oracle to
SAP HANA. The University went live with SAP
ECC, SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP SRM, and Gateway
systems on SAP HANA in July 2016 followed
by the go-live of SAP Landscape Management,
SAP Process Integration, SAP Enterprise Portal,
and SAP BW Java. Gain real-world insight from
Newcastle University to help inform your SAP
HANA migration choices, including:
yy How the migration was planned and
organised, and the nuts and bolts of
implementation
yy How the new SAP HANA estate was archi-
tected and made resilient
yy Lessons learned, problems encountered, and
benefits achieved in migrating from Oracle
to SAP HANA, including reinvented business
processes
Best-practice methodology for
planning and executing a successful
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
upgrade and content migration
Kevin McManus, LaunchWorks
Attend this session for an in-depth look at
skills, techniques, and steps that will ensure
successful SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
migrations, upgrades, and patches, including
how to prepare a communications and quality
management plan for your upgrade. You will:
yy Find out how to create an effective instal-
lation, migration, or remediation plan to
properly communicate with sponsors as
the migration team quickly and efficiently
addresses and overcomes errors
yy Evaluate technical considerations of Linux,
Unix, and Windows platforms and virtual
servers, as well as their impacts on project
planning
yy Examine critical factors that impact perfor-
mance when transporting objects, such as
amount of data, complexity of relationships
between objects and universes, and security
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SAP solutions for financial
and business planning
Tool selection, configuration, and user tips to optimise your planning, budgeting,
and forecasting processes
The 2017 guide to SAP
BusinessObjects EPM solutions
David Ormerod, SAP
This session provides an overview and road
map for SAP BusinessObjects enterprise
performance management (EPM) solutions,
including apps for strategy management,
planning, profitability, consolidation, and
disclosure management. You will learn:
yy How you can leverage technological inno-
vations in EPM, like cloud computing and
in-memory technology, to deliver real-time
insight and predict performance in your
company
yy How SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions
fit into your existing landscape, whether
it includes SAP ERP, SAP BW, or SAP
BusinessObjects BI solutions
yy Planned innovations for and the future
direction of SAPs EPM portfolio
Whats new in SAP BusinessObjects
Cloud for planning and whats on
the horizon
Ric Ratkowski, SAP
Join us at this session and learn how to exploit
the capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects
Cloud to provide actionable insight to users.
Examine the solutions cloud-based business
intelligence (BI), planning, predictive analytics,
data visualisation, and digital boardroom
tools, and learn how to:
yy Use the solutions contextual discovery,
visualisation, planning, and prediction
functionality to simplify data analysis and
accelerate decision making
yy Provide your employees and executives
with easy-to-use SaaS analytics so they can
anticipate and respond to new business
challenges and opportunities
yy Take advantage of the solutions native inte-
gration with on-premise applications and
data sources
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Track 1 Track 9
continued
Case study
Innovative budgeting
and forecasting using SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation on SAP HANA at
British American Tobacco
Luis Guedes and Dr. Daniel Goersch, British
American Tobacco
Attend this session to hear how British
American Tobacco (BAT) developed a global
planning and consolidation solution covering
almost 200 markets, which is flexible enough
to adapt to local needs while retaining enter-
prise-strength. Learn why the company
selected SAP HANA as the database platform
for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consol-
idation and how it deployed the solution to
more than 3,500 users. Understand how BAT
Case study
leverages the solution for reporting, sales and
operations planning, budgeting, forecasting, AIGs cost allocation
and resource allocation. Attend this session to: implementation in SAP
yy Discover how BAT created an innovative BusinessObjects Planning and
Formula Library in SAP BusinessObjects Consolidation 10.1
Planning and Consolidation to support flex- Sharath Muthyala, AIG
ible driver-based planning by planning Examine how AIG made the move from
entity individual offline cost and expense alloca-
tion databases to an online, real-time, and far
yy Learn how BAT used SAP BusinessObjects
more flexible and scalable framework thats
Planning and Consolidation to introduce
owned and administered by business users.
a self-service approach to budget submis-
Attend and learn how the company:
sion, making the process not just a finance
exercise, but a business one, as well yy Constructed a BPC calculation framework
yy Hear the latest on BATs plans to replace that enables driver- or factor-based plan-
its current application for global finance ning calculations; allocations optimised
for large data volumes; faster processing
consolidation, reporting, and analysis
times; and the ability to handle a variety of
with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
complex calculations, such as product allo-
Consolidation, and to fully integrate plan-
cations, chargebacks, allowables, deferred
ning beyond finance
acquisition costs, and investment credits
yy Uses the generic calculation engine and a
business rules framework that defines and
expresses calculation and allocation rules
in a business-friendly manner with no code
changes, script updates, or code migration
issues to contend with
yy Expresses allocation rules as data elements
or BPC statistical master data that can be
easily maintained within Excel by power
users or business administrators
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Introducing SAP BusinessObjects Key success factors guaranteed to Incorporating heterogeneous data
Planning and Consolidation, drive optimal utilisation of SAP into your financial planning
version for SAP BW/4HANA BusinessObjects Planning and JS Irick, TruQua Enterprises
Pras Chatterjee, SAP Consolidation The success of an implementation of SAP
This session provides an introduction to the JS Irick, TruQua Enterprises BusinessObjects enterprise performance
latest release of SAP BusinessObjects Planning Attend this session and learn how key factors, management (EPM) solutions and SAP
and Consolidation for the SAP BW/4HANA including performance, training, product BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
platform. Learn about the latest features for knowledge, data, user experience, process, tion depends on the quality and content of
this release, the future road map, use cases, and alignment, impact the success of your the data available to analysts. This session
and potential migration opportunities. By SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consoli- will review different strategies for importing
attending, you will: dation implementation project. Attend this heterogeneous data sources, such as legacy
session to: flat files, web sources, SAP HANA predic-
yy Learn how to maximise planning and con-
tive modelling tools, and social media. As a
solidation opportunities on SAPs new data yy Walk through an analysis of 5 SAP delegate, you will:
warehouse BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation implementation projects and yy Learn what steps you can take today to
yy See how the simplified SAP BW/4HANA
learn what role these factors played in the optimise and enhance the quality of your
architecture can drive better finance trans-
success of each project data during an implementation or financial
formation and better success
planning project
yy Watch a demo of the new solution and its yy Get tips for optimising the SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and yy Compare and contrast different methods
next-generation interface
Consolidation experience for the occasional for importing your data sources into your
user and the most common bottlenecks financial planning system
Live demo
that are likely to arise yy Get best practices for analysing your data
Hybrid planning Leveraging SAP
yy View examples from successful perfor- once its imported and running quality
BusinessObjects Cloud for planning checks to ensure accuracy
with your existing on-premise mance assessments, seeing how real-world
performance issues were solved yy View a demonstration that illustrates
deployment of SAP BusinessObjects
yy Learn how to utilise automated load test- how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Planning and Consolidation Consolidation data can be integrated with
ing to ensure the health and stability of
Contrary to what some believe, cloud-based SAP Cloud Platform
your SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
planning applications dont necessarily
Consolidation implementation
require abandoning existing investments
in on-premise applications. The two can be
deployed on a fully complementary and
integrated basis that delivers improved
planning and facilitates a transition to the
cloud as time and resources allow. Join us for
this live demo and learn how to:
yy Deploy SAP BusinessObjects Cloud for
planning in conjunction with on-prem-
ise SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation to extend planning across
your organisation
yy Engage finance departments through-
out the enterprise to perform collaborative
planning

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Case study
How Newcastle University migrated
9 SAP Business Suite, SAP BW, and
SAP Java-based systems to SAP
HANA
Chris Burns, Newcastle University
Gain insight from Newcastle Universitys recent
implementation and migration from Oracle to
SAP HANA. The University went live with SAP
ECC, SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP SRM, and Gateway
systems on SAP HANA in July 2016, followed
by the go-live of SAP Landscape Management,
SAP Process Integration, SAP Enterprise Portal,
and SAP BW Java. Gain real-world insight from
Newcastle University to help inform your SAP
HANA migration choices, including:
yy How the migration was planned and
organised, and the nuts and bolts of
implementation
yy How the new SAP HANA estate was archi-
tected and made resilient
yy Lessons learned, problems encountered,
and benefits achieved in migrating from
Oracle to SAP HANA, including reinvented
business processes
For more information and to register, visit www.BI2017.com/Amsterdam or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Achieving near real-time budgeting
and forecasting through a driver-
based planning model
David Dixon, TruQua Enterprises
Attend this session and learn how to leverage a
driver-based approach in SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation to drastically
improve financial planning accuracy and
enable near real-time results, with or without
the need for SAP HANA. You will:
yy Learn what steps need to be taken to accu-
rately define your financial planning drivers
and guidelines
yy View an example that illustrates how to
implement a driver-based model that sup-
ports rolling forecasts
yy Step through an integration framework
that examines how to push planning
results out in near real time to other finance
applications, and how this enables a more
unified organisation that can proactively
prepare for and respond to change
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Tips to fast track your SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation implementation with
the SAP Activate methodology
David Dixon, TruQua Enterprises
This session offers expert advice and practical
tips to help guarantee high ROI and a successful
deployment of the latest version of SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
using SAP Activate methodology. Attend to:
yy Explore the core components of SAP
Activate, including the different phases
such as Prepare, Explore, Realise, Deploy,
and Run, and how it aligns with your
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation implementation
yy Examine the data integration implications
of the different implementation upgrade
options and get tips to ensure data
integrity
yy Understand SAPs support strategy for all
releases of SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation
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