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WEBCASTS

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR SAP SOLUTIONS: MINIMIZING RISK WITH SAP SAFEGUARDING

Discover how SAP Services can help you identify and reduce the technical risk of the implementation, upgrade, and operations of your SAP solutions. See how SAP Safeguarding provides you with the assessments, tools, and services you need to reduce the technical risk associated with implementing and running new technology. Learn about the three offerings comprising SAP Safeguarding: SAP Safeguarding for Integration Validation, SAP Safeguarding for Upgrades, and SAP Safeguarding for Operations. You will hear how Ecolab has leveraged SAP Safeguarding services to implement a large multi-phased go-live. Plus, you will also hear how Energen utilized SAP Safeguarding for upgrades to help them proactively mitigate risk to reduce the chance of a project delay.

OPTIMIZING IT TO REDUCE COSTS: FEATURING SAP CUSTOMER PEABODY ENERGY

Learn how SAP customer Peabody Energy has successfully optimized IT with the right tools and methodologies. In today's climate you are forced to do more with less. In this challenging situation, traditional IT approaches often do not scale to meet growing stakeholder demands. Attend this webinar to discover best practices to:

• Improve control and reduce costs by centralizing IT process management across SAP and non-SAP systems
• Deliver optimized business processes through better process orchestration
• Ensure best practices to optimize end to end IT management

 

IMPROVE YOUR MASTER-DATA-MANAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH SAP INTERACTIVE FORMS BY ADOBE

Join this free Webinar to hear G. Jagadeesh, MDM competency head, Wipro Technologies, discuss how SAP customers are achieving centralized master-data management for critical business processes and analytical applications while reducing procurement spend by 5 percent.

In this informative, one-hour Webinar, you will learn how:

•  SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) provides a platform for a solid MDM strategy to efficiently manage structured and unstructured enterprise information throughout its lifecycle.
• SAP customers have streamlined the customer, vendor, and material set-up and maintenance processes by enabling employees to capture information in pre-built, easy-to-use SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe-online or offline.
• Wipro Technologies' factory-like approach that leverages pre-developed SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe can rapidly and cost-effectively produce interactive forms to help you achieve your centralized master-data strategy.

 

CLARITY SUSTAINS INSIGHT DISCOVER CLEAR, SUSTAINABLE LEARNING PERFORMANCE STRATEGIES FOR YOUR SAP SOLUTION WEBCAST

Customers offer the best insights for other customers. Take advantage of the first-hand experience and knowledge of two successful SAP customers. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and The Hershey Company will share learning and performance best practices and processes for designing and implementing training strategies for SAP solutions.

They will offer insights on:

• Best practices - Mike Hoover from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, an SAP customer since 2002, will discuss the Commonwealth's training plan for SAP BusinessObjectsTM solutions. He will cover best practices for developing and deploying end-user training and user support materials. And he will explain how to develop individual training plans based on strategic planning.
• Best strategies - Carol Kimball and Marcia Perrotti from The Hershey Company, the largest North American manufacturer of quality chocolate and sugar confectionery products and an SAP customer since 1998, will discuss the training strategy for Hershey's recent SAP upgrade. They will explain The Hershey Company's global super-user network and support model methodology for maintaining the value of the company's SAP knowledge.

 

DEPLOY SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS EXPLORER FOR POWERFUL SEARCH AND ENHANCED ANALYSIS

Watch this SAP Services Webcast to discover how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer can help you dramatically improve BI analysis, reduce the time and cost of distributing and maintaining business information, achieve a rapid return on investment, boost end-user adoption through a quick implementation cycle, and much more.
Learn about new implementation services for a fast and cost-effective deployment of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, and hear about quick installation and launch capabilities, proven deployment best practices, and full applications lifecycle support. Plus, you’ll hear how, through an early hands-on experience, Sara Lee was able to use SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to gain insight into its procurement data.
During this very special Webcast sponsored by SAP Services, you'll discover how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer can help you:

• Increase end-users’ BI analysis capability through the deployment of powerful information search capability
• Gain rapid ROI and end-user adoption through a quick implementation cycle
• Reduce time and resource costs through a faster deployment cycle based on proven best practices
• Learn from repeatable processes and methodologies and enhance data exploration capability

 

BEST PRACTICES IN END-TO-END BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Now that you have additional business intelligence capabilities available resulting from your investments in SAP and SAP BusinessObjects, developing a road map to take advantages of these strategic and analytical capabilities will be extremely beneficial. Without one, you may forego a unique opportunity toward meeting your goals and expectations - and those of your end-users.

The key to a clearer vision of the future is a "value-based" methodology that incorporates best practices for business intelligence (BI) and enterprise data management (EDM).
At this Webcast, you'll learn how SAP Consulting can help your organization:

• Prioritize constrained budget dollars
• Leverage existing BI investments
• Drive BI capability that supports your business strategy
• Build a long-term BI plan based on the SAP/BusinessObjects toolset
• Minimize deployment risks and maximize cost efficiency
• Achieve a state of BI effectiveness more rapidly
• Tie business strategy to actionable BI initiatives

 

MEASURE, MONITOR AND OPTIMIZE YOUR BUSINESS PROCESSES WITH SAP PROCESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT BY IDS SCHEER

Join SAP and IDS Scheer to learn first hand how the SAP Process Performance Management application by IDS Scheer can help you better measure, analyze, monitor, and improve your business processes. With SAP Process Performance Management you can monitor runtime data from your SAP solutions, pinpointing the root causes of defects and identifying areas with the potential for improvement. You can then view your findings in clear, graphical formats, extending your analysis capabilities well beyond linear process chains, incorporating interrelationships between organization units, data sources, and applications.
Watch this webinar and learn how to:

• Increase the control and oversight of your business processes with access to actionable information based on real-time extracts of data and timely reporting
• Improve accountability and responsiveness by putting easy-to-understand process analysis in the hands of your managers and decision makers
• Optimize teamwork and collaboration by determining patterns in processes and organization structures while reducing unnecessary or duplicative process-related activities
• Boost operational efficiency by eliminating process bottlenecks and streamlining event-driven process chains

 

EXPLORE YOUR BUSINESS AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT

In insurance organizations, every decision a business user makes depends on the ability to access and understand information. Unfortunately, recent surveys show that these business users often rely on "gut-feel" decision making due to their inability and lack of time to learn the powerful business intelligence (BI) tools that could provide them with this much-needed data.
SAP Business Explorer is designed for ease of use. For example, you:

•  Start by entering a few search keywords
• View results then explore via an exploration panel
• Auto-generate charts for optimal results
• Share results via email and other formats
• Integrate with SAP Web Intelligence (SAP software)
• Access secure, trustworthy information

 

CONSUMER PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS WEBCAST -- TAP INTO EXISTING CUSTOMERS TO SURVIVE THE DOWNTURN

Current economic conditions have forced companies in the consumer products industry to change the way they are doing business. Diminished sales pipelines, sluggish channel activity, and decreased revenues have altered the emphasis that is placed on the existing customer base. More than ever before, companies are looking to their loyal customers as a source of revenue, and for survival. But are customers readily responding to the call, and can customer performance be accurately measured and tracked?
This on-demand event features an interview with David Hatch, vice president and principal analyst at Aberdeen Group. His in-depth research findings reveal how consumer products companies are surviving the economic downturn by tapping into their customer base.
View to learn:

• How the immediacy of the economy has elevated the importance of customer response
• How top performing consumer products companies are identifying and prioritizing specific customer performance metrics as critical KPIs
• Why business intelligence (BI) solutions need to be considered as both internal and external-facing applications
• The importance of BI's role in translating data to intelligence, and intelligence into action

 

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MADE EASY WITH SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS KNOWLEDGE ACCELERATOR WEBCAST

Watch this SAP Education Webcast to discover how SAP BusinessObjects Knowledge Accelerator can help your organization increase end-user adoption and satisfaction, provide a convenient, 24x7 e-learning environment, save time and travel costs, ensure uniform training quality, achieve faster time-to-value for your SAP BusinessObjects solutions, and more.
Discover how SAP BusinessObjects Knowledge Accelerator can:

• Give your company out-of-the-box, Web-based training and support on a variety of SAP BusinessObjects applications
• Boost overall productivity and drive more consistent and accurate interpretation of your data
• Offer a cost-effective, turn-key solution for training your end-users
• Provide a 24x7 e-learning environment to save time and travel costs
• Deploy to end-users easily – using an intranet, Web server, learning management system (LMS), or CD
• Make training more relevant by incorporating your own data through the use of customization capabilities

 

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT WITH VALERO

Business process management (BPM) requires laser focus, especially through the lens of challenging economic times. Whether you’re launching a new BPM initiative or managing an existing one, SAP provides your organization with the support you need for success.

Watch this Webcast to gain new insight into the definition, dynamics, and drivers behind effective business process management. Learn how to transform inertia into action with a winning BPM strategy, free of old barriers between IT and business. Energize your efforts with end-to-end collaboration, establishment of best practices, and emphasis on business rules management.
 

USING SAP CENTRAL PROCESS SCHEDULING TO OPTIMIZE IT AUTOMATION FOR BUSINESS PROCESSES

Watch this free of charge webinar to learn how SAP Central Process Scheduling will support your business through:

• Real-time response to business events
• Increased business agility
• Advanced business process automation
• Optimizing IT resources to maximize return on investment

 

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR YOUR SAP PROJECTS WEBCAST -- MAXIMIZING VALUE WITH A PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO) IN TODAY’S CHALLENGING ECONOMIC CLIMATE CLARITY

Join this webcast to discover how SAP Consulting can help you establish a value-based governance process, align your PMO with your business case and roadmap, standardize globally and execute locally, measure the value of your SAP projects, develop a collaborative value realization path, control project costs, identify and deliver on a prioritized roadmap initiative, and more. Plus, you’ll hear how Amkor Technology has leveraged its PMO to achieve greater value and efficiency, with the help of SAP Consulting.

UNLOCK THE POWER OF REPORTING WITH CRYSTAL REPORTS

Join Dan O'Meara, Senior Business Analyst of the Austin Radiological Association (ARA) in Austin, Texas, and James Thomas, VP Product Management, SAP BusinessObjects, and see how a system-friendly, budget-friendly reporting solution can:

• Optimize operations with daily reports
• Provide critical reporting to doctors, medical staff, and management
• Achieve better customer service by identifying improvement areas
• Improve KPIs)