When Data Wins Championships: How Success in Sports Now Depends on Data and How You Can Learn the Business Lessons Hidden in Their Approach

When Argentina and France squared off in the football World Cup final, they had one secret weapon in common: both were wearing data and analytics technology provided by Melbourne-based Catapult Sports. Catapult is now one of the world’s largest sports technology companies, with revenues exceeding $100 million and growing quickly. More than 3,000 teams in over 100 countries rely on Catapult’s data and analytics software to keep players fit and healthy, maximize performance, drive tactical decision-making, and ultimately win championships.

The competitive advantage has become so great that often entire leagues adopt Catapult, including the NFL in America, as well as the AFL and NRL locally. It’s also a fixture in the English Premier League, NBA basketball, Formula One racing, and dozens of other sports. Even tennis great Andy Murray swears by it.

The smartest businesses are now learning how to maximize the value of analytics from pro sports and adapting these winning techniques to their own organizations. Whether winning a championship or market share, identifying the right data to capture, and then extracting the most valuable, actionable insights is the key to victory.

• How and why data become so central to elite sports
• Teams use different modalities to maximize performance (eg: AFL)
• Integrating data streams drives almost magical insights
• New data can reveal unexpected competitive advantages (eg: NFL)
• Using data to tell an engaging narrative (eg: NRL/Ch9)
• Fun and interesting discoveries and their impact on teams/athletes

Damien Bueno – Bio

As President and Managing Director for SAP Australia and New Zealand(ANZ), Damien Bueno is responsible for all customer operations across the market. He ensures the company delivers on its purpose of making the world run better and improving people’s lives for our customers, our partners and our community in Australia and New Zealand.

Damien joined SAP in 2007 and has worked with some of Australia and New Zealand’s largest organisations, across multiple industries, driving strategic and meaningful outcomes at SAP and in regional leadership roles.

Prior to becoming President and Managing Director, Damien was Vice President for Strategic Industries and Markets, he pioneered a co-investment model with the Australian Government, to better support it with its digital engagement with citizens. He also co-founded AlphaBlox Australia, a BI/Data Warehousing Consultancy and product development company that was acquired by IBM in 2004.

Damien is a WGEA Pay Equity Ambassador and is a member of the Climate Leaders Coalition, an initiative of the B-Team Australasia.

Damien holds a Bachelor of Economics and Graduate Diploma in Advance Finance from Monash University, and is a Certified Practicing Accountant.

He is married with two adult children and enjoys cycling and golf.

SAP S/4HANA (Cloud) Extensibility – In-App and Side-by-Side

Follow the keep your core clean/lean principle and learn about the modification-free In-App and Side-by-Side Extensibility. S/4HANA provides many options to extend the standard functionality without modifications. Starting from Embedded/Real-Time Analytics, Personalization, User Assistance, Search and Notifications it continues to Key User Extensibility, Custom Fields and Logic, CDS View, and Annotation Extensions. With Side-by-Side Extensions the S/4HANA system can connect business partners like suppliers and customers with your enterprise.

Gregor Wolf has explored web technologies since 1995. 2001 marked the start of his work with SAP, he then implemented SAP CRM in 2006 and was appointed as a SAP Mentor in Oct. 2007. His expertise is broad and includes SAPUI5, SAP Gateway, OData, and SAP Business Technology Platform already in the Neo days. He is a full-time independent SAP Solution Architect and helps his customers with SAP Fiori for S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform Architecture, SAP HANA (Cloud), and Security.

Home Depot’s Finance Transformation Journey to achieve Next Generation Close, Consolidate & Report Capability

Discover Home Depot’s Finance Transformation journey to achieve Next Generation Close, Consolidate & Report capability using Group Reporting, BlackLine and Workiva solutions working in concert together on SAP S/4HANA Central Finance platform.

• Next Generation Close, Consolidate and Reporting Framework to Enable Continuous Close
• The Home Depot’s SAP S/4HANA transformation journey and key highlights from the journey
• Lessons learned when adopting and implementing a new SAP solution such as Group Reporting
• Key lessons learned integrating SAP S/4HANA to other Finance Cloud solutions like Blackline and Workiva

10 Seconds of Courage

The inspiring story of martial arts Sensei, Nadine Champion and the techniques she’s developed to find courage when she needed it.

Nadine Champion is a fighter, inside the ring and out. As a martial artist with almost 30 years’ experience and an undefeated full contact fighter, Nadine has learnt a lot about inner strength. Not many people have the opportunity to spend twenty years learning about life from a living martial arts Master like Nadine did. In 10 Seconds of Courage, Nadine shares her story and passes on wisdom that helped her find academic and professional success, and even helped her win her fight against cancer.

These are universally touching ideas of courage, fear, resilience, self-doubt and belief, overcoming adversity, sacrifice, illness and the bravery to seize opportunities. People share similar fears and pains. Most are afraid of illness or death (for themselves or their loved ones), they are afraid of failing (especially publicly) but also are scared of never living up to their potential for a full life.

10 Seconds of Courage is a powerful call to action challenging readers to “change their thinking” in order to succeed. This session will provide inspiration and easy to use practical solutions for facing our fears, big or small. Concepts such as the ‘I Am’, ‘Why Not You’ and ‘Emotional Volume Control’ are simple but have a profound effect on changing your thinking for the better.

Sustainability in Sports: Using Technology to Monitor Real-Time Utility Data 

As part of the 49ers sustainability initiative, the Executive Huddle powered by SAP was upgraded with new capabilities allowing the team to monitor Levi’s Stadium utility usage, including water and gas consumption. Previously, the team was not able to get utility data in real-time, and now can identify anomalies, like leaks, sooner and fix them faster. The team can also review previous game data leading into large scale events, which can help direct how they might alter our utility usage throughout the year.

This has been achieved by installing six 3D-printed water and gas meter readers that feed data directly into the Executive Huddle. Technologies used to bring this solution to life include SAP BTP Hana Cloud, cameras and Rasberry Pi devices, and SAP Analytics Cloud. Hear how this unique addition to the 49ers analytics capability is supporting overall sustainability initiatives, further empowering efforts to maintain Levi’s Stadium as one of the world’s most environmentally friendly sports and entertainment venues.

Key takeaways:

• Understanding how SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud facilitate real-time consumption monitoring
• Sustainability initiatives and technology used in professional sports stadiums and venues, and how these practices and innovations can apply to other businesses
• Understanding how SAP BTP can seamlessly integrate with other data platforms

Automation Applied to Finance – Ensuring Your SAP S/4HANA Implementation is a Catalyst for Automation

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is one of the largest vehicle manufacturers and the largest manufacturer of tractors in the world. Part of their modernization journey with cloud included the transformation of their automation platform. M&M had initially started their RPA journey by developing their own RPA platform (mRAW). The platform was developed using open-source technologies, deploying over 300 RPA processes. However, the platform faced challenges in terms of its huge dependency on the IT team for developments.

Post migration to SAP Cloud, M&M opted for iRPA. SAP iRPA, being a low/no code platform, significantly reduced dependency on the IT team. SAP iRPA comes with pre-built connectors with SAP / allied systems as well as pre-built bots which have substantially reduced the deployment time and efforts. Leveraging SAP iRPA’s low / no code capabilities, M&M have trained their business users to create RPAs. This has created a multiplier effect and ensured business ownership.

The session will focus on how M&M leveraged SAP iRPA to drive digitalization and simplification of business process in finance. Understand challenges faced and insights gained during iRPA implementations

• Why SAP iRPA?
• How an SAP S/4HANA implementation can be a catalyst for adopting automation
• RPA Use cases in Finance & benefits achieved

Enabling Zespri’s SAP S/4HANA Transformation with Trusted Data 

Zespri International Limited have been on a mission to modernize its systems and process via an SAP S/4HANA digital transformation, that will support the company’s growth plans. Previously operating on legacy and manual systems had meant that internal teams lacked confidence in the company data, significantly impacting the businesses’ ability to use their data for strategic decision-making. A key component of Zespri’s SAP S/4HANA transformation was to develop a high standard of data governance and quality at the core of its business. Working with Syniti as its data transformation partner, Zespri began by improving finance and supply chain processes, and then implemented a trusted data platform to drive change in how Zespri manages master data across these business units – in particular, Material Master and Business Partner Supplier data.

Hear how Zespri has achieved a real-time, holistic view of statistics of all objects on a single page and can now identify which objects to pay attention to, to yield quality data. Plus, how they adopted user-friendly and efficient reporting and dashboarding capability.

Data governance is a verb – an ongoing pursuit. It requires active measures that can be reviewed periodically. Join this session to learn:

• What data can you automate vs need oversight?
• How do you create an internal stakeholder team that is focused on data governance?
• How can tools such as Syniti Data Replication and Syniti Knowledge Platform (SKP) help to govern your data better?
• How do you enable or foster a culture of good data governance?
• What can you do to get business and IT to treat data in the same way?

Redesigning Business Processes with SAP Signavio at Asahi Australia

Asahi Australia was formed through several acquisitions, culminating in the takeover of CUB in 2019. The ANZ business is saddled with numerous legacy systems and processes which dampens the overall performance of the business.

In preparation for a period of business transformation, Asahi determined that Business Process Management was a key capability that would de-risk the stated strategy and accelerate their transformation journey. Asahi selected SAP Signavio as its technology partner to build their BPM capability as it is the only solution in the marketplace that can deliver process modelling, process mining and drive organisational change management. Audra will share their journey over the past 12 months. Including how Asahi is

• Building internal capability to document existing business processes
• Looking to significantly reduce the analysis phase of their transformation projects
• Leveraging analytics and insights to drive process design

Tackling SAP Security Audits – Tips to Avoid the SAP Security Mop and Bucket

There is an ever-increasing raft of regulatory and audit requirements which SAP customers must adhere to. The cost of non-compliance has consequences for an organization. SAP system audits are a necessary part of running your SAP infrastructure, as SAP service contracts include audit clauses that establish rules to govern your audit procedures and requirements. How do you ensure your organization is meeting those rules and that your SAP system is being used correctly, how do you prepare for an audit, and how do you tackle things if you find the business is out of alignment with your SAP audit requirements?

Join this session for tips on auditing IT controls, ensuring your controls are working as intended, and creating policies and procedures for handling your SAP audits. Tina has worked as an SAP Security Consultant and more recently as a Compliance Consultant at Powercor. Specializing in SAP Security in the areas of Auditing and Redesigning SAP Security. She will draw on 20+ years of experience in several sectors, sharing insights for navigating SAP audits and what to do if you’re not meeting requirements (getting your mop and bucket out).

• Seeking Buy-in from Senior Management Team
• Implementing Business Role Owner’s
• Involving Business Role Owner/s with the Design
• Involving Functional Consultant’s
• Confirming SoD Policy
• Determining IT General Controls Rulesets
• Documenting Security Policy
• Documenting Security Standards
• Ensuring SoD is documented including Escalation and Signoff process
• IT Management Signoff on ITGC rulesets

Join this session to learn

• How to audit-proof your SAP Security and avoid the need for security “Mop & Bucket”
• SAP Audit Interviews – How should these be handled?
• What to do if audit issues raised are inherited

Achieving Speed to Value with Test Automation at Coles

Coles has been on a remarkable digital transformation journey over the last four years. This has involved a move to the cloud, the implementation of SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, Ariba, and Concur. With the new SAP environment in place, it was important for Coles to quickly realize “speed to value” from their digital investment. Rehauling regression testing practices have been an important part of supporting the goal. Automated testing was implemented in 2022, starting with the full suite of regression testing capabilities being applied to all upgrades made to their SAP S/4HANA environment, followed by their SAP SuccessFactors suite.

The move has reduced time-consuming regression testing by 65% and given a breadth of testing coverage previously unachievable. The team is now able to develop at pace, with improved assurance. Strategically it helps secure Coles’ digital investment and supports the foundations for Coles’ DevOps ambitions. This session will share the journey, from the challenges to be solved, selecting the product, how they implemented it for SAP S/4HANA and SuccessFactors, and the lessons learned.

• The challenges that test automation solves
• Use cases for their SAP S/4 HANA and SuccessFactors suites
• How Coles is implementing continuous monitoring using the regression suite
• How automated testing will support Coles’ vision for DevOps practices

Masterclass: Cutting Edge Development and DevOps with UI5

Cutting-edge development and DevOps with UI5 are essential for modern businesses. They enable organizations to quickly and efficiently create, deploy, and maintain applications.

We’ll begin by creating a UI5 app for a modern development experience, complete with end-to-end test capabilities using wdi5. We’ll then transition to Continuous Integration for automated Quality Assurance, leveraging a Cloud Testing Service for scalability. Finally, we’ll implement Continuous Deployment to both SAP and non-SAP platforms. To top it off, we’ll customize DevOps processes to optimize the KPI for getting things production-ready. This session is designed for our Mastering SAP Developer, Architect, QA Engineer and DevOps practitioners.

Volker Buzek is a Development Architect working in the SAP web/mobile cosmos, often at the boundary SAP/non-SAP. With a focus on UI5, CAP and BTP, faible for Open Source, Testing and CI/CD. SAP Mentor, trying to foster the adoption of Open Source within the SAP ecosystem. Maintainer wdi5 + cds-pg, organizer re>≡CAP (un)conference, co-host ui5-community, and UI5con regular.

Key Takeaways

• Develop cutting-edge UI5 apps efficiently
• Increase delivery- and coding-quality via wdi5 and Continuous Integration
• Achieve DevOps flexibility to minimize deploy times for UI5 apps

KEYNOTE: ELEVATE PERFORMANCE WITH THE SCIENCE OF AMBITION

Ambition is present at the core of almost every change we create and desire – good and bad. It has always been a driving force, inspiring greatness, and the conquest of new frontiers.
And yet in our working world we are witnessing record levels of dispassion and apathy. The smart leaders know it’s time to lead from a position of Aspiration and Energy. Learn how successful leaders have taken advantage of the power of Ambition to fuel change that has led to high-impact acceleration for their teams.

Russell Raath is the Founder of The Ambition Company, a specialist firm that partners with Rockstar Managers and Leaders who want to achieve great results. Prior to founding The Ambition Company, Russell was President of Kotter International, the consulting firm founded by the preeminent leadership and culture guru Dr. John Kotter.

Keeping Workers Safe using Intelligent Compliance Processes

Join Lauren Walsh from CITIC Pacific Mining along with Sacha Jordan from DalRae Solutions to learn how together, they harnessed the power of BTP to build an SAP SuccessFactors Extension that streamlines uploading, processing, and validating employee licenses and certifications using OCR & AI.

Starting with an intuitive UI that allows users to upload photos, automatically extract data, and trigger approval workflows, this ensures accurate, up-to-date info, saves time and money, all while keeping the workforce safe.

• Learn how the tools in BTP can help your business improve efficiencies
• See the business impacts of investing in BTP Solutions
• View a real-life use case and demonstration of BTP

Finance Automation for Greater Process Efficiency to Enable More Value-Add Activities

As the business continues to grow, the goal was to support the business with minimal increase in headcount. To achieve this, we required process efficiency through greater automation. Various systems (including RPA) were investigated to ensure it was fit for purpose and our vision. Blackline was on the top of the list as it complemented SAP.

We embarked on three modules in Blackline – Task Management, Reconciliation and the Matching modules. We gained most of our efficiencies through the matching module where we focused on three areas to improve – bank clearing, accounts receivable matching and supply chain matching.

• Taking the journey to discover what system was best for our requirements
• Our implementation journey with Blackline
• Learn from our Post go live experiences

Three key take-aways from this session include;

1. The inspiration to embark on a software system that will assist in process efficiency
2. Key insights on the challenges faced during implementation
3. Learn the derived benefits from all three modules being implemented at once

Pizza and Public Cloud: Leveraging SaaS to Manage Aggressive Growth and Continuing Changing Times

MOD Pizza is one of the fastest growing, fast-food pizza companies in the US. In the last 5 years they have grown beyond the Pacific Northwest to over 500 stores system wide in 29 states (and 2 in Canada!) by leveraging a pure SaaS environment.

Hear about how MOD managed this growth and business transformation by seeking speed, simplicity & scalability which led to the adoption of SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors. Hear about MOD’s early adopter journey with S4HC (good, bad, ugly) and how the intelligent enterprise/connected cloud has come about thus far.

Managing a SaaS environment really means understanding what a system does and does not do well, what a system should and should not do, and requires understanding how a business needs map to system capabilities. It also required understanding how your workforce is tooled and might need to be re-tooled to be successful. This session will share how MOD Pizza manages these chief SaaS concerns in addition to identity, integration and change management.

Key takeaways include:

• Highlights of the technology selection and implementation journeys (initial and additional as they are very different)
• An overview of MOD SAP functional landscape (including SAP S/4HANA/BTP/SFSF)
• Discussion on application versus platform and resource management, and how this is changing with low code / no code business user involvement
• Observations on the XaaS industry in general (where X = software, infrastructure, integration, platform, DevOps, database, network, communications, storage.)
• Discuss the heightened need for enterprise architecture, a more modular approach with assembling, not creating (also faster retrofit, replace cycles to be managed)

Travel, Expense & Purchase Order Automation Controls for Our Organization

Dermalogica was originally a thriving private business that returned high profits in the last 20+ years. A major organizational change led to the introduction of internal controls and organizational transformation while still retaining its original ethos whilst improving processes and promoting high growth.

Hear from the leader who was given the task to action this objective. Concur was the approved platform that worked for the whole structure, and it was recommended we try this for our organization, on a smaller scale.

Hear how we were able to retain the values which Dermalogica instilled from their founder, whilst also introducing approval flows, audit checks, and process automation for all staff in Australia. How we managed the transition so that it incorporated feedback from all staff and led this in pace with what the organization could handle throughout the year. Hence no disgruntled stakeholders!

• Merging Corporate & SME cultures for optimum results
• Finance process automation
• RPA for Finance, what works and what to look out for
• Platforms, what you actually want out of them

Three key take-away points from the session include;

1. Don’t just talk to the Managers, talk to the actual staff on the ground, talk to everyone
2. Always try to find a middle ground
3. There are pros & cons for all automation, ensure you know what you want and make it worthwhile for your staff

How Fiori Capability is Transforming UX at Contact Energy

The Contact Energy application team set out to equip themselves with Fiori101 knowledge through the “5 Steps to Fiori for Customer Bootcamp”. These new skills would assist in transforming their 10+ year old SAP UI to a Fiori based UX that would engage their SAP users.

Using this new capability to iteratively build a day-1 Fiori solution in collaboration with the business, the Contact Energy team have developed a set of overarching Fiori design principles and evaluated the pros and cons out standard delivered SAP content vs build from scratch. The Fiori based solution has given end-users a degree of control for their UX. In six months developed our own internal Fiori capability, from zero to hero and established the basis for a Fiori Centre of Excellence that will be responsible for the ongoing support and development of the Fiori solution. Like all components of SAP there are different ways to skin the SAP Fiori cat. There is no right solution, but you need to think about the influencing factors.

Key takeaways:

• Prototyping to inform design conversations with end-users
• Ensure your UX hinges off your design, which maps to your business process
• How role mapping and security design impacts your UX
• Design personalized dashboards for different user personas
• Manage the appropriate access to Fiori apps

Moving to SAP S/4HANA? What you need to know about Access Control

Jabil went live on SAP S/4HANA 1909 and fully migrates to the cloud on our largest manufacturing instance (over 40,000 SAP users) in January 2022, and during the pandemic. That was quite a feat and added a different dimension to challenges that no one could have predicted. We had several challenges to Access Control and Access Violation Management during this transformation period. Fortunately for the GRC team, there was a small installation of SAP S/4HANA 1709 a few years earlier and most of the new tcodes that would affect the Segregation of Duties (SoD) risk analysis had already been introduced to our global rule set. We still needed to review all the object changes, while leaving any deprecated tcodes or objects untouched as we still have several other SAP instances that are still in ECC. Collaborating with the implementation team and their partners was key to the success of the GRC portion of the upgrade. We upgraded GRC to V12.0 SP14 later that year and upgraded our Access Violation Management tool while the manufacturing instance went live on SAP S/4HANA.

Masterclass: Be Match-Fit for Leading Digital Transformation in Today’s Business Landscape

Whether you’re making a big bang move to SAP S/4HANA or incremental system integrations and implementations in any business process area – effectively leading change through ongoing business disruption is at the heart of digital transformation success now. The context for systems implementation and integration has shifted.

Research in 2023 of CEOs tells us:

98% expect to change their business models in the next three years AND 31% are changing their business models this year.

72% say their Executive team lacks the agility to deal with this ongoing disruption.

(Source: AlixPartners Disruption Index for 2023)

Understanding this shift, and the arising opportunity/risks, is critical to the rest of your career and future organizational outcomes. As match-fitness is essential for any team going into a new competitive sporting season, there are essential factors that set up your next effective transformation.

Using his Vital Signs for Organizational change-fitness framework and “The Bright, The Bold, and The Board” Transformation Leadership model Bernie will give you transferable insights and actions on how to lead Digital Transformation initiatives within ongoing business disruption.

The session will include a survey to benchmark how fit for change your organization is right now, where you need to elevate and integrate, plus practical models and templates to use for your transformation initiatives. Bernie is also gifting the Ebook series Ready Digital Transformation Leadership.

• Why the context has shifted and how you can communicate this to positively influence Sponsors, Executive colleagues, and teams.
• How to expand the view of opportunities and risks when planning your change program in the context of ongoing disruption?
• How do you ensure your transformation projects are sponsored, led, and owned accordingly?
• How to more effectively define and communicate roles during transformation
• How do you avoid change fatigue and create energy to embed?

(Necessity is) The Mother of Invention: Securing Rapid Cloud Transformation Through Shared Fate

“The future is already here – it is not evenly distributed.” Despite early adopters moving to the public cloud a decade ago, we are still at the beginning of Cloud Transformation. The impact of this change cascades through organizations in teams that you are unlikely to be ready for. A cloud-native approach requires a transformation that cascades well beyond developer teams into all layers of the organization. Cloud best practices haven’t been defined yet. Our established frameworks and playbooks built on decades of experience don’t apply well to the cloud, so how do we explain that to our colleagues, partners, auditors, and customers?

We face new security risks, but the cybersecurity industry is undergoing its own transition to the cloud, with vendors and offerings, and even market categories are constantly changing. Meanwhile, the major cloud providers mature their own services at a rapid rate. SAP navigated these challenges as our multi-cloud landscape grew rapidly, by adopting an approach of shared fate across the organization. Learn from our experience to secure your own cloud journey.

• Cloud transformation, as well as securing it, is HARD!! It’s a multi-dimensional problem that nobody is ready for and will put significant stress on the organization. How do you find your own way and focus on the basics, and not get distracted by the sexy, latest security buzz.
• How should we work towards the best possible security outcomes, among teams within each organization, and across partners and cloud providers.
• Hear how SAP operating at a scale most will never have to) and our peers are starting to share our own learning, missteps, and successes, and hopefully help you avoid some of the hard lessons we learned.

Go Beyond a Traditional Intranet and Empower Employees with a Personalized Workspace

Most workers log in to at least 10 different applications to do work, handle HR tasks, find an expert, procure goods, and more. This increases stress and hurts employee experiences – and makes it harder to lead people in times of disruption and change.

Connect employees to boost productivity, increase retention, and drive engagement through communication, communities, and personalized and guided experiences from across disparate systems with SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone. Simplify work by surfacing the most relevant data, content, recommendations, insights, and actions at an individual level – all within the flow of work.

This session will explore the capabilities to create guided employee experiences and connect with third party systems to create a holistic employee experience through SAP Work Zone. You will come away from this session understanding the benefits of Work Zone, including how to:

• Create a personalized digital work experience for every step of the employee lifecycle
• Improve and simplify user experience when it comes to learning and development
• Connect with common user platforms like Microsoft teams to generate action and engagement within the flow of work
• Integrate with third party applications to create one central location for all key actions and data

Using BTP to Overcome Chasms Between your Current Software and SAP System 

Chris Rae and Marcela Marquez from DalRae Solutions discuss how BTP can overcome the chasm between your current software and the SAP system. Learn about how automating business processes can work for you, and how BTP can overcome even the most complex challenges. Learn from the real-world example of a customer who used BTP to distil complex invoicing processes that included multiple invoices in multiple languages into an automatic and easy to follow workflow.

• Learn how BTP can overcome even the most complex use cases.
• See how automation can help streamline business processes.
• Understand the complexities behind automation that may seem simple on the surface.

Consolidating Shifts in Learning and Development: Developing a Compelling, High-Impact Organizational Learning Strategy  

Things moved quickly for Learning and Development (L&D) during the pandemic. Significant barriers to innovation are reduced, making rapid shifts in learning possible to support organizations to adapt. L&D teams are still running hard to meet demand for digital learning, internal skill development and a change-fatigued workforce.

Amidst the relentless activity of recent years many L&D leaders and teams have struggled to prioritize developing or refreshing their learning strategy. Yet the deep thinking this requires is essential to consolidate shifts and remain relevant and effective. A well-crafted learning strategy provides a strong framework for L&D to contribute to your organization’s goals and create value. Join this ‘how to’ session to discover a robust end-to-end process to create a compelling, high impact organizational learning strategy. Brought to life with real-world examples from the work and podcast case studies of Learning Uncut.

• A robust end-to-end process for developing, implementing and sustaining your strategy
• Using data to get clear on how to meet the needs of your organization and people
• Creating a compelling value proposition for learning with strong stakeholder buy-in
• Aligning your learning strategy with business strategy – and keeping it aligned with strong governance and evaluation
• Real-world case studies and examples

Three key takeaways:

• How to understand what your organization really needs and expects from L&D
• How to shape a compelling business and workforce value proposition for L&D
• How to craft your learning strategy so that L&D can deliver on this value proposition

MASTERCLASS: SAP Analytics Cloud for Beginners (Hands-on Workshop)

SAP Analytics Cloud is SAP’s new flagship product for the creation of dashboards and data visualizations. This hands-on workshop is a series of activities focused on SAP Analytics Cloud. In this beginner session, you will learn how to use the different components in SAP Analytics Cloud and how to get started building the first dashboard. The session will provide you with hands-on experience in multiple areas of SAP Analytics Cloud.

Key Business Benefits:

• Learn how to get started in SAP Analytics Cloud
• Learn how to use the most important components, such as charts, maps, and tables
• Get a glimpse at some advanced features such as Linked Analysis

This hands-on session will be capped at 25 attendees. BYO LAPTOP. Pre-registration will be required. https://forms.office.com/r/f7rDfc0AvM

How Workforce Data is Driving Decision-making at Northern Beaches Council

The mission of the Northern Beaches Council (NBC) is to partner with the community to protect, improve and create our future. This relies on developing and delivering a workforce with the right skills, capabilities, and motivations both today and for the future.

Our suite of SAP SuccessFactors (SFSF) modules now enables us to collect, analyze, and convert reliable and up-to-date data into information enabling improved workforce decision-making. The 2022 -2025 workforce management strategy is testament to the effective extraction of data from People Central (name of our SFSF & UKG modules) combined with other data points such as employee engagement feedback. While real-time data is available to managers directly from the system it is the quarterly aggregation of data in workforce reports that tells the bigger story and enables the tracking of workforce management interventions.

Hear how NBC has achieved a contemporary workforce management strategy as part of the Council’s integrated planning and reporting framework. How quarterly workforce reporting supports manager knowledge and accountability, and how workforce data enables HR Business Partners to increase their strategic impact and value to the organization.

Key Takeaways:

1. Value of data and reporting SME to generate reliable data and analytics, and role of HR to inform and coach managers/leaders in application of the information to their business and workforce.
2. How reporting delivers the ROI of your initial expenditure and can build support for future system enhancements.
3. Learn from specific data use cases (recruitment and selection) to respond to a business problem.
4. How you can use data to involve managers in the development of a workforce management strategy and generate buy-in.

Re-imagining Application Lifecycle Management: SAP’s Cloud ALM, Solution Manager, and Focused Run

The importance of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in driving innovation while maintaining business resilience is becoming increasingly apparent. SAP recognizes this and is re-imagining how it supports its customers through its ALM solutions. In this session, attendees will learn about the benefits of SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP Focused Run in supporting cloud transformation.

SAP Solution Manager is positioned as an effective tool to complete the journey to SAP S/4HANA. Attendees will gain insight into how Solution Manager can help streamline the process and reduce risk in moving to SAP’s latest ERP offering.

SAP Cloud ALM is presented as SAP’s efficient go-to solution for ALM. The session will highlight the benefits of adopting SAP Cloud ALM, including its streamlined approach, efficient use of resources, and ease of use.

SAP Focused Run is introduced as a solution that can add value wherever system management is required. Attendees will learn about the flexibility of Focused Run and how it can be used to monitor both SAP and non-SAP systems, providing a holistic view of the entire landscape.

Leave this session with:

• A better understanding of which ALM solution is right for your current and future landscape
• The knowledge to adopt SAP Cloud ALM as SAP’s efficient go-to solution for ALM
• An understanding of how to use SAP Solution Manager and SAP Focused Run to add value wherever system management is required.

How Fiori Capability is Transforming UX at Contact Energy

The Contact Energy application team set out to equip themselves with Fiori101 knowledge through the “5 Steps to Fiori for Customer Bootcamp”. These new skills would assist in transforming their 10+ year old SAP UI to a Fiori based UX that would engage their SAP users.

Using this new capability to iteratively build a day-1 Fiori solution in collaboration with the business, the Contact Energy team have developed a set of overarching Fiori design principles and evaluated the pros and cons out standard delivered SAP content vs build from scratch. The Fiori based solution has given end-users a degree of control for their UX. In six months developed our own internal Fiori capability, from zero to hero and established the basis for a Fiori Centre of Excellence that will be responsible for the ongoing support and development of the Fiori solution. Like all components of SAP there are different ways to skin the SAP Fiori cat. There is no right solution, but you need to think about the influencing factors.

Key takeaways:

• Prototyping to inform design conversations with end-users
• Ensure your UX hinges off your design, which maps to your business process
• How role mapping and security design impacts your UX
• Design personalized dashboards for different user personas
• Manage the appropriate access to Fiori apps

Optimise and Modernise your SAP Applications

Migrating SAP to Cloud is a key step on a digital transformation but it’s not where it ends. This step opens up a world of opportunities to innovate and disrupt. Optimising workloads will enable your business to accomodate change and evolve, without unnecessarily increasing spend. And modernising your applications will not only support your business growth but enable you to innovate and differentiate in the market.

In this session we will cover the following:

• Learn how to run lean SAP workloads with cost optimisation tips and tricks, automation ideas and operations best practices.
• The art of the possible when it comes to modernisation and innovation, covering topics such as Supply Chain, Sustainability, ABAP SDK and SAP AWS Joint Reference Architectures.

Don’t Rush into RISE: Empower Yourself to get RISE Right… or Go Native!

Determining the value of SAP’s offering RISE with SAP can be dauntingly complex, involving both a technology migration and significant changes to existing licensing and service delivery models. Join this session to hear how a large Australian industrial group used SoftwareOne’s RISE advisory service to slice through a thicket of technical and commercial complexity to get an objective view of the value and TCO of RISE with SAP and its cloud-native alternatives. We will also share common lessons learned from dozens of other assessments conducted over the past 18 months to help you prepare for this significant decision and the subsequent implementation.

Attendees should come away from this session knowing:

• How to build a holistic, like-for-like TCO comparison between RISE and a cloud-native alternative.
• Insights from other customers’ evaluation of RISE against cloud-native options.
• Key aspects of the RISE service model, and how they might impact your existing IT teams and processes.
• Lessons learned from companies who have gone to RISE already.

HR Transformation Journey at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre with SAP SuccessFactors

This session will provide insight into the step-by-step HR transformation approach Peter Mac has taken for over 3000+ team members across multiple solutions including Core HR & Payroll, Recruiting & Onboarding, Rostering and various integrations.

Join Sean Curtain – Executive Director – People and Culture at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Tim Bryant, Head of SAP SuccessFactors ANZ to deep-dive into their cloud journey including:

• The move from manual to digital systems with one single source of truth
• Automation of key processes
• Manager and employee self-service enablement
• Security and data integrity

Implementing SAP Signavio to Accelerate Adoption & Realize Your Target Value

Research has shown that organizations with low business process management maturity have higher chances of transformation and major changes failing.

Early in the implementation of Aristocrat’s strategy, the Transformation Office conducted an enterprise maturity assessment, identifying that a low process management maturity score. Over the last 18 months we have been investing in a business process management (BPM) capability initiative and in enabling the enterprise to move up the maturity curve. We have already seen major Transformations and business values within our business units ranging from Finance, Field Services and Regulatory & Compliance.

• Visualization of business process in a central repository enabling better improvements (cost reduction, productivity gains, better customer experience) [will share use cases in presentation]
• Assignment of process ownership driving performance management with a view to linkages to score cards in the future (operational measures)
• Cost avoidance and improved compliance to regulatory/policies (quicker to close audit gaps, new product introduction)

Leading the Enterprise Digital Growth with Finance: Aligning Business Processes to Systems

Finance sits at the heart of business operations which means system and business process changes anywhere within a business can impact finance processes. As business becomes more and more complex, having a complete overview of what is happening in the organization becomes more relevant, yet even more challenging. With Finance being an organization’s lifeblood, it’s even more critical for Finance professionals to have that visibility and not just become a passive and reactive end in the overall organization dynamics. Organizations have revolutionized their finance process by leveraging SAP’s Digital Core viz., SAP S/4HANA, enabling them to have a continuous “blood-check” of the organization, and even transforming it to a new level.

Unfortunately, some organizations that have implemented SAP S/4HANA Finance felt their business processes had not transformed as they wished and were still operating in their old ways, despite their new capability. There is a sense that SAP S/4HANA is a pandora’s box packed with more tools and capabilities than they understand. In this session will share the strategic driver for S/4HANA,

• the WHY: Why SAP S/4HANA is important and will discuss the expected business benefits which should not be compromised by the business.
• the WHAT AND HOW: WHAT finance business teams have achieved and HOW their journey looked like.

Key takeaways will include:

1. Constituents required to enable finance transformation in a real way
2. Processes that need special mention while moving on to SAP S/4HANA
3. How do we avoid the business falling back into old habits
4. Lessons learnt that should shape complex Finance transformation initiatives
5. S/4HANA journey of a large Organisation

Experiences with SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud at Endeavour Energy

The industry is increasingly moving towards fluid data movement and hybrid cloud environments. With SAP as the main source of truth the ability to understand and expose this data along with other corporate data for analytics is integral to the success of a data strategy. This session will cover early experiences with designing a hybrid cloud solution within the SAP and wider portfolio and deploying SAP Datasphere with all the laughter and tears that come with it.

BTP Plays Well with Others (Joint Reference Architecture) 

A joint reference architecture can demonstrate how SAP BTP works seamlessly with other technologies by providing a clear, visual representation of the various components and how they integrate with one another. By showing how these different technologies work together to deliver a cohesive solution, a reference architecture can help businesses to better understand the value and benefits of using SAP BTP alongside other technologies.

• Learn how you can use SAP BTP along with your existing technology stack
• Discover how BTP fits into an environment with hyperscalers and plays an important role

What is Business Analytics? Starting with a Blank Page, Creating a Common Language

We typically go from data, model, decision, value. But value is subjective, and, in more instances than not, we miss the mark. Creating re-work, frustration, incurring more cost, chasing value. So why not start with defining value. Start by asking what’s the business problem we are trying to solve for? Sitting on the problem first, being patient with each other. This is not a luxury we have when we are constrained by tight deadlines, conflicting priorities. When we do choose to give ourselves permission to sit and listen and learn from each other, this is when the real magic begins.

• Identify and understanding your customer
• Taking time to understand the real-world problem you are trying to solve for
• Prototyping to inform design conversations with end-users
• Designing personalized dashboards different user personas
• Why taking a Human Centered Design approach to designing SAP analytics tools is best

Becoming Cyber Resilient: Why Transforming SAP Security as Part of your SAP S/4HANA Upgrade is Vital

Device Technologies’ SAP ECC 6.0 Security Model evolved organically over several years, lacking a proper security design and governance framework. This posed multiple risks, such as excessive system access, misalignment with business processes, and segregation of duty business risks.

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA provided an ideal opportunity for implementing a better approach to redesign and build a risk resilient Security design and framework. By implementing a fit-for-purpose Enterprise Business Role methodology based on organizational positions, business processes, and operating model alignment. Successfully removing excessive user access and implementing an access risk framework to prevent unmitigated system access risks; and Augmenting privilege access processes to minimise the impact on the IT Support organisation and business operations.

This session will share how Device Technologies Australia have achieved SAP S/4HANA system access alignment with business functions, decreased business risks through segregation of duty, critical and sensitive data restrictions and stablished a future proof Security Governance Framework, Design and Process.

• How to get your SAP security SAP S/4HANA ready, even when facing incomplete business process documentation challenges.
• How to optimize and streamline your SAP Security design to improve business risk ownership and reduce business-as-usual security maintenance effort.
• How to successfully remove excessive user access with minimal impact to your IT Support organisation and business operations.

Putting the Cloud into SAP at Country Fire Authority (CFA)

Country Fire Authority (CFA) used to share its SAP systems and infrastructure with Fire Rescue Victoria. CFA needed to de-couple this shared system relationship with FRV in 2022 and as a result looked at hyperscaler cloud and enabler to modernize. CFA established a multi-stage plan to migrate, modernize and upgrade its SAP systems on cloud over time. CFA has now begun this journey and will share its experience on how and why it established a multi-phase approach to putting the Cloud into SAP as part of its SAP S/4HANA strategy.

• Why cloud is an essential enabler for change
• How to design a program that meets your ability to change, at a pace you can manage
• Identifying the specialist help required for your journey
• Why Migrate, Modernize and Digitize requires a focus on Operate, not Migration

Don’t Rush into RISE: Empower Yourself to get RISE Right… or Go Native!

Determining the value of SAP’s offering RISE with SAP can be dauntingly complex, involving both a technology migration and significant changes to existing licensing and service delivery models. Join this session to hear how a large Australian industrial group used SoftwareOne’s RISE advisory service to slice through a thicket of technical and commercial complexity to get an objective view of the value and TCO of RISE with SAP and its cloud-native alternatives. We will also share common lessons learned from dozens of other assessments conducted over the past 18 months to help you prepare for this significant decision and the subsequent implementation.

Attendees should come away from this session knowing:

• How to build a holistic, like-for-like TCO comparison between RISE and a cloud-native alternative.
• Insights from other customers’ evaluation of RISE against cloud-native options.
• Key aspects of the RISE service model, and how they might impact your existing IT teams and processes.
• Lessons learned from companies who have gone to RISE already.

Transforming Contractor Recruitment at Energy Queensland with SAP Fieldglass

Energy Queensland’s (EQL) Digital Division recruits a large number of contractors each year and processes large volumes of contract extensions. This process was maintained by a spreadsheet and required a contract to be manually created for each new contract and contract extension.

In addition, each contract and extension required a document to be completed manually and forwarded to purchasing for creating or extending the purchase order. This session will share how SAP Fieldglass has fully automated EQ’s contract recruitment process, removing almost all manual processes. The implementation has achieved a 75% reduction in recruitment process times for contractors and seamlessly integrates with SAP S/4HANA.

• The business drivers for removing manual recruitment processes
• What this means for the contract recruitment function at EQL
• How integration of SAP S/4HANA support EQL’s recruitment processes
• What next and the future opportunities

Insights from Exploring BTP, Accelerating Readiness, Adoption and Sustainment of Corporate Services

The Australian Government’s Shared Services Program is focused on the build and successful transition of bespoke SAP based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to GovERP. GovERP is based on SAP S/4 HANA technology with complementary solutions that enhance the core ERP technology through Software as a Service (SaaS) technology providers.

The Department will share insights gained by taking a Shared Services approach to explore digital capabilities and adopting repeatable, reusable and common enabling tools and services to support efficiency, mobility, and collaboration.

Transforming CS Energy’s Business, People, and the Energy Market using SAP SuccessFactors

The last few years for the energy industry have been categorized as a period of accelerated transformation, due to the changing energy market and the transition to 70% renewables by 2032. Accordingly, the composition of CS Energy’s workforce is also changing. Underpinned by the SAP SuccessFactors, Talent, Succession, Performance, Learning, Reporting, and Recruitment modules, CS Energy will start to shape a Strategic Workforce Plan and Capability Framework that will allow them to transform their people and their business.

Laura will share how CS Energy is talent mapping, identifying critical roles, succession planning and developed skills and capabilities in the workforce.

Key takeaways from this session include:

• How to utilize SAP SuccessFactors to inform your people strategy and decisions
• Understanding employee growth needs and career pathways
• Adapting to technology and what that means for the skills of your people

Business Transformation, Finance Transformation, and Hyper-automation – Finance Playing a Central Role!

Transformation does not happen in a silo; it requires advancements in a combination processes, systems, people, and organization. And Finance is a critical, central role to make transformation happen: to support the organization at large, but also themselves change and transform towards the challenges ahead. Amplified by the upcoming end of the maintenance deadline for core SAP ERP/ECC, the urgency to ‘consider and debate and look ahead’ significantly increases.

In this session we will look at aspects of transformation within the organization and how process execution, especially (business model changes / shared services, and deployment of automation) play a key role – including recent benchmarking data and customer examples

• Business transformation – contributions and pre-requisites
• Finance transformation – from modernization, to digitization, to business model (process orchestration)
• Hyper-automation – key catalyst for finance transformation
• Transformation lifecycle – before, during, and after the initial S/4 implementation

Three key take-aways from this session include;

1. Hear how Finance can contribute to your company’s digital transformation in critical ways
2. How the Finance function itself can change in dramatics ways by adoption new, intelligent finance capabilities (and how)
3. Transformation is not a “once-and-done” project, understand how and why the ‘initial step” is typically “just the first step”

Empowering Managers with Self-Service Real-Time Reports – The Story of the Great and the Unexpected

Auckland Council is the largest council in Oceania with over 10,000 staff servicing 600,000 ratepayers. Hear how our project delivered self-service, near real-time reporting to around 750 users. Prior to this they only got financial statements monthly in a flat file without drill-down analysis.

Users were surveyed before and after the implementation and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive with the new system hailed as a significant game changer in terms of financial reporting and budgetary control. With current inflationary and cost of living pressures, the need for accurate and up-to-date information is more pressing than ever.

• Context – Auckland Council Introduction
• Project Goals – move to self-service, near real-time drill-downable reporting.
• Project Story – how did we do it – what went well and what went badly.
• Project Results – Customer feedback, Learnings, Developments

Three key take-aways from this session include:

1. How Reporting tools can change the dynamic – empowering staff to own and understand their financials
2. Project Delivery – some dos and don’ts for a successful project that runs on time and to budget
3. Importance of demonstrating clear project benefits – showing project worth

The Future of Finance

Emmaleigh will be speaking about the evolution, and more excitingly, the future of finance departments. She will be discussing how finance teams can transform from ‘keeping the lights on’ to delivering the necessary insights for efficient business steering, and how managers can enable and empower the future generation of accountants. As well as discussing the transformation of finance departments more generally, she will also be showcasing some of the automation and other efficiencies in S/4HANA, as well as what it means to have a single source of truth with real time reporting and analytics at your fingertips.

• What does the future of finance departments look like and how to ensure you don’t get left behind.
• Retaining early talent in your finance team.
• How to automate using RPA.
• Analytics and other efficiencies in S/4HANA that finance teams can leverage.

Power To The Finance People

In a world of increasing complexity, automation and intelligence has never been more important, or more valuable, but time to value has remained a challenge for the business user. Exceeding expectation instead of just meeting it requires a different approach and relies on the exploitation of the capability at your disposal in a timely fashion. Automation is so much more than just a bot. In this session we will share examples of valuable automation opportunities through a combination of standard capability and simple extensibility.

You likely have access to more than you realise, focus on realising that potential, where to start leveraging potential value, consider what might be available in a later release that would incentivise an upgrade/planned upgrade of SAP S/4HANA. Time to value may be faster than you think. SAP BTP may be the path to greater automation both within and around your financial system of record.

Digitisation and Modernising Work Order Management 

Jorg Thuijls and Julia Exelby take you through how to capture real time information to facilitate better business decisions. Learn how moving away from cumbersome manual process can bridge the gap between business and data, simplifying workflows, improving overall efficiency and making employee’s lives easier. Learn how tools available through the Business Technology Platforms radically reduce project expenses and shorten project timelines.

• See demos of how BTP can transform work order management processes
• Learn how workers and contractors can be included in the digitization journey
• Be inspired to replace your paper and manual systems

Why the TypeScript Sheriff has come to clean up your JavaScript

JavaScript has been very widely adopted (e.g. with SAP UI5), partly because of its dynamic and expressive nature. The flipside of this flexibility is that it’s prone to runtime errors in a way that strongly typed languages, like Java, are not. Indeed, JavaScript has a ‘Wild West’ reputation in some quarters.

Is there a way to reduce these runtime errors without spoiling the expressiveness of the language? Indeed, there is! Come to this session to find out how TypeScript saves the day

After a basic overview we will cover some simple examples that show the benefits and how easy it is to make the switch. We will then focus on TypeScript in the SAP ecosystem. We will look at

• TypeScript with SAP UI5
• TypeScript with CAP for Node.js (The SAP Cloud Application Programming Model)
• TypeScript with the SAP Cloud SDK

If you’re a law-abiding developer-citizen (and not a cowboy) then there’s no need to fear the sheriff…come along to learn how to stay on the right side of the law.

SAPUI5 Nested Components

Large SAPUI5 applications can quickly become unwieldy. Long load-times, complex inter-dependencies, etc. quickly affect performance and maintainability. Breaking the application down into multiple small components is the answer but this brings its own challenges when you need these components to interact.

In this session I will introduce by example multiple nested components that work together to provide a seamless user experience, minimize code duplication, and simplify code maintainability. A special focus will be on routing.

Come expecting to see code – not PowerPoint!

Digitisation and Modernising Work Order Management 

Jorg Thuijls and Julia Exelby take you through how to capture real time information to facilitate better business decisions. Learn how moving away from cumbersome manual process can bridge the gap between business and data, simplifying workflows, improving overall efficiency and making employee’s lives easier. Learn how tools available through the Business Technology Platforms radically reduce project expenses and shorten project timelines.

• See demos of how BTP can transform work order management processes
• Learn how workers and contractors can be included in the digitization journey
• Be inspired to replace your paper and manual systems

Designing Organizations Using Human Centered Design, Data and Insights

Today’s future-focused organizations are evolving their operating models and organization design more often than ever to align their strategy and capability to performance.

This session will draw on two Government department use cases, their recent journeys and the underlying methodology used to guide them through their organization design projects.

Learn how they achieved highly successful outcomes by focusing on understanding data, listening to their people, and considering their strategy to design a fit-for-purpose, adaptive, and effective structure. Jo will also draw on her expertise as an independent org consultant with 20 years’ experience.

• The importance of human centered design and input from your people when designing organizations
• The need for a structured (yet agile!) approach
• How an SAP BTP certified data visualization and dashboarding tool can play in decision making

Health Check your Processes – Preparing to Move to SAP S/4HANA

See how using SAP Signavio to analyse and optimize your business processes, businesses can identify areas that may require additional attention during the migration to S/4HANA. And by conducting a platform assessment, businesses can identify any infrastructure or software upgrades that may be necessary in order to support the migration. Together, these two tools can help businesses to ensure a smoother and more successful migration to SAP S/4HANA.

Marty from DalRae Solutions and Ana from the SAP Signavio team talk you through how using Signavio to analyse and optimise your business processes can identify areas that require attention during the migration to S/4HANA. Learn how conducting a platform assessment will identify necessary infrastructure and software upgrades that are necessary to support a smooth and successful migration.

• Learn how SAP Signavio can give you business process insights
• Understand the role Signavio can play in helping you move to S/4HANA

HR Transformation Journey at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre with SAP SuccessFactors

This session will provide insight into the step-by-step HR transformation approach Peter Mac has taken for over 3000+ team members across multiple solutions including Core HR & Payroll, Recruiting & Onboarding, Rostering and various integrations.

Join Sean Curtain – Executive Director – People and Culture at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Tim Bryant, Head of SAP SuccessFactors ANZ to deep-dive into their cloud journey including:

• The move from manual to digital systems with one single source of truth
• Automation of key processes
• Manager and employee self-service enablement
• Security and data integrity

Playing to Your Strengths – How to Deliver Bespoke Learning & Development Programs with Impact

Have you heard of a strengths-based approach to development? What if we applied that approach more broadly to our learning teams? What would fully leveraging our people and technology look like for the employee experience? Brett will share examples and insights from SBS – a unique organization with not so unique challenges.

• The strengths-based approach to personal development
• Leveraging the strengths of available technology
• Extending a strengths-based approach to organizational learning and development
• How you could apply this thinking in your organization

Key Takeaways:

• Why focusing on strengths is good for engagement.
• How to leverage the strengths of your organization
• How SBS is delivering bespoke learning

Brett has been the SBS Leadership & Capability Development Lead for over 7 years. He has helped SBS gain recognition with an award for Best Leadership Development Program at the Australian HR Awards in 2017 and again a further excellence award for Best Leadership Development Program at the 2022 Australian HR Awards.

Unlocking SAP’s Full Potential: Why Prioritizing User Experience is Critical in Today’s Business Landscape   

As the SAP landscape evolves with cloud-based solutions and improved build tools, businesses are still facing challenges with problematic implementations, user adoption issues, and subpar ROI. With budget cuts, headcount reductions, and distributed workforces, it’s never been more crucial for technology to be fully utilized.

That’s why the C-suite must emphasize the importance of user experience to create frictionless technology that meets user expectations and supports sustainable business practices. Now is the time to prioritize UX to unlock the full potential of SAP and achieve optimal business performance.

The benefits include increased user adoption of SAP improving ROI, reduced delivery costs associated with training and change management and adoption of new capabilities and ways of working for ongoing optimization of SAP products

• The new strategic Imperative for UX
• How to adapt current delivery models to include Human Centered Design
• How to measure the success of UX adoption

Transforming Performance and Goals Practices at The Y NSW – A System is Just the Start

The YMCA Belief statement is ‘we believe in the power of inspired young people’. The Engagement Survey showed our staff are highly engaged, but with a low ‘intention to stay’ because they don’t see YNSW as a space to develop their careers. YNSW developed and launched Performance and Goal Management to drive a culture of development across the organization leading to the achievement of one of our strategic pillars and delivering on our beliefs.

This session will share how the SAP Performance and Goals module was configured and launched to the business and how the business leaders were trained on Goal Setting and Performance Development,

Takeaways include:

• How to align performance systems with the strategy and values of your organization (and how they will re-inforce each other).
• Talking to your business about what will work for them
• Why a system is just the beginning of a performance culture

RISE with SAP – To Public Cloud or Not

Many customers are starting to ask can they adopt Public Cloud. In this session we look at what are the key considerations to determine if Public Cloud is right for you.

• Key takeaway aways from the session will be:
• Key considerations as you start your journey towards Public Cloud
• Where should you start the journey
• How you can educate yourself about Public Cloud

Fiori Embedded Analytics in SAP S/4HANA. What are these Analytics?

Fiori embedded analytics is standard with any Fiori implementation with SAP S/4HANA. Embedded Analytics is a fantastic way to visualize information in real-time from an SAP S/4HANA system, especially for operational reporting. There are many different types of pages, objects, and charts so understanding their purpose can be daunting. In this presentation, we will explore the different types of Fiori Embedded analytics and their use. We will also explore some in-house custom apps that were created for our businesspeople who were frustrated by using GUI transactional list reports to Excel to make a reasonable report.

Join this session to learn:

• About purpose-built apps for certain work groups and processes
• Why only ‘real-time’ apps work for people on the shop floor
• Using the right analytics for the right data set.
• Understanding Embedded Analytics vs SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, etc.
• How to stretch your data further with apps that can do more.
• In app design always think ‘What else can I do with this app?’ You will be surprised by how flexible these apps can be.

A Business Discussion: Managing your SAP Investment from Business Case to Retire

The booming and competitive landscape that technology leaders and practitioners find themselves in is evolving at pace. Businesses are responding by embracing technology that will help them innovate, achieve more with less, and empower their people to work smarter. In this session we are joined by SAP Customers to discuss how they manage their SAP technology portfolios, make the right decisions, and bring the business along. From building a business case, implementing new technology, and ensuring you have the right capability to get the most from your investment right though to understanding when to upgrade or what modules you decide to retire – we cover it all. And open the discussion up to the audience too.

• What guides our decisions on where to invest?
• How do you build a Business Case that gets your CEO over the line?
• When do you choose to sweat your assets and why?
• What guides our decisions on what and when to upgrade or what modules to retire?
• How are your IT Capability needs evolving as your SAP landscape evolves?

Panellists include Alison Jordan of CitiPower, Powercor & United Energy, Cameron Amling of Coles and Andrew Faid of Fonterra.

Establish DevOps Practices for SAP during your SAP RISE and SAP Modernization Program

In the past, core ERP systems have been monolithic applications with limited capabilities to provide omnichannel access to large internal user communities, business partners and customers. SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise underpinned by SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) changes this fundamentally.

Democratization of access, real time self-service, citizen development, AI are some of the capabilities which enable continuous innovation to provide business value. But how do you combine this fast agile business needs with organizational IT governance requirements of quality, compliance, performance, data integrity and security?

DevOps practices, used by digital natives, may have an answer to our question. Hear from us how you can leverage business process intelligence, SAP BTP and the “Tricentis Quality Engineering Platform” during your SAP RISE program to establish DevOps practices and deliver on the promise of quality at speed. This session will share how you can go from business request to production in five days.

Visy’s Successful SAP Carve-out Transformation to Cloud in Four Months

Visy Australia, a privately owned recycling and packaging company, acquired O-I, the largest manufacturer of glass bottles and containers in Australia-New Zealand.

As part of this acquisition, OI’s SAP Instances needed to be migrated to the AWS Cloud. Visy successfully completed this migration by performing a targeted data carve out and replicating two SAP Instances.

Learn how Visy achieved their digital and business transformation goals through this migration, and how they continue to provide innovative packaging and resource recovery solutions in the ANZ and global markets.

Masterclass: Ensuring Payroll Accuracy in a Fully Integrated Environment

Between 27% to 33% of all organizations admit they have failed to find and correct payroll-related errors. The real impact of paying your people incorrectly is that 24% of employees start to look for another job after just one payroll error, this increases to 49% after they experience 2 payroll errors. The cost of replacing these disengaged employees is huge, taking valuable time and resources away from delivering outcomes to your customers.

In today’s modern cloud-based world, payroll systems are often no longer standalone systems that are maintained separately from other environments. With a trend towards end-to-end employee lifecycle management, payroll is fast becoming dependent on data being entered and maintained correctly in source systems such as SAP SuccessFactors, and then being replicated to payroll solutions. Often data errors are discovered during the payroll process, or after the process is complete, resulting in incorrect pay for employees. Understanding how organizations can ensure that payroll remains accurate, whilst still benefiting from the efficiency of a fully integrated environment is key to success. Furthermore, leveraging automation in the payroll process using tools such as the Payroll Control Centre along with robust reporting tools enables an efficient payroll process will enable Organizations to achieve more with their payroll systems, resulting in happier more engaged employees.

This masterclass will be an interactive session, with key takeaways being:

• What is the best strategy for integrating your payroll solution with your HR solution?
• How can you ensure that data remains accurate throughout the entire employee lifecycle?
• How can payroll processes be automated to simplify the reconciliation process?
• What tools and solutions can be used to enable more efficient payroll processes?

A Business Discussion: Managing your SAP Investment from Business Case to Retire

The booming and competitive landscape that technology leaders and practitioners find themselves in is evolving at pace. Businesses are responding by embracing technology that will help them innovate, achieve more with less, and empower their people to work smarter. In this session we are joined by SAP Customers to discuss how they manage their SAP technology portfolios, make the right decisions, and bring the business along. From building a business case, implementing new technology, and ensuring you have the right capability to get the most from your investment right though to understanding when to upgrade or what modules you decide to retire – we cover it all. And open the discussion up to the audience too.

• What guides our decisions on where to invest?
• How do you build a Business Case that gets your CEO over the line?
• When do you choose to sweat your assets and why?
• What guides our decisions on what and when to upgrade or what modules to retire?
• How are your IT Capability needs evolving as your SAP landscape evolves?

Panellists include Alison Jordan of CitiPower, Powercor & United Energy, Cameron Amling of Coles and Andrew Faid of Fonterra.

Innovating to Maximise Existing SAP HR & Payroll Investment

Enterprise wide software implementation projects are complex and require significant investment. Rather than embarking on major projects there are often ways to increase the benefits of your existing SAP implementation using tools and technologies you already have. In this session Glencore Coal Assets Australia (GCAA) share examples of how they have been able to take bite-sized innovation steps to get more from their existing SAP investment. This session will give you some cost effective and tangible ideas that you can take away and implement, without a big bang transformation or budget to match. Use case examples from GCAA will include practical examples of how Glencore has innovated without implementing new technologies by:

• Automating processes to reduce human effort with a Hiring Robot.
• Developing a rapid prototyping methodology to stand up Power BI reports, before committing to a full data warehouse development.
• Using existing SAP licenses for products you may not know you have i.e. Payroll Control Centre.
• Extending existing functionality by re-using data to improve other business processes including managing employee overtime and attendance using gate pass (clock on clock off) data and SAP Time Evaluation.

A Business Discussion: Managing your SAP Investment from Business Case to Retire

The booming and competitive landscape that technology leaders and practitioners find themselves in is evolving at pace. Businesses are responding by embracing technology that will help them innovate, achieve more with less, and empower their people to work smarter. In this session we are joined by SAP Customers to discuss how they manage their SAP technology portfolios, make the right decisions, and bring the business along. From building a business case, implementing new technology, and ensuring you have the right capability to get the most from your investment right though to understanding when to upgrade or what modules you decide to retire – we cover it all. And open the discussion up to the audience too.

• What guides our decisions on where to invest?
• How do you build a Business Case that gets your CEO over the line?
• When do you choose to sweat your assets and why?
• What guides our decisions on what and when to upgrade or what modules to retire?
• How are your IT Capability needs evolving as your SAP landscape evolves?

Panellists include Alison Jordan of CitiPower, Powercor & United Energy, Cameron Amling of Coles and Andrew Faid of Fonterra.

Maximizing our SAP Investment – A Customer Focused Approach to Developing an SAP Roadmap

Managing Hydro Tasmania’s SAP ecosystem via a 12-month capital planning process, meant there was a focus on technology as opposed to customer value. With an aim to maximize Hydro’s continuing SAP investment a 3 – 5 year rolling roadmap has been developed to identify the key technology and enablement activities required to inform future projects, initiatives and portfolio planning activities.

Developed in consultation with our business via 30 workshops, including 40+ employees from across the business Hydro Tasmania ensured Customer value was front of mind, at the same time setting principles to reduce legacy tech debt, protect the core and simplify the landscape.

Hydro Tasmania has achieved:

• Alignment of SAP maintenance, initiatives, and planning activities with SAP’s Roadmap
• Visualized the delivery of customer centric value in alignment to technology solutions
• Identify and plan transition from end-of-life technologies to new/immerging opportunities (inc. BTP)

Key takeaways include:

• A technology roadmap can’t be completed by only engaging IT teams, it requires an investment form the whole business
• Future proof your SAP ecosystem and be future ready
• Using a roadmap to visualize and align the application lifecycle, when to decommission and plan for the new.

Catalyse your Cloud Journey with BTP 

Get ready to transform the way you run your business with BTP (SAP Business Technology Platform). Learn how to streamline your journey to the cloud by removing customizations from your SAP landscape.

But that’s just the beginning! BTP offers a wide range of features and capabilities to help you run better, including integration, extension, analytics, security, and development. Whether you’re looking to improve collaboration, gain deeper insights into your data, or enhance your overall security, BTP has you covered.

With practical examples and case studies, we’ll demonstrate how BTP can transform your business operations and unlock new levels of efficiency and innovation. Discover how BTP can help you overcome the challenges of cloud migration and set your business up for long-term success. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn how to utilize BTP and take your business to the next level!

• Learn how you can implement BTP now even while on ECC
• Remove the stress of losing your customizations when moving to the cloud
• Understand how BTP can set up your business for long-term success

Unlocking SAP’s Full Potential: Why Prioritizing User Experience is Critical in Today’s Business Landscape   

As the SAP landscape evolves with cloud-based solutions and improved build tools, businesses are still facing challenges with problematic implementations, user adoption issues, and subpar ROI. With budget cuts, headcount reductions, and distributed workforces, it’s never been more crucial for technology to be fully utilized.

That’s why the C-suite must emphasize the importance of user experience to create frictionless technology that meets user expectations and supports sustainable business practices. Now is the time to prioritize UX to unlock the full potential of SAP and achieve optimal business performance.

The benefits include increased user adoption of SAP improving ROI, reduced delivery costs associated with training and change management and adoption of new capabilities and ways of working for ongoing optimization of SAP products

• The new strategic Imperative for UX
• How to adapt current delivery models to include Human Centered Design
• How to measure the success of UX adoption

Maintaining Business Objectives and Lifting Maturity – Are you Doing It?

When considering the deployment of business solutions including those that hold your People data, organisations look to understand and assess business objectives and implement solutions within their risk appetite at that point in time, with these solutions typically not evolved.

However, given that;

• Both Internal business requirements can change, and the external regulatory landscape (government policy) is constantly evolving and solutions can retroactively be adapted to maintain compliance
• The heightened Cyber security landscape with information subject to increasing threats, vulnerabilities, data breaches, and cyber exploits
• New capabilities and products may become available which the business may wish to leverage to meet these above challenges

Do organisations need to re-consider their approach? The session will explore these scenarios providing context for organisations to evaluate their current approach and finally outline how SAP SuccessFactors as a solution for your People data supports the concepts covered.

Maintaining Business Objectives and Lifting Maturity – Are you Doing It?

When considering the deployment of business solutions including those that hold your People data, organisations look to understand and assess business objectives and implement solutions within their risk appetite at that point in time, with these solutions typically not evolved.

However, given that;

• Both Internal business requirements can change, and the external regulatory landscape (government policy) is constantly evolving and solutions can retroactively be adapted to maintain compliance
• The heightened Cyber security landscape with information subject to increasing threats, vulnerabilities, data breaches, and cyber exploits
• New capabilities and products may become available which the business may wish to leverage to meet these above challenges

Do organisations need to re-consider their approach? The session will explore these scenarios providing context for organisations to evaluate their current approach and finally outline how SAP SuccessFactors as a solution for your People data supports the concepts covered.

Improved SAP Release Management using Change Automation

With a vision to be Australia and New Zealand’s most trusted logistics partner, Linfox’s multiple SAP systems need to be both responsive and adaptable. Linfox identified that functional areas and application silos, manual processes using complex spreadsheets, and a lack of auditability pose risk to deployment success. The delivery of SAP change with speed and reliability was a clear business requirement. Linfox chose ActiveControl to deliver the necessary velocity of change while maintaining full system integrity at every stage. This session will share how this is supporting Linfox to keep disparate systems synchronised to maintain single view and management of each change – including all dependencies. Potential quality issues are identified at the point of build and process compliance is enforced through the flexible workflows process. With complete auditability and detailed change delivery analytics, continuous improvement is maintained to help support and deliver Linfox’s corporate strategy.

• Accelerating cadence of SAP deployments
• Improving quality of SAP change being built, tested and deployed
• Enforcing process governance
• How full traceability and auditability can be achieved

Improved SAP Release Management using Change Automation

With a vision to be Australia and New Zealand’s most trusted logistics partner, Linfox’s multiple SAP systems need to be both responsive and adaptable. Linfox identified that functional areas and application silos, manual processes using complex spreadsheets, and a lack of auditability pose risk to deployment success. The delivery of SAP change with speed and reliability was a clear business requirement. Linfox chose ActiveControl to deliver the necessary velocity of change while maintaining full system integrity at every stage. This session will share how this is supporting Linfox to keep disparate systems synchronised to maintain single view and management of each change – including all dependencies. Potential quality issues are identified at the point of build and process compliance is enforced through the flexible workflows process. With complete auditability and detailed change delivery analytics, continuous improvement is maintained to help support and deliver Linfox’s corporate strategy.

• Accelerating cadence of SAP deployments
• Improving quality of SAP change being built, tested and deployed
• Enforcing process governance
• How full traceability and auditability can be achieved

Becoming Cyber Resilient: Why Transforming SAP Security as Part of your SAP S/4HANA Upgrade is Vital

Device Technologies’ SAP ECC 6.0 Security Model evolved organically over several years, lacking a proper security design and governance framework. This posed multiple risks, such as excessive system access, misalignment with business processes, and segregation of duty business risks.

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA provided an ideal opportunity for implementing a better approach to redesign and build a risk resilient Security design and framework. By implementing a fit-for-purpose Enterprise Business Role methodology based on organizational positions, business processes, and operating model alignment. Successfully removing excessive user access and implementing an access risk framework to prevent unmitigated system access risks; and Augmenting privilege access processes to minimise the impact on the IT Support organisation and business operations.

This session will share how Device Technologies Australia have achieved SAP S/4HANA system access alignment with business functions, decreased business risks through segregation of duty, critical and sensitive data restrictions and stablished a future proof Security Governance Framework, Design and Process.

• How to get your SAP security SAP S/4HANA ready, even when facing incomplete business process documentation challenges.
• How to optimize and streamline your SAP Security design to improve business risk ownership and reduce business-as-usual security maintenance effort.
• How to successfully remove excessive user access with minimal impact to your IT Support organisation and business operations.

Integrating Ingham’s Complex SAP Landscape with SAP BTP Integration Platform

ANZ-based Food Manufacturer, Inghams, began a Business Transformation journey in 2021 enabled by RISE with SAP S/4HANA. Before the transformation Inghams had been operating with a 20 plus years legacy ERP, with more than 100+ applications and multiple data sources. The transformation would enable the business to sharpen its responsiveness to supply chain challenges and ensure business decisions were no longer being made in silos.

A key piece of the transformation journey was to ensure the right integration tool was being used to connect the SAP S/4HANA instance with the (now) 45+ bespoke and cloud applications, including SAP MSG, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Options were to optimize the existing integration tool Informatica, move to SAP Process Integration and Orchestration (PI/PO), or take advantage of full cloud offering via SAP BTP.

This session will share the evaluation process undertaken with Emphasys to identify the integration needs of the business, why SAP BTP Integration Platform was the right tool for the job, and how the project was delivered.

• SAP as an enabler – SAP BTP future capabilities aligned with Ingham’s strategic technology vision
• The evaluation criteria used for integration tool selection (Informatica, vs SAP BTP integration platform vs SAP PI/PO).
• Understanding upfront costs when selecting an integration tool, versus overall TCO (it’s not always as it seems)
• Considering usability and the skills required for ongoing maintenance, post-go-live
• Using SAP SLT (SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server) to move data and mirror tables
• The impact of integration on SAP licensing

Unleash the Power of SAP Data with a Modern Data Architecture

Stockland is one of Australia’s leading curators and creators of connected communities. Our diversified portfolio spans Retail Town Centres, Workplace and Logistics, Residential, and Land Lease Communities, with business units responsible for the planning, construction, commercialisation, and operation of assets. Our assets are managed through a central set of core business processes, powered by the implementation of S4/HANA. In addition, specific business processes and systems are employed for each asset type to effectively handle diverse lifecycles and operational requirements. During this session you will hear:

• How Stockland’s journey implementing SAP S4/HANA and AWS has helped unleash the power of SAP data on a Modern Data Architecture, providing a central view across all business units and assets as well as business unit specific insights.
• How to apply the power of AI/ML to make more well-informed business decisions.
• Stockland’s approach to achieve this and embed insights and analytics in their operations.

Using BTP to Overcome Chasms Between your Current Software and SAP System 

Chris Rae and Marcela Marquez from DalRae Solutions discuss how BTP can overcome the chasm between your current software and the SAP system. Learn about how automating business processes can work for you, and how BTP can overcome even the most complex challenges. Learn from the real-world example of a customer who used BTP to distil complex invoicing processes that included multiple invoices in multiple languages into an automatic and easy to follow workflow.

• Learn how BTP can overcome even the most complex use cases.
• See how automation can help streamline business processes.
• Understand the complexities behind automation that may seem simple on the surface.

Harness Years of Structured SAP Data with SAP Analytics Cloud 

Do you have a treasure trove of untapped data sitting in your SAP Core system, but no idea how to use it to drive growth and innovation? In this presentation, we’ll show you how to unlock the full potential of your business by leveraging years of SAP data with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), a powerful analytics tool that offers real-time insights into your data, enabling you to make informed business decisions. With SAC, you can delve into your historical data to identify areas of improvement and predict trends, using practical examples to turn data and stats into a compelling and actionable story. By unlocking the full potential of your SAP data, you can transform your business, drive growth, and achieve long-term success. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn how SAC can help you unleash the power of your data.

• Get an understanding of how SAP Analytics Cloud can give you insights into your data
• Discover how data insights can help inform your business decisions
• Learn how SAC can be connected to your historical data

Navigating the BTP Roadmap (Learn the Turns Ahead) 

Trying to navigate and understand your roadmap to BTP maturity can feel overwhelming. Learn how you can build and utilise a roadmap to mature your BTP practice and leverage tools like the maturity framework. The DalRae Solutions team are here to be your SatNav and help you understand and enjoy the ride while demystifying the intricacies of your roadmap.

• Learn what changes are coming from the BTP Roadmap
• Understand the impact the roadmap changes will have on you and your business

Keeping Workers Safe using Intelligent Compliance Processes

Join Lauren Walsh from CITIC Pacific Mining along with Sacha Jordan from DalRae Solutions to learn how together, they harnessed the power of BTP to build an SAP SuccessFactors Extension that streamlines uploading, processing, and validating employee licenses and certifications using OCR & AI.

Starting with an intuitive UI that allows users to upload photos, automatically extract data, and trigger approval workflows, this ensures accurate, up-to-date info, saves time and money, all while keeping the workforce safe.

• Learn how the tools in BTP can help your business improve efficiencies
• See the business impacts of investing in BTP Solutions
• View a real-life use case and demonstration of BTP

Visy’s Successful SAP Carve-out Transformation to Cloud in Four Months

Visy Australia, a privately owned recycling and packaging company, acquired O-I, the largest manufacturer of glass bottles and containers in Australia-New Zealand.

As part of this acquisition, OI’s SAP Instances needed to be migrated to the AWS Cloud. Visy successfully completed this migration by performing a targeted data carve out and replicating two SAP Instances.

Learn how Visy achieved their digital and business transformation goals through this migration, and how they continue to provide innovative packaging and resource recovery solutions in the ANZ and global markets.

How SAP Datasphere Delivers Seamless Access to your Business Data

On March 8, SAP announced SAP Datasphere, a comprehensive data service built on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) that enables every data professional to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. This was the biggest online audience for an SAP product announcement ever, demonstrating there’s still an unmet need for SAP customers to unleash the power of their critical business data.

SAP Datasphere, its open data ecosystem, and the underlying technology foundation that enables an SAP business data fabric architecture, aimed at simplifying the delivery of an integrated, semantically rich data layer over your underlying data landscapes. SAP is also building a powerful open data ecosystem, with the first set of partners adding core value components of the business data fabric architecture. Partners include Databricks, Collibra, Confluent, DataRobot and more to come.

Join this session to hear more about how this strategic approach is evolving to help customer access contextually relevant data to better inform critical business processes.

Health Check your Processes – Preparing to Move to SAP S/4HANA

See how using SAP Signavio to analyse and optimize your business processes, businesses can identify areas that may require additional attention during the migration to S/4HANA. And by conducting a platform assessment, businesses can identify any infrastructure or software upgrades that may be necessary in order to support the migration. Together, these two tools can help businesses to ensure a smoother and more successful migration to SAP S/4HANA.

Marty from DalRae Solutions and Ana from the SAP Signavio team talk you through how using Signavio to analyse and optimise your business processes can identify areas that require attention during the migration to S/4HANA. Learn how conducting a platform assessment will identify necessary infrastructure and software upgrades that are necessary to support a smooth and successful migration.

• Learn how SAP Signavio can give you business process insights
• Understand the role Signavio can play in helping you move to S/4HANA

Automating for Success: How Heineken Transformed SAP System Refresh Tasks and Operational Activities

Heineken faced significant challenges in performing regular SAP and non-SAP system refreshes due to the complexity of their global platform, privacy compliance, agile sprints, and international projects. Despite their efforts in 2016, they were unable to complete even one system refresh due to the complexity and limited time. In 2019, they implemented Symphony, an automation product developed by Basis Cloud Solutions (BCS), which allowed them to automate and orchestrate the system refresh process for both SAP and non-SAP environments.

This solution enabled Heineken to perform 14 system refreshes in 2020, 35 in 2021, 75 in 2022, and 85 (30 already done) in 2023. The latest system refresh planned to run the month of May’23 is about running 30 refreshes in parallel, expected to be completed within just five days, and with the assistance of three full-time symphony consultants. Overall, Symphony proved to be a game-changer for Heineken, providing the brewery with an efficient and effective way to stay up to date with their data landscape.

• Why automation proved to be a game-changer for Heineken, providing the brewery with an efficient and effective way to stay up to date with their data landscape.
• How this has enabled Heineken to automate and orchestrate system refreshes for both SAP and non-SAP environments.
• Opportunities to fully automate SAP technical operations and reduce time and costs with Symphony.

Maximising the Value of your GRC Investment – The Importance of Defining a GRC Roadmap

Many organizations have implemented an access control (GRC) solution, but unfortunately, they are not taking full advantage of its benefits. It is often used as a backend solution by IT, with minimal involvement from business users, resulting in suboptimal returns on investment and / or resulting in your organisation being over-exposed to fraud risk. This session will highlight the importance of creating a GRC roadmap that outlines the necessary tasks and activities for an organization to derive the maximum value from their GRC investment. We will discuss how to structure the roadmap document which can be shared with your management team to ensure that everyone is aware of what needs to be done, by whom, and within what timeframe.

• Understand the components of effective GRC
• Define the organisation’s GRC business objectives
• List tasks and activities associated with each of the GRC business objectives
• Define the structure of the GRC Roadmap document

Data Security for SAP Systems: BAU and Projects

Data protection and ensuring your business is compliant with the regulatory aspects of data protection all remain high on the agenda for SAP data and security leaders. This Study will elaborate on the challenges organisations face, when it comes to the protection of their data. This session will include a case study of data classification and SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) implementation.

• Information Lifecycle Management for SAP S/4HANA, NW Solutions, and Salesforce
• Data privacy and security
• Access control, logging and monitoring
• Threat detection and business integrity screening

Key Considerations for your CX and BTP Strategy when Moving to SAP S/4HANA

Moving to SAP S/4HANA is a major undertaking. It can get overwhelming and difficult to prioritise your digital initiatives – and the consequences of sequencing them will have a huge impact on your bottom line. Learn how CSR Limited leveraged SAP CX and BTP to futureproof its systems for a seamless migration to SAP S/4HANA while maintaining its focus on customer satisfaction, innovation, and sustainability.

● What do I do before, during or after my SAP S/4HANA transformation?
● What initiatives will support my revenue and bottom line before embarking on a long capital-intensive SAP S/4HANA transformation?
● How do I minimise regret cost and redundant work?

Driving Transformation and Innovation: Upgrading to SAP S/4HANA and Harnessing Test Automation for Enhanced Efficiency

Join Orica, a world leader in the provision of mining services, as they share their transformative SAP journey case study. Orica runs the business via a single global instance of SAP S4/HANA on Azure, requiring a full version upgrade by December 2023. Amit will share how they’ve scaled their application testing and automation capabilities with the UiPath platform, followed by a Q&A to dive deeper into the Orica case study further.

• Learn how to jump-start your SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration with enterprise automation.
• Gain exclusive insights into Orica’s remarkable journey as early adopters of SAP S/4HANA.
• Explore Orica’s transformative approach, going beyond technical migration, to redefine business processes from scratch, offering valuable lessons on achieving comprehensive and impactful SAP landscape transformation.
• Hear about Orica’s roadmap for their major version upgrade.
• Understand how to achieve cleaner core solutions and reduce custom code.

Westcon’s Digital Transformation Journey: Lessons Learned from a Global SAP Rollout

Westcon and Techwave collaborated for an end-to-end migration during their global SAP rollout, encompassing 80 legal entities across 65 countries. Westcon, being one of the first companies in its category to adopt SAP, previously used JD Edwards. With its complex internal structure and numerous acquisitions, Westcon had to consolidate data from disparate systems to streamline operations and improve efficiency. Westcon and Techwave partnered up and overcame several common challenges that arise during SAP rollouts, including data quality and migration, customization, and configuration, change management, integration with existing systems, and project management. Techwave provided comprehensive support and expertise for P2P, Order to Cash, Record to Report, Global Trade Services, Commerce Applications (Hybris), and more. This collaboration ensured timely and budget-friendly delivery and allowed Westcon to achieve its goal of consolidating data and improving efficiency. Currently, Westcon and Techwave are developing business cases for their SAP S/4HANA Migration.

Hear how Westcon achieved:
• Successful global SAP rollout across 80 legal entities, standardized business processes, leading to efficiency and cost savings.
• Improved data quality that ensured reliable data for informed business decisions.
• Customized SAP solution adapted to Westcon’s unique business processes.
• Streamlined processes through integration with existing systems.
• A support structure for continuous improvement and managed services.
• Value in a global rollout partner with the right engagement model and governance structure.

Moving from Manual Spreadsheet Supplier Reconciliations to Automated Reconciliations in SAP

Standard SAP does not include functionality to process supplier statements. Learn how Foodstuffs South Island Limited, a leading grocery retailer, moved from manually ticking off paper statements and producing reconciliations in spreadsheets, to an automated vendor reconciliation solution in SAP. The enabler is the SAP certified add-on module called BEST – and a methodical approach by Foodstuffs South Island Limited management to maximise SAP capability. We’ll show how Foodstuffs South Island Limited has reduced costs and improved creditor controls by automating the reconciliation of hundreds of thousands of creditor lines every month. The session will include, the challenges we faced with a manual process, an overview of BEST’s AP reconciliation module, how we managed the change and how BEST changed our world.

• The importance of Change Management in automation projects
• How Automation can help your Accounts Payable Team
• The power of AI and Machine Learning

Implementing Onboarding 2.0 at Nutrien for Accelerated Growth

Join us to explore Nutrien’s transformative journey with SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 2.0, revolutionizing their hiring process and driving growth. Learn how Nutrien leveraged SAP Onboarding 2.0 to streamline onboarding, attract top talent, and cultivate a dynamic workforce. Uncover the role of their integrated HXM strategy in supporting their initiatives. This session provides actionable strategies to optimize your hiring process, empower your workforce, and unlock growth potential.

Leveraging Automation for Optimized SAP Change Management – SA Power Network’s Journey

For SA Power Networks, the journey with Rev-Trac has been transformative, particularly in overcoming the myriad challenges associated with traditional SAP change management. Prior to Rev-Trac, SA Power Networks faced the common pitfalls of the manual change management process – prolonged downtimes, sequence inefficiencies, vulnerability to errors, and conflicts amongst various changes. These issues often manifested as significant disruptions to business operations and operational inefficiencies. Using Rev-Trac, we experienced a paradigm shift in our operations. Through enforcing the correct sequence of changes and proactively detecting and mitigating potential conflicts, Rev-Trac dramatically minimized risks inherent to change management. The results have been remarkable. Not only has Rev-Trac enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and reliability in our change management, but it has also paved the path for our digital transformation journey. SA Power Networks will share their experiences, benefits, lessons learned and insights for others planning on going down a similar path.

• Improved Governance: Predefined workflows help in enforcing robust governance and process compliance.
• Boosted Deployments: Automation increases deployment speed, volume, and quality.
• Heightened Efficiency: Minimize business downtime for both BAU operations and major releases.

Leveraging Automation for Optimized SAP Change Management – SA Power Network’s Journey

For SA Power Networks, the journey with Rev-Trac has been transformative, particularly in overcoming the myriad challenges associated with traditional SAP change management. Prior to Rev-Trac, SA Power Networks faced the common pitfalls of the manual change management process – prolonged downtimes, sequence inefficiencies, vulnerability to errors, and conflicts amongst various changes. These issues often manifested as significant disruptions to business operations and operational inefficiencies. Using Rev-Trac, we experienced a paradigm shift in our operations. Through enforcing the correct sequence of changes and proactively detecting and mitigating potential conflicts, Rev-Trac dramatically minimized risks inherent to change management. The results have been remarkable. Not only has Rev-Trac enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and reliability in our change management, but it has also paved the path for our digital transformation journey. SA Power Networks will share their experiences, benefits, lessons learned and insights for others planning on going down a similar path.

• Improved Governance: Predefined workflows help in enforcing robust governance and process compliance.
• Boosted Deployments: Automation increases deployment speed, volume, and quality.
• Heightened Efficiency: Minimize business downtime for both BAU operations and major releases.

Increase SAP Resilience and Unlock Innovation with the only SAP Certified Security, Business Monitoring and Observability Platform

Increasingly complex end-to-end business services go beyond SAP. Services integrate across a broad shared technology and infrastructure landscape, including shared integrations, load balancers, firewalls, message queue services, web services, archive systems, authentication services, and many other applications.

In this session, we will discuss how customers have reduced cost and driven revenue by consolidating all SAP observability, security, compliance, integrations, and business operations monitoring and alerting. With over 1,600 out-of-the-box SAP use cases and 13 SAP Certifications, customers can gain full coverage for all ABAP, Java, Cloud and SaaS solutions like SAP® Ariba®, SuccessFactors®, Cloud Platform Integration, Business Technology Platform and more. What’s best is that it can be completely operational within days.

Key takeaways will include:
• How to break down the silos and misaligned metrics across different teams when there’s a security incident or an operational outage.
• How to get ahead of cyber threats with user behaviour analytics, automated audit reporting, access monitoring and alerting, and vulnerability and threat correlation.
• Baseline and track all business KPIs before, during and after migrations and upgrades.
• Lessons learnt that should shape complex transformation initiatives.

Damien Wong

Damien Wong is Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan (APAC), responsible for all aspects of the go-to-market strategy and for driving further expansion across the APAC regions.

In his role, Damien is responsible for shaping and developing Tricentis presence in the region. Spearheading the role as trusted advisor in software quality engineering, Damien consistently engages with key C-suites, senior stakeholders and strategic partners.

Damien is also a regular speaker at industry events and fervently believes in developing the next generation of industry leaders, through coaching and mentoring of budding executives across the Asia Pacific region.

With more than 27 years of experience in consulting, customer relationship and general management, Damien brings to Tricentis his tenacious leadership, and passion in building high-performance teams in enterprise technology companies.

Damien previously served as Vice President of APAC at Confluent, as well as Vice President and General Manager across Southeast Asia, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at Red Hat. He has also held business and technology leadership positions at companies such as Hewlett Packard, META Group and Accenture.

Government of Tomorrow is Agile – Technology for Government to Respond in Agile and Flexible Ways

Today, Governments at all levels are under ever increasing pressure to provide essential services, with finite resources, while adapting to dynamic changes like natural disasters, economic plans, and changing citizen expectations. The Australian public service is highly efficient and effective,
but traditional structures are being tested by changing expectations and unpredictable forces. Regardless of if you are moving toward GovERP in the Commonwealth government agencies, or operating in State and Local governments agencies, government must reshape itself and leverage
technological and analytics innovations to make agility a new competence for the next generation.

Today SAP will outline our experience in working with Governments to help them operate more cohesively, collectively and collaboratively in ever increasingly dynamic environments by:

• Harness the strategic value of data and improving decision making confidence: The ultimate value comes not from solving a single problem but from establishing a data-driven platform that can be leveraged to provide actionable insights for any given problem as well as the
  interdependencies between problems, and drive insights to outcomes Engaging citizens meaningfully with the power of data:
• Leverage data as an asset in these citizen-facing operations to meet the expectations of
  citizens and deliver seamless services
• Better leveraging the unique value of the Government workforce ecosystem: Imagine the ability to unlock the unique value that the Public Sector workforce delivers through providing better employee experiences and enabling a more empowered public sector workforce

Shane Cracknell

Shane has held several leadership roles within the ANZ Commercial Sales Organisation since joining AWS in 2016. He currently leads the ‘Enterprise Greenfield’ business segment across Australia and New Zealand, where his team is focused on nurturing new relationships with customers in the early stages of their journey with AWS. He is passionate about business transformation and the role technology plays in enabling positive economic and social impact. Before joining AWS in 2016, Shane was a member of the leadership team at Thomas Duryea Consulting and held several roles at Dell Australia. Prior to his career in technology, he spent time in the pharmaceutical sector and worked for various private and public health providers as an Occupational Therapist.

Shane lives in Melbourne and holds an MBA from the Melbourne Business School and a Bachelor of Science (Occupational Therapy) from La Trobe University.