Jumpstart Day
Join us for Jumpstart Day — Monday, March 15
Jumpstart Day offers you special three-hour sessions that enable you to:
- Fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions
- Explore new trends and strategies
- Enhance your learning experience at the main conference
By registering for Jumpstart Day, you can:
- Attend any Jumpstart sessions of interest to you
- Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated question-and-answer time
- Receive exclusive Jumpstart Day take-home materials containing the slides from all Jumpstart presentations
- Participate in a networking lunch with other Jumpstart Day attendees
Monday, March 15
GRC solutions: Capabilities, updates, and lessons learned from fellow customers
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Solutions for governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) are all now part of SAP BusinessObjects solutions. This three-hour session provides a comprehensive guide to these solutions, recommendations to deploy and optimize them, and updates for all SAP customers.
- Get a sweeping view of internal controls and how customers are employing them across financial and business processes
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the integration points between SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions and other components of your SAP landscape
- See how SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions are being integrated with SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions to make budgeting, planning, and performance management processes more risk-aware
- Examine the system components and implementation requirements for SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, Process Control, and Risk Management applications
- Become familiar with the technical architecture of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, their Java front ends, ABAP™ back ends, real-time agents, system landscape requirements, and software logistics
- Hear how customers are deploying solutions from a strategic and technical perspective to manage risk and compliance more effectively
- Gather recommendations for getting started with SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions and expanding your GRC footprint based on lessons learned from recent customer experiences
- Explore strategies for embedding risk information into core business processes
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control: Mastering the configuration requirements
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control includes four key pieces of functionality, all with different configuration requirements. This detailed three-hour session offers expert recommendations to help you simplify the process of configuring this comprehensive solution.
- Find out how to configure access control functionality to meet your organization’s unique business and compliance requirements
- Examine the technical landscape of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, and learn how to utilize the development applications for your initial implementation
- Review important infrastructure considerations that affect configuration, including user provisioning workflow, rules, and mitigations
- Acquire best practices for configuring your rule set
- Learn how to leverage enterprise role management functionality to build standard rule sets, cross-system rules, and cross-platform rules
- Learn how to integrate access control functionality with SAP and non-SAP applications
- Find out how to ensure data and process integrity to help manage risk and compliance
The updated 2010 guide to SAP BusinessObjects solutions for reporting, analytics, and planning
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
This special three-hour session helps you understand what the latest updates to SAP BusinessObjects solutions mean to your financial teams, IT teams, business intelligence (BI) teams, and end users.
- Understand the complete set of options available to
SAP customers for:
- Reporting (formatting, printing, Web enablement, and customization)
- Drill-down analytics
- Planning
- Consolidations
- Dashboards
- Performance management
- Step through demos of key SAP BusinessObjects tools and applications
- Obtain strategic guidelines for picking the right tool or combination of tools for your specific requirements
- Assess the prerequisites, skills, and learning curve required to leverage SAP and SAP BusinessObjects solutions
- Learn how to utilize SAP BusinessObjects software’s front-end options to access and leverage existing investments in the back end
- Get tips to simplified your financial reporting while leveraging your existing landscape
Attendees of this session receive these exclusive take-homes:
- A detailed matrix illustrating which tools address specific challenges
- Up-to-date joint roadmaps for SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and SAP BusinessObjects solutions
- A comprehensive glossary of new terminology
Credit, collections, billing, and dispute management: Managing your financial supply chain
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
This three-hour session provides insights to optimize your cash management and liquidity planning activities using SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (SAP FSCM) functionality.
- Gain a detailed understanding of four key components
of SAP FSCM, including:
- SAP Credit Management
- SAP Biller Direct
- SAP Dispute Management
- SAP Collections Management
- Learn how to leverage each application individually, as well as how to exploit them together as an integrated solution
- Examine your options for cash management, liquidity planning, cash flow reporting, and forecasting
- Find out how to gain a real-time vision of your organization’s cash position
- Hear how to make sound credit decisions that strengthen your organization’s cash position
- Get best practices for leveraging credit limit, credit segment, automated risk, and credit limit determination functionality, along with flexible check rules
- Gain insight into how to quickly and smoothly resolve disputes in order to close out invoices
- Step through a scenario that illustrates how a dispute case is handled with SAP Dispute Management
- Gather ideas for using the daily work list in SAP Collections Management to close out open receivables
SAP ERP Financials: Capabilities, updates, and guidelines
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
This three-hour session provides a comprehensive guide to the full range of functionality in SAP ERP Financials. Attend this unique session to:
- Take a detailed tour of the latest financial accounting
(FI) functionality, including:
- the general ledger
- accounts payable
- accounts receivable
- period-end close tools
- Get an up-to-date guide of what’s new with controlling
(CO) functionality, such as:
- accounting (PCA)
- profitability analysis (PA)
- cost center accounting (CCA)
- Find out how to leverage key integration points between SAP ERP Financials and SAP FSCM functionality including: credit management financial accounting and controlling dispute management electronic billing
- Step through examples of how to simplify order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes
- Learn how to integrate SAP ERP Financials with performance management and analytical tools for financial reporting, overhead cost analytics, profitability analytics, and more
- Preview the latest financial functionality that will be delivered with enhancement package 5 and assess whether it could add value to your finance organization
Panel Discussion: Strategies for comprehensive, enterprisewide governance, risk, and compliance programs
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This three-hour session offers valuable insight into creating a more holistic, enterprise-wide governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program. An informative lecture is followed by insights from a panel of experienced professionals that include a CIO, CFO, internal audit executive, and systems integrator.
- Learn how to determine what is most important to your key stakeholders when shaping and developing a GRC program
- Find out how you can anticipate and prevent risk related threats
- Learn how to measure success using key performance indicators (KPIs) that establish the business value of your GRC initiative
- Study leading practices for improving your GRC program results while reducing overall costs
- Get tips for staying current with evolving regulatory requirements and data privacy laws
- Gain insight into how leading organizations are meeting the challenges of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption
- Hear how the panel of seasoned professionals have overcome some of the biggest challenges associated with implementing enterprise-wide GRC programs
An introduction into SAP BusinessObjects Process Control, Risk Management and Sustainability Performance Management
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This detailed three-hour session offers an in-depth review of the three latest SAP BusinessObjects GRC solution releases: SAP BusinessObjects Process Control 3.0, SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management 3.0, and SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management 1.0.
- Find out what is required to implement the core capabilities and new product enhancements coming with SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and Risk Management
- View step-by-step demos that illustrate the system components and the pre-installation and implementation requirements for the new GRC solutions
- Learn how to leverage the shared architecture and object models that SAP has created to develop a more cohesive risk management and internal control process
- Get best practices and technical guidelines for incorporating sustainability reporting, strategic planning, and risk management into your landscape to transform your company into a top “green” performer
- Walk through a number of implementation scenarios and hear how other customers have successfully deployed these three solutions
- Take home a complete implementation checklist for the solutions discussed in this session
Explicit guidelines and SAP functionality to meet IFRS requirements
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Understand the functionality that SAP has in place to enable your organization to successfully meet the conversion to IFRS in this special three-hour session.
- Walk through a recommended timeline for transitioning from US GAAP to IFRS
- Gain a solid understanding of the people, processes, and technology that will be impacted by IFRS
- Find out how to adjust your current reporting practices to align with IFRS reporting and walk through proven approaches to transition your organization
- Explore the functionality provided by SAP General Ledger to support parallel accounting and find out how this could aid you in the conversion process
- Determine how SAP Business Suite and SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions can be leveraged to ease the IFRS transition
- Find out which SAP ERP Financials functionality best supports IFRS compliance for your company
- Leave this session armed with the knowledge and action plan to bring your SAP systems and reporting strategy into compliance with IFRS
What every SAP customer now needs to know about SAP General Ledger
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This three-hour tutorial provides a comprehensive guide and introduction to the latest version of SAP General Ledger. Attend this unique session to:
- Understand the key differences between the newest SAP General Ledger and the classic GL
- Learn the key decisions and considerations involved in implementing or upgrading to the SAP General Ledger within SAP ERP
- Become familiar with the migration toolset available to customers making the transition
- Determine if, when, and how to use document splitting to attain full financial statements at either the segment or profit center level
- Get tips to configure new ledgers for parallel accounting that support additional local currencies and multiple accounting standards, such as as US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS
- Learn how to take advantage of new multi-dimensional reporting capabilities for legal, segment, and management reporting
- Step through criteria to evaluate how to best plan and scope your migration project
- Clarify some of the most commonly misunderstood and confusing terms associated with SAP General Ledger
- Explore lessons learned from customers who made the transition
Lessons for integrating your SAP® system to optimize end-to-end financial processes
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This comprehensive three-hour session will help you ensure that your company’s SAP financial data is consistent across all your key business activities.
- Obtain best practices for properly integrating:
- Financial accounting (FI)
- Managerial accounting and controlling (CO)
- Sales and distribution (SD)
- Materials management (MM)
- Human capital management (HCM)
- Project systems (PS)
- Plant maintenance (PM)
- Learn the best ways to maintain consistent data across multiple modules for smoother financial processes, such as order-to-cash and purchase-to-pay
- Obtain detailed, undocumented configuration steps that ensure proper integration across these modules
- Determine how unique aspects of each module, such as master data fields and specific processes, affect your integration efforts
- Understand the purpose of the enterprise structure as an enabler of good integration
- Examine the key configuration activities that drive integration, such as automatic postings from other modules
- Examine the dependencies and challenges that you need to be aware of when integrating SAP modules
