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SAUG Summit 2008 - Session Overviews
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Summit Opening
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Business Application Manager, Dimension Data
Ally has been a member of the SAUG for over 6 years with 4 of these as Vice-Chairperson and two as Chairperson. During her time with the Committee the group has grown from 168 member companies to over 250. Ally recognises that the SAUG is an organisation that is continuously growing and has a strong desire to ensure that the Group continues to meet the needs of its members.
President and Managing Director, SAP Australia New Zealand
Tim joined SAP in 2003 as Chief Financial and Commercial Officer for ANZ; in 2005 his role was expanded to Chief Operating Officer for ANZ.
In January 2007, Tim was promoted to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for SAP across Asia Pacific and Japan. In this role, Tim led the regional deal crafting and commercial development team, and led strategic planning and execution. He was appointed to his present position in early 2008 and has led the ANZ to two consecutive years of record growth.
Tim has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years. He joined SAP from TMP Worldwide where he held the position of Chief Financial Officer for the Asia Pacific region. Prior to that Tim was CFO for Compaq Computer and Investment Director at Compaq’s Venture Capital Fund. Tim has also held senior executive roles at Unisys, Tandem Computers, and GEC ALSTHOM Australia Limited.
Tim is a graduate of Macquarie University, where he completed a Bachelor of Economics degree. He has also undertaken post graduate studies at INSEAD and Deakin University. He is a fellow of CPA Australia, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Tim is an accomplished sportsman having played representative cricket. He is non-executive Chairman of Insite Organisation Pty Ltd which is an integrated marketing communications business, and a professional mentor at CPA Australia.
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SAUG Opening
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| When: |
9:00 AM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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60 minutes |
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General session |
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The Disappearance of Organisational Boundaries
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Research Director, Gartner
Professional Background
Gartner Consulting, Director, 5 years
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Director, 5 years
Oracle Corporation, Senior Consultant, 4 years
"I love being able to give organisations practicable advice on their business applications that results in better processes, better productivity, better profitability and a better working environment. My role as an analyst enables me to help guide organisations along the often torturous path of business application ownership."
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The Hyperconnected Enterprise: When Unknown People Have a Say in Your Business Decisions
Organisational boundaries are blurring and disa
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The Hyperconnected Enterprise: When Unknown People Have a Say in Your Business Decisions
Organisational boundaries are blurring and disappearing. In the “hyperconnected enterprise,” dozens, possibly hundreds, of people can influence decisions about direction, services, products and reputation, randomly, across global markets and outside official channels. • Where does the hyperconnected enterprise come from? Why will it matter? • Which assumptions does it create? Dispel? Renew? • What are the looming implications for business and IT leaders?
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Keynote 1
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| When: |
10:00 AM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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60 minutes |
| Level: |
Strategic |
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The Australia Post Journey to an Integrated Enterprise
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CIO Office, Information Technology, Australia Post
Chief Information Officer at Australia Post since April 2006. Initial focus was to rebuild Information Technology’s capability as a service provider to the business. Was instrumental in gaining Board support of the SAP ERP strategy, initiating a major transformation of processes and systems across the entire enterprise.
Chief Information Officer at BlueScope Steel (formerly BHP Steel), Australia’s largest steel manufacturer, from late 2001 to Feb 2006. Drove the IT separation from BHP Billiton, the establishment of the IS capability, the acceptance of IS Strategy and the future capabilities of technologies, including ERP, infrastructure and processes. Significant growth in the US and Asia including M&A activities.
Chief Information Officer at Southcorp Ltd (including Australia’s largest wine company) from June ’98 to Sept ’01, responsible for Global IT strategy, architecture and policy. In the 3 years at Southcorp, focus was on strategic development of IT capability geared toward a closer alignment between the business and IT, and delivering value for the business from IT investments. Major M&A activities resulted in a dynamic environment.
Previously, Vice President and General Manager of DMR Consulting’s Southern Region. Responsible for major turnaround and growth of activities in Victoria, South Australia and Canberra. Was a key member of the DMR Executive.
In excess of 30 years experience in the Information Technology industry in IT management, marketing, sales, strategic consulting and major development projects. Industry experience includes Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Logistics, Financial Services, Government, Utilities, Telecommunications, and Insurance.
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| Description: |
As an Australian icon, Australia Post has achieved enviable results in revenue and profits for the past decade. It's breadth of operations is significant, employing in excess of 35,000 people delivering mail, p
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As an Australian icon, Australia Post has achieved enviable results in revenue and profits for the past decade. It's breadth of operations is significant, employing in excess of 35,000 people delivering mail, parcels, logistics services and supporting a significant retail network. The vision at Australia Post is to operate as an 'integrated enterprise'. However current business processes and technology limit that capability. This presentation will illustrate the journey Post has been on for the past 2 years in firstly understanding the 'what', and then the 'how' in moving to this vision. SAP is a key enabler in this journey but business engagement and support is critical for this journey to be successful. Wayne will discuss how building an enterprise blueprint of the future led to the establishment of Post's Business Integration Program, the program that will deliver the vision of an 'integrated enterprise'.
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Keynote 2
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| When: |
11:30 AM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
| Duration: |
60 minutes |
| Level: |
Strategic |
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Solution Demonstrations
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Senior System Engineer, F5 Networks
Demonstration 2: Accelerate your SAP Portal
Learn how F5 Networks is helping organisations overcome performance issues involving portal platforms, browsers, Web applications and WAN latency. F5 solutions can solve many of these network infrastructure challenges by optimising applications, ensuring the best possible user experience.
Symphony Solutions, Senior Analyst
Demonstration 5: Optimisation of Your Procure to Pay Function
Adopting automation for financial processes can deliver significant benefits by cutting costs, shortening processing times and reducing manual effort. In order to realise these benefits, it is imperative that a cohesive solution is adopted to support the process. In this session, Symphony Solutions will be demonstrating the key components of a fully integrated solution for automating Accounts Payable in SAP (including utilisation of scanned invoices) and some solutions for improving Supplier relations.
Business Development Manager, Adobe Systems
Demonstration 1: Hope for the best. Plan for the worst
Go green, reduce travel expenses, and increase project team collaboration with SAP Acrobat Connect Professional Meeting.
Work together more effectively using online meetings and through document-based collaboration. Create engaging, interactive experiences with participants—regardless of their location—using a variety of communication aids, such as white-boarding, teleconferencing, chat, and audio-visual capabilities. SAP Acrobat Connect Professional Meeting by Adobe will grab your audience’s attention with an almost in-person experience. Your room is always available, so colleagues around the world can jump right in with just a click—no scheduling, registration, or plug-in downloads required. You can share your screen, brainstorm on a whiteboard, chat, and video conference—without wasting time and money on travel. All you need is what you already have: a web browser and Adobe Flash® Player software.
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Presentation
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| When: |
1:00 PM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
| Duration: |
45 minutes |
| Level: |
General session |
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Benchmarking & KPIs
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Director of Value Engineering, Industry Solution, SAP Australia
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The SAP benchmarking and best practices programme assists organisationsmore
The SAP benchmarking and best practices programme assists organisations with assessing strengths, identifying potential areas for improvement, and recognising best practices and IT strategies that can be deployed to help your organisation excel.
With more that 2,800 participants and 1,500 organisations, to date, participation is free to SAP Customers. Hear the experiences of the programme in this session.
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Focus Session
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| When: |
2:00 PM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
| Duration: |
60 minutes |
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Business |
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From MDMP to Unicode - A multilingual system upgrade in a global organisation
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Sales & Distribution Applications Team Lead, Roche Products Pty Ltd
Alan People leads a global team of sales & distribution analysts supporting 5 SAP ERP systems globally and associated sales and distribution applications and interfaces.
Alan joined Roche Products in 2003 as a PP functional analyst, and his role was later expanded to manage key accounts in the technical operations functions of the Asia Pacific region, as well as develop and align informatics and business strategies.
In March 2007, Alan led the technical upgrade project from 4.6c to ERP 6.0, as well as converting the multilanguage standard from MDMP to Unicode.
Alan has 9 years of hands-on SAP ERP experience, and has undertaken numerous full life cycle implementations over that time in various roles. He graduated from The University of Sydney, where he completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
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Whether you are dealing with a new installation, an upgrade or a system consolidation - migration to the Unicode standard can lead to many questions. This session will address the challenges faced in car
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Whether you are dealing with a new installation, an upgrade or a system consolidation - migration to the Unicode standard can lead to many questions. This session will address the challenges faced in carrying out a Unicode conversion from the older MDMP standard (multi display multi processing) combined with an upgrade to ERP 6.0, and executed by a global virtual team. Learn how to enable a multilingual environment with the Unicode Standard. Learn about the ABAP enabling of existing custom developments & interfaces, and the explanation of native SAP Unicode conversion tools. In addition, hear about the project management experiences of running a project with a virtual global team. Roche Products will cover the benefits it realised and the lessons it learned.
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Focus Session
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| When: |
2:00 PM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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60 minutes |
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Technical |
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Exciting new developments in the General Ledger
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Managing Principal - Financials, SAP Australia Pty Ltd
Financial Systems Manager , Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd
Peter has been with Allianz since 1994, and Financial Systems Manager Since 1999. His experience includes 5 implementations of Financial ERP systems including Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP. During the SAP implementation Peter has represented Allianz Australia on each of the nine Global Financials Best Practice streams including COA, Cost Accounting, and Business Warehouse. In addition Peter is the SAP group lead for Financials in Sydney.
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The new general-ledger accounting software in mySAP ERP can help companies in a number of areas. It now provides a unified structure that combines individual ledgers – such as the co
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The new general-ledger accounting software in mySAP ERP can help companies in a number of areas. It now provides a unified structure that combines individual ledgers – such as the cost-of-sales, profit-centre-accounting, and consolidation-staging ledgers.
With this structure you can:
- Considerably accelerate your period-end closings
- Flexibly perform reporting tasks based on data reconciled in real time
- Efficiently handle financial reporting, according to both local and international accounting principles
- Learn more about experiences in implementing and migrating to the new GL
Peter will discuss Allianz Australia's implementation of the New GL as part of the Global Template roll-out. The areas of focus are
1. The drivers for the Allianz's global SAP roll-out and the local requirements
2. Multi-GAAP accounting - parallel accounting ledgers
3. Multi-dimensional GL - extended data structure
4. Real Time integration with CO
5. Lessons Learned in regard to the New GL
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Focus Session
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| When: |
2:00 PM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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60 minutes |
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Business |
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Virtualisation - It's Reality
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Architecture Consultant, CITEC
Gary is a Principal Architecture Consultant in the Queensland Government Chief Technology Office (QGCTO) located at CITEC Brisbane. Gary is 22 year ICT veteran with over 12 years experience in developing ICT Infrastructure Architectures and Solutions for both corporate and government organisations.
Gary consulted to the Queensland Government Service Delivery Commission for its 2006 review into ICT Governance in the Queensland Government. Leading on from this he became the Lead Architect for the Technology Consolidation Business Case Project for the consolidation of Networks, Servers, Storage and Data Centres with in the Queensland Government.
Gary has been involved in provisioning infrastructure solutions for SAP since the 1990’s and was heavily involved in the creation of the CITEC SAP R/3 Bureau. He is currently the Lead Architect for the Hosting Solution used by CorpTech for the Whole of Government Finance and HR solution which is underpinned the MySAP product set.
The QGCTO provides strategic leadership, policy, management and advice on the Government’s investment in information and communication technology. The QGCTO is responsible for the technology architecture and consolidated infrastructure comprising the whole-of-Government requirement for data centres, networks, infrastructure, and essential ancillary services.
Chief Technology Officer, Attorney-General's Department
Meng Ngai has been in the IT industry for 16 years. During this time Meng has worked in both the private and public sectors with companies and agencies such as Apple, General Electric, ACT Government, Comcare Australia and Attorney-General's Department. Meng is the CTO for the Federal Attorney-General's Department (AGD) and leads the management teams for Application Development, Servers and Desktops, Enterprise Storage, Corporate Systems, Voice and Data Networks and Client Services.
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Presentation 1:
Experiences in the provisioning of Server infrastructure for multiple SAP environments, an Architect’s tale of consolidation
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Presentation 1:
Experiences in the provisioning of Server infrastructure for multiple SAP environments, an Architect’s tale of consolidation and virtualisation.
This presentation will highlight the continuing journey CITEC is making in the provisioning of consolidated server infrastructure to support the business needs of the Queensland Government SAP landscape.
The presentation will highlight the various techniques that CITEC has used in the delivery of the solution including;
· Server Virtualisation
· Partitioning
· Resource Sharing
· Capacity on Demand
· Multi Site Capabilities
· Utilities Based Services
By attending this presentation you will gain an appreciation of what can be achieved through the use of “virtualisation”. Presentation 2:
This is a key area of focus for CTO's and CIO's with IDC forecasting a 75% growth in use of virtualisation in the next 12 months. Virtualisation is a means of reducing IT costs. It helps with reduced data centre costs for rack space, energy, cooling, hardware, and labour. At the same time increase SAP data centre utilisation, flexibility, availability, and agility. Learn how strategies such as server consolidation and containment to business process and data centre automation improve your ROI, TOC and improves your business agility.
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Focus Session
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| When: |
2:00 PM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
| Duration: |
60 minutes |
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Technical |
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The Challenges of rolling out SAP Globally
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Director-IT Services, Dev. and Emerging Markets, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
David has over 20 years experience in the IT industry ranging from application development to executive leadership of over 200 team members. His team currently provides solutions to 148 countries delivering $5.2 billion in net sales with an operating budget of $70 million. David is located in Sydney and responsible for ensuring that the business teams in Developing and Emerging (D&E) Markets are receiving the IT support and insights they need to drive the business. He has direct responsibility for IT in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and consultation with KC Mexico.
David has been responsible for implementing SAP HR (payroll and personnel management) to 37,000 employees in the USA on a project that went live over a single evening. He has led the implementation of SAP to 18 countries in Central and South America replacing 23 unique supply chain and financial systems. More recently his team completed the implementation of SAP in China and 7 countries in Central Asia.
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Kimberly-Clark is a leading global health and hygiene company employing more than 53,000 people worldwide and posting sales of $18.2 billion in 2007. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with operations in 37 countr
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Kimberly-Clark is a leading global health and hygiene company employing more than 53,000 people worldwide and posting sales of $18.2 billion in 2007. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with operations in 37 countries, Kimberly-Clark’s global brands are sold in more than 150 countries. What can you learn from a Fortune 150 company that has successfully consolidated their global IT operations for over 55 countries onto four regional SAP landscapes in one data centre? Kimberly-Clark recently completed their rollout of SAP in Asia-Pacific. Managing multi-cultural/location/language teams in Asia is a challenge for any organization. In this session David will explain: · Why Kimberly-Clark implemented four landscapes; · How they managed the cultural and geographic diversity, competing scope demands, and technical connectivity and integration in Asia-Pacific; · What could have been done differently? You will walk out of the session with a Top 10 list(s) of key learnings that you can use to help ensure success in a regional (or national) roll-out of SAP.
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Keynote 3
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| When: |
3:30 PM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
| Duration: |
60 minutes |
| Level: |
Strategic |
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Gala Cocktail Party - Le Cirque du Monde
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Join us for an entertaining and mystical evening of performances, illusions and surprises.
This networking event is not to be missed and something you will talk about for a while to come...
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Join us for an entertaining and mystical evening of performances, illusions and surprises.
This networking event is not to be missed and something you will talk about for a while to come...
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Evening event
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| When: |
4:45 PM Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
| Duration: |
180 minutes |
| Level: |
General session |
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