Individual sessions
13.15 Transforming local services: Barnet, Logica and SAP - with Logica
In April 2008 Barnet was confirmed as a 4 star authority; a radical turnaround from a position four years earlier of poorly performing services, failing IT and external audit sanctions for poor financial health. This session discusses how SAP/Logica supported this transformation, the lessons learned and sets out the roadmap for a new phase of service and organisational transformation.
14.00 The Transformation of City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in Partnership with IBM and SAP
The City of Bradford MDC have embarked on a major transformation called Bradford-i. Developed as a change programme supported by new IT, it was about making a difference both internally and to the council’s customers. Becky Hellard, Strategic Director of Corporate Services for the City of Bradford MDC will outline the project objectives, progress thus far, the lessons learnt and how Bradford-i positions the council for the future.
14.45 Optimising your Infrastructure for SAP - with IBM
We all know that SAP requires a Hardware infrastructure, but what is the right one for your unique deployment and use of SAP? How do we craft the right infrastructure to meet a new SAP implementation and what would IBM recommend for an existing SAP Customer who wishes to optimise performance and also meet current commercial pressures? How do we meet ongoing changing needs? This session discusses how IBM evaluates your SAP and Non-Functional Requirements, discusses the options to virtualise Servers and Storage, provision Capacity On (and Off) and architect the right infrastructure to meet current and future needs.
15.30 UK Rural Payments Agency – Case study with Sun Microsystems
Join this session for an opportunity to hear how the UK Rural Payments Agency uses Sun's thin client technology to reduce its employee desktop costs; amounting to £20 million saving over seven years. The Agency saves a further £200,000 each year in electricity and is on-target to cut its carbon emission footprint by 260 tons per year. In addition the time required to roll out application updates has been cut from weeks to days and improved IT flexibility and eased employee mobility needs.
16.15 SAP Invoice Management -Improving efficiency throughout the Financial Supply Chain – with Open Text
For many organisations, the Accounts Payable process is the greatest drain on finance department resources - and also the area where the greatest performance gains can be achieved throughout the financial supply chain and beyond.
While SAP ERP automatically records transactions, dealing with the minority of invoices that fail to match up on the first pass is still largely a laborious and costly manual process with plenty of scope for human error, duplication of effort and wasted time. Receiving paper invoices, routing them for data entry, resolving problems and reporting is unnecessarily complex, cumbersome, costly and time-consuming. These unnecessary invoice processing costs can be multiplied and compounded on a global level – with a cumulatively negative effect on cash flow and bottom line performance.
Learn from SAP and Open Text experts how you can optimise your Accounts Payable process with SAP Invoice Management by Open Text by attending this session.