Schedule at a glance
08.30 - 09.30	Registration & Coffee in the Exhibition Area
09.30 - 09.45	Welcome & Introduction - Tim Noble, Managing Director, SAP United Kingdom & Ireland
09.45 - 10.45	Keynote Presentation Bill McDermott, Member of the Executive Board, SAP
10.45 - 11.30	Coffee Break in the Exhibition Area
11.30 - 13.00	Morning Breakouts
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch in the Exhibition Area
14.00 - 17.30	Afternoon Breakouts
15.30 - 16.00	Tea Break in Exhibition Area
17.30 hrs	Close

Financial Excellence Business Intelligence Tech Tour Quick-win Solutions for Beating the Downturn Solutions for Growing Enterprises SAP Industries Partners and Ecosystem

Financial Excellence 11.30 - 12.15 A-Z of EPM & GRC James Fisher Senior Director Solution Marketing, SAP BusinessObjects In this session James will provide an overview of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC) solutions, taking you through the components that make up these solution sets. 12.15 - 13.00 Turning Challenges into Opportunities with Performance Management Martin McCann Head of Business Development, SAP In today’s economy much attention is focused on the risks and short term performance gaps of the business. However with the right performance management insights, many SAP customers are able to create opportunities to further accelerate growth over competitors. Learn how to use performance insight to target key growth areas and create a platform for growth in any situation. 14.00 - 14.45 The Financial Close - Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence James Fisher Senior Director Solution Marketing, SAP BusinessObjects The requirement to close books quickly and with quality is an essential project for today’s global finance function. In this session we discuss how corporate finance centres can overcome the barriers to fast, high-quality close. By converging previously disparate disciplines of business intelligence; governance, risk, and compliance; and enterprise performance management, companies can get trusted data into the hands of key stakeholders in a timely manner. 14.45 - 15.30 Implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation at the Department for Transport Chris Hall Former Director of Strategic Finance Systems, Department for Transport and Andy Gleave Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, SAP BusinessObjects Chris will present an insight into the drivers for change at DfT focusing on the need for a more efficient, responsive and coherent approach to providing business-critical management information - and explaining how the BPC platform is now delivering a wide range of planning, performance management and reporting solutions. Andy will also show how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation provides everything you need to meet bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements, as well as consolidation and reporting through a single application and user interface. 16.00 - 16.45 A Vision for an Integrated Control System - Pearson Group Mike Cartlidge Deputy Head of SOX & Compliance, Pearson Group and Cari Cardew Pre-Sales Consultant, SAP BusinessObjects Pearson Group is undergoing an extensive financial transformation project. Mike will present how SAP BusinessObjects GRC is an integral part of this project and the benefits they see now and anticipate in the future. You will also learn how SAP BusinessObjects GRC enables a preventative based risk policy, how to use mitigating controls to resolve risks, streamline your business processes and reduce audit cycle time. 16.45 - 17.30 Today’s Imperative; Managing Spend, Costs and Profitability to Improve the Bottom Line Richard Barrett Director Solution Marketing, SAP BusinessObjects and Cathy Daw Head of SRM Pre-Sales, SAP At times like this, reducing input costs and providing better insight into the true profitability of products and customers are vitally important as they both impact operating margins. In this session, hear about SAP Business Objects solutions for Spend Performance Management and Profitability and Cost Management. Business Intelligence 11.30 - 12.15 SAP BusinessObjects: Optimizing Business Performance Richard Neale Director Marketing, OCIO EMEA, SAP BusinessObjects All too often executives are disconnected from the realities facing operational units and are forced to make strategic decisions without a clear view of what is happening on the front line. Organizations are challenged to understand their business risks, communicate goals to their employees, and to align their day-to-day activities with the overall strategy of the organization. SAP BusinessObjects aims to help organizations address business risks while closing this gap between strategy and execution, and optimizing business performance. 12.15 - 13.00 A - Z of Business Intelligence Phil Wood Principal PreSales Consultant, SAP The SAP BusinessObjects portfolio offers various solutions to enhance business intelligence (analysis, reporting, and dashboards); information management (data integration, data quality management and master data management). Learn how these solutions can enhance your business. 14.00 - 14.45 The Importance of Business Intelligence – During Market Growth & Recession Richard Neale Director Marketing, OCIO EMEA, SAP BusinessObjects Successful companies aren’t waiting for economic recovery – they’re assuring their own future now. It’s never too late to arm your company with BI to help navigate through tough economic times. In fact, according to the latest research by Information Age, more and more businesses are viewing analysis, reporting and business performance management applications as crucial mechanisms to gain complete visibility of their operations, reduce costs, radically improve productivity and manage risk and volatility. Attend this session to discover how you can use BI to release the latent value of your organisation’s data as well as interpret trends, analyse “what if” scenarios and empower business decision makers with real-time, accurate information. 14.45 - 15.30 Revolutionizing your Business Intelligence (with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer) Chris Darvill Business Intelligence Team, SAP BusinessObjects and Stewart Faith, BI Specialist SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is the perfect tool for any organization that struggles to provide business users with a simple, fast and intuitive analysis tool to explore any dataset without having to call upon IT for help. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer offers those users who have traditionally avoided more complex Business Intelligence tools a way to easily search and explore information stored anywhere in the organization in order to answer on-the-fly questions without previous training or IT knowledge. 16.00 - 16.45 A New Era in Information Management Barry Dodds Information Management Consultant, SAP BusinessObjects At the core of every IT initiative is the requirement for clean, trusted data. But in today's world of huge data volumes and multiple, disparate data sources, information workers are often challenged to make sense out of chaos. Attend this session and discover how we can help you eliminate doubt by transforming questionable data into trusted information, within a single enterprise environment — whatever your current business intelligence platform. Find out how BusinessObjects™ Data Services XI unifies our market-leading Data Quality and Data Integration technologies on a single platform, enabling you to move and improve any type of data, anywhere. 16.45 - 17.30 BI for SAP Customers (Designing a BI strategy for your SAP Landscape) Varik Torsteinsen Principal PreSales Consultant, SAP This educational session provides an overview of how Business Objects and SAP work together today to provide extended Business Intelligence value to all users in your organization. Learn the strategic direction and product vision for further integration of SAP and BusinessObjects to plan for tomorrow. You will walk away with a clear understanding on how to leverage BusinessObjects when planning for your current and future BI projects. Tech Tour 11.30 - 12.15 SAP Business Process Platform – bringing insight, flexibility and efficiency with SAP Business Suite 7 Sanjay Chikarmane, SVP Business Process Platform, SAP The more seamless and flexible the network, the more successful the business. Now, thanks to integrated SAP software delivered through an open, standards-based platform and architecture, your network can become what it needs to be. You'll be able to optimise your business operations, no matter where they're located or who they involve. Collaborate with Partners, customers, suppliers - even competitors, and transform your business network into a competitive weapon. 12.15 - 13.00 Integrating, Orchestrating and Adapting your Business Processes Karl Hoffman Platform Advisor, for the SAP Business Process Platform, SAP An introduction to the power of Business Process Management and Business Rules, IT can now aid the flexible business. Fast and efficient updates to processes help the burden of increased complexity and dwindling resources. IT needs to get ahead of the curve. Provide insight, flexibility and efficiency at the same time. IT needs to evolve to close the gap between strategy and execution. Come and learn how SAP can help your IT organisation become a strategic business enabler by deploying a business process platform for standardisation and innovation. 14.00 - 14.45 Dynamic User Interfaces for SAP Guy Murphy, Platform Advisor, for the SAP Business Process Platform, SAP Access to your data is critical to insight and understanding, we have a variety of access points through interactive forms, email applications, mobile and voice. With a specific focus on Duet and Alloy enhancements. 14.45 - 15.30 Operational Information Management Adrian Simpson Head of NetWeaver and Business User Presales, SAP Information Management no longer needs to be a painful burden to the business, we can show a lifecycle of data management. Working from the insight needed into your data, the quality of data, master data management through to governance. Demonstrations include the integration of Data Quality and Master Data Management. 16.00 - 16.45 Event driven architecture and complex event processing with SAP Netweaver and Live Enterprise Naren Chawla, NetWeaver Integration Platform, SAP Near-Real-Time data, automated and continuous sense and respond kind of decision making has become a reality with CEP and EDA. It is as relevant to factory floors and warehouses as to websites and Wall Street, appeals equally to banks and casinos. Even life science applications, traffic, transportation, fraud detection can finds solace with CEP. CEP can deliver Simplified data crunching Contained costs by taming the voluminous data Faster and improved quality decisions Agile responses to impending threats and possible opportunities 16.45 - 17.30 SAP Futures including Cloud Computing Frank Stienhans, SAP Labs, SAP Future technology which is available and applicable now. Cloud Computing is a growing trend increasing agility and lowering cost that is available now, join this session to find out what the future holds. Quick-win Solutions for Beating the Downturn 11.30 - 12.15 Quick-win Ways to Better Understand your Business and Customers and Identify Problems Earlier Angus Menter, Principal Business Consultant, SAP What you need right now are affordable, quick-win solutions that deliver return on investment quickly. Best-Run Now packages from SAP are the answer. They allow you to quickly understand your business and customers more thoroughly; identify and correct potential problems earlier; optimise prices to maximise profitability; improve time to market and much more. 12.15 - 13.00 Quick-win Ways to Cut Costs and Increase Savings Cathy Daw, Head of SRM Pre-Sales UK, SAP What you need right now are affordable, quick-win solutions that deliver return on investment quickly. Best-Run Now packages from SAP are the answer. They allow you to quickly cut costs; make savings in procurement; reduce inventory levels; accelerate receivables and collections; make travel, IT and fuel savings; increase store profitability and much more. 14.00 - 14.45 Quick-win Ways to Reduce Risk and Limit Exposure James Willis, Senior Financials Pre-Sales Consultant, SAP What you need right now are affordable, quick-win solutions that deliver return on investment quickly. Best-Run Now packages from SAP are the answer. They allow you to quickly reduce risk and limit exposure; manage cash and liquidity; reduce bad debts; monitor customer credit ratings; maintain compliance with REACH regulations and much more. 14.45 - 15.30 Quick-win Ways to Optimise your Workforce and Align to Business Objectives Claire Broughton, Head of ERP-HCM UK, SAP What you need right now are affordable, quick-win solutions that deliver return on investment quickly. Best-Run Now packages from SAP are the answer. They allow you to quickly optimise your workforce; identify skills, competencies and knowledge needed; improve succession planning; identify development needs; align the workforce with business objectives and much more. 16.00 - 16.45 Quick-win Ways to Cut Costs and Increase Savings Cathy Daw, Head of SRM Pre-Sales UK, SAP What you need right now are affordable, quick-win solutions that deliver return on investment quickly. Best-Run Now packages from SAP are the answer. They allow you to quickly cut costs; make savings in procurement; reduce inventory levels; accelerate receivables and collections; make travel, IT and fuel savings; increase store profitability and much more. 16.45 - 17.30 Quick-win Ways to Reduce Risk and Limit Exposure James Willis, Senior Financials Pre-Sales Consultant, SAP What you need right now are affordable, quick-win solutions that deliver return on investment quickly. Best-Run Now packages from SAP are the answer. They allow you to quickly reduce risk and limit exposure; manage cash and liquidity; reduce bad debts; monitor customer credit ratings; maintain compliance with REACH regulations and much more. Solutions for Growing Enterprises 11.30 - 12.15 Drive Business Value to Survive and Thrive in Today's Economy Robert Vetter Senior Vice President Business Development SME, SAP and Stephen Read Director of SME, SAP In a tough economy, Small and Medium size organisations are challenged to strike the right balance between reducing costs and making targeted investments for future success. SAP support these companies in providing the operating flexibility necessary for innovative, market-driven decisions. Hear the customer panel. 12.15 - 13.00 The Entrepreneurial Spirit in a Downturn Doug Tatum Chairman & CEO - The Co-Investment Partnership How do you retain your entrepreneurial thinking and energy in these difficult times when there is so much pressure to focus on short term survival tactics? Hear the expert. 14.00 - 14.45 Gaining competitive advantage with Business Intelligence Richard Deery Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, SAP Business Intelligence (BI) helps companies that want to  improve business processes, discover new opportunities, and gain an advantage over the competition. SAP BusinessObjects comprehensive suite delivers solutions that address the BI from flexible ad hoc query reporting and analysis, to dashboards and visualization, to powerful data quality and integration. 14.45 - 15.30 Business Intelligence success story: HobbyCraft Dominic Hooley, Buying Director, HobbyCraft and Andy Steer, Managing Director, Contemporary Business Intelligence from SAP BusinessObjects and the partner Contemporary provide the HobbyCraft buying team with detailed stock analysis across 40 stores, delivered in real time using Web Intelligence. Hear the customer story. 16.00 - 16.45 How Small and Midsize Enterprises rapidly realize value with fast-start programme Gregor Stoeckler Manager EMEA SME Solutions, SAP The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start programme lets small and midsize enterprises leverage best practices from larger organizations while delivering rapid time to value. The programme gives you the flexibility to adapt as your needs change. Best of all, SAP Business All-in-One is an affordable and safe long-term investment. Hear the customer stories. 16.45 - 17.30 Get Closer to Your Best Customers Kris Mckenzie Head of CRM, SAP Small and Medium size organisations must make tough choices among driving revenue, retaining customers and managing cost. Hear how SAP helps streamline processes from lead generation through deal closure till customer retention. With robust analytics SAP provides real-time visibility to key performance indicators across all functions, managing the full sales cycle and providing exceptional customer service. SAP Industries 11.30 - 12.15 Retail Business Scenarios for Competitive Advantage Richard Mills Industry Principal, SAP UKI and Helen Jones EMEA Presales, SAP EMEA This session will give Retailers an overview of how SAP can address key business challenges: Retail Industry Update – What are key SAP Customers in Retailing achieving in the current climate? Store Profitability – Learn how to maximise profitability, lower costs, proactively manage labour costs and increase store efficiency Demand Management & Promotions – How you could improve productivity, obtain greater promotional effectiveness and forecast product and store-levels more accurately, to improve decisions and streamline the advertisement production process POS – Hear how you can react to competitive pressure by quickly making changes to pricing rules and product promotions. How SAP Point of Sale applications enable you to leverage your investment in SAP solutions through perpetual integration reducing costs and improving information availability. 12.15 - 13.00 Improved Business Insight in Financial Services Andy Hirst Senior Director, Financial Services Industry Marketing, SAP Facing uncertain markets, financial services firms are seeking ways to offer their customers more value to rebuild loyalty whilst developing ways to better forecast the future of their businesses. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence software can help – including analytics for optimising the workforce, managing risk and compliance, and maximising customer retention, along with application-embedded dashboards for more informed decision-making. 14.00 - 14.45 The Challenges in Delivering Greater Efficiencies whilst Maintaining Effective Public Services Delivery Simon Godfrey SAP Public Sector Principal Publication of the Treasury's Operational Efficiencies Programme (OEP) has mandated even tougher targets for all government organisations. How then can it be possible to continue to deliver service improvements against a backdrop of ever tighter financial settlements? Simon Godfrey, SAP's Public Sector Principal, will explain the critical role of technology in driving forward even greater change and the importance of the sector understanding that real pace is now needed to make necessary changes happen. 14.45 - 15.30 Enabling Lean Operations in a Challenging Economy Patrick Crampton-Thomas Global Field Operations Solutions Business Development, Head of Business Suite, SAP All companies are operating in a turbulent economic environment. Every dimension of business requires greater speed and efficiency. Ability to efficiently plan and execute as well as sense and respond to real-time signals is fast becoming a significant competitive advantage due to the following factors: Networked economy Increased pace of innovation Global operational competitiveness Regulatory compliance Demand-driven business model We will look at these factors and highlight how companies can respond faster and smarter to changing customer and market. 16.00 - 16.45 Using SAP CRM to Boost Business Sales Kris McKenzie Head of CRM , SAP Customers have higher expectations and require more than relationship management from organizations today. SAP CRM is ranked in the Forrester wave as the number 1 solution for Sales Force Automation. In this session learn how the improved usability and features of SAP CRM can help drive your business. 16.45 - 17.30 Upgrade Strategy to Deliver Value with SAP Solutions Mike Longden Business Manager, EMEA Upgrade Competency Center, SAP Why should I upgrade? When should I upgrade? Is it difficult? Who can help?  The key to determining an optimal SAP upgrade strategy for your business is understanding the value that it will provide and the risks mitigated. These issues and more will be addressed in this session from the Global Upgrade Competency Center. Partners & Ecosystem 11.30 – 12.15 One Aesica SAP Supported by IBM Bhavesh Kotecha Corporate IT Manager, Aesica Aesica Pharmaceutical Ltd recently completed the implementation of a new SAP system consolidating all legacy systems into one company-wide SAP environment. With the help of IBM’s Global Business Services and Applications on Demand – Aesica lowered its ERP Total Cost of Ownership while achieving operational efficiencies through integrated business processes. 12.15 – 13.00 On the Road to Value - be the Sat Nav Supported by Deloitte Liz Fasciana, SAP Partner, Deloitte MCS Ltd A practical approach to building your roadmap to drive value realisation with an unwavering focus on progressing closer to your goals, even during tough times. How combining operating model realignment together with SAP-enabled transformation is key to results. 14.00 – 14.45 Credit crunch and SAP? No worries! Supported by T-Systems Johan du Plessis CIO, Consol Glass (Pty) Ltd In challenging times like today, Consol decided to focus on improving business processes and systems and not worry about day-to-day management of SAP. Johan du Plessis, CIO of Consol Glass (Pty) Ltd, talks about the financial and operational benefits of outsourcing SAP to T-Systems. He gives a candid account of innovation and overcoming teething problems to achieve outstanding results. 14.45 – 15.30 Save the Planet! Go Green with SAP. Supported by Logica Ben Phillips UK Technical Architect, Logica Sustainability has moved from a fringe issue to the Boardroom. We will look at how SAP can help organisations measure their carbon footprint and environmental impact, and manage the risks posed to them by climate change. 16.00 – 16.45 Increase your ROI in Business Partner Connectivity with B2B On-demand Supported by Crossgate Dr. Hichem Maya Director EMEA Marketing, Crossgate AG Leaders in their industry utilize the current times of economical uncertainty, not only to identify domains of cost cutting, but also to prepare themselves for a pole position start when new business opportunities arise. Building up an agile collaborative network with business partners allows companies to address both efficiency by increasing the level of process automation, outsourcing non-core processes and flexibility by rapid integration of business partners quickly to realize new business models. Crossgate’s on-demand B2B connectivity platform enables SAP customers to build an agile collaborative network with business partners to address such challenges. Technically and semantically, Crossgate’s on-demand B2B platform connects a company with its entire value chain by simply extending SAP’s business process platform in order to leverage an ever growing business network. 16.45 – 17.30 Establishing Automation and using it in a Near Shoring resource model Paul Phillips, SAP Test Manager, Centrica and Matt Pickin, Experior Matt Pickin, Experior This presentation will cover: The challenges companies face that can be solved by automation Why a company would consider automation and near shore services How to go about implementing the model What benefits have our customers seen from automating their testing? Issues and considerations of automation How do Experior’s team of SAP certified consultants work with internal teams? ROI of Automation and ongoing benefits Throughout the presentation we will draw on customer examples.