Transformation is Perpetual and All Inclusive

A global crisis, ever-changing geopolitics, and increasing expectations from players in the marketplace set the stage for Perpetual Transformation.  It is the organizations that recognize both the need to change and the path to dynamic transformation that not all survive but thrive under these market conditions. Additionally, every change – like raindrops upsetting still water – can disrupt every area of the business.

In this session, we will explore how the best organizations establish a flexible business transformation platform, clearly connect business outcomes to actions & value creation, and engage every employee for optimal & measurable performance.

Key takeaways:

1. SAP RISE
2. SAP S/4 HANA
3. SAP Finance Transformation
4. Human Xperience Management (HXM) with SAP SuccessFactors
5. SAP Business Transformation Platform (BTP)
6. SAP Business Process Integration with Signavio

Woodward's Journey with SAP RAR (Revenue Accounting and Reporting) and COPA (Profitability Analysis)

Woodward recently completed one of its largest-ever IT/Finance projects: an implementation of SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) for compliance with the new revenue recognition guidelines (ASC 606). We were working with two different ERP systems, one general ledger, strict US government contracting requirements, and a global footprint.

In this session, we will review Woodward’s system landscape and how it changed during the project, including where we needed to make performance improvements and configuration changes in our core SAP system (aside from just the RAR changes). We’ll look at how Woodward managed and structured the project team, the process of choosing our consulting partner, the overall project timeline, and our training approach. We’ll also review lessons learned and challenges of the implementation, how we were able to track down some hidden problems, and what will be covered in the next phase of our revenue recognition journey.

Woodward achieved compliance with the new revenue recognition standards, and we’ve identified several other opportunities to improve our systems and processes, both in and outside of finance.

Key takeaways:
1. What to consider when implementing a single tool across multiple ERP systems
2. When and why to engage other parts of the organization on a “finance” project
3. How we found and solved hidden errors

Implementing Enterprise DevOps in a Large Organisation

How to Begin a Security Transformation for Your SAP S/4HANA Project

As an existing SAP installation, you feel confident in migrating to S4HANA. Do you currently follow best practices? Have you mitigated risk across your landscape? Will you be exposed to the web or in a hosted data center? All these topics impact your level of effort for implanting S4HANA successfully.

The best time to plan an implementation is now. The center of your plan should resolve around user experience and risk mitigation. We will discuss how the approach is evolving, what to consider for SOD risk updates, and analyzing where you are to plan your future direction.

SAP S/4 HANA at ABSA, The Technology Journey

With only 3 countries remaining on our SAP single template journey and the knowledge of the ECC6 end of life looming, we were faced with having to make a strategic decision on how to approach Absa Kenya which was next in line. We had to decide if we were to implement Kenya on the SAP ECC group template or take advantage of Kenya being a fairly complex African business to prove a S/4HANA implementation prior to a South African implementation, South Africa being our largest and most complex business. Other important considerations were the upgrade path and how we were going to host the SAP Instances.

In this session, we will take you through our journey of implementing SAP S/4 HANA Central Finance (CFIN) on AWS, the business decisions, the technology choices, the learnings, and the challenges we faced along the way to meet our strategic objectives.

From a business perspective, we have achieved real-time replication, simplified reporting, a single source for consolidation, non-disruptive migration to S/4HANA, and implementation of SAP standard central processes. From a technology perspective, we achieved agility, scalability, efficiency, abstraction, security, resiliency, and total cost of ownership (TCO) savings.

Key takeaways:
1. This is a business transformation programme, not a technology upgrade
2. Focus on culture within the organisation
3. Start early and take everyone on the journey
4. Have FUN and fail forward

From Digital Transformation to Enterprise Transformation: How Google Adopted SAP on Google Cloud

A digital revolution was promised 10 years ago. Yet, organizations are still trying to find a balance between reducing their infrastructure costs and investing in an environment favorable to innovation.
Is this a reasonable investment in terms of finance, operations, and teams? Would it be better to focus on a technical or a functional project? What will be the impact on the enterprise performance?

Discover why and how Google chose to replace their ERP platform with SAP on Google Cloud.

SuccessFactors LMS - A Boost for a State of the Art Learning & Development Capability at Distell

Little did we know, 2 years after the implementation of our LMS, we would double online content in the matter of a month, increase our learning hours exponentially and keep our teams engaged for the duration of lockdown and ready to return to work with a wealth of knowledge; not only for the jobs they were in but about our company and brands, manufacturing processes and health and safety protocols and well-being.

During this presentation, you will learn how we enabled and mobilised our learning teams to create new content and convert our instructor-led courses into online content which we are hosting in SuccessFactors LMS. We adapted the way we compile curricula, publish courses, and assess employees after completion of courses. We mobilised our employees and managers across the business in record time using the tools available in SuccessFactors LMS and the mobile app. We also have some aspirational plans for the next 12 months that will build on these learnings, our solid learning framework, and LMS foundation.

We built our learning capability on a strong foundation within SuccessFactors LMS and achieved remarkable results in record time. We will share how LMS was used throughout and the results we achieved.

Key takeaways:

1. How SuccessFactors LMS can deliver results for learning and development irrespective of the challenges we are facing during COVID and lockdown
2. We embraced the challenges working from home brought on and turned it into a success story
3. Never underestimate the power of a driven learning team

Core Revival in a Pandemic

Deloitte Africa launched our 12th annual Tech Trends report. We will deep dive into the Core Revival trend and make it relevant in time of a pandemic, exploring new technologies, techniques and business cases to drive your modernization strategy. Join the conversation with Kevin Govender and MK Kwatala.

Driving Innovation, Stability and Quality in Payroll

Payroll is one of the most complex parts of HR for most companies, and it is also one of the primary Human Experiences employees have with the company – the delivery of their compensation.

Companies have to pay employees accurately and timely in a challenging environment that frequently changes. How can companies do this, while also striving to innovate with more self-service and other new features? Steve Bogner will present experience-based practices and methods for improving the quality of payroll calculations and delivery, maintaining a stable environment as changes and upgrades are rolled out, and innovating at a pace that is right for your company.

TDMS in a Nutshell

Have you ever wondered if you could have a tool that could select customised data from your production server for purposes such as testing? The answer to this is SAP's TEST DATA MIGRATION SERVER (TDMS).

TDMS operates at client level and creates non-production clients. The selected data from a client in the sender system is copied to a client in an existing non-production system. The idea is not to have the entire system copy, rather have the data which is more critical and required.

SAP Test Data Migration Server (TDMS) 4.0 enables the creation of lean, easy-to-maintain non-production environment using extracts of business data to minimise infrastructure and maintenance expenses while maximising the effectiveness and accuracy of your development, test, and training activities.

SAP TDMS ensures full data consistency and data integrity during the execution of the migration projects from the production to the non-production system. With an evolved Work Center, increased functional integration, and optimised performance TDMS has now 41 migration solutions ready to cover migration requirements end to end from preparation to go live and support. With SAP TDMS you can also transfer business-relevant processes or objects using SAP TDMS Business Process Library (BPL) like purchase order, accounting data, G/L Account A-segment, and many more.

SAP Test Data Migration Server is a high-speed data extraction tool that populates your development, test, quality assurance, and training systems with real SAP business data – which can also be scrambled – from your live production environment. Benefits of SAP TDMS:

• Improved Quality of development, test, and training activities by using business-relevant and up-to-date test data
• Increased Efficiency by reducing administrative efforts and time required to manage data in development and test systems
• Higher Flexibility through capability to selectively refreshing single clients even big ones in SAP systems
• Reduced Infrastructure Expenditures by decreasing data volume in development, test, and training systems
• Reduction of Testing & Development Expenses through outsourcing of test & development activities while keeping sensitive data protected and remaining legally compliant
• Runs on SAP Business Suite on HANA and on Cloud
• Integration with SAP Solution Manager
• Connect to the TDMS server anytime and anywhere by using SAP TDMS Manager which is an online application to facilitate regular interaction with SAP TDMS 4.0

In Closing With Agile and DevOps the testing cycles are getting smaller. Creating quality data within that cycle along with performing software testing can get really complex. To reduce cost, time, and efforts in the testing cycle -Test data management seems to be an ideal solution, with visible results. This instills a sense of satisfaction and trust in the customer, and better business is the outcome.

Key takeaways:

1. Importance of Quality test data
2. Quick turnaround times for system refreshes
3. The minimum effort involved

Continuously Building and Deploying SAPUI5 Applications

This session will cover how Graham delivers SAPUI5 applications from concept to deployment along with support for continuous improvement. He will show how he sets up and uses his development environment and the CI/CD techniques he uses to build and deploy his apps into the customers’ on-premise ABAP environment.

Make SAP SuccessFactors a Market of Opportunities for Your Employees

New HR solutions are often implemented from a point of view dominated by the HR function. Whilst it is crucial to meet the needs of this important stakeholder group, it often leaves employees and line managers with the question “So, what’s in it for me?”

With SAP SuccessFactors, organisations have the right solution at hand to empower their workforce to take ownership of their own professional growth inside without looking outside. In this session, we explore ways to create a marketplace for opportunities your employees can benefit from instead of turning to Linkedin. A clear win-win is achievable by utilising features readily available in SAP SuccessFactors such as:

• Talent profile
• Talent pools
• Mentoring
• Continuous feedback and continuous performance management
• Goals management
• Learning
• Onboarding
• Qualtrics EmployeeXM

We’ll walk through use cases from other organisations, live demos, and new ideas to build an exciting vision: Empowered employees and line managers achieve their best personal growth for the benefit of the organisation. The HR function does away from micromanaging and being constantly overloaded to enabling, coaching, monitoring, and setting wide boundaries.

We’ll wrap up by discussing a roadmap to implement change step by step gradually making your SuccessFactors solution the first go-to place for employees seeking growth before Linkedin. If you are ready to let go and re-think some old-school attitudes or if you are already far up that road and would like to discuss it further, please join us for this session.

An Introduction to SAP Central Finance: A Non-Disruptive Deployment Option for SAP S/4HANA

This session will provide an up-close look at SAP Central Finance as well as a deeper understanding of the key uses cases that are driving the decision and helping to build the business case to move to Central Finance.

Attendees will have the opportunity to explore:

• Experiences from early adopters and key business processes driving their need for change, such as:

- More harmonized and consolidated reporting

- Robust financial planning and analysis with holistic actuals from across the organization

- A better way to manage performance management and financial close tasks

- A simplified way to manage highly complex M&A scenarios

• How Central Finance serves as a stepping stone to SAP S/4HANA Finance without disrupting existing source SAP ERP systems
• Different deployment options for Central Finance including on-premise, in the cloud, or as a software-as-a-service solution

Achieve Greater Success with SAP - Rethink, Renovate, Renew

Discover next practices, lessons learned, and insights into keys to greater success with SAP no matter where you are at on your SAP journey. It’s time for a new playbook!

Key takeaways:
1. Foundations for the Next-Generation SAP CoE
2. Accelerating SAP Customer Innovation - Culture, Strategy, and Tools
3. Thrive after SAP S/4HANA go-live

Seamless Integration with SAP ARIBA

Kenya Electricity Transmission Company is a State-owned company mandated to construct, operate, and maintain high voltage transmission lines in Kenya. The Citizens, Suppliers and the government expect transparency in public procurement, invoice processing, Supplier onboarding, and contract management. To fully Automate our processes from Manual Source to Contract and Order to Pay and comply with a presidential directive that required all state corporations to adopt E-procurement. The organization Chose SAP Ariba as the solution of choice. The business wanted to go completely Paperless, Make the procurement process collaborative and Open, maintain a neat and updated Supplier Master Data, improve the Order to Pay lead time, and a seamless Integration of the E-procurement solution with our current SAP ECC environment.

You will be taken through the process of aligning operations before implementation. The road reduces source to invoice lead time, the ease in accessing and tracking documents Passed from Ariba to ECC. We will share on matching of our ERP Fields to Our Ariba Templates, the exchange of information on Purchase Orders, Supplier master data, contracts, Supplier details, RFQs, invoices, Service entry sheets among others From Ariba to ECC and vice Versa via Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG). We will share our lessons learned and concentration areas before, during, and after implementation.

We will demonstrate how through seamless integration, we have been able to reduce errors and manipulation of data in Supplier master data, contracts, orders, and invoices. We will also reveal how some of the previously manual tasks have been automated through integration, and how we have cut off redundant tasks. Supply chain officers and finance officers previously overwhelmed by manual processes can now focus on other value addition areas in the organization.

Key takeaways:
1. Preparation for integration of ERP with a cloud solution
2. Lessons learned in implementation and proposed solutions
3. Preparing the business users for the change

ABAP is Not Dead, but it’s Not the Only Answer

In this interactive session, we look at the evolving role of traditional ABAP developer in the SAP Ecosystem. We will discuss how the ABAP development capabilities continue to evolve and play an important role in cloud-based development as well. But ABAP can’t be the only tool in a developer’s toolbox. We will also discuss choices of educational investment areas that complement existing ABAP skill set.

Margin Analysis with S/4HANA

In this session you will learn how the features of S/4 Margin Analysis can support Finance transformation.

Key takeaways:

1. Learn how S/4 Margin Analysis compares with ERP Profitability Analysis

2. Find out how S/4 Margin Analysis supports continuous and predictive accounting

3. Understand the configuration of S/4 Margin Analysis

The Impact of COVID-19 on Our Transformational Programme at Sasol

So imagine you’ve been selected to be part of a team that is going to transform your organisation into the new ways of working and improve the general customer satisfaction of our employees. The emotions were indescribable, a sense of pride, self-worth, and the unavoidable thought of career progress, then in a heartbeat you are told that we have to put a hold on all projects as COVID-19 has had a huge financial impact on us and we cannot go on with the project anymore.

Join me as I share our SuccessFactors implementation journey, the ups, the downs, the stop and go, and where we are currently, and what we’re trying to achieve with our transformational journey. Delegates will learn some tips, and how we went about keeping our heads up in the midst of all the mayhem of stopping such a big programme.

Key takeaways:
1. Learn to be resilient
2. Our journey then
3. Where are we in our journey now

Preparing your SAP Landscape for 202x

Is the 202x deadline a manufactured sales tactic or a true opportunity for SAP Digital transformation? Go at your own pace with actionable guidance and fact-based insights about how to extend the life of ECC as you prepare organisational readiness for sensible S/4HANA adoption techniques. During this session, you will get an honest no-nonsense introduction to the following topics: - Complete SAP stack compliance and modernisation - SAP S/4HANA Process Discovery Report - SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check - Sensible options for S/4HANA adoption.

Key takeaways:
1. Clarity about the SAP Maintenance Schedule
2. Familiarity with SAP accelerators for best adoption of S/4HANA
3. Guidance for preparing my current landscape for S/4HANA

Self-Service - Putting Control Back into the Hands of the Employee

Mediclinic’s journey into the world of SuccessFactors started in 2017, with the implementation of a single instance of Employee Central across 4 geographic locations, servicing 30 000+ employees. We have expanded our offering to employees and continue to look for ways of engaging employees through self-service, mobile, and the ability to have everything in ‘one place’.

Join us while we discuss our initial vision, our self-service journey so far, and some challenges we faced along the way. In addition, I will also briefly touch on the topics below:

• Employee Experience – why it’s not about HR
• Mobile myths busted
• Employee experiences in different countries
• The Impact of continuous improvements – small or large
• Some successful campaigns delivered through SuccessFactors

How SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Can Revitalise Your HR Processes and Data

In this session, we will be discussing how to simplify and enhance HR business processes using SAP® SuccessFactors® Employee Central, SAP’s cloud-based Human Capital Management solution. To effectively manage the workforce of the digital economy, organizations must learn to think differently about human resources (HR) and the systems supporting their employees. Today’s HR systems must be flexible, scalable, and capable of providing structure for meeting your business requirements. Furthermore, they must enable efficient employee data validation and reporting in order to simplify and augment HR processes. Employee Central offers this functionality and more.

Short Description: This session explores how SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central can significantly improve your HR processes and take HR beyond transactional recordkeeping. The solution is a cloud-based core HR system that combines transactions, processes, and data validation with social collaboration for better strategic decision making and consolidated reporting.

Key takeaways:
• Learn what SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central is and what it entails
• Gain insight into how Employee Central can be used to drive clean and valid employee data
• Explore the benefits of having a global template with localized capabilities
• Discover how self-service functionality and workflows ease the data change processes

Controlling with S/4HANA: Important Design and Configuration Changes

In this session, Ashish will share important design and configuration changes in Controlling with S/4HANA, including: Cost Element part of G/L Account; Account Based Profitability Analysis; Material Ledger mandatory; Cost of Goods Sold by cost component; Production variances by category

Walk away from this session with an understanding of design and configuration changes in Controlling with S/4HANA"

Preparing for Cloud Migrations – Debswana Success Story

Insufficient preparation for cloud migration could result in critical errors during implementations, therefore a well thought of cloud migration preparation strategy is essential.

Like many other methodological innovations, ‘The Cloud’ service offers high-performance tool based framework that adds value to the organizations’ digital transformation Agenda, providing improved availability of IT services, as well overall organization agility and efficiencies; a significant way to optimize businesses by implementing ‘elastic’ platforms which are scalable and delivers dynamic technology-driven services.

Cloud migrations are inevitable for all of us, if we are to remain relevant and competitive in our markets. It goes without saying that potential embedded risks associated with all innovations exist even for cloud migrations, hence a well thought of migration strategy is an absolute requirement that quarantines a successful migration.

In this session, I will share strategies that have assisted Debswana to prepare for the recent migration project, as well as share some learnings experienced throughout the project implementation that demonstrated our level of preparedness, the benefits realized, and challenges that might occur.

Key takeaways:
1. Working preparatory strategies for cloud migrations
2. Right conversations to have and when to have them
3. Review of processes and infrastructure
4. Consideration of options for migrations
5. Scoping migrations

How to use Automation within your SAP Landscape, from Building through to RPA

In this session, I shall discuss how I have helped customers to approach their automation journey from the most basic automations through to more complex workflows. It will give some tips and guidance on how to bring automation to the stages of Build, Manage and Change and how to identify where it does not bring value.

This session will also show where automation is part of an organisation's DevOps journey and how it can bring measurable impact to your landscape. I have built automations through scripting languages like Bash, Powershell, using tools like Puppet, Ansible, and Chef and provisioned landscapes using native Cloud tools like Cloudformation from AWS and Cloud Deployment Manager from GCP as well as tools like Pulumi and Terraform. With the Application layer, I have automated using UiPath, Windows Macros and Microsoft Flow to create RPAs to help me with basic administration functions. This session will show how these experiments brought value to what I was doing and where they were just a time sink.

Key takeaways:
1. The importance of developer workflows and processes
2. How automation fits within their SAP landscape
3. Where automation makes sense

Making Manager Self Service and Organisational Management Tasks Easier – Control of Your Own Destiny

Australia Post’s cross-functional team has used SAP Fiori to build manager self-service tools and delivered a configurable workflow approval management application. To date, these apps include a new overview page, approvals inbox, team calendar, team notifications, organisational management, leave management, and organisational chart.

We will bring to life the Business and Technology perspectives of this Australia Post success story.

We will discuss:

• Why forming a meaningful collaboration between cross-functional teams was key to building user and mobile-friendly applications.
• Why the project was delivered using lean, mean UX design and the latest SAP Fiori 3 technology – accessible from everywhere, on all devices.
• The business benefits that have been achieved as a result of this work.
• The positive changes to their ways of working that ensured all requirements, designs, stakeholder feedback was captured along the way, while still delivering at pace.

Considerations for Undergoing an SAP S/4HANA Finance Migration

Learn the typical reasons to convert to S/4HANA Explore the different options for moving to SAP S/4HANA Finance Find out how S/4HANA facilitates Finance Transformation Learn the drivers for adopting a Cloud based Approach to S/4HANA Understand some of the new Features available with S/4HANA Finance.

Key takeaways:
1. Learn the typical reasons to convert to S/4HANA
2. Explore the different options for moving to SAP S/4HANA Finance
3. Find out how S/4HANA facilitates Finance Transformation

Making Manager Self Service and Organisational Management Tasks Easier – Control of Your Own Destiny

Australia Post’s cross-functional team has used SAP Fiori to build manager self-service tools and delivered a configurable workflow approval management application. To date, these apps include a new overview page, approvals inbox, team calendar, team notifications, organisational management, leave management, and organisational chart.

We will bring to life the Business and Technology perspectives of this Australia Post success story.

We will discuss:

• Why forming a meaningful collaboration between cross-functional teams was key to building user and mobile-friendly applications.
• Why the project was delivered using lean, mean UX design and the latest SAP Fiori 3 technology – accessible from everywhere, on all devices.
• The business benefits that have been achieved as a result of this work.
• The positive changes to their ways of working that ensured all requirements, designs, stakeholder feedback was captured along the way, while still delivering at pace.

SAP S/4 HANA at ABSA, The Technology Journey

With only 3 countries remaining on our SAP single template journey and the knowledge of the ECC6 end of life looming, we were faced with having to make a strategic decision on how to approach Absa Kenya which was next in line. We had to decide if we were to implement Kenya on the SAP ECC group template or take advantage of Kenya being a fairly complex African business to prove a S/4HANA implementation prior to a South African implementation, South Africa being our largest and most complex business. Other important considerations were the upgrade path and how we were going to host the SAP Instances.

In this session, we will take you through our journey of implementing SAP S/4 HANA Central Finance (CFIN) on AWS, the business decisions, the technology choices, the learnings, and the challenges we faced along the way to meet our strategic objectives.

From a business perspective, we have achieved real-time replication, simplified reporting, a single source for consolidation, non-disruptive migration to S/4HANA, and implementation of SAP standard central processes. From a technology perspective, we achieved agility, scalability, efficiency, abstraction, security, resiliency, and total cost of ownership (TCO) savings.

Key takeaways:
1. This is a business transformation programme, not a technology upgrade
2. Focus on culture within the organisation
3. Start early and take everyone on the journey
4. Have FUN and fail forward

The Business World Is Changing - Is your SAP Implementation Keeping Up?

The traditional borders between industries are blurring. Where there once were product-driven industries and service industries, we now find car companies selling mobility services, agri-nutrient companies selling fertilisers to individual farmers and retailers going almost entirely online, changing the requirements for billing and controlling. Finance organisations are expected to deliver better quality information faster. Again, where once corridors were full of paper lists, now managers expect to find a smartphone app with a list of critical open items and key actions. Nobody is prepared to wait for the period close to see their margins or the consolidated view of their business and predictions and simulations are now very much part of the Finance world. As business models change, Finance is expected to deliver better steering information and advise their business rather than simply checking the numbers are correct. These topics are covered in "SAP S/4HANA Finance - The Reference Guide to What's New" and this session will dive into some of the reasons why organisations have begun a transformation and what they have achieved.

Key takeaways:
1. How industry requirements are changing and how this is reflected in the software
2. How the requirements on a finance organisation are changing and how SAP S/4HANA Finance supports this
3. How organisations are looking to introduce new steering models to gain better insight into the business

Liberty Life's S/4 Journey & Business Case Considerations

Is the Promise of Engaging Content and Easy-to-Access Dashboards for People Managers Finally Becoming the Reality that We Were all Sold Years Ago?

Whilst the team at SuccessFactors might have caught the SAP bug of renaming products, Stories in People Analytics does deliver the ability to present some pretty compelling interactive dashboards to your users. A must for Onboarding 2.0 (no other way to report data) and the platform for all future reporting builds in SAP SuccessFactors, but how are you considering using this solution? It might be that the solution is finally up to the challenge but are we in danger of just falling into the same behaviours and processes, but with prettier tooling. An old process and new tech is just an expensive new process, how will stop that from happening?

A Down-to-Earth Review of RISE with SAP

This session goes deeper than most marketing content available about RISE with SAP by unpacking the offering, examining each part and describing what is new, what has just got a new name and what is really interesting for customers and why. This presentation will cover SAP S/4HANA Cloud with some special focus on the private edition, the hyperscaler option, the SAP Business Technology Platform, the Business Networks and all the tools in RISE with SAP, such as Business Process Intelligence including Signavio. The presentation will also cover pragmatic recommendations for companies interested to explore RISE with SAP.

Seamless Integration with SAP ARIBA

Kenya Electricity Transmission Company is a State-owned company mandated to construct, operate, and maintain high voltage transmission lines in Kenya. The Citizens, Suppliers and the government expect transparency in public procurement, invoice processing, Supplier onboarding, and contract management. To fully Automate our processes from Manual Source to Contract and Order to Pay and comply with a presidential directive that required all state corporations to adopt E-procurement. The organization Chose SAP Ariba as the solution of choice. The business wanted to go completely Paperless, Make the procurement process collaborative and Open, maintain a neat and updated Supplier Master Data, improve the Order to Pay lead time, and a seamless Integration of the E-procurement solution with our current SAP ECC environment.

You will be taken through the process of aligning operations before implementation. The road reduces source to invoice lead time, the ease in accessing and tracking documents Passed from Ariba to ECC. We will share on matching of our ERP Fields to Our Ariba Templates, the exchange of information on Purchase Orders, Supplier master data, contracts, Supplier details, RFQs, invoices, Service entry sheets among others From Ariba to ECC and vice Versa via Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG). We will share our lessons learned and concentration areas before, during, and after implementation.

We will demonstrate how through seamless integration, we have been able to reduce errors and manipulation of data in Supplier master data, contracts, orders, and invoices. We will also reveal how some of the previously manual tasks have been automated through integration, and how we have cut off redundant tasks. Supply chain officers and finance officers previously overwhelmed by manual processes can now focus on other value addition areas in the organization.

Key takeaways:
1. Preparation for integration of ERP with a cloud solution
2. Lessons learned in implementation and proposed solutions
3. Preparing the business users for the change

Digitalisation on a Shoestring Budget. Use an Agile Framework and Fiori to Innovate and Extract Value from your ECC Investment

Because everyone can't jump to S/4 in the near team and we all have to continue to evolve and adapt to be successful, attend this session to hear about a business-driven (not IT) success story of reinvention and modernisation built a top 'legacy' ECC platform.

Learn about how a team was assembled to deliver business-led technical capabilities without a large budget or a big team of developers while keeping pace with the rapidly digitalising world of modern commerce. This session will cover the 3-year journey of reinvention and learnings along the way.

Highlights of the SAP Roadmaps for HR Solutions

With SAP, you’ve got some great options to support your HR digital transformations. In this session, you’ll learn about the recent deliveries and latest roadmap planning across the SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, including our reimagined user experiences, planned new capabilities to drive employee growth and organizational agility, and integrations with the rest of the SAP solution portfolio. You’ll also hear updates on how you can continue to leverage your ERP HCM investments in new and innovative ways.

Creating a Winning experience of Enablement for the Intelligent Enterprise

COVID-19 crisis has steered organizations for fast-paced digital adoption. They need to achieve incredible business outcomes to be successful. As per a study by McKinsey, only 1 in 5 companies captures more than 50% of projected benefits and the most important factor for realizing business value is Effective User Adoption. In light of fast-paced digital transformation and a rapidly changing working environment, digital learning is now more important than ever. Employees need to quickly adapt to new business models, processes, and technologies that drive a company’s success. The right skills can enhance employee performance and productivity and increase user satisfaction. In this session, you will understand SAP’s User Enablement Strategy and how this can help you drive adoption of digital technologies at your workplace.

Key takeaways:
1. Understand how User Enablement helps drive Adoption
2. Learn about SAP’s User Enablement and Adoption strategies
3. Drive some of the practices in your organization for successful product adoption

Optimise Your Financial Close and Consolidation Process

Join this session to understand how SAP E2E Record to report solutions can help your organisation to:

- Increase Process efficiency, leveraging automation, integration and monitoring capabilities in the closing process
- Transition to continuous accounting, leveraging intelligent applications at the operational and Group financial processes
- Create a solid business foundation with a single financial truth

American Airlines’ Successful Transformation to SAP SuccessFactors & SAP Payroll

The story of successful transformation at American Airlines to SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HEC Payroll, SAP C4C Case Management Platform, SAP Fieldglass, Workforce Analytics and an overall look at the Total Workforce Management through the lens of now former American Airlines executive who led the program from an HR Business perspective. At the time of Go-Live was the largest and most complex implementation delivered by SAP SuccessFactors.

Mark will discuss WHY the company embarked on the journey, WHAT was accomplished, HOW the program was delivered successfully through design, data conversion, interface integrations as well as tools utilized and partners guiding them during the journey. Most importantly, we will discuss the benefits realised from the journey to the Cloud.

SAP Model Company for Human Resources

SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management, HXM, suite completely reinvents the entire employee experience and help organizations create the kind of engagement that delivers consistent and measured improvement in performance.

With SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, organizations can deliver the kind of unexpectedly exceptional experiences that make employees more engaged, satisfied and fulfilled, and, as a result, deliver more productivity, revenue, and improved performance to the business. The HXM suite comes alive with the SAP Model Company for Human Resources, an end-to-end implementation of SAP SuccessFactors modules covering wall to wall HR process bundles addressing core HR, talent acquisition, talent management, talent development, rewards and Payroll.

The Model company approach breaks down siloed processes to deliver dynamic experiences that are designed completely around how people work and what they need to be productive. These experiences also extend beyond the individual to help teams operate at peak performance and organizations achieve their goals

Key takeaways:
1. The SAP Model Company approach
2. SAP Services guidance
3. An easy migration journey to the cloud

SAP Model Company for Human Resources

SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management, HXM, suite completely reinvents the entire employee experience and help organizations create the kind of engagement that delivers consistent and measured improvement in performance.

With SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, organizations can deliver the kind of unexpectedly exceptional experiences that make employees more engaged, satisfied and fulfilled, and, as a result, deliver more productivity, revenue, and improved performance to the business. The HXM suite comes alive with the SAP Model Company for Human Resources, an end-to-end implementation of SAP SuccessFactors modules covering wall to wall HR process bundles addressing core HR, talent acquisition, talent management, talent development, rewards and Payroll.

The Model company approach breaks down siloed processes to deliver dynamic experiences that are designed completely around how people work and what they need to be productive. These experiences also extend beyond the individual to help teams operate at peak performance and organizations achieve their goals

Key takeaways:
1. The SAP Model Company approach
2. SAP Services guidance
3. An easy migration journey to the cloud

Finance Transformation with Intelligent Technologies

SAP brings new technologies and services together to help businesses power their digital transformation and to reshape the finance function.

Key takeaways:
1. Finance role shifts in emphasis toward management rather than accounting
2. Technologies improve finance function efficiency and build new capabilities for it
3. Refocusing the finance function toward revenue and value creation

Safeguarding the Business with Cybersecurity and Identity and Access Management

In today’s digital world the cyber threat is one of the biggest risks for companies all around the world. Attacks to business processes and data are inevitable and can come from both internal and external identities. A holistic, centralised, and automated approach to manage identities and monitor suspicious activities in the business systems is now a must to protect the company’s crown jewels. Join this session to learn what solutions SAP provides in this space.

Create an Intelligent HR Organisation with People Analytics and Planning

Today, HR needs insight into a wide range of live data – and fast. To make the right decisions that move your business forward, HR experts increasingly look to insights from other parts of the business, such as experience management and finance. SAP SuccessFactors solutions offer a range of embedded analytics capabilities that pull data and content from across your HR landscape through People Analytics and People Planning.

Key takeaways:
1. Analyse data from multiple sources
2. Monitor KPIs and react to changing trends in real-time.
3. Robust planning in areas like Salary Planning, Workforce Planning, and Workforce Cost Planning

Finance Transformation with Intelligent Technologies

SAP brings new technologies and services together to help businesses power their digital transformation and to reshape the finance function.

Key takeaways:
1. Finance role shifts in emphasis toward management rather than accounting
2. Technologies improve finance function efficiency and build new capabilities for it
3. Refocusing the finance function toward revenue and value creation

Introduction to Sales Performance Management by SAP

Total Compensation management contributes to a great human experience. Come and get a taste of SAP HXM's newest addition, Sales Performance Management (SPM). Learn how SPM can help you with Territory and Quota Management, Agent Performance Management, and ultimately, paying out of Commissions.

Key takeaways:
1. What SPM is all about.
2. Why is it part of the HXM portfolio.
3. How can it help you.

Intelligent Digital Workplaces: Unlocking Workforce Productivity and Engagement

In times of rapid change, productive and engaged employees are your most valuable resource. Are you, as a strategic HR leader, equipping your employees to respond to disruption by providing a digital workplace experience so they can do their best work? Are you offering them the applications, information, and collaboration they need to do their job – regardless of where they work?

Reimagine work experiences with SAP® Work Zone for HR, tools for an intelligent workplace, delivering
hyper-personalized, smooth experiences to employees so they can do their best work, stay engaged
and informed, and grow their knowledge and network – wherever they are.

Key takeaways:

1. Drive Workforce agility
2. Improve employee engagement
3. Streamline and integrate business process

BTP Everywhere: The Role of SAP Technology in the Future of SAP Applications

Better understand how and where SAP technologies are underpinning all SAP solutions in the cloud through the integration of SAP and non-SAP estates, innovation of application extensions, and best practice customisation whilst keeping the core clean.

Key takeaways:

1. Better understand the pivotal strategy of the SAP Business Technology Platform
2. Understand how it benefits SAP, SAP's customers, and the ecosystem

Moving from Classical General Ledger to S/4HANA Finance - What to do?

What should you do, what should you expect when moving from SAP Classical General Ledger to SAP S/4HANA Finance? We will cover customer-vendor integration, finance migration, new asset accounting and some other changes.

Key takeaways:
1. Learn the differences between classical general ledger and S/4HANA finance
2. Understand the finance-related differences between ECC and SAP S/4HANA
3. Understand the impacts of the finance migration to S/4HANA

How Integration is Evolving

SAP Business Process Intelligence

Earlier this year, SAP signaled its intention to help customers to fully manage their business processes in a transparent & consistent way. Signavio is a leader in Business Process Management and helps customers manage their entire business processes. Today's session will cover how Signavio will fill the gap in SAP's new offering of Business Process Intelligence.

Key takeaways:
'- Learn about SAP's vision of Business Process Intelligence
- SAP's BPI roadmap alongside Business Process Automation
- How to get started with BPI to transform your business

Efficient DevOps with SAP

DevOps is a key enabler for achieving high-level agility and quality in development projects – also in SAP enterprise environments. In this session, get the holistic picture of the portfolio of tools and offerings SAP offers to implement technical boundary conditions that help you to foster DevOps principles for your on-premise, cloud-native, and hybrid SAP scenarios efficiently.

Analytics in a Disrupted World

Analytics in a disrupted world is now more prevalent than ever. Join the discussion with Vassan Naidoo and Avish Sooful as we explore the importance and evolution of analytics amidst disruption.

Analytics in a Disrupted World

Analytics in a disrupted world is now more prevalent than ever. Join the discussion with Vassan Naidoo and Avish Sooful as we explore the importance and evolution of analytics amidst disruption.

Core Revival in a Pandemic

Deloitte Africa launched our 12th annual Tech Trends report. We will deep dive into the Core Revival trend and make it relevant in time of a pandemic, exploring new technologies, techniques and business cases to drive your modernization strategy. Join the conversation with Kevin Govender and MK Kwatala.

Unlocking your SAP Business Process Potential

Traditional optimisation methods are manual and rely on human observation to collect the data used for analytics. Manual process mapping is extremely time-consuming and one is more likely to miss critical process considerations. Strategic business decisions are often steered based on black-box processes, assumptions, or incorrect information. It is for this reason that PwC uses Celonis to accurately map the current working process with all its variations.

By benchmarking the core flow of transactions in any given business process, we are able to create a visualisation of 100% of the true process flows and volumes of transactions. This information can then be mapped against the expected flows, identifying all the variations to the process that have occurred. The tool is system agnostic and can analyse the process across multiple platforms. At its core, process mining is used to review control compliance, identify process optimisation opportunities and perform workforce analysis. By building on these key elements, the usage stretches across areas such as system migration (planning, execution, adoption monitoring), shared service optimisation, and various other use cases. Join us on a live journey for a hands-on experience, showcasing the power of process mining and the value it can add to your business.

Key takeaways:
1. How to generate powerful insights into the business processes within your SAP system
2. Leveraging process mining in your S/4HANA journey
3. Understanding the benefit of analysing a process to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies and control failures

Deloitte Africa Moja Success Story

To continue leading in the region, Deloitte Africa needed to operate on a single IT platform. The Firm chose multiple SAP cloud solutions, co-innovated with SAP, and harnessed the Deloitte Consulting implementation team to drive a robust, cloud-first digital transformation with SAP S/4HANA® at the core. The two-year program was essential to standardise, integrated processes from end to end that spanned various new and legacy systems and unlocked the power of data through an intelligent reporting landscape.

Africa Cloud Rising Webinar | Highlights - YouTube

Unlocking your SAP Business Process Potential

Traditional optimisation methods are manual and rely on human observation to collect the data used for analytics. Manual process mapping is extremely time-consuming and one is more likely to miss critical process considerations. Strategic business decisions are often steered based on black-box processes, assumptions, or incorrect information. It is for this reason that PwC uses Celonis to accurately map the current working process with all its variations.

By benchmarking the core flow of transactions in any given business process, we are able to create a visualisation of 100% of the true process flows and volumes of transactions. This information can then be mapped against the expected flows, identifying all the variations to the process that have occurred. The tool is system agnostic and can analyse the process across multiple platforms. At its core, process mining is used to review control compliance, identify process optimisation opportunities and perform workforce analysis. By building on these key elements, the usage stretches across areas such as system migration (planning, execution, adoption monitoring), shared service optimisation, and various other use cases. Join us on a live journey for a hands-on experience, showcasing the power of process mining and the value it can add to your business.

Key takeaways:
1. How to generate powerful insights into the business processes within your SAP system
2. Leveraging process mining in your S/4HANA journey
3. Understanding the benefit of analysing a process to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies and control failures

ERP IMPLEMENTATION: Learn From the Past, Avoid Pitfalls & Provide for Future Change

Change is inevitable, whether a move to HANA, a greenfield business implementation, an acquisition take-on or a migration between technologies or platforms. Among many factors of success, the ability to match the design with reality is fundamental.

Complexities of modern business and commercial environments combine with changing legal and regulatory frameworks to create a challenge for the best. The selection of implementation philosophies and methodologies is as important as the selection of talent and resources.

The looming exit of the generation that grew with SAP makes this crucial. Specific factors and decisions are often ignored, impacting the implementation results and limiting the long term viability of the implementation. These include:

• Active project buy-in and involvement of the most knowledgeable business people in the organisation, not only the most senior or the decision makers
• Blueprinting as key. A full appreciation of key elements is crucial to a successful design. Recognising the relationships between legal entities and their structures, multiple currencies, key reporting and control structures and the existence of special accounting ledgers is key
• A blueprint that appropriately represents these relationships and structures must further cater for change, in a manner that avoids catastrophic failure of reporting and controls in the event of organisational change. This must include a set of rules for changes in structure and lines of authority, to preserve the relevance of reporting and control structures as embodied in the implemented design
• Comparison of specific functionality with legacy or third-party systems should include the value of an integrated process and subsequent opportunities, and not focus only on modular benefits
• Learning from past mistakes.  Do not simply rebuild a legacy environment on a new platform.  Capitalise on the value of a fully integrated real-time SAP ERP system
• Choose the implementation and go-live date carefully, to increase the odds of success.

Key takeaways:

• Do things better – avoid or fix previous mistakes and weaknesses, and provide for the future with an open mind (what if?)
• Identify the correct stakeholders and business process owners, and keep them close
• Take into account the overwhelming value and importance of integrated business processes

The SAP HCM Africa Localisation: Going Further Together

BTP Lessons Learned

The SAP HCM Africa Localisation: Going Further Together

Colour me Changed: Mastering Change in the New World of Work

With change being the only constant in our hyper-connected, technology-driven world, it is more important than ever that we master human change management and ensure not only a successful adoption of new technology but also a change in workplace habits, behaviour and beliefs that embed the changes and enable real organisational transformation.

We welcome globally known HR Disruptor and Champion of putting people, first, Deborah Hartung, who will be sharing learnings from various global SuccessFactors implementations that she has distilled into the ‘secret sauce’ that will enable you to master change in the new world of work.

During this interactive session, delegates will learn:

• Colour coding personality types and their responses to change
• Secrets of EX and Marketing that every change practitioner should be using
• The 5Cs of accelerated workplace transformation

The SAP HCM Africa Localisation: Going Further Together

Using Fiori to Optimise and Improve User Experience

To fully experience the innovations is SAP S/4HANA, customers need to adopt a User Experience (UX) strategy based on SAP Fiori. Doing so creates opportunities for process optimisation, new ways of working and a refreshed user interface. However, building the business roles that underpin SAP Fiori requires careful consideration of adoption strategy role design philosophy, principles governing catalogue and group design, and authorisation strategy.

This session provides an “at the coalface” view of Fiori business role design, providing key considerations and lessons learned, that can be taken into account when designing your own Fiori UX strategy.

See How Dis-Chem Improved Their Month-End Processes by Automating Their Balance Sheet Recons & Open Item Clearing Directly in SAP

Dis-Chem personnel were spending large amounts of time with SAP manual clearing. Using flexible clearing criteria, modifications to references and programmatic searches, Dis-Chem now maximises these clearing results. This allows for a wide range of clearing across multiple company codes and accounts.

No need for recons in excel, manual approvals or printing & storing of GL recons. Dis-Chem now does GL recon approvals in SAP with a full audit history. Using SAP standard authorisations, all historic and current reconciliations are always available anytime within SAP. Comprehensive reporting is obtainable which now allows Dis-Chem to improve SAP month-end process, manage bottlenecks, and drive out outstanding tasks. This supports standardisation of the reconciliation process which ensures accuracy of financial balances.

Seize the Momentum, Optimize your Systems and Get the Best of the Two Worlds

In these challenging times where we aim at providing the best end-user experience, seize the Momentum and review your options when it comes to available functionalities and technologies. “Get the Best from the Two Worlds”.

• Assess which quick-wins processes could be enabled, which functionalities could be deployed and/or enhanced.
• Demystify the technology in use, build or update your strategy, consider your deployment options.
• Secure access to critical Master Data.
• Setup a dedicated User Acceptance Test strategy, simplify the processes and prepare the readiness to always be ahead of time.
• Take advantage of available resources and engage with SAP Community.
• Take home a checklist along with documentation placeholders.

See How Dis-Chem Improved Their Month-End Processes by Automating Their Balance Sheet Recons & Open Item Clearing Directly in SAP

Dis-Chem personnel were spending large amounts of time with SAP manual clearing. Using flexible clearing criteria, modifications to references and programmatic searches, Dis-Chem now maximises these clearing results. This allows for a wide range of clearing across multiple company codes and accounts.

No need for recons in excel, manual approvals or printing & storing of GL recons. Dis-Chem now does GL recon approvals in SAP with a full audit history. Using SAP standard authorisations, all historic and current reconciliations are always available anytime within SAP. Comprehensive reporting is obtainable which now allows Dis-Chem to improve SAP month-end process, manage bottlenecks, and drive out outstanding tasks. This supports standardisation of the reconciliation process which ensures accuracy of financial balances.

Automate & Digitise Financial Supply Chains

We live in a digitally enabled world, which enables us to unlock and utilise assets. However, the financial supply chain (how we pay and get paid) has been neglected. We live in a digitally enabled world, which enables us to unlock and utilise assets. However, the financial supply chain (how we pay and get paid) has been neglected:

• Processes are manual
• Connectivity between business partners are limited (Multi-Channel Invoice receipting underutilised)
• Financing is poorAutomating and digitising invoice processing provides a new way – dynamic payments underpinned by invoice automation and flexible financing.

The SAP HCM Africa Localisation: Going Further Together

Unpacking SAP's Integration Architecture for Hybrid Landscapes

SAP has an aggressive strategy to move customers to the cloud. SAP's Integration Architecture for Hybrid Landscapes includes the SAP Cloud Integration Suite but does not prevent customers from leveraging on-premise applications. This session shows that using the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M) helps customers define an appropriate Integration Strategy for their organisation. A live demonstration of the SAP Integration Suite working with on-premise SAP integration technologies as well as 3rd Party systems will be included.

Myths vs. Fact: SAP Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA

In this session you will learn why material ledger turned to be an important and mandatory module in S/4 HanaIn this session you will learn why material ledger turned to be an important and mandatory module in S/4 HanaLearn about differences between version S/4 Versions and how to maximize the usage of Material ledger in S/4.

Key takeaways:
1. Currencies relations and material ledger

2. Different options of using Material Ledger, one or more material ledger.

3. Material Ledger Reports

Connecting the Unconnected

The IP65 Rated Verisec Kiosk, a user-friendly employee self-service device, connecting the unconnected – safely, securely and efficiently.

Anglo American introduced ESS kiosk in 2019, provided by Verisec. Since the project started the use cases for the kiosk escalated and are still escalating. Connecting the unconnected as part of our digitalisation drive is critical as we need to take the whole workforce with us on our digital journey and not only a selected few. Come and listen to the Anglo American Platinum journey in connecting our unconnected employees, using the Verisec IP65 Rated Employees Self-service Kiosk.

How SuccessFactors supports our Innovation Journey in Gold Fields HR

Looking at the modules we implemented to support our strategy, using reporting and analytics differently to make people decisions and the change management that continues to underpin our approach.

As a mining company, we have had a 7-year long journey to move our people management processes from paper to a cloud-based system. What started as a talent process optimisation journey grew into a wider-scale HR innovation journey to systematise all our processes and automate where we could. We have re-invented leave applications, how we do performance, automated talent review processes and presentations, use data and analytics differently and reopened debate around learning online. We battled through initial implementations but now can’t keep up with requests for new functionality from the business and providing greater access and mobility of data to line managers. Lessons learnt: Innovation and digitisation is a long-term objective requiring multiple partnerships with IT, implementation partners, business leaders and HR teams. It is also a never-ending change management journey as legislation changes on data privacy, technology advances (and security becomes challenging), business demands simpler and easier processes, employment models change and our working arrangement adjusts to the current climate. It’s a journey that had a start date but not yet an end date in sight.

Key takeaways:
Importance of partnerships in innovating and systematising HR processes.
Adapting SuccessFactors to business needs.
Challenges in reporting - what you need to know.
What can be automated and what are the requirements.

B-BBEE Scorecard Reporting – Leveraging Technology for Simpler Solutions

Turn your B-BBEE Scorecard Reporting pain-points into Scorecard Points!

Let the iOCO B-BBEE Scorecard Reporting Solution help you Plan, Report and make B-BBEE part of your company’s growth strategy.

Leverage on Analytics Technology to promote business opportunities.

B-BBEE Scorecard Reporting – Leveraging Technology for Simpler Solutions

Turn your B-BBEE Scorecard Reporting pain-points into Scorecard Points!

Let the iOCO B-BBEE Scorecard Reporting Solution help you Plan, Report and make B-BBEE part of your company’s growth strategy.

Leverage on Analytics Technology to promote business opportunities.

SuccessFactors Replication Monitoring: Removing the Thorn from Your Side

We all assumed that integration between SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP Payroll would be seamless - in fact, we were told as much. The striking contrast of reality makes it clear that "seamless" might not mean what we thought.

Join me to find out more about the reality of ongoing operational challenges when it comes to integration between SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP Payroll, and how to overcome these with digital intelligent solutions that lighten the burden.

Key takeaways:
I will highlight the reality of integration complexity, provide clarity on ongoing operational requirements, and propose a solution to organise the chaos.

SAP Model Company for Human Resources

SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management, HXM, suite completely reinvents the entire employee experience and help organizations create the kind of engagement that delivers consistent and measured improvement in performance.

With SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, organizations can deliver the kind of unexpectedly exceptional experiences that make employees more engaged, satisfied and fulfilled, and, as a result, deliver more productivity, revenue, and improved performance to the business. The HXM suite comes alive with the SAP Model Company for Human Resources, an end-to-end implementation of SAP SuccessFactors modules covering wall to wall HR process bundles addressing core HR, talent acquisition, talent management, talent development, rewards and Payroll.

The Model company approach breaks down siloed processes to deliver dynamic experiences that are designed completely around how people work and what they need to be productive. These experiences also extend beyond the individual to help teams operate at peak performance and organizations achieve their goals

Key takeaways:
1. The SAP Model Company approach
2. SAP Services guidance
3. An easy migration journey to the cloud

Connecting the Unconnected

The IP65 Rated Verisec Kiosk, a user-friendly employee self-service device, connecting the unconnected – safely, securely and efficiently.

Anglo American introduced ESS kiosk in 2019, provided by Verisec. Since the project started the use cases for the kiosk escalated and are still escalating. Connecting the unconnected as part of our digitalisation drive is critical as we need to take the whole workforce with us on our digital journey and not only a selected few. Come and listen to the Anglo American Platinum journey in connecting our unconnected employees, using the Verisec IP65 Rated Employees Self-service Kiosk.

Digital Delivery Platforms for SAP Transformation Projects (DevOps for SAP)

Post COVID-19 and its impact, how do we take lessons learned to prepare adequately for SAP transformation projects and incorporate new ways of work, while still adhering to timelines and scope. What additional lessons can we learn from methodologies used in software development projects? Is DevOps really possible for SAP projects if some organisations are still struggling with Agile?

S/4HANA Migration Insights

S/4HANA Migration has been the talk of the SAP world for the past few years and is fortunately a project SAP customers cannot avoid. There are a lot of challenges and information on how to do the S/4HANA migration effectively as possible but where and what is the simplified points to look at, lessons learned, “potholes” to avoid and different approaches, solutions and options out there that can ensure the customer is the priority of the project.

So many times and with experience it has come to light certain critical points and features available is not known to customers and during the project get caught on the backfoot impacting go-live dates and most importantly accurate data quality migration to S/4HANA target systems. What is key is that data of ECC to S/4HANA migration needs to take a very high priority.

Are you aware of the SAP solutions and options within each S/4HANA version? Can you compile with ease the data migration objects and data? Do you fully understand the load sequence? Can you adopt an automated approach that will provide reporting capability for pre and post-load validations? Can you provide sufficient audits for your auditors for the data migration, target system config, data loads etc.? Source to target mappings with value mappings, transformation rules and lookup tables. iDoc’s vs. RDM solution vs. XML load files vs. Staging tables vs. direct loads vs. BAPI’s and the list continues…

How to Improve the Organisation’s Risk Awareness with Business-Centric GRC?

Organisations have been struggling to derive value from their GRC investment since the inception of GRC solutions. Coupled with this, compliance tasks performed by business users are often performed with minimal intent and/or consideration to the impact on business. The technical nature and complexity of SAP security and GRC means that ownership typically remains an IT problem.

In this session we will articulate the techniques and strategies to successfully shift access risk from IT to the business, thus enhancing business accountability and buy-in. This will ultimately improve an organisation’s overall risk awareness and ability to manage their risk.

Core Revival in a Pandemic

Deloitte Africa launched our 12th annual Tech Trends report. We will deep dive into the Core Revival trend and make it relevant in time of a pandemic, exploring new technologies, techniques and business cases to drive your modernization strategy. Join the conversation with Kevin Govender and MK Kwatala.

In the Zone with SAP Work Zone

We all know SAP Work Zone is a hot new topic - but what does it really bring? Who should get excited and why?

Following a pre-General Availibility Trial experience with guidance from SAP, I would like to share some firsthand experience and thoughts from our experience. In essence, trying to bring the technical advances and advantages that the Work Zone platform brings with it to a more practical level of understanding. In short giving the audience some key points to evaluate their understanding of the platform and the value it represents.

Key takeaways:

1. Positioning
2. Platform vs Portal
3. Consolidation Play

Mastering SAP… Anywhere

Build your SAP landscape on-premises, in the cloud, or both. NetApp and CoCre8 debunk cloud myths with scale and simplicity. Wherever you are on your SAP journey, we help you build your data fabric that lets you take advantage of any media when, where and how you choose.