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The SearchSAP.com Application Forum Baltimore
The SearchSAP.com Application Forum Baltimore, taking place on Thursday, December 8th is a one day, complimentary event for IT and SAP managers, business process owners and senior management that will provide a completely independent and unbiased view of NetWeaver and other application integration strategies. You'll start with an informative NetWeaver 101 session and then dig deeper into a detailed analysis of how to get the maximum return on your NetWeaver investment. Industry experts from Logos GmbH and Capgemini will also explain how NetWeaver compares to other Enterprise Application Integration technologies. The day will conclude with our sponsors participating in a lively panel, "NetWeaver Myths and Realities." You'll hear from solution providers about the most common misperceptions of SAP users and the realities of what NetWeaver can and can't do. By spending just one day at this event, you are guaranteed to return to your office with the knowledge and insight needed to make crucial application integration decisions.
Sessions Include:
Keynote Presentation: Enterprise Service Architecture: Buzzword or NecessityPresented by: Axel Angeli, EAI Development Mentor and SAP Project Manager, Logos! GmbH Integration guru Axel Angeli, known for his brutally honest analysis of SAP technology, will help you sort out the ESA marketing buzz from cold, hard facts. How quickly will you need to adopt ESA? Will SAP be helpful or will it just cause pain? What options do you have? How costly will it be? And are there any risks lurking under the shiny ESA surface? Axel will sketch out the underlying vision and roadmap of ESA as well as highlight where the true value lies in this unflinching look at ESA and its real-life impact on SAP users.
Session 1: NetWeaver 101: Beyond the HypePresented by: Dale Young, Vice President, Technology Service, Capgemini There's a lot of buzz around NetWeaver, but can you explain exactly what NetWeaver is? Do you know what it can and can't do? How does it snap into the existing SAP ecosystem? This presentation provides a plain-English explanation to these important questions, offering SAP professionals of all levels a chance to get up to speed quickly on this key technology.
Session 2: "Is it Survival of the Fittest or Peaceful Coexistence? How SAP, IBM, Microsoft and others compare in the age of the Service oriented Enterprise"Presented by: Axel Angeli, EAI Development Mentor and SAP Project Manager, Logos! GmbH Service-based computing is fast becoming a first-class citizen in today's integration market. Despite all the formalism supporting traditional EAI, openness and flexibility are now the name of the game. SAP has unveiled its Netweaver stack and associated Enterprise Service Architecture to support innovative and adaptive business solutions. SAP is well on the path to Web services integration, its biggest challenge is to keep its strategy clear with customers. SAP wants that people can combine the best process solutions they get from SAP with those they get from others and claims that the new Enterprise Services Architecture gives new flexibility and new power to change business processes on the fly without being blocked by inflexible IT systems. This presentation will discuss how fit SAP Netweaver is for Enterprise Application Integration by comparing it with its direct contenders: Microsoft.NET and IBM Websphere and other challengers like Oracle and if SAP Netweaver can hold the promise by complying with open standards as well as easy extensibility and reusability of SAP's built-in ERP functionality.
Session 3: "How to Get an Honest ROI analysis for a NetWeaver upgrade"Presented by: Dale Young, Vice President, Technology Service, Capgemini Organization?s looking to upgrade to NetWeaver and mySAP ERP often face a challenge developing a compelling business case. This is often caused by an attempt to develop that business case based on a traditional view ERP implementation/upgrade. Today's new business reality and the expanding functional and technical capabilities of the SAP solution suite today require a different view of business case development and ROI calculation. In this session, you will develop a better understanding of the drivers and key decisions of a NetWeaver/mySAP ERP upgrade. This session will also provide a framework that will help you identify all aspects of your NetWeaver upgrade business case.
Click here to register or call Ryan Bell at 888-274-4111 x1397 to reserve your seat today.
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