Conference Guide: Las Vegas March 8-11

CONFERENCE
GUIDE
Las Vegas
March 8-11
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Table of Contents
General Information 2
Conference Orientation Session 2
Conference Overview 3
Conference at a Glance 3
10 TIPS TO INCREASE THE
CPE Information 4
VALUE OF YOUR CONFERENCE
Keynote Address 5
EXPERIENCE
General Assemblies 5 1. Attend any session at Financials 2011, GRC 2011, or HR
2011. (Your conference badge admits you to sessions offered
Conference Center Map 7 across all three programs.)
Thank You to Our Sponsors 7 2. Join your peers at a conference orientation session. It
familiarizes you with key elements of the event, including
Solutions Labs 9
its educational sessions, networking forums, Solutions
Insider Networking Showcase layout, and more everything you need to know
to get the greatest value from your conference experience.
Continental Networking Breakfasts 11
3. Take advantage of the Insider Discussion Forums special
Networking Ribbons 11 sessions where attendees share experiences, tips, tricks, and
techniques on a specific topic.
Evening Receptions 11
4. Sit down with your peers at the networking roundtables.
Insider Discussion Forums 12 Meet new colleagues and catch up with existing ones as you
network by industry, by topic, or both. If you have major
Financials Expert LIVE Sessions 15 projects on the horizon, the contacts you meet here will be
invaluable.
GRC Expert LIVE Sessions 16
5. Bring your individual questions to the Ask-the-Experts
Ask-the-Experts 17 forums and meet one-on-one or in groups with an expert
Daily Schedule speaker for help with your toughest challenges. Ask a
specific question, get a specific answer.
Jumpstart Day Monday, March 7 19
6. Visit the SAP booth in the Solutions Showcase to see demos
Tuesday, March 8 21 of the SAP functionality youll be learning about in the
sessions, and glean more insight into how you can do more
Wednesday, March 9 24 with your SAP software now and in the future.
Thursday, March 10 27 7. Access and download the conference materials sign up

for a free membership to www.insiderlearningnetwork.com
Friday, March 11 30 and access all the session materials from all three conferences
through your account. To learn more and to register for
Session Descriptions Insider Learning Network on-site, please visit the Insider
Jumpstart Day Monday, March 7 33 Learning Network kiosk in the Grand Foyer.
8. Speak with the leading third-party vendors about their ideas
Financials and GRC Session Tracks 36
for optimizing your SAP infrastructure.
Tuesday, March 8 37 9. Attend a Financials Expert LIVE session to experience in
Wednesday, March 9 47 person the Financials Expert knowledgebase. Youll dive
deeper into a specific article from this knowledgebase with
Thursday, March 10 55 its author. Ask him or her follow-up questions to get even
more guidance from this article.
Friday, March 11 69
10. Important! Many speakers at this event are regular
Sponsored Educational Sessions 79 contributors to the SAPexperts online knowledgebases.
Conference attendees are strongly encouraged to take
Solutions Showcase advantage of this invaluable resource year-round. Visit the
Solutions Showcase Map 83 WIS Publishing booth to activate a subscription or to learn
if your companys subscription to SAPexperts is current.
Exhibiting Companies 85
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General Information
CONFERENCE BADGES INSIDER LEARNING NETWORK KIOSK
Attendees must wear badges at all times for admission to Jumpstart Following this conference, continue your networking experience on
Day sessions, conference sessions, the keynote addresses, the Solutions Insider Learning Network. Your free membership keeps you connected
Showcase, continental breakfasts, special events, lunches, refreshment with the attendees, speakers, and partners you meet this week. Get
breaks, and networking activities. You can pick up your conference name independent tips, tricks, and strategies to build on the content presented
badge at the registration desk. at this event, and remain up-to-date on what is happening in the SAP
community, all in one location. Plus, now you can access all of your
REGISTRATION conference materials on Insider Learning Network. Log in using the
The registration desk is located in the Grand Foyer of the MGM email address you used to register for the conference and you will find all
Convention Center. Registration hours are: of the session presentations from all three conferences in the Conference
Sunday 4:00 pm 7:00 pm Materials folder located on your homepage. For more information and
Monday 7:30 am 7:00 pm to register on-site please stop by the Insider Learning Network kiosk
Tuesday 7:00 am 7:00 pm in the Grand Foyer.
Wednesday 7:30 am 6:30 pm
Thursday 7:30 am 5:30 pm MOBILE DEVICE POLICY
Friday 7:30 am 3:00 pm For the convenience and consideration of all attendees, we ask that you
silence all mobile telephones and pagers while you are in a session.
EVALUATIONS
We value your comments and feedback. Please fill out the evaluation EMAIL/INTERNET STATIONS
forms provided at each session and return them to our staff when exiting We have set up convenient email stations and wireless networking
the session. Also, get your free conference t-shirt by filling out the overall areas. The SSID of SAPinsider will be broadcast, but laptops must be
conference evaluation form that will be handed out on Friday, and configured with an 802.11b card accepting DHCP. The network will
returning it to a staff member at the registration desk. always be up, but there may be service interruptions. Please contact your
company Network Administrator for wireless connection assistance.
BUSINESS SERVICE CENTER For ease of use and maximum functionality, this network is not secured
MGM Hotel Business Center hours: and individuals are responsible for security on their own workstation.
Monday Friday 6:00 am 10:00 pm Use of mail encryption, anti-virus software, personal fire-wall, and
Saturday 7:00 am 7:00 pm VPN applications is recommended. Technical support is not available
MGM Conference Business Center hours: for systems. Please report network-related problems to the conference
Monday Friday 7:00 am 5:00 pm registration desk.
SMOKING POLICY
The MGM Conference Center is a non-smoking facility. The only
smoking areas in the hotel are on the casino floor and in the bars.
Sleeping rooms are smoking by floor.
Conference Orientation Session

Monday, 1:15 pm 1:45 pm Premier 301
Tuesday, 7:45 am 8:15 am Grand 121
This informative session is designed to help you become familiar with the key elements of this conference including educational sessions, networking
forums, Solutions Showcase layout, and more everything you need to know to get the greatest value from your experience.
Learn how to navigate the program and choose the sessions of greatest interest to you
Find out when and where networking activities are scheduled and how to make the most of them
Get to know the conference staff and find out how they can be of help to you throughout the conference
Meet peers you can interact with at the event and keep in touch with for years to come
Discover opportunities to continue your learning and networking experience after the conference is over
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Conference Overview
35 COMPREHENSIVE TRACKS SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS
Your registration to Financials 2011, GRC 2011, and HR 2011 gives Sponsored Educational Sessions, delivered by conference sponsors,
you the option to attend sessions at all 3 conferences at no additional will provide you with opportunities to learn about customer successes,
charge. In total, you can choose from over 330 sessions to customize your participate in discussions, and view demonstrations of how vendor
learning experience. products or services can help drive more business value from your SAP
solution. These sessions are part of the main conference schedule. See
SOLIDIFY YOUR SCHEDULE USING OUR AGENDA ASSISTANT pages 79-82 for more information.
Take advantage of our newest conference sponsored by
feature! Visit the Agenda Assistant kiosks INSIDER NETWORKING
located in the Grand Foyer to look up Financials 2011, GRC 2011, and HR 2011 offer a wide array of
sessions, exhibitors, or speakers and build networking opportunities. Attach a networking ribbon to your badge
your agenda. You can even save your to find specific counterparts from your industry. Attend one of our
agenda and adjust it as you go; simply Financials Expert LIVE sessions to learn more about articles from the
return to the kiosks and make the changes authors themselves. Participate in one of our Insider Discussion Forums
you want. If you built your agenda prior to attending, you can print it by and have detailed conversations with people who share your interests,
visiting a kiosk and logging in. If you have a smart phone, you can enter and then tap into the knowledge and insight of the conference speakers
http://eventkaddy.com/SAPinsider into your mobile Web browser and at Ask-the-Experts. Finally, join us during the Evening Receptions to
log in. You can view your pre-built agenda or build a new one, make interact with other delegates, exhibitors, and speakers to build a lasting
changes, and have the latest conference information at your fingertips. network of peers. See pages 11-17 for more information.
Visit the registration desk if you have any questions.
LUNCHES AND REFRESHMENT BREAKS
SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE The conference provides attendees with lunches and refreshment breaks
Compare and contrast market-leading solutions and see for yourself how between breakout sessions for all four days of the conference. See the daily
SAP and third-party technologies fit into your IT infrastructure. See schedule on pages 19-31 for exact times and locations.
pages 83-92 for a complete listing of sponsors and exhibitors.
Conference at a Glance
Jumpstart Day Conference
Monday, March 7 Tuesday, March 8 Wednesday, March 9 Thursday, March 10 Friday, March 11
7:30 am Registration 7:00 am Registration opens 7:30 am Registration opens 7:30 am Registration opens 7:30 am Registration opens
opens Continental Continental Continental Continental
9:00 am Morning Breakfast Breakfast Networking Networking
Jumpstart 7:45 am Conference 8:30 am Financials 2011 Breakfast Breakfast
sessions Orientation General Assembly 8:30 am Breakout sessions 8:00 am SAP Solutions
12:00 pm Lunch session Labs
9:00 am SAP Solutions 9:00 am SAP Solutions
8:30 am Keynote Address Labs Labs 8:30 am Breakout sessions
1:15 pm Conference
Orientation 9:45 am Solutions Showcase 9:30 am Solutions Showcase 9:30 am Solutions Showcase 9:45 am Refreshment Break
session opens opens opens
10:00 am Breakout sessions
2:00 pm Afternoon 10:00 am Refreshment Break 9:45 am Refreshment Break 9:45 am Refreshment Break
11:15 am Refreshment Break
Jumpstart
10:30 am Breakout sessions 10:15 am Breakout sessions 10:15 am Breakout sessions
sessions 11:30 am Breakout sessions
11:45 am Lunch 11:30 am Lunch 11:30 am Refreshment Break
5:00 pm Jumpstart 12:45 pm Lunch
Day 1:00 pm Breakout sessions 1:00 pm GRC 2011 General 11:45 am Breakout sessions
concludes Assembly 2:00 pm Breakout sessions
SAP Solutions
1:00 pm Lunch
Labs 2:15 pm Refreshment Break 3:15 pm Conference
7:00 pm Registration
closes 2:15 pm Refreshment Break 1:30 pm Exhibit Hall Last concludes
2:45 pm Breakout sessions Call
2:30 pm Breakout sessions
4:00 pm Refreshment Break 2:30 pm Breakout sessions
3:45 pm Refreshment Break
4:15 pm Breakout sessions 2:30 pm Solutions Showcase
4:15 pm Breakout sessions closes
5:30 pm Cocktail Reception
5:30 pm Welcome 3:45 pm Refreshment Break
5:45 pm Ask-the-Experts
Reception
4:00 pm Breakout sessions
6:30 pm Solutions Showcase
5:45 pm Ask-the-Experts
closes
7:00 pm Solutions Showcase
closes
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CPE Information
Financials 2011, GRC 2011, and HR 2011 will be offering attendees the opportunity to earn CPE credits for each individual session completed. Please
note that credits will be awarded for each evaluation filled out for the qualifying session.
GENERAL INFORMATION EVALUATION FORMS

Attendees must pick up a CPE packet at the registration counter. In order to receive CPE credit, you must complete an evaluation form for
Included in this packet will be important credit information, appropriate each session attended. Evaluation forms for all sessions are included in
handouts, and evaluation forms. the CPE packet. At the conclusion of the conference, please return the
envelope to the Registration Desk with all of your completed evaluation
EARNING CPE CREDITS forms.
You can earn up to 35.5 CPE credits by attending sessions at
Financials 2011, GRC 2011, and HR 2011. Credits can be FIELD OF STUDY
earned by attending the following: Designated fields of study for each session can be found on pages 19-31
3.5 credits per Jumpstart Session or in the pocket agenda. Credits can be earned for each of the following
1.5 credits Day 1 Keynote Address fields of study:
1.5 credits Day 2 Financials, GRC, or HR General Assemblies
Acc Accounting
1.5 credits per 75-minute Breakout Session
0.9 credits per 45-minute Breakout Session Aud Auditing
0.6 credits per 30-minute Breakout Session
Bus Business Management and Organization
* Please note that Sponsored Educational Sessions and Ask-the-Experts
are NOT eligible to receive CPE credits.
Fin Finance
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
Per Personnel/HR
You will receive your certificate of completion within 60 days of the last
day of the event. If you have any questions, please contact Cara Bradley,
(781) 751-8634.
UCG, LP is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional
education on the National Registry of CPE sponsors. WIS, publisher of SAPinsider, is a division of UCG, LP. State boards of accountancy
have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to
the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org. No
prerequisites or advanced preparation required.
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Keynote Address
Tuesday, March 8
8:30 am 10:00 am Marquee Ballroom
Analytics for Finance, HR, and Compliance: Sanjay Poonen

What the Numbers Tell Us President of Solutions
Go-to-Market,
Across the worlds best run companies you find a prevalence of real-time analytics. This SAP AG
keynote looks at the innovative ways these companies leverage analytics for greater
insight and business performance. Sanjay Poonen, the executive who sets direction for
all SAP business applications and technologies, offers previews of SAP innovations for
finance, HR and compliance and demonstrates how analytics enhance the value of your
organizations current SAP applications. World-renowned author, professor and pioneer Thomas H. Davenport
Presidents Distinguished
in the field of analytics, Thomas Davenport, examines the correlation between analytics Professor of IT and
and heightened business performance. Management,
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General Assemblies
Financials Wednesday, March 9
8:30 am 9:45 am Marquee Ballroom
Keeping the Lights On and Trusted Advisor:

Balancing Finance Roles in Todays Economic Environment
What changes for finance as the economy shows signs of recovery and customer buying behaviors, as well as the business
models used to support them, have been irrevocably altered? The answer requires finance to have better insights into more
diverse investments, deploy lower cost models, implement cost controls on traditional models, and tightly manage risk and
opportunity. In this keynote address, SAP North America CFO, Joel Bernstein, provides a first-hand account of how SAP
has addressed these challenges. This includes a look at the KPIs SAP uses, its processes to mitigate risk and get ahead of the
actuals, and the technologies the finance organization leverages to provide insights to more people. On the cutting edge of Joel Bernstein
CFO
innovation for finance, Bernsteins insights offer surprising lessons and a candid appraisal of the levers, trade-offs, and
SAP North America
technologies that drive (or hinder) superior performance.
Finance KPIs in 2011: Updates for SAP Customers

Across the SAP customer base, CFOs employ a broad range of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to set and monitor
performance objectives. KPIs measure the efficacy of everything from the financial close process and accounts receivables
function to true indicators of business performance including total stakeholder return. This keynote explores the nine KPIs
now deemed most important and the leading strategies for addressing the priorities these KPIs represent. This is an
opportunity to see how existing and newly updated SAP functionality maps to your organizations leading KPIs for finance.
James Fisher
Vice President, Marketing
Finance and EPM
GRC Wednesday, March 9 Solutions, SAP
1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 313
SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Launch

Join Jim Dunham, Group Vice President, GRC Solution Management, as he unveils SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0.
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release is truly comprehensive, enabling a unified approach to GRC initiatives. Also see how SAPs partners have delivered
industry-specific GRC solutions tailored for customers needs. This keynote promises to signal a new era for GRC solutions.
James Dunham
Group Vice President, GRC
Solution Management, SAP
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Conference Center Map
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Level 3 Premier Ballroom 1 Keynote Address, Day 1
Premier Premier Premier 2 Financials General Assembly, Day 2

309 314 320 3 HR General Assembly, Day 2
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Premier 304 4 GRC General Assembly, Day 2
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5 Breakfast, Days 1-4
6 Jumpstart Day Lunch

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310 313 319 7 Lunch, Days 1-4
B 3 4 B B 8 Solutions Showcase
Premier 307 Premier 302 9 EPM and ERP Solutions Lab
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10 GRC Solutions Lab and Partner Showcase
Premier 306 Premier 301
Premier Premier Premier 11 Insider Learning Network Kiosk
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12 Agenda Assistant Kiosk
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Solutions Labs
SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects Governance,
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Performance Management (EPM) Solutions Lab and Partner
Solutions Lab Showcase
SAP financial solutions allow finance teams to become a more effective
partner to the business by providing optimal control and empowering all
INTRODUCING GRC 10.0 COMPREHENSIVE ESSENTIAL
stakeholders to adapt quickly, act with confidence and take advantage of
AND PROVEN INDUSTRY SPECIFIC
dynamic business conditions. SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk and Compliance 10.0 delivers
an extraordinary collection of customer-driven enhancements, unveiling
The SAP Financials (ERP) and EPM Solutions Lab is a multi-day a unified approach to managing GRC initiatives. With this, and an
opportunity for you to:
unmatched partner ecosystem, GRC 10.0 has the most complete portfolio
Explore SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects of industry-specific GRC solutions tailored for customers risk and
EPM solutions with self-guided hands-on exercises learn compliance needs.
more about the solutions at your own pace Stop by the GRC solutions lab to explore GRC 10.0 and the array of
Meet one-on-one with SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP GRC solutions from SAP and our key partners. The GRC Solutions Lab
BusinessObjects EPM solutions experts set an appointment and Partner Showcase is a four-day opportunity for you to:
with an experienced solutions expert to discuss business
Meet one-on-one with solution experts set an appointment
challenges you are facing, discuss current best practices and
with an experienced GRC solutions expert to discuss specifics
review solution features and functionality
of your requirements and learn how our solutions can address
Learn best practices, see demos, and discover how SAP the needs of your organization
financial solutions can benefit you and your organization Learn best practices attend small group presentations
by attending one of the Financials (ERP) and EPM lab
provided by SAP and our partners to discover how SAP
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BusinessObjects GRC solutions can benefit you and your
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registration desk at Grand 101 to make a reservation registration opens
each day at 8:00 am.
each day at 8:00 am.
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Lab Schedule: Tuesday, March 8 1:00 pm 5:00 pm
Location: Grand 102 Wednesday, March 9 9:00 am 5:00 pm
Lab Schedule: Tuesday, March 8 1:00 pm 5:00 pm Thursday, March 10 9:00 am 5:00 pm
Wednesday, March 9 9:00 am 5:00 pm Friday, March 11 8:00 am 12:00 pm
Thursday, March 10 9:00 am 5:00 pm
Friday, March 11 8:00 am 12:00 pm
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CONTINENTAL NETWORKING BREAKFASTS
Thursday: 7:30 am 8:30 am Marquee Ballroom
Friday: 7:30 am 8:30 am Marquee Ballroom
Meet with your counterparts to share ideas and experiences.
Thursdays industry networking categories include:

Chemicals Life science and healthcare
Consumer products Pharmaceutical
Energy, oil, and gas Professional services
Financial services Public sector
High-tech
Fridays Financials networking topics include:

Cash management General ledger
Consolidations Options for financial reporting
Fast close Performance management
IFRS Upgrades
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Fridays GRC networking topics include:

Audits SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services
Controls and segregation of duties Security
Environmental health and safety SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
NETWORKING RIBBONS FINANCIALS EXPERT LIVE AND GRC EXPERT LIVE

Attach industry ribbons to your conference badge and use them to find SESSIONS
specific counterparts who are attending the conference. Find out what This forum offers attendees the opportunity to meet leading authors
theyre learning and build a lasting network of peers. Visit the registration from our Financials Expert and GRC Expert knowledgebases and
desk for more information. discuss topics from recent articles. Attend these sessions to get additional
information, share and discuss experiences with your peers, and ask the
EVENING RECEPTIONS author questions unique to your own experience. These sessions are part
After the sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, join hundreds of your of the main conference schedule. See pages 15-16 for more information.
peers at our evening receptions. Its a chance to have discussions with the
speakers, trade experiences in a casual setting with the people who fight the ASK-THE-EXPERTS
same battles you do every day, and visit the Solutions Showcase. Pull up a chair in the Ask-the-Experts area of the Solutions Showcase
during our Tuesday and Wednesday evening receptions and spend one-
INSIDER DISCUSSION FORUMS on-one time with the top experts. Learn from their real-world expertise
These forums are informal, interactive get-togethers where SAP and get specific insights on topics and questions that matter to you most.
customers with similar interests, projects, and challenges can gather to See page 17 for a complete listing of experts.
talk about specific topics. Each topic will be facilitated by a subject-matter
expert. You do not need to sign up in advance to attend, and there is
no formal agenda. Just have a great discussion with people who share
your concerns and interests. See pages 12-14 for a complete listing and
schedule.
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Insider Discussion Forums
Step away from the standard lecture format and share ideas with your peers in these dynamic, interactive forums. Gather lessons, how-to information,
and techniques other customers have learned based on experience.
Improve the integration of financials functionality How to offer and use dynamic discounts from within
with other SAP applications SAP
Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software Bertram Meyer, Taulia
Tuesday, 1:45 pm 2:15 pm Premier 302 Wednesday, 10:15 am 10:45 am Premier 302
Enter into a lively discussion with peers and experts to find out the best ways Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other
to integrate SAP software for financial accounting with other SAP SAP customers have addressed the cash management needs of both buyers
components. Explore questions such as: What key integration points and suppliers using dynamic discounts. Learn how such dynamic discounts
between the financial accounting, materials management, and sales and can result in significantly improved discount capture rates for large buyers
distribution components should I pay special attention to? What integration while at the same time helping their suppliers to reduce working capital.
mistakes and inefficiencies should I avoid? How do I ensure that these Engage in a discussion about the core criteria that determines whether
different components are recording and reporting the same results? How are dynamic discounting will work well for your company. Gain new ideas and
my counterparts at other companies reconciling discrepancies between perspectives from your peers and hear what possibilities exist to be able to
components? Leave this moderated discussion forum with unique insights fully manage dynamic payment terms within SAP and how the SAP system
and best practices that improve the integration of your financial accounting can best be enabled to handle such payment terms.
software with the rest of your SAP landscape.
Lessons from peers who have overcome the toughest
Best practices for centralizing and managing controls challenges in public sector accounting
across end-to-end business processes using SAP Monette McNicholas, EPI-USE
BusinessObjects Process Control Wednesday, 10:15 am 10:45 am Grand 109
Jennifer Cha, SAP Engage in a lively discussion with peers and find out how to meet the
Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:00 pm Grand 109 unique requirements of public sector accounting. Get answers to questions
This open forum affords you the opportunity to question your peers about their such as: What are the best ways to manage master data, alternative fiscal
experiences implementing SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. Hear how years, budgeting, and budget control issues that are unique to public sector?
colleagues have tackled their toughest project challenges, and get answers to What SAP tools are available to help me streamline these processes? What
questions like: What first steps must I take to build a sustainable compliance are some of the common trends in public sector cost management? How do
process that spans entire business processes? How do I do so cost effectively? I ensure that my accounting processes are transparent and meet regulatory
What are my options for leveraging automated, real-time management of requirements? How to produce the Comprehensive Annual Financial
controls? What are some best practices for mapping process control Report (CAFR) from SAP using BW? What are the upcoming changes
functionality to my organization, business processes, and associated controls? with the latest enhancement pack upgrades for public sector? Gain new ideas
and perspectives on how to construct a single point of access for all kinds of
Lessons for making the most of SAP BusinessObjects information sources to meet the needs of the public sector.
Access Control to enforce segregation of duties (SoD)
compliance Best practices for avoiding the most common
James Roeske, Savera Systems mistakes in asset accounting
Tuesday, 4:15 pm 4:45 pm Premier 302 Kent Bettisworth, BETTISWORTH & ASSOCIATES
This unique networking session gives you the opportunity to join your peers Thursday, 9:30 am 10:00 am Grand 109
and share tips to optimize access control and superuser privilege Whether youre currently leveraging SAP functionality for asset accounting,
management. These types of questions will open the discussion: How can I or just getting started, this is a valuable opportunity to hear directly from
simplify my compliance projects and achieve faster internal controls testing? your peers about their strategies for managing common challenges regarding
What are the best ways to use super-user privilege management to manage asset accounts. Explore questions such as: What are the most common
emergency system access? How have other organizations used risk analysis mistakes that companies make with regards to asset depreciation calculation,
and remediation as a starting point to improve their organizations security currencies, reporting, and the recalculation of asset values? What
design? Meet with colleagues and pose questions about segregation of duties workarounds, solutions, or changes in processes can my company implement
and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control. to avoid these costly mistakes? How can I construct more accurate
depreciation forecasts for existing assets, pending capital projects, or even
just appropriation? Leave this forum armed with valuable lessons to optimize
your asset accounting activities
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Lessons learned from a role design and SAP Converting your SAP ERP Financials system to support
BusinessObjects Access Control implementation an IFRS transition
Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young and Lynn Reed, Johnson & Johnson Paul Theobald and Eduardo Jure, CAPE Global Consulting
Thursday, 9:30 am 10:00 am Premier 302 Thursday, 11:45 am 12:15 pm Grand 109
Attend this unique forum and listen in as one of our GRC experts and Engage in a lively discussion with author Paul Theobald of CAPE Global
customers, as well as your peers help to discuss and help answer your most Consulting, and discuss what your organization can be doing to prepare for
critical questions regarding role design and SAP BusinessObjects Access an SAP ERP Financials systems conversion to IFRS. Get answers to your
Control. Engage in a discussion that covers: How to approach a role design most pressing questions, including: How do the US GAAP to IFRS
process for SAP ERP, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, and SAP changes map to SAP ERP Financials at the organizational and company
BusinessObjects functionality for superuser privilege management. How to code levels? What does a complete project execution cycle, from assessment
work with the key project stakeholders from the business, operations, to implementation, look like? What major accounting areas will be affected
compliance, external audit and IT. How a role design process can improve by the transition? What are some of the key challenges in managing an
your compliance objectives. How to effectively design a governance process IFRS conversion project? Gain new ideas and perspectives from your peers
for your SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementation that will help on how they are using SAP ERP Financials functionality to meet IFRS
drive success for risk analysis and remediation, superuser privilege requirements, including SAP General Ledger, consolidation, and XBRL
management, and compliant user provisioning. How dashboard reporting tools.
has driven success with superuser privilege management.
Next-generation Sarbanes-Oxley compliance: Lessons
Lessons and best practices that streamline the from mature programs
time-to-close process Andres Velasquez and Shannon Urban, Ernst & Young
Sandeep Bagchi, Keane Thursday, 3:15 pm 3:45 pm Premier 302
Thursday, 10:15 am 10:45 am Grand 109 Draw from the experiences of your peers for best practices, lessons learned,
Engage in a lively discussion with peers and find out how they are speeding and critical success factors for staying in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
the time-to-close process. Get answers to questions such as: What are the Discuss questions like: What steps should you be taking to perform a fraud
best ways to manage, direct, and optimize my companys closing procedures? risk assessment? How do you gain more control over the flow of
How do I overcome common problems that plague my closing processes? transactions, including IT aspects, in order to identify points at which a
What SAP tools are available to help me streamline my period-end close? misstatement could arise? What processes are to establish and maintain an
How do I ensure that my close processes are transparent and meet regulatory adequate internal control structure with assessments, maintenance and
requirements? Gain new ideas and perspectives on how to construct well- testing to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements? Leave this discussion with
coordinated year-end and month-end processes. valuable insight and concrete examples for managing and staying in
compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Recommendations and advice to ensure a successful
transition to the SAP General Ledger Mastering the challenge of global trade compliance
Mark Lombard, MI6 Solutions Group Mike Heldebrand and Mike Rambasek, Ernst & Young
Thursday, 11:00 am 11:30 am Grand 109 Thursday, 3:15 pm 3:45 pm Grand 109
Are you considering, planning, or have you begun a migration from the Engage in a lively exchange of ideas and best practices for improving the
classic SAP General Ledger to the latest version of SAP General Ledger? way your company achieves compliance with global regulations and can
Participate in an interactive discussion with peers and experts who have been ultimately speed the flow of goods across borders and into the hands of your
through this type of migration project to find out the best ways to proceed. customers. Get answers to questions such as: What impact do global
Get answers to challenging questions, such as: What are the steps I should sourcing, increased regulatory pressures, government IT modernization, and
take to prepare for implementing the SAP General Ledger? What data and complex international transactions have on trade compliance efforts? How
capabilities should I migrate first? What are the configuration differences can my organization leverage export management, import management,
between the classic G/L and the SAP General Ledger? How are my peers trade preference management, and restitution management to reduce the
overcoming implementation, parallel accounting, document splitting, and risk of non-compliance while leveraging your current IT assets? How can
segment reporting challenges? Hear from your colleagues and get insights my organization support critical processes and tasks, such as sanctioned party
into what every SAP financials team should know before beginning an SAP list screening, expedition of customs clearance, embargo checking, material
General Ledger migration project. classification and duty assessment for imports, and optimization of trade
agreements?
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Lessons for building your SAP BusinessObjects GRC How do your SAP security and authorizations measure
solutions architecture up?
Kurt Hollis, Deloitte Consulting Kapil Asher and Jose Espin, Ernst & Young
Thursday, 4:00 pm 4:30 pm Grand 109 Friday, 11:30 am 12:00 pm Premier 302
Attend this unique forum and listen in as one of our GRC experts as well as Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other
your peers help to discuss and help answer your most critical questions SAP customers are managing their SAP security and authorizations. Learn
regarding the technical landscape and architecture requirements for your what key areas and functionality of SAP solutions you can leverage today to
SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions environment. Engage in a discussion boost security as well as improve your audit process. Engage in a discussion
that covers: What architectural considerations must be taken into account about how your peers are building compliance into their own SAP security
when implementing SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions? Which SAP structures. Hear how others are getting their users and not just their
BusinessObjects GRC solutions can be consolidated, and what are some tips security administrator involved in maintaining a safe, secure, and
for doing so? What is required to properly run SAP BusinessObjects compliant environment.
Process Control and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control functionality for
real-time agents (RTAs)?
Tips and techniques to improve compliance reporting

in preparation for an audit
Matthew Polak and Evan Maltese, Ernst & Young
Friday, 10:00 am 10:30 am Grand 109
Engage in a lively exchange of ideas and best practices for improving the
way your organization reports on its compliance initiatives, builds
compliance reports for auditors, and meets reporting requirements. Get
answers to questions such as: How do your peers align their day-to-day
financial reports according to standards expected by an auditor? How do
others internally audit their reports and catch errors before they are cited for
violations? Where does environmental reporting fit into the compliance
reporting mix? What functionality does SAP offer to help automate and ease
the compliance reporting process?
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Financials Expert LIVE
This forum allows you the opportunity to meet authors from the SAPexperts knowledgebases and discuss topics from their articles. Share your own best
practices related to the topic or ask questions pertinent to your individual situation. The author will dive deeper into their articles most critical points,
and youll also gain insight from other participants. Copies of the articles are available outside the session room. You are encouraged to review the article
before the session and come prepared with your questions.
Financials Expert LIVE is provided to you courtesy of the SAPexperts knowledgebases where hard-to-find instruction, best practices, and guidance
are published every week for SAP professionals who manage and support SAP projects and activities.
Financials Expert LIVE sessions
Structure consumption accounts to reflect the true Use alternative valuation runs in the material ledger
cost of sales to smooth seasonal price variances
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting Janet Salmon, SAP
Tuesday, 11:15 am 12:00 pm Premier 302 Friday, 12:15 pm 1:00 pm Premier 302
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Paul Ovigele, SAP Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Janet Salmon, Solution
Consultant, Ovigele Consulting, and engage in an in-depth discussion about Manager, SAP, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of her most
one of his most widely read articles from Financials Expert the leading widely read articles from Financials Expert the leading publication and
publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions for finance.
for finance. Learn the configuration settings that determine which accounts Learn how and why it may necessary to set up an alternative valuation run to
are posted to when performing the various transactions on a production be performed after the first costing run. Walk through the set up of an
order (e.g., goods issue, confirmation, goods receipt, work in process, alternative valuation run using the same basic data as your initial costing run.
overhead, and variance calculation). Understand where these accounts are Find out how it calculates prices over a longer time frame to smooth out the
configured, how they relate to the production process, and how you can variances. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and engage
structure them in your financial statements so that your P&L accounts with peers who have the same interests and priorities.
properly reflect your true cost of sales. Youll receive a copy of the article
free of charge and engage with peers who have the same interests and
priorities.
Take the guesswork out of making asset changes

Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting
Thursday, 2:15 pm 3:00 pm Grand 109
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Nathan Genez, Managing
Partner, Serio Consulting, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one
of his most widely read articles from Financials Expert the leading
publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions
for finance. Walk through an example of how to simulate an asset posting
transaction. Learn how to simulate time-dependent depreciation term
changes. Find out why it is not possible to perform simulation on group
assets or their component assets. Youll receive a copy of the article free of
charge and engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities.
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GRC Expert LIVE
This forum allows you the opportunity to meet authors from the SAPexperts knowledgebases and discuss topics from their articles. Share your own best
practices related to the topic or ask questions pertinent to your individual situation. The author will dive deeper into their articles most critical points,
and youll also gain insight from other participants. Copies of the articles are available outside the session room. You are encouraged to review the article
before the session and come prepared with your questions.
GRC Expert LIVE is provided to you courtesy of the SAPexperts knowledgebases where hard-to-find instruction, best practices, and guidance are
published every week for SAP professionals who manage and support SAP projects and activities.
GRC Expert LIVE sessions
Five considerations for outsourcing your IT systems Ensure success in your next SAP audit with standard
audit audit features
Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting Bhavesh Bhagat, EnCrisp
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:15 am Grand 109 Friday, 1:45 pm 2:30 pm Grand 109
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Richard Hunt, Director, Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Bhavesh Bhagat, President,
Turnkey Consulting, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his Encrisp, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his most widely
most widely read articles from GRC Expert the leading publication and read articles from GRC Expert the leading publication and
knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP BusinessObjects solutions knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP BusinessObjects solutions
for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn the five key considerations youll for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn how to conduct technical
want to take into account when selecting an outsourcing specialist. Get a list assurance audits using robust features within your existing SAP ERP
of key questions you should be asking your outsourcing provider and learn implementation. Discover undocumented tips for leveraging key reports and
why its important to work with them on a trial basis, to help develop the controls to gain transparency and the necessary evidence trail to perform
relationship. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and rigorous system and business process audits. Youll receive a copy of the
engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities. article free of charge and engage with peers who have the same
interests and priorities.
Benchmark SAP application controls to increase
testing and documentation efficiency Sustainable procurement as an embedded process in
Richard Castle, Ernst & Young supplier management activities
Thursday, 12:30 pm 1:15 pm Grand 109 William Newman, Newport Consulting Group
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Richard Castle, Executive Friday, 1:45 pm 2:30 pm Premier 302
Director, Ernst & Young and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet William Newman, Managing
his most widely read articles from GRC Expert the leading publication Principal, Newport Consulting Group, and engage in an in-depth discussion
and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP BusinessObjects about one of his most widely read articles from GRC Expert the leading
solutions for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn how to extend the publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions
benefits of certain tests of application controls, including automated controls for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn how to embed sustainable
enabled through a program or configuration into subsequent audit periods. procurement process functions as part of SAP Supplier Relationship
Walk through an approach for implementing a benchmarking strategy you Management (SAP SRM), in combination with SAP BusinessObjects GRC
can deploy at the application level instead of the database level using the table solutions and SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management
logging capabilities within the SAP system. Youll receive a copy of the article (EPM) solutions. Understand how commercial and public sector
free of charge and engage with peers who have the same interests and organizations are reviewing policies and practices to address sustainable
priorities. procurement, particularly in environmental and social areas, to realize new
economic gain.
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Pull up a chair in the Ask-the-Experts area of the Solutions Showcase during our receptions on Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings and spend one-on-one time with leading conference speakers. Learn from their
real-world expertise and get specific insights on topics and questions that matter most to you.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

5:45 pm 7:00 pm Solutions Showcase 5:45 pm 6:30 pm Solutions Showcase
FINANCIALS 2011 FINANCIALS 2011

Terri Bold, Dolphin Thomas Michael, Eric Barlow, Serio Consulting John Jordan, ERP Corp
Accounts payable automation and Michael Management Corporation Asset accounting, investment Controlling. product costing, financials
workflow, managing projects for SAP Asset management, asset accounting, management, project systems
business process improvements, fixed assets Mitresh Kundalia,
managing content and information Richard Barrett, SAP BusinessObjects Quality Systems & Software
lifecycles with SAP William Miller, SAP BusinessObjects enterprise SAP General Ledger migration/
MI6 Solutions Group performance management (EPM) implementation, IFRS changeover,
Erwin Brandt, SAP AG Migration from classic to SAP General solutions, SAP BusinessObjects complex supply chain & financials
General ledger in SAP ERP, Ledger, IFRS roadmap strategies, Profitability and Cost Management integration projects, profitability
reorganization of profit center financial closing best practices analysis (CO-PA), management reporting
Kent Bettisworth, BETTISWORTH & analytics, productivity tools and
Manish Dharnidharka, Karuna Mukherjea, & ASSOCIATES techniques, managing SAP projects
PricewaterhouseCoopers SAP BusinessObjects Fixed assets, project systems,
SAP General Ledger, general ledger Profitability and cost management, investment management, IFRS Mark Lombard,
migrations, profit center accounting, enterprise performance management conversion activities MI6 Solutions Group
controlling roadmap discussion, use of EPM and SAP General Ledger, SAP General
GRC for managing the Business of IT Darius Bikulcius, Accenture Ledger migration, IFRS readiness
Bernhard Fischer, SAP AG FX currency design, tax, SAP General
Shared services HR, shared services Michael Prakhina, Lazar Consultants Ledger Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting
finance, invoice-to-pay process Budgeting, planning, project systems Material ledger, profit center
(PS), asset accounting (AA), investment Karol Bliznak, SAP AG accounting, cost of sales accounting
James Fisher, SAP management (AM), general FICO, SAP SAP BusinessObjects enterprise
Finance solutions and roadmap, General Ledger, COPA performance management (EPM) Padmini Ranganathan, SAP
SAP BusinessObjects enterprise solutions Spend management and procurement
performance management (EPM) Penny Silvia, IBM savings; business analytics applications
solutions and roadmap Selecting the right reporting tool for Chip Brenner, Breakwater Consulting
the job, self-service analytics, financial SAP NetWeaver BW and reporting, FICO, Katharina Reichert, SAP Labs
Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young reporting, BI implementations and consolidations Collections management, dispute
Enhanced financial closing, SAP upgrades management
Financial Closing cockpit, SAP Metin Colak, Breakaway Consulting
General Ledger migration issues, and Birgit Starmanns, SAP SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Janet Salmon, SAP
peek at enhancement pack content Product costing, controlling, Consolidation Overhead cost management, product
enhancements in CO collaborative disclosure management, cost controlling, profitability analysis
shared services Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting
Rohana Gunawardena, Asset accounting, investment Tara Sitaram, focusSAP
Quality Systems & Software Chandrashekar Subramanian, management, project systems SAP business consolidation
Global rollouts, global tax strategy, Infosys Technologies closes, SAP business planning,
group currency activation, multi- Pete Graham, SAP Labs SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Credit management, automotive
currency accounting, order-to-cash International Financial Reporting Consolidation
industry & information technology as
process, SD/FI and MM/FI integration Standards (IFRS); Interactive data
an enabler (with specific focus on SAP)
points, material ledger (XBRL)
Joseph Svoboda, SAP America GRC 2011
Stefan Karl, SAP AG Upgrade tools and services
Accelerated financial close, SAP Dave Anderson, SAP Kurt Hollis, Deloitte Consulting
Financial Closing cockpit, master data Enterprise GRC, risk management, GRC solutions technical landscapes,
governance for financials compliance architecture, requirements,
implementation, applying support
GRC 2011 Bhavesh Bhagat, EnCrisp packages, SAP portal integration,
Security architectures, governance, GRC suite 10.0 technical upgrade
Richard Castle, Ernst & Young Ken Lauver, Lockheed Martin sustainability, carbon and green from prior releases, GRC solutions
Application security, process controls, SAP BusinessObjects Access Control impact, risk management, compliance, performance considerations
benchmarking controls auditing, SAP BusinessObjects GRC
Norman Marks, solutions training and education, SAP James Roeske, Savera Systems
Jan Gardiner, SAP BusinessObjects SAP BusinessObjects BusinessObjects Process Control, SAP BusinessObjects Access Control
GRC 10.0, specifically Process Control GRC, internal audit, risk management SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, suite functionality, configuration and
product (part of eGRC Solution) identity management, authorizations implementation best practices
Raymond Mastre,
Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting PricewaterhouseCoopers Steve Biskie, ERP Audit Solutions Rafael Smeyers,
SAP security/GRC project management, SAP BusinessObjects Access Control Audits, general SAP BusinessObjects PricewaterhouseCoopers
SAP ERP HCM & SAP NetWeaver BW implementation/configuration, SAP governance, risk, and compliance SAP BusinessObjects Access Control,
security, change management in IT BusinessObjects Access Control AC solutions, IT controls, continuous segregation of duties, remediation and
security ruleset implementation/customization, controls monitoring redesign
SAP security remediation/redesign
Ruth Johnson, Savera Systems Jennifer Cha, SAP Douglas Zuvich, KPMG
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, Michaela Zwinakis, SAP SAP BusinessObjects Process Control Global trade management, import
SAP security design and procedures SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, planning and compliance, export
GRC solution management controls
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Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Monday, March 7 (Jumpstart Day)

TIME CPE EVENT LOCATION CONF PAGE
7:30 am 7:00 pm Registration Grand Foyer
7:30 am 7:00 pm Insider Learning Network Kiosk Grand Foyer
9:00 am 12:00 pm Morning Jumpstart Sessions
Getting the most out of protability analysis (CO-PA): A how-to guide

Acc Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software
Premier 301 F G 33
A comprehensive guide to building controls and mitigating risk as part of your next SAP system implementation, upgrade,
or enhancement project Premier 304 F G 33
Aud Matt Zastudil and Irwan Burhan, Ernst & Young
The updated 2011 guide to SAP BusinessObjects solutions for nancial reporting
Fin Bryan Katis, SAP
Premier 312 F G 34
A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0
Aud David Milam; Michaela Zwinakis; and Frank Rambo, SAP
Premier 313 F G 33
A complete guide to understanding the impact of IFRS on your SAP landscape

Acc Pete Graham, SAP Labs and Craig Himmelberger, SAP
Premier 314 F G 33
12:00 pm 2:00 pm Lunch Premier 318
1:15 pm 1:45 pm Conference Orientation Session Premier 301 F G 2
2:00 pm 5:00 pm Afternoon Jumpstart Sessions
Expert guidance and real-world insight for reducing the complexity of your security remediation project
Aud James Roeske, Savera Systems
Premier 301 F G 35
A detailed guide to more efciently and accurately conduct product costing

Acc Birgit Starmanns and Janet Salmon, SAP
Premier 304 F G 34
Comprehensive guidelines for preparing your technical landscape to support the latest releases of SAP BusinessObjects
GRC solutions Premier 311 F G 35
Aud Frank Rambo; Jennifer Cha; and Mohan Balaji, SAP
An in-depth guide for completing a successful migration to the latest version of SAP General Ledger
Acc Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young and William Miller, MI6 Solutions Group
Premier 312 F G 34
What every SAP customer now needs to know about SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Fin Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises and Daniel Settanni, SAP
Premier 313 F G 35
A comprehensive guide to building and running shared services that support HR and nance
Per Bernhard Fischer, SAP AG and Mayank Singh, SAP Labs India
Premier 314 F 34
5:00 pm Jumpstart Day Concludes
KEY F FIN 2011 Session G GRC 2011 Session S Sponsored Educational Session EX Executive / Sr. Manager Session Networking Session
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Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Tuesday, March 8

7:00 am 7:00 pm Registration Grand Foyer 2
7:00 am 7:00 pm Insider Learning Network Kiosk Grand Foyer 2
7:00 am 8:30 am Continental Breakfast Marquee Ballroom
7:45 am 8:15 am Conference Orientation Session Grand 121 F G 2
Keynote Address: Analytics for Finance, HR, and Compliance: What the Numbers Tell Us
8:30 am 10:00 am Sanjay Poonen, President of Solutions Go-to-Market, SAP AG Marquee Ballroom F G 5
Bus Thomas H. Davenport, Presidents Distinguished Professor of IT and Management, Babson College
9:45 am 7:00 pm Solutions Showcase Grand Ballroom 83
10:00 am 10:30 am Refreshment Break Grand Ballroom
10:30 am 11:45 am Breakout Sessions
Tips and tricks for a successful process control implementation

Aud Jamie Croudace, Turnkey Consulting
Premier 301 G 38
Panel discussion: Results of the 2010 IBM Global CFO Study: Insights for improving nancial performance
EX
Moderators: Jim Hurley, IBM Global Business Services and Carl Nordman, IBM Premier 304 F G 38
Fin Panelists: Edward Lovely, IBM and Eduardo Lopez, Pzer
Case study: How Cobra Electronics unlocks cash ow and improves customer satisfaction
Fin Sandy Maxey, Cobra Electronics
Premier 306 F 37
A comprehensive guide and roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions
Fin James Fisher, SAP
Premier 312 F 37
A comprehensive guide and strategic roadmap to SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions
Aud Michael Lortz, SAP (session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm)
Premier 313 G 37
How to create a comprehensive data governance strategy on a global scale

Aud Tom Kennedy, BackOfce Associates
Premier 314 G 38
A guide to enabling and supporting IFRS compliance using new and existing nancial functionality
Acc Pete Graham, SAP Labs
Premier 318 F G 37
Lessons for conducting user access reviews of your SAP system

Aud James Roeske, Savera Systems (session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm)
Premier 319 G 38
A step-by-step guide to xed asset revaluations

Acc Thomas Michael, Michael Management Corporation
Premier 320 F 37
Unlocking efciencies in the order-to-cash cycle: How IBM optimized its cash allocation processes
Michael H. Welch and Michael T. Murray, IBM
Grand 108 S 38
Ensure you have the right tools and services in place before your SAP ERP upgrade
Fin Joseph Svoboda, SAP America
Grand 123 F 38
A comprehensive guide to SAPs strategic roadmap for treasury and risk management applications
Fin Mark Stapleton, SAP America
Grand 124 F 37
11:15 am 12:00 pm 45-Minute Breakout Sessions
Financials Expert LIVE: Structure consumption accounts to reect the true cost of sales
Acc Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting
Premier 302 F 39
11:45 am 1:00 pm Lunch Marquee Ballroom
1:00 pm 5:00 pm SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Solutions Lab and Partner Showcase Grand 101 9
1:00 pm 5:00 pm SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions Lab Grand 102 9
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Daily Schedule

12:45 pm 1:30 pm 45-Minute Breakout Sessions
Panel discussion: Real-world lessons for IFRS transitions and compliance

Moderators: Pete Graham, SAP Labs and James Fisher, SAP; Panelists: Nick Difazio, Deloitte; Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Premier 302 F G 39
Acc Young; Richard Cebula, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Daniel Joo, Accenture; and Christiane Ohlgart, SAP
1:00 pm 2:15 pm Breakout Sessions
Case study: How CenterPoint Energy automated and formalized its risk management activities
Aud Robert Martinez, CenterPoint Energy
Premier 301 G 39
Strategies, tools, and techniques to avoid the 10 most common mistakes that can derail an SAP NetWeaver BW project
Acc Penny Silvia, IBM
Premier 304 F 40
Case study: How the City of Henderson Police Department successfully developed and implemented SAP BusinessObjects
Strategy Management as a key component of its planning process Premier 306 F 40
Fin Tina Emrich, City of Henderson
A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the latest capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Fin David Williams and Chris Pauxtis, SAP
Premier 312 F 39
A detailed guide to the new features and functions in SAP General Ledger
Acc Erwin Brandt, SAP AG (session repeated on Friday at 8:30 am)
Premier 313 F 39
Tips, tricks, and techniques to congure and optimize your credit management system
Fin Chandrashekar Subramanian, Infosys Technologies
Premier 314 F 41
Case study: How Diageo efciently performs account reconciliations and closings for more accurate and complete
nancial statements Premier 318 F G 39
Acc Nandor Makos, Diageo
Mastering the growing complexities of an SAP audit

Aud Chris Cassin and Mitesh Chugh, KPMG
Premier 319 F G 40
Improve your compliance processes with an automated, continuous controls monitoring framework
Aud Jennifer Cha, SAP
Premier 320 G 40
Techniques for using inventory valuation and costing to make wiser procurement spend decisions
Grand 123 F 40
Executive session: Strategies for integrating risk management, compliance, and audit activities into a unied GRC program
EX Aud Robert Clark, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Grand 124 F G 40
Insider discussion forum: Improve the integration of nancials functionality with other SAP applications
Fin Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
Premier 302 F 41
2:15 pm 2:30 pm Refreshment Break Grand Ballroom
Insider discussion forum: Best practices for centralizing and managing controls across end-to-end business processes
using SAP BusinessObjects Process Control Grand 109 G 41
Aud Jennifer Cha, SAP
Executive session: Principles and innovative practices behind GRC processes: Results of OCEGs GRC study
EX Aud Carole Switzer, OCEG
Premier 301 F G 42
Reduce nancial risk exposure arising from external market conditions and regulations
Fin Mark Stapleton, SAP America
Premier 306 F 43
Case study: How Rhodia manages its NAFTA trade preference process and mitigates risk
Aud Rao Santapur, Rhodia
Premier 307 G 41
Detailed instruction to smoothly integrate payroll and nancial applications

Per Mike Timm, Integrated Consulting Group
Premier 311 F 41
Case study: Streamlining and reducing the cost of accounts payable at Tim Hortons with a centralized process
Acc David Kraulis, Tim Hortons
Premier 312 F 41
Expert techniques to rapidly identify, assess, and mitigate high-risk SoD violations
Aud Brian Ocampo, Ernst & Young
Premier 313 G 42
New options for governing nancial master data and ensuring accurate consolidated nancial statements
Fin Erwin Brandt, SAP AG
Premier 314 F G 42
Take the headache out of multiple currency congurations with these proven techniques
Fin Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
Premier 318 F 43
Case study: How Lionsgate uses SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for nancial planning and forecasting,
campaign tracking, sales and operational planning Premier 319 F 41
Fin Scott Mills, Lionsgate
Tips and tricks to automate reconciliations from SAP ERP Financials to SAP NetWeaver BW
Fin Chip Brenner, Breakwater Consulting
Premier 320 F 43
Invoice process automation for SAP ERP Financials: The problem it solves, the money it saves: Featuring Marine
Resources Group Grand 106 S 42
Kevin Orstad, Marine Resources Group and Maggie Smith, Kofax
How to accelerate the nancial close in SAP systems -- Unlocking the capabilities of people, process, and technology
Cliff Eng and Brian Sheehan, PwC
Grand 108 S 42
Strategies for achieving nancial excellence cost-effectively using a shared services center
Fin Bernhard Fischer, SAP AG
Grand 123 F 43
Lessons for assessing, scoring, and prioritizing risk: The essential ingredients of a sound risk management plan
Aud Steven L. Passer, Accenture
Grand 124 F G 42
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Insider discussion forum: Lessons for making the most of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control to enforce segregation of
duties (SoD) compliance Premier 302 G 43
Aud James Roeske, Savera Systems
How SAP supports the convergence of nance, performance management, and GRC to drive nancial excellence
Fin James Fisher and Craig Himmelberger, SAP
Premier 301 F G 44
Panel discussion: Proven approaches for raising the ROI of your GRC programs
Moderator: Tony Torchia, KPMG
Panelists: Ken Gabriel, KPMG; Jim Hurley, IBM Global Business Services; Trisha Lawless, H.J. Heinz; and Matt Tolbert,
Premier 304 F G 45
EX Aud Westinghouse
A ve-step approach to ward off cyber threats

Aud Brian Parker, Deloitte & Touche
Premier 306 G 43
Understanding your product costs with better integration between nancial and logistics functionality
Acc Birgit Starmanns and Janet Salmon, SAP
Premier 312 F 45
What should GRC mean to internal auditors? How do solutions from SAP help?
Aud Norman Marks, SAP BusinessObjects
Premier 313 G 45
SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0: Not just another upgrade
Aud Frank Rambo, SAP
Premier 318 G 45
How to congure the SAP General Ledger to solve your legal reporting requirements
Acc Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young
Premier 319 F G 44
Case study: How McKesson plans to streamline its chart of accounts to improve nancial reporting and achieve faster
closes Premier 320 F G 44
Acc Ross Wilson, McKesson
Panel discussion: Effectively implementing SAP BusinessObjects to link risk and business strategy
Matt Polak and Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young
Grand 106 S 44
Proven practices to end maverick spending

Steve Bennion and Blake Evans, ReadSoft
Grand 107 S 45
A simplied approach for consolidation of investments for a faster close

Fin Dan Sullivan, focusSAP
Grand 123 F 44
Case study: Houghton Mifin Harcourts innovative approach for improving the efciency and accuracy of planning and
forecasting processes and operations Grand 124 F G 44
Fin Mary Jane Rivera and Hazel Hughes, Houghton Mifin Harcourt
Executive session: A complete overview of the GRC capability model and GRC system certication
EX Aud Carole Switzer, OCEG
Premier 302 F G 45
5:30 pm 7:00 pm Welcome Reception Grand Ballroom 11
5:45 pm 7:00 pm Ask-the-Experts Grand Ballroom 17
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Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Wednesday, March 9

7:30 am 8:30 am Continental Breakfast Marquee Ballroom
Financials General Assembly:

Keeping the Lights On and Trusted Advisor: Balancing Finance Roles in Todays Economic Environment
8:30 am 9:45 am Fin Joel Bernstein, CFO, SAP North America Marquee Ballroom 5
Finance KPIs in 2011: Updates for SAP Customers
James Fisher, Vice President, Marketing Finance and EPM Solutions, SAP
9:00 am 5:00 pm SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Solutions Lab and Partner Showcase Grand 101 9
9:00 am 5:00 pm SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions Lab Grand 102 9
10:15 am 10:45 am 30-Minute Breakout Sessions
Insider discussion forum: How to offer and use dynamic discounts from within SAP
Fin Bertram Meyer, Taulia
Premier 302 F 47
Insider discussion forum: Lessons from peers who have overcome the toughest challenges in public sector accounting
Acc Monette McNicholas, EPI-USE
Grand 109 F 47
Case study: How Sybase created an integrated enterprise risk management framework
Aud Bruce Carpenter, Sybase
Premier 301 F G 47
Case study: How Gruma Corporation successfully automated the supplier invoicing process and reduced accounts payable
costs Premier 304 F 47
Acc Octavio Robles, Gruma Corporation
Lessons from the eld to help you master document splitting in SAP General Ledger
Premier 306 F 48
How to perform more agile planning and forecasting using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Fin David Williams, SAP (session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm)
Premier 313 F 48
Effectively design business processes and roles to manage cost savings initiatives
Aud Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young
Premier 314 G 48
A comprehensive guide to SAPs roadmap for an accelerated nancial close

Fin Kirk Anderson, SAP BusinessObjects and Stefan Karl, SAP AG
Premier 318 F G 47
Case study: Lessons from SAPs rollout of shared services for nance and HR
Fin Dr. Marcell Vollmer, SAP
Premier 319 F 47
Executive session: Executive insight into the future of nancial reporting

EX Fin Dr. Juergen Ott, Formerly of Allianz
Premier 320 F G 48
Upload SAP nancial data easily with GLSU: Z Option customers share their experiences
Tim Curtin, Heritage Propane; Amy Broadway, Avocent Corp A subsidiary of Emerson Network Power; and Ken Grand 108 S 49
Meyer, ConAgra Foods
Case study: Streamlining balance sheet reconciliations at Tyson Foods

Acc Laura Williams and Darielle James, Tyson Foods
Grand 123 F 48
How to create a customized rule set to meet the compliance needs of a multi-national organization
Aud Raymond Mastre, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Grand 124 F G 48
Panel discussion: Strategies used by leading companies to become best-run nancial organizations
Fin Moderator: Birgit Starmanns, SAP; Panelists: John Gayda, Kelloggs and Ross Wilson, McKesson
Grand 109 F G 49
11:30 am 1:00 pm Lunch Marquee Ballroom
GRC General Assembly:

1:00 pm 2:15 pm SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Launch Premier 313 5
Bus James Dunham, Group Vice President, GRC Solution Management, SAP
Panel discussion: Leading customers share their successes and lessons with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0
Aud Sonny Dasgupta, SAP
Premier 302 G 49
Case study: How Monsanto reduced order-to-cash cycle time with a more efcient payment process
Acc Mike Martin and Debra St. Peter, Monsanto
Premier 301 F 50
Executive session: A strategic guide to achieving compliance with generally accepted accounting principles across
EX
multiple countries Premier 304 F G 50
Acc Rajesh Krishnamurthy, Infosys Technologies
Best practices for meeting ITAR regulations using SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
Aud Sudhanshu Mathur, Accenture
Premier 306 G 50
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Daily Schedule

2:45 pm 4:00 pm Breakout Sessions Continued
Tips and techniques to manage asset accounting activities to stay in compliance with IFRS
Acc Eric Barlow, Serio Consulting
Premier 313 F G 51
Case study: ConocoPhillips approach to achieving zero unmitigated SAP SoD risks
Aud Trevor Wyatt, ConocoPhillips
Premier 314 G 50
A comprehensive guide to performing a successful SAP ERP technical and functional upgrade
Fin Joseph Svoboda, SAP America
Premier 318 F 49
Achieving cost reductions with continuous transaction monitoring

Aud John Garrish, SAP and Donna Tillapaugh, Celanese Risk and Compliance
Premier 319 G 49
Case study: How Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI) quickly got SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation up and running
to ensure a user-friendly, coordinated budgeting process Premier 320 F 50
Fin Joe Spelman, Pepco Holdings
How to seamlessly transfer data from Excel and PDF to SAP with GuiXT
David Pawloski, Synactive
Grand 107 S 51
Planning and managing your data migration processes: Key activities and best practices to mitigate project risk
Tom Kennedy, BackOfce Associates
Grand 108 S 51
The Road to Reconciliation: Closing with condence and achieving balance sheet integrity with BlackLine and SAP
Michael Redard, BlackLine Systems; Mark Nelson, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company; Hakan Aytekin, KPMG; Stefan Karl, SAP AG; Grand 106 S 51
and Mario Spanicciati, BlackLine Systems
Guidelines for choosing the right nancial ledger to meet your reporting needs
Acc Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
Grand 123 F 50
Accelerate nancial closes and period-end reports with improved integration between prot center accounting and the
general ledger Grand 124 F 49
Post-session discussion: Leading customers share their successes and lessons with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0
Premier 302 G 51
Expert guidance on the effect of IFRS on project portfolios and project accounting
Acc Kent Bettisworth, BETTISWORTH & ASSOCIATES
Premier 301 F G 53
Strategies for preventing cash leaks with the right nancial process controls
Aud Sarah Dawson, su53 Solutions
Premier 302 G 53
Case study: How Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) accurately accounts for its partnership
assets Premier 306 F 52
Acc Kenneth Butt, MassMutual
Best practices for simplifying account reconciliations across SAP and non-SAP landscapes
Acc Stefan Karl, SAP AG
Premier 312 F 51
Case study: How Zions Bancorporation improved planning, budgeting, and cost modeling using a closed-loop performance
management model Premier 313 F G 52
Fin Matt Despain and Paul Kelly, Zions Bancorporation
Case study: How McKesson built a strong business case for an SAP General Ledger migration
Acc Ross Wilson, McKesson
Premier 314 F 52
Executive session: Performance management metrics and techniques to evaluate and review potential risks in the
EX
organization Premier 318 F G 52
Aud Michael Kaiser, Ernst & Young
Tips to improve cash ow through the faster collection of past-due accounts

Acc Katharina Reichert, SAP Labs
Premier 319 F 53
Case study: How Sharp Electronics unies compliance and risk management across SAP and non-SAP systems
Aud Wyatt MacManus, Sharp Electronics
Premier 320 G 52
Case study: How Research In Motion saves signicant time and money streamlining and optimizing its nancial business
processes Grand 106 S 52
Kirby Tani, Research In Motion (RIM)
What every SAP customer now needs to know about analysis authorizations, a new security concept within SAP
NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.0 Grand 123 G 53
Aud Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting
The road to enterprise-wide governance, risk, and compliance

Aud Jan Gardiner, SAP BusinessObjects
Grand 124 G 53
5:30 pm 6:30 pm Cocktail Reception Grand Ballroom 11
5:45 pm 6:30 pm Ask-the-Experts Grand Ballroom 17
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Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Thursday, March 10

TIME CPE Event LOCATION CONF PAGE
7:30 am 8:30 am Continental Networking Breakfast Marquee Ballroom 11
GRC Expert LIVE: Five considerations for outsourcing your IT systems audit
Aud Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting
Grand 109 G 55
Executive session: Viewing processes and systems through a risk-adjusted lens: The key to effective enterprise risk
EX
management Premier 301 F G 56
Aud Jared Krueger and Shaun Kessler, KPMG
Driving global competitive advantage with a secure international supply chain

Aud Greg Ertel, SAP
Premier 306 G 56
Proven advice to effectively manage cash collection activities in a nancial shared service environment
Acc Ralf Ille, SAP AG
Premier 307 F 57
Improving liquidity planning and forecasting with SAP

Fin Karol Bliznak, SAP AG and Robert Lagrange, Deloitte
Premier 312 F 57
Case study: How Dow Chemical created a single point of entry for all its closing activities
Acc Sandy Hartman-Holbrook, The Dow Chemical Company
Premier 313 F G 55
Case study: How Petrobras automated its processes for documenting internal controls
Aud Alfred Bacon, Petrobras
Premier 314 G 55
Expert lessons and cost-saving techniques to optimize cash management, in-house banking, and intercompany payments
Acc Eleazar Ortega Van Steenberghe, Capgemini
Premier 318 F 56
An external auditors guide to preparing your landscape for a security audit

Aud Richard Castle, Ernst & Young
Premier 319 G 55
Expert guidance to minimize operational risk

Aud Dave Anderson, SAP
Premier 320 G 56
How to use CCHs Sales Tax Ofce for SAP applications using integrated productivity tools
John Thomas, CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business
Grand 106 S 57
Critical steps to eliminate manual data entry into SAP ERP Financials
Charles Kaplan, Brainware
Grand 107 S 56
How Moen chose to extend SAP and improve accounting process efciencies
Wendy Cambarare, Moen
Grand 108 S 56
Case study: Eli Lillys techniques for efciently achieving accurate group cost valuation
Acc Ross Christoph, Eli Lilly
Grand 123 F 55
Case study: Babcock and Wilcox migrate to SAP General Ledger to support global nance and dual reporting
requirements Grand 124 F G 55
Acc Bobby Schudler, Babcock & Wilcox Corporation
Insider discussion forum: Lessons learned from a role design and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementation
Acc Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young and Lynn Reed, Johnson & Johnson
Premier 302 G 57
Insider discussion forum: Best practices for avoiding the most common mistakes in asset accounting
Grand 109 F 57
10:15 am 10:45 am 30-Minute Breakout Session
Insider discussion forum: Lessons and best practices that streamline the time-to-close process
Fin Sandeep Bagchi, Keane
Grand 109 F 57
How to achieve better end-to-end visibility across your organizations nancial supply chain
Acc Katharina Reichert, SAP Labs
Premier 301 F 59
Detailed lessons to reduce electronic bank statement processing and reconciliation time
Acc Michael Prakhina, Lazar Consultants
Premier 304 F 58
Case study: How Allergan improved transparency and accountability in its planning and consolidation processes
Fin Elizabeth Elmore, Allergan
Premier 306 F 58
Case study: How Nike gains control over segregation of duties and stops role proliferation
Aud Adam Hart and Eric Dwyer, Nike
Premier 312 G 58
A step-by-step guide to leveraging inter- and intra-company processing options for more efcient management reporting
Acc Manish Dharnidharka, PricewaterhouseCoopers (session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm)
Premier 313 F 58
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Daily Schedule

10:15 am 11:30 am Breakout Sessions Continued
US GAAP and IFRS converge: Is your organization ready?

Acc Richard Cebula, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Premier 314 F G 60
How to leverage the SAP Financial Closing cockpit to accelerate time-to-close

Fin Stefan Karl, SAP and Peter Minck, Redwood
Premier 318 F 59
Tips and tricks for successful integration of sales and distribution with SAP ERP Financials
Premier 319 F 59
Expert lessons to reduce the cost and effort of compliance through better process control
Aud Siddarth Parakh, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Premier 320 G 59
Customer panel: Assessing the switch to third-party support from an insiders point of view
Greg Leiner, Rimini Street; Jeff Finnerty, Lifetime Brands; Eric Robinson, Color Spot Nurseries; and Payal Shah, Grand 106 S 58
Pioneer Electronics
How to quit paper in AP, AR and more with a single platform

Steve Smith, Esker
Grand 107 S 59
Best practices for your SAP spreadsheet environment, featuring GraceKennedys success story
Paul Zunker, Global Software
Grand 108 S 58
Executive session: Take control of cash ow with proven cash management and forecasting strategies
EX Acc Robert Lagrange, Deloitte Consulting
Grand 123 F G 59
Case study: Former auditor tells all: How thinking like an auditor helped with Johns Hopkins Institutions segregation of
duties (SoD) project Grand 124 F G 58
Aud Sherri Flaks, Johns Hopkins Institutions
Insider discussion forum: Recommendations and advice to ensure a successful transition to the SAP General Ledger
Acc Mark Lombard, MI6 Solutions Group
Grand 109 F 60
Insider discussion forum: Converting your SAP ERP Financials system to support an IFRS transition
Acc Paul Theobald and Eduardo Jure, CAPE Global Consulting
Grand 109 F G 60
11:45 am 1:00 pm Breakout Sessions
Case study: How BNSF Railway Company ensures its internal controls stay tight and application access stays right
Aud Cynthia McConathy, BNSF Railway
Premier 301 G 61
Executive session: The results are in! Insights on strategic technology spending from PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO
EX
survey Premier 302 F G 62
Fin Kevin Morris, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Case study: How Becton Dickinson leverages SAP BusinessObjects Access Controls as part of a greeneld SAP
implementation Premier 306 G 61
Aud Mark Lubas, BD
A guide to transforming the travel management process with new functionality from SAP
Per Hendrik Vordenbumen, SAP AG
Premier 307 F 60
Optimize enterprise performance by aligning and reconciling key performance indicators across multiple functional areas
Fin William Newman, Newport Consulting Group
Premier 312 F 62
Proven practices for faster, better, and easier reporting on capital spend and capital asset transactions
Acc Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting
Premier 313 F 62
Critical advice for deciding which projects to fund

Premier 314 F 62
The accelerated nancial close, XBRL and securing the last mile of your organizations nance processes
Fin Kirk Anderson, SAP BusinessObjects
Premier 318 F G 62
Case study: Lessons from McKessons approach to maintaining a mature, cost-effective Sarbanes-Oxley program
Aud Benjamin Wienand; Kelly Worley; and Vicki Pilotti, McKesson Corporation
Premier 319 F G 61
Case study: Lubrizol migrates to the latest SAP General Ledger while keeping its nancial reporting processes intact
throughout the project Premier 320 F 61
Acc Diane Brezovec, Lubrizol
Best practices and guidelines to successfully implement SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for legal
consolidations Grand 106 S 60
Reidar Schopp, Edgewater Technology
Can cloud clear the way for business transformation?

Phil Lageschulte, Partner with KPMG
Grand 107 S 61
Case study: Cardinal Health streamlines the nancial supply chain and reduces bad debt write-offs with improved
collections and dispute resolution processes Grand 123 F 61
Acc John Bobo and Becky Reno, Cardinal Health
30 training and empowerment tips for users who rely on SAP ERP Financials
Grand 124 F 60
GRC Expert LIVE: Benchmark SAP application controls to increase testing and documentation efciency
Aud Richard Castle, Ernst & Young
Grand 109 G 62
1:00 pm 2:30 pm Lunch Marquee Ballroom
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Daily Schedule

1:30 pm 2:30 pm Exhibit Hall Last Call Grand Ballroom
Financials Expert LIVE: Take the guesswork out of making asset changes
Acc Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting
Grand 109 F 63
Executive session: Strengthening nancial and organizational performance using a driver-based approach
EX Fin Trent Tishkowski, Ernst & Young
Premier 301 F G 64
Achieve greater control and more predictable nancial performance using unied risk management with an enterprise
performance management strategy Premier 306 F 63
Fin Richard Barrett, SAP BusinessObjects
Case study: Automating marketing forecast and planning with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Fin Metin Colak and Kendra Gurick
Premier 307 F 63
Best practices for achieving higher levels of nancial performance using cost and prot center planning
Acc Carsten Hilker, SAP Labs and Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises
Premier 312 F 63
10 essential methods, reporting techniques, and tools no SAP nance team should be without
Premier 313 F 63
Expert lessons to condently control and monitor system access

Aud John Jerrehian, SAP
Premier 314 G 64
How to manage the dual reporting requirements of IFRS

Acc John Steele, Deloitte Consulting
Premier 318 F G 64
Tips and tricks to survive your next audit quickly and painlessly
Aud Steve Biskie, ERP Audit Solutions
Premier 319 G 64
Technical architecture, landscape, and integration considerations for SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
Aud Kurt Hollis, Deloitte Consulting (session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm)
Premier 320 G 64
Best practices to reduce accounts payable cycle time with an improved goods and services invoice tracking process
Acc Brian Shannon, Dolphin
Grand 123 F 64
A detailed guide for better supporting your GRC environment

Aud Bobby Wu, SAP
Grand 124 G 63
Insider discussion forum: Next-generation Sarbanes-Oxley compliance: Lessons from mature programs
Aud Andres Velasquez and Shannon Urban, Ernst & Young
Premier 302 F G 65
Insider discussion forum: Mastering the challenge of global trade compliance

Aud Mike Heldebrand and Mike Rambasek, Ernst & Young
Grand 109 G 65
Grand and Premier

3:45 pm 4:00 pm Refreshment Break
Foyers
4:00 pm 4:30 pm 30-Minute Breakout sessions
Insider discussion forum: Lessons for building your SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions architecture
Aud Kurt Hollis, Deloitte Consulting
Grand 109 G 65
4:00 pm 5:15 pm Breakout sessions
Proven techniques to smoothly and successfully migrate to the latest release of SAP General Ledger
Premier 301 F 67
Integrating identity management and user access processes: A practical, actionable guide
Aud Vinod Nanu and Prateek Jain, Ernst & Young
Premier 304 G 67
Performance metrics and multi-trends for world-class nance organizations

EX Fin Ted Fernandes, The Hackett Group
Premier 306 F 67
Case study: How Mentor Graphics achieves treasury excellence across all its business units and brands
Acc Jan-Willem Beldman, Mentor Graphics
Premier 307 F 65
How to implement superuser privilege management functionality to address audit concerns

Aud Ruth Johnson, Savera Systems
Premier 312 G 66
Case study: Lessons from Tyson Foods online documentation strategy to support nancial end-user training
Acc Andrea Wallace and Charles Brown, Tyson Foods
Premier 313 F 65
Case study: How Abiomed reduced the time, expense, and effort associated with Sarbanes-Oxley reporting
Aud Sharon Kaiser, Abiomed
Premier 314 G 65
Critical considerations for customers considering a migration to the new release of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control
Aud Saye Arumugam, SAP
Premier 318 G 66
How to gain costing insights that improve pricing and protability

Acc Karuna Mukherjea, SAP BusinessObjects
Premier 319 F 66
Choosing the right application to support closes, consolidations, and planning

Fin Tara Sitaram, focusSAP
Premier 320 F 66
Executive session: How to leverage technology to better support the different stages of your planning cycles
EX Fin Doug Simao, Ernst & Young
Grand 123 F G 66
Case study: Red Wing Shoe Company redenes planning and consolidation: Lessons from the companys SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation implementation Grand 124 F 66
Acc Lorrie Tongen, Red Wing Shoe Company
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Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule Friday, March 11

TIME CPE Event LOCATION CONF PAGE
7:30 am 8:30 am Continental Networking Breakfast Marquee Ballroom 11
New insights into collaborative disclosure management functionality from SAP

Acc Birgit Starmanns, SAP and Kirk Anderson, SAP BusinessObjects
Grand 109 F 69
Assess e-invoicing as a means to streamlining and reducing the costs of accounts payable
Acc Joseph Pacor, SAP
Premier 301 F 69
Case study: From strategy to project execution: How SAP managed its transition to IFRS
Acc Christiane Ohlgart, SAP
Premier 304 F G 70
Case study: How PepsiCo overhauled its SAP security model

Aud John Myers and Raj Manglavil, PepsiCo
Premier 306 G 70
Best practices for using SAP General Ledger to create prot center balance sheets
Acc Manish Dharnidharka, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Premier 318 F 69
A step-by-step guide to implementing access control functionality

Aud Rafael Smeyers, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Premier 319 G 69
Lessons learned during an accounts payable automation project

Acc Terri Bold, Dolphin
Premier 320 F 70
Case study: Proven practices from Lockheed Martins (LM) SAP Business Objects Access Control practice
Aud Ken Lauver, Lockheed Martin
Grand 106 G 70
Executive session: Strategies for streamlining the process and reducing costs associated with global trade regulatory
EX
compliance Grand 107 F G 70
Aud Douglas Zuvich and Andrew Siciliano, KPMG
A detailed guide to the new features and functions in SAP General Ledger
Acc Erwin Brandt, SAP AG (repeat session)
Grand 108 F 69
Lessons for evaluating and choosing the right option to report on and analyze variances
Acc John Jordan, ERP Corp
Grand 123 F 70
Best practices for integrating SAP functionality for nancial accounting and materials management
Acc Yoshi Williams, Independent (session repeated today at 2:00 pm)
Grand 124 F 69
Grand and Premier

9:45 am 10:00 am Refreshment Break
Foyers
Insider discussion forum: Tips and techniques to improve compliance reporting in preparation for an audit
Aud Matthew Polak and Evan Maltese, Ernst & Young
Grand 109 F G 71
Best practices to reduce operating costs and increase customer satisfaction utilizing SAP Biller Direct and internal self
services in a nancial shared service environment Premier 301 F 71
Acc Ralf Ille, SAP AG
Executive session: How world-class organizations transform their nance function into a strategic enterprise performance
EX
driver Premier 304 F 72
Acc John Steele, Deloitte Consulting
The last mile Tailoring GRC to your business

Aud Atul Sudhalkar, SAP BusinessObjects and Prentice Wells, SAP
Premier 306 G 72
A top-down approach to segregation of duties (SoD) remediation using SAP functionality for risk analysis and remediation
Aud John Livingood, Protiviti
Premier 318 G 71
Key lessons to help streamline your nancial close

Acc Sandeep Bagchi, Keane
Premier 319 F 72
Integration techniques to optimize record-to-report business processes in a global environment

Acc Constantin Holzner, Accenture
Premier 320 F 72
Expert advice to automate your accounts payable process

Acc Tom Walker, OpenText
Grand 106 F 72
Critical advice to extend access management across the enterprise

Aud Shelley J. Cottrill, Savera Systems
Grand 107 G 71
Critical insights for leveraging GRC to increase business agility and performance
Aud Dave Anderson, SAP
Grand 108 G 71
Executive session: 10 stages for aligning technology with strategic performance measurement
EX Aud Dr. Sandra Richtermeyer, Institute of Management Accountants
Grand 123 F G 71
Tips and techniques for incorporating change management into your GRC audit
Aud Bhavesh Bhagat, EnCrisp
Grand 124 F G 72
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Daily Schedule

Grand and Premier
11:15 am 11:30 am Refreshment Break
Foyers
Insider discussion forum: How do your SAP security and authorizations measure up?
Aud Kapil Asher and Jose Espin, Ernst & Young
Premier 302 G 73
11:30 am 12:45 pm Breakout Sessions
A detailed guide to the available reporting options in SAP BusinessObjects GRC Solutions
Aud Ankur Baishya, SAP Labs
Premier 301 G 73
Case study: Key drivers behind the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Educations SAP ERP Financials upgrade
Fin Chris Bowling, PA State System of Higher Education
Premier 304 F 73
Reduce the impact of IT failures on overall business performance using risk and performance analytics
Jean-Bernard Rolland, SAP
Premier 306 G 74
Executive session: Data analysis strategies for getting an accurate picture of your organizations risk exposure
EX Aud Steve Biskie, ERP Audit Solutions
Premier 318 F G 73
Proven practices to simplify your tax withholding, calculation, and reporting needs
Acc Darius Bikulcius, Accenture
Premier 319 F 74
Tips for involving internal and external audit teams in your security design process
Aud Jamie Croudace, Turnkey Consulting
Premier 320 G 74
Techniques to design and develop reports and input schedules using EvDRE
Acc Sandee Biggs, Breakwater Consulting
Grand 106 F 74
Case study: How Old World Industries speeds the delivery of actionable information to users with an automated nancial
statement process Grand 107 F G 73
Fin Jason Schieffer, Old World Industries
Ensure quality and efciency of security access and regulatory reporting by merging identity management with
compliance activities Grand 108 G 73
Reducing inefciencies and risks associated with paper-based accounts payable processes
Acc Joseph Pacor, SAP; Steve Sprague, Crossgate; and Tom Walker, OpenText
Grand 123 F 74
Leverage budget management functionality in SAP to administer budgets for investment management, project systems,
internal orders, and cost centers Grand 124 F 74
Acc Michael Prakhina, Lazar Consultants
Financials Expert LIVE: Use alternative valuation runs in the material ledger to smooth seasonal price variances
Acc Janet Salmon, SAP
Premier 302 F 75
12:45 pm 2:00 pm Lunch Marquee Ballroom
GRC Expert LIVE: Sustainable procurement as an embedded process in supplier management activities
Aud William Newman, Newport Consulting Group
Premier 302 G 75
GRC Expert LIVE: Ensure success in your next SAP audit with standard audit features
Aud Bhavesh Bhagat, EnCrisp
Grand 109 F G 75
Accessing trusted data for nancial performance management: Putting Finance in control
Fin Chris Grundy, SAP
Premier 301 F 75
Improve the quality of cash ow reports using account transformation and currency translation business rules
Acc John Cerqueira, Reliable Technical Solutions
Premier 304 F 76
Best practices for integrating SAP functionality for nancial accounting and materials management
Acc Yoshi Williams, Independent (repeat session)
Premier 306 F 76
How to perform more agile planning and forecasting using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Acc David Williams, SAP (repeat session)
Premier 318 F 76
Cloud computing is not just an IT initiative: Critical considerations for business and nance executives
EX Fin Kevin Morris, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Premier 319 F G 76
New strategies to align procurement with nance and reduce overall spend
Acc Padmini Ranganathan, SAP
Premier 320 F 76
A step-by-step guide to leveraging inter- and intra-company processing options for more efcient management reporting
Acc Manish Dharnidharka, PricewaterhouseCoopers (repeat session)
Grand 106 F 75
Technical architecture, landscape, and integration considerations for SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
Aud Kurt Hollis, Deloitte Consulting (repeat session)
Grand 107 G 77
A comprehensive guide and strategic roadmap to SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions
Aud Michael Lortz, SAP (repeat session)
Grand 123 G 75
Lessons for conducting user access reviews of your SAP system

Aud James Roeske, Savera Systems (repeat session)
Grand 124 G 76
3:15 pm Conference concludes
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Jumpstart Sessions
Jumpstart Day, March 7

Join us on Monday, March 7 for Jumpstart Day. Special 3-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to
explore new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of SAP foundation technologies, and enhance your learning experience at the
main conference.
A complete guide to understanding the impact of IFRS on your A comprehensive guide to building controls and mitigating
SAP landscape risk as part of your next SAP system implementation, upgrade,
Pete Graham, SAP Labs and Craig Himmelberger, SAP or enhancement project
Monday, 9:00 am 12:00 pm Premier 314 Matt Zastudil and Irwan Burhan, Ernst & Young
The adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as part of Monday, 9:00 am 12:00 pm Premier 304
a global international accounting convergence can be expensive for your Building SAP system controls is not a one-time effort. Everytime new
company because it is an implementation rather than just an accounting or functionality is implemented or a system is upgraded or enhanced, controls and
reporting project. Understand the solutions that SAP provide to ease your risk management must be considered in order to stay compliant and realize
organizations conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards closed-loop, efficient processes. This detailed three-hour session offers
(IFRS). Discover the importance that people, process, and technology play in a guidance to ensure that your next SAP project meets compliance objectives.
successful transition. Determine how SAP solutions such as the new SAP Step through a multi-dimensional approach to evaluating risk that can occur
General Ledger as well as complementary SAP BusinessObjects enterprise when technology, project, and business criteria are not aligned. Learn how to
performance management solutions such as SAP BusinessObjects Planning mitigate risk within 5 key areas: program management and benefits realization;
and Consolidation could be leveraged to ease the IFRS transition process. process controls; security controls; data conversion; and system administration.
Learn about the latest starter kit from SAP for its SAP BusinessObjects Find out how to leverage a higher percentage of application-level controls for
Financial Consolidation application, which can speed up and smooth your compliance purposes. Gain insight into how to use your project as an
companys transition to IFRS. Find out which SAP ERP Financials opportunity to build a sustainable model for running SAP systems that reduces
functionality best supports IFRS compliance for your company. Leave this compliance costs. Explore ways to use controls as a foundation for your
session armed with the knowledge and action plan to bring your SAP systems companys future system development methodology. Examine the 10 most
and reporting strategy into compliance with IFRS. common IT-business project failures and find out how to avoid falling into the
trap. Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions to improve
A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to SAP controls and security in your newly implemented or upgraded system.
BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0
David Milam; Michaela Zwinakis; and Frank Rambo, SAP Getting the most out of profitability analysis (CO-PA):
Monday, 9:00 am 12:00 pm Premier 313 A how-to guide
This three-hour session will provide an in-depth look at the next major release Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software
of SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions Monday, 9:00 am 12:00 pm Premier 301
specifically highlighting SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, SAP This three-hour session delivers proven techniques, tips, and tricks to easily
BusinessObjects Process Control, and SAP BusinessObjects Risk identify and fully leverage frequently overlooked profitability analysis (CO-PA)
Management. Attendees of this session will:Learn new ways to save money by functionality. Learn how data from various modules, including sales and
preventing fraud, errors, and reducing audit costs; receive a detailed preview of distribution (SD) and financial accounting (FI), flow to CO-PA and what
the functionality in the 10.0 release of these three solutions; walk through the effect this has on profitability analyses. Examine new ways to leverage CO-PA
full feature set of 10.0 as key enhancements such as access risk analysis for integrated planning and forecasting. Delve into the unique reporting
improvements are showcased; learn how these solutions provide GRC capabilities of CO-PA, including drill-down reporting for market segments
management and continuous controls monitoring on a common technology based on customer, customer group, product, product group, and region. Know
platform; examine the migration scenarios for SAP BusinessObjects Access your options for transferring CO-PA data to SAP NetWeaver BW for more
Control and upgrade paths for SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and robust reports and analyses. Learn how to simultaneously utilize costing-based
SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management; become familiar with the and account-based CO-PA functionality and SAP NetWeaver BW for
harmonized technical architecture of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, its segment reporting. Pinpoint the fundamental difference in structures between
user interface, ABAP back ends, plug-ins, system landscape requirements, the CO-PA ledger and general ledger and learn how to solve the reconciliation
and software logistics; and find out what new enhancements have been added issues that can arise from the variation . Compare and contrast the two types of
to the latest releases, including improvements to access risk analysis profitability analyses costing-based CO-PA and account-based CO-PA
functionality. and learn how to simultaneously utilize both to meet management reporting
and general ledger reconciliation requirements. Avoid common and costly
mistakes in setting up CO-PA structures and setting the segment-level
characteristics, such as sales orders and items.
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Jumpstart Sessions
The updated 2011 guide to SAP BusinessObjects solutions for A detailed guide to more efficiently and accurately conduct
financial reporting product costing
Bryan Katis, SAP Birgit Starmanns and Janet Salmon, SAP
Monday, 9:00 am 12:00 pm Premier 312 Monday, 2:00 pm 5:00 pm Premier 304
This special three-hour session helps you understand what the latest updates to This special three-hour session offers a comprehensive introduction to SAP
SAP BusinessObjects solutions mean to your financial teams, IT teams, functionality for product costing and expert recommendations to extend
business intelligence (BI) teams, and end users. Understand the complete set of accounting entries created throughout the end-to-end product costing process.
options available to SAP customers for: reporting (formatting, printing, Web Understand the end-to-end process of product costing, and get leading
enablement, and customization); drill-down analytics; planning; consolidations; practices to integrate it into your organizations sales and manufacturing
dashboards; and performance management. View demos that showcase key processes. Learn what different controlling objects can be used to support
SAP BusinessObjects tools and applications. Obtain strategic guidelines for manufacturing strategies, such as make-to-stock, repetitive, process, make-to-
picking the right tool or combination of tools for your specific financial order and engineer-to-order. Examine the master data that is required to
reporting requirements. Assess the prerequisites, skills, and learning curve develop a standard cost for a product. Find out how product cost postings are
required to leverage SAP and SAP BusinessObjects solutions in a financials reflected in SAP General Ledger. Understand how the month-end process in
environment. Learn how to utilize SAP BusinessObjects softwares front-end product costing will help to ensure more accurate financial statements. Get tips
reporting tools while preserving backend system investments. Attendees of this to better analyze product costs and make more strategic decisions when
session receive these exclusive take-homes: a detailed matrix illustrating which determining the optimal price(s) to market your products. Learn how to
tools address specific challenges; up-to-date joint roadmaps for SAP achieve more accurate margin analysis by adding profitability analysis (CO-
NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and SAP PA) postings to the product costing information. Walk through the key
BusinessObjects solutions; and a comprehensive glossary of new terminology. enhancements to product costing, including cross-company actual costing,
parallel cost of goods manufactured, and parallel balance sheet valuation.
A comprehensive guide to building and running shared
services that support HR and finance An in-depth guide for completing a successful migration to the
Bernhard Fischer, SAP AG and Mayank Singh, SAP Labs India latest version of SAP General Ledger
Monday, 2:00 pm 5:00 pm Premier 314 Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young and William Miller, MI6 Solutions Group
This comprehensive, three-hour session outlines concepts and best practices Monday, 2:00 pm 5:00 pm Premier 312
that support you in successfully implementing shared services. Learn how This special three-hour tutorial provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide
utilizing SAP technology in your shared services organization enables to successfully plan and execute a migration to the latest version of SAP
automation, service improvements, improved governance, and ultimately General Ledger. Attend this unique session to: examine the differences
operational excellence in HR and finance. Find out how a shared services between the classic version of general ledger that most customers are familiar
model could help you optimize costs, minimize risk, and improve the HR and with and the newest version of SAP General Ledger; learn the key decisions
finance services you provide to your business. Learn which HR and finance and considerations involved in implementing or upgrading to the SAP General
processes should be kept within the shared service center and which ones can Ledger; learn how to use new functionality to streamline your organizations
be outsourced. Learn how to set up specific analytics to measure and manage financial processes; become familiar with the migration toolset available to
HR and finance operations within a shared services environment. Take a look customers transitioning to the new version of the SAP General Ledger; find
at design principles and lessons learned from other SAP customers who are out how to ensure data and process integrity by avoiding too many parallel
implementing new or who are fine-tuning existing HR and finance shared ledger setups and incomplete or false segment definition; acquire best practices
service centers. Learn how to leverage business process automation in your for utilizing splitting and zero balancing functionalities in the right way;
shared service organization utilizing proven concepts and readily available understand and evaluate the new features delivered with the latest SAP
technology enablers. Delve into best practices for building and operating a enhancement package; and hear how other SAP customers have implemented
shared services center, including considerations for communication front-end, SAP General Ledger, and get dos, donts, and lessons learned from their
service catalog, and service delivery platform. Examine the four common action experiences.
areas required for shared service projects to reach full benefit: Organization,
Communication with stakeholders, Processes, Infrastructure. Learn how the
technical and business platform delivered with the SAP Shared Service
Framework can be used to support multifunctional, global, automated, and
customer-oriented shared services.
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Jumpstart Sessions
Comprehensive guidelines for preparing your technical What every SAP customer now needs to know about
landscape to support the latest releases of SAP SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
BusinessObjects GRC solutions Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises and Daniel Settanni, SAP
Frank Rambo; Jennifer Cha; and Mohan Balaji, SAP Monday, 2:00 pm 5:00 pm Premier 313
Monday, 2:00 pm 5:00 pm Premier 311 This special three-hour session explores the capabilities, tradeoffs, and
This special three-hour session covers the technical aspects of SAP requirements for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions release version for SAP NetWeaver and version for the Microsoft platform. Gain a
10.0. Attendees of this session will: explore the technical underpinnings and thorough overview of the functionality delivered with SAP BusinessObjects
requirements for SAP BusinessObjects Access Control; SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for: business planning; forecasting and consensus
Process Control; SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management; SAP building; and financial reporting and analysis. Understand how SAP
BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for Brazil (SAP BusinessObjects Nota BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation integrates with SAP ERP, SAP
Fiscal Eletronica); and SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services. Walk NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects BI tools. Pinpoint the key
through the architecture requirements of the platform that supports these 10.0 differences between SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and
releases and the synchronization components that are available. Get key SAP NetWeaver BW functionality for integrated planning. Step through real-
technical insight into how to plan and prepare your landscape for either a new world scenarios of how the applications use can lead to increased productivity,
implementation or migration to these latest releases. Get a detailed guide to reduced budget cycle times, adaptation to changing business and market
the specific upgrade and migration paths, whether upgrading and migrating conditions, and improved statutory and regulatory reporting. Gain insight into
one application or multiple applications. Learn how to put a content life cycle key enhancements in the 7.5 release of both the version for SAP NetWeaver
management approach into practice that will enable easier data transporting and the version for the Microsoft platform, including native integration with
and upload processes. Examine the new security concept and role authorization the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools.
processes for data transport and their impact on your back-end systems. See
how SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions leverage SAP NetWeaver for
scalability and security, and how they fit together with other solutions in your
landscape. Leave this session with best practices for your system landscape
design, along with recommendations to optimize that design for the SAP
BusinessObjects GRC solutions 10.0 you plan to implement.
Expert guidance and real-world insight for reducing the

complexity of your security remediation project
James Roeske, Savera Systems
Monday, 2:00 pm 5:00 pm Premier 301
Attend this session for expert advice on how to remediate or even rebuild your
SAP security role structure across a large, complex SAP landscape. Attendees
of this session will: get recommendations for using SAP BusinessObjects
Access Control functionality to reduce the security maintenance effort, gain
greater flexibility, and diminish general complexity of roles; acquire best
practices for configuring your rule set and learn how to leverage enterprise role
management functionality to build standard rule sets, cross-system rules, and
cross-platform rules; identify ways to design and build a role structure which is
compliant, practical, and sustainable, especially as audits get tougher, security
staffing is leaner, and budgets are tighter; walk through a large, complex,
segregation of duties remediation project that one of SAPs largest and most
complex customers completed; find out the key challenges the company faced
and the SAP BusinessObjects Access Control functionality it implemented to
address them; and delve down into the project planning phases, and
understand the key tasks that need to be executed in a successful remediation
project.
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Session Descriptions
Financials and GRC Session Tracks

Financials 2011
EX Special Sessions for Executives and Senior Managers
F1 Track 1: Financial and operational performance at best-run businesses
F2 Track 2: Financial reports, analyses, and decision-support
F3 Track 3: Financial plans, forecasts, and budgets
F4 Track 4: Financial accounting (FI) and managerial accounting (CO)
F5 Track 5: SAP General Ledger
F6 Track 6: Accelerating financial closes and consolidations
F7 Track 7: A/R, A/P, credit management, and dispute resolution
F8 Track 8: Treasury and cash management
F9 Track 9: Performance and risk management
F10 Track 10: Finance shared services
F11 Track 11: Compliance and audits
F12 Track 12: Implementations, upgrades, rollouts, and functionality enhancements
F13 Track 13: IFRS
GRC 2011
EX Special Sessions for Executives and Senior Managers
G1 Track 1: Governance, risk, and compliance at best-run businesses
G2 Track 2: Segregation of duties, risk remediation, and security
G3 Track 3: Continuous controls monitoring
G4 Track 4: Lowering the cost of compliance and audits
G5 Track 5: Implementations, upgrades, rollouts, and systems integration
G6 Track 6: Audit preparation
G7 Track 7: Financial planning, consolidation, closing, and reporting processes
G8 Track 8: Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
G9 Track 9: IFRS
G10 Track 10: Global trade and supply chain risk
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Tuesday, March 8
A comprehensive guide and roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects A guide to enabling and supporting IFRS compliance using
enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions new and existing financial functionality
James Fisher, SAP Pete Graham, SAP Labs
Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 312 Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 318
F9 F13 G9
This session offers a comprehensive guide to SAP BusinessObjects enterprise Understand the solutions that SAP provide to ease your organizations
performance management (EPM) solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Discover
Strategy Management, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, the importance that people, process, and technology play in a successful
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation, and SAP BusinessObjects transition. Determine how SAP solutions such as the new SAP General
Profitability and Cost Management. Understand more about the SAP Ledger as well as complementary solutions such as SAP BusinessObjects
BusinessObjects EPM solutions roadmap for 2011 and beyond. Gain insight Planning and Consolidation could be leveraged to ease the IFRS transition
into SAPs support strategy for strategic enterprise management (SEM) process. Find out which SAP ERP Financials functionality best supports IFRS
functionality for business consolidation. Learn how all these solutions integrate compliance for your company. Leave this session armed with the knowledge
with SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence and action plan to bring your SAP systems and reporting strategy into
(BI) solutions, and SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance compliance with IFRS.
(GRC) solutions. Leave this session with a strong understanding of the current
solutions for enterprise performance management and their future roadmap. A step-by-step guide to fixed asset revaluations
Thomas Michael, Michael Management Corporation
A comprehensive guide and strategic roadmap to SAP Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 320
BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) F4
solutions Whether driven by a merger or acquisition, currency adjustment or
Michael Lortz, SAP impairment, it is critical to perform fixed asset revaluations throughout the
Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 313 year to accurately assess the true value of the capital goods a business owns.
(session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm) Follow an asset accounting expert and walk through the necessary steps for
G1 G5 various revaluation scenarios using SAPs new standard revaluation program.
Understand the functionality that SAP has in place to more effectively align You will learn the processes for making unplanned depreciation adjustments,
and unify your governance, risk management, and compliance initiatives. Get write-ups, full revaluations with new costs and depreciation write-backs.
valuable advice to help reduce risk exposure, make more effective decisions Understand the required configuration settings and learn to avoid common
regarding strategy, and optimize your organizations overall performance. Get mistakes for complex revaluation scenarios.
tips to prepare for the real impact that financial, social, and environmental risks
can have on your business such as the loss of revenue, fraud, and failed audits. Case study: How Cobra Electronics unlocks cash flow and
Learn how to align your operational processes into your organizations strategic improves customer satisfaction
objectives. Understand how to more readily identify competitive opportunities Sandy Maxey, Cobra Electronics
in the marketplace. Learn how SAPs portfolio of solutions can be mapped to Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 306
your current and future GRC requirements and get an up-close look into F7
SAPs vision for GRC and whats to come with future releases. Hear how Cobra Electronics managed to reduce the average time to resolve a
deduction from days to minutes through the effective use of document
A comprehensive guide to SAPs strategic roadmap for imaging and navigation. Learn how the company linked sales orders, delivery
treasury and risk management applications documents, outbound invoices and credit notes to the original document flow
Mark Stapleton, SAP America for easy access through SAP object services functionality. Hear firsthand how
Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Grand 124 Cobra Electronics is now able to provide accounts receivables administrators,
F8 sales team members, and auditors with the ability to perform a document
This session offers a detailed tour of brand new functionality that will soon be query for virtually any sales-related document, pull the images associated with
available for SAP Treasury and Risk Management applications. Explore the the documents, and batch these images as a single pdf file for direct printing or
newest features and functions, and well as infrastructure and architecture emailing. Gain an understanding of how this process-based solution integrates
enhancements. Gain new insights into leading practices for managing seamlessly with Cobra existing order-to-cash process and its components. Also
commodity price risk using treasury and risk management and enhancements learn now to store and access SOX-sensitive images not related to any
to the exposure manager that will enable your organization to better handle particular SAP transaction, such as treasury contracts and agreements.
delivery and price risk. Understand the increasing importance of commodity
management, hedge accounting, and SWIFT enhancements in the new
application. Find out what support options will be available for compliance
with updated regulations including IFRS 39, FAS 161 and FAS 157. Learn
what functionality will be available for the management of expenses in
commodity trade and the framework for commodity pricing. Take home a list
of the key enhancements being made to SAP Bank Communication
Management.
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Ensure you have the right tools and services in place before Panel discussion: Results of the 2010 IBM Global CFO Study:
your SAP ERP upgrade Insights for improving financial performance
Joseph Svoboda, SAP America Moderators: Jim Hurley, IBM Global Business Services and Carl Nordman, IBM
Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Grand 123 Panelists: Edward Lovely, IBM and Eduardo Lopez, Pfizer
F12 Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 304
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the many upgrade tools, EX F1
accelerators, and resources available to you during your project. Review their This insightful session sheds light on what roughly 2,000 CFOs and senior
capabilities, benefits, requirements, and limitations, and get guidelines to finance leaders from around the world are doing to survive and thrive in an era
ensure you pick the right resources and properly leverage them. Develop a of increased uncertainty. Delve into the findings of the 2010 IBM Global
checklist of SAP tools that no upgrade toolbox should be without. Leverage CFO Study to learn how respondents are improving finance operations and
tools that inventory custom programs and reports so that you migrate only analytical capabilities. Find out how leading finance organizations are gaining
what you need. Step through scenarios that illustrate when it is, and is not, efficiencies through four enablers consistent information standards,
advisable to enlist the aid of outside consultants, and get advice for how to common processes, common data definitions, and globally mandated data
manage them. Know if, when, and how you should augment your existing standards. Examine the areas in which finance organizations most frequently
toolbox with third-party planning, monitoring, and testing. Understand why fall short, such as enterprise risk management and mitigation, information
the SAP Upgrade Information Center should be the first place you visit. integration, and involvement with enterprise strategy. Listen in as a panel of
study participants provide you with ideas to keep pace with and surpass
How to create a comprehensive data governance strategy on leading organizations in revenue growth, return on investment capital, and
a global scale more.
Tom Kennedy, BackOffice Associates
Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 314 Tips and tricks for a successful process control
G1 implementation
Creating a data governance organization that can effectively manage complex Jamie Croudace, Turnkey Consulting
data-related relationships, roles, and scenarios can be a daunting task. Explore Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 301
two methods of data governance, active and passive, and get a detailed look at G3 G5
the benefits and uses of each. Understand how passive data governance allows Examine the important choices and key questions to consider when
users to interact directly with source systems to monitor results and identify implementing SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. Get practical advice to
data issues. Find out how active data governance provides a guided process for define, construct, and implement controls that ensure your business processes
the introduction and management of data into selected systems. Understand are working properly. Get configuration tips to reduce the number of
the four levels of data governance, from no data governance to active data erroneous manual- and paper-based processes, resulting in improved process
governance. Come away with tips for leveraging these models to reduce the controls transparency. Hear firsthand how to ensure that areas of high risks are
possibility of business process interruptions due to omissions, duplication, covered by mitigating key controls. Walk through practical examples that
consistency and content errors, or a lack of data standards. Determine if there demonstrate how to identify the areas within your organization where your
is a logical business process for master data governance and how to apply it. efficiency and controls testing can be improved. Learn how to accurately
Get tips on how to gain a better understanding of how to overcome the document your organizations controls, test plans and test results, allowing for
complexities of building an effective data governance organization. easy access by auditors and compliance stakeholders.
Lessons for conducting user access reviews of your SAP Unlocking efficiencies in the order-to-cash cycle: How IBM
system optimized its cash allocation processes
James Roeske, Savera Systems Michael H. Welch and Michael T. Murray, IBM
Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Premier 319 Tuesday, 10:30 am 11:45 am Grand 108
(session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm) S F7
G2 Attend this session and learn how, as part of its global harmonization project,
Learn how to set up and conduct periodic reviews of who is accessing your IBM selected Hanse Orgas AutoBank software for SAP solutions as its global
SAP system using compliant user provisioning functionality within SAP cash application tool for its accounts receivable practice. Hear how the
BusinessObjects Access Control. Find out how to uncover instances of company is using AutoBank as an alternative to manual cash application in
obsolete and outdated access that can contribute to segregation of duties (SoD) China, and how it realized a 52% automatic cash application hit rate in the
violations. Determine whether existing access processes can be mapped as is first week of operation. Find out what benefits IBM has gained since
within compliant user provisioning or when they should be re-evaluated or implementing AutoBank, including more flexible and user-friendly booking
completely remodeled. Find out how to integrate compliant user provisioning, rules models, an increase in the quality of postings, and more auto-learning
enterprise role management and risk analysis and remediation in order for user capabilities. Walk through the challenges faced during the implementation in
access reviews to be fully operational. Take home a list of best practices and China, including how IBM ensured that AutoBank could receive and process
key examples of how other customers are conducting user access reviews. Chinese characters in the companys bank statements, and how it added a
Unicode page for SAP settings to ensure that the Chinese characters were
readable once they posted into the system. Learn how IBM now leverages its
current global SAP rollout by adding AutoBank as part of its SAP core model
framework.
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Financials Expert LIVE: Structure consumption accounts to A detailed guide to the new features and functions in SAP
reflect the true cost of sales General Ledger
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting Erwin Brandt, SAP AG
Tuesday, 11:15 am 12:00 pm Premier 302 Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 313
F4 (session repeated on Friday at 8:30 am)
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Paul Ovigele, SAP Consultant, F4 F5
Ovigele Consulting, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his Attend this session for an up-close view of the SAP General Ledger in SAP
most widely read articles from Financials Expert the leading publication ERP 6.0. Learn what functionality is available to support a more unified
and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions for finance. approach to management and financial accounting. Learn how the SAP
Learn the configuration settings that determine which accounts are posted to General Ledger supports parallel accounting through the use of parallel ledgers
when performing the various transactions on a production order (e.g., goods and parallel accounts. Learn how to utilize SAPs new profit center
issue, confirmation, goods receipt, work in process, overhead, and variance reorganization to automate and more easily shift those structures and
calculation). Understand where these accounts are configured, how they relate responsibilities. Examine how the SAP General Ledger can help you support
to the production process, and how you can structure them in your financial corporate governance by offering perfect transparency among your entries,
statements so that your P&L accounts properly reflect your true cost of sales. helping to reduce the risk of non-compliance.
Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and engage with peers
who have the same interests and priorities.
Case study: How CenterPoint Energy automated and
formalized its risk management activities
Panel discussion: Real-world lessons for IFRS transitions and Robert Martinez, CenterPoint Energy
compliance Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 301
Moderators: Pete Graham, SAP Labs and James Fisher, SAP; G1 G5
Panelists: Nick Difazio, Deloitte; Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young; Richard Cebula, Attend this session for an up-close look at how CenterPoint Energy
PricewaterhouseCoopers; Daniel Joo, Accenture; and Christiane Ohlgart, SAP implemented SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management to automate its existing
Tuesday, 12:45 pm 1:30 pm Premier 302 enterprise risk management (ERM) processes. Find out what the companys
F13 G9 corporate risk management system was comprised of prior to the
Participate in a candid, moderated discussion on IFRS with a panel of implementation, and what factors led to choosing the SAP BusinessObjects
accounting experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, Ernst & Young, Risk Management solution. Walk through the companys implementation steps
Deloitte, and SAP, who will share planning strategies and lessons learned from from preparation, blueprinting, through production, and to final go-live. Find
a multitude of successful IFRS conversion projects. Find out how leading out what prerequisites the company had when beginning the project. See how
organizations are working with their management, internal audit, and external CenterPoint Energy was able to successfully move its manual ERM processes
audit teams to put effective practices and processes in place, ensuring they into SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management to help build efficiency and more
maintain both financial integrity and transparency. Learn how to address not accurately measure key risk indicators, using both SAP and non-SAP data.
only the accounting challenges involved, but also the challenges that surround
your IT systems, processes, and people. Get answers to your most complex Case study: How Diageo efficiently performs account
questions and leave with knowledge and insights to put an IFRS conversion reconciliations and closings for more accurate and complete
plan in place. financial statements
Nandor Makos, Diageo
A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the latest Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 318
capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and F2 F6 G7
Consolidation Learn how Diageo, one of the worlds leading premium drinks businesses,
David Williams and Chris Pauxtis, SAP improves the transparency and auditability of its account reconciliation and
Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 312 financial closing activities using SAP Customer Financial Management. Get a
F12 step-by-step description of how Diageo drives the financial closing process by
This session offers a detailed overview of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and integrating all reconciliation tasks and dependencies into its daily routines.
Consolidation functionality, with emphasis on its planning, budgeting, Draw from Diageos experiences to understand how to support closing
forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities. Learn how to consistently operations and the reconciliation of postings between the contract account sub
manage your companys performance using timely and accurate plans and ledger and the general ledger. Explore how the company transfers all necessary
budgets that are aligned with your strategic goals. Get tips to seamlessly information to the relevant ledgers (general ledger, controlling ledgers, financial
integrate corporate and departmental planning, quickly model business management ledgers) and how it then accurately reconciles that transferred
scenarios, and re-forecast to meet rapidly changing business conditions. Create information. Take home a list of best practices for reducing operating costs and
more transparent financial data to enable fast, accurate management and increasing the efficiency of account reconciliation and closing activities.
statutory reporting. Leave this session equipped with a thorough
understanding of the functionality delivered in the latest release and learn what
SAP has in store for the solution going forward.
Case study: How the City of Henderson Police Department Mastering the growing complexities of an SAP audit
successfully developed and implemented SAP Chris Cassin and Mitesh Chugh, KPMG
BusinessObjects Strategy Management as a key component Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 319
of its planning process F11 G6
Tina Emrich, City of Henderson This session offers proven strategies for meeting the growing complexities that
Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 306 can occur when preparing for an SAP audit, such as properly communicating
F1 with your auditor prior to the start of the audit. Walk through a recommended
In this session learn how Henderson Police Department, the second-largest city approach that will enable you to identify the appropriate automated controls
in Nevada, is improving operational performance and more efficiently allocating and testing methods prior to the audit, helping to reduce the associated costs.
resources while devoting less time to planning & review using SAP Learn how to perform more thorough risk assessments by identifying key risk
BusinessObjects Strategy Management. Step through the project plan and find areas. Understand how to determine the scope for your audit, keeping in mind
out how the organization utilized data gathering, brainstorming, a culture review, your various audiences, including management, internal and external audit
planning and on-going review in their plan. The Department structured their teams. Better prepare for audit walkthroughs by predetermining what controls
strategic plan using SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management as a key you will need to test, and performing initial control testing prior to the audit.
component of in strategic planning development. The process to develop Avoid common pitfalls associated with audits using SAP delivered reports to
strategic initiatives and monitor specific key performance indicators & milestones get a better handle on your segregation of duties (SoD) violations. Leave this
has applications to any organization or industry. Take home a list of lessons session with key techniques to facilitate a faster, more effective and value added
learned from the City of Hendersons Police Department to better develop your audit.
own organizations implementation of strategic planning and execution.
Strategies, tools, and techniques to avoid the 10 most
Executive session: Strategies for integrating risk common mistakes that can derail an SAP NetWeaver BW
management, compliance, and audit activities into a unified project
GRC program Penny Silvia, IBM
Robert Clark, PricewaterhouseCoopers Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 304
Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Grand 124 F2
EX F11 G1 G4 As more companies migrate financial reporting activities to SAP NetWeaver
Many organizations have invested heavily in oversight functions, such as risk BW, finance teams are painfully learning firsthand about some of the
management, compliance, ethics, and internal audit in order to manage the challenges that can derail this type of project. This session offers best practices
complexity of risks confronting the organization. Attend this session for that can keep your implementation, migration, or rollout on track. Learn to
practical approaches to integrate these functions to improve business develop a solid SAP NetWeaver BW roadmap that reduces project risks and
performance and cost reduction. Find out why its critical for executives to addresses key business challenges and your unique requirements. Identify best
receive timelier, accurate, and relevant governance, risk, and compliance practices and tools that can be deployed to gather inventory and performance
(GRC) data. Get detailed insight into the key challenges companies face when analysis of all the SAP NetWeaver BW objects. Get tips and lessons learned
integrating their GRC activities and how to successfully use technology as an to avoid pitfalls associated with data quality, harmonization, consolidation,
enabler to support these functions. Find out how to best define your migration, and integration. Explore the implications that a global environment
organizations strategic vision for an integrated GRC program at the most has on testing and custom development. Take home a document listing the
appropriate level, whether enterprise, regional or divisional. Get tips for most important project preparation activities that can make or break your SAP
conducting a current state assessment of your companys GRC capabilities and NetWeaver BW project.
identify gaps and requirements for key risks and controls. Take home a copy of
a recent article which will help your organization get started with a GRC Techniques for using inventory valuation and costing to make
integration project. wiser procurement spend decisions
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting
Improve your compliance processes with an automated, Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Grand 123
continuous controls monitoring framework F4
Jennifer Cha, SAP Whether youre new or a veteran user of SAP functionality for finance, you
Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 320 will gain invaluable insight into how to use the material ledger for parallel
G3 valuation of inventory and for the calculation of ending inventory at actual
Walk through the technical specifications of implementing an automated, cost. Find out how proper use of the material ledger can help you make more
continuous controls monitoring framework relating to critical financial and informed procurement spend decisions and more easily access detailed costing
other SAP ERP controls. Learn how to improve financial governance and and valuation views in the material master. Get expert data preparation and
automate audit processes using the standard controls and rules provided by management techniques to ensure smooth conversion to the material ledger.
SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. Get tips for building custom controls Learn the key steps needed to execute the actual costing run at period end.
and rules and examine how these can then be applied to your continuous Understand how to use parallel valuation features in conjunction with parallel
control monitoring framework to ensure that your organizations business rules ledger functionality in SAP General Ledger to enable your organization to
and policies are more effective. Receive best practices for evaluating and meet dual reporting requirements related to International Financial Reporting
monitoring controls and ERP application settings against a sliding scale of Standards (IFRS) and GAAP.
violation thresholds and learn how to route workflow accordingly.
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Tips, tricks, and techniques to configure and optimize your Case study: How Lionsgate uses SAP BusinessObjects
credit management system Planning and Consolidation for financial planning and
Chandrashekar Subramanian, Infosys Technologies forecasting, campaign tracking, sales and operational
Tuesday, 1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 314 planning
F7 Scott Mills, Lionsgate
Based on a real-life customer example, learn how to configure and enable SAP Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 319
functionality for credit management. Find out how to set up an IT framework F3
that supports seamless communication between you and your business partner Hear firsthand how Lionsgate, a $1.6 Billion global entertainment corporation with
so that credit decisions can be made based on real-time information. Learn a leading presence in motion picture production and distribution, television
how to configure SAP credit management to manage multiple scenarios for programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital
SD credit updates, such as delivery-related versus order-related updates and distribution and new channel platforms, is using SAP BusinessObjects Planning
how to calculate credit exposure for each. Review configuration and support and Consolidation to optimize operations and gain critical and timely insight into
considerations related to running SAP Credit Management in a global the financial performance of the business. Lionsgate uses SAP BusinessObjects
environment. Get tips to troubleshoot, analyze errors, and reorganize credit Planning and Consolidation to plan and track critical sales and operations functions,
data when necessary. Walk away with a checklist that will help you configure forecast and track monthly revenue and other key statistics, and forecast and provide
the automatic credit management functionality step by step. robust management reporting on the P&L of thousands of individual movies and
television shows through their complete product lifecycle. Learn about the business
Insider discussion forum: Improve the integration of drivers that sparked the organizations decision to implement SAP BusinessObjects
financials functionality with other SAP applications Planning and Consolidation, including the need to gain better access and more
Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software visibility into dynamic company data for improved decision making. Step through
Tuesday, 1:45 pm 2:15 pm Premier 302
examples of how Lionsgate leverages this solution, including instant and accurate
F4 ad-hoc reporting capabilities on over 12,000 individual films. See how the company
Enter into a lively discussion with peers and experts to find out the best ways to uses SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to quickly integrate newly
integrate SAP software for financial accounting with other SAP components. acquired companies into the planning and forecasting process.
Explore questions such as: What key integration points between the financial
accounting, materials management, and sales and distribution components Case study: How Rhodia manages its NAFTA trade preference
should I pay special attention to? What integration mistakes and inefficiencies process and mitigates risk
should I avoid? How do I ensure that these different components are recording Rao Santapur, Rhodia
and reporting the same results? How are my counterparts at other companies Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 307
reconciling discrepancies between components? Leave this moderated discussion G10
forum with unique insights and best practices that improve the integration of Examine how Rhodia, a leading specialty chemical company, built its business
your financial accounting software with the rest of your SAP landscape. plan to leverage SAP ERP and SAP Global Trade Systems as a combined
solution to mitigate company risk, manage process life cycle and deliver to
Insider discussion forum: Best practices for centralizing and customers, its NAFTA certificates. Understand Rhodias project objectives
managing controls across end-to-end business processes
which include replacing its existing third-party solution with SAP Global Trade
using SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
Services so that its purchasing requests, and Bill-of-Materials (BOMs) are
Jennifer Cha, SAP
automatically integrated with its long term vendor declarations (LTVD) process
Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:00 pm Grand 109
for cross-border transactions. Hear how doing so resulted in an assurance that
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the final product shipments are in compliance with NAFTA regulations for
This open forum affords you the opportunity to question your peers about their tracking origins of raw materials and finished goods. Examine the companys
experiences implementing SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. Hear how process flow from the purchasing transaction (import) which creates the work
colleagues have tackled their toughest project challenges, and get answers to list in SAP Global Trade Services. See how this integrates with suppliers, and is
questions like: What first steps must I take to build a sustainable compliance calculated against LTVD, and complies with NAFTA preference rules for
process that spans entire business processes? How do I do so cost effectively? classifying materials origin to better determine if vendors are qualified. See how
What are my options for leveraging automated, real-time management of the LTVD links to SAP Product Lifecycle Management audit functionality to
controls? What are some best practices for mapping process control log preferences, and save as proof in SAP Global Trade Services.
functionality to my organization, business processes, and associated controls?
Detailed instruction to smoothly integrate payroll and
Case study: Streamlining and reducing the cost of accounts
financial applications
payable at Tim Hortons with a centralized process Mike Timm, Integrated Consulting Group
David Kraulis, Tim Hortons
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F4
Learn the key integration points between the HR payroll functions and SAP
Find out how Tim Hortons, a multinational food service company, created an
ERP Financials to optimize data flows and troubleshoot common errors and
efficient centralized accounts payable process across Canada and the US. Hear
problems. Understand how data is transferred between payroll and financial
firsthand how Tim Hortons leveraged SAP ERP Financials to streamline
applications. Get answers to the biggest integration challenges, including how
approval processes, enhance internal controls, and create a scalable foundation
to post retroactive calculations; how to post month-end accruals during payroll
for operational expansion. Hear how the company developed its project scope
and overcame project integration hurdles and change management challenges. processing; and how to verify that third-party remittance has been done for
Gain insight into how the company managed its project budget, minimized off-cycle payrolls. Get tips to reverse postings from HR payroll and SAP ERP
the number of customizations, improved quality of service, and at the same Financials, set up a company transfer clearing account, and post taxes by tax
time reduced operational costs. Learn how the companys updated invoice-to- authority. Take home a detailed process flow of payroll to accounts payable
pay business process addresses challenges previously associated with invoice postings; a configuration checklist for postings; and a list of workarounds for
receipt, the capture and interpretation of invoice content, workflow initiation dealing with typical problem points between payroll and accounts payable.
for initial routing, approvals and exceptions, posting, payment and analytics.
Executive session: Principles and innovative practices behind Invoice process automation for SAP ERP Financials: The
GRC processes: Results of OCEGs GRC study problem it solves, the money it saves: Featuring Marine
Carole Switzer, OCEG Resources Group
Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 301 Kevin Orstad, Marine Resources Group and Maggie Smith, Kofax
EX G1 Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Grand 106
Take a look at the The 2010 GRC Strategy Study, the ongoing research S F7
project by the Open Compliance and Ethics Group, in which more than 250 According to the Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA),
respondents participated to analyze the most effective ways that an companies with a low level of invoice automation spend almost 20 times more
organization can improve its GRC capabilities. Drill down into key study effort to process an invoice than companies who invest in invoice automation.
findings and see examples of how the most innovative organizations are In this informative session, find out how Kofaxs Markview for Accounts
leveraging an integrated, enterprise approach to GRC. Get examples of how Payable solution can help your organization reduce errors and payment
those organizations manage and execute their GRC programs more efficiently duplication, lower the costs of document filing and access as well as reduce the
than their peers, often at a leadership level, while those with fragmented efforts risks and costs associated with compliance and audits. Learn how using online
tilt heavily toward poorer performance and ad hoc or reactive approaches. Take views of each invoice throughout the approval and payment process can
home a summary of the study findings and find out how your organization increase control, maximize productivity and minimize costs associated with
compares. your accounts payable process. Hear firsthand how Marine Resources Group
utilized the Kofax solution to automate their invoice processing systems,
Expert techniques to rapidly identify, assess, and mitigate increase the companys financial control and greatly reduce the risk of duplicate
high-risk SoD violations payments, overpayments, errors and fraud.
Brian Ocampo, Ernst & Young
Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 313 Lessons for assessing, scoring, and prioritizing risk: The
G2 G8 essential ingredients of a sound risk management plan
This session delivers techniques, tips, and tricks to identify and fully leverage Steven L. Passer, Accenture
frequently overlooked risk analysis and remediation functionality within SAP Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Grand 124
BusinessObjects Access Control for advanced segregation of duties (SoD) G1 F9
analysis. Determine what reporting strategies you should utilize in order to Learn how to perform a comprehensive risk management assessment that will
gain a clear picture of your organizations access violations and tips to rapidly enable your organization to better prioritize, catalog, and score the risks within
assess the root cause of each violation. Acquire expert guidance to maximize your SAP systems. Determine how to assess the impact that risks can have
the effectiveness of risk analysis and remediation as part of your security within your system, ease the audit process, and reduce overall financial risks.
remediation process, whether as part of a new security rollout or in remediating Understand the key activities you will need to perform in order to implement a
your existing design. Identify advanced techniques to more accurately manage risk management assessment, including reviewing recordkeeping procedures
your Sarbanes-Oxley and non-Sarbanes-Oxley access requirements. Leave this for compliance with federal and state requirements, and evaluating your
session with a better understanding on how to tie risk analysis and remediation organizations policies and procedures for consistency and completeness. Learn
to your organizations overall governance and compliance initiatives. how to develop and manage a risk plan that best fits the need of your
organization. Prepare for and learn how to overcome the challenges you may
How to accelerate the financial close in SAP systems -- face during the assessment and scoring such as lack of organizational buy-in
Unlocking the capabilities of people, process, and technology and disparate SAP applications. Ensure your organization is focusing on key
Cliff Eng and Brian Sheehan, PwC
risk management components, such as accountability, quality of policies and
processes, compliance competency, systems, monitoring, and maintenance.
S G7
If you are like many public companies, you have multiple complex financial New options for governing financial master data and ensuring
reporting packages that are required to be filed on specific reporting deadline accurate consolidated financial statements
dates. Attend this session for expert advice to develop a closing strategy that Erwin Brandt, SAP AG
includes coordination between plants and headquarters, balance between Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 314
competing external and internal reporting requirements, and ways to better F2 G7
leverage technology to automate time consuming non-optimized activities. Learn how to ensure that financial master data from multiple accounting
Hear firsthand how to assess and identify your reporting requirements and systems is consistent in order to efficiently produce consolidated financial
evaluate key balance sheet accounts and activities. Leave this session with the statements. Explore new financial master data governance functionality
ability to deliver quick term wins that can be implemented immediately, as available from SAP. Learn how to maintain financial master data for group
well as insight into what interim stage changes need to be made and long-term charts of accounts, profit centers, and cost centers. Understand what kind of
strategies that will provide more time for management review, increased financial data can be modeled and maintained in a central master data system
reliability, and overall performance improvements in your organizations and how SAPs predelivered data model can be enhanced to meet your needs.
financial close and management reporting functions. Find out how to configure workflow approvals for master data change requests.
Understand how to distribute financial master data from a central master data
system to other applications within SAP ERP; to other financial accounting
systems; or to the financial consolidation software in your SAP landscape.
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Reduce financial risk exposure arising from external market Tips and tricks to automate reconciliations from SAP ERP
conditions and regulations Financials to SAP NetWeaver BW
Mark Stapleton, SAP America Chip Brenner, Breakwater Consulting
Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 306 Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 320
F8 F2 F6
Learn about new developments within SAP Treasury and Risk Management Get expert tips and best practices to help you automate the reconciliation of
that can help you manage financial risks arising due to fluctuations in interest financial SAP NetWeaver BW extracts with your SAP ERP system. Learn
rates, foreign exchange rates, and commodity prices. Understand how new how remote extractors for the SAP General Ledger in SAP NetWeaver and
functionality such as exposure management enables you to consolidate financial SAP ERP 6.0 can be used to automate the reconciliation of financial extracts.
exposures from core components for sales and distribution, materials Gain important insight into the most effective loads for remote validation,
management, and financials across your enterprise and develop effective including general ledger, costs, and consolidations. Understand how to
hedging strategies. Get a detailed look at what commodity types and hedging customize the general ledger remote cube to more easily build validation on
instruments can be managed in SAP. Find out how, using full integration into controlling and consolidation cubes, and learn how to automate the
back-office accounting processes, you can ensure compliance with complex validations. Gather tips on building MultiCubes to compare remote and static
International Accounting Standards (IAS), US GAAP, and local statutory data. Get tips for configuring profitability analysis data sources in order to
reporting requirements. more easily reconcile them with general ledger balances.
Strategies for achieving financial excellence cost-effectively Insider discussion forum: Lessons for making the most of
using a shared services center SAP BusinessObjects Access Control to enforce segregation
Bernhard Fischer, SAP AG of duties (SoD) compliance
Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Grand 123 James Roeske, Savera Systems
F10 Tuesday, 4:15 pm 4:45 pm Premier 302
Fragmented and inconsistent business processes, along with inflexible G2
technologies, can inhibit both productivity and service responsiveness. Find out This unique networking session gives you the opportunity to join your peers
from a leading SAP executive how the new SAP Shared Services Framework and share tips to optimize access control and superuser privilege management.
can be leveraged to achieve significant cost savings in the financials arena. These types of questions will open the discussion: How can I simplify my
Understand how the framework can become the infrastructure for more compliance projects and achieve faster internal controls testing? What are the
efficient communication between the service center and its clients, improved best ways to use super-user privilege management to manage emergency
compliance with service level agreements (SLA), and more accurate, insightful system access? How have other organizations used risk analysis and
reports to business stakeholders. Learn how customers are reaping benefits by remediation as a starting point to improve their organizations security design?
standardizing and automating transactional services delivered by the shared Meet with colleagues and pose questions about segregation of duties and SAP
service organization. Learn how to turn your organization into a more agile BusinessObjects Access Control.
and lean business center where financial administration services are treated as
core business processes, and customer satisfaction goals are exceeded by
A five-step approach to ward off cyber threats
Brian Parker, Deloitte & Touche
delivering the right services for the best price.
Take the headache out of multiple currency configurations G2
with these proven techniques Cyber security is becoming a huge priority for many companies. Understand
Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software why cyber security is so important and what risk it poses to your company if
Tuesday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 318 its not properly managed. Walk through an outline of the fundamental first
F4 steps that should be taken when developing a strategy to address cyber threats.
Make sense of the different SAP options at your disposal and the key This session will provide practical guidance for utilizing SAP BusinessObjects
questions you face when configuring currency types, such as which currency GRC solutions to lay the foundation for a solid cyber security plan. Examine
type to use for a new special ledger, how many currencies to configure for a the five key steps to using SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions to address the
company code in the general ledger, and what currency to use as group monitoring of your cyber security threats, such as performing an assessment of
currency. Learn to recognize how these decisions profoundly affect SAP threats and risks to strategic resources. Learn how to link policy, regulations,
financial reporting activities and results. Avoid the mistake of telling yourself events, threats and the monitoring of real-time data. Leave this session armed
that you can always reconfigure currencies later. Youll learn how difficult and with a detailed understanding of the scope of a cyber security project and
expensive these configuration changes are once your system is productive. related risks and response methods.
Clarify the differences between hard currency, index currency, group currency,
and global company currency. This session also highlights the differences
between the standard valuation, group valuation, and profit center valuation
options for company code currency and group currency.
A simplified approach for consolidation of investments for a How to configure the SAP General Ledger to solve your legal
faster close reporting requirements
Dan Sullivan, focusSAP Gary Fullmer, Ernst & Young
Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Grand 123 Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 319
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Learn how to automate consolidation of investments as you use business In todays business climate, most companies are required to report financial
consolidation system (BCS) functionality to expedite your period-end close. results in different formats. Learn how to configure the SAP General Ledger
See how this can be achieved without requiring a full-blown implementation to help account for these reporting issues. Understand the two recommended
of the consolidation of investments (COI) feature. Hear how your peers are approaches for configuring the SAP General Ledger, account-based or
utilizing this technology to create automatic journal entries for investment through the use of parallel ledgers. Understand how the parallel ledger
activities to avoid time-consuming manual entries and to prevent duplicate functionality allows you to maintain your books in support of multiple
records. Step through a demo that illustrates how and when to use key accounting standards, including US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
investment features such as total divestiture, partial divestiture, and transfers of (US GAAP), International Accounting Standards (IAS), and others. Review
percentage ownership. Walk step by step through the process for recording a the benefits and drawbacks of each option and gain a basic understanding of
divestiture in your BCS system. Obtain tips to properly configure SAP which approach might work best for you. Navigate the key considerations and
functionality for both the purchase and equity methods of consolidation. Learn find out how the proper configuration can help simplify your overall financial
how to generate reports to support changes in investment activities and reporting environment and reduce your support costs.
consolidation groups.
How SAP supports the convergence of finance, performance
Case study: Houghton Mifflin Harcourts innovative approach management, and GRC to drive financial excellence
for improving the efficiency and accuracy of planning and James Fisher and Craig Himmelberger, SAP
forecasting processes and operations Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 301
Mary Jane Rivera and Hazel Hughes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt F1 F9 G1 G7
Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Grand 124 Take a guided tour of SAPs portfolio of solutions for financial excellence,
F1 F3 G7 including SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM)
Learn how Houghton Mifflin Harcourt developed its business case for solutions; SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and examine solutions; and SAP ERP Financials, and learn what innovations are in store.
the implementation, integration, and process decisions that were critical to its Hear how these enhanced solutions help to address new challenges in finance
success. Gain insight into how the company identified the most critical skill in 2011 and beyond. Gain visibility into business segments for clearer decision-
sets and resources needed for its implementation project team. Hear how making to support your companys plan to adopt converging, international
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt increased data integrity and staff productivity accounting standards, as well as a business user centric approach to managing
through automation and reduction of manual processes, including Excel file risks; and to develop an effective strategy that leverages global business
sharing, which moved the resource scale from 80% data compilation and 20% networks in finance. Tap into strategies that will accelerate financial closes to
analysis to 20% data compilation and 80% analysis. Hear a firsthand account helping to secure an accurate, timely close cycle while maintaining
of some of the challenges the company encountered when extracting data from organizational compliance. Leave this session with a through understanding on
both its financials and sales and operational planning systems into SAP how SAPs solutions can help your organization achieve financial excellence.
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and what the team did to
overcome these setbacks. See how critical lessons learned at each phase of the Panel discussion: Effectively implementing SAP
project, including development, data integration, and user documentation, can BusinessObjects to link risk and business strategy
Matt Polak and Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young
help guide your own implementation.
Case study: How McKesson plans to streamline its chart of S F9 G5
accounts to improve financial reporting and achieve faster How are companies effectively implementing SAP BusinessObjects to
closes safeguard assets, prevent fraud and comply with increasingly complex
Ross Wilson, McKesson regulations? Join Ernst & Young and a panel of client executives for a lively
Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 320 discussion about the strategic and tactical decisions and alignment required for
F5 G7 a leading-class implementation. Key areas covered will include:
Attend this session for an in-depth review McKessons plans to clean up the Specific compliance and business issues that drive an SAP
companys existing chart of accounts and company code structure. Hear what BusinessObjects implementation
steps of the project the company has completed and how taking these steps The importance of bringing together representatives from the business,
will help the company more accurately report on financial activities across the IT and compliance in the program
entire organization. Learn how the company plans to tailor its SAP chart of How to use strategic enablers and tools successfully during and after the
accounts design to meet the challenges of multiple reporting regulations such implementation
as US GAAP, IFRS, and other local statutory requirements. Understand Key SAP issues and lessons learned
which tools the company plans to use alongside the SAP General Ledger, Hindsight is 20/20; what would you change?
including SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects to meet legal and Key benefits realized from SAP BusinessObjects Access Control and
management reporting requirements. Find out what challenges the company SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
has faced with regards to managing its master data integration and hierarchy
design activities. Leave this session with a list of critical success factors for
more effectively maintaining the chart of accounts at your own organization.
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Panel discussion: Proven approaches for raising the ROI of Understanding your product costs with better integration
your GRC programs between financial and logistics functionality
Moderator: Tony Torchia, KPMG; Panelists: Ken Gabriel, KPMG; Jim Hurley, Birgit Starmanns and Janet Salmon, SAP
IBM Global Business Services; Trisha Lawless, H.J. Heinz; and Matt Tolbert, Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 312
Westinghouse F4
Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 304 This session will provide an overview of the product costing capabilities in SAP
EX G1 G4 ERP and the integration points between your product costing and logistics
This interactive session offers valuable insight into creating a more holistic, processes, including sales and distribution, manufacturing, controlling, and core
enterprise-wide, resilient governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program accounting. Walk through each step of a manufacturing process as each step is
with high ROI. Hear from a panel of experienced professionals that include a executed in the logistics modules. Understand how a financial entry is made in
CIO, CFO, internal audit executive, and systems integrator. Learn how to the SAP General Ledger accounts in FI and the various controlling objects in
determine what is most important to your key stakeholders when shaping and
managerial accounting (CO). See how month-end processes, including
developing a GRC program. Find out how you can anticipate and prevent risk-
overhead allocations, work-in-process and variance calculations, are necessary to
related threats. Learn how to measure success using key performance indicators
ensure accurate valuation of manufactured products at month-end.
(KPIs) that establish the business value of your GRC initiative. Study leading
practices for improving your GRC program results while reducing overall costs. What should GRC mean to internal auditors? How do solutions
Get tips for staying current with evolving regulatory requirements and data from SAP help?
privacy laws. Gain insight into how leading organizations are meeting the Norman Marks, SAP BusinessObjects
challenges of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption. Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 313
Hear how these seasoned professionals have overcome some of the biggest G6
challenges associated with implementing enterprise-wide GRC programs.
The term GRC does not have a common definition among internal audit
Walk through the findings of a global survey and find out what steps other
practitioners, consultants, analysts, or vendors. Review how a respected,
companies are taking in order to achieve enterprise resilience.
independent organization defines the term GRC from a business perspective.
Proven practices to end maverick spending Discuss what GRC means for internal auditors, and learn about some of the
Steve Bennion and Blake Evans, ReadSoft common risk management and control issues that can occur. See how internal
Tuesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Grand 107 audit can help its organization improve GRC processes with best practices to
S F7 assess governance and risk management processes and evaluate the efficiency
Many companies struggle with the creation and approval of purchase requests. and effectiveness of the whole picture. Review how SAPs solutions enable
Indirect spending is usually deemed too small for a formal process, while best-in-class GRC processes that are sure to help you pass your next audit with
simultaneously more costly in its uncontrolled manner. Join this session to learn flying colors.
how to optimize the front-end procurement process and ultimately improve the
entire purchase-to-pay cycle. SAP users experiencing processing pains such as Executive session: A complete overview of the GRC capability
limited control, incorrect master data changes, maverick procurement and low model and GRC system certification
service quality can benefit from the expansive functionality showcased. Listen Carole Switzer, OCEG
in, as ReadSoft presents a single software platform which covers essential Tuesday, 5:00 pm 5:45 pm Premier 302
processes such as invoice handling, customer order processing, delivery note EX G4
handling, journal entry correction and more. ReadSoft will showcase how Learn how your company can use the OCEG GRC Capability Model (Red
enhancing front-end procurement processes delivers increased control over Book), a process model for governance, risk management and compliance
information flows and early notification of errors while decreasing costs, time- (GRC), to establish or improve GRC efforts and gain certification of GRC
consuming labor and total processing time. Learn how Readsofts add-on, system design and operation. Examine the different elements of the GRC
which has SAP-certified integration, allows users to monitor processes, Capability Model that enable your organization to achieve business
navigate to relevant transactions and easily take on new processes with a low performance objectives, enhance organizational culture, increase stakeholder
total cost of ownership as the solution leverages their existing SAP confidence, and prevent, detect, and reduce adversity. During this session,
infrastructure. Companies can improve their entire process chains and realize OCEG President Carole Switzer will discuss how the Red Book can help your
all saving potentials, not only for incoming invoices, with this made for SAP organization set operational standards, ensure consistent information flow, and
tool. maintain efficient use of resources across the organization, and provide the
assurance that your board and stakeholders are seeking.
SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0: Not just
another upgrade
Frank Rambo, SAP
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The latest releases of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions version 10.0 have
undergone a number of profound architectural changes to better harmonize and
deeply integrate the solutions, including access control, process control, risk
management, global trade, and SAP BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for
Brazil (SAP BusinessObjects Nota Fiscal Eletronica) functionality. Examine
the technical architecture of these solutions, and what supported upgrade and
migration paths are available. Understand how your current SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control implementation can be migrated to the new
release. Learn about the supporting migration tools delivered by SAP
BusinessObjects and what benefit they can provide in your upgrade plan. Walk
step by step through a system demo that illustrates how the migration can be
performed.
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Wednesday, March 9
Insider discussion forum: How to offer and use dynamic Case study: How Gruma Corporation successfully automated
discounts from within SAP the supplier invoicing process and reduced accounts payable
Bertram Meyer, Taulia costs
Wednesday, 10:15 am 10:45 am Premier 302 Octavio Robles, Gruma Corporation
F7 Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 304
Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other F1 F7
SAP customers have addressed the cash management needs of both buyers and Attend this session and learn how Gruma Corporation reduced the cost of
suppliers using dynamic discounts. Learn how such dynamic discounts can accounts payable and supplier invoicing procedures. Find out how the
result in significantly improved discount capture rates for large buyers while at company designed, built and implemented an in-house solution that
the same time helping their suppliers to reduce working capital. Engage in a electronically receives and processes supplier invoices. Walk through Grumas
discussion about the core criteria that determines whether dynamic discounting process for integrating components of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI),
will work well for your company. Gain new ideas and perspectives from your Web applications and SAP technologies like ABAP, BAPIs and RFCs to
peers and hear what possibilities exist to be able to fully manage dynamic create a complete solution that supports the accounts payable and purchasing
payment terms within SAP and how the SAP system can best be enabled to functions associated with incoming invoices. Learn how the company
handle such payment terms. integrated its SAP system with Web applications in order to deliver a more
user-friendly approach to processing images and executing workflows.
Insider discussion forum: Lessons from peers who have Examine the critical success factors such as purchase order accuracy, vendor
overcome the toughest challenges in public sector accounting data accuracy, and having proper validations in place that were required in
Monette McNicholas, EPI-USE
order to successfully automate the invoicing process at Gruma.
Wednesday, 10:15 am 10:45 am Grand 109
F4 Case study: How Sybase created an integrated enterprise risk
Engage in a lively discussion with peers and find out how to meet the unique management framework
requirements of public sector accounting. Get answers to questions such as: Bruce Carpenter, Sybase
What are the best ways to manage master data, alternative fiscal years, Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 301
budgeting, and budget control issues that are unique to public sector? What G1 F9
SAP tools are available to help me streamline these processes? What are some Learn how Sybase implemented SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management to
of the common trends in public sector cost management? How do I ensure further evolve the companys current enterprise risk management strategy which
that my accounting processes are transparent and meet regulatory included manual risk aggregation and monitoring processes. Hear firsthand how
requirements? How to produce the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report the company designed an implementation methodology that could be replicated
(CAFR) from SAP using BW? What are the upcoming changes with the across multiple environments. Understand how the company used this
latest enhancement pack upgrades for public sector? Gain new ideas and methodology to help expedite and ensure key benefits from the risk management
perspectives on how to construct a single point of access for all kinds of application, including the ability to better align key risk and performance
information sources to meet the needs of the public sector. indicators across all its business functions. Walk through the project from start to
finish and get insights into what enterprise risk management practices and
A comprehensive guide to SAPs roadmap for an accelerated comparative data the company used. Understand Sybases method for integrating
financial close compliance processes with existing business processes.
Kirk Anderson, SAP BusinessObjects and Stefan Karl, SAP AG
Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 318 Case study: Lessons from SAPs rollout of shared services for
F6 G9 finance and HR
Receive a detailed overview of the most recent enhancements of financial close Dr. Marcell Vollmer, SAP
solutions in SAP Business Suite and SAP BusinessObjects, and an outlook on Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 319
SAPs strategy and planned innovations. Learn how additional functionality in F10
SAP ERP Financials (e.g., in asset accounting, product costing) can improve Hear how SAP implemented a global shared services organization in order to
your financial close for IFRS, US GAAP, or parallel accounting standards. increase process quality, customer satisfaction, compliance and productivity,
Explore the benefits of the SAP Financial Closing cockpit to plan, schedule, and to help achieve operational excellence and gain a competitive advantage.
execute, and monitor close activities across multiple systems. Understand the Walk through SAPs project plan for building four centers around the world,
value of the different SAP offerings for inter-company reconciliation and providing global resource allocation and coverage for all transactional processes
consolidation. Learn how to support the production of financial statements migrated into the SSC organization (Finance/HR). Find out how these
and publishing via XBRL. Understand the capabilities of internal controls centers are able to provide a single point of contact and methods to access the
monitoring and account reconciliation to help ensure your companys financial services. Learn how SAP migrated an average of 50% of its employees within
integrity. See how to leverage cross-functionality like reporting and analytics, each country to the shared services centers and how through business process
and master data governance. Come away with real-world lessons from reengineering, gained additional savings of 30%. Find out how SAP adapted
successful SAP customers and a good understanding how your company can its shared services offerings to account for cultural differences without
benefit from SAPs portfolio for financial close. sacrificing efficiency gains.
Case study: Streamlining balance sheet reconciliations at How to create a customized rule set to meet the compliance
Tyson Foods needs of a multi-national organization
Laura Williams and Darielle James, Tyson Foods Raymond Mastre, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Grand 123 Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Grand 124
F2 F11 G2
Attend this session and hear firsthand how Tyson Foods created a customized Creating a rule set for a multi-national company can be a daunting task it
workaround to overcome some of the challenges associated with tracking, must address critical risks to the entire business, yet be flexible enough to allow
monitoring, and auditing balance sheet reconciliations. Find out how the for local adaptations for individual sites. Identify the key challenges you could
organization uses a custom z-transaction, along with Microsoft Excel, to encounter in creating your rule set, and obtain best practices to overcome
provide a more streamlined method for performing balance sheet them. Walk through a step-by-step process for creating base templates that
reconciliations. Examine how Tyson Foods set up separate access for its may be used in a multi-national SAP BusinessObjects Access Control
preparers and approvers to help maintain the integrity of its data. Learn how implementation. Review standard SAP features that can assist in the rule set
the company better supports Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts. Take home creation process and learn effective ways to engage internal and external audit
an example of the companys tracking, monitoring, and approval process. to ensure compliance requirements are met. Hear a real-world case study of a
multi-national company which successfully implemented a complete and
Effectively design business processes and roles to manage accurate rule set in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control. Take home a quick
cost savings initiatives reference card that includes tips for building a rule set and sample best
Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young
practices.
Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 314
G2 G4 How to perform more agile planning and forecasting using
Attend this session for leading practices, and practical advice to design SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
functional and technical SAP roles across a global organization. Hear firsthand David Williams, SAP
how to avoid the most common cross-application segregation of duty issues Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 313
that can arise in the role development and validation phases. Drill down into (session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm)
the proper techniques that should be utilized when designing your roles, F3
making certain to keep in mind future cost savings initiatives such as finance Whether you are new to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation or
transformations, tax effective supply chain management, and global business already have some experience, this guide to the latest functionality for both the
standardization. Understand how to map functional roles and activities to both Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver platforms can help you increase organizational
technical SAP and non-SAP access roles. Take home a number of practical agility, improve planning accuracy, and achieve a faster, more compliant
examples that you can put to use in your own SAP environment. financial close. Reduce the learning curve and increase your user adoption rate
by leveraging native Microsoft Office tools, which provide familiar and easy to
Executive session: Executive insight into the future of use interfaces. Find out how to save time and resources when integrating and
financial reporting maintaining business user applications by leveraging the same SAP NetWeaver
Dr. Juergen Ott, Formerly of Allianz system that drives your data warehouse. Learn how to reduce budget cycle
Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 320
time by enabling stakeholders the ability to collaborate and align their budgets.
EX F2 G7 Find out how other customers have improved planning accuracy, providing
Listen in as Juergen Ott, former CFO of Allianz Switzerland, discusses his them the ability to conform to highly complex business processes and
take on the past history and future outlook for accounting and financial methodology changes. Hear about the latest starter kits that help improve
reporting. Examine both the facts and the speculation about the biggest capital expenditure planning and cash flow forecasting.
financial crisis in history and the effects it has had on the financial reporting
and currency activities of businesses across the globe. Understand the cause- Lessons from the field to help you master document splitting
and-effect relationship that exists between the state of the economy and the in SAP General Ledger
accounting and financial reporting processes businesses are using. Learn how Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software
an unsound and improper asset valuation today can lead to negative Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 306
implications for the recovery of the economy, and the key role that F5
depreciation plays in preventing such outcomes. Leave this session with an up This detailed session prepares you to perform document splitting in the SAP
to date look at the state of the economy and how this will impact your General Ledger. Walk through examples of financial transactions that
financial reporting processes. illustrate the primary concepts of document splitting. Identify the critical rules
and methods for document splitting and find out why proper item category
definition is required to correctly classify your organizations chart of accounts.
Determine whether document splitting on characteristics, such as profit
centers or segments, is right for your company and learn how to activate each
method. Differentiate between passive splitting, active splitting and splitting
using zero balancing. Acquire expert recommendations for troubleshooting
common document splitting errors. Receive best practices for correctly
configuring document types and item categories and obtain valuable tips for
defining constants.
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Upload SAP financial data easily with GLSU: A comprehensive guide to performing a successful SAP ERP
Z Option customers share their experiences technical and functional upgrade
Tim Curtin, Heritage Propane; Amy Broadway, Avocent Corp A subsidiary of Joseph Svoboda, SAP America
Emerson Network Power; and Ken Meyer, ConAgra Foods Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Premier 318
Wednesday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Grand 108 F12
S F6 This session offers expert tips to help you successfully plan, execute, and
Hear directly from a panel of Z Option customers and find out how they continuously manage an upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0. Walk through some of the
leverage the GLSU (Spreadsheet Uploader) solution to streamline everyday new, must-know SAP terminology, such as SAP Business Suite 7.0 and
accounting tasks. Learn how to use the GLSU tool to improve the efficiency Innovations 2010, and understand how these relate to your SAP ERP
of financial data entry functions, from importing cutover data to daily financial upgrade. Discuss best practices for effective internal communication of project
(FI) postings to processing vendor invoices. Understand how GLSU goals and requirements, along with obtaining stakeholder buy-in. Learn how
complements standard SAP functionality by using Microsoft Excel to validate to create an upgrade project plan by utilizing tools and accelerators to expedite
and post more than 1,000 lines, attach source documents, utilize pick lists, the process. Understand how to map the skill sets of your project team to the
create flexible user-defined templates, and more. Walk away from this session new functionality employed, in order to more efficiently align and utilize your
armed with customer insight on how to use the GLSU solution to increase resources. Walk through the five phases of a proven upgrade methodology and
data accuracy, reduce processing time and effort, and shorten month-end close identify where, among these phases, project teams often see cost overruns.
cycles. Explore key time saving techniques that can be performed during these phases,
including how to utilize the SAP upgrade roadmaps already included your
Panel discussion: Strategies used by leading companies to maintenance cost.
become best-run financial organizations
Moderator: Birgit Starmanns, SAP Accelerate financial closes and period-end reports with
Panelists: John Gayda, Kelloggs and Ross Wilson, McKesson improved integration between profit center accounting and
Wednesday, 11:00 am 11:45 am Grand 109 the general ledger
F1 G7 Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting
Participate in this candid, moderated discussion with SAP customers, who will Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Grand 124
share best practices, lessons learned, and detailed techniques for becoming a F5
best-run financial organization. Get practical advice that will enable your own Learn how to incorporate profit center accounting processes into the SAP
organization to focus on being agile and able to respond quickly to changing General Ledger to accelerate your period-end closings and more efficiently
market conditions. Find out how these SAP customers are getting away from handle financial reporting to create your reports faster and more accurately.
silos and embracing closed-loop processes to enable seamless, real-time Find out how to factor local and international accounting principles into your
information management to make better business decisions. Hear examples of closing and reporting strategy. Gain valuable insight into using the actual
how the panelists organizations have achieved success by leveraging SAP tools profit center as a document splitting characteristic by defining the field Profit
across the portfolio, including SAP ERP Financials, SAP BusinessObjects center to enable full balance sheet reporting. Learn the differences between
enterprise performance management solutions and SAP BusinessObjects the classic version and latest version of the SAP General Ledger in relation to
governance, risk and compliance solutions, working in concert to provide profit center accounting functionality. Take a guided tour of the global settings
optimal results. Take advantage of a special question-and-answer period to that are available in the SAP General Ledger for profit center accounting.
have your most pressing concerns addressed. Learn new ways to view and present financial statements by profit centers
using new drill-down reports.
Panel discussion: Leading customers share their successes
and lessons with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Achieving cost reductions with continuous transaction
Sonny Dasgupta, SAP monitoring
Wednesday, 2:30 pm 3:15 pm Premier 302 John Garrish, SAP and Donna Tillapaugh, Celanese Risk and Compliance
G5 Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Premier 319
Participate in this candid, moderated discussion with SAP ramp-up customers G3 G4
who will share detailed insight, best practices, and lessons learned from their Attend this session for an up-close look at SAPs solutions for transactional
experiences so far with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0. Find out how these continuous controls monitoring. Examine what functionality is available to
leading organizations are working to put effective business and IT controls in monitor transactions across your SAP ERP system, custom applications, and
place and support efficient business operations. Hear how they measure the other components of your IT infrastructure. Learn how to more accurately
success of controls efforts and trouble-shoot implementation challenges. Find monitor transaction fraud, duplicate payments, segregation of duties (SoD)
out what has and has not worked during pre-project business case violations, such as conflicting access rights and roles, and master data in a more
development, project realization, and go-live phases. Take advantage of a reliable and cost-effective way. Get best practices for establishing tests using
special post-session discussion period to have your most pressing SAP transactional data analysis that will validate each of your control rules. View a
BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 questions addressed. live demo that will walk you through SAPs continuous control monitoring
solution and learn how it can help strengthen your companys internal control
environment and reduce the risk of unintentional errors, fraud and waste by
continuously checking for weaknesses in controls. Leave this session with
expert guidance to kick off your continuous transaction monitoring project.
Best practices for meeting ITAR regulations using Case study: How Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI) quickly got SAP
SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation up and running
Sudhanshu Mathur, Accenture to ensure a user-friendly, coordinated budgeting process
Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Premier 306 Joe Spelman, Pepco Holdings
G10 Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Premier 320
Learn how to use SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services in conjunction F3
with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control to more easily manage compliance Hear how Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI) successfully implemented SAP
with International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Find out how to BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation within a six-month time frame
automate the supply chain process and automate the licensing procedures in to improve the coordination and distribution of budget information using a
order to be in compliance with ITAR. Get a critical insights for integrating centralized repository. Examine the companys initial project scope, and hear
global trade and access control functionality to help assist in meeting the how it incorporated workflows into the design phase for greater control and
authorization requirements of ITAR and ensure the right access and visibility over the budget process. Understand how PHI ensured knowledge
permission required. Get tips for identifying potential ITAR issues through transfer between project consultants and company employees throughout the
automatic screening of destination countries, business partners, and employees. project. Find out how the company was able to leverage and enhanced its
Learn how to increase staff productivity using increased automation and existing Microsoft Excel models to ensure a friendly look-and-feel and ease of
management by exceptions functionality. Leave this session with a checklist for use for end users. Take home guidelines you can use as you consider, evaluate,
achieving faster, more accurate processing of ITAR related transactions. or plan your own SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation project.
Case study: ConocoPhillips approach to achieving zero Executive session: A strategic guide to achieving compliance
unmitigated SAP SoD risks with generally accepted accounting principles across multiple
Trevor Wyatt, ConocoPhillips countries
Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Premier 314 Rajesh Krishnamurthy, Infosys Technologies
G1 G2 Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Premier 304
Hear how ConocoPhillips, the largest integrated energy company in the US EX F11 G7
with 35,000 plus users, assesses, manages, and mitigates its segregation of This session provides guidance on the complexities of adopting a multi-
duties conflicts (SoD) using the SAP BusinessObjects Access Control risk country generally accepted accounting principle (GAAP) framework. Explore
analysis and remediation tools. Evaluate ConocoPhillips methodology going key strategies that will enable your organization to effectively mobilize people,
from a paper-based mitigation program, to a partially electronic, to a fully processes, and technology while achieving compliance with all regulatory
integrated mitigation and provisioning workflow for monitoring and authorities. Understand the challenges faced by organizations in setting up
remediating its SoD violations. See how and why the company aligned the multi-GAAP reporting environments, including the recognition and
standard rule set to its existing controls. Hear how ConocoPhillips defined the identification of major policy differences and best practices to overcome them.
scope of its remediation plan and understand the steps the company took to Get tips for identifying the requirements and different approaches, as well as
achieve its goal of zero unmitigated risks. Find out how ConocoPhillips the pros and cons for achieving compliance. Take home step by step guide to
created one control per risk in its system to ease remediation and mitigation assess your organizations readiness for effectively achieving multi-GAAP
process within the organization. Take home an example of how the company compliance.
is matching its existing SoD matrix to the risks and functions within SAP
Guidelines for choosing the right financial ledger to meet your
BusinessObjects Access Control functionality for risk analysis and remediation.
reporting needs
Case study: How Monsanto reduced order-to-cash cycle time Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
with a more efficient payment process Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Grand 123
Mike Martin and Debra St. Peter, Monsanto F2
Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Premier 301 With more than a dozen options available in the SAP system for financial
F1 F7 ledgers, choosing the best solution to meet your needs can be challenging.
Tasked with the challenge of dealing with payment processing inefficiencies Explore the different ledgers, including SAP General Ledger, the special
and a large volume of paper invoices and statements, Monsanto implemented purpose ledger, and the material ledger. Obtain expert guidance to choose the
SAP Biller Direct to help streamline its order-to-cash cycle. Find out what best one for a specific task. Identify key criteria that will affect your choice of
standard functionality the company employed, the business drivers behind the ledger, including how your organization currently stores data, your reporting
decision, and the companys key requirements. Examine the steps Monsanto and training requirements, and your current SAP ERP release. Find out which
took to ensure successful design and configuration procedures are detailed, ledgers you can and should use for consolidation processes and which to use
including involving SAP before making development changes, using the SAP for business segment reporting. Understand the impact of SAP NetWeaver
NetWeaver developer infrastructure to deploy Web application modifications, Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) on the overall reporting
and rolling out the applications to a limited number of customers during the functionality of SAP General Ledger. Take home a matrix with complete
pilot phase. Understand what testing processes Monsanto employed to help details on each ledger, its functionality, and how it works best, as well as a list
ensure that all performance issues were accurately addressed post- of key SAP Notes.
implementation. Take home a detailed timeline that outlines each phase of the
implementation project.
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How to seamlessly transfer data from Excel and PDF to SAP Tips and techniques to manage asset accounting activities to
with GuiXT stay in compliance with IFRS
David Pawloski, Synactive Eric Barlow, Serio Consulting
Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Grand 107 Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Premier 313
S F2 F13 G9
Attend this session and learn how GuiXT WS Office, which is fully integrated Take a firsthand look at the key steps required to overcome one of the most
with Adobe Acrobat, utilizes Microsoft Office applications to automate data complex and difficult-to-interpret issues related to IFRS compliance asset
entry and editing in SAP applications. Discover how this convenient solution accounting. Step through the IFRS requirements for fixed assets including
will enable you to input multiple financial transactions into SAP systems, as those surrounding leased assets, intangible assets, and component assets. Learn
well as extract data and modify it outside of SAP in the familiar environment what functionality is available within SAP ERP Financials to effectively
of an Excel spreadsheet. Learn how WS Office enables you to perform all data manage these kinds of assets to ensure compliance with IFRS. Learn what
manipulation in Excel, while utilizing Excels formulas and macros to perform changes you can anticipate surrounding asset classes, G/L accounts, transaction
basic computations, data uploads to SAP systems with a single button-click, types, and depreciation. Get tips to create a more audit-proof SAP system that
data extraction from a given transaction to a specific spreadsheet, and does not require cumbersome and costly asset adjustments.
spreadsheet reconciliation with the SAP transaction. Take a detailed look at
how to utilize built-in error handling functionality to catch any errors Post-session discussion: Leading customers share their
introduced in either the data or in the column names.
successes and lessons with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0
Sonny Dasgupta, SAP
Planning and managing your data migration processes: Wednesday, 3:30 pm 4:00 pm Premier 302
Key activities and best practices to mitigate project risk G5
Tom Kennedy, BackOffice Associates Participate in this candid, moderated discussion with SAP ramp-up customers
Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Grand 108 who will share detailed insight, best practices, and lessons learned from their
S G1 experiences so far with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0. Find out how these
Reviewing, auditing, and correcting data prior to go-live is vital to the success leading organizations are working to put effective business and IT controls in
of any ERP migration project. Attend this session for best practices, tips, and place and support efficient business operations. Hear how they measure the
lessons learned for uncovering and dealing with obsolete, incomplete, success of controls efforts and trouble-shoot implementation challenges. Find
duplicate, and unnecessary data prior to go-live. Examine how to effectively out what has and has not worked during pre-project business case
establish quality data and actionable data metrics and get tips for putting development, project realization, and go-live phases. Take advantage of a
processes in place to eliminate master and transactional data errors. See special post-session discussion period to have your most pressing SAP
examples of qualitative and quantitative reports you can run to better BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 questions addressed.
understand the current state of your data. Learn how to leverage the proper
tools, a proven methodology, and the right battle-tested ERP migration Best practices for simplifying account reconciliations across
experts to successfully support data transformation. Hear why data should be SAP and non-SAP landscapes
loaded several times prior to go-live, and get tips for loading data early and Stefan Karl, SAP AG
often to eliminate potential errors. Walk away from this session with a clear Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 312
understanding of how to manage data to eliminate any data-related risk in F6
your ERP migration project. This session offers new insights to help you speed your financial close by
simplifying the often tricky process of account reconciliation. Find out how to
The Road to Reconciliation: Closing with confidence and manage the unique challenges that can occur in various landscapes single
achieving balance sheet integrity with BlackLine and SAP ERP system, multiple ERP systems, and SAP and non-SAP applications
Michael Redard, BlackLine Systems; Mark Nelson, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company; as you reconcile balances and/or single items. Learn how to define the
Hakan Aytekin, KPMG; Stefan Karl, SAP AG; and Mario Spanicciati, BlackLine ownership for accounts and the frequency and timing of reconciliation tasks.
Systems Walk through the options for managing manual reconciliations with workflow
Wednesday, 2:45 pm 4:00 pm Grand 106 approvals and automatic reconciliations by leveraging a thresholds or a rules
S F6 G7 framework. Understand how to store necessary documentation, ensure a good
Attend this session and learn how automating the traditionally manual, labor- audit trail, and set-up appropriate reporting. Hear about the different offerings
intensive and spreadsheet-driven account reconciliation process can help your within the SAP solutions portfolio and of complementing third party vendors
organization (whether operating in an SAP-only or multiple ERP to support account reconciliation, and ensure that you get a jumpstart in
environment) achieve a quicker and more accurate close increasing selecting the product that meets your organizations need.
efficiencies, productivity, visibility, and control, while minimizing risk and
reducing bottom-line costs. Learn how to automate and maintain better
control over the entire financial close process while ensuring timely, accurate,
and documented communications between all departments. Hear firsthand, a
customer success story and the key benefits and ROI the company has
experienced since using BlackLine alongside SAP ERP Financials to reconcile
global accounts. Leave this session with a better understanding on how to close
with confidence, maintaining more control and visibility, while reducing risk,
and creating a faster, more efficient close cycle.
Case study: How Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Case study: How Sharp Electronics unifies compliance and
Company (MassMutual) accurately accounts for its risk management across SAP and non-SAP systems
partnership assets Wyatt MacManus, Sharp Electronics
Kenneth Butt, MassMutual Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 320
Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 306 G2
F4 Hear how Sharp Electronics extended SAP BusinessObjects Access Control
Learn how MassMutual achieves accurate accounting of partnership assets and SAP BusinessObjects Process Control solutions to its non-SAP platforms
using SAP Financial Asset Management. Understand how the company to manage its business-process risks more proactively. Examine the companys
customized the solution, allowing it to merge all relevant indicative and master strategy for prioritizing, managing and analyzing its multi-platform compliance
data into one component of the asset. Get insider tips on how the company initiatives. Learn how it successfully extended a more sustainable compliance
eased its accounting activities using a simplified folder structure for program to its other mission-critical systems. Find out why it is necessary to
transactions. Learn how MassMutual improved reporting using a centralized plan your implementation timeline more conservatively when connecting
location to supply all its data. Find out how the company has simplified its multiple systems in different locations. Receive best practices for streamlining
method for producing statutory filings for Schedule BA, which is required IT and business process compliance activities, including role management and
filing for all insurance companies. Take home lessons learned from each stage user provisioning. Walk away from this session with tips for deploying a cross-
of the implementation project including the putting a strong co-located project platform GRC solution in your own organization including how to utilize the
management team in place and learning the system before analysis and project standard rules (SoD matrix) delivered with SAP BusinessObjects Access
design. Control.
Case study: How McKesson built a strong business case for Case study: How Zions Bancorporation improved planning,
an SAP General Ledger migration budgeting, and cost modeling using a closed-loop
Ross Wilson, McKesson performance management model
Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 314 Matt Despain and Paul Kelly, Zions Bancorporation
F5 Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 313
Find out how McKesson successfully built its business case for the companys F1 F3 G7
SAP General Ledger migration project, while making sure to engage key Hear a firsthand account of how Zions Bancorporation, a leading lender to
stakeholders across the organization.Learn why McKesson, when building its small businesses, has increased profitability and operational control using SAP
business case, chose to focus on the financial reporting benefits, such as its BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and SAP BusinessObjects
ability to support FASB/ IASB convergence requirements. Learn what key Profitability and Cost Management. Hear how the company has developed a
business decisions McKesson made at the beginning of its migration project, standardized pricing methodology, using Xcelsius to integrate multiple
such as designing its ledger to support parallel accounting and document technologies, enabling them to make risk analysis more reliable and leverage
splitting. Understand how McKesson mitigated the projects impact on their investment in SAP BusinessObjects software to meet customer
ongoing accounting, reporting, and closing activities. Walk through profitability reporting requirements at the affiliate level. Learn how the
McKessons timeline and phased implementation approach from the planning company expanded its data warehouse profitability mart information to affiliate
to go-live. Hear how the company planned and aligned the implementation users with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reporting and enhance its
timeline to the fiscal calendar, a critical step when planning an SAP General ability to transform unprofitable relationships into profitable ones. Learn how
Ledger migration project. Zions is able to auto-populate many of the important line items in its budget,
providing business managers the ability to simply review and amend the figures
Case study: How Research In Motion saves significant time generated for them, rather than forecast expenses themselves. Walk away with
and money streamlining and optimizing its financial business a clear understanding of the benefits the company as realized including a
processes
significant increase in transparency, profitability, and operational control.
Kirby Tani, Research In Motion (RIM)
Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Grand 106 Executive session: Performance management metrics and
S F6 techniques to evaluate and review potential risks in the
Research in Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation and makers organization
of BlackBerry products, makes extensive use of the SAP financial modules as a Michael Kaiser, Ernst & Young
key component of its global financial reporting and consolidation platform. Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 318
This presentation focuses on RIMs optimization of customer financial data EX F9
processes including updating customer line items, billing document updates, Enterprise performance management (EPM) is a discipline that is actively
general customer data changes, and related credit management updates. used across an organizations landscape to align organizational performance
Highlights of the presentation include reviewing the collaborative process that with the companys strategies and goals. This session provides strategies to
RIM and Winshuttle used to determine how to optimize the usage of SAP employ performance management techniques and metrics to better evaluate
applications leveraging Winshuttles business-oriented tools and technologies and review potential risks in the organization. Get expert advice to pinpoint
and the associated cost savings and capacity gains. the interdependencies that exist between these measures and where areas of
potential risk may occur. Get strategies to quickly detect risks, react to new
events and report and plan for risk using dashboards and reports. This session
concludes with an expert appraisal of the trends that that will have the biggest
impact on organizational performance and the changing role of a finance
executive in the context of enterprise performance management.
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Expert guidance on the effect of IFRS on project portfolios Tips to improve cash flow through the faster collection of
and project accounting past-due accounts
Kent Bettisworth, BETTISWORTH & ASSOCIATES Katharina Reichert, SAP Labs
Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 301 Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 319
F13 G9 F7
Learn what significant effect an IFRS adoption will have on your SAP project Attend this session for an in-depth look at SAP functionality for collections
management and SAP accounting business processes. This session will walk management and practical tips for speeding up the customer-to-cash cycle.
you through the key changes, how they affect SAP project system modules, Examine key criteria to more proactively identify, prioritize, and target your
and how to best manage the transition and new guidelines. Learn how organizations top-priority delinquent accounts to accelerate the collections
construction project revenue will be recognized differently and understand how process and improve cash flow, while minimizing the collections workload and
this modifies revenue recognition procedures. Discover the rules for shifting resource costs. Get step by step instruction that shows you how) to view the
lease assets to the balance sheet. Examine project and portfolio management work list items, as well as key statistics such as the number of completed work
process improvement opportunities that can be realized with a switch to IFRS. list items, number of open cases, and success rates for your organizations
Take home a knowledge matrix that maps the relationship of IFRS changes. collection activities. Learn how to integrate the application with SAP
functionality for dispute management to quickly resolve invoice disputes. Take
Strategies for preventing cash leaks with the right financial home a checklist that will help you get your collections management project up
process controls and running.
Sarah Dawson, su53 Solutions
Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Premier 302 What every SAP customer now needs to know about analysis
G3 authorizations, a new security concept within SAP NetWeaver
This session provides recommendations to help you prevent cash leaks that can Business Warehouse 7.0
occur at critical points within key business processes such as procure-to-pay, Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting
order-to-cash, and make-to-stock. Find out how to embed new controls into Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Grand 123
these processes or to improve a controls framework you may already have in G2
place. Gain insight into master data errors that can further compromise your Gather expert tips and techniques to successfully set up analysis authorizations
cash position. Learn how to find and leverage controls within your SAP during an implementation of or upgrade to SAP NetWeaver Business
system that you may not even be aware of. Step through examples that show Warehouse 7.0. See how security authorization functionality differs between
how tighter controls in your key business processes can improve profitability. SAP BW 3.x and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0. For example, analysis
Find out how to automate and test your controls using continuous control authorizations may now be required to display transaction data from
monitoring strategies and data mining. Take home a list of key configurable authorization-relevant characteristics within a query. Find out whats required
settings that you can put to work in your own environment. to configure analysis authorizations, which are not based on SAPs standard
authorization concept. Receive best practices for integrating analysis
The road to enterprise-wide governance, risk, and compliance authorizations with SAP standard roles to simplify the assignment of users and
Jan Gardiner, SAP BusinessObjects maintain a consistent user management strategy. Learn how to prevent users
Wednesday, 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Grand 124
from bypassing security for navigational attributes. Get recommendations to
G1 G4 help you decide whether youll need to use analysis authorizations and how to
Fragmented compliance and risk management programs are costly and configure them properly.
complex and do not yield sufficient visibility, transparency, or security. This
session offers advice for building a strategy to integrate and align disparate
compliance programs, security initiatives, and process controls, giving you a
clearer view of where the greatest risks lie throughout your enterprise. Learn
how to transform your GRC strategy from reactive to proactive. Get best
practices and see a live demo that illustrates how other companies are
successfully automating GRC activities to achieve cost savings, protect current
value by preventing risk and compliance issues from occurring, and
incorporating risk and compliance into business performance. Obtain best
practices to automate and embed the GRC activities into the core processes of
your organization.
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Thursday, March 10
GRC Expert LIVE: Five considerations for outsourcing your IT Case study: Eli Lillys techniques for efficiently achieving
systems audit accurate group cost valuation
Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting Ross Christoph, Eli Lilly
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:15 am Grand 109 Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 123
G6 F4
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Richard Hunt, Director, Eli Lillys techniques for performing product group cost valuation in SAP.
Turnkey Consulting, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his Examine Eli Lillys method for using product costing functionality to calculate
most widely read articles from GRC Expert the leading publication and group standard costs. Hear how the company performs group valuation of its
knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP BusinessObjects solutions inventory and inventory activities using standard costs within the product
for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn the five key considerations youll costing module, material ledger, and special purpose ledgers. Gain insight into
want to take into account when selecting an outsourcing specialist. Get a list of how this is performed in parallel with local legal valuation using the material
key questions you should be asking your outsourcing provider and learn why ledger. Learn how the company is using the special purpose ledger to
its important to work with them on a trial basis, to help develop the summarize inventory activity for internal management reporting. Find out how
relationship. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and engage Eli Lilly integrates information from those subsidiaries that are not running
with peers who have the same interests and priorities. SAP and the challenges that they face. Explore how Eli Lilly has addressed
gaps in SAP functionality.
An external auditors guide to preparing your landscape for a
security audit Case study: How Dow Chemical created a single point of entry
Richard Castle, Ernst & Young for all its closing activities
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 319 Sandy Hartman-Holbrook, The Dow Chemical Company
G2 G6 Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 313
This session teaches you how to identify risk exposure across six key F1 F6 G7
organizational areas before your auditor does. Get tips to better pinpoint Hear firsthand how Dow Chemical successfully implemented SAP Financial
and rectify issues around user provisioning, such as appropriately setting up, Closing cockpit to increase the quality and speed of closing processes using
managing, and organizing user master data. Receive best practices for automation and task flow functionality. Identify the business drivers that
evaluating and assessing your security parameter settings against internal sparked the organizations decision to implement this tool, including the need
policy. Discover which Basis authorization objects and transactions you should for a shared, uniform interface where all periodic activities can be documented
monitor, and learn how to integrate them into your organizations security and made transparent and available to the business. Step through examples
assessments. Learn how to define segregation of duties (SoD) beyond simple that illustrate how Dow Chemical leverages this solution to provide employees
pairs to address areas of high financial risk and reduce the overall number of with a structured interface for executing transactions and complex financial
high-risk violations. Walk away with specific examples of security business processes, such as period closing schedules, using both standard
considerations for custom development. templates and work lists. See how the company combines local task plans with
organizational unit plans and monitors the complete overview of closing status
Case study: Babcock and Wilcox migrate to SAP General and drill-down to all details.
Ledger to support global finance and dual reporting
requirements Case study: How Petrobras automated its processes for
Bobby Schudler, Babcock & Wilcox Corporation documenting internal controls
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 124 Alfred Bacon, Petrobras
F5 G7 Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 314
Attend this session for detailed insight from Babcock and Wilcoxs migration G1 G3 G8
project to the latest version of the SAP General Ledger. Walk through Find out how Petrobras, a large South American oil company, stabilized its
practical, real-life project experiences that demonstrate how the company SAP controls environment and reduced overall compliance costs using SAP
managed the challenges associated with a highly distributed SAP system BusinessObjects Process Control. Hear how the company was able to simplify
landscape, such as utilizing the SAP General Ledger on its global financial its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance process. Find out how Petrobras now manages
instance while still maintaining the classic version of the G/L on local the documentation of internal control self-assessments and tests and,
instances. Hear lessons from the companys implementation of document consequently, has been able to increase visibility across multiple compliance
splitting functionality for segmenting its balance sheet by profit center, and initiatives. Walk through the entire nine-month project from blueprint to
how it prepared for the dual reporting requirements of IFRS and US GAAP customization, to training via e-learning, to change-management, and, finally,
using parallel ledgers. Understand how Babcock and Wilcox overcame the to the rollout itself. Gain insight into the benefits Petrobras has realized, such
problems of introducing a parallel group currency via a group currency as streamlined testing of internal controls. Get a preview of how the company
conversion and the introduction of profit center accounting to the business for plans to integrate its solution with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control.
reporting and data segmentation.
Critical steps to eliminate manual data entry into SAP ERP Expert guidance to minimize operational risk
Financials Dave Anderson, SAP
Charles Kaplan, Brainware Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 320
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 107 G1
S F4 Attend this session and learn how to overcome the difficult challenge of
Attend this session for an up-close look at how implementing an intelligent managing operational risk. Get helpful advice to improve compliance with a
data capture platform can help transform the way your organization processes myriad of local and country-specific safety and environmental regulations,
documents and unlocks cash trapped in your organizations finance operations. while also managing risks within the manufacturing industry related to plant
Learn how to enable the automated sorting of diverse documents. Get production and maintenance, such as machine down-time or changes in laws
practical advice and tips on how to extract data and complex line item details, and regulations. Find out how to prevent mistakes and other events, such as
and reconcile against SAP master data before posting into SAP ERP security breaches, that can have a catastrophic impact on your organizations
Financials using Brainware Distiller. Find out how automated VAT employees, communities, and the reputation of the enterprise. Walk through a
reconciliation and tax compliance can prevent significant leakage from your live demonstration that showcases how to use SAP BusinessObjects
international payable operations. Learn how this technology will enable your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to automate your
organization to deploy a new production system in your SAP environment in organizations operational risk and compliance processes, which can lead to
as little as 48 hours. Find out how Brainware Distiller uses standard BAPIs to better identification and mitigation of risks and improved strategic planning.
retrieve and reconcile data fields and line item details before posting them to
the SAP ERP Financials system, along with third-party DMS/ECM and Expert lessons and cost-saving techniques to optimize cash
workflow systems. management, in-house banking, and intercompany payments
Eleazar Ortega Van Steenberghe, Capgemini
Driving global competitive advantage with a secure Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 318
international supply chain F8
Greg Ertel, SAP Examine new strategies and SAP functionality for cash management, in-house
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 306 banking, and inter-company payments. This session provides proven strategies
G10 for leveraging cash management, in-house banking, and intercompany
Learn how to optimize your supply and demand chains across enterprise payment functionality from SAP. Get expert advice to optimize your
boundaries while more quickly and accurately responding to customer and organizations banking transactions and effectively track the movement of cash
partner inquiries. Discover how to make your logistics and supply chain into and out of your organization with SAP In-House Cash. View demos and
processes more transparent using rules-based automation available with SAP hear how customers are leveraging SAP In-House Cash to reduce banking
BusinessObjects Global Trade Services, which can be tailored to your business. fees. See how you can process inter-company payments through your in-house
Find out how to ensure supply chain security, proactive management of trade bank to avoid external bank fees. Understand the impact that an SAP In-
risk, and compliance with fluctuating global regulations and agreements. Learn House Cash implementation will have on your accounts payable (A/P) team
how to streamline complex import and export processes and compliance and why you need to get them involved early on in an SAP In-House Cash
checks, and ensure expedited customs clearance to optimize trade at the lowest project. Walk step-by-step through configuration processes, and learn how to
risk and minimal cost. Receive a roadmap for optimizing your global trade include business partners, bank accounts, and inflows/outflows of cash in your
services to help streamline your organizations global trade processes. configuration plan. Leave this session with practical advice to implement or
better optimize SAP In-House Cash.
Executive session: Viewing processes and systems through
a risk-adjusted lens: The key to effective enterprise risk How Moen chose to extend SAP and improve accounting
management process efficiencies
Jared Krueger and Shaun Kessler, KPMG Wendy Cambarare, Moen
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 301 Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 108
G1 F9 S
Attend this session and learn how to overcome the challenges associated with Learn how Moen, a leading manufacturer of kitchen faucets, bathroom
identifying, documenting, and analyzing your organizations risk management faucets, bath accessories, showerheads, and stainless steel sinks for residential
processes. Explore techniques to integrate your organizations enterprise risk and commercial applications, was able to extend SAP to lower its days sales
structure using SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management, SAP outstanding (DSO), better manage its days payable outstanding (DPO) with
BusinessObjects Process Control and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control to improved transparency all while consolidating its accounts payable processing
help streamline reporting, and manage your organizations operational and centers from three to one. Also, learn how Moen created an ROI model to
financial risks. Step through specific examples that illustrate how to achieve a demonstrate the business value of the initiative.
more risk-adjusted view of enterprise management, understand your
organizations true risk exposure, achieve proactive transparency, automate the
risk monitoring between modules and apply proper risk mitigations. Leave this
session with building blocks for embedding GRC into your core business
processes, standardizing rules and technology, and establishing a framework
for regulations and controls.
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How to use CCHs Sales Tax Office for SAP applications using Insider discussion forum: Best practices for avoiding the most
integrated productivity tools common mistakes in asset accounting
John Thomas, CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business Kent Bettisworth, BETTISWORTH & ASSOCIATES
S F2 F4
Attend this session for a complete overview of CCHs Sales Tax Office (STO) Whether youre currently leveraging SAP functionality for asset accounting, or
solution for SAP applications. Learn how to overcome the challenge of just getting started, this is a valuable opportunity to hear directly from your
determining an accurate Tax Jurisdiction Code (TJC) for customer master data peers about their strategies for managing common challenges regarding asset
records in SAP applications. Get tips to create more meaningful reports using accounts. Explore questions such as: What are the most common mistakes
a productivity tool that combines detailed sales and use tax data from Sales Tax that companies make with regards to asset depreciation calculation, currencies,
Office, allowing users to create custom tax reports with other valuable data that reporting, and the recalculation of asset values? What workarounds, solutions,
is only available in SAP applications. Learn how to decrease the amount of or changes in processes can my company implement to avoid these costly
time it takes to process tax only adjustments on customer invoices using a mistakes? How can I construct more accurate depreciation forecasts for
productivity tool that provides user friendly input screens for processing tax existing assets, pending capital projects, or even just appropriation? Leave this
adjustments, enabling linkage to previous SAP invoices and updating the Sales forum armed with valuable lessons to optimize your asset accounting activities.
Tax Office transaction log files on your monthly tax returns. Hear firsthand
how customers using CCHs Sales Tax Office have increased their revenues by Insider discussion forum: Lessons learned from a role design
changing the taxability status of items, and utilizing functionality that
and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementation
Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young and Lynn Reed, Johnson & Johnson
automatically provides monthly data updates regarding tax legislative changes.
Thursday, 9:30 am 10:00 am Premier 302
Improving liquidity planning and forecasting with SAP G5
Karol Bliznak, SAP AG and Robert Lagrange, Deloitte Attend this unique forum and listen in as one of our GRC experts and
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 312 customers, as well as your peers help to discuss and help answer your most
F7 critical questions regarding role design and SAP BusinessObjects Access
Get a firsthand look at how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Control. Engage in a discussion that covers: How to approach a role design
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius process for SAP ERP, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, and SAP
Enterprise and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse can be integrated with BusinessObjects functionality for superuser privilege management. How to
SAP Business Suite and other transactional systems to enable a financial work with the key project stakeholders from the business, operations,
liquidity reporting, planning and forecasting scenario. Understand how the compliance, external audit and IT. How a role design process can improve
starter kit for liquidity planning can be sourced through flat files or integrated your compliance objectives. How to effectively design a governance process for
with SAP Business Suite and other systems. Learn how the integration with your SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementation that will help drive
SAP NetWeaver BW enables drill down reporting to perform data quality success for risk analysis and remediation, superuser privilege management, and
checks and remediation procedures. Leverage customer best practice compliant user provisioning. How dashboard reporting has driven success with
calculations for mid- to long-term forecasts (two years) by integrating superuser privilege management.
committed transactions with forecasted financial data, avoiding inaccurate
forecasts of future exposures. Gather tips on how cash calculation rules can be
Insider discussion forum: Lessons and best practices that
streamline the time-to-close process
maintained to meet your requirements and how business user simulation and
Sandeep Bagchi, Keane
sensitivity analysis can be performed. Step through a demo of this applied
Thursday, 10:15 am 10:45 am Grand 109
analytical scenario, showing transactional data integrations and aggregation,
F6
data quality checks, planning/simulation and management reporting using an
Engage in a lively discussion with peers and find out how they are speeding
Xcelsius dashboard.
the time-to-close process. Get answers to questions such as: What are the best
Proven advice to effectively manage cash collection activities ways to manage, direct, and optimize my companys closing procedures? How
in a financial shared service environment do I overcome common problems that plague my closing processes? What
Ralf Ille, SAP AG SAP tools are available to help me streamline my period-end close? How do I
Thursday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 307 ensure that my close processes are transparent and meet regulatory
F10 requirements? Gain new ideas and perspectives on how to construct well-
Attend this session for tips to use SAP Collections Management to effectively coordinated year-end and month-end processes.
manage open receivables and learn how to create work lists to distribute and
prioritize your organizations cash collection activities. Learn how SAP
Collections Management can be integrated into an interaction center - the
workplace of a shared service center agent where contact persons can be
called with only two mouse clicks thereby improving the productivity of your
collection specialists team. Find out how to effectively manage your customers
dispute cases and integrate all relevant parties to the dispute resolution process
using SAP Dispute Management. Understand how to increase the
productivity of the dispute resolution team through higher transparency with
regards to customer communications using an interaction center.
A step-by-step guide to leveraging inter- and intra-company Case study: How Nike gains control over segregation of duties
processing options for more efficient management reporting and stops role proliferation
Manish Dharnidharka, PricewaterhouseCoopers Adam Hart and Eric Dwyer, Nike
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 313 Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 312
(session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm) G2
F2 F5 Segregation of Duties and the assignment of entitlements remains a source of risk
Examine the intricacies and business requirements that surround how an in almost any organization. Get a picture of how Nike augmented the risk
organization records inter-company and intra-company transactions in the management capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control using actionable
SAP General Ledger. This session arms you with the various configuration visualization techniques to better represent users, roles, transactions, and entities
options available in SAP to process intercompany transactions in both your within its SAP system. Find out how the organization streamlined its role design
financial and managerial accounting applications. Learn how to correctly set up to stop role proliferation and remediate segregation of duty violations. Understand
your master data for more accurate management reports, such as funds how Nike enhanced collaboration between its business and IT departments to
management reports. Get a detailed guide to the settings in SAP General more accurately align roles with requirements. Get tips and real world advice to
Ledger that will enable the processing of intra-company transactions. reduce the risk, cost and time required for your own role redesign project and learn
Understand how to configure and process intercompany transactions within how you can put a damper on your own role proliferation.
your purchasing and sales and distribution processes. View a demonstration
that shows how to use in-house cash functionality to settle inter-company Case study: How Allergan improved transparency and
transactions. accountability in its planning and consolidation processes
Elizabeth Elmore, Allergan
Best practices for your SAP spreadsheet environment, Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 306
featuring GraceKennedys success story F12
Paul Zunker, Global Software Learn how Allergan successfully replaced its time-consuming financial consolidation
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Grand 108 and reporting forecasting using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation.
S F2 Hear the companys real world experiences for implementing the tool and how
Attend this session and hear best practices for automating your organizations the company has since supported that implementation. Learn how the company,
spreadsheet processes within SAP General Ledger and other SAP sub-ledgers. who has a global user base and complex consolidation needs, worked its way to a
Walk through GraceKennedys real-world experiences and learn how the more stable and effective solution that features multi-currency, automated data
company underwent such an automation project. Hear firsthand what pain integration, elaborate EvDRE reports, and full financial consolidations.
points and challenges the company experienced with regards to its spreadsheet
environment and how these challenges were overcome using Global Softwares Customer panel: Assessing the switch to third-party support
spreadsheet automation tools. Find out what Microsoft Excel business from an insiders point of view
processes can be automated for SAP solutions, such as month-end report
Greg Leiner, Rimini Street; Jeff Finnerty, Lifetime Brands; Eric Robinson, Color
Spot Nurseries; and Payal Shah, Pioneer Electronics
running, account analysis, budgeting, and distribution/publishing. Learn how
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Grand 106
to leverage the familiar and standard functionality of Microsoft Excel in an
S F12
easy-to-use, formula-driven, real-time fashion. Understand what seamless
Attend this panel discussion, moderated by Rimini Street, and learn how other
integration functionality exists between Microsoft Excel and the SAP
SAP customers have approached the process of evaluating third-party support
environment by way of graphical user interface automation tools and custom
options. Listen in as these customers describe their IT environments, their
remote function calls (RFCs).
reasons for considering third-party support, the types of risk analysis they
Case study: Former auditor tells all: How thinking like an performed when considering third-party support, the business impact of the
auditor helped with Johns Hopkins Institutions segregation of switch to third-party support, what it took to gain consensus internally to
duties (SoD) project switch to third-party support, and recommendations for interested companies.
Sherri Flaks, Johns Hopkins Institutions Hear firsthand how choosing a third-party support option has enhanced
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Grand 124 support value and service. Find out why its so important to select the annual
G1 G2 G6 F11 support option for your SAP software that best meets your needs and strategy.
Hear a firsthand account of how and why the Johns Hopkins Institutions,
comprised of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the Johns Hopkins Detailed lessons to reduce electronic bank statement
Health System (JHHS), redesigned its segregation of duties (SoD) processes to processing and reconciliation time
Michael Prakhina, Lazar Consultants
minimize the likelihood of risks that can result from violations. Gain insight
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 304
into how the organization took on the project from an auditors standpoint and
F8
used data analytics to identify the authorizations, roles, and user violations that
occurred most frequently. Walk through the organizations process for isolating This session goes beyond the basics of bank statement functionality from SAP,
these violations for remediation (or mitigation). Learn how Johns Hopkins exposing frequently overlooked features and showing you how to leverage them
lowered the likelihood that these risks would recur by making significant to reduce the time it takes to process electronic bank statements. Find out how
reductions in both the permission and risk level violations. See how Johns to transfer bank statement data to SAP Cash and Liquidity Management
Hopkins Institutions uses SAP BusinessObjects Access Control functionality through the use of electronic bank statements for more timely access to your
for risk analysis and remediation to drill down into the individual t-codes and financial data. Learn advanced tips and tricks to automatically match all
authorizations that may be contributing to risk when not properly segregated. incoming remittance advice with open invoices in order to post and apply cash.
Take home a document that outlines how Johns Hopkins Institutions mapped Understand what standardized data formats, such as BAI, and BAI2 are used
its general business process info into its risk analysis and remediation rule set, as to receive the bank statement by means of banking communication software,
well its data analysis model for summarizing violations, and the companys such as MultiCash which dials into your credit institution and transfers the
overall GRC roadmap. data. Take home a list of best practices for overcoming technical challenges,
such as adding required fields to the accounting document, and learn techniques
to improve your hit rate for matching payments with invoices.
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Executive session: Take control of cash flow with proven cash How to leverage the SAP Financial Closing cockpit to
management and forecasting strategies accelerate time-to-close
Robert Lagrange, Deloitte Consulting Stefan Karl, SAP AG and Peter Minck, Redwood
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Grand 123 Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 318
EX F1 G3 G8 F6
Cash and working capital are part of the core drivers of shareholders value, the Explore the SAP Financial Closing cockpit and walk through configuration
lifeblood in every organization. New technologies and systems have made it steps including how to set up required authorizations and how to create a
possible for organizations to gather and provide large volumes of information global template for the entire closing process, as well as the pre-built
expeditiously, and yet, cash management effectiveness continues to be a integration capabilities for the SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood.
challenge for many. Attend this session and learn proven techniques to Learn how to generate a task list to schedule and monitor tasks in your close
optimize your cash flow forecasting processes. Learn how to centralize your process. Examine how to use workflows to handle groups of objects that have
organizations cash management information in order to ensure more reliable to be processed together, such as production orders, and learn how to
and timely information. Gain insight into selecting your sources for configure them to handle escalations of errors occurring in the close programs
forecasting, whether it is actual data, projections based on historical data, during the close. Get tips for using SAP Financial Closing cockpit and the
projections based on planning data, or a combination. Walk through your SAP Central Process Scheduling to start critical tasks, such as production
options and determine which forecasting process is the best fit for your order settlement, project settlement, payroll, or billing in remote systems,
organization. within either an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW system.
Expert lessons to reduce the cost and effort of compliance How to quit paper in AP, AR and more with a single platform
through better process control Steve Smith, Esker
Siddarth Parakh, PricewaterhouseCoopers Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Grand 107
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 320 S F7
G3 G4 Learn how your organization can use a single platform to automate processing
This session shares lessons and examples that illustrate how to reduce the costs of vendor invoices and delivery of customer invoices as well as sales order
and efforts of compliance by using SAP BusinessObjects Process Control. processing and purchase order delivery within your organizations cash
Walk through a real-world implementation project and see how to achieve a conversion cycle. Explore challenges businesses face with manual processes in
sustainable cost reduction and improvement in performance in your daily accounts payable and accounts receivable, and see how intelligent technology
control-related activities. Find out how to detect control deficiencies early and integrates with SAP solutions to automate invoice capture, workflow and
subsequently reduce the time required for remediation. Learn how to electronic delivery. Walk through case study examples highlighting lessons
implement proactive, automated controls that reduce cost, promote greater learned in implementing the technology and benefits of automation including
effectiveness, and achieve increased accuracy within your organization. Find shorter payment cycles, lower days sales outstanding (DSO), fewer human
out what cost reduction diagnostic approaches you should be utilizing in order errors, increased visibility for financial planning, higher productivity, and more.
to uncover potential control cost savings, identify potential cost management Get detailed insight into deployment options including cloud services and on-
opportunities, and improve your control environment. premise software as well as phased implementation approaches.
How to achieve better end-to-end visibility across your Tips and tricks for successful integration of sales and
organizations financial supply chain distribution with SAP ERP Financials
Katharina Reichert, SAP Labs Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 301 Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 319
F7 F4 F7
This session arms you with tips to overcome common roadblocks associated Acquire practical recommendations and solutions to address the top five
with inefficient and fragmented credit, billing, collections, and dispute challenges that can hinder smooth financial accounting and sales and
processes which can impair both economic visibility and a companys attempts distribution (FI-SD) integration. Get step-by-step instruction to determine
at effective cash management, while often contributing to significant cash flow and configure revenue accounts using fields from sales orders, material masters,
and profitability issues. Understand the full range of SAP accounts receivables or customer masters. Walk through the impacts that key SD documents,
management functionality that supports these activities and know the steps including contracts, sales orders, deliveries, and invoices, have on FI. Identify
required to implement it. Receive best practices for automatically creating and and avoid common mistakes in the creation of billing documents that have a
closing dispute cases, and hear examples that will help your organization add negative impact on FI and compromise the integrity of the revenue stream.
extremely valuable process tracking attributes to your dispute management Acquire expert recommendations for identifying and reconciling FI-SD
reports. Compare financial performance indicators and benchmarks of discrepancies. Receive best practices for configuration ownership and valuable
companies who have focused on improvement in these areas in their cash, testing tips. See how your peers at other organizations have developed
collections, billing, and dispute areas. reporting solutions to reconcile FI-SD results. Take home key lists of
configuration points and tables for the FI-SD interface that are critical to the
smooth transfer of data from SD to FI.
US GAAP and IFRS converge: Is your organization ready? 30 training and empowerment tips for users who rely on SAP
Richard Cebula, PricewaterhouseCoopers ERP Financials
Thursday, 10:15 am 11:30 am Premier 314 Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
F13 G9 Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Grand 124
The FASB and the IASB are currently working on nearly a dozen projects F4
with the objective of creating converged accounting standards between US Identify the most important areas to address when training end users on SAP
GAAP and IFRS. Attend this session for a detailed overview and status of ERP Financials functionality, including analysis, display, environment, and
their convergence efforts. Get the latest updates to the proposed SEC deadline reporting. Take home 30 tips that will accelerate the end-user learning curve
for US GAAP and IFRS convergence and how this will need to be integrated and reduce calls to the help desk. Learn how to help users get the most from
into your planning processes. Hear firsthand what company-wide impacts reporting tools, such as the ALV tool and report trees, to maximize their
these proposed changes will have on your financial reporting, tax, and SAP productivity. Learn how to teach end users to set key defaults in order to trace
systems and get practical advice that will help your organization develop the and determine the status of financial documents, including confirmation of a
technology solutions to meet these business changes. Develop a deeper documents reversal or clearance. Identify the most frequently used codes by
understanding of the amount of time and effort required for an IFRS and US document type such as the general ledger account document (SA),
GAAP convergence project and what you should be doing now to prepare. customer document (DA), and customer payment (KA) types as well as
posting key (01, 31, 40, 50) to assist end users in quickly identifying the
Insider discussion forum: Recommendations and advice to purpose of each posting. Walk away with a list of key parameter IDs for
ensure a successful transition to the SAP General Ledger finance users.
Mark Lombard, MI6 Solutions Group
Thursday, 11:00 am 11:30 am Grand 109 A guide to transforming the travel management process with
F5 new functionality from SAP
Are you considering, planning, or have you begun a migration from the classic Hendrik Vordenbumen, SAP AG
SAP General Ledger to the latest version of SAP General Ledger? Participate Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 307
in an interactive discussion with peers and experts who have been through this F4
type of migration project to find out the best ways to proceed. Get answers to Receive a comprehensive overview of the latest SAP Travel Management
challenging questions, such as: What are the steps I should take to prepare for features and functionality, including the new mobile, reporting, and on-
implementing the SAP General Ledger? What data and capabilities should I demand offerings. Step through the business scenarios supported by SAP
migrate first? What are the configuration differences between the classic G/L Travel Management, including submitting initial requests, travel planning, and
and the SAP General Ledger? How are my peers overcoming implementation, submitting and settling travel expenses. Gain an understanding of how the
parallel accounting, document splitting, and segment reporting challenges? new functionality can simplify integration with third-party online booking
Hear from your colleagues and get insights into what every SAP financials tools and monthly expense report submissions. Understand how to leverage
team should know before beginning an SAP General Ledger migration the integration between SAP ERP HCM and SAP ERP Financials to
project. improve travel policy compliance, monitor out-of-policy bookings, and
optimize travel expense and settlement processes. Walk through the product
Insider discussion forum: Converting your SAP ERP Financials strategy and roadmap for SAP Travel Management to find out how new
system to support an IFRS transition developments could affect your company.
Paul Theobald and Eduardo Jure, CAPE Global Consulting
Thursday, 11:45 am 12:15 pm Grand 109 Best practices and guidelines to successfully implement
F13 G9 SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for legal
Engage in a lively discussion with author Paul Theobald of CAPE Global consolidations
Consulting, and discuss what your organization can be doing to prepare for an Reidar Schopp, Edgewater Technology
SAP ERP Financials systems conversion to IFRS. Get answers to your most Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Grand 106
pressing questions, including: How do the US GAAP to IFRS changes map S F3
to SAP ERP Financials at the organizational and company code levels? What Legal consolidations are a complex set of processes that require great precision.
does a complete project execution cycle, from assessment to implementation, Attend this session and get practical advice on how to implement SAP
look like? What major accounting areas will be affected by the transition? BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to complete your organizations
What are some of the key challenges in managing an IFRS conversion project? legal consolidations with ease. Find out how to prepare your source system,
Gain new ideas and perspectives from your peers on how they are using SAP ERP system, or other general ledger to send data to SAP BusinessObjects
ERP Financials functionality to meet IFRS requirements, including SAP Planning and Consolidation. Learn how to properly configure SAP
General Ledger, consolidation, and XBRL tools. BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to handle legal consolidation
rules, as well as provide adequate reporting, and to meet external regulatory
requirements. Leave this session with great advice on how to properly
implement SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to make to
make it a more stable and sustainable application.
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Can cloud clear the way for business transformation? Case study: How BNSF Railway Company ensures its internal
Phil Lageschulte, Partner with KPMG controls stay tight and application access stays right
Thursday, 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Grand 107 Cynthia McConathy, BNSF Railway
S G1 Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 301
Cloud enablement, like other disruptive force technologies, affects all G1 G2 G8
information systems within an enterprise and at the very least your GRC, HR, Find out how BNSF Railway Company leverages SAP BusinessObjects
and financials applications. The Cloud is rapidly driving the virtualization of Access Control in conjunction with its implementation of SAP ERP
technology both within and across organizations and can provide a unique Financials and SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM).
opportunity for business transformation while simultaneously providing an Learn how and why BNSF Railway Company uses risk analysis and
organization with a competitive advantage. Learn how making the decision to remediation functionality to evaluate roles as they are designed, tested, and
employ cloud technologies is a business discussion that goes beyond your IT modified in order to minimize SoD violations at go-live and beyond. Hear
teams. Understand how rolling out a cloud initiative can help ease your IT how BNSF Railway Company uses the self-service feature in superuser
deployments, improve working capital, deliver real business impacts such as privilege management to respond to requests for emergency access and to
reduction in inventory and costs of goods sold, and improve your time to perform mandatory reviews of the associated activity logs. Understand how the
market. Discuss common inhibitors to the cloud such as compliance, privacy company auto-provisions approved access requests for all contractors and
and security and how the way through them will eventually become employees with short-term access needs. Find out how BNSF Railway
commonplace. While you may not be ready to fully embrace the cloud, the Company uses enterprise role management to facilitate role owner approvals
pace at which your competitors do may be surprising and you will not want to for role content changes. Hear how their SAP Support Center partners with
be left behind. enterprise security, internal audit, external audit, and Sarbanes-Oxley teams to
continuously monitor SAP controls including data privacy, document
Case study: Cardinal Health streamlines the financial retention, and licensing compliance.
supply chain and reduces bad debt write-offs with improved
collections and dispute resolution processes Case study: Lessons from McKessons approach to
John Bobo and Becky Reno, Cardinal Health maintaining a mature, cost-effective Sarbanes-Oxley program
Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Grand 123 Benjamin Wienand; Kelly Worley; and Vicki Pilotti, McKesson Corporation
F7 Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 319
Hear firsthand Cardinal Healths experience with the implementation of SAP G1 G2 G4 G8 F11
functionality for collections and dispute management to streamline the See how McKesson successfully overhauled its approach to Sarbanes-Oxley
collections process and reduce dispute resolution time. Learn how Cardinal compliance by implementing a more ongoing, cost-efficient, and sustainable
Health is streamlining collections and reducing dispute resolution time. strategy. Walk through McKessons project roadmap and gain insight into its
Examine the organizations rationale for selecting SAP Financial Supply Chain high-priority tasks, including issue resolution processes, controls optimization,
Management to support these processes, including its system flexibility and and controls automation. Learn how McKesson coped with common
ease of use for collections and disputes staff. Understand how Cardinal Health deficiencies related to user access and segregation of duties. Find out how the
integrated the SAP collections and dispute functionality with existing accounts company took a holistic approach to its Sarbanes-Oxley controls, and
receivable processes and customer master data. Find out how the company is understand how it identified potential gaps in its security processes. Learn how
now able to avoid bad debt write-offs by identifying dispute and payment it worked effectively with auditors to leverage automated segregation of duties
issues earlier in the collections process. Get practical advice from the analyses and documentation of controls. Walk away with a solid understanding
companys experiences in standardizing its collections processes worldwide to of short- and long-term opportunities to improve and streamline compliance
dramatically optimize the credit-to-cash process and accelerate cash flows. processes and what McKesson is doing to further enhance its Sarbanes-Oxley
program with new process automation techniques.
Case study: How Becton Dickinson leverages SAP
BusinessObjects Access Controls as part of a greenfield SAP Case study: Lubrizol migrates to the latest SAP General
implementation Ledger while keeping its financial reporting processes intact
Mark Lubas, BD throughout the project
Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 306 Diane Brezovec, Lubrizol
G5 Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 320
Attend this session for a deeper understanding of how BD successfully utilized F5
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control as part of its SAP greenfield Learn how Lubrizol successfully planned and completed a full migration from
implementation. Learn what features the company employed to help reduce the classic version of the SAP General Ledger to the latest version. Walk
the burden of its many implementation and administrative activities without through the companys project plan and timeline. Find out what key
impacting project timelines. Understand how the company was able to evaluate requirements and considerations were taken into account, such as the
and compare new ruleset releases as part of the implementation project. companys need for parallel reporting and document splitting functionality and
Discover new ways to optimize performance and implement business the implications on the companys SAP landscape. Understand the need for a
intelligence reporting using the Universal Data Connector and standard and solid migration testing plan and walk through the companys migration testing
custom reporting techniques. Take home guiding principles, lessons learned, phases and timelines. Benefit from Lubrizols real-world experiences and get
and BDs steps for a more tactical execution of its security assessment for critical success factors, such as how the company created training and
segregation of duties and critical access violations. knowledge workshops throughout the process, and what difference this can
make as you build your own companys project plan. Hear how the company
handled ongoing reporting considerations during its project, including the
special validation rules and closing steps that were implemented for the final
year-end close.
Critical advice for deciding which projects to fund Proven practices for faster, better, and easier reporting on
Kent Bettisworth, BETTISWORTH & ASSOCIATES capital spend and capital asset transactions
Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 314 Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting
F4 Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 313
Learn how to align SAP functionality for investment management (FI-IM) F4
with SAP Portfolio and Project Management to make appropriate decisions Reporting on the costs that are capitalized, planned, and budgeted throughout
on how to fund and manage your projects. Understand how to create and SAP in your project system, investment management, and asset accounting
maintain master data at the appropriation request level to support to the data modules accurately and efficiently is mandatory, but sometimes difficult. Get
collection activities. Demystify your options to systematically control practice solutions for how to more efficiently report on capital spend and
commitments and spending at the individual level, and across groups of capital asset transactions across all three and learn what integrated reporting
projects. Learn to avoid the most common pitfalls companies face when touch points exist between these modules. Navigate your options and
creating project portfolios. Walk through the different reporting options understand the differences that exist between structured reports and drilldown
available and learn how to execute various reports based on investment reports. Take home a detailed guide that will walk you through the process for
program budgets. Take home multiple techniques to control portfolio and customizing your asset history sheet along with additional examples of asset
project budgets and take home a how-to guide that walks you through most history sheet variants.
important reports in SAP functionality for investment management.
The accelerated financial close, XBRL and securing the last
Executive session: The results are in! Insights on strategic mile of your organizations finance processes
technology spending from PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO Kirk Anderson, SAP BusinessObjects
survey Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 318
Kevin Morris, PricewaterhouseCoopers F2 F13 G9
Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 302 This session shows you how to overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality,
EX F1 transparent financial close process and showcases SAPs brand new
Hear firsthand the results of PricewaterhouseCoopers 13th Annual Global Collaborative Disclosure Management solution. Take an up-to-date look at
CEO Survey, in which 65% of U.S. CEOs said they expect to increase their requirements, common challenges, and recommendations for optimizing your
spending on strategic technology infrastructure or applications over the next group closing cycles. Get a clear understanding of the U.S. SEC mandate that
three years. This could be a defining moment for executives who focus on requires companies to file their financial statements in eXtensible Business
business goals and position their companies for growth as the economy Reporting Language (XBRL). Learn about the impact this has on the so-
improves. This session explores ways executives, including the finance called last mile of finance and explore the benefits a fast and efficient close
executive, can work together to use technology to gain a competitive can bring to your organization.
advantage. Find out how leading finance executives are using IT to win
business. Get examples that demonstrate how they are driving toward business GRC Expert LIVE: Benchmark SAP application controls to
goals by thinking strategically about how to position the company for growth.
increase testing and documentation efficiency
Richard Castle, Ernst & Young
Understand the importance of articulating in business terms how
technology can help the company grow, including explaining the IT cost
G2
structure in terms of business drivers.
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Richard Castle, Executive
Optimize enterprise performance by aligning and reconciling Director, Ernst & Young and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of
key performance indicators across multiple functional areas his most widely read articles from GRC Expert the leading publication and
William Newman, Newport Consulting Group knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP BusinessObjects solutions
Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Premier 312 for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn how to extend the benefits of
F9 certain tests of application controls, including automated controls enabled
Find out how to maximize business performance by aligning key performance through a program or configuration into subsequent audit periods. Walk
objectives across multiple functional areas, such as finance, purchasing, and the through an approach for implementing a benchmarking strategy you can
supply chain. Get real-world advice to better define metrics that will support deploy at the application level instead of the database level using the table
your organizational goals. Examine important considerations to ensure these logging capabilities within the SAP system. Youll receive a copy of the article
metrics accurately reflect whether your organization is meeting its goals and free of charge and engage with peers who have the same interests and
objectives. Learn how to accurately align your key performance indicators priorities.
(KPIs) to strategic goals and objectives which can then be executed within the
organization. Get detailed advice for effectively sharing these metrics across the
enterprise. Find out what solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects enterprise
performance management (EPM) solutions, are best suited to address your
organizations needs. View a demo that shows you how to use the latest
capabilities of these solutions to support the establishment and monitoring of
critical KPIs.
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Financials Expert LIVE: Take the guesswork out of making Achieve greater control and more predictable financial
asset changes performance using unified risk management with an
Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting enterprise performance management strategy
Thursday, 2:15 pm 3:00 pm Grand 109 Richard Barrett, SAP BusinessObjects
F4 Thursday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 306
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Nathan Genez, Managing F9
Partner, Serio Consulting, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of Attend this session for detailed look at how to integrate risk management into
his most widely read articles from Financials Expert the leading publication your enterprise performance management strategy, with the goal of providing
and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions for finance. better control, greater predictability of revenues and expenses and better
Walk through an example of how to simulate an asset posting transaction. visibility into future earnings. Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects
Learn how to simulate time-dependent depreciation term changes. Find out Risk Management together with the SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions to
why it is not possible to perform simulation on group assets or their rapidly detect and mitigate emerging risks; assess the resource requirements
component assets. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and and capacity needed to address changing levels of demand. Learn how to feed
engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities. this information directly into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform, to deliver a complete risk
10 essential methods, reporting techniques, and tools no SAP adjusted planning solution. Find out how to integrate data across all your
finance team should be without planning and performance management applications using SAP
Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software
BusinessObjects Financial Information Management. Step through a detailed
Thursday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 313
demo that illustrates how these solutions work together to give the control,
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agility and insight needed to outperform your competitors in todays uncertain
Whether youre implementing SAP ERP Financials for the first time, times.
upgrading or rolling out financials functionality, or embarking on a continuous
improvement project, there are 10 methods and tools that are essential to Best practices for achieving higher levels of financial
success. Find out which tools are available within SAP ERP Financials. performance using cost and profit center planning
Understand how to easily pinpoint the cause of disparities that exist between Carsten Hilker, SAP Labs and Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises
your production and quality systems using the customizing cross-system viewer Thursday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 312
tool. Learn how to use the QuickViewer tool to define routine and casual F3
reports that may not require full-scale ABAP development. Gain insight into This session shows you how to streamline managerial accounting planning
how to improve the periodic execution of hundreds (if not thousands) of processes by jointly leveraging SAP ERP controlling (CO) functionality and
reports and significantly improve the month-end close cycle using TVARV SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Find out how to use SAP
report variables. See how the note assistant tool can be used to take the pain BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and its Excel front to add further
out of applying SAP Notes, ensuring that there are no mistakes in applying planning dimensions and flexible planning levels to your organizations plan
the code corrections. Leave this session with critical tips and techniques to development cycle. Walk through an example that demonstrates how to use
smoothly and productively execute your next financials project. the user friendly front end for isolated cost center, activity, and profit center
planning activities using ERP CO-like layouts and standard reports. Get tips
A detailed guide for better supporting your GRC environment for transferring data from and to SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW for
Bobby Wu, SAP integrated managerial accounting.
G1 Case study: Automating marketing forecast and planning with
Attend this session and learn how to assess and optimize your GRC project SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
rollout, helping to reduce your organizations total cost of ownership using Metin Colak and Kendra Gurick
SAP Premium Engagement support. Get an understanding of the different Thursday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 307
types of support engagements with SAP and find out which products available F1 F3
to help with your project rollout and operations. Learn how to leverage Learn how time-consuming, manual, spreadsheet-based marketing forecast
existing SAP tools to proactively protect your investment, identify root cause and planning processes can be replaced with the automated forecasting and
of problems, and accelerate your compliance process. Get an overview of the planning functionality within SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
support tools available to our customers and how they apply to different GRC Consolidation. See how critical lessons can be learned at each phase of
applications. Walk through customer scenarios that demonstrate how SAP implementation project, including development, and data integration can help
Premium Engagement can help your organization identify potential risks and guide your own implementation. Learn how ready-made EvDRE reports and
issues that could have jeopardize GRC GoLive and/or sustainable operations. input schedules can be utilized with ease to build customized planning
application. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation can
be utilized to manage accrual process and to calculate commitments from open
purchase orders. View a sample that shows the advanced reporting tools such
as drill-down reporting and validations for data integrity.
Best practices to reduce accounts payable cycle time with an How to manage the dual reporting requirements of IFRS
improved goods and services invoice tracking process John Steele, Deloitte Consulting
Brian Shannon, Dolphin Thursday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 318
Thursday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Grand 123 F13 G9
F7 Get valuable tips to prepare your organization for one of IFRSs top
Attend this session for best practices how to undertake an optimization project challenges: producing comparative financial statements for the two years
to improve the transparency and control of your organizations accounts immediately preceding your IFRS conversion. Gain a solid understanding of
payable process. Get real world advice on how to perform invoice status the requirements set forth by the US Securities and Exchange Commission
tracking, and SAP workflow and analytics for goods- and services-based (SEC) roadmap for producing financial statements under both US GAAP and
purchase order invoices, as well as for invoices that did not have a purchase IFRS. Examine three practical approaches to comply with parallel reporting
order relationship in order to improve the control of the service-based invoice requirements: the ledger approach, the account approach, and the
process and reduce the cycle time associated with these transactions. Learn consolidation approach. Step through a comparison of these approaches and
how to define your project scope and get key insight for overcoming see how SAP General Ledger, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
integration hurdles and change management challenges. Find out what Consolidation, or a combination of these applications is used for each. Find
benefits can be realized including how to reduce slow cycle times that were out how to select the best option for your organization and identify the
part of a legacy system environment, and eliminate inefficiencies in approval planning, timelines, and project resources required. Take home an evaluation
and exception handling functions of accounts payable. Take home a list of key tool that includes a detailed comparison of the approaches, as well as a sample
criteria to help build the business case to justify the investment. project plan for enabling dual reporting.
Executive session: Strengthening financial and organizational Technical architecture, landscape, and integration
performance using a driver-based approach considerations for SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
Trent Tishkowski, Ernst & Young Kurt Hollis, Deloitte Consulting
Thursday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 301 Thursday, 2:30 pm 3:45 pm Premier 320
EX F9 (session repeated on Friday at 2:00 pm)
Examine a driver-based approach to enterprise performance management that G5
will help you integrate your performance management activities through a Examine the resources that are required to correctly install and support SAP
common set of business drivers, such as market share, revenue and financial BusinessObjects GRC solutions in a variety of SAP landscapes. Learn the core
strength. Find out what key drivers your organization should use and how to technical concepts and architectural considerations that must be factored into
create metrics linked to your strategic goals and shareholder value. Identify the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation activities for a successful
correct measures of success across the enterprise and learn how to align targets implementation. Step through the compatibility and integration issues that
and operational plans with organizational strategy. Get proven advice to better could arise, depending on what SAP applications you are already running. Get
analyze and explain true causal variances in a standard and repeatable process. detailed strategies and best practices for consolidating SAP BusinessObjects
Learn how to link planning activities within the organization, including capital Access Control with other GRC solutions onto a single SAP NetWeaver
investment and model what-if scenarios to improve decision making. Leave platform. Take home a list of common technical problems and their associated
this session equipped with the knowledge to implement a driver-based solutions, along with implementation checklists that offer advice you wont
approach to performance management in your organization. find in standard documentation.
Expert lessons to confidently control and monitor system Tips and tricks to survive your next audit quickly and
access painlessly
John Jerrehian, SAP Steve Biskie, ERP Audit Solutions
G2 G3 G4 G6
With regulatory requirements growing increasingly stringent, its more This session provides insight to help project managers, functional teams,
important than ever to control and monitor access to critical systems and administrators, and users better prepare for an audit of their SAP system.
information. Attend this session for a complete overview of SAP Learn how the audit process works in an SAP environment. Identify SAP
BusinessObjects Access Control functionality and learn the most effective ways functions and supporting business processes that will be under the closest
to continuously monitor your controls for segregation of duties (SoD) scrutiny, such as security monitoring. Review specific SAP configurable
violations. Learn how to more confidently control and monitor segregation of controls and learn what the auditor will typically be looking for related to these
duties and critical access to help safeguard against fraud and mistakes. Gets settings. Explore audit issues that can stem from the way things were set up in
tips for provisioning compliant user access, ensuring compliant role the initial implementation or upgrade. Walk away with a checklist of final
governance, and managing superuser access. Leave this session with lessons for audit preparation steps. Get practical and proven advice to start thinking like
better supporting a compliance process that controls access risk across the an auditor and prepare your domains for an SAP system audit.
enterprise, lowers the cost of compliance, and makes audit and compliance
activities more efficient.
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Insider discussion forum: Mastering the challenge of global Case study: How Abiomed reduced the time, expense, and
trade compliance effort associated with Sarbanes-Oxley reporting
Mike Heldebrand and Mike Rambasek, Ernst & Young Sharon Kaiser, Abiomed
Thursday, 3:15 pm 3:45 pm Grand 109 Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Premier 314
G10 G1 G4 G7 G8
Engage in a lively exchange of ideas and best practices for improving the way Take a behind-the-scenes look at how Abiomed, a highly regulated medical
your company achieves compliance with global regulations and can ultimately device manufacturer, overcame the challenge of identifying and managing
speed the flow of goods across borders and into the hands of your customers. segregation of duties on a global basis to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
Get answers to questions such as: What impact do global sourcing, increased Explore how Abiomed reduced the time, expense, and distractions associated
regulatory pressures, government IT modernization, and complex international with its audits to allow more time for higher value work. Get tips on how the
transactions have on trade compliance efforts? How can my organization company automated its data gathering, monitoring, and reporting activities
leverage export management, import management, trade preference and streamlined its user and role maintenance activities in SAP. Examine the
management, and restitution management to reduce the risk of non- challenges Abiomed overcame, including the compiling and distributing of
compliance while leveraging your current IT assets? How can my organization manual, quarterly SoD reports, which required constant and repeated follow-
support critical processes and tasks, such as sanctioned party list screening, up to obtain approvals. Take home best practices and lessons learned from
expedition of customs clearance, embargo checking, material classification and Abiomeds Sarbanes-Oxley reporting project.
duty assessment for imports, and optimization of trade agreements?
Case study: How Mentor Graphics achieves treasury
Insider discussion forum: Next-generation Sarbanes-Oxley excellence across all its business units and brands
compliance: Lessons from mature programs Jan-Willem Beldman, Mentor Graphics
Andres Velasquez and Shannon Urban, Ernst & Young Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Premier 307
Thursday, 3:15 pm 3:45 pm Premier 302 F1 F8
F11 G8 Learn how Mentor Graphics, a leader in electronic design automation,
Draw from the experiences of your peers for best practices, lessons learned, and successfully uses SAP Treasury and Risk Management and SAP Cash and
critical success factors for staying in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Discuss Liquidity Management as key elements within its journey to treasury
questions like: What steps should you be taking to perform a fraud risk excellence. Find out how to set up a global in-house bank and payment factory
assessment? How do you gain more control over the flow of transactions, to centralize its liquidity and risk management processes and rationalize its
including IT aspects, in order to identify points at which a misstatement could bank account structure. Walk through Mentor Graphicss method for
arise? What processes are to establish and maintain an adequate internal managing forecasting, global cash management, and connectivity with banks
control structure with assessments, maintenance and testing to meet Sarbanes- via secure electronic payment networks. Learn how the company
Oxley requirements? Leave this discussion with valuable insight and concrete communicated project timelines, implementation methodologies, and local
examples for managing and staying in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. resource requirements to all aspects of the business during the implementation.
Find out how Mentor Graphics was able to gain greater insight into financial
Insider discussion forum: Lessons for building your risk factors resulting in reduced operating costs, risk, and banking fees.
SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions architecture
Kurt Hollis, Deloitte Consulting Case study: Lessons from Tyson Foods online documentation
Thursday, 4:00 pm 4:30 pm Grand 109 strategy to support financial end-user training
G5 Andrea Wallace and Charles Brown, Tyson Foods
Attend this unique forum and listen in as one of our GRC experts as well as Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Premier 313
your peers help to discuss and help answer your most critical questions F4
regarding the technical landscape and architecture requirements for your SAP Learn how Tyson Foods uses SAP online documentation during its global
BusinessObjects GRC solutions environment. Engage in a discussion that SAP implementations and rollouts to help streamline end user training. Get a
covers: What architectural considerations must be taken into account when step-by-step description of how the company rolled out basic reporting and
implementing SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions? Which SAP navigation simulations to end users in Brazil during a recent SAP ERP
BusinessObjects GRC solutions can be consolidated, and what are some tips implementation. Explore how Tyson Foods offers everything from basic
for doing so? What is required to properly run SAP BusinessObjects Process reporting and navigation, cost center accounting, accounts payable, general
Control and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control functionality for real-time ledger and profit center accounting documentation in multiple languages using
agents (RTAs)? its support site. Hear how Tyson Foods stores all these documents on a virtual
drive, providing easier access, with fewer network issues. Draw from Tyson
Foods experiences and learn what types of savings the company has realized by
through its online documentation. View a demonstration that walks you
through the functionality within the companys support site.
Case study: Red Wing Shoe Company redefines planning Executive session: How to leverage technology to better
and consolidation: Lessons from the companys SAP support the different stages of your planning cycles
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation implementation Doug Simao, Ernst & Young
Lorrie Tongen, Red Wing Shoe Company Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Grand 123
Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Grand 124 EX F3
F6 For companies operating in todays volatile economic environment, having
Get a firsthand account of how Red Wing Shoe Company rolled out SAP solid planning practices in place can mean the difference between staying on
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation in order to improve data course and veering off track. Attend this session for key advice that will help
integrity, enable flexible planning and consolidation functions. Hear how the your organization perform numerous financial and operational planning
company completed its tool selection process. Understand the key drivers activities that will support overall strategy and decision making. Walk through
behind choosing the solution and what benefits, such as shortened reporting the different types of planning including strategic planning, annual planning,
and budget cycle times and more time for data analysis. Find out how what and forecasting, and determine which types of technologies best support the
you need to know before you beginning the project, key steps that need to be multiple phases of each activity. Learn the best ways to accommodate the
covered during the implementation and how to maximize the knowledge differences between each type of planning activity. Understand what needs
transfer. Walk through Red Wing Shoe Companys methodology for building different parts of your organization require in terms of their planning cycles
a project plan and moving toward a more unified enterprise performance and how you can support them.
management and reporting landscape.
How to gain costing insights that improve pricing and
Choosing the right application to support closes, profitability
consolidations, and planning Karuna Mukherjea, SAP BusinessObjects
Tara Sitaram, focusSAP Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Premier 319
Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Premier 320 F4
F3 F6 This session describes how to leverage SAP solutions to drive a deeper
Understand the different options SAP has made available for consolidations understanding of true costs, which help serve as a basis for critical decisions
and planning. Attend this session for a unique look at the strengths and around profitability, margin management, pricing strategies, merchandising
limitations of planning and consolidation solutions from SAP as they relate to plans, distribution activities, and customer service. Glean better insights from
different organization structures and environments. Compare and contrast the your managerial accounting processes by jointly leveraging SAP ERP
capabilities of business consolidation systems (BCS) functionality, SAP Financials cost and profitability accounting functionality (commonly known as
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and SAP BusinessObjects CO-PA) and SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management.
Financial Consolidation, and determine how to make the best choice for your Learn how to better manage allocations and cross-charging. Understand the
needs. Examine options and best practices for building your processes to meet simulation and scenario modeling options, including the impact on resource
your financial close and control objectives. Learn to fully leverage the data requirements. Find out which CO-PA characteristics (e.g., customers,
models available with each application. Get an overview of the powerful products, and cost objects) must be linked with SAP BusinessObjects
reporting capabilities within each of these applications. Profitability and Cost Management to map activities to both applications.
Compare the differences between the two solutions, and determine when to
Critical considerations for customers considering a migration make cost assignments or calculate contributions in one rather than the other.
to the new release of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control
Saye Arumugam, SAP How to implement superuser privilege management
Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Premier 318 functionality to address audit concerns
G5 Ruth Johnson, Savera Systems
This session offers expert advice to migrate from your current version of SAP Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Premier 312
BusinessObjects Access Control to the latest version release 10.0. Master G2 G5 G6
the key concepts for designing and executing a migration plan and gain a solid This session delivers techniques, tips, and tricks to configure and fully leverage
understanding of the effect on your SAP architecture. Learn what migration superuser privilege management functionality within SAP BusinessObjects
tools and paths are available from SAP and examine each in detail. Review a Access Control to help resolve your business requirements while also
sample project roadmap and walk through a typical migration project timeline addressing and satisfying your auditors concerns for granting additional access
complete with project-critical milestones. Walk through the basic to users. Identify what types of users should be granted superuser status, what
configuration steps and examine the recent shift of platforms upon which the kinds of activities should be enabled in superuser privilege management, how
solution is based, moving from Java based to the ABAP platform. See how to often super users should be accessing the system, and who should be reviewing
reverse the migration plans to correct unexpected results you may encounter the logs. Examine the various features that should be utilized for a successful
and to troubleshoot errors. implementation including the change log option and the index on the
CDHDR table. Review reporting options youll need to make use of to satisfy
auditor concerns, and understand how much detail you are able to include in
change log reports. Take home a check list that includes the steps to
implement additional superuser privilege management IDs.
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Integrating identity management and user access processes: Proven techniques to smoothly and successfully migrate to
A practical, actionable guide the latest release of SAP General Ledger
Vinod Nanu and Prateek Jain, Ernst & Young Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software
G2 F5
Examine the strategies, challenges, and approach an organization needs to In this session, find out why and how to circumvent some of the most
consider while trying to integrate an enterprise identity and access management common challenges of migrating to the latest release of SAP General Ledger.
(IAM) solution. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the key maturity and Obtain configuration tips that have worked for dozens of other projects.
building blocks of an IAM solution. Evaluate all your options for integrating Mitigate project risk with best practices to properly manage master and
an enterprise-wide IAM solution across your enterprise. Gain a deeper organizational data, preserve transactional data integrity, and ensure financial
understanding for evaluating the current state and readiness of an enterprise reporting compliance. Find out how to ensure data and process integrity by
IAM integration using SAP solutions. Gain a high-level understanding of avoiding too many parallel ledger setups. Learn how to activate document
some of the capabilities of the enterprise IAM solutions in the marketplace. splitting functionality in order to reduce the impact high data volumes may
Understand SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions components and how they have on system performance. Understand why it pays to be cautious when
integrate with an enterprise IAM solution. updating profit centers with segments. Acquire best practices and configuration
tips for utilizing simulation and inheritance and setting zero-balance constants.
Performance metrics and multi-trends for world-class finance Take home a list of the key project dos and donts.
organizations
Ted Fernandes, The Hackett Group
Thursday, 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Premier 306
EX
Hear directly from The Hackett Group, a leading global strategic advisory
firm, as key insight for creating a world-class finance organization is provided.
Get an overview of performance in finance functions based on selected metrics
and what best practices can be put into place to address the efficiency,
effectiveness, and strategic business enablement of the finance organization.
Examine key trends within the finance function, specifically related to decision
support, global shared services, and centers of expertise, and business process
outsourcing, that can help improve overall performance of your organization.
Preview the companys latest research and find out what differentiates a world-
class finance organization from the rest, and the steps you can take today to
prepare for the future. Hear how other leading organizations have transformed
their finance operations for optimal performance.
Friday, March 11
New insights into collaborative disclosure management Assess e-invoicing as a means to streamlining and reducing
functionality from SAP the costs of accounts payable
Birgit Starmanns, SAP and Kirk Anderson, SAP BusinessObjects Joseph Pacor, SAP
Friday, 8:30 am 9:15 am Grand 109 Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 301
F1 F7
Attend this session, for an up-close look at SAPs new functionality for This session guides you through options SAP makes available to support e-
collaborative disclosure management. Collaborative disclosure management invoicing. Step through examples that illustrate how eliminating manual
solutions enable customers to go the last mile of finance to ensure a timely, paper-based systems could reduce operational costs, optimize working capital,
accurate and risk-free close process that helps reduce the cost and complexity and eliminate manual paper-based systems. Examine the key benefits of a
of managing the production, filing and publication of financial statements and sound e-invoicing solution, and how it provides a means to effectively integrate
reports. Be the first to hear about how SAPs acquisition of disclosure suppliers into the process. Learn how to increase the speed and accuracy of
management solutions from Cundus will be integrated into the SAP invoicing with document process automation, enabling your organization to
BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management portfolio, and see its process payments faster. Take home the results of an Aberdeen Group
key features in a demo of the new solution. research study that details the strategic value strategic value of accounts payable
automation, as well as e-payables.
A detailed guide to the new features and functions in SAP
General Ledger Best practices for integrating SAP functionality for financial
Erwin Brandt, SAP AG accounting and materials management
Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 108 (repeat session) Yoshi Williams, Independent
F4 F5 Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 124 (session repeated today at 2:00 pm)
Attend this session for an up-close view of the SAP General Ledger in SAP F4
ERP 6.0. Learn what functionality is available to support a more unified Attend this session for detailed advice to integrate your organizations financial
approach to management and financial accounting. Learn how the SAP accounting and materials management activities. Draw valuable lessons on for
General Ledger supports parallel accounting through the use of parallel ledgers building a custom account determination spreadsheet that can be used to
and parallel accounts. Learn how to utilize SAPs new profit center configure, test, deploy, and validate financial accounting postings. Review a
reorganization to automate and more easily shift those structures and sample transaction to see how the spreadsheet is used. Get tips for changing
responsibilities. Examine how the SAP General Ledger can help you support existing account determinations. Step through a diagram of a materials
corporate governance by offering perfect transparency among your entries, management account determination process and understand the benefits
helping to reduce the risk of non-compliance. automatic account determination can have on your supply chain. Take home a
sample materials management account determination spreadsheet to use as a
A step-by-step guide to implementing access control template for your organizations integration project, as well as a cost center
functionality determination spreadsheet and a list of movement types and transaction keys.
Rafael Smeyers, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 319 Best practices for using SAP General Ledger to create profit
G2 G5 center balance sheets
Take an in-depth look at critical success factors for a best in class SAP security Manish Dharnidharka, PricewaterhouseCoopers
and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementation. Walk through key Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 318
implementation and development steps, including a fully integrated overview of F5
all the relevant SAP security and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control This session guides you through the intricacies of creating profit center balance
components such as the SAP security design strategies, the development of sheets for managerial reporting. Review the fundamentals of creating balance
compliant user provisioning processes, and key integration points with other sheets by profit center. Step through a sample organizational reporting
initiatives such as identity management. Discuss the roles and responsibilities of structure that includes company codes, segments, profit centers, and cost
business and IT executives, management, and users, and understand the level of centers. Learn how to ensure that the general ledger correctly derives accounts
support required from each group throughout for a successful go-live. Take a receivable (A/R) and accounts payable (A/P) line items from profit centers.
guided tour of the different building blocks of an SAP BusinessObjects Access See an example of zero balancing to generate balanced line items by profit
Control implementation including security design, SAP security maintenance center. Take an in-depth look at how to configure real-time financials
processes, and periodic access reviews and find out how the individual decisions integration with profit center entries. See how a financials document balanced
your organizations make will look in the final integrated scenario. Walk away by profit center results from a cross-profit center managerial accounting (CO)
with a sample implementation plan, landscape diagram, and implementation posting.
considerations for SAP BusinessObjects Access Control capabilities.
Case study: From strategy to project execution: How SAP Lessons for evaluating and choosing the right option to report
managed its transition to IFRS on and analyze variances
Christiane Ohlgart, SAP John Jordan, ERP Corp
Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 304 Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 123
F13 G9 F2
Attend this session for a complete look at how SAP implemented a strategy Explore the different types of variance calculations available with SAP ERP
for IFRS compliance alongside US Generally Accepted Reporting Principles managerial accounting (CO) functionality, including total variance, production
(US GAAP). Examine SAPs key financial reporting requirements, such as its variance, and planning variance. Learn when and how to use each to enhance
need for uniform global accounting processes, as well as standardized your analysis activities. Walk through variance configuration settings and
guidelines and accounting languages. Learn what considerations were taken understand their impact on your variance reports. Gain insight into how
into account for the companys transition to IFRS, including how it adopted variance categories can be used to examine and determine the root causes of
and complied with the first time conversion rules required by IFRS 1. Find out production variances. Troubleshoot message analysis of the four input and four
how the company assigned responsibilities across its corporate financial, output variance categories, including input price, resource usage, and input
regional IFRS specialists, local SAP entities, and consulting teams. Hear the quantity variance. Obtain clear definitions and examples from period-end
key success factors for the project, including getting an early start in planning, variance analyses. Learn how to identify typical problems that can occur with
gaining clarity in the IFRS strategy, creating a dedicated project lead, and total, production, and planning variance calculations; and get expert advice on
engaging auditors early in the process. Hear what difficulties the project posed, taking corrective action.
such as aligning the efforts of two sets of financial statements in two different
languages and best practices for overcoming them. Lessons learned during an accounts payable automation
project
Case study: How PepsiCo overhauled its SAP security model Terri Bold, Dolphin
John Myers and Raj Manglavil, PepsiCo Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 320
Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Premier 306 F4
G2 Attend this session to hear first-hand, real world experiences from the field on
This session will provide an in-depth look at how PepsiCo redesigned its SAP how to optimize your accounts payable processes to more efficiently receive,
security model to streamline the role request and approval process and enter and track vendor invoices. Learn how to utilize SAP Business Workflow
automate user certification across multiple SAP applications. PepsiCos SAP and SAP NetWeaver certified add-ons such as process tracking and document
Security Design and Governance team leads will give firsthand insight into the imaging as part of a comprehensive, automated accounts payable
companys task-based approach and how the company leveraged SAP implementation. Find out how utilizing a financial shared services center can
BusinessObjects Access Control functionality to revamp its role-naming help your users adjust to changes, such as dealing with electronic images
standards. The revised model led to greater ownership by business sponsors instead of paper invoices, and adopting new, sophisticated workflow processes.
and improved end users experience on PepsiCos enterprise portal. Leave this Walk through a real-world example that demonstrates how companies have
session better prepared to lead a security design or redesign at your implemented accounts payable optimization components in multiple stages.
organization. Get tips and advice for tackling the challenges associated with testing, training
and change management.
Case study: Proven practices from Lockheed Martins (LM)
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control practice Executive session: Strategies for streamlining the process
Ken Lauver, Lockheed Martin and reducing costs associated with global trade regulatory
Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 106 compliance
G5 Douglas Zuvich and Andrew Siciliano, KPMG
Gain insights into the business requirements and corporate strategy that Friday, 8:30 am 9:45 am Grand 107
ultimately drove the decision and helped Lockheed Martin (LM) determine EX G10
which implementations of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control should make Even the most sophisticated global organizations are challenged in managing,
the upgrade to version 5.3. Learn how Lockheed Martin (LM) simplified its or even understanding, their global trade activities on a global scale. In
compliant user provisioning (CUP) user request process, helping to change the addition to costs, most CFOs do not realize the regulatory, financial, and
look and feel of the organizations access control applications. Walk through market risks that can accompany cross-border transactions until they are the
the process and standard review templates that LM put into place to audit its recipient of a significant penalty. This session offers proven methodologies to
SAP BusinessObjects Access Control application in order to meet its SOX acquire and maintain visibility into your global import and export activities.
404 requirements. Walk away from the session with some great ideas that you Get tips to help your organization more efficiently collect and manage its
can use to enhance your implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Access global trade data. Uncover new ways to realize cost savings and cash recovery
Control 5.3. within your global trade processes. Walk through a real-world example that
shares best practices for overcoming the common challenges in global trade
management, including a lack of visibility into global activities, reporting
inconsistencies, data management, and local country interpretations. Take
home a catalog of global trade duty and cost saving opportunities that you can
put to use in your own organization.
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Insider discussion forum: Tips and techniques to improve Critical advice to extend access management across the
compliance reporting in preparation for an audit enterprise
Matthew Polak and Evan Maltese, Ernst & Young Shelley J. Cottrill, Savera Systems
Friday, 10:00 am 10:30 am Grand 109 Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Grand 107
F2 G6 G5
Engage in a lively exchange of ideas and best practices for improving the way Learn how to meet regulatory demands by extending access management
your organization reports on its compliance initiatives, builds compliance across the enterprise to include people, process and technology. Find out how
reports for auditors, and meets reporting requirements. Get answers to to utilize enterprise access management functionality to better manage access
questions such as: How do your peers align their day-to-day financial reports to IT systems, facilities and critical assets as well as access to control systems
according to standards expected by an auditor? How do others internally audit for utilities. Hear real-world experiences and learn how to bridge the gaps
their reports and catch errors before they are cited for violations? Where does between various enterprise and operational systems to help stay in compliance
environmental reporting fit into the compliance reporting mix? What with NERC/CIP regulations. Understand how to validate background checks
functionality does SAP offer to help automate and ease the compliance and credentials for employees and contractors, and automated compliance
reporting process? assessments. Walk through a process for extending provisioning beyond IT to
include physical access control systems.
A top-down approach to segregation of duties (SoD)
remediation using SAP functionality for risk analysis and Critical insights for leveraging GRC to increase business
remediation agility and performance
John Livingood, Protiviti Dave Anderson, SAP
Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Premier 318 Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Grand 108
G2 G3 G7
Attend this session for expert recommendations to establish a segregation of Attend this session for a detailed look at how a sustainable GRC program
duties policy that is tailored to your organization. Learn how to replace impacts the strategic direction and performance of your organization. Learn
existing SAP roles with roles that are consistent with your internal policies, how to utilize SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions to provide a deeper level
conflict free, and that adhere to a standard naming convention. Walk through of context and awareness into your organizations performance objectives. Step
best practices for eliminating user level conflicts and for identifying mitigating through methods for using SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions that will help
controls for those that cannot be eliminated for a business approved reason. your company better perform and better execute its GRC initiatives in
Step through a demo of how to validate that unauthorized conflicts are not alignment with its corporate strategy. Explore functionality that allows key
included in the design of your SAP roles and users. Obtain tips and tricks for stakeholders to gain deeper insight into risks. Get preferred practices to assist
ensuring that proper user acceptance testing has taken place prior to go-live. your organization in effectively managing compliance and control requirements
Find out how to maintain a clean SAP environment by establishing and risk profiles in order to drive performance and the effective management
continuous monitoring mechanisms and processes. of key business strategies.
Best practices to reduce operating costs and increase Executive session: 10 stages for aligning technology with
customer satisfaction utilizing SAP Biller Direct and internal strategic performance measurement
self services in a financial shared service environment Dr. Sandra Richtermeyer, Institute of Management Accountants
Ralf Ille, SAP AG Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Grand 123
Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Premier 301 EX F1 F9
F10 CFOs and controllers want to give leaders in their organizations the right
Learn how to set up SAP Biller Direct, a self service portal for customers and balance of performance measures that will be useful in decision support,
suppliers to help reduce overall operating costs and increase customer planning, and control; however, it can be a challenge when the technology
satisfaction. Understand how this functionality works with bill and credit note infrastructure makes it difficult to obtain or extract the right information to
presentment and properly integrates with SAP Dispute Management, allowing calculate the measures. Learn what processes finance professionals commonly
customers to view the status of their disputes, thereby improving customer utilize as they work to capture more strategic information. Get tips and
relationships. Find out how this functionality benefits suppliers by working suggestions for implementing technology to deliver strategic performance
directly with invoice presentment and then properly integrates with an SAP metrics that are more supportive of organizational needs. Find out how to
Shared Service Framework providing a complete view invoice statuses along benchmark your own performance management activities with other finance
with critical payment info. Hear firsthand how a shared service framework professionals who use similar technology. Walk through the 10 most common
adds valuable internal self services from which a self-service portal can be built stages successful organizations may move through as they use technology to
for internal business functions. Increase process efficiency by reusing and become more sophisticated in performance measurement, including how to
seamless integrating master data governance technology for increased flexibility bring strategic concepts into the performance measurement picture. Leave this
for future extensions to your organizations financial master data. session with a clear understanding and best practices for aligning technology
with performance management.
Executive session: How world-class organizations transform Key lessons to help streamline your financial close
their finance function into a strategic enterprise performance Sandeep Bagchi, Keane
driver Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Premier 319
John Steele, Deloitte Consulting F6
Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Premier 304 Attend this session for an in-depth look at SAP features and functionality for
F1 F9 closing the financial books. Understand the process to identify the challenges
This session offers senior financial managers and executives concrete strategies and bottlenecks in the financial close and learn from the implementation
for measuring organizational performance and leveraging SAP to transform experiences at the top Fortune 500 list companies about SAP closing cockpit
the finance function into a key strategic lever. Learn how to apply a proven and its two central features, a template and a task list. See how it can help you
finance maturity model to assess the state of your finance organization and set perform a fast close, reduce costs associated with financial reporting, improve
goals for how to get to the next level of maturity. Find out how your peers are the accuracy and trustworthiness of your financial statements and streamline
improving corporate performance through the use of SAP analytics, SAP your financial reporting process. Understand the technical requirements to
BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions, and SAP implement closing cockpit, SAP Financial Closing cockpit and SAPs Fast
Strategic Enterprise Management. Identify and learn to overcome 10 barriers Close with Central Process Scheduling by Redwood. Leave the session with
to finance function transformation, specifically in the areas of policy, process, complete screenshots to configure SAP Financial Closing cockpit and a
talent, and technology. Evaluate which SAP and finance transformation detailed list of available tools and techniques involved in determining the
projects will provide the greatest benefit for the lowest price and risk. health of the closing process at your end. Walk away with a document that
contains list of the technical requirement to connect the SAP ECC with
Expert advice to automate your accounts payable process
business warehouse/business intelligence, reports available within standard
Tom Walker, OpenText
BW/BI, the tips and tricks to activate SAP NetWeaver Portal and techniques
Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Grand 106
to execute the closing task using SAP NetWeaver Portal.
F7
Attend this session and understand how SAP provides an Optical Character The last mile Tailoring GRC to your business
Recognition (OCR) solution as an option for SAP Invoice Management. Atul Sudhalkar, SAP BusinessObjects and Prentice Wells, SAP
Learn how to transform your business processes from a mundane non-value Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Premier 306
adding manual invoice data entry to fast efficient electronic capture of invoice G1
meta data at the header and line item. Learn why older template and form Attend this session for an in-depth review of new content lifecycle
based invoice recognition has been replaced with intelligent analysis providing management functionality within SAP BusinessObjects GRC version 10.0.
world class Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR). Get detailed tips to Find out how this integrated solution based on an ABAP platform can help
more effectively scanof invoices, process the various document types such as your organization add industry specific configurations as well as share content
purchase order based invoices, those with no purchase order, credit memos, across numerous regions. Learn how content expertise diffused throughout
and supporting documentation. Gain a better understanding on how the your organization (or beyond!) can be tapped, managed and channeled to all
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solution provided by SAP facilitates a your systems. Learn how to manage configuration content to dramatically
transition in the accounts payable process from manual to optimized lower implementations and worry-free updates. Walk through SAPs current
automated processing. solutions for more effective content management for GRC solutions, including
eGRC, continuous controls monitoring, and trade.
Integration techniques to optimize record-to-report business
processes in a global environment Tips and techniques for incorporating change management
Constantin Holzner, Accenture into your GRC audit
Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Premier 320 Bhavesh Bhagat, EnCrisp
F2 F6 Friday, 10:00 am 11:15 am Grand 124
Learn the best ways to integrate financial data between SAP General Ledger, F11 G6
SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation This session offers expert, undocumented tips for leveraging key design and
to optimize your organizations record-to-report process. Get best practices for change controls to gain both the transparency and evidence trail necessary to
using functionality across these applications to automate currency translation, pass any GRC system audit. Understand the thought process behind your
intercompany transactions, reconciliations, and eliminations to ensure data auditors technical assurance audit steps and how to prepare your responses
consistency. Hear expert advice for harmonizing master data and streamlining using standard access control functionality. Empower your internal audit and
your financial data transfers within the SAP landscape. Review which business controls teams to focus on the right areas without getting lost in
applications to use for your external financial reports, based on your technical layers of information. Get key insight to more easily manage change
organizations requirements. Leave this session with an understanding of how within the risk analysis and remediation and compliant user provisioning
to leverage an integrated SAP environment for a faster financial close, more functionality within SAP BusinessObjects Access Control. Walk away from
accurate data, and a lower cost of ownership. this session with a comprehensive list of SAP security and audit roles needed
to ensure success in any technical audit. Take home a list of key tips and
techniques to maintain your rule sets in risk analysis and remediation and steps
for managing the rules within your workflow design.
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Insider discussion forum: How do your SAP security and Ensure quality and efficiency of security access and
authorizations measure up? regulatory reporting by merging identity management with
Kapil Asher and Jose Espin, Ernst & Young compliance activities
Friday, 11:30 am 12:00 pm Premier 302 Sonny Dasgupta, SAP
G2 Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Grand 108
Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other G2
SAP customers are managing their SAP security and authorizations. Learn Faced with increasingly stringent regulatory requirements and pressure to
what key areas and functionality of SAP solutions you can leverage today to decrease IT cost, leading organizations are embedding compliance into the
boost security as well as improve your audit process. Engage in a discussion entire user life-cycle management process. In this session, learn how the
about how your peers are building compliance into their own SAP security combination of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control and identity
structures. Hear how others are getting their users and not just their management aligns business and IT to ensure that authorizations are
security administrator involved in maintaining a safe, secure, and compliant performed in a compliant manner, thereby enabling preventive compliance.
environment. Come away with insights into how put into place an enterprise-wide
mechanism to detect, mitigate, remediate and prevent access and authorization
Case study: How Old World Industries speeds the delivery of risk across key business processes.
actionable information to users with an automated financial
statement process Executive session: Data analysis strategies for getting an
Jason Schieffer, Old World Industries accurate picture of your organizations risk exposure
Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Grand 107 Steve Biskie, ERP Audit Solutions
F2 G7 Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Premier 318
Take an inside look at how Old World Industries, a producer of chemical and EX F9 G6
automotive products, automated its manual, spreadsheet-based processes for See for yourself how to add greater value to your business by achieving more
generating financial statements. Identify the business drivers that sparked the comprehensive insight into key risk areas. Find out how to detect and gauge
organizations decision to move its planning and consolidation activities to control weaknesses that put organizations at risk by leveraging data analytics
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, including the companys and automating your audit processes. Hear recent real-world examples
need to for improved data integrity and accuracy and the ability to provide companies that have used data analytics to recover costs, provide timely risk
quick financial statement variance analysis. Explore the steps that Old World reports, and do more with a lot less. This session will discuss strategies for
Industries has taken to automate its reporting activities and speed up the testing entire data populations on an ad hoc, repetitive, or continuous basis.
delivery of actionable information. Hear how the company consolidated all its Learn how to automate manual, repetitive tasks saving the organization
disparate data systems into one. Walk through the developments Old World valuable time and resources. Get tips to analyze data, then store, share, and
Industries has made since the initial implementation and what projects are in leverage those results across the audit team. Find out how to distribute
its future. transactional evidence of fraud, error, and waste directly to the business for
faster resolutions.
Case study: Key drivers behind the Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Educations SAP ERP Financials upgrade A detailed guide to the available reporting options in
Chris Bowling, PA State System of Higher Education SAP BusinessObjects GRC Solutions
Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Premier 304 Ankur Baishya, SAP Labs
F12 Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Premier 301
Hear firsthand why the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education made G7
the decision to upgrade its financial applications to SAP ERP 6.0. Uncover the This session offers detailed insight into the reporting options available within
major issues the organization encountered and resolved in the testing and post- SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, including Web Dynpro, SAP Crystal
go-live phases. Find out how database size and type of system landscape Reports, SAP BusinessObjects BI and Xcelsius. Get expert guidance to help
provided an advantage in both supporting the upgrade and minimizing determine the appropriate reporting strategy for your organization. Walk
production downtime. Learn why the involvement of functional experts was through a list of prerequisite technical requirements that are necessary before
critical to successfully resolve object differences detected with the modification adding the GRC report mart, SAP Crystal Reports, or Xcelsius in your GRC
assistant tool (available via transaction SPAU). Find out how technical issues environment. Walk through a live demonstration that will give you a better
were resolved early by allowing the Basis team to complete multiple iterations understanding of each of the available reporting options, using examples from
of the upgrade before users tested the software. Bolster your understanding of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, SAP BusinessObjects Process Control
the time and resources required to perform an SAP ERP upgrade. Take home and SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management.
a list of key upgrade issues to be aware of, and a copy of the documentation
the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education used to communicate
system changes to end users.
Leverage budget management functionality in SAP to Reducing inefficiencies and risks associated with paper-
administer budgets for investment management, project based accounts payable processes
systems, internal orders, and cost centers Joseph Pacor, SAP; Steve Sprague, Crossgate; and Tom Walker, OpenText
Michael Prakhina, Lazar Consultants Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Grand 123
Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Grand 124 F7
F3 This session describes alternatives to cumbersome and inefficient paper-based
Attend this session to learn how to streamline the budgeting processes for accounts payable processes. Take a guided tour of accounts payable process
project internal orders, and cost centers starting with the budget allocation and enhancements now available from SAP. Find out how SAP Invoice
finishing with the release of the budget. Walk through proven strategies to Management by Open Text, which utilizes both ABAP and SAP Business
configure and deploy SAP budget management functionality. Understand how Workflow, can be used to minimize your invoice processing time, better
to handle budgeting for more than one currency and evaluate whether or not manage cash flow, and increase the number of invoices processed by each
you will need to create custom budget tables. Realize the impact that purchase accounts payable processor. Crossgates service aggregator, the Business-Ready
orders and invoices have on your organizations budget. Compare actual Network, can facilitate the automation of your accounts payable processes.
postings versus budgets using cost centers and receive tips for budget approval Understand the optical character recognition (OCR) option for SAP Invoice
and release via the internet. Walk away with tips to display budget line items Management by Open Text and learn how to control the OCR from within
and learn how to run budget update reports. Take home a sample budget your SAP system to aid in process control and visibility.
template that you can upload into SAP.
Techniques to design and develop reports and input
Proven practices to simplify your tax withholding, calculation, schedules using EvDRE
and reporting needs Sandee Biggs, Breakwater Consulting
Darius Bikulcius, Accenture Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Grand 106
Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Premier 319 F2
F2 The session explores the fundamentals of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
This session offers expert tips to design and configure your SAP applications Consolidation, including how to create reports and input schedules using the
to meet direct tax reporting requirements. Find out how to reduce data range exchange (EvDRE) function. Discover the advantages of using
reconciliation issues by using tax sensitization techniques that can be applied to EvDRE over other reporting functions in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
your accounts payable, accounts receivable, general accounting, fixed assets, Consolidation 7.5. Get best practices for using the layout-building
and controlling components. Learn how to meet your global tax withholding functionality of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, such as
tax requirements using standard SAP functionality. Get best practices to better when to use multiple dimensions in RowKeyRange and ColKeyRange
address global direct tax requirements to better automate the tax provision parameters, when to avoid the CellKeyRange option, and how to perform
process. Walk through the key SAP General Ledger configuration steps custom expansions in a workbook. Come away with tips on how to boost
required to capture tax classification data at the source and more efficiently EvDRE performance, including using multiple EvDRE functions in a
perform core activities, such as determining, calculating, and reporting on workbook and accelerating data retrieval with one or multiple EvDRE
taxes. Take home leading practices, sample user guides, and demonstrations functions.
that will help you better design SAP General Ledger to meet your tax
requirements. Tips for involving internal and external audit teams in your
security design process
Reduce the impact of IT failures on overall business Jamie Croudace, Turnkey Consulting
performance using risk and performance analytics Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Premier 320
Jean-Bernard Rolland, SAP G2 G6 G8
Friday, 11:30 am 12:45 pm Premier 306 As audit companies become more technically savvy, and the importance placed
G1 on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance grows, the necessity of involving both internal
Attend this session for detailed recommendations to gain greater visibility into and external auditors at all stages of your security implementation cannot be
the causes of all too common IT risks, such as failed implementations, security understated. This session will arm you with expert advice for involving auditors
breaches, and application unavailability. Get detailed advice on how to use risk as an integral part of your security design process and how to maintain that
and performance analytics as a method to prevent future or even further relationship as updates are made. Find out where auditors can (and should)
damage to enterprise assets, revenues, and possibly new business initiatives add value in your project, for example their ability to provide valuable input on
by linking your IT activities to key business processes. Hear firsthand how to both security and controls within the project design. Take home a checklist of
get started with an IT continuous monitoring project and how to tie it into a information that you should require from your audit teams and detailed list of
broader IT strategy governance plan. things you should be providing them with, such as documentation of internal
controls. Leave this session armed with a practical plan to integrate auditors
into your security implementation, upgrade or redesign project.
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Financials Expert LIVE: Use alternative valuation runs in the A comprehensive guide and strategic roadmap to SAP
material ledger to smooth seasonal price variances BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
Janet Salmon, SAP solutions
Friday, 12:15 pm 1:00 pm Premier 302 Michael Lortz, SAP
F4 Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Grand 123 (repeat session)
Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Janet Salmon, Solution G1 G5
Manager, SAP, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of her most Understand the functionality that SAP has in place to more effectively align
widely read articles from Financials Expert the leading publication and and unify your governance, risk management, and compliance initiatives. Get
knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions for finance. valuable advice to help reduce risk exposure, make more effective decisions
Learn how and why it may necessary to set up an alternative valuation run to regarding strategy, and optimize your organizations overall performance. Get
be performed after the first costing run. Walk through the set up of an tips to prepare for the real impact that financial, social, and environmental risks
alternative valuation run using the same basic data as your initial costing run. can have on your business such as the loss of revenue, fraud, and failed audits.
Find out how it calculates prices over a longer time frame to smooth out the Learn how to align your operational processes into your organizations strategic
variances. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and engage objectives. Understand how to more readily identify competitive opportunities
with peers who have the same interests and priorities. in the marketplace. Learn how SAPs portfolio of solutions can be mapped to
your current and future GRC requirements and get an up-close look into
GRC Expert LIVE: Ensure success in your next SAP audit with SAPs vision for GRC and whats to come with future releases.
standard audit features
Bhavesh Bhagat, EnCrisp A step-by-step guide to leveraging inter- and intra-company
Friday, 1:45 pm 2:30 pm Grand 109 processing options for more efficient management reporting
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read articles from GRC Expert the leading publication and knowledgebase Examine the intricacies and business requirements that surround how an
for organizations that leverage SAP BusinessObjects solutions for governance, organization records inter-company and intra-company transactions in the
risk, and compliance. Learn how to conduct technical assurance audits using SAP General Ledger. This session arms you with the various configuration
robust features within your existing SAP ERP implementation. Discover options available in SAP to process intercompany transactions in both your
undocumented tips for leveraging key reports and controls to gain transparency financial and managerial accounting applications. Learn how to correctly set up
and the necessary evidence trail to perform rigorous system and business your master data for more accurate management reports, such as funds
process audits. Youll receive a copy of the article free of charge and management reports. Get a detailed guide to the settings in SAP General
engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities. Ledger that will enable the processing of intra-company transactions.
Understand how to configure and process intercompany transactions within
GRC Expert LIVE: Sustainable procurement as an embedded your purchasing and sales and distribution processes. View a demonstration
process in supplier management activities that shows how to use in-house cash functionality to settle inter-company
William Newman, Newport Consulting Group
transactions.
Friday, 1:45 pm 2:30 pm Premier 302
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Principal, Newport Consulting Group, and engage in an in-depth discussion Chris Grundy, SAP
about one of his most widely read articles from GRC Expert the leading Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Premier 301
publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions F9
for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn how to embed sustainable Access to trusted data is critical for effective financial performance
procurement process functions as part of SAP Supplier Relationship management processes, yet the task of managing data is often held outside of
Management (SAP SRM), in combination with SAP BusinessObjects GRC the finance department and in the hands of IT. Learn how to utilize SAP
solutions and SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management BusinessObjects Financial Information Management, which draws on the
(EPM) solutions. Understand how commercial and public sector organizations SAP BusinessObjects Data Services platform to better manage the integration
are reviewing policies and practices to address sustainable procurement, processes that feed financial data into your organizations enterprise
particularly in environmental and social areas, to realize new economic gain. performance management solution. Learn how to use the intuitive interface to
more easily manage the information management process. Ensure the delivery
of consistent and accurate data by utilizing SAP BusinessObjects Financial
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Best practices for integrating SAP functionality for financial Improve the quality of cash flow reports using account
accounting and materials management transformation and currency translation business rules
Yoshi Williams, Independent John Cerqueira, Reliable Technical Solutions
Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Premier 306 (repeat session) Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Premier 304
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Attend this session for detailed advice to integrate your organizations financial Learn how to automate your cash flow reporting activities to reduce your time
accounting and materials management activities. Draw valuable lessons on for to close and improve the quality of your cash flow reports. This session arms
building a custom account determination spreadsheet that can be used to you with expert advice for setting up account transformation and currency
configure, test, deploy, and validate financial accounting postings. Review a translation business rules using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
sample transaction to see how the spreadsheet is used. Get tips for changing Consolidation on both a consolidated and non-consolidated level. Find out
existing account determinations. Step through a diagram of a materials how the use of account transformation business rules can provide the ability to
management account determination process and understand the benefits use the value of one account in different areas of your financial reports.
automatic account determination can have on your supply chain. Take home a Discover how to calculate values for a cumulative currency translation
sample materials management account determination spreadsheet to use as a adjustment which then automatically determines the effect a change in
template for your organizations integration project, as well as a cost center exchange rate will have your companys cash reports. Take home examples of
determination spreadsheet and a list of movement types and transaction keys. local currency and group currency financial statements, including cash flow
statements.
Cloud computing is not just an IT initiative: Critical
considerations for business and finance executives Lessons for conducting user access reviews of your SAP
Kevin Morris, PricewaterhouseCoopers system
Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Premier 319 James Roeske, Savera Systems
EX Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Grand 124 (repeat session)
Cloud computing is often discussed as an IT concept, but it is even more G2
about how a company can more quickly adjust to change whether through new Learn how to set up and conduct periodic reviews of who is accessing your
business opportunities, new challenges from a competitor, or new business SAP system using compliant user provisioning functionality within SAP
strategies. Embracing cloud principles means a shift in the way your company BusinessObjects Access Control. Find out how to uncover instances of
will do business, and there are various aspects that business and finance obsolete and outdated access that can contribute to segregation of duties (SoD)
executives need to consider, including finance, security, compliance, and tax violations. Determine whether existing access processes can be mapped as is
implications. This session explores where and how executives can adopt aspects within compliant user provisioning or when they should be re-evaluated or
of the cloud model to drive opportunities for the business as well as efficiencies completely remodeled. Find out how to integrate compliant user provisioning,
in IT. Hear how cloud computing can help businesses meet demands for enterprise role management and risk analysis and remediation in order for user
greater agility by accelerating innovation, focusing on customer engagement, access reviews to be fully operational. Take home a list of best practices and
and improving connections. Learn the benefits of supporting more of your key examples of how other customers are conducting user access reviews.
business using cloud services or internal IT inspired by cloud architectures and
processes. New strategies to align procurement with finance and reduce
overall spend
How to perform more agile planning and forecasting using Padmini Ranganathan, SAP
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Premier 320
David Williams, SAP F1
Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Premier 318 (repeat session) With real-world examples from a variety of industries, this session showcases
F3 strategies to tightly align procurement and financial activities. Learn what SAP
Whether you are new to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation or BusinessObjects software is now available to not only analyze what a company
already have some experience, this guide to the latest functionality for both the spends, but also identify opportunities to reduce costs and monitor and enforce
Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver platforms can help you increase organizational procurement policies. Hear how companies flag off-contract spend and
agility, improve planning accuracy, and achieve a faster, more compliant contract leakage, monitor supplier performance, identify cost-saving
financial close. Reduce the learning curve and increase your user adoption rate opportunities, and improve their negotiating position with suppliers. Review
by leveraging native Microsoft Office tools, which provide familiar and easy to leading procurement initiatives and their expected impact on financial
use interfaces. Find out how to save time and resources when integrating and performance. Learn what obstacles companies typically face when
maintaining business user applications by leveraging the same SAP NetWeaver implementing a spend analytics strategy, and get practical tips to address these
system that drives your data warehouse. Learn how to reduce budget cycle challenges. Find out how the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio can help facilitate
time by enabling stakeholders the ability to collaborate and align their budgets. the sharing of information between your risk and strategy functions.
Find out how other customers have improved planning accuracy, providing
them the ability to conform to highly complex business processes and
methodology changes. Hear about the latest starter kits that help improve
capital expenditure planning and cash flow forecasting.
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Technical architecture, landscape, and integration

considerations for SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions
Kurt Hollis, Deloitte Consulting
Friday, 2:00 pm 3:15 pm Grand 107 (repeat session)
G5
Examine the resources that are required to correctly install and support SAP
BusinessObjects GRC solutions in a variety of SAP landscapes. Learn the core
technical concepts and architectural considerations that must be factored into
pre-installation, installation, and post-installation activities for a successful
implementation. Step through the compatibility and integration issues that
could arise, depending on what SAP applications you are already running. Get
detailed strategies and best practices for consolidating SAP BusinessObjects
Access Control with other GRC solutions onto a single SAP NetWeaver
platform. Take home a list of common technical problems and their associated
solutions, along with implementation checklists that offer advice you wont
find in standard documentation.
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to perform basic computations, data uploads to SAP systems with a single RIM and Winshuttle used to determine how to optimize the usage of SAP
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Best practices and guidelines to successfully implement Can cloud clear the way for business transformation?
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for legal Phil Lageschulte, Partner with KPMG
consolidations Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Grand 107
Reidar Schopp, Edgewater Technology G1
Thursday, 11:45 am 1:00 pm Grand 106 Cloud enablement, like other disruptive force technologies, affects all
F3 information systems within an enterprise and at the very least your GRC, HR,
Legal consolidations are a complex set of processes that require great precision. and financials applications. The Cloud is rapidly driving the virtualization of
Attend this session and get practical advice on how to implement SAP technology both within and across organizations and can provide a unique
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to complete your organizations opportunity for business transformation while simultaneously providing an
legal consolidations with ease. Find out how to prepare your source system, organization with a competitive advantage. Learn how making the decision to
ERP system, or other general ledger to send data to SAP BusinessObjects employ cloud technologies is a business discussion that goes beyond your IT
Planning and Consolidation. Learn how to properly configure SAP teams. Understand how rolling out a cloud initiative can help ease your IT
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rules, as well as provide adequate reporting, and to meet external regulatory reduction in inventory and costs of goods sold, and improve your time to
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implement SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to make to and security and how the way through them will eventually become
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www.anydocsoftware.com since 1989. Clients include: Fastenal Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, BlueCross
Booth #340 BlueShield, the U.S. Census, LeasePlan, Coop, and more. For additional information, please
visit www.AnyDocSoftware.com or call 1-800-775-3222 and ask for Client Services.
Aster Group Aster Group is one of SAP BusinessObjects largest selling and consulting partners for
434B Copperfield Boulevard NE the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application. Aster Group has over
Concord, NC 28025 USA 200 SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation clients and has built over 400 SAP
Phone: 704-262-9200 BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation applications. By utilizing a combination of
Email: brenden.stucky@astergroup.com functional business experience, product expertise, and industry best practices, Aster Group
www.astergroup.com has enabled clients to maximize the business value of their solution. Aster Groups list of
Booth #1080 services includes: SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation implementation services
(SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft SQL), upgrades, help desk, remote administration, online
and onsite training, health check assessments, technical services, and end-to-end Business
Intelligence.
Billtrust Over 500 businesses throughout North America are achieving significant cost savings on their
1095 Cranbury - South River Road billing process by outsourcing to Billtrust. Billtrusts best-in-class bill presentment and payment
Suite 3 solution helps their clients improve cash flow, reduce DSO and reduce their costs of sending
Jamesburg, NJ 08831 USA invoices and statements. The companys flagship product and service suite, CompleteBilling,
Phone: 609-235-1010 includes paper, fax, e-mail and online billing. As billing experts, Billtrust offers enhanced bill
Email: mrose@billtrust.com design, in-bill marketing, an advanced customer service tool & a proven e-Adoption marketing
www.billtrust.com program. For more information, visit Billtrust online at www.billtrust.com.
Booth #700
BlackLine Systems BlackLine Systems was the first to develop and offer a commercially available Balance Sheet
23586 Calabasas Road. Suite 103 Account Reconciliation solution. An experienced provider of software to companies from the
Calabasas, CA 91302 USA Fortune 100 to beyond the Fortune 1,000, BlackLine provides quick-to-implement, scalable
Phone: 818-223-9008 and easy-to-use applications that automate the entire financial close process to help improve
Email: howard.goldstein@blackline.com financial controls for companies of all sizes. BlackLine software applications complement
www.blackline.com existing Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Booth #1575 and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. BlackLine offers clients its enterprise-class
software in an easy to implement OnDemand/SaaS platform.
Brainware, Inc. Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search
20110 Ashbrook Place, Suite #150 solutions that provide SAP users visibility and control of their document-centric processes,
Ashburn, VA 20147 USA eliminate costly manual data entry, and rapidly process large volumes of documents. Specifically
Phone: 703-948-5800 created for unstructured documents, Brainware Distiller handles multiple types of financial
Email: info@brainware.com documents invoices, orders, remittances, contracts, EOBs, and more. Distiller extracts and
www.brainware.com validates document data, including line item details, and exports to existing financial, workflow,
Booth #455 and enterprise content management systems. Distiller also removes the errors associated with
manual keying while providing a full audit trail of each document in the process.
Breakaway Technologies, Inc. Breakaway Technologies, Inc. delivers business intelligence and business performance
385 Oxford Valley Road, Suite 322 management solutions that dramatically improve enterprise-wide results. We have been
Yardley, PA 19056 USA helping executives in finance, manufacturing, sales, marketing and other functions to unleash
Phone: 215-369-7200 their wisdom and better use data to manage their performance for over ten successful years.
Email: twarner@breakaway-inc.com Let us add value throughout your organization by improving operations, reducing costs,
www.breakaway-inc.com streamlining work processes and deploying tools that complement your SAP investment by
Booth #780 delivering online, real-time data access and analysis. Contact us at (215) 369-7200, or info@
breakaway-inc.com, to learn more and how you can become a member of Breakaways family
of satisfied clients.
Business & Decision Business & Decision is an international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) company.
500 N Dearborn, Suite 1250 We are a leader in Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
Chicago, IL 60610 USA Data Warehousing, Master Data Management (MDM), Customer Relationship Management
Phone: 312-233-9466 (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and are a major player in Life Sciences Computer
Email: andrew.fletcher@businessdecision.com Systems Validation (CSV). In addition, we have an FDA regulated focused Hosting Center in
www.businessdecision.us Philadelphia supported by Managed Services for all industries.
Booth #1475
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CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business Automate sales and consumer use tax calculations with CCHs CorpSystem Sales Tax Office
2700 Lake Cook Road solution for SAP customers. We offer pre-packaged user exits with our certified SAP integration
Riverwoods, IL 60015 USA (SD, FI, and MM modules), allowing full utilization of our address validation functionality,
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Booth #260
Cforia Software Auto Cash Application, Credit, Collection and Chargeback Software that reduces DSO and
4333 Park Terrace Drive, Suite 201 greater than 30-day-old deductions dramatically after a short 90-day project, Cforias solution
Westlake Village, CA 91361 USA has SAP-certified integration with SAP NetWeaver. AR Automation Platform increases efficiency
Phone: 866-859-1054 and leans AR metrics by seamlessly managing all activities from a unified environment. AR
Email: bwentzel@cforia.com Financial Reporting provides real-time KPIs across all Divisions, disparate ERP Systems,
www.cforia.com multiple currencies and languages. Drop by and learn how OCR Auto Cash Application can
Booth #257 create a synthetic BAI2 file that eliminates bank keying fees and errors while increasing cash
application productivity by 50%, without a long, drawn-out project.
Column5 Consulting Column5 is an SAP channel and services partner supporting the enterprise performance
14500 N. Northsight Boulevard. management portfolio of solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,
Scottsdale, AZ 85260 USA SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management, SAP BusinessObjects Strategy
Phone: 800-360-7839 Management, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence solutions. Column5 has helped
Email: info@column5.com more organizations worldwide leverage SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions than any other
www.column5.com third party to improve how they plan and manage their businesses.
Booth #450
COMPIRICUS AG COMPIRICUS AG is a software provider and consulting partner specialized in finance as well
Solmsstrasse 18 as treasury, asset and risk management. We are SAP service and development partner and
Frankfurt, 60486 our team works with the SAP Treasury and Risk Management application from the very first
Germany line of coding. We offer integrated solutions tailored to customer requirements, ranging from
Phone: +49-69-450024-111 concept consulting, software implementation and IT integration right through to software
Email: info@compiricus.de development. Our clients belong to various industries, e.g. Utility, Consumer Goods, Financial
www.compiricus.de Industry.We support our customers projects on a global scale and help our customers to
Booth #1280 create solutions to meet local and international requirements.
DC&M Partners, LLC DC&M Partners LLC specializes in SAP consultancy services and brings SAP-certified add-on
2040 S. Alma School Road products to market through its wholly-owned subsidiary DC&M Labs LLC. DC&M Partners
Suite 1-134 empowers clients through a wide range of SAP development, consultancy, and management
Chandler, AZ 85286 USA services, emphasizing quality, experience, and timeliness. Visit DC&M Partners online at
Phone: 480-899-1309 www.dcm-partners.com.
Email: gary.willman@dcm-partners.com
www.dcmiris.com
Booth #380
Delego Software, Inc. Delego is the global leader in providing the most choices in credit card and electronic payment
12926 Dairy Ashford, Suite 184 processing for SAP applications. As the only solution to provide both onsite and hosted
Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA choices, Delego also provides the most choices for your card information security with choice
Phone: 281-491-0319 of token replacement methods, alternative payment methods, and processor connections. As
Email: aczenski@delego.ca the most flexible and robust payment solution, Delego can meet your specific needs, quickly
www.delego.ca and cost effectively. Delego delivers to your timeline and within budget. Delego can also
Booth #105 quickly convert you from another solution with ease.
Deloitte Consulting LLP Deloitte Consulting LLP adds a new dimension to any SAP implementation, providing a 360-
25 Broadway degree approach to maximize the value of your SAP investment. We view implementation
New York, NY 10004 USA through a broader lens, using our multidisciplinary capabilities to produce solutions that help
Phone: 212-618-4000 you achieve unmatched business value. Were in every global business hub and our team is
Email: deloitteglobalsappractice@deloitte.com well positioned to help you anticipate the needs of your global suppliers and customers. Ask us
SILVER www.deloitte.com/sap how we can help transform your company by going beyond basic improvement to achieve stellar
SPONSOR business performance and produce significant and sustainable change.
Booth #875
Dickinson + Associates Dickinson + Associates, an SAP partner, Delivers New Implementations, Upgrade Services,
One North LaSalle Street Value-Driven SAP Optimization, On-Site and Remote Support, and Professional Staffing
Suite 800 Services. Our consulting professionals are truly Business People who know SAP systems that
Chicago, IL 60602 USA bring the right combination of Industry and SAP expertise for your SAP needs.
Phone: 312-419-9600
Email: info@dickinson-assoc.com
www.dickinson-assoc.com
Booth #345
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Dolphin Dolphin makes crucial business operations like data management, data archiving, accounts
1487 Dunwoody Drive, Suite 350 payable, accounts receivable and order management run better and smarter for organizations
West Chester, PA 19380 USA using SAP solutions. Focused on improving business performance through Information
Phone: 610-725-9125 Lifecycle Management and Business Process Management, Dolphin produces the right
Email: contact@dolphin-corp.com solution for each customer, faster, through its unmatched experience in SAP technologies,
www.dolphin-corp.com and its proven best practices, tools and SAP add-on applications. Dolphin solutions improve
Booth #1135 business and IT performance, lower total cost of ownership and deliver high return on
investment. The company was founded in 1995 and has offices in Philadelphia, PA and San
Jose, CA.
e5 Solutions Group e5 Solutions Group is the recognized leader in solution design and implementation of all
107 Chesley Drive, Building Three of SAPs functionality for Treasury and Cash Management, including Debt and Investment,
Media, PA 19063 USA Intercompany Loans, Market and Credit Risk Management, Foreign Currency Exposure
Phone: 610-891-1800 Management, Hedge Management, In-House Banking, Cash Management and Electronic Bank
Email: maggie.masar@e5solutions.com Statement Processing. e5 helps companies to maximize their return on financial investments,
www.e5solutions.com reduce risk, streamline critical finance operations, optimize cash management, and improve
Booth #975 corporate performance. With the experience of more than 50 successful implementation
engagements worldwide, e5 can help you deliver a comprehensive treasury management
solution that will satisfy all of your critical financial functions.
Edgewater Technology Edgewater Technology brings a synergistic blend of consulting services to our clients in the
20 Harvard Mill Square areas of business advisory, analytics, data management, and technology. Our services are
Wakefield, MA 01880 USA designed to assist clients in improving financial and operational performance across their
Phone: 781-246-3343 enterprise through implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation software.
Email: makewaves@edgewater.com
www.edgewatersap.com
Booth #1580
Ernst & Young LLP The relationship between risk and performance improvement is an increasingly complex and
5 Times Square central business challenge, with business performance directly connected to the recognition
New York, NY 10036 USA and effective management of risk. Whether your focus is on business transformation or
Phone: 212-773-3000 sustaining achievement, having the right advisors on your side can make all the difference.
Email: mark.chadwick@ey.com Our 20,000 advisory professionals form one of the broadest global advisory networks of
PREMIER www.ey.com/US/en/Services/Advisory any professional organization, delivering seasoned multidisciplinary teams that work with
SPONSOR our clients to deliver a powerful and superior client experience. We use proven, integrated
Booth #1400
methodologies to help you achieve your strategic priorities and make improvements that are
sustainable for the longer term.
ERP Logic, Inc. ERP Logic, Inc. is an SAP partner and global business solutions implementation and consulting
7301 N State Highway 161 company. We understand the challenges with the current economic conditions and the difficult
Suite #150 credit markets and how these conditions have forced companies to improve their cash flow
Irving, TX 75039 USA and reduce their working capital. Our in-house experts assist clients every day in achieving
Phone: 972-401-3771 their cash management goals by leveraging the right solutions to provide better financial
Email: info@erplogic.com visibility and control over cash and liquidity management. Our proven track record with several
www.erplogic.com Fortune 500 companies lies in our deep expertise in simplifying and streamlining business
Booth #980 processes.
Esker Esker helps businesses Quit Paper and bring additional value to their SAP solutions by
1212 Deming Way, Suite 350 automating accounts payable and accounts receivable invoice processing with a single
Madison, WI 53717 USA platform. An established SAP software solution partner whose solutions have SAP-certified
Phone: 800-368-5283 integration, Esker offers cloud services and on-premise solutions using patented technology
Email: info@esker.com to automate the flow of documents into and out of the enterprise. Businesses that integrate
www.esker.com Esker solutions with their SAP systems typically reduce invoice processing time and costs by
Booth #605 at least 40%. In addition, companies can leverage the Esker platform to automate sales order
PLATINUM processing, PO delivery, faxing and more. Learn more at www.esker.com.
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Excel4apps Excel4apps is a provider of best-in-class Excel-based reporting software for Oracle and SAP
Suite 201 8384 Six Forks Road systems. Its award winning GL Wand product helps Oracle and SAP financial professionals
Raleigh, NC 27615 USA save time by delivering accurate and secure information in the familiar Excel environment.
Phone: 919-238-4040 The company serves a broad range of industries, including financial services, education,
Email: scott.stollwerk@excel4apps.com utilities, insurance, hospitality, manufacturing and engineering. All products are available
www.excel4apps.com for immediate download and free trial, installing in minutes with no data warehouse and no
Booth #705 additional hardware, setup or security configuration needed. Excel4apps maintains offices in
the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, UAE and South Africa.
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Global Software, Inc. Headquartered in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, Global Software, Inc. is the
3201 Beechleaf Court, Suite 170 No.1 provider of Microsoft Excel-based automation tools for leading ERP systems including
Raleigh, NC 27604 USA SAP. Globals Spreadsheet Automation Suite comprised of the flagship Spreadsheet Server,
Phone: 800-326-3444 Executive DASH Powered by the QueryExchange and Enterprise Budgeting is the fulcrum of
Email: info@glbsoft.com Globals applications suite. Globals products are used in 40 countries and support over 4,000
www.glbsoft.com customers and 175,000+ users worldwide. Global has regional offices in Greensboro, NC,
Booth #475 Seattle, WA and New York, NY. Its EMEA headquarters is located in London, UK.
Hanse Orga International Corp. Hanse Orga International is an independent software and consulting firm for Financial Supply
220 East Huron Street Chain Management processing within SAP systems. Hanse Orga is an SAP software solution
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA partner, the products have SAP-certified integration. Hanse Orgas FinanceSuite bring proven
Phone: 734-730-9658 added value for cash application and reconciliation, cash and liquidity management, payment
Email: t.lynn@hanseorga.com management and treasury. The strategy to develop enhanced SAP functionality, programmed
www.hanseorga.com in ABAP, allows for the software to be installed directly in SAP systems. The customer centric
Booth #575 approach before, during and after the implementation has resulted in more than 450 satisfied
clients internationally, such as BASF, BMW, Honeywell, IBM and Philips.
HighRadius Corporation HighRadius Corporation provides Financial Supply Chain Management software solutions
9801 Westheimer, Suite 1050 to automate and optimize the business processes of receivables functions such as: credit,
Houston, TX 77042 USA collections and deductions. Our innovative solutions automate the order-to-cash cycle while
Phone: 281-968-4473 standardizing and streamlining the underlying business processes.
Email: geoff.land@highradius.com
www.highradius.com
Booth #240
Hyland Software One of the worlds largest independent enterprise content management (ECM) software
28500 Clemens Road vendors, Hyland Software is the developer of OnBase. An award-winning suite of document
Westlake, OH 44145 USA and process management solutions, OnBase has a proven record of solving problems resulting
Phone: 888-495-2638 from time consuming, costly and error plagued manual tasks. Today, people at more than
Email: ContactUs@OnBase.com 9,500 organizations in 67 countries have the time to do the things that really add value thanks
www.hyland.com to OnBase. Available on-premises or as software as a service (SaaS), OnBase installs quickly,
Booth #110 cost effectively and is designed to grow with organizations. For more about how document
management software is helping organizations to solve their operational problems, go to
http://blog.hyland.com.
Insider Training Insider Training is the most convenient, cost-effective way to sustain your competitive edge on
20 Carematrix Drive evolving SAP technologies. We offer over 40 in-depth Seminars on Demand, all recorded live at
Dedham, MA 02026 USA SAPinsiders world-class events and designed to answer your toughest questions. View courses
Phone: 781-751-8700 online, download them to your desktop, or watch videos on CD to get detailed training and
Email: info@wisinsidertraining.com practical insights from our lessons and case-studies, without the cost of travel or time spent
www.WISinsidertraining.com away from work. Visit us at the WIS Publishing Booth, or at www.WISinsidertraining.com.
Booth #1050
Kofax, Inc. Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is the leading provider of document driven business process automation
15211 Laguna Canyon Road solutions. For more than 20 years, Kofax has provided award-winning solutions that streamline
Irvine, CA 92618 the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture, transformation
USA and exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in
Phone: 949-727-1733 a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return
SILVER Email: nicole.scheid@kofax.com on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, government, business
SPONSOR process outsourcing, healthcare, supply chain and other markets. For more information, visit
www.kofax.com
Booth #250 www.kofax.com.
Mudiam Inc We are a leader in Payment Cards Automation Solutions for SAP customers implementing
9894 Bissonnet Street, Suite 908 sales distribution, finance and CRM modules. We have a proven solution, which is certified
Houston, TX 77036 by SAP as an add-on solution for Payment Cards Processing in real time within your SAP
USA ecosystem. Our solution for use with SAP systems is PCI-DSS compliant leaving you, the
Phone: 713-484-7266 customer, with complete compliance, with peace of mind that Credit Card is tokenized using
Email: Reddy@Mudiaminc.com the AES-256 encryption technology. Our tokenized credit card solutions will not have any trail
www.Mudiaminc.com/SAP-PCI of the original Credit Card number entered in SAP system. We have partnered with more than
Booth #355 20 leading Payment Processors.
OpenText OpenText is the worlds largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management
275 Frank Tompa Drive (ECM) software. We bring together leading Content Experts to help organizations manage
Waterloo, ON N2L 0A1 Canada and gain true value from their business content. Working with SAP since 1992 has helped
Phone: 800-499-6544 OpenText become the market leader in document access, archiving, records management,
Email: sales@opentext.com and invoice management extensions for SAP applications. Our proven OpenText Vendor
SILVER www.opentext.com/sap Invoice Management for SAP Solutions and the optional optical character recognition (OCR)
SPONSOR extends SAP ERP Financials to optimize accounts payable operations and our OpenText
Booth #675
Document Access for SAP Solutions connects business documents in the context of SAP
applications to improve content-intensive business processes and reduce risk.
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Oversight Systems Oversight Systems identifies fraud, misuse and errors in business transactions and master
1090 Northchase Parkway data files for some of the worlds largest companies and institutions. Its continuous transaction
Suite 350 monitoring software is capable of processing and comparing data across multiple, often
Atlanta, GA 30067 USA disparate systems. Oversight harnesses powerful analytics that excel at finding problems and
Phone: 770-984-4650 offers an investigators workbench for fixing problems. This process drives users to efficiently
Email: anne.coleman@oversightsystems.com correct exceptions and provides management with actionable information for continuous
www.oversightsystems.com financial and operational improvement.
Booth #315
Panaya Panayas Software-as-a-Service solutions enable companies that use SAP to save up to
2480 Sand Hill Road, Suite 200 50% of their application lifecycle costs and minimize the risks associated with system
Menlo Park, CA 94025 changes. Utilizing cloud-based simulation to analyze the impact of pending changes, Panaya
USA automatically pinpoints which custom programs will break as a result of an upgrade or support
Phone: 415-329-0200 package implementation and automatically fixes most of these problems. Panaya provides a
Email: info@panayainc.com complete solution for managing these changes, explaining how to fix the anticipated issues,
www.panayainc.com fixing most of them automatically, suggesting the most efficient test plan, and calculating
Booth #375 required project budget and resources.
Paymetric, Inc. Paymetric, Inc. is the leading provider of integrated and secure electronic payment acceptance
11175 Cicero Drive, Suite 175 solutions that enable companies to streamline the order-to-cash process, reduce the scope
Alpharetta, GA 30022 USA and financial burden of achieving PCI compliance and improve return on electronic payment
Phone: 678-242-5281 acceptance. Paymetrics solutions support virtually every type of electronic payment in any
Email: info@paymetric.com enterprise system where payment is accepted. Paymetric is recognized as an industry leader
www.paymetric.com and is a three-time award-winning SAP partner whose solutions have SAP-certified integration.
Booth #275 Visit www.paymetric.com for additional information.
PwC PwC (www.pwc.com) network firms provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory
300 Madison Avenue services to enhance value for their clients. More than 161,000 people in 154 countries across
New York, NY 10017 USA the PwC network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives
Phone: 312-298-3199 and practical advice. Our consulting professionals leverage our network of global resources
Email: carol.j.zielinski@us.pwc.com and industry knowledge to help clients implement their business strategies and priorities to
www.pwc.com/us/sap build effective organizations, innovate and grow profitably, reduce costs, manage risk and
Booth #1000 regulation, and leverage talent. As business integrators, we look across the entire organization
focusing on strategy, structure, people, process and technology to help our clients drive
sustainable change that yields measurable results.
Quality Systems & Software Quality Systems & Software (QS&S) is widely acknowledged in the industry as leading SAP
4264 Nerissa Circle, #100 experts. Our Data Re-organization Optimizer (SDRO) offers a comprehensive solution to
Fremont, CA 94555 USA managing complex data reorganization, conversion, and harmonization, including conversion
Phone: 408-242-7588 of historical data in live production environments. General Ledger Migration Optimizer
Email: Mitresh@QSandS.com (GLMO) allows organizations to accelerate new general ledger initiatives. Group Currency
www.QSandS.com Activation & Conversion (GCAC) automates activating parallel currencies and converting
Booth #280 historical transactions. QS&S offers an extensive portfolio of services in business planning
and consolidation, CFO solutions, general ledger (including migration), IFRS change-over,
financial closing, CRM, business intelligence, global rollouts, fresh implementations, upgrades,
archiving solutions, testing strategies, offshore support, and more.
ReadSoft ReadSofts financial process automation applications have SAP-certified integration, and help
3838 N. Causeway Blvd Lakeway III organizations monitor processes, gain real-time visibility into financial transactions, provide
Suite 2400 early notification of errors, decrease costs, and shorten total processing time. ReadSofts
Metairie, LA 70002 USA packaged and enterprise solutions automate essential processes such as invoices, customer
Phone: 888-ReadSof(t) orders, delivery note handling, journal entry correction and more. End-to-end solutions include
GOLD Email: SAP@readsoft.com image and data capture and an inside SAP suite of workflow solutions for problem resolution
SPONSOR and approvals. With over 6,500 customers, ReadSoft has extensive experience automating
www.readsoft.com
Booth #545 P2P and Order to Cash operations and improving entire process chains inside of SAP systems.
www.readsoft.com
Rimini Street, Inc. Rimini Street provides world-class, third-party software support for SAP R/3 4.x, SAP ECC
7251 West Lake Mead Boulevard 5.0, SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP BW 3.5 and earlier releases used by the majority of SAP licensees
Suite 300 worldwide. The Rimini Street annual support program features a seasoned team of SAP
Las Vegas, NV 89128 USA engineers with an average of more than 10 years of SAP experience. With Rimini Street
Phone: 888-870-9692 Support, SAP licensees enhance their SAP total cost of ownership and derive more value that
SILVER Email: drowe@riministreet.com includes ultra-responsive service, support for all their SAP configurations and enhancements,
SPONSOR and can remain on their current releases without required product upgrades or migrations for
www.riministreet.com
Booth #900 10 years or more.
Runbook Company, Inc Understanding the unique aspects of financial processes, Runbook helps CFOs manage their
One Broadway financial closing process in SAP to ensure consistency, transparency and compliance. We do
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA this by mapping our clients closing procedures into our software, which then automates the
Phone: 617-401-2190 process, providing repeatability, control and confidence.Organizations who have implemented
Email: info@runbook.com Runbook have been able to successfully reduce cost and improve quality through the
www.runbook.com automation of recurring financial processes. Runbook clients include Adidas, Akzo Nobel,
Booth #775 Crucell, Deloitte, DSM, Heineken, Novartis, NXP, O-I, PCK, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Wrtsil,
Sabic Europe, Sandoz, Shell and Wolters Kluwer. Runbook Company is an SAP software
partner.
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SandPoint Consulting, Inc. SandPoint Consulting specializes in enterprise-level process improvement with over 50
2716 Colonial Way combined years of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation experience. Since 2001,
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 USA we have implemented both Microsoft SQL and SAP NetWeaver versions to aid clients in
Phone: 888-236-2503 streamlining financials business processes, reducing operating costs, and providing robust
Email: info@sandpointc.com business insights. Our hand-chosen team of certified accountants, finance and IT specialists
www.sandpointc.com work hand-in-hand with your users from certification of business objectives and process
Booth #360 improvements, through final phase training and support. As a result, we are considered one of
todays most respected BPC consultancies.
SAP Americas As the worlds leading provider of business software, SAP delivers products and services
3999 West Chester Pike that help accelerate business innovation for our customers. We believe doing so will unleash
Newtown Square, PA 19073 USA growth and create significant new value for our customers, SAP, and ultimately, entire
Phone: 800-872-1727 industries and the economy at large. Today, customers in more than 120 countries run SAP
Email: deanna.ransom@sap.com applications from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize
www.SAP.com/usa/solutions companies to suite offerings for global organizations.
Booth #650
SAPexperts Avoid costly trial-and-error, save time and money, and minimize the effort to get your
20 Carematrix Drive SAP projects done right with the SAPexperts knowledgebases. A simple keyword search
Dedham, MA 02026 USA immediately gives you highly sought-after advice, step-by-step instruction, time-saving tips,
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The SAPexperts knowledgebases include: CRM Expert, BI Expert, Project Expert, HR
Expert, Financials Expert, GRC Expert, SCM Expert, Solution Manager Expert, as well as
SAP Professional Journal. Visit the SAPexperts at the WIS PUBLISHING booth, or at www.
sapexperts.com.
SAPinsider SAPinsider magazine, sponsored by SAP, is the premier source of information for the
20 Carematrix Drive executives, managers, consultants, and implementation and development teams who are
Dedham, MA 02026 USA decision makers for their SAP systems. Read loyally by 125,000+ professionals charged with
Phone: 781-751-8755 maximizing the return on their companys multi-million dollar investment in SAP technology,
Email: insider@wispubs.com the magazine provides SAP customers with advanced notice of SAPs key product and service
sapinsider.wispubs.com initiatives, directly from SAP executives. http://sapinsider.wispubs.com
Booth #1050 A perfect complement to SAPinsider, insiderPROFILES magazine offers detailed profiles of
todays most influential business and IT leaders their strategies, best practices, and how they
leverage SAP solutions to achieve their objectives. Each issue delivers firsthand accounts and
insights from customers, partners, and industry thought leaders about how theyre innovating
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Sigma Business Solutions Inc. Sigma Business Solutions Inc. specializes in SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management.
55 York Street, Suite 1100 We cover all components of ILM including SAP ERP and BW Archiving, Retention management
Toronto, M5J 1R7 Canada and policies, data storage and destruction. We enable organizations to archive their SAP
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the following services and software technology: SAP technical and functional consulting with
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BI archiving Nearline solutions (ADK based and columnar storage) Archive automation
Software ASC (Archive sessions cockpit) SAP client/landscape Optimization software
Synactive, Inc. Synactive is an SAP software solution partner in the SAP PartnerEdge program and leading
950 Tower Lane, Suite 750 developer of GuiXT optimization and user-enablement solutions for use with SAP ERP
Foster City, CA 94404 USA applications. Because GuiXT software comes pre-packaged with installations of the SAP GUI
Phone: 650-341-3310 4.6b to 7.0 and is fully integrated with the SAP GUI environment, customers can customize,
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3411 Preston Road But to perform at its highest level, you need experienced SAP consultants on your side.
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Trintech Trintech provides enterprise software for the Last Mile of Finance. From the time a transaction
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Addison, TX 75001 USA for data aggregation, reconciliation, financial close, financial reporting, compliance, and
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Verbella CMG Verbella delivers SAP content management solutions designed to meet your business
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West Chester, PA 19382 USA PLM, T & E, and any other SAP document related processes. As a Platinum Kofax Partner we can
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Booth #357 We provide tools, implementations and migrations of SAP content server, IXOS, OpenText,
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Vertex, Inc. For businesses that want more effective technology solutions, Vertex provides a comprehensive
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Berwyn, PA 19312 USA years of tax and technology experience.As the leading provider of tax technology solutions for
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Booth #1075 consumer use, value added, communications, and payroll.
Winshuttle Winshuttle is the ERP Usability Company, providing software products that enable business
18323 Bothell-Everett Highway users to work with SAP applications directly from Excel, Web forms and other interfaces
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Conference Orientation Session 2

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Conference Orientation Session

GENERAL INFORMATION EVALUATION FORMS

QUESTION, RESEARCH, LEARN, IMPROVE, ACHIEVE.

Analytics for Finance, HR, and Compliance: Sanjay Poonen

Keeping the Lights On and Trusted Advisor:

Finance KPIs in 2011: Updates for SAP Customers

1:00 pm 2:15 pm Premier 313

SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Launch

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Premier Premier Premier 2 Financials General Assembly, Day 2

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Tips and techniques to improve compliance reporting

Financials Expert LIVE sessions

Take the guesswork out of making asset changes

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TUESDAY, MARCH 8 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

FINANCIALS 2011 FINANCIALS 2011

Daily Schedule Monday, March 7 (Jumpstart Day)

7:30 am 7:00 pm Insider Learning Network Kiosk Grand Foyer

9:00 am 12:00 pm Morning Jumpstart Sessions

Getting the most out of protability analysis (CO-PA): A how-to guide

A complete guide to understanding the impact of IFRS on your SAP landscape

12:00 pm 2:00 pm Lunch Premier 318

1:15 pm 1:45 pm Conference Orientation Session Premier 301 F G 2

2:00 pm 5:00 pm Afternoon Jumpstart Sessions

A detailed guide to more efciently and accurately conduct product costing

5:00 pm Jumpstart Day Concludes

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Daily Schedule Tuesday, March 8

7:00 am 7:00 pm Registration Grand Foyer 2

7:00 am 7:00 pm Insider Learning Network Kiosk Grand Foyer 2

7:00 am 8:30 am Continental Breakfast Marquee Ballroom

7:45 am 8:15 am Conference Orientation Session Grand 121 F G 2

9:45 am 7:00 pm Solutions Showcase Grand Ballroom 83

10:00 am 10:30 am Refreshment Break Grand Ballroom

10:30 am 11:45 am Breakout Sessions

Tips and tricks for a successful process control implementation

How to create a comprehensive data governance strategy on a global scale

Lessons for conducting user access reviews of your SAP system

A step-by-step guide to xed asset revaluations

11:15 am 12:00 pm 45-Minute Breakout Sessions

11:45 am 1:00 pm Lunch Marquee Ballroom

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Panel discussion: Real-world lessons for IFRS transitions and compliance

1:00 pm 2:15 pm Breakout Sessions

Mastering the growing complexities of an SAP audit

1:45 pm 2:15 pm 30-Minute Breakout Sessions

2:15 pm 2:30 pm Refreshment Break Grand Ballroom