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2012 Conference Guide March 13 – 16, Las Vegas

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Table of Contents General Information

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Conference Overview

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Conference Orientation Session

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Keynote Address

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General Assembly

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Hotel Map

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Earning CPE Credits

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Column5 EPM Education Center

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SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions Lab

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SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Solutions Lab

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SAP OnDemand Labs

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SAP Demo and Discussion Forums

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Insider Networking Networking Ribbons

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Evening Receptions

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Experts LIVE Sessions

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Customer Discussion Forums

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Ask-the-Experts

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Daily Schedule Conference Tracks

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Monday, March 12 (Jumpstart Day)

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Tuesday, March 13

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Friday, March 16

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Solutions Showcase Sponsored Educational Sessions

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Solutions Showcase Map

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Exhibiting Companies

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General Information CONFERENCE BADGES Attendees must wear badges at all times for admission to all events. You can pick up your conference name badge at the registration desk.

REGISTRATION The registration desk is located in the Grand Ballroom Lobby. Registration hours are: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

4:00 pm – 7:00 pm 7:30 am – 6:00 pm 7:00 am – 7:00 pm 7:30 am – 6:30 pm 7:30 am – 5:15 pm 7:30 am – 1:30 pm

EVALUATIONS

BUSINESS SERVICE CENTER

We value your comments and feedback. Please fill out the evaluation forms provided at each session and return them to our staff when exiting the session. Also, get your free conference t-shirt by filling out the overall conference evaluation form that will be handed out on Friday, and returning it to a staff member at the registration desk.

The MGM Conference Center Business Center, conveniently located on the First Floor of the Conference Center, adjacent to room 110, is open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday - Friday and closed Saturday and Sunday. Services offered include photocopying, faxing, printing, and shipping.

LUNCHES AND REFRESHMENT BREAKS

We have set up convenient email stations and wireless networking areas. The SSID of ‘SAPinsider’ will be broadcast, but laptops must be configured with an 802.11b card accepting DHCP. The network will always be up, but there may be service interruptions. Please contact your company Network Administrator for wireless connection assistance. For ease of use and maximum functionality, this network is not secured and individuals are responsible for security on their own workstation. Use of mail encryption, anti-virus software, personal fire-wall, and VPN applications is recommended. Technical support is not available for systems. Please report network-related problems to the conference registration desk.

The conference provides attendees with lunches and refreshment breaks between breakout sessions for all four days of the conference. See the daily schedule for exact times and locations.

MOBILE DEVICE POLICY For the convenience and consideration of all attendees, we ask that you silence all mobile telephones while you are in a session.

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. Smoking is permitted in guest rooms on certain floors only.

EMAIL/INTERNET STATIONS

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Conference Overview 30 COMPREHENSIVE TRACKS Your registration to Financials 2012, GRC 2012, and HR 2012 gives you the option to attend sessions at all three conferences at no additional charge. In total, you can choose from over 250 sessions to customize your learning experience.

SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS Sponsored educational sessions will provide you with opportunities to learn about customer successes, participate in discussions, and view demonstrations of how vendor products or services can help drive more business value from your SAP® solution. These sessions are part of the main conference schedule. See pages 51-59 for more information.

SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE Get comprehensive information on market-leading solutions. See how SAP and third-party technologies fit into your IT infrastructure and help you improve key processes. Examine the latest strategies, features, and enhancements and learn how to take the next step with your SAP projects. Learn new ways to leverage the technology you already own and find out how to take advantage of new tools and technologies. See pages 62-90 for a complete listing of sponsors and exhibitors.

INSIDER NETWORKING Financials 2012, GRC 2012, and HR 2012 offer a wide array of networking opportunities. Attach a networking ribbon to your badge to find specific counterparts from your industry. Attend one of our Experts LIVE sessions to learn more about articles from the authors themselves. Participate in one of

our Customer Discussion Forums and have detailed conversations with people who share your interests, and then tap into the knowledge and insight of the conference speakers at Ask-the-Experts. Finally, join us during the Evening Receptions, to interact with other attendees, exhibitors, and speakers to build a lasting network of peers. See pages 17-23 for more information.

SOLIDIFY YOUR SCHEDULE USING OUR MOBILE AGENDA If you have a smartphone or other mobile device, enter bit.ly/HFG2012 into your mobile Web browser and log in. You can view your pre-built agenda or build a new one, make changes, and have the latest conference information at your fingertips. Don’t have a smartphone? Don’t worry! iPad stations are scattered throughout the conference space. Visit the registration desk if you have any questions.

INSIDER LEARNING NETWORK Now you can access all of your conference materials on Insider Learning Network. Log in using the email address you used to register for the conference and you will find the session presentations from all three events in the “Conference Materials” folder located on your homepage. Plus, your free membership keeps you connected with the attendees, speakers, and partners you meet this week. Build on your learning at this event with independent tips, tricks, and strategies, and remain up-to-date with current events in the SAP community, all in one location. For more information — and to register on site — please stop by the Insider Learning Network kiosk located in the Grand Ballroom Lobby.

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Keynote Address Winning through Innovation in Finance, HR, Risk and Compliance 5VFTEBZ BNoBNt1SFNJFS#BMMSPPN

Sanjay Poonen President & Corporate Officer, Global Solutions, SAP AG

Competing in a world of accelerated change is not an easy task. Organizations that are truly agile and can adapt in real-time to changing business dynamics and market demands have a competitive edge. It all boils down to harnessing the power of innovation to supercharge your business and execute your business strategy. Organizations that excel and lead their markets embed this deep in their DNA and leverage their HR, finance and risk and compliance teams as transformational agents driving a culture where talent is nurtured, risks are managed and exceptional financial performance is delivered. This keynote will explore how SAP’s innovation strategy spanning analytics, applications, database and technology, mobility and cloud computing is enabling core business functions to change the game, empowering employees to make better decisions, execute business processes flawlessly and effectively drive sustainable growth. You will gain insight into the latest innovations from SAP and will hear how organizations are using these innovations to transform their business and run better. r

General Assembly Finance transformation within SAP 8FEOFTEBZ BNoBNt1SFNJFS#BMMSPPN

Mark White Chief Financial Officer, Global Customer Operations, SAP AG

Looking at 2012 and beyond, SAP customers are tackling a much broader and more complex range of finance, budgeting, risk, compliance and planning responsibilities than in years past. This special keynote address examines these issues and the ways SAP’s own finance organization is addressing them. SAP CFO, Mark White, shares the forward-looking goals and organization model that SAP has established for its own finance functions and the project and talent management plans by which they will effect this transformation.

New directions for SAP financials, performance management , and GRC solutions 8FEOFTEBZ BNoBNt1SFNJFS#BMMSPPN

Fred Laluyaux SVP and General Manager, EPM, GRC and Finance Applications

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Topping the 2012 list of technology trends with the greatest impact on SAP customers are real-time analytics, accessibility via smart-phones and tablets, and harnessing of large data volumes that originate both within and outside the organization. This keynote offers a critical look at these trends, the innovations they have precipitated in solutions serving the SAP customer base, and the looming impact this poses to finance, performance management, and GRC functions. This keynote will explore how SAP’s innovation strategy spanning analytics, applications, database and technology, mobility and cloud computing is enabling core business functions to change the game, empowering employees to make better decisions, execute business processes flawlessly and effectively drive sustainable growth. You will gain insight into the latest innovations from SAP and will hear how organizations are using these innovations to transform their business and run better.

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Earning CPE Credits Financials 2012, GRC 2012, and HR 2012 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. No prerequisites or advanced preparation required.* EARNING CPE CREDITS You can earn up to 35.5 CPE credits by attending sessions at Financials 2012, GRC 2012, and HR 2012. Credits can be earned by attending the following: R R R R

3.5 credits – Jumpstart Session 1.5 credits – Keynote Address 1.5 credits – 75-minute Breakout Sessions, including Customer Discussion Forums and Experts LIVE Sessions 1.0 credits – 45-minute Breakout Sessions

Please note: Sponsored Educational Sessions and Ask-the-Experts are NOT eligible to receive CPE credits.

CPE INFORMATION Attendees must pick up a CPE flyer at the registration desk. Included on this flyer will be important credit information and appropriate handouts.

EVALUATION FORMS In order to receive CPE credits, you must complete an evaluation form for each session attended. Please visit the registration desk for information about evaluation forms.

COMPLAINT/RESOLUTION Please visit the registration desk with any on site concerns. You can also call our Customer Service department at +1 781-751-8755 or email us at [email protected].

DELIVERY METHOD All sessions are presented in a Group Live format.

FIELDS OF STUDY Your schedule, found on pages 26-49, will indicate the designated fields of study for each session. Credits can be earned for each of the following fields of study:

acc Accounting acg Accounting (Govt) aud Auditing

fin Finance man Management Adv Services perr Personnel/HR

bus Business Management and Organization SAPinsider 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. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www. learningmarket.org.

* Attendees must have a basic knowledge of an SAP system and an understanding of the financials function of an organization

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Column5 EPM Education Center After hosting an independent customerfocused conference for the past three years, the Column5 team is pleased to join forces with SAPinsider and contribute their unique content of customer successes and highvalue solutions that can be achieved with SAP’s market-leading Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) product suite. Visit the Column5 EPM Education Center for the most current and in-depth EPM information specifically designed to help you get more value from your SAP EPM products, including … Customer Presentations ¾ Best Practices ¾ Roundtable & Panel Discussions ¾ Technical Tips & Tricks ¾ Product Overviews and Roadmaps ¾ Industry-Specific Demonstrations

Stop by the Column5 Exhibit or the Information Desk located at the Column5 EPM Education Center to pick up a full course listing or to speak with a member of our team about sessions that will be the best fit for you.

Column5 is the world’s leading-edge consulting firm dedicated to providing high-value services that help customers leverage the power of SAP’s Enterprise Performance Management suite. Column5 was formed by leaders from within OutlookSoft (acquired by SAP in 2007) with the sole purpose of increasing customer success with the products that comprise the SAP EPM portfolio. Since 2005, Column5 has led the industry in EPM thought leadership, comprehensive education and training, and providing valueadded information to power users, IT professionals and finance leaders.

For more information about Column5 please visit www.column5.com or stop by the Column5 EPM Education Center located in rooms 106, 107, and 108. 9

SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions Lab SAP® financial solutions allow finance teams to become a more effective partner to the business by providing optimal control and empowering all stakeholders to adapt quickly, act with confidence and take advantage of dynamic business conditions. The SAP Financials (ERP) and SAP BusinessObjects™ EPM Solutions Lab is a multi-day opportunity for you to: R

Meett “one-on-one” with solution experts — set an appointment with an experienced solution expert and learn how the Business Analytics Solutions from SAP can address the needs of your organization.

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Explore selected Business Analytics Solutions from SAP with hands-on experience — learn more about the look, feel, and function of the solutions at your own pace.

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Learn best practices. Get information on live demonstrations presented by our knowledge experts that are taking place at the conference and discover how Business Analytic Solutions from SAP can benefit your organization.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED! MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT EARLY! Appointments are required for the one-on-one sessions and hands-on experience. The lab registration desk opens each day of the conference at 8:00 am and is located outside of Room 101.

Location:

Room 101

Lab Times:

Tuesday, March 13 Wednesday, March 14 Thursday, March 15 Friday, March 16

SOLUTION EXPERT 1:1 SESSIONS

HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE

Meet 1:1 with SAP solution experts — share the business challenges you are facing, discuss current “best practices” and review solution features and functionality for the following areas:

Lab visitors will have the opportunity to have hands-on experience with the following solutions from SAP.

Treasury and Financial Risk Management Accounting and Financial Close Shared Services for Finance SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management

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1:00 pm – 5:00 pm 8:30 am – 5:00 pm 8:30 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation running on SAP HANA™ SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence running on SAP HANA

SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Solutions Lab GRC Lab and Partner Showcase Pro-actively balance risk and opportunity SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk, and Compliance solutions (SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions) offer your organization a preventive, real-time approach to governance, risk, and compliance.

Visit the SAP BusinessObjects GRC Solutions Lab Come to room 102, level one of the Conference Center (adjacent to MGM’s Ballroom, Grand Hall South) to schedule your one-on-one meeting with an SAP expert to learn about one, or more, of our solutions: R

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Meet one-on-one with solution experts Make an appointment with one of our experienced experts to discuss your specific requirements and learn how our solution can address the needs of your organization.

Learn best practices Discover how the SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 solution can benefit you and your organization with a personalized demonstration by one of our knowledge experts.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED! MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT EARLY! Appointments to meet with a GRC solution expert are available during the following hours:

Location:

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Lab Times:

Tuesday, March 13 Wednesday, March 14 Thursday, March 15 Friday, March 16

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm 10:15 am – 5:00 pm 8:30 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

Stop by the SAP BusinessObjects GRC Solution Lab to make your reservation! Room 102, level one of the Conference Center (adjacent to MGM’s Ballroom, Grand Hall South). The reservation desk opens each day of the conference at 8:00 am.

GRC PARTNER SHOWCASE Visit the GRC Partner Showcase in room 202 (level 2 of the Conference Center) to meet with one of SAP’s select GRC partners. Learn how your organization can benefit from their service experiences and offerings. For more information on SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 visit sap.com/sapbusinessobjects/grc

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SAP OnDemand Labs Preview SAP’s two newest Cloud offerings:

SAP Travel OnDemandTM and SuccessFactorsTM

SuccessFactors Gain in-depth exposure to SuccessFactors, SAP’s new human capital management cloud offering. Walk through a detailed overview of its key features and functionality and explore the different ways you can utilize this solution to effectively manage your HR processes and improve business execution.

Tuesday, March 13 10:30 am – 11:45 am 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Wednesday, March 14 8:30 am – 9:45 am 10:15 am – 11:30 am

Thursday, March 15 8:30 am – 9:45 am 11:45 am – 1:00 pm

SAP Travel OnDemand Gain in-depth exposure to the brand new SAP Travel OnDemand solution. Hear how to manage the entire trip, from pre-trip approval and online booking, to expense reimbursement. Work with the application both online, and on a tablet, to see how easy it is to capture and submit expenses.

Tuesday, March 13 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

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Wednesday, March 14 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Thursday, March 15 10:15 am – 11:30 am 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

NEW! SAP Demo and Discussion Forums Transform your workforce with mobile HR apps from SAP 7XHVGD\DP²DP6$3%RRWK This interactive forum provides insight into the latest trends in mobile technology and how companies are leveraging them to increase the value of HR to the business. Hear firsthand from an SAP HR mobility expert about the mobile capabilities SAP and its partners deliver to support SAP ERP HCM. Coupled with this discussion are demos of new mobile HR applications from SAP and an opportunity to see how they can be used to increase productivity and better engage the workforce.

Securing sensitive data in your SAP financials system Erin Hughes, SAP 7XHVGD\DP²DP6$3%RRWK

In this new roundtable format, questions and lively discussions are encouraged throughout the session. SAP product teams are available afterwards to answer your specific questions and delve deeper into demos.

Join this interactive discussion to explore the balancing act of preventing access and authorization risk in your SAP financials system and the associated cost and effort. Share your experiences and hear how other companies are reducing risk, effort, and cost with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control. Included will be discussions of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementations and demos of key functionality.

Enabling the end-user with SAP education Steve Hirsch, SAP Education 7XHVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK As organizations are transforming into learning environments where end-users simultaneously learn and perform new tasks, their skills are becoming the biggest driver of organizational capability and significantly impact success. In this interactive forum you can explore how SAP Education offerings help your organization protect, enhance, and extend your SAP knowledge infrastructure, and view a live demo to see how SAP Enterprise Learning can help streamline this process

SAP BusinessObjects Access Control live and productive: What’s next? Bruce McCuaig, SAP Canada 7XHVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK Congratulations, you already have SAP BusinessObjects Access Control in place! But, now what? Join this interactive discussion forum to explore next steps for your GRC roadmap. Share your experiences and view demos that show how leading SAP customers are automating control testing and risk monitoring using SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management.

New operating models for receivables management Katharina Reichert, SAP AG and Joseph Pacor, SAP 7XHVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK Join this interactive discussion for insight into how companies are using automation tools for receivables management to improve flexibility and decrease costs of financial operations. Coupled with this discussion are demos of SAP accounts receivables management functionality and an opportunity to see firsthand how it can be leveraged to overcome common roadblocks associated with inefficient and fragmented credit, collections, and dispute processes. Also hear how new technologies and concepts such as shared service centers, mobility, and SAP HANA will impact the receivables process.

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NEW! SAP Demo and Discussion Forums Taking control of liquidity and proactively managing financial and commodity risk Craig Himmelberger, SAP and Christian Mnich, SAP AG 7XHVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK Market fluctuations caused by sovereign debt uncertainties and a volatile business climate have combined to challenge corporate treasurers to better track and plan their cash positions, as well as get on top of financial and other supply risks before costly surprises occur. This forum discusses a bestpractice approach for treasury and financial risk management. Coupled with this discussion are live demos of SAP functionality for cash and liquidity management and an opportunity to see firsthand how these capabilities address these challenges.

Get what you need fast with SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions :HGQHVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK Join this interactive forum to hear how your company could benefit from a rapid deployment approach. Discuss guidelines and system requirements for leveraging Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) from SAP. Coupled with this discussion is a live demo of an RDS solution from SAP and the opportunity to see how its pre-configured software, defined scope, and implementation services get you up and running in just weeks.

Optimizing shared services for HR and finance Franz Deitering, SAP :HGQHVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK This interactive forum discusses concepts, best practices, and tools for leveraging a shared services model to optimize cost, minimize risk, and improve your organization’s HR and finance processes. Coupled with this discussion is a demo of the SAP Shared Service Framework and an opportunity to see how it provides end-to-end support for service delivery transactions to unlock efficiencies by reducing costs, increasing service quality, ensuring policy compliance, and aligning KPI performance with business imperatives.

The value of integrated talent management Oliver Conze, SAP :HGQHVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK Finding and retaining talent is not only a hot topic for HR leaders; it’s a hot topic for C-level executives as well. Join us as we discuss the benefits of an integrated talent management solution and view live demos of SAP functionality for talent management to see how it provides the foundation to help you improve business performance, motivate employees, improve decision-making, and reduce overall costs.

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Share experiences and network with other SAP customers, partners, and thought leaders.

NEW! SAP Demo and Discussion Forums Financial transformation using in-memory computing and mobile technologies from SAP Karuna Mukherjea, SAP :HGQHVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK Technology and innovation is a key enabler for the effectiveness of finance organizations. This interactive forum discusses various options for leveraging in-memory computing technology, such as SAP HANA, to increase the productivity and efficiency of your finance organizations. Discuss the benefits of mobility and view demos that show how mobile technologies from SAP can help transform your finance organization and empower business users to make informed decisions in real-time.

Dive deeper into educational session topics and get critical questions answered.

Navigating your risk, compliance, and controls roadmap Heike Fiedler-Phelps, SAP America 7KXUVGD\DP²SP6$3%RRWK This interactive forum offers you the opportunity to pose questions and get expert recommendations for building a successful GRC program in your organization. Discuss the importance of effective risk, trade, and compliance management and understand how it requires the right combination of organizational readiness, technology, and methodology.

How the SAP solution portfolio can help accelerate accounting and financial closes 7KXUVGD\DP²SP6$3%RRWK This lively and interactive forum offers you the opportunity to pose questions and hear, firsthand, about the direction SAP has set for its accounting and financial close solution portfolio. Coupled with this discussion are demos of SAP offerings for consolidation, inter-company reconciliation, and disclosure and notes management and an opportunity to see how these capabilities provide integrity and transparency to your corporate close.

Make the most of your SAP solutions: Proven design principles that lead to a better solution Cyril Johannes, SAP America 7KXUVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK This interactive forum discusses proven approaches for designing an endto-end product cost model. Explore the core components of a product cost model that need to be taken into account in the initial design phase. You will have the opportunity to ask questions directly to SAP about the design of an existing solution or a new implementation.

An introduction to SAP Travel OnDemand Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing 7KXUVGD\SP²SP6$3%RRWK This interactive forum offers a firsthand look at SAP Travel OnDemand and discusses the business scenarios it supports, including controlling corporate travel costs and increasing compliance with policies. Examine key integration points with SAP ERP Financials, SAP ERP HCM, and third-party HR systems data and view a live demo that shows how they can be leveraged to improve travel policy compliance, monitor out-ofpolicy bookings, and optimize travel expense and settlement processes.

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Networking NETWORKING RIBBONS

CUSTOMER DISCUSSION FORUMS

Attach industry ribbons to your conference badge and use them to find specific counterparts who are attending the conference. Find out what they’re learning and build a lasting network of peers. Visit the registration desk for more information.

These forums are informal, interactive get-togethers where SAP customers with similar interests, projects, and challenges can gather to talk about specific topics. Each topic will be facilitated by a subjectmatter 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 19-21 for a complete listing and schedule.

EVENING RECEPTIONS After the sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, join hundreds of your peers at our evening receptions. It’s a chance to have discussions with the speakers, trade experiences in a casual setting with the people who fight the same battles you do every day, and visit the Solutions Showcase.

EXPERTS LIVE SESSIONS This new forum offers attendees the opportunity to meet leading authors from our Experts knowledgebases and discuss topics from recent articles. Attend these sessions to get additional information, share and discuss experiences with your peers, and ask the author questions unique to your own experience.

ASK-THE-EXPERTS Pull up a chair in the Ask-the-Experts area of the Solutions Showcase during our Tuesday and Wednesday evening receptions and spend one-on-one time with the top experts. Learn from their realworld expertise and get specific insights on topics and questions that matter to you most. See pages 22-23 for a complete listing of experts.

your fingertips Your customized agenda at WHAT IS THE MOBILE AGENDA? mobile agenda allows you to customize your learning rience and create a personalized agenda for each of the conference. WHAT IF I WANT TO CHANGE MY SCHEDULE? can change your schedule as often as you like, even you’re at the show. No prior registration is needed essions that occur during the main conference. AGING YOUR CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE NEVER BEEN THIS EASY.

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Experts LIVE sessions 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. Please review the article before the session and come prepared with your questions.

Experts LIVE sessions

Financials Expert LIVE Financials Expert LIVE: Use functional areas to enhance your cost-of-sales reporting

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting :HGQHVGD\DP²SP Don’t miss this opportunity to personally meet Paul Ovigele, SAP Consultant, Ovigele 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. Learn the definition of cost-of-sales reporting and how it is distinguished from period-based reporting. Follow the steps to define and derive functional areas to facilitate cost-of-sales reporting. Discover the benefits of cost-of-sales reporting by functional area and how it contrasts with other methods of cost-of-sales reporting that are more commonly used in the SAP system such as costing-based profitability analysis (CO-PA) and cost center reporting. You’ll receive a copy of the article — free of charge — and engage with peers who have the same interests and priorities.

GRC Expert LIVE

GRC Expert LIVE

How SAP solutions can make audit management processes more costeffective William Newman, Newport Consulting Group 7KXUVGD\SP²SP

Program risk and change management for SAP BusinessObjects GRC and EPM solutions

Don’t miss this opportunity to personally meet William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his most widely read articles from GRC Expert — the leading knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn what new enhancements are available for internal audit risk management as part of the SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 release with SAP NetWeaver® audit management. Understand the major phases of internal audit activities — planning, execution, findings, and corrective actions — that can span a number of corporate functions, including IT, finance, management systems, and operations. Learn some of the key success factors for nextgeneration audit management, including adding data mining and analytics to your audit processes.

Don’t miss this opportunity to personally meet William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group, and engage in an in-depth discussion about one of his most widely read articles from GRC Expert — the leading knowledgebase for organizations that leverage SAP solutions for governance, risk, and compliance. Learn how to align strategy and risk in your project planning phase by crafting initiatives that can then be illustrated by applying resources, budget, and program structure to create the necessary changes to an organization. Hear firsthand several techniques to enact strategic initiatives that result in value-based outcomes for increased enterprise performance and to consider program risk factors.

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Customer Discussion Forums Step away from the standard lecture format and share ideas with your peers in these dynamic, interactive forums. Share lessons learned, how-to information, and techniques you learned based on your own experiences.

GRC technology enablement processes: Lessons from the trenches Matt Polak and Tom Madden, Ernst & Young 7KXUVGD\SP²SP

Lessons learned from continuous process monitoring projects Richard Castle, Ernst & Young and Tim Walter, Caterpillar )ULGD\DP²DP

Ready for a change of pace from lectures and workshops? Join an interactive conversation with your peers and hear firsthand their best practices, lessons learned, and critical success factors for leveraging a GRC technology enablement strategy for risk identification and management, compliance requirements, mapping of controls and compliance requirements to specific business processes, incident management, and dashboarding and reporting processes. Hear how other customers are using GRC tools, resulting in stronger GRC activities, reduced costs, more accurate reporting, and a stronger regulatory compliance posture. Learn how your peers are rolling out their GRC applications to a broader user base. Take part in the discussion and get real-world examples that are sure to help you improve your own GRC enablement processes.

Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other SAP customers are managing their SAP continuous process monitoring efforts. Learn what key areas and functionality of SAP solutions you can leverage today to automate control tests and ensure that all potentially illegal transactions are tracked. Engage in a discussion and learn how your peers align activities and create efficiency and collaboration using workflows that are developed across systems and organizational functions.

Lessons from your peers for streamlining the time-to-close process Ross Wilson, McKesson 7KXUVGD\SP²SP Engage in an interactive discussion with peers and find out how they are speeding the time-to-close process. Get answers to questions such as: What are the best ways to manage, direct, and optimize my company’s closing procedures? How do I overcome common problems that plague my closing processes? What SAP tools are available to help me streamline my period-end close? How do I ensure that my close processes are transparent and meet regulatory requirements? Gain new ideas and perspectives on how to construct well-coordinated year-end and month-end processes.

Lessons learned from role design and access control implementations Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young and Lynn Reed, Johnson & Johnson :HGQHVGD\SP²SP This open forum affords you the opportunity to question your peers about their experiences implementing a role design project within their organization. Hear how colleagues have tackled their toughest project challenges, and get answers to questions like: How do I approach a role design process and how to work with the key project stakeholders from the business, operations, compliance, and audit departments? How do I do so cost effectively? How do I effectively design governance processes for my SAP BusinessObjects Access Control implementation to help drive its success? What are some best practices for mapping access control functionality to my organization, business processes, and associated controls?

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Customer Discussion Forums continued SAP security and authorizations Pavi Malhotra, Ernst & Young and Charlie Singh, American Water 7KXUVGD\SP²SP Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other SAP customers are managing their SAP security and authorizations. Learn what key areas and functionality of SAP solutions you can leverage today to boost security as well as improve your audit process. Engage in a discussion about how your peers are building compliance into their own SAP security structures. Hear how others are getting their users — and not just their security administrator — involved in maintaining a safe, secure, and compliant environment.

Tips and techniques to improve compliance reporting in preparation for an audit Mike Rambasek, Ernst & Young and Ginny Kelley, EMC )ULGD\DP²SP 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?

Lessons to improve project accounting activities in SAP Sandeep Bagchi, Keane 7KXUVGD\SP²SP Enter into a lively discussion with peers and experts to find out the best ways to perform project management accounting. Explore questions such as: What are the most common challenges associated with managing project scope, and how do I overcome them to keep costs from burgeoning? How do I calculate the level of costs and the expected revenues when planning a project? What are some best practices for creating projects structure using SAP project templates? How are my counterparts at other companies streamlining periodic project settlements during their financial close? Leave this moderated discussion forum with unique insights and best practices that improve your project accounting activities.

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Lessons from peers who have overcome the toughest challenges in public sector accounting Tammy Fraley, Alta Via Consulting )ULGD\DP²SP Engage in a lively discussion with peers from the public sector and find out how they meet unique accounting and finance challenges. Get answers to questions such as: What are the best ways to manage master data, alternative fiscal years, budgeting, and budget control issues that are unique to public sector? What SAP tools are available to help me streamline these processes? What are some of the common trends in public sector cost management? How do I ensure that my accounting processes are transparent and meet regulatory requirements? What are the best ways to produce the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) from my SAP system? What do the new SAP enhancement packages offer to help me with public sector accounting? Gain new ideas and perspectives on how to construct a single point of access for a diverse set of information sources to meet your needs.

Recommendations and advice to ensure a successful transition to the SAP General Ledger Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software :HGQHVGD\SP²SP Are you considering, planning, or have you begun a migration from the classic SAP General Ledger to the latest version of SAP General Ledger? Participate in an interactive discussion with peers and experts who have been through this type of migration project to find out the best ways to proceed. Get answers to challenging questions, such as: What are the steps I should take to prepare for implementing the SAP General Ledger? What data and capabilities should I migrate first? What are the configuration differences between the classic G/L and the SAP General Ledger? How are my peers overcoming implementation, parallel accounting, document splitting, and segment reporting challenges? What are the pros and cons of the various G/L migration scenarios? Hear from your colleagues and get insights into what every SAP financials team should know before beginning an SAP General Ledger migration projects.

Customer Discussion Forums continued SAP customers share their battle-tested tips for optimizing SAP financial accounting (FI) functionality Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software 7KXUVGD\SP²SP

What controllers and finance managers need to know to get better information from their SAP systems Cyril Johannes, SAP America )ULGD\DP²SP

Attend this unique, interactive discussion with fellow peers and find out the undocumented tips and tricks they have devised to get more value from their FI functionality. Get answers to questions such as: What are best practices to reduce storage and runtime problems caused by the constant growth of transaction data? How do you make master data easier to manage and more up to date? How can I make more accurate direct postings to asset reconciliation accounts? How can I add fields to the mass change option? Listen in on the answers to these questions, and many more, and take the opportunity to get your own questions answered and to learn from the questions asked by your peers.

This discussion forum gives you the opportunity to listen in and participate as other SAP customers share their thoughts and experiences with SAP controlling, or managerial accounting functionality (CO). Discuss questions such as: How do I more easily analyze profitability by business unit or market segment? How can I reduce clutter in my cost estimate screens? How can I perform actual costing in the material ledger? What are the best ways to leverage profitability analysis for integrated planning and forecasting? What are the key configuration steps and tasks you must perform in order to use SAP NetWeaver BW for reporting and analyses on CO data?

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Ask-the-Experts 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 the top experts. Learn from their real-world expertise and get specific insights on topics and questions that matter to you most.

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Financials 2012 Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises

Bertram Meyer, Taulia

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, SAP NetWeaver, SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects

Cash management and treasury, dynamic discounting and discounts-as-a-service (DaaS), streamlining accounts payable/purchase-to-pay (P2P)

David Den Boer, Column5 Consulting SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management, SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting Financial tips and tricks, cost of sales accounting, material ledger

Katharina Reichert, SAP AG Collections management, dispute management, finance shared services

Asset Retirement Obligation Management (AROM), Asset Lifecycle Accounting (ALA), project systems, investment management, fixed assets, IFRS

Janet Salmon, SAP AG

Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software

Steve Stone, Column5 Consulting

SAP General Ledger implementation and migration, IFRS change-over, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, group currency activation and conversion, chart-of-accounts rationalization, profitability analysis (CO-PA), SAP system healthchecks and assessments

Implementing SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions for public and private sector, high-tech, consumer goods, and manufacturing companies, SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management implementations

Product Costing, profitability analysis, user experience in financials, financial reporting

GRC 2012 Kapil Ashar, Ernst & Young

James Roeske, VanRiver Consulting

SAP BusinessObjects Access Control

Gavin Campbell, Integrc

SAP BusinessObjects Access Control suite functionality, configuration and implementation best practices

SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, reporting in GRC, audit and security

Rafael Smeyers, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Jan Gardiner, SAP

SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, segregation of duties, remediation and redesign

GRC 10.0, specifically Process Control product (part of eGRC Solution)

Raymond Mastre, PricewaterhouseCoopers SAP security redesign and remediation, SAP BusinessObjects implementation and optimization, controls optimization

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Financials 2012 Prasad Boddupalli, PricewaterhouseCoopers

William Miller, MI6 Solutions Group

SAP General Ledger, financial accounting including AP, AR, fixed assets, SAP overhead accounting (cost center accounting, profit center accounting, internal orders, order management), IFRS conversions

Migration from classic to SAP General Ledger, IFRS roadmap strategies, financial closing best practices

Karuna Mukherjea, SAP

Pete Graham, SAP Labs

Profitability, technology and innovation in finance, in-memory and mobility for finance

Accounting and the financial close, IFRS, master data governance, mobility in finance

Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing

Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software Group currency activation and multi-currency accounting, global rollouts and global tax strategies, FI integration with SD, MM, and Material Ledger

John Hickey, Column5 Consulting SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, planning, forecasting, and financial consolidation

Product costing, controlling, collaborative disclosure management, shared services

Mike Sullivan, Column5 Consulting SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Requirements gathering, needs analysis, system design, solution delivery, project management, rapid application development, application optimization and knowledge transfer related to OLAP and business intelligence applications

Stefan Karl, SAP AG Financial accounting in SAP, financial closes, SAP Financial Closing cockpit

GRC 2012 Richard Castle, Ernst & Young

Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting

Application security, process controls, benchmarking controls

SAP security/GRC project management, SAP ERP HCM & SAP NetWeaver BW security, change management in IT security

Ken Gabriel, KPMG Transformations and SAP functional upgrades

Jayne Gibbon, SAP SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, SAP security, internal controls

Kurt Hollis, Deloitte GRC solutions technical landscapes, architecture, requirements, implementation, applying support packages, SAP portal integration, GRC suite 10.0 — technical upgrade from prior releases, GRC solutions performance considerations

Thomas Jeschke, PricewaterhouseCoopers Continuous controls and data monitoring in SAP BusinessObjects Process Control 10.0, SAP BusinessObjects Process Control implementations, blueprinting an SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management implementation

Darshan Shah, KPMG SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, SAP security, SAP audits

Tony Torchia, KPMG GRC convergence, GRC enterprise transformation, Data management and analytics

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Schedule

Conference Tracks Financials 2012 Track 1

Financial Accounting (FI)

Track 2

Controlling (CO) and managerial accounting

Track 3

Strategies for high-performing, cost-effective finance organizations

Track 4

Fast closes and consolidations

Track 5

Planning, forecasting, and budgeting

Track 6

SAP General Ledger

Track 7

Financial reports, analyses and business intelligence

Track 8

Streamlining accounts payable

Track 9

Receivables, cash management, and treasury

Track 10

Project systems and accounting

Track 11

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

Track 12

Audits, risk management, and compliance

Track 13

SAP implementations, upgrades, and enhancement packages

Track 14

Finance in the public sector

GRC 2012 Track 1

GRC strategies, policies, and investment decisions

Track 2

Segregation of duties, access control, and security

Track 3

Continuous monitoring and process control

Track 4

SAP implementations, upgrades, rollouts, and systems integration

Track 5

Audits

Track 6

Financial closings and consolidations

Track 7

Domestic and international reporting standards

HR 2012 Track 1

2012 strategies for HR process improvement and cost reduction

Track 2

Talent management

Track 3

Self-services and shared services

Track 4

Payroll and benefits

Track 5

Time and travel management

Track 6

Organizational management and personnel administration

Track 7

HR reporting

Track 8

Security, authorizations, data management, and system administration

Track 9

SAP implementation, upgrade, rollout, and enhancement package projects

Track 10

Managing global HR processes, systems, and teams

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Schedule

Jumpstart Day, Monday, March 12 TIME

CPE

EVENT

LOCATION

7:30 am – 6:00 pm

Registration

Grand Ballroom Lobby

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Jumpstart Sessions

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A comprehensive guide to successfully execute the five stages of an accelerated financial close

TRACK

115

FINANCIALS GRC

116

FINANCIALS GRC

117

FINANCIALS GRC

119

FINANCIALS GRC

122

FINANCIALS GRC

Stefan Karl, SAP AG; Elizabeth Milne, SAP; and Pete Graham, SAP Labs

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Proven tips and techniques to help even the most experienced finance teams better manage and optimize FI and CO Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting

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The 2012 up-to-date guide to SAP BusinessObjects solutions for financial reporting, planning, closes, and disclosures Bryan Katis, SAP

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What’s new with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 solutions Jan Gardiner and Erin Hughes, SAP; John Jerrehian, SAP Labs; and Bruce McCuaig, SAP Canada

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The 2012 survival guide to security remediation in your SAP system James Roeske, VanRiver Consulting

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

North Pavilion

1:15 pm – 1:45 pm


121

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Jumpstart Sessions

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A detailed guide to more efficiently and accurately conduct costing and manage profitability

115

FINANCIALS GRC

116

FINANCIALS GRC

117

FINANCIALS GRC

118

FINANCIALS GRC

120

HR FINANCIALS GRC

121

FINANCIALS GRC

122

FINANCIALS GRC

Janet Salmon, SAP AG and Karuna Mukherjea, SAP

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A comprehensive guide to improve continuous controls monitoring with automated business rules Seamus Jackson and Michael Heiken, PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Critical steps for successfully migrating to the latest version of SAP General Ledger Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software

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A technical guide to implementing or migrating to SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Saye Arumugam, SAP and Richard Choi, SAP Labs

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A comprehensive guide to building and running shared services that support finance and HR Franz Deitering, SAP and Ralf Ille, SAP AG

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2012 up-to-date guide to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Scott Cairncross and David Dixon, TruQua Enterprises

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An A-to-Z guide to speeding payments and improving cash management using SAP solutions Christian Mnich, SAP AG and Craig Himmelberger, SAP

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Schedule

Tuesday, March 13 TIME

CPE

7:00 am – 7:00 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

Registration


7:00 am – 8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

North Pavilion

7:45 am – 8:15 am


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Keynote Address:

8:30 am – 9:45 am

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Winning through Innovation in Finance, HR, Risk and Compliance Sanjay Poonen, President & Corporate Officer, Global Solutions, SAP AG

Premier Ballroom

9:45 am – 2:45 pm

Solutions Showcase

Marquee Ballroom

9:45 am – 10:30 am

Refreshment Break

Solutions Showcase

10:30 am – 11:15 am

TRACK

SAP Demo and Discussion Forums Transform your workforce with mobile HR apps from SAP

SAP Booth

Nish Pangali, SAP

Securing sensitive data in your SAP financials system

SAP Booth

Erin Hughes, SAP

10:30 am – 11:15 am

Breakout Sessions

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Live demo: SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and Risk Management (eGRC)

119

GRC TRACK 3

Jan Gardiner and Agnes DiMayagu, SAP

10:30 am – 11:45 am

SAP OnDemand Lab: SuccessFacotors

10:30 am – 11:45 am

Breakout Sessions How The Walt Disney Company transformed its accounts payable shared services with intelligent data capture

203

104

SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL SESSION

Andre Hale, Disney Worldwide Shared Services and Tim Phillips, Brainware

Panel Discussion: Forecasting, reporting and planning — Harnessing the power of data to make better business decisions

FINANCIALS TRACK 8

109

GRC TRACK 6 SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL SESSION

Ken Gabriel, KPMG; Ben Parisi, Zurich

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Best practices for creating a customized access control rule set for a multi-national organization

111

GRC TRACK 2

114

FINANCIALS TRACK 4 GRC TRACK 6

115


116

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

Raymond Mastre, PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Reduce closing and consolidation costs and timelines: An illustrated guide David Dixon, TruQua Enterprises

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2012 guide to the SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) roadmap David Williams, SAP

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10 effective tips to maximize your existing FI and CO landscape Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting

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Schedule

Tuesday, March 13 continued TIME

CPE

10:30 am – 11:45 am

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

118


123

FINANCIALS TRACK 1

124

FINANCIALS TRACK 8

301

GRC TRACK 1

303

GRC TRACK 2

306

FINANCIALS TRACK 9

307

GRC TRACK 2

308

FINANCIALS TRACK 6

Breakout Sessions continued IFRS: A look at what’s to come in 2012

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Elizabeth Milne, SAP and Pete Graham, SAP Labs

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An expert’s real-world guide for overcoming the challenges associated with calculating asset depreciation Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting

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Case study: How Tim Hortons took its accounts payable automation project to the next level David Kraulis, The TDL Group

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Case study: Lessons from Varian Medical Systems’ (VMS) deployment of a global risk management and compliance program Saikat Maiti, Varian Medical

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Steps for evaluating the health of your access risk management program Sonny Dasgupta, SAP

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Maximize discounts and reduce overall spend using dynamic discounting functionality Bertram Meyer, Taulia

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A step by step guide to choosing the right GRC reporting tool Gavin Campbell, Integrc

SAP General Ledger: Tips and tricks for a successful implementation


Ram V. Ramakrishnan and Rajkishore Una, GyanSys

10:30 am – 11:45 am

Column5 EPM Education Center Increasing the value of SAP BPC – Part 1

106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

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John Hickey and Mike Sullivan, Column5 Consulting

SAP BPC implementations in NW vs. MS Charles Dagaev, Column5 Consulting

Integrated EPM blueprint: Next generation business value David Den Boer, Column5 Consulting

11:45 am – 1:15 pm

Lunch

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

SAP Demo and Discussion Forums Enabling the end-user with SAP education

Solutions Showcase

SAP Booth

Steve Hirsch, SAP Education

SAP BusinessObjects Access Control live and productive: What’s next?

SAP Booth

Bruce McCuaig, SAP Canada

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

SAP OnDemand Lab: SAP Travel OnDemand

203

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm


101

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm


102

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Schedule


CPE

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

SAP Demo and Discussion Forums New operating models for receivables management

SAP Booth

Katharina Reichert, SAP AG and Joseph Pacor, SAP

Taking control of liquidity and proactively managing financial and commodity risk

SAP Booth

Craig Himmelberger, SAP and Christian Mnich, SAP AG

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm

Breakout Sessions

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Live demo: Access risk management functionality in SAP

117

GRC TRACK 2

104

GRC TRACK 1

Chris Radkowski, SAP (session is repeated on Thursday at 1:00 pm)

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Breakout Sessions Unifying your compliance initiatives: Real-world lessons for using SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions


Sriram Ruthala, GyanSys

Panel discussion: How leading organizations have effectively implemented SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions to link risk and business strategy

109


Matt Polak, Ernst & Young

Best practices and technologies for building Microsoft® Excel-based SAP® financial reports, featuring Isuzu North America Corporation’s success story

110

FINANCIALS TRACK 7 SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL SESSION

Jon VanderMaarl, Isuzu North America Corporation and Paul Zunker, Global Software

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Case study: Lessons from Murray Energy’s proven approach for optimizing order-to-cash

112


113


116

GRC TRACK 2

118

FINANCIALS TRACK 3

120


121

GRC TRACK 4

122

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

123

GRC TRACK 1

Robert Glitch and Jim Spigarelli, Murray Energy Corporation

fin

Expert recommendations to optimize the global financial close processes Stefan Karl, SAP AG

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Expert advice for integrating security design with access control Rafael Smeyers, PricewaterhouseCoopers

fin

A new way to improve the end-user experience with SAP ERP Financials Janet Salmon, SAP AG

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An in-depth analysis of what to audit — and how — within your GRC landscape James Roeske, VanRiver Consulting

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Case study: Lessons from Sharp’s SAP BusinessObjects Process Control upgrade Wyatt MacManus and Matt Hartnett, Sharp Electronics

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Guidelines to accurately set pricing and profitability goals based on true costs Karuna Mukherjea and Frank Ciannella, SAP

Executing a vision for enterprise risk management leveraging SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions Fiona Williams, Deloitte & Touche LLP and Maunil Mehta, Southern California Edison


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Schedule


CPE

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

303

FINANCIALS TRACK 6

307

FINANCIALS TRACK 1

308

GRC TRACK 1

106

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107

COLUMN5

108

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Breakout Sessions continued

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How to achieve balanced financial reporting in the SAP General Ledger Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software

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Achieve greater fixed asset cost detail and FERC compliance with SAP Asset LifeCycle Accounting (ALA) Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting

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Case study: Building and delivering on the business case for GRC: Strategies from Bank of America Doug Marandola, Bank of America

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center Increasing the value of SAP BPC – Part 2 John Hickey and Mike Sullivan, Column5 Consulting

Managing consolidation and disclosure processes with SAP BusinessObjects solutions: BPC and Disclosure Management Ty Jessup, Column5 Consulting and Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing

Making a case for EPM Steve Stone, Column5 Consulting

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

SAP OnDemand Lab: SuccessFactors

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Breakout Sessions Panel discussion: Foreign Bank Account Reporting (FBAR) regulations: Reporting is not an option

203

109


Mark Stapleton, SAP America; Jaime Ryan, Blaise Scioli, Juergen Klingbeil, and Gordon Stahly, e5 Solutions Group

Streamlining your adoption of the IFRSs and interactive data (XBRL)

110

The 2012 guide to workflow configuration for SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0

FINANCIALS TRACK 11


Cundus

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FINANCIALS TRACK 7

111

GRC TRACK 2

112

FINANCIALS TRACK 9

115

FINANCIALS TRACK 4

116

FINANCIALS TRACK 1

118

GRC TRACK 2

119

FINANCIALS TRACK 3

Frank Rambo, SAP AG and Richard Calaba, SAP Labs

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A detailed guide to treasury functionality and enhancements from SAP Christian Mnich, SAP AG

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How to overcome weaknesses and inefficiencies in the account reconciliation process Mario Spanicciati, BlackLine Systems and Stefan Karl, SAP AG

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Simplify postings of business transactions to the general ledger with expert automatic account determination techniques Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting

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Resolve segregation of duties and access violations with a cost-effective, task-based approach to security Raymond Mastre, PricewaterhouseCoopers

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2012 overview and roadmap for SAP financial solutions James Fisher, SAP

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Schedule


CPE

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

123

GRC TRACK 1

301

FINANCIALS TRACKS 9, 13

303

FINANCIALS TRACK 3

304

GRC TRACK 1

306

FINANCIALS TRACKS 4, 7 GRC TRACK 6

307

GRC TRACK 3

106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5


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Case study: Sybase automates compliance and risk management using SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Bruce Carpenter, Sybase

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Techniques to get up and running quickly with collections and dispute functionality Katharina Reichert, SAP AG

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Strategies for achieving financial excellence — cost-effectively — using a shared services center Craig Himmelberger, SAP

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Making GRC part of the strategic and operational processes of doing business Ram Krishnan, SAP

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Case study: Dramatic improvements in consolidations and management reporting at New Balance Athletic Shoe Todd Paulauskas, New Balance Athletic Shoe

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Case study: Stabilizing controls and reducing compliance costs at Petrobras Alfred Bacon, Petrobras

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center EPM 10 reporting – Part 1 Jennifer Harlan, Column5 Consulting

EPM technical implementation milestones for stability and scalability Charles Dagaev, Column5 Consulting

Strategize and align with SAP SSM as part of integrated EPM Steve Stone, Column5 Consulting

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Refreshment Break


4:15 pm – 5:30 pm


203

4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Breakout Sessions Accelerating SAP finance transactions with Microsoft SharePoint and InfoPath

104


Clinton Jones, Winshuttle

Managing your data quality initiatives: An essential building block for information governance

109

A detailed guide to SAP’s roadmap for its financial consolidation solutions

111


114

GRC TRACK 2

Elizabeth Milne, SAP

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Case study: How Allstate completed a do-it-yourself role redesign project for improved security and reduced segregation of duties conflicts


Chuck Nardi, BackOffice Associates

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FINANCIALS TRACK 3

Liz McHugh and Eric Pynnonen, Allstate Insurance Corporation

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Schedule


CPE

4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

115

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

116

GRC TRACK 3

120


121

FINANCIALS TRACK 7

122

FINANCIALS TRACK 9

123

GRC TRACK 2

301

FINANCIALS TRACK 1

303


304


308

FINANCIALS TRACK 8


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Efficiently reorganize profit centers and segments in response to business and market changes Stefan Karl, SAP AG

aud

A guide to reaping the benefits of continuous transaction monitoring Jamie Croudace Levitt, Turnkey Consulting

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SAP’s 2012 roadmap for governance, risk, and compliance Michael Lortz, SAP

fin

An updated guide to 10 essential methods, reporting techniques, and tools no SAP finance team should be without Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software

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New strategies and technologies to analyze and understand financial data for improved cash management and forecasting Christian Mnich, SAP AG

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Panel discussion: Customers share their successes and lessons for segregation of duties remediation and sustainment Moderator: James Roeske, VanRiver Consulting; Panelists: Ben Wienand, McKesson; Jamie Frame, CocaCola; Cynthia McConathy, BNSF Railway Company

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A practical guide to integration techniques that facilitate data transfer between FI and SD Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software

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Tips for streamlining the collection and management of financial notes Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing

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Achieve speed, control, and compliance in your entity close processes James Chiu, SAP Labs

How to automate any invoice process with one integrated platform


Steve Smith, Esker

4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center EPM 10 reporting – Part 2

106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5

Jennifer Harlan, Column5 Consulting

BPC logic for consolidations and business rules Mike Sullivan and John Hickey, Column5 Consulting

Discover hidden value using PCM as part of integrated EPM Steve Wofford, Column5 Consulting

5:15 pm – 7:00 pm

Solutions Showcase

Marquee Ballroom

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Solutions Showcase

5:45 pm – 7:00 pm

Ask-the-Experts

Solutions Showcase

32

Schedule

Wednesday, March 14 TIME

CPE

EVENT

LOCATION

7:30 am – 6:30 pm

Registration


7:30 am – 8:15 am


North Pavilion

8:30 am – 9:45 am

fin

Financials and GRC General Assembly: Finance transformation within SAP

TRACK

Premier Ballroom

Mark White, Chief Financial Officer, Global Customer Operations, SAP AG

New directions for SAP financials, performance management , and GRC solutions Fred Laluyaux, SVP and General Manager, EPM, GRC and Finance Applications

8:30 am – 5:00 pm


101

8:30 am – 9:45 am


203

9:45 am – 10:15 am

Refreshment Break


10:15 am – 5:00 pm


102

10:15 am – 11:30 am


203

10:15 am – 11:30 am

Breakout Sessions

aud

Drive cost savings through a practical approach for designing and implementing business process- and IT-based roles

104

GRC TRACK 2

105

FINANCIALS TRACK 4

Jason Glantz and Shivraj Patil, Ernst & Young

A best practice approach to optimize your financial closing activities


Scott Bruno, Hyland Software

Critical steps for adding self-service functionality to your SAP accounts payable process

109


Bob Cincotta, Kofax

Automate invoice and receivables processing to reduce errors, increase workforce efficiency and improve cash management

110

Best practices for maintaining an SoD violation-free environment

FINANCIALS TRACK 9


James Maguire, AGS Software Solutions

aud

FINANCIALS TRACK 8

111

GRC TRACK 2

112

FINANCIALS TRACK 10

113

FINANCIALS TRACK 6

Ruth Johnson, Savera Systems

acc

An in-depth guide to using results analysis functionality as a systematic tool for project accounting Sandeep Bagchi, Keane

acc

Key considerations for adding SAP enhancement package 5 to your SAP General Ledger landscape Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software

33

Schedule

Wednesday, March 14 continued TIME

CPE

10:15 am – 11:30 am

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

114

GRC TRACK 4

119

GRC TRACK 3

120


121


124

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

304

FINANCIALS TRACK 1 HR TRACK 5

306

FINANCIALS TRACK 5

307


106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5


aud

Panel discussion: Leading customers share their successes and lessons with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Moderator: Sonny Dasgupta, SAP; Panelists: Jim Lindsey, TTX; Mike Roberson, Valero Energy; Carolina Guiterrez, Banco de Galicia; Eric Peoples, Levi Strauss & Co.

aud

How to create and deploy automated business rules for continuous control and transaction monitoring Thomas Jeschke, PricewaterhouseCoopers

acc

Strategies for configuring or modifying your SAP system to support IFRS compliance Prasad Boddupalli, PricewaterhouseCoopers

fin

New options for governing financial master data and ensuring accurate consolidated financial statements Pete Graham, SAP Labs

fin

An introduction to new SAP technologies that improve profitability analysis Karuna Mukherjea, SAP

acc

Expert advice for choosing the best travel management solution from SAP Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing

fin

2012 guide to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 David Williams, SAP

aud

Practical advice for streamlining and improving the value of your organization’s internal audit function James Chiu, SAP Labs

10:15 am – 11:30 am

Column5 EPM Education Center Introduction to BPC logic Mike Sullivan, Column5 Consulting

Integrating BI with EPM 10 Ty Jessup and Steve Wofford, Column5 Consulting

Assess results with performance measurement as part of integrated EPM Steve Stone, Column5 Consulting

11:15 am – 2:30 pm

Solutions Showcase

11:45 am – 12:30 pm

Breakout Sessions

aud

Live demo: Access control and process control integration

Marquee Ballroom

121

GRC TRACK 4

109

FINANCIALS TRACK 1

Jan Gardiner and John Jerrehian, SAP

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

Breakout Sessions Easy FI uploading with GLSU — A panel of Z Option customers share their experiences Scott Gendron, Mass Mutual Financial Group; Alan Schapiro, Odyssey Reinsurance Company; and Vickie Canterbury, Intermec Technologies Corporation

34


Schedule


CPE

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

110

GRC TRACK 4

Breakout Sessions continued An insider’s guide to aligning your SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 implementation with the evolving COSO Internal Control-Integrated Framework


Eric M. Bloesch, PricewaterhouseCoopers

A detailed guide to access risk remediation in SAP

aud

Jayne Gibbon, SAP

aud

Case study: How Coca-Cola reduced the number of roles within its SAP landscape by 90%

111

GRC TRACK 2

119

GRC TRACK 2

120

FINANCIALS TRACK 7

122


123

GRC TRACK 4

124


301

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

303

FINANCIALS TRACK 13

304

FINANCIALS TRACK 14

306

FINANCIALS TRACK 1

307

FINANCIALS TRACK 8

106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

Kyleen Wissell, The Coca-Cola Company

acc

A step-by-step guide to leveraging inter- and intracompany processing in SAP enhancement package 5 for more efficient management reporting Manish Dharnidharka, PwC

acc

Case study: Lubrizol migrates to the latest SAP General Ledger without disrupting its financial reporting processes Diane Brezovec, The Lubrizol Corporation

aud

Case study: How Accenture provides flexible enterprise-wide compliant identity management using SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0 Matthew Pecorelli, Accenture

fin

Speed intercompany reconciliations for faster financial closes Elizabeth Milne, SAP

acc

Financials Expert LIVE: Use functional areas to enhance your cost-of-sales reporting Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting

fin

Case study: From Microsoft to SAP NetWeaver versions: Lessons from Lexmark’s BPC migration JB Jenkins, Lexmark International

fin

Case study: How the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education implemented a virtual credit card payment process Dr. Chris Bowling, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education

acc

Prevent assets from becoming a liability using SAP Asset Retirement Obligation Management Nathan Genez, Serio Consulting

fin

Reducing inefficiencies and risks associated with paper-based payment processes Carter Johnson, SAP and Tom Walker, OpenText

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center Leveraging SAP BPC in the utilities industry to automate planning, forecasting and financial consolidation processes Darin Lemos, PG&E; Steve Sussman and Seth Rudin, Column5 Consulting

Moving from ERP to EPM -— industry lessons: Where’s the “P” in ERP? Steve Wofford, Column5 Consulting

35

Schedule


CPE

EVENT

LOCATION

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Lunch

Solutions Showcase

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm

SAP Demo and Discussion Forums Get what you need fast with SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions

TRACK

SAP Booth

Scott Phifer, SAP

Optimizing shared services for HR and finance

SAP Booth

Franz Deitering, SAP

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm


1:45 pm – 2:30 pm


203

SAP Booth Oliver Conze, SAP

Financial transformation using in-memory computing and mobile technologies from SAP

SAP Booth

Karuna Mukherjea, SAP

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Breakout Sessions Dynamic discounting in SAP — The multi-million dollar savings opportunity

105


Bertram Meyer and Markus Ament, Taulia

Everything you need to know about SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions

109

110

Tips for driving real financial value and savings through effective SAP security design

FINANCIALS TRACK 1


William Smith, Timken and Scott Bruno, Hyland Software

aud

FINANCIALS TRACK 3


Steve Sussman and Seth Rudin, Column5 Consulting; Richard Winter, NBC Universal; Darin Lemos, PG&E

How Timken chose to extend SAP and improve accounting process efficiencies

FINANCIALS TRACK 9

111

GRC TRACK 2

114

GRC TRACK 4

115

FINANCIALS TRACK 6

116

FINANCIALS TRACK 5

117

GRC TRACK 4

118

FINANCIALS TRACK 12

Nathan Cummins, PricewaterhouseCoopers

aud

Case study: Lessons learned from H.J. Heinz’s SAP BusinessObjects Process Control 3.0 implementation project Trisha Lawless, H.J. Heinz Company

acc

Customer discussion forum: Recommendations and advice to ensure a successful transition to the SAP General Ledger Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & Software

A detailed guide to planning solutions from SAP

fin aud

Chris Pauxtis, SAP

Customer discussion forum: Lessons learned from role design and access control implementations Jason Glantz, Ernst & Young and Lynn Reed, Johnson & Johnson

acc

Foreign currency valuation and translation dos and don’ts for better FAS 52 compliance Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software

36

Schedule


CPE

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

119

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

120

GRC TRACK 3

121

FINANCIALS TRACK 10

122


123

FINANCIALS TRACK 5

124

GRC TRACK 4

106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5


fin

Understanding your product costs with better integration between financial and logistics functionality Janet Salmon, SAP AG

aud

Identify control weaknesses sooner — and spend less money fixing them Jan Gardiner, SAP (session is repeated on Friday at 10:00 am)

acc

Expert instruction for creating and optimizing project structures using SAP project templates Sandeep Bagchi, Keane

fin

Case study: Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance achieves a fast close using cost center accounting functionality Aileen Tynan, Great-West Life & Annuity

fin

Creating consolidated cash flow statements according to the direct method Stefan Karl, SAP AG

aud

SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0: Not just another upgrade Frank Rambo, SAP AG

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center Upgrading to EPM 10: New features Mike Sullivan, Column5 Consulting

Performance tuning on SAP BPC 7.5 and EPM 10 NW version Charles Dagaev, Column5 Consulting

Integrated EPM roundtable David Den Boer, Steve Wofford, and Steve Stone, Column5 Consulting

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Refreshment Break


4:00 pm – 5:15 pm


203

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Breakout Sessions How Zurich closes its books with confidence and achieves balance sheet integrity with BlackLine and SAP

109


Mario Spanicciati and Howard Goldstein, BlackLine Systems; Stefan Karl, SAP AG; and Laura Darbro, Zurich

fin

How to leverage document splitting to enable full financial statement reporting by profit center

FINANCIALS TRACK 4

111

FINANCIALS TRACK 6

112


113

FINANCIALS TRACK 6

Eric Bramley, Deloitte

fin

Getting started with SAP starter kits: Your first step toward accelerating your financial close Kirk Anderson, SAP

acc

Lessons for the optimal configuration and maintenance of financial organizational structures within the latest version of SAP General Ledger Prasad Boddupalli, PricewaterhouseCoopers

37

Schedule


CPE

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

119

GRC TRACK 2

120

FINANCIALS TRACK 1

122

FINANCIALS TRACK 9

123

FINANCIALS TRACK 3

303


304

FINANCIALS TRACK 5

306


307

GRC TRACK 4

106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5


aud

An expert shares undocumented tips for customizing a segregation of duties rule set Jayne Gibbon, SAP

fin

Proven techniques for configuring multiple currency types Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software

fin

Tips for managing collections and dispute resolutions via a central shared service center Katharina Reichert, SAP AG

fin

Case study: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s strategies and techniques for identifying and repairing slow finance processes Jennifer Buko, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing

aud

Panel discussion: Leading experts share proven approaches to raising the ROI of GRC programs Moderator: Tony Torchia, KPMG; Panelists: Michael Eckrich, DuPont; Brad Lois, Fiserv; Moinul Akhand, Westinghouse Electric Company; Jim Hurley, IBM; and Ken Gabriel, KPMG

fin

Case study: How Target centralized and automated its expense and corporate planning processes Sarah Luttman, Target

aud

GRC meets BI: Lessons for improving the analysis of compliance data Richard Calaba, SAP Labs

aud

Case study: How the US Department of the Interior (DOI) successfully implemented SAP BusinessObjects Access Control Martin Kessler, U.S. Department of the Interior

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center BPC and SAP EPM product roadmap David Williams, SAP; Steve Sussman and Ty Jessup, Column5 Consulting

Performance tuning on SAP BPC 7.5 and EPM 10 MS version Charles Dagaev, Column5 Consulting

Implementing EPM in complex organizations David Den Boer, Column5 Consulting

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Solutions Showcase

Marquee Ballroom

5:15 pm – 6:30 pm

Cocktail Reception

Solutions Showcase

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Ask-the-Experts

Solutions Showcase

38

Schedule

Thursday, March 15 TIME

CPE

EVENT

LOCATION

7:30 am – 5:15 pm

Registration


7:30 am – 8:30 am


North Pavilion

8:30 am – 5:00 pm


101

8:30 am – 5:00 pm


102

8:30 am – 9:45 am


203

8:30 am – 9:45 am

Breakout Sessions

aud

Case study: Simultaneously implementing access control functionality and upgrading SAP ERP at Westinghouse

TRACK

104

GRC TRACK 4

105

FINANCIALS TRACK 5

Matt Tolbert, Westinghouse

Building enterprise performance management capabilities with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation


Tamara Emerson, Accenture

How Levi Strauss & Co. streamlined its invoice processing inside SAP

109


Blake Evans, ReadSoft and Amy Fine, Levi Strauss & Co.

How Burger King Corp. created a more accurate cash forecast within SAP

110

Best practices for managing project-related budgets using investment management functionality

FINANCIALS TRACK 5


Scott Williams, Hanse Orga International Corp. and James Morales, Burger King Corp.

acc

FINANCIALS TRACK 8

114

FINANCIALS TRACK 10

116


117


119

GRC TRACK 2

122

FINANCIALS TRACK 3

123

GRC TRACK 2

Sandeep Bagchi, Keane

aud

Strategies for applying continuous process monitoring techniques to increase audit quality Richard Castle, Ernst & Young

acc

A comprehensive approach to adopt new FASB and IASB revenue recognition standards Ravi Krovidi, PricewaterhouseCoopers

aud

A technical guide to building approval workflows and integrating them with access control functionality Richard Calaba, SAP Labs

fin

Panel discussion: Results of the most recent IBM Global CFO Study: Insights for improving financial performance Moderators: Jim Hurley and Carl Nordman, IBM; Panelists: Anthony Robinson, McCain Foods Limited; Tony Torchia, KPMG; and Mike Desai, Bio-Rad Laboratories

aud

Case study: Redesigning security in Nu Skin International’s mature, multi-national SAP environment Joel Erickson and Robert Gutierrez, Nu Skin International

39

Schedule

Thursday, March 15 continued TIME

CPE

8:30 am – 9:45 am

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

124

FINANCIALS TRACK 6

301


304

FINANCIALS TRACK 14

306

FINANCIALS TRACK 1 HR TRACK 5

307


106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5


acc

Inside SAP General Ledger migration scenario 7: Lessons for adding non-leading ledgers Gary Fullmer and Rex Moskovitz, Ernst & Young

fin

A sneak peek into planned enhancements for the Web and Microsoft Office clients of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 Chris Pauxtis, SAP

acg

Best practices for using an advanced management costing process along with budgeting in the public sector Tammy Fraley, Alta Via Consulting

fin

Speed travel bookings, approvals, and expense processing by deploying SAP Travel OnDemand to mobile devices Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing

aud

Case study: Elster Group integrates and simplifies multiple compliance initiatives across its heterogeneous IT landscape Malte Globig, Elster Group

8:30 am – 9:45 am

Column5 EPM Education Center Integrating SharePoint with EPM John Bullington, Column5 Consulting

BPC NetWeaver logic: Beyond the basics Mike Sullivan and John Hickey, Column5 Consulting

Business Intelligence: Supporting integrated EPM Steve Wofford, Column5 Consulting

9:45 am – 10:15 am

Refreshment Break


10:15 am – 11:30 am


203

10:15 am – 11:30 am

Breakout Sessions

bus

GRC Expert LIVE: Program risk and change management for SAP BusinessObjects GRC and EPM solutions

104

GRC TRACK 1

109

GRC TRACK 2

William Newman, Newport Consulting Group

Panel discussion: Redesigning security in Nu Skin International’s mature multi-national SAP environment: Insights from iT2 and Nu Skin International


David Bromlow, Dan McGrew, Lynne McGrew, Allan Sulgrove, iT2; Joel Erickson and Robert Gutierrez, Nu Skin International

How OdysseyRe achieves “A” ratings in its SAP financial data uploading and reporting using Microsoft Excel

110


Chris Meyer, Excel4apps; Jim Halepaska, Z Option; and Alan Schapiro, Odyssey Reinsurance Company

aud

Case study: Streamlining and reducing the cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance at McKesson Ben Wienand and Kelly Worley, McKesson

40

FINANCIALS TRACK 7

115


Schedule


CPE

10:15 am – 11:30 am

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

119

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

120

GRC TRACK 2

121


122

GRC TRACK 2

123


124

FINANCIALS TRACK 3

301


303

GRC TRACK 5

304

GRC TRACK 1

307

FINANCIALS TRACK 5

106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5


acc

A comprehensive guide to finance and controlling analytics and process improvement possibilities Carsten Hilker, SAP Labs

aud

Case study: Lessons from ConocoPhillips’ approach to conducting user access reviews and monitoring transaction usage Trevor Wyatt, ConocoPhillips (session is repeated on Friday at 8:30 am)

acc

Improve material movement postings to the G/L with proven FI-MM integration techniques Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software

aud

Panel discussion: A guide to reaping the business benefits offered by an enterprise-wide access controls monitoring program Moderator: Susan Stapleton, Greenlight Technologies; Panelists: Malte Globig, Elster Group; Wyatt MacManus, Sharp Electronics; Martin Kessler, U.S. Department of the Interior; and Alfred Bacon, Petrobras

acc

Tips and techniques to ensure IFRS-compliant asset accounting Eric Barlow, Serio Consulting

fin

Panel discussion: Lessons for leveraging your next SAP upgrade as an opportunity to transform finance Moderator: John Steele, Deloitte; Panelists: Tony Bright, Deloitte; Krishnakant Dave, Deloitte; William Miller, Mi6 Solutions; Paul Theobald, CAPE Consulting; Pete Graham, SAP Labs; and Joe Svoboda, SAP

acc

Case study: ConAgra’s financial shared service strategy for increasing the efficiency and reducing the cost of accounts payable Pam Russavage, ConAgra Foods

aud

Real-world guidelines to manage the audit functionality in your SAP landscape Darshan Shah, KPMG

aud

Best practices to build and run the secure and reliable international supply chain Greg Ertel, SAP

fin

Case study: Inside Lubrizol’s BPC implementation project: Successes, failures, and lessons learned Diane Brezovec, The Lubrizol Corporation

10:15 am – 11:30 am

Column5 EPM Education Center BPC — A multi-purpose solution Richard Winter, NBC Universal and Steve Sussman, Column5 Consulting

BPC Microsoft logic: Beyond the basics Mike Sullivan and John Hickey, Column5 Consulting

EIM strategies for EPM Steve Wofford, Column5 Consulting

11:15 am – 2:30 pm

Solutions Showcase

Marquee Ballroom

41

Schedule


CPE

EVENT

LOCATION

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Lunch

Solutions Showcase

11:45 am – 12:30 pm

SAP Demo and Discussion Forums Navigating your risk, compliance, and controls roadmap

TRACK

SAP Booth

Heike Fiedler-Phelps, SAP America

How the SAP solution portfolio can help accelerate accounting and financial closes

SAP Booth

Elizabeth Milne, SAP

11:45 am – 1:00 pm


1:00 pm – 1:45 pm


203

SAP Booth principles that lead to a better solution Cyril Johannes, SAP America

An introduction to SAP Travel OnDemand

SAP Booth

Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Breakout Sessions

aud

Live demo: Access risk management functionality in SAP

112

GRC TRACK 2 FINANCIALS TRACK 12

115

FINANCIALS TRACK 1

303

FINANCIALS TRACK 10

109

FINANCIALS TRACK 8

111

FINANCIALS TRACK 13

113

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

114


117

GRC TRACK 2

119

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

Chris Radkowski, SAP (repeat session)

acc

Customer discussion forum: SAP customers share their battle-tested tips for optimizing SAP financial accounting (FI) functionality Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software

acc

Customer discussion forum: Lessons to improve project accounting activities in SAP Sandeep Bagchi, Keane

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Breakout Sessions

acc

Case study: Streamlining throughput and trimming waste from accounts payable at IMS Health Jim Ferguson, IMS Health

fin

Case study: Abiomed’s project insights and approaches for implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Keith Cambra, Abiomed (session is repeated on Friday at 8:30 am)

acc

What did that really cost? Using material ledger functionality to determine actual supply chain costs Cliff Eng, PricewaterhouseCoopers

aud

Case study: How Firestone completed a security remediation project in three months Cindi Richardson, Firestone

aud

How to take control of your system access management efforts John Jerrehian, SAP Labs

fin

New technologies for accelerating profitability analyses Carsten Hilker, SAP Labs

42

Schedule


CPE

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

120


122

GRC TRACK 1

301

GRC TRACK 4

106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5


fin

Case study: How and why McKesson gleans greater financial insights using dashboards and self-service Web analytics Ross Wilson, McKesson

aud

SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management: Practical approaches for getting started and expert guidance for readjusting your strategy Bruce McCuaig, SAP Canada

aud

Case study: How Levi Strauss & Co. improved global compliance with an SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0 implementation Alpesh Parmar, Levi Strauss & Co.

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center EPM industry solutions: Higher Ed, Prof Services, and Retail (BPC & PCM) John Bullington and Mike Sullivan, Column5 Consulting

Financial planning using SAP BPC as part of integrated EPM John Hickey, Column5 Consulting

BPC EPM10 on NetWeaver: Integrated Financial Planning to Run Better on SAP Grace Liu and Jeetan Lakhan, SanDisk and Seth Rudin, Column5 Consulting

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm


2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Breakout Sessions

aud

Case study: Strengthening Sarbanes-Oxley compliance at BNSF Railway Company: Lessons from the company’s rollout of SAP BusinessObjects Process Control 10.0

203

105


111


112

GRC TRACK 2

113

FINANCIALS TRACK 9

115

GRC TRACK 2

117


122

GRC TRACK 2

Cynthia McConathy, BNSF Railway Company

Best practices for financial KPI design

fin aud

Gaurav Vohra, Deloitte

Case study: How PepsiCo developed an SAP security model to meet the needs of a highly decentralized organization John Myers, PepsiCo

fin

Case study: Bentley Systems speeds dispute resolution and gains visibility into credit write-offs around the globe Jim Frick and Melissa Hinkle, Bentley Systems

aud

Strategies for ensuring business awareness, understanding, and ownership of security and controls Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting

acc

Case study: Lessons from a successful IFRS conversion at Petrominerales Jose Lineros, Petrominerales

aud

Case study: How Johnson & Johnson prevents unauthorized access to its business critical systems Lynn Reed, Johnson & Johnson

43

Schedule


CPE

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

123

FINANCIALS TRACK 2

124

FINANCIALS TRACK 8

303


304

FINANCIALS TRACK 6

306


106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

108

COLUMN5


fin

Case study: How Colgate utilizes SAP HANA and inmemory computing to drive commercial goal setting for its finance department David Foster, Colgate

acc

Strategies and lessons for automating accounts payable Terri Bold, Dolphin

fin

Accelerate the publication of your financial statements using disclosure management functionality Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing

acc

Prepare for the challenges of SAP General Ledger migration scenario 3 to 5 Manish Dharnidharka, PwC (session is repeated on Friday at 11:30 am)

bus

Strategies for achieving GRC maturity within your organization Carole Switzer, OCEG

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center EPM industry solutions: Healthcare (Analytic App from SAP), Real Estate, Utilities, and S&OP (manufacturing and CPG) Ty Jessup and Mike Sullivan, Column5 Consulting

Customer roundtable Richard Winter, NBC Universal; Darin Lemos, PG&E; and Steve Sussman and Seth Rudin, Column5 Consulting

Adopting a rolling forecast Steve Player, Player Group; Steve Stone and Steve Wofford, Column5 Consulting

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Refreshment Break

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

Breakout Sessions

aud

Customer discussion forum: GRC technology enablement processes: Lessons from the trenches


109

GRC TRACK 1

122


123

GRC TRACK 2

301


Matt Polak and Tom Madden, Ernst & Young

fin

Customer discussion forum: Lessons from your peers for streamlining the time-to-close process Ross Wilson, McKesson

aud

Customer discussion forum: SAP security and authorizations Pavi Malhotra, Ernst & Young and Charlie Singh, American Water

aud

GRC Expert LIVE: How SAP solutions can make audit management processes more cost-effective William Newman, Newport Consulting Group

44

Schedule


CPE

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

EVENT

LOCATION

TRACK

110


111

GRC TRACK 4

112

FINANCIALS TRACK 9

113


114

GRC TRACK 4

117

FINANCIALS TRACK 14

120


304

FINANCIALS TRACK 7

306


106

COLUMN5

107

COLUMN5

Breakout Sessions

fin

A simplified approach for automating consolidations of investments Dan Sullivan, focusSAP

aud

Five methods for preserving controls and reducing risk during SAP implementations, upgrades, and rollouts Matt Zastudil, Ernst & Young

fin

Expert tips to proactively manage collections and reduce day sales outstanding Jeffrey Arnold, Deloitte

fin

Live demo: A comprehensive tour of the functionality of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Jim Siudut, SAP

aud

Technical architecture and landscape of the SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions with a focus on the implementation and technical enhancements of the GRC 10.0 release Kurt Hollis, Deloitte

acg

Tips for using activity-based costing for calculating the cost-to-serve for the public sector Tammy Fraley, Alta Via Consulting

acc

How to configure the SAP General Ledger to solve your legal reporting requirements Gary Fullmer and Rex Moskovitz, Ernst & Young

fin

Improve the quality of cash flow reports using account transformation and currency translation business rules John Cerqueira, Reliable Technical Solutions (session is repeated on Friday at 10:00 am)

aud

Centralize and automate risk management to comply with internal and external policies Justin McManus, Protiviti

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Column5 EPM Education Center Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP) with EPM Ty Jessup and Mike Sullivan, Column5 Consulting

SAP EPM customer programs and communities Birgit Starmanns, SAP Global Marketing

45

Schedule

Friday, March 16 TIME

CPE

EVENT

LOCATION

7:30 am – 1:30 pm

Registration


7:30 am – 8:30 am


North Pavilion

8:00 am – 12:00 pm


101

8:00 am – 12:00 pm


102

8:30 am – 9:45 am

Breakout Sessions

fin

Case study: Abiomed’s project insights and approaches for implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

TRACK

104

FINANCIALS TRACK 13

105

GRC TRACK 2

110

FINANCIALS TRACK 9

112


113

GRC TRACK 2

114

GRC TRACK 2

120


122


123

FINANCIALS TRACK 5

301

GRC TRACK 1

Keith Cambra, Abiomed (repeat session)

aud

Case study: Lessons from ConocoPhillips’ approach to conducting user access reviews and monitoring transaction usage Trevor Wyatt, ConocoPhillips (repeat session)

fin

Case study: Lessons from Forest Laboratories’ dramatically improved dispute management and collections process Pradeep Jain, Forest Laboratories

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Case study: Streamlining the chart of accounts at McKesson improves financial reporting and achieves faster closes Ross Wilson, McKesson

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Case study: Putting an end to role proliferation and reducing SoD violations at Nike Eric Dwyer and Ervin Hernandez, Nike

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A detailed guide to access control reporting options, including advanced features Kapil Ashar, Ernst & Young

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Accounting changes are coming: An up-close look at the new accounting and reporting models as US GAAP and IFRS converge Myles Corson, Ernst & Young

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Lessons for using continuous controls monitoring to reduce risk in your financial processes Carlos Jaimes, Turnkey Consulting

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New technologies and guidelines to improve the financial budgeting process Chris Clay, SAP

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Actionable advice for calculating the ROI of your GRC project Heike Fiedler-Phelps, SAP America

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How to better manage and control public funds using SAP Grants Management Monette McNicholas, EPI-USE America

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The role of internal audit and compliance teams in providing real-time assurance during an SAP implementation, upgrade, or consolidation project Bob Herman, PwC

8:30 am – 9:45 am

Column5 EPM Education Center Migrating from Hyperion to SAP EPM Steve Sussman and John Bullington, Column5 Consulting

Business benefits roundtable David Den Boer and Steve Stone, Column5 Consulting

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Identify control weaknesses sooner — and spend less money fixing them Jan Gardiner, SAP (repeat session)

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Evaluating and choosing the right BPC reporting functionality for your needs Sandee Biggs, Breakwater Consulting

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Case study: From Virsa to SAP BusinessObjects Access Control: DuPont shares lessons learned Andrew Bui, DuPont

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Proven practices for designing an end-to-end product cost model Cyril Johannes, SAP America

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Customer discussion forum: Lessons learned from continuous process monitoring projects Richard Castle, Ernst & Young and Tim Walter, Caterpillar

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Improve the quality of cash flow reports using account transformation and currency translation business rules John Cerqueira, Reliable Technical Solutions (repeat session)

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Overcoming the most common challenges surrounding superuser privilege management Brian Ocampo, Ernst & Young

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A comprehensive guide to analyzing and improving your accounts receivables processes Donald Jackel, SAP

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Effectively leading change in the finance organization Brian Shannon, Dolphin

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Case study: A former auditor tells all: How thinking like an auditor helped ensure the success of The Johns Hopkins Institutions’ segregation of duties (SoD) project Sherri Flaks, The Johns Hopkins Institutions

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Strategies for closing the gap between access control and identity management processes Erin Hughes, SAP

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Innovative mobile and analytic technologies for improving liquidity planning and forecasting Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP

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Column5 EPM Education Center Dashboard design (formerly Xcelsius) graphical visualization Ty Jessup, Column5 Consulting

Column5’s EPM assessment: Where are you in the EPM process? Steve Wofford, Column5 Consulting

BPC Netweaver Version 7.5 for Global Planning, Forecasting and Consolidations Shashank Kolhe, Altera and Seth Rudin, Column5 Consulting

11:15 am – 11:30 am

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Customer discussion forum: What controllers and finance managers need to know to get better information from their SAP systems Cyril Johannes, SAP America

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Customer discussion forum: Tips and techniques to improve compliance reporting in preparation for an audit Mike Rambasek, Ernst & Young and Ginny Kelley, EMC

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Prepare for the challenges of SAP General Ledger migration scenario 3 to 5 Manish Dharnidharka, PwC (repeat session)

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What corporate treasurers need to know about cash management, liquidity planning, and cash flow reporting Moussa Soukal, Hanse Orga International Corporation

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Strategies and new technologies to automate business process monitoring Atul Sudhalkar, SAP

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Tips and techniques for accurately calculating and reporting on both global and local margins Sharabh Ivaturi, PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Increase your proficiency with the report painter tool to overcome complex financial reporting challenges John Cerqueira, Reliable Technical Solutions

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A guide to navigating the complexities associated with an SAP systems audit Chris Cassin and Mitesh Chugh, KPMG

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Proven practices to simplify your direct tax reporting processes Darius Bikulcius, Accenture

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A comprehensive guide to building a global deployment roadmap for SAP ERP Financials at your organization BJ Still, Accenture

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How to create a consistent process for increasing the relevance and managing the life cycle of corporate policies using SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 Jan Gardiner, SAP

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Column5 EPM Education Center SAP BPC production issues roundtable John Hickey, Charles Dagaev, and David Den Boer, Column5 Consulting

How to map, visualize, and execute strategy using SSM and StreamWork Steve Stone, Column5 Consulting

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Grab ‘n Go Box Lunch

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Sponsored educational sessions provide you with opportunities to learn about customer successes, participate in discussions, and view demonstrations of how vendor products or services can help drive more business value from your SAP solutions. These sessions are a part of the main conference schedule.

A best practice approach to optimize your financial closing activities Scott Bruno, Hyland Software :HGQHVGD\DP²DP Financials Track 4 The financial statement close is recognized as a crucial process subject to increasing scrutiny, yet has been remarkably resistant to re-engineering. Recent surveys reveal that less than 10% of those responding rate their ability to continuously improve their financial close processes as superior. However, more than 70% consider continuous improvement one of their top three priorities. This session outlines how a total solution approach and addressing systems, processes and people provides the best path to success. Walk through a list of elements that are unique to the accounting close that every financial professional should know. Arm yourself with best practices for optimizing your financial close and key technologies to help support the process.

Automate invoice and receivables processing to reduce errors, increase workforce efficiency and improve cash management James Maguire, ASG Software Solutions :HGQHVGD\DP²DP Financials Track 9 Organizations still struggle with improving business processes. Reducing overhead costs while improving processing cycles is a priority, and the effort of improving financial processes never stops. Attend this session for a detailed review of best practices for employing automated processing in accounts payable and accounts receivable. Learn how to reduce the use of paper-based processes, standardize invoice receipt/workflow processes, and integrate these into SAP. Find out what steps your organization can take to reduce processing cycles, manage customer payment exception, and improve cash-flow. Walk through real-world examples of how existing SAP customers have successfully automated their accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, while ensuring corporate, legal and regulatory compliance.

Best practices and technologies for building Microsoft® Excel-based SAP® financial reports, featuring Isuzu North America Corporation’s success story Jon VanderMaarl, Isuzu North America Corporation and Paul Zunker, Global Software 7XHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 7 Attend this session and hear best practices for automating your organization’s spreadsheet processes within SAP General Ledger and SAP’s sub ledgers as well as other specific SAP modules. Walk through Isuzu North America Corporation’s realworld experiences and learn how the company underwent such an automation project. Hear firsthand what pain points and challenges the company experienced with regards to its spreadsheet environment and how these challenges were overcome using Global Software’s spreadsheet automation tools. Find out how to leverage existing SAP reports in Excel and eliminate the need to rekey, download, and export data. Find out what functionality exists to empower your users to develop reports tailored to your organization’s unique needs in a timely fashion without heavy reliance on IT, gaining increased time savings, increased departmental analysis, increased efficiency and timeliness of budgeting process, and better visibility of financial (and any other departmental) data across the entire organization, as well as enhanced spreadsheet security. Understand what seamless integration functionality exists between Microsoft Excel and the SAP environment by way of graphical user face automation tools and custom requests for comments (RFCs).

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued Building enterprise performance management capabilities with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Tamara Emerson, Accenture 7KXUVGD\DP²DP Financials Track 5 In today’s economic environment, executives strive to stay ahead of the competition and plan in advance of surprises. Effective enterprise performance management (EPM) capabilities help businesses achieve better business outcomes by bridging the gap between strategy and execution. In this session, you’ll hear from experienced Accenture implementation managers with tips on how to begin the journey to build your organization’s enterprise performance management (EPM) capabilities using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, covering such topics as the value of EPM, building a business case for EPM capabilities, and lessons learned from planning and implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation.

Critical steps for adding self-service functionality to your SAP accounts payable process Bob Cincotta, Kofax :HGQHVGD\DP²DP Financials Track 8 The Accounts Payable function has a number of stakeholders including business units, purchasing, vendors, employees, accounting, auditors, and the CFO and Controller. Satisfying the demands of all key players can be a daunting task at best and an unwieldy burden at worst. Attend this session for an up-close look at how to automate SAP business processes by managing the capture, transformation, and exchange of business-critical information arising in paper, fax, and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely, and cost-effective manner. Learn how to enable self-service functionality to help reduces costs and improve service levels with shorter cycle times, without compromising internal controls. Get practical advice to minimize errors by virtually eliminating the re-entry of invoice data which can easily lead to data entry and payment errors. Learn how this technology will enable your organization to create a more efficient, and end-to-end Accounts Payable process.

Dynamic discounting in SAP — The multi-million dollar savings opportunity Bertram Meyer and Markus Ament, Taulia :HGQHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 9

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Attend this session and learn how dynamic discounting can enable companies to save millions of dollars annually. Find out how to create a discount opportunity with every invoice you pay, on 100% of the invoices from 100% of your suppliers. Learn about the benefits of addressing the invoice spend at its core, your SAP ERP system, and regardless of the invoice medium. Understand how you can boost supplier adoption by avoiding supplier fees and instead providing a compelling value preposition. See firsthand how Taulia’s Dynamic Discount Optimizer and Vendor Portal do exactly that! View a real-world, end-to-end business scenario as a live demo of dynamic discounting is demonstrated. Leave this session with a solid understanding of how Taulia’s dynamic discounting ™ solution seamlessly integrates with the existing SAP functionality for accounts payable, treasury, and procurement, and the rapid time-to-value it delivers by fully leveraging your current SAP data and processes.

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued Easy FI uploading with GLSU – A panel of Z Option customers share their experiences Scott Gendron, Mass Mutual Financial Group; Alan Schapiro, Odyssey Reinsurance Company; and Vickie Canterbury, Intermec Technologies Corporation :HGQHVGD\DP²SP Financials Track 1 Find out how Z Option customers leverage the GLSU (FI Spreadsheet Uploader) solution to streamline everyday accounting tasks. Learn how the use of GLSU can improve the efficiency of financial data entry functions, everything from importing cutover data to everyday FI postings to processing vendor invoices. Understand how GLSU complements standard SAP functionality by using Microsoft Excel to validate and post more than 1,000 lines, attach source documents, utilize pick lists, create flexible user-define templates, etc. Walk away from this session armed with detailed insight for using the GLSU solution to increase data accuracy, reduce processing time and effort, and shorten month-end close cycles.

Everything you need to know about SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions Steve Sussman and Seth Rudin, Column5 Consulting; Richard Winter, NBC Universal; Darin Lemos, PG&E :HGQHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 3 EPM technology is among the most flexible in the SAP product portfolio. At the same time, when implemented properly, this technology can return significant value to the business. Join Column5 and a panel of customers as they discuss their experiences implementing SAP BusinessObjects EPM products. Benefit from their real-world experience and learn the right questions to ask before making the investment in EPM. Walk through key challenges and benefits associated with the implementation and find out what common issues have been encountered when replacing legacy systems. Leave this session with a solid grasp on how to achieve more value out of SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions. Ask questions of the panel to take away valuable tips to use in your pursuit of success with the SAP BusinessObjects EPM portfolio.

How Levi Strauss & Co. streamlined its invoice processing inside SAP Blake Evans, ReadSoft and Amy Fine, Levi Strauss & Co. 7KXUVGD\DP²DP Financials Track 8 Attend this session to learn how Levi Strauss & Co. streamlined its accounts payable process and overcame its invoicing bottleneck challenges. Hear how the company transitioned from manual AP processing to an automated invoice processing environment. While efficiency gains contributed to the business case, find out what other solid benefits the company has achieved including increased visibility of processes and liabilities, tighter controls and faster cycle time. Examine how these objectives were achieved through invoice imaging, capturing data from those images and routing invoices (via workflow) throughout the organization for exception handling, coding and approvals. View demonstrations of how the company utilizes ReadSoft’s SAP-certified integration invoice automation solution to replace paper clutter with immediate visibility to purchase orders and the ability to electronically search for invoices.

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued How OdysseyRe achieves “A” ratings in its SAP financial data uploading and reporting using Microsoft Excel Chris Meyer, Excel4apps; Jim Halepaska, Z Option; and Alan Schapiro, Odyssey Reinsurance Company 7KXUVGD\DP²DP Financials Track 7 Ranking among the top 15 reinsurance groups worldwide, OdysseyRe has earned high marks from its financial personnel in providing simple, SAP-certified integration software solutions to assist with efficient data posting and reporting in SAP ERP Financials. But this wasn’t always the case. Join Alan Schapiro, Vice President of Information Technology, as he reveals the company’s previous struggle with delays in updating cubes and how his team sought to leverage the familiarity and ease of Excel in performing SAP data uploads with GLSU, by Z Option, and SAP data reporting with GL Wand, by Excel4apps. You’ll learn about the installation and set-up of these solutions from a technology user’s perspective, as well as key improvements to OdysseyRe’s financial reporting process. And finally, experience the efficiencies gained by OdysseyRe through a live, interactive demonstratio of the ® GLSU and GL Wand solutions.

How The Walt Disney Company transformed its accounts payable shared services with intelligent data capture Andre Hale, Disney Worldwide Shared Services and Tim Phillips, Brainware 7XHVGD\DP²DP Financials Track 8 Attend this session and learn how The Walt Disney Company is able to automatically sort, extract, and validate more than 500,000 paper and electronic invoices per year into SAP using Brainware Distiller. Find out what key challenges the company faced with regards to its previous accounts payable automation functionality and what evaluation process it used to select Brainware Distiller. Hear firsthand how the company was able to put the system into production in less than 100 days and eliminated 80% of the work associated with data entry within one week of going live with its intelligent data capture solution. Glean valuable insights from The Walt Disney Company’s real-world experiences and learn how to evaluate vendors and vendor claims for intelligent data capture technology. See how Brainware Distiller can automate data capture and reconciliation for complex, multilanguage, multi-currency invoices as well as virtually any other document type and integrate directly with SAP ERP. View a live demonstration of Brainware Distiller in action.

How Timken chose to extend SAP and improve accounting process efficiencies William Smith, Timken and Scott Bruno, Hyland Software :HGQHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 1 Attend this session and learn how Timken, a global manufacturing company, leveraged document management and workflow within its organization to support a shared services model and extend its SAP applications across two locations, the United States and India. Find out how this model allowed Timken to expand this initiative across multiple departments including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and human resources, as well as providing access to their customers.

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued How to automate any invoice process with one integrated platform Steve Smith, Esker 7XHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 8 Rather than implementing separate technologies for automated invoice processing, companies can gain additional value by leveraging a single platform. The session presents an overview of AP invoices in the cash conversion cycle and specific challenges that businesses running SAP® solutions face in processing invoices. Discover how intelligent technology, available on-premise or in the cloud, integrates with SAP solutions to automate vendor invoice processing. Through case study examples, learn the benefits of AP automation such as shorter payment cycles, cost savings, fewer errors and duplicate payments, and increased visibility for financial planning. Additionally, find out how the same platform can be leveraged for accounts receivable and sales order processing automation as well.

How Zurich closes its books with confidence and achieves balance sheet integrity with BlackLine and SAP Mario Spanicciati, and Howard Goldstein BlackLine Systems; Stefan Karl, SAP AG; and Laura Darbro, Zurich :HGQHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 4 Account reconciliation is an underappreciated, yet critical, control to help ensure an organization’s financial integrity. Weaknesses and inefficiencies in the reconciliation process often lead to mistakes on the balance sheet and overall inaccuracies in the financial close. Attend this session and learn how automating the traditionally manual, labor-intensive and spreadsheet-driven account reconciliation process can help your organization (whether operating in an SAP-only or multiple ERP environment) achieve a quicker and more accurate close – increasing 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 from global insurance leader Zurich on 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.

Panel discussion: Foreign Bank Account Reporting (FBAR) regulations: Reporting is not an option Mark Stapleton, SAP America; Jaime Ryan, Blaise Scioli, Juergen Klingbeil, and Gordon Stahly, e5 Solutions Group 7XHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 7 Many treasuries, including even well-managed operations, have difficulty maintaining an accurate global inventory of banks, branches, accounts, and signer authorities. Even when a detailed account listing is available, inefficient, manual, paperbased processes are usually required to keep it up-to-date. This, in conjunction with the U.S. Treasury’s February 2011 final regulations for Foreign Bank Account Reporting (FBAR) have significantly raised the compliance bar. Attend this session and learn how the new functionality available from e5 Solutions Group along with e5’s new add-on software application, Overture5™ can help you stay in compliance and manage the complexity surrounding FBAR. Hear from a panel of experts how Overture5 can add value to your organization as details of the company’s high-level development road map for 2012 are highlighted. Take advantage of an open question and answer forum at the end of the session.

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued How Burger King Corp. created a more accurate cash forecast within SAP Scott Williams, Hanse Orga International Corp. and James Morales, Burger King Corp. 7KXUVGD\DP²DP Financials Track 5 Recently purchased by a multi-billion dollar, global investment firm focused on long-term value creation, it became critical for Burger King Corp. to better manage its cash and liquidity. In response to that need, Burger King Corp. replaced its manually intensive 30-day cash forecast with a more automated and optimized process that provided a forecast over a longer time horizon. A significant challenge was the assignment of actuals at a level of granularity that matched the forecast. Learn how the organization implemented a cash forecasting solution from SAP software solution partner, Hanse Orga, to optimize the cash forecasting process and automate the assignment of actuals at a very granular level. Hear how Burger King decreased non-value added activities and focused its efforts on the variance analysis between the cash forecast and actual. Find out how measuring the forecast against actuals provided the feedback loop necessary to create a more accurate cash forecast in future periods.

Streamlining your adoption of the IFRSs and interactive data (XBRL) Cundus 7XHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 11 The financial close process, which for many still involves the use of significant manual effort and/or third-party providers, is coming under increasing pressure to keep pace with expanding reporting requirements and cost pressures of IFRSs and XBRL. Attend this session and learn how these processes can be re-implemented quickly and easily, with dramatic reductions in effort and improvements in quality. Walk through the recent developments and announcements that could affect all domestic and foreign SEC filers. Listen in as the most effective approaches to future adoption, and best practices to implement, a streamlined financial close process using the IFRSs Taxonomy are highlighted.

Accelerating SAP finance transactions with Microsoft SharePoint and InfoPath Clinton Jones, Winshuttle 7XHVGD\SP²SP Financials Track 3 SAP is the backbone of many large enterprises. It is a robust transactional engine which underpins core business processes including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, hire-to-retire and many others. However, because SAP is built to meet the needs of many vastly different industries, there are many business scenarios where organizations may choose to customize and enhance standard SAP user interfaces. This can often result in additional usability and user adoption challenges. The popularity and rapid adoption of SharePoint provides a tremendous opportunity for bringing core ERP functionality out to more users while meeting usability expectations. Coupled with a non-programming approach to SAP integration, SharePoint and InfoPath provide an end-to-end framework for empowering functional analysts and power users in the business to create alternative UIs for SAP. These tailored interfaces will ultimately accelerate the time it takes to complete core business transactions. Attend this session and learn how combining SharePoint with Infopath, along with the Winshuttle usability platform provides an end to end framework for accelerating SAP transactions.

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued Panel Discussion: Forecasting, reporting and planning – Harnessing the power of data to make better business decisions Ken Gabriel, KPMG; Ben Parisi, Zurich 7XHVGD\DP²DP GRC Track 6 Some traditional planning and reporting tools have not kept pace with today’s information-driven business world. These traditional tools and systems can also contain hidden or potential costs by restricting the organization’s overall ability to identify unnecessary expenses, improve cash flow management, identify risk, and fine-tune budgets. Attend this session and find out how your organization can start learning from and using data to make better business decisions and more effectively manage enterprise risks to achieve competitive advantage using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and other SAP BusinessObjects reporting tools. Hear directly from a panel of users who will provide real-world examples of how they improved their business, used the tools to make better decisions, performed more accurate forecasting, and what approaches they took to manage and utilize the data. Additionally, listen in as KPMG provides insight from other clients who reported improvement in the performance and cost-effectiveness of financial processes such as planning, budgeting, consolidation and reporting.

Panel discussion: How leading organizations have effectively implemented SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions to link risk and business strategy Matt Polak, Ernst & Young 7XHVGD\SP²SP GRC Track 4 How are companies evaluating the business case for GRC technology enablement to safeguard assets, prevent fraud, enable GRC processes and comply with increasingly complex regulations? Join Ernst & Young and a panel of client executives from Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, and American Water for a lively discussion about the strategic and tactical decisions and alignment required for leading-class implementations of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management, along with additional GRC technologies such as Archer and MetricStream. Key topics to be covered will include key compliance and business issues that drive the GRC business case; an up close look at the software evaluation process; the importance of bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders together from the business, IT and compliance; how to use strategic enablers and tools successfully during and after implementation; key issues, lessons learned, and benefits realized; hindsight is 20/20; what would you change?; and how to establish an overall GRC enablement strategy.

An insider’s guide to aligning your SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 implementation with the evolving COSO Internal Control-Integrated Framework Eric M. Bloesch, PricewaterhouseCoopers :HGQHVGD\DP²SP GRC Track 4 The COSO Internal Control-Integrated Framework is a standard for internal controls that many organizations have successfully adopted and created internal control policies, procedures, and activities around. Understand the latest developments with the COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework (ICIF). Examine core components of the COSO Internal Control-Integrated Framework and learn how SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 supports and improves the alignment to its principles, attributes, and activities. Obtain instruction and learn how implementing SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 provides the opportunity to enhance your internal control system, improve alignment to this framework, and strengthen your associated internal control components. Through real-world examples, walk through proven approaches to assess your internal control framework, identify gaps, and further optimize your internal control system components within key areas such as your control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication, and control monitoring.

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued Panel discussion: Redesigning security in Nu Skin International’s mature multi-national SAP environment: Insights from iT2 and Nu Skin International David Bromlow, Dan McGrew, Lynne McGrew, Allan Sulgrove, iT2; Joel Erickson and Robert Gutierrez, Nu Skin International 7KXUVGD\DP²DP GRC Track 2 Ask your toughest security questions to expert consultants from iT2 and managers from Nu Skin International, and receive real-world tips and tricks for addressing security at various levels, including roles, policies, processes, procedures, and tools. Get best practices for correctly planning project phases, anticipating risk, and preparing for possible roadblocks and issues. Examine primary risks that Nu Skin International faced with regards to ownership of the new design, adoption by users, and technical issues. Find out how the company effectively partnered with audit teams (both internal and external), obtained executive support, mapped out the redesign schedule, and gained user buy-in.

Unifying your compliance initiatives: Real-world lessons for using SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions Sriram Ruthala, GyanSys 7XHVGD\SP²SP GRC Track 1 This session will provide an up-close look at SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions, and give you detailed insight into how GRC can cater to a large variety of compliance needs across your organization. Walk through a recent customer example and learn how the company is now able to use SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions as the single source for its multi-compliance framework. Learn about the business justification behind the selection of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions. Walk through a recommended project implementation approach that will give your organization a head start on its next upgrade or implementation project.

Managing your data quality initiatives: An essential building block for information governance Chuck Nardi, BackOffice Associates 7XHVGD\SP²SP GRC Track 1 Creating a data quality strategy that can effectively manage complex data-related relationships, roles, and scenarios can be a daunting task, but essential to a successful information governance strategy. This session examines how to leverage the proper tools, a proven methodology, and the right mix of data quality experts to successfully support your information governance initiatives. Get best practices, tips, and lessons learned for uncovering and dealing with obsolete, incomplete, duplicate, and unnecessary data. Find the missing steps that lead to business process interruptions from inaccurate data in your SAP system and the steps you should take to avoid this risk. Examine how to effectively establish quality data and actionable data metrics and get tips for putting processes in place to eliminate master and transactional data errors. See examples of qualitative and quantitative reports you can run to better understand the current state of your data.

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Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued SAP General Ledger: Tips and tricks for a successful implementation Ram V. Ramakrishnan and Rajkishore Una, GyanSys 7XHVGD\DP²DP FIN Track 6 Attend this session for a detailed review of best practices and tips and tricks for successfully implementing the latest version of the SAP General Ledger. Walk through standard document splitting concepts, methods and rules then delve down into specific examples that illustrate how the document splitter influences the posting of different transactions, accounts, and the associated impact on subsequent processes such as financial reporting. Learn how to automate the clearing process for a zero balance account at the profit center level and view scenarios where enhancements can be made to reflect correct profit centers during document splitting. Examine the newer functionalities that are being available in enhancement package 5 and some of the complexities scenarios surrounding data migration to the latest release of SAP General Ledger.

Executing a vision for enterprise risk management leveraging SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions Fiona Williams, Deloitte & Touche LLP and Maunil Mehta, Southern California Edison 7XHVGD\SPSP GRC Track 1 Enterprise risk management (ERM) initiatives are a daunting task, but defining a vision and developing a consistent process and technology roadmap that supports that vision can be a “mission impossible.” Learn from the real world experiences of Southern California Edison (SCE) and find out how the company defined a vision for ERM and executed an ERM roadmap that leverages SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions to support regulatory initiatives including SOX and NERC/FERC compliance. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 plays an important piece to monitoring user and regulatory compliance. Walk through SCE’s migration and upgrade approach, which included three concurrent upgrades with the objective of merging of all its organizational, master data, and regulatory information into a single system. Learn why SCE is taking on such an endeavor, the benefits they plan to gain from it, and the company’s future vision beyond 2012.

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Exhibiting Companies 3C Software 1760 The Exchange Atlanta, GA 30339 Phone: 770-956-7744 Email: [email protected] www.3csoftware.com Booth #780

Anand-PAG 1300 W Walnut HiIl Ln Irving, TX 75038 Phone: 626-386-5216 Email: [email protected] http://anand-pag.com/ Booth #790

ASG Software Solutions 1333 Third Avenue South Naples, FL 34102 Phone: 800-932-5536 Email: [email protected] www.asg.com Booth #1070

Whether you want a fundamental period-end cost accounting system or a futurelooking scenario analysis tool, the ImpactECS Enterprise Cost System from 3C Software delivers meaningful, accurate, and actionable data. Since 1988, 3C Software has developed cost accounting systems that integrate with existing systems, handle multiple cost scenarios simultaneously, and allow for unlimited detail elements.

Anand was founded with the objective of making SAP process improvements easier. With transactional processing systems, operations include significant manual activities that are independent, prone to human errors and subjectivity. These risks can only be mitigated by implementing process workflows that control the business processing with proper rules and business logic. Anand solutions are built with “simplicity” of use at the core and require no additional hardware or resources to realize process optimization goals. This allows companies to focus on core business operations rather than being bound by technical limitations or shortcomings of the transaction infrastructure.

A recognized innovator in enterprise IT software solutions, ASG Software Solutions has been optimizing 85 percent of the world’s most complex IT organizations for over 25 years. We create and deploy unique software solutions that reduce cost, mitigate risk and improve service delivery throughout the IT lifecycle. ASG’s comprehensive solutions help you solve today’s challenges, such as content management and business process automation in accounts payable and accounts receivable, while driving your business forward by providing insight and control across cloud, distributed and mainframe environments.

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Aster Group 434-B Copperfield Blvd. NE Concord, NC 28025 Phone: 704-262-9200 Email: [email protected] www.astergroup.com Booth #1245

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Aster Group is an industry leading business and technology services firm specializing in the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application. Our unique blend of functional business experience and product expertise helps our clients maximize the business value of their solution. We impose a knowledge transfer implementation methodology which helps ensure a completely selfsufficient environment for our clients. Aster Group’s services include the following: SAP BPC implementation services (SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft SQL), upgrades, health check assessments, help desk, remote administration, online and onsite training classes, and end-to-end Business Intelligence.

Exhibiting Companies continued BackOffice Associates, LLC 940 Route 28 South Harwich, MA 02661 Phone: 508-430-7100 Email: [email protected] www.boaweb.com Booth #510 PREMIER SPONSOR

BlackLine Systems 21300 Victory Boulevard, 12th Floor Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Phone: 818-223-9008 Email: [email protected] www.BlackLine.com Booth #365

BlackLine, founded in 2001, pioneered the creation of Balance Sheet Account Reconciliation solutions. An experienced provider of enterprise solutions to Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions, BlackLine provides quick-toimplement, scaleable, and easy-to-use applications that help improve the financial controls for companies of all sizes.

Brainware 20110 Ashbrook Place, Suite 150 Ashburn, VA 20147 Phone: 703-948-5800 Email: [email protected] www.brainware.com Booth #330

Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of intelligent data capture solutions that help Global 2000 companies eliminate costly manual data entry, rapidly process large volumes of documents, and gain visibility into their document-centric processes across the enterprise. Specifically created for unstructured documents, Brainware Distiller™ processes multiple and changing document types, extracts critical data and line item details, and exports data to existing financial, workflow, and enterprise content management (ECM) systems — significantly reducing the costs associated with manual data entry and validation. With faster and more accurate data processing, you gain critical visibility into liabilities while retaining control of the process.

Breakaway Technologies, Inc. 385 Oxford Valley Road, Suite 322 Yardley, PA 19067 Phone: 215-369-7200 Email: [email protected] www.breakaway-inc.com Booth #580

Breakaway Technologies, Inc. delivers business intelligence and business performance management solutions that dramatically improve enterprise-wide results. We have been helping executives in finance, manufacturing, sales, marketing and other functions to unleash their wisdom and better use data to manage their performance for over ten successful years. Let us add value throughout your organization by improving operations, reducing costs, streamlining work processes and deploying tools that complement your SAP investment by delivering online, real-time data access and analysis. Contact us at (215) 3697200, or [email protected], to learn more and how you can become a member of Breakaway’s family of satisfied clients.

CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business 2700 Lake Cook Road Riverwoods, IL 60015 Phone: 847-267-2000 Email: [email protected] salestax.com Booth #210 SILVER SPONSOR

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BackOffice Associates(r) is a worldwide leader in data migration and information governance solutions, with a concentration on enhancing SAP(r) data quality since 1996. Our range of products and services address the needs of business and IT users seeking to unlock the value of their data assets. Whether monitoring ongoing information quality, or executing the most complex migration and governance initiatives, BackOffice Associates is the clear choice for customers requiring “Business-Ready Data Every Day(tm)”. BackOffice Associates is a global corporation headquartered in Massachusetts with additional offices in the US, Europe, Asia, India, Australia and Mexico. Company information is available at www.boaweb.com.

Sales Tax Office for SAP® Systems from CCH simplifies your sales and use tax compliance process. You’ll improve the accuracy of your calculations and reduce your audit exposure with this advanced system that combines superior tax rate and taxability content with precise jurisdiction boundary information and sophisticated logic.

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Exhibiting Companies continued Cforia Software 4333 Park Terrace Drive, Suite 201 Westlake Village, CA 91361 Phone: 310-455-0290 Email: [email protected] www.cforia.com Booth #460

Cforia Software provides industry leading A/R Automation that is used by large corporations to manage over $186 Billion in open A/R. Large customers examples: Textron, Thermo Fisher and Sealed Air. Cforia’s technology is SAP-certified as powered by SAP NetWeaver and works in complex environments including multicurrencies, multi-languages, multi-business units and disparate ERP systems. Maximize A/R performance with an integrated platform including Auto Cash Application, Credit Collections and Deductions Management, Electronic Billing and Online Payments. Cforia empowers Finance Departments to manage their own dunning, reports and business logic without reliance upon over-burdened IT Staff. Functionality delivered within a short three-month project timeframe.

Column5 4800 N. Scottsdale Rd. Ste., 2300 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Phone: 800-360-7839 Email: [email protected] www.column5.com Booth #710

Column5 is the world’s leading-edge consulting firm dedicated to providing highvalue services that help customers leverage the power of the SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management suite. Column5 was founded in 2005 by key players from OutlookSoft, and quickly evolved into a global team of experts who are uniquely qualified to properly design and deliver comprehensive systems, addressing a wide range of industry and process-specific requirements. Column5’s custom tailored solutions combine proven software with unparalleled technical skills, and visionary enterprise performance management process expertise, to deliver prompt return on investment, long-term independence and a competitive edge for our elite list of discerning clients.

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ControlPanelGRC 1201 N. Prospect Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53202 Phone: 855-MY-CPGRC Email: [email protected] www.controlpanelgrc.com Booth #1090

ControlPanelGRC™ represents a new breed of GRC solutions — one that focuses on rapid implementation, ease of use and functionality that make SAP users Always Audit Ready™. ControlPanelGRC, part of Milwaukee-based SymSoft Corporation, offers a Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) suite of modular, integrated applications that address the major areas of compliance concerns for SAP users, especially in heavily-regulated industries. With over 50 implementations, ControlPanelGRC has allowed its clients to satisfy compliance requirements while accelerating workflows that enhance their team’s productivity.

cundus, Inc. 13800 Coppermine Rd. Herndon, VA 20171 Phone: 703-234-2234 Email: [email protected] www.cundus.com Booth #1220

cundus delivers proven solutions that streamline your financial closing processAs an SAP partner and a worldwide expert in the implementation of SAP® BusinessObjects™ Disclosure Management, and SAP® BusinessObjects™ Notes Management”, cundus ensures that your experience is successful. Whether we build the solution or empower your team to implement it, we deliver tangible results that significantly reduce your risk/effort and improve the outcome. cundus has unmatched experience and world-class success automating the creation of annual reports, management reports, sustainability reports, SEC and XBRL filings as well as regulatory reports like Basel III or Solvency II. Discover more at www.cundus.com.

Exhibiting Companies continued Delego Software, Inc. 931 Commissioners Rd.E, Suite 200 London, ON N5Z 3H9 Canada Phone: 519-859-2553 Email: [email protected] www.delego.ca Booth #390

Delego Software Inc. is the innovation leader for the Payment Card Interface (PCI) market and has grown to become one of the largest suppliers of SAP integration with payment cards and customers around the world. Delego Software Inc. is an SAP partner whose solution has SAP-certified integration and has relationships with the 36 major credit card clearinghouses/processors/gateways that control the marketplace today. Delego Software succeeds in this niche market by concentrating on the ever-changing industry PCI compliance requirements, and by being very responsive to our customer’s business process needs, while providing superior technology. The Delego suite of solutions enables us to provide our global customer base with flexibility, functionality and proven technology in the most efficient manner. Furthermore, the management at Delego Software believes the key to long-term success is in the continuous investment in research and development that provide industry leading solutions for our customers.

Deloitte 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 Phone: 416-874-3543 Email: [email protected] www.deloitte.com/sap Booth #800

Deloitte Consulting LLP combines deep technology experience with practical business strategy to help clients get more from their SAP investments. We bring an unmatched range of capabilities to bear on mobility challenges, drawing on the experiences of our professionals in consulting, financial advisory services, tax and risk management worldwide. For organizations that understand the importance of implementing mobility strategies that work in lock step with their overarching business strategies, we can help. Ask us how we can help you move beyond basic implementation and improvement to achieve your most important business goals with mobility.

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Dickinson + Associates 1 North LaSalle Street, Suite 800 Chicago, IL 60602 Phone: 312-419-9600 Email: [email protected] www.dickinson-assoc.com Booth #560

Dickinson + Associates, an SAP partner, Delivers New Implementations, Mobile Applications, Upgrade Services, Value-Driven SAP Optimization, On-Site and Remote Support, and Professional Staffing Services. Our consulting professionals are truly Business People who know SAP that bring the right combination of Industry and SAP expertise for your SAP needs.

Direct Insite 13450 W. Sunrise Blvd., Suite 510 Sunrise, FL 33323 Phone: 631-873-2900 Email: [email protected] www.directinsite.com Booth #265

Direct Insite delivers on-demand AP, AR and payments solutions that are deployed fast, with minimal cost and operational impact, and provide significant benefits across the financial supply chain. Since it was founded in 1987, Direct Insite has built a track record in automating some of the most demanding financial environments. Today, more than 100,000 corporations use our solutions across 100 countries (representing more than 35 currencies and 17 languages). Direct Insite’s Invoices On-Line (IOL) suite simplifies AP and AR processes such as: electronic invoice distribution/submission, purchase order submission/ distribution/acknowledgement, invoice processing/validation, line-item matching, approval routing, invoice consolidation, dispute management, payment portal/ processing, and reporting and analysis.

(SS[OL7PLJLZ 65,0U[LNYH[LK 7SH[MVYT Every business has multiple pieces to their document process needs. Only ONE solution brings them all together. With Esker, you can realize your invoice automation vision through a single, unified platform that allows you to quickly, cost-effectively and easily: Eliminate paper from AP processing and AR invoicing Automate SOP, PO delivery and any other process Cut invoice processing time and costs at least 40% Seamlessly integrate with SAP® applications

To learn more about automating invoices, orders and more with ONE solution,

visit Esker at booth #700. www.esker.com

Exhibiting Companies continued Dolphin 882 S Matlack St, Suite 206 West Chester, PA 19382 Phone: 610-725-9125 Email: [email protected] www.dolphin-corp.com Booth #1030

Dolphin makes crucial business operations like accounts payable, accounts receivable, order management, data management, and data archiving run better and smarter for organizations using SAP solutions. Dolphin’s approach produces the right solution for each customer, faster, through its unmatched experience in SAP technologies, and its proven best practices, tools and SAP add-on applications. Dolphin solutions improve business and IT performance, lower total cost of ownership and deliver high return on investment. Dolphin solutions are implemented across North America and around the world.

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e5 Solutions Group 910 Harvest Drive, Second Floor Blue Bell, PA 19422 Phone: 610-891-1800 Email: [email protected] www.e5solutions.com Booth #1115 SILVER SPONSOR

Ernst & Young LLP Two Commerce Square Philadelphia, PA 19103 Phone: 215-448-5321 Email: [email protected] www.ey.com Booth #1200 PREMIER SPONSOR

ERP Control Specialists/ECS Consulting 1212 S. Naper Blvd, Suite 119 Naperville, IL 60565 Phone: 561-866-2886 Email: [email protected] erpcontrol.com Booth #1255

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e5 Solutions Group is the recognized leader in solution design and implementation of all of SAP’s functionality for Treasury and Cash Management, including Debt & Investment, Intercompany Loans, Market & Credit Risk Management, Foreign Currency Exposure Management, Hedge Management, In-House Banking, Cash Management and Electronic Bank Statement Processing. e5 helps companies to maximize their return on financial investments, reduce risk, streamline critical finance operations, optimize cash management and improve corporate performance. With its implementation expertise and its new Overture5™, Bank Administration for SAP product, e5 can help you deliver a comprehensive treasury solution that satisfies all of your critical financial functions.

The relationship between risk and performance improvement is an increasingly complex and central business challenge, with business performance directly connected to the recognition and effective management of risk. Whether your focus is on business transformation or sustaining achievement, having the right advisors on your side can make all the difference. Our 23,000 advisory professionals form one of the broadest global advisory networks of any professional organization, delivering seasoned multidisciplinary teams that work with our clients to deliver a powerful and superior client experience. We use proven, integrated methodologies to help you achieve your strategic priorities and make improvements that are sustainable for the longer term.

ECS is a leading provider of consulting services for SAP systems. We offer a wide range of services focused on SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft. Our risk management group focuses primarily on SAP BusinessObjects GRC, security, and internal control implementations. These services range from first-time installs of a SOD tool to helping companies adopt processes and tools to become an automated continuous monitoring organization. Founded in 1999, ECS has evolved from a 5-person shop to a company that has over 200 clients on 3 continents.

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Get End-to-End Insight with HCM AuditorΡ by Xpandion Design ʹ Get clarity into which users have ĂƵƚŚŽƌŝǌĂƚŝŽŶ to access specific infotypes, subtypes, personnel areas, employee groups and more Usage Inspection ʹ Discover which users ĂĐƚƵĂůůǇ access and alter sensitive SAP ERP HCM data Alerts ʹ Receive real-time alerts when any unusual or sensitive activity is performed; react instantly and prevent leakage of sensitive information. To learn more, visit iSoftStone (formerly Adventier) at Booth 1040.

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Exhibiting Companies continued Esker 1212 Deming Way, STE 350 Madison, WI 53717 Phone: 608-828-6000 Email: [email protected] www.esker.com Booth #700

Esker helps businesses Quit Paper and bring additional value to their SAP solutions by automating accounts payable and accounts receivable invoice processing with a single platform. An established SAP software solution partner with certified integration, Esker offers cloud services and on-premise solutions using patented technology to automate the flow of documents into and out of the enterprise. Businesses that integrate Esker solutions with their SAP systems typically reduce invoice processing time and costs by at least 40%. In addition, companies can leverage the Esker platform to automate sales order processing, PO delivery, faxing and more. Learn more at www.esker.com.

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Excel4apps 8384 Six Forks Road, Suite 201 Raleigh, NC 27615 Phone: 919-238-4040 Email: [email protected] www.excel4apps.com/sap Booth #470

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Exxova Worldwide Corp 1121 Alderman Drive, Suite 201 Alpharetta, GA 30005 Phone: 770-343-8484 Email: [email protected] www.exxova.com Booth #680

Global Software, Inc. 3201 Beechleaf Court, Suite 170 Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: 919-872-7800 Email: [email protected] glbsoft.com Booth #785

Greenlight Technologies, Inc 270 South Main Street Flemington, NJ 08822 Phone: 908-782-5700 Email: [email protected] www.greenlightcorp.net Booth #970

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Excel4apps is a provider of Excel-based reporting software for use with SAP systems. Designed for business professionals, its award-winning GL Wand and Sales Wand solutions easily and securely deliver real-time data using Microsoft Excel® to save reporting time and effort. Without middleware or data warehouse requirements, you can install and utilize Excel4apps solutions in minutes — so there’s less reliance on IT and greater power given to the individual user. Excel4apps serves over 8,500 users worldwide and has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Australia, and South Africa. To schedule a demonstration and try a free trial, visit www.excel4apps.com/sap today. Exxova serves its clients in complex technology, business intelligence, mobility, enterprise systems integration and business process outsourcing. Enabling clients to achieve high quality, cost effective outcomes through highly experienced associates in a multi-shore delivery model, Exxova provides solutions across commercial and public sector enterprises in Human Resources, Retail & Supply Chain, Business Intelligence and Customer Relationship Management. Based in Alpharetta, GA and with offices in New York, London and Hyderabad, Exxova is privately held and continues to grow rapidly as it has since the company’s founding in 2005.

Global Software, Inc. is the No. 1 worldwide provider of Microsoft® Excel-based automation tools for the world’s leading ERP systems, including SAP®. Global’s Spreadsheet Automation Suite is comprised of Spreadsheet Server, Powered by the QueryExchange™, Distribution Manager and Enterprise Budgeting. Global’s products are used in 40 countries and support over 4,000 customers and 175,000+ users worldwide. Visit glbsoft.com for more information.

access and transactional risks that can affect business outcomes. Enterprise business controls monitoring provides continuous access compliance across all applications, monitors user activities in applications to manage access risks, ensures the integrity of business transactions and provides insight into operational performance variances to drive process improvements. Greenlight Technologies’ products work in conjunction with, and extend the capabilities of, SAP BusinessObjects GRC. Leading Fortune 1000 organizations around the globe rely on Greenlight Technologies to reduce the costs associated with achieving compliance with regulations and the complexity of managing process risks.

Choose the Right Strategy! You want to enhance efficiency, maintain a high-quality system and achieve reliable data at all times? Chose our FinanceSuite and optimize your processes with these fully SAP®-integrated solutions. Cash & Liquidity Management eBAM electronic Bank Account Management AutoBank Automatic Cash Application Payment Management Treasury Management

Visit us at booth #440

www.hanseorga.com

Exhibiting Companies continued GyanSys 8440 Woodfield Crossing Blvd. Suite #290 Indianapolis, IN 46240 Phone: 317-580-4200 Email: [email protected] www.gyansys.com Booth #490

GyanSys is an SAP services partner and a Run SAP implementation partner with offices in USA, Europe, Philippines and India. Along with many flexible consulting offerings, GyanSys also offers Rapid Deployment solutions for several solution areas including PLM, PPM, SRM, CRM, SCM, GRC, Financial. Having ongoing partnerships with SAP on Product Testing, Education and Services, GyanSys is best suited to work on latest technology within SAP domain. We provide dedicated SAP systems to clients for rapid prototyping and piloting to accelerate the assessment and implementation. In addition, GyanSys successfully provides production support to many clients with Global delivery capabilities.

Hanse Orga International Corp. 220 East Huron Street, Suite 500 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Phone: 734-302-3000 Email: [email protected] www.hanseorga.com Booth #440

Hanse Orga International is an independent software and consulting firm for Financial Supply Chain Management processing within SAP. We are an SAP software solution partner, and our products have SAP-certified integration. Our FinanceSuite brings proven added value for cash application and reconciliation, cash and liquidity management, payment management, electronic bank account management and treasury. The strategy to develop enhanced SAP functionality, programmed in ABAP, allows for the software to be installed directly in SAP. The customer centric approach before, during and after the implementation has resulted in more than 500 satisfied clients internationally.

HighRadius Corporation 2925 Briarpark, Suite 870 Houston, TX 77042 Phone: 281-968-4473 Email: [email protected] www.highradius.com Booth #890

HighRadius Corporation provides Receivables Management software solutions to automate and optimize the business processes of receivables functions such as: credit, collections and deductions. Our innovative solutions automate the order-to-cash cycle while standardizing and streamlining the underlying business processes.HighRadius was founded by a team of technology entrepreneurs with extensive experience in financial and accounting business process automation. HighRadius is a privately owned company headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Hyland Software

28500 Clemens Road Westlake, OH 44145 Phone: 440-788-5000 Email: [email protected] www.hyland.com Booth #585

Image Integration Systems

885 Commerce Drive, Suite B Perrysburg, OH 43551 Phone: 419-872-1930 Email: [email protected] www.docusphere.com Booth #575

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Hyland Software develops OnBase to enable organizations midsize and large in targeted industries around the world to automate or eliminate manual and paperintensive tasks from transaction and case-drive business processes. OnBase has a proven record of solving problems resulting from time-consuming, costly and error plagued manual tasks. OnBase helps casinos and hotels reduce risk and increase visibility into critical business issues across various departments; more effectively managing a variety of document types and business transactions including receivable management, procurement, payables, monthly close, and human resources. Available on-premises or as software as a service (SaaS), OnBase installs quickly, cost-effectively and is designed to grow with organizations. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, Image Integration Systems’ entire focus is on the development, enhancement, maintenance, implementation, and support of its own DocuSphere solution for accounts payable automation. Image Integration Systems delivers “The DocuSphere Difference: The preeminent connected, business-driven AP automation solution — delivered by experienced people for a fixed fee.” DocuSphere has standards-based integration with SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, and JD Edwards ERP systems. For more information about Image Integration Systems and “The DocuSphere Difference,” please visit www.docusphere.com or contact Dave Litzenberg at 419.872.1930 x 222 (office).

Break out Mobility can give your business the edge. From Analytics to SAP HANA™, Deloitte has the insights and hands-on experience to help. About Deloitte Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte ToucheTohmatsu and its member firms. Copyright © 2012 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Exhibiting Companies continued Indra Politec 2002 Summit Boulevard, Suite 1450 Atlanta, GA 30319 Phone: 770-771-6500 Email: [email protected] www.politec.com Booth #1240

Integrc

Bruistensingel 124 Den Bosch, 5232 AC Netherlands Phone: +31 73 640 8750 Email: [email protected] www.integrc.com Booth #370

IntelliCorp, Inc. 2900 Lakeside Dr., Ste. 221 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Phone: 408-454-3500 Email: [email protected] www.intellicorp.com Booth #1140

iSoftStone, Inc.

5808 Lake Washington Blvd NE, Suite 400 Kirkland, WA 98033 Phone: 651-366-7608 Email: [email protected] www.adventier.com Booth #1040 SILVER SPONSOR

iT Services 2 2340 E. Trinity Mills, Suite 300 Carrollton, TX 75424 Phone: 877-400-0293 Email: [email protected] www.itservices2.com

Booth #670

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Indra Politec is a leading IT services multinational and a Global SAP Services Partner with over 38,000 professionals and a presence in 110 countries. Indra Politec has established a “Go To Market” partnership with SAP for the SAP GRC product, SAP Business Objects for Brazil (SAP NFe) and E-Invoicing solutions for both Argentina and Mexico. In addition to E-Invoicing solutions, Indra Politec operates in multiple industry sectors and provides end-to-end SAP Systems Integration, localization and ABAP/Netweaver development capabilities in Latin America. Indra Politec is also a leading provider of Nearshore IT outsourcing services including application management/ development, help desk, consulting and testing/QA.

Integrc (in-teg-ri-see), recently formed from the merger of su53 Solutions and CSI Netherlands (Consulting), is perhaps the world’s largest independent provider of GRC consulting and support services to the SAP market. Integrc works with clients to reduce costs, automate process conformance, drive business results and enhance your status as a trusted business. As a major provider totally committed to GRC activities in the SAP market, Integrc’s expertise, experience, and innovation is unrivalled.The company services global clients across the world from operating centres in the Netherlands (Den Bosch), UK (London, Birmingham and Belfast) and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

IntelliCorp, Inc. is a software company that provides, develops, and markets SAP application lifecycle management, business process management and data management software for SAP customers and partners. IntelliCorp applications deliver automatic intelligent impact analysis of SAP systems and have SAPcertified integration.

iSoftStone (NYSE: ISS) is a global IT service provider with offices in the US, Europe and throughout Asia. We provide an integrated suite of IT services and solutions, specialized in SAP project delivery, SharePoint development and SAP integration, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and IT outsourcing. With our partner Xpandion, we are presenting the following solutions: HCM Auditor (SAP HR monitoring), License Auditor (SAP license optimization), and Profile Tailor Dynamics (advanced SAP behavioral analysis). iSoftStone focuses on delivering services and solutions that drive innovation, create efficiencies, and reduce the risk, cost and complexity of SAP. iT Services 2, is a “Boutique SAP Consulting” firm, which provides clients with excellent consulting services by going the extra mile. With over two decades of experience, iT2 emphasizes quality in all we do including providing the best 2-3 of every ten consultants on each project. iT2 has been very involved with multiple GRC projects over the last three years. Our flexibility allows us to take on small projects, with responsibilities for deliverables, and/or provide platinum-level staff augmentation resources. Our customer references will attest to the productivity level and quality of the consultants that we provide in the GRC space.

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Over 7,000 customers worldwide utilize ReadSoft’s accounts payable imaging and workflow automation solutions to increase processing efficiency and lower costs.

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1-888-READSOFT | [email protected] | www.readsoft.com *Noted in Paystream Advisor’s 2011 Invoice Automation Adoption Survey Report, 80% of executives surveyed had either already launched invoice automation or planned to within a year.

Exhibiting Companies continued Kofax, Inc. 15211 Laguna Canyon Road Irvine, CA 92618 Phone: 949-727-1733 Email: [email protected] www.kofax.com

Booth #940 SILVER SPONSOR

KPMG LLP 345 Park Avenue New York, NY 10154 Phone: 212-758-9700 Email: [email protected] kpmg.com Booth #630

Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is the leading provider of capture enabled BPM solutions. Kofax solutions provide a rapid return on investment by automating information intensive processes and by managing the capture of information in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. Our integrated AP automation solutions streamline invoice capture to increase processing speed and dramatically reduce data entry costs, and leverage best practice workflows to expedite the invoice review, coding and approval process. For more information, please visit www.kofax.com/solutions/invoice-processing-ap-automation.com or contact your local Kofax representative at www.kofax.com/contact/worldwide.asp.

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We operate in 146 countries and have more than 140,000 professionals working in member firms around the world. Our aim is to provide clients with a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary financial and accounting services, based on deep industry knowledge.

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Learn2Perform 1122 Kenilworth Dr., Suite 416 Baltimore, MD 21204 Phone: 866-832-5669 Email: [email protected] www.learn2perform.com Booth #885

Learn2Perform is is one of the leading partners in the SAP ecosystem who has deep experience in both SAP and SuccessFactors. As an SAP channel partner, visit us in the exhibit hall to see SuccessFactors, SAP’s latest Cloud solution for HCM, Talent Management and Learning, as well as Business ByDesign, SAP ERP in the Cloud. Learn2Perform is also a SAP services partner and authorized education partner. We are experts in the SAP Enterprise Learning Solution. We deliver SAP training on all SAP products and many partner products, including custom enduser training solutions.

OB10 1040 Crown Pointe Parkway, Suite 350 Atlanta, GA 30338 Phone: 770-668-1368 Email: [email protected] www.OB10.com Booth #590

As the leading global B2B e-Invoicing network, OB10 simplifies and streamlines A/P invoice processes for significant cost savings and operational efficiency. By enabling companies to receive invoices electronically from suppliers, OB10 eliminates manual scanning and data entry and enables dramatic process improvements, maximizing companies’ control over cash flow. By allowing suppliers to submit invoices in any electronic format for delivery to client companies in their desired format, combined with unrivaled supplier enrollment support, OB10 helps clients realize the benefits of e-Invoicing quickly for ROI under one year.

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Exhibiting Companies continued OpenText 275 Frank Tompa Drive Waterloo, ON N2L0A1 Canada Phone: 519-888-7111 Email: [email protected] www.opentext.com Booth #960 SILVER SPONSOR

Oversight Systems, Inc. 1090 Northchase Parkway, Suite 350 Atlanta, GA 30067 Phone: 770-984-4600 Email: [email protected] www.oversightsystems.com Booth #875

OpenText is an enterprise content management (ECM) software company. We bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations manage and gain true value from their business content. Working with SAP® since 1992 has made OpenText the market leader in document access, archiving, records management and invoice management extensions for SAP applications. Our proven OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP Solutions and the optional optical character recognition extends SAP ERP Financials to optimize accounts payable operations and our OpenText Document Access for SAP Solutions connects business documents in the context of SAP applications to improve content-intensive business processes and reduce risk.

Oversight Systems is the no-hassle, rapid ROI way to turn ERP, CRM, and other critical financial systems into insight, action and competitive advantage. Our proven, scalable solutions deliver visibility into financial and operational results as soon as transactions are executed — no waiting for reconciliations or audits. Next, real-time business analytics and plain-language alerts show not just what happened, but why — and what to do about it. In short, Oversight turns your existing financial data into new business opportunities and better core business processes. The result is better, faster decisions across the enterprise that contribute directly to a stronger bottom line.

Paymetric, Inc. 11175 Cicero Drive Alpharetta, GA 30022, USA Phone: 678.242.5285 ext.1034 Email: [email protected] www.paymetric.com Booth #340

Paymetric, Inc. is the leading provider of integrated and secure electronic payment acceptance solutions that enable companies to streamline the order-to-cash process, reduce the scope and financial burden of achieving PCI compliance, and improve return on electronic payment acceptance. Paymetric’s solutions support virtually every type of electronic payment in any enterprise system where payment is accepted. Paymetric is recognized as an industry leader and is a three-time SAP award-winning partner with SAP-certified integration. Visit www.paymetric.com for additional information.

Performance Analytics Corporation 3601 Highway #7, Suite #400 Markham, ON L3R OM3 Canada Phone: 905-604-1092 Email: [email protected] www.performanceanalytics.ca Booth #1080

Performance Analytics is a technology and services company focused on delivering Enterprise Performance Management solutions for financial and operational reporting. We work with you to develop targeted solutions for improved business performance. Specializing in solutions for the Office of the CFO, we combine our deep understanding of finance with many years of practical experience to deliver planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, and reporting applications.

Princeton Payment Solutions 116 Village Blvd Suite 300 Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: 609-919-0700 Email: [email protected] www.prinpay.com Booth #140 PRINCETON PAYMENT SOLUTIONS

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(FTS). FTS|PPS takes a consultative, service-focused approach, partnering with clients to provide tailored, comprehensive responses to payment components such as back-office and web-based integration, payment solutions in complex ERP environments, PCI compliance, interchange and penalty fee reduction, and robust online reporting capabilities. FTS|PPS was the first company to encrypt data within an ERP system and pass the PCI audit standards. Our collective experience includes decades in bank operations, bank software development, and bank card technology. We understand your business challenges, and offer payments and security expertise to match.

Exhibiting Companies continued Protiviti Inc. 120 South LaSalle Street, Suite 2200 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: 786-264-7174 Email: [email protected] www.protiviti.com Booth #880

Protiviti is a global consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in finance, technology, operations, governance, risk and internal audit. Protiviti’s GRC Implementation professionals help companies select, manage and integrate GRC software solutions to improve management and maintenance of user access, compliance capabilities and operational risk management. We help organizations improve compliance programs by maximizing the organization’s use of the software’s inherent capabilities, integrating software in a cost-effective manner and implementing long-term solutions to enable sustainable compliance programs.

PwC 300 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10017 Phone: 312-298-3199 Email: [email protected] www.pwc.com/us/advisory Booth #950

PwC network of firms provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to enhance value for their clients. More than 168,000 people in 158 countries across the PwC network share thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. By leveraging our network of global resources and industry knowledge we help clients implement their business strategies to build effective organizations, innovate, grow profitably, reduce costs, leverage talent, manage risk and regulation. As business integrators, PwC looks across the entire organization focusing on strategy, structure, people, process and technology to help clients drive sustainable change that yields measurable results.

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Quality Systems & Software 4264 Nerissa Cir, #100 Fremont, CA 94555 Phone: 408-242-7588 Email: [email protected] www.QSandS.com Booth #770

Quality Systems & Software (QS&S) is widely acknowledged in the industry as leading SAP experts. Our product, “SAP Data Re-organization Optimizer” (SDRO) offers a comprehensive solution to managing complex SAP data re-organization, conversion and harmonization, including conversion of historical data in live production environments. “General Ledger Migration Optimizer” (GLMO), allows organizations to accelerate their New G/L initiatives. “Group Currency ActivationConversion” (GCAC), automates activating parallel currencies & converting historical transactions. QS&S offers an extensive portfolio of services in BPC, CFO-solutions, New G/L Migration, IFRS change-over, Closing Cockpit, CRM, BI/BW, Global Roll-Outs, Fresh Implementations, Upgrades, Archiving Solutions, Testing Strategies, Offshore-support and more.

ReadSoft 3838 N. Causeway Blvd. Lakeway III, Suite 2400 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 1-888-ReadSof(t) Email: [email protected] www.ReadSoft.com Booth #900

Financial document processing is critical to the successful management of a company’s operations but is also very time sensitive and labor intensive. ReadSoft offers pre-configured solutions with SAP-certified integration for companies looking to streamline document and request-driven processes. Packaged and enterprise solutions that optimize efficiency, improve visibility, shorten cycle time and improve control over order-to-cash and purchase-to-pay operations are available from ReadSoft. End-to-end solutions include image and data capture and an “inside SAP” suite of workflow solutions for problem resolution and approvals. With over 6,500 customers, ReadSoft has extensive experience automating AP operations and improving companies’ entire process chains inside of SAP.

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Exhibiting Companies continued REALTECH, Inc. 301 Lindenwood Dr. Suite 205 Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: 610-356-4401 Email: [email protected] www.realtech.com

REALTECH is one of the world’s largest SAP-focused software and consulting companies with over 2,000 customers worldwide. Our products and services enhance your SAP operation and ensure the performance, availability and reliability of your IT systems.

Booth #1230

Runbook Company Inc. 1 Broadway, 14th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Phone: 617-674-2993 Email: [email protected] www.runbook.com Booth #480

SandPoint Consulting 2716 Colonial Way Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 Phone: 248-705-0552 Email: [email protected] www.sandpointc.com Booth #775

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Runbook Company International is the world’s leading provider of financial software with solutions that streamline the Financial Close, Internal Controls and Compliance Documentation Processes in SAP. Organizations who have implemented Runbook have been able to successfully reduce costs and improve quality through the automation of recurring financial processes. Understanding the unique aspects of financial processes, Runbook provides solutions which automate and streamline these processes resulting in improved efficiency, visibility and transparency in critical areas. Meet your peers and share best practices. You are in control. www.runbook.com. Our manufacturing clients have improved sales forecasting, global consolidations, and ‘what-if’ modeling with BPC. SandPoint Consulting Inc. is a recognized expert at implementing, training and supporting SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation customers. Since 2001 SandPoint has helped implement hundreds of world-class BPC solutions. With consultants averaging 5 years of BPC implementation experience, SandPoint guarantees extraordinary quality, efficient delivery and extensive BPC knowledge transfer.

SAP America 3999 West Chester Pike Newtown Square, PA 19073 Phone: 800-872-1727 Email: [email protected] www.SAP.com/usa/solutions Booth #910

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device — SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. On March 13, SAP experts, independent consultants, and SAP customers will converge in Las Vegas for Financials 2012, HR 2012, and GRC 2012. SAPinsider conferences are consistently ranked best-in-class. Join us and tap into new strategies, comprehensive education, and important SAP solution updates presented in hands-on labs and interactive microforums and demos.

SAPexperts 20 Carematrix Drive Dedham, MA 02026 Phone: 781-751-8700 Email: [email protected] www.sapexperts.com Booth #650

Avoid costly trial-and-error, save time and money, and minimize the effort to get your SAP projects done right. With the SAPexperts online knowledgebases, you get invaluable tutorials, step-by-step instruction, time-saving tips, and best practices that are more complete and trusted than anything else you’ll find on the Web — guaranteed. SPECIAL OFFER — Purchase a license to any SAPexperts knowledgebase while onsite and get a FREE SAP PRESS book of your choice (up to $100 value). Visit SAPexperts at the WIS PUBLISHING booth, or at www.sapexperts.com.

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SAPinsider and insiderPROFILES 20 Carematrix Drive Dedham, MA 02026 Phone: 781-751-8755 Email: [email protected] http://sapinsider.wispubs.com http://insiderPROFILES.wispubs.com Booth #650

SAPinsider magazine is the premier source of information for executives, managers, consultants, and implementation and development teams who use and make decisions about SAP technology. Read loyally by 125,000+ professionals charged with maximizing the ROI of their SAP systems, the magazine provides SAP customers with advanced notice of SAP’s key product and service initiatives, directly from SAP executives. A perfect complement to SAPinsider, insiderPROFILES magazine offers detailed profiles of today’s 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 they’re innovating and driving business value through SAP technology. One free subscription gets you full access to both magazines; subscribe today at http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/. Free apps for both magazines are also available through the App Store and Android Market. Visit us (and pick up a sweet treat!) at the WIS Publishing booth.

SAP PRESS 20 Carematrix Drive Dedham, MA 02026 Phone: 781-751-8700 Email: [email protected] www.sap-press.com Grand Ballroom Lobby

SAP PRESS is the premier publisher of over 250 technical and strategic books for the SAP community. We proudly offer an expansive range of unique titles to help you master SAP technology and complete key SAP projects faster, while avoiding costly mistakes. Chosen from among the best and brightest minds at SAP, leading consultancies, and SAP customers from around the globe, our authors deliver keen insights, proven best practices, and solutions to the challenges with which our readers struggle daily. Our books are also available via BooksOnline, our online reading platform that allows you to access your book from anywhere you have an internet connection. With BooksOnline you can search the full text of the books, make notes, enhance screenshots and graphics, bookmark pages, and more. Save 10%, or buy 4 books and get 1 free when you order on-site at the SAP PRESS Bookstore, located in the Grand Ballroom Lobby.

SAPinsider Seminars on Demand 20 Carematrix Drive Dedham, MA 02026 Phone: 781-751-8700 Email: [email protected] www.sapeventsondemand.com Booth #650

Complement your training library with full-length Seminars on Demand, recorded live at SAPinsider events worldwide. Now, you and your team can “attend” those exact same seminars at your convenience, either on DVD or via download. Learn at your own pace and benefit from the expert knowledge, little-known tips, and time-saving tricks shared with those at the live events, without paying for travel or spending time away from work. Order a Seminar on Demand at the WIS Publishing booth during this event and save 30% on your total purchase.

Savera Systems 45680 Northport Loop East Fremont, CA 94538 Phone: 510-440-0840 Email: [email protected] www.saverasystems.com Booth #1075

Savera is a global leader in providing solutions and expertise for Compliance and Risk projects. We help companies worldwide to measure and manage risks to meet regulatory requirements. We specialize in implementing effective technology solutions to leverage efficiencies in managing these risks, for SOX, NERC/CIP or other regulations.

Exhibiting Companies continued Saviynt 5777 Century Blvd, Suite 838 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Phone: 818-384-2621 Email: [email protected] www.Saviynt.com Booth #1235

Saviynt provides industry’s leading access control solutions that help enterprises increase operational efficiency, reduce risk and meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Saviynt’s goal is to be the leader in providing products and services for streamlining security for major applications and platforms. We have assembled a great team that has several years of experience building managing and deploying security solutions. Saviynt’s flagship SAP Access Manager Solution is a leading SAP role cleanup, role design, role management, attestation, SoD analysis and remediation, Firefighter log analysis, and license usage evaluation solution.

Security Weaver 401 West A St, Ste 2200 San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 800-620-4210 Email: [email protected] www.securityweaver.com Booth #990

Security Weaver partners with SAP and its customers to provide certified solutions that extend the SAP risk and compliance landscape. As a solution provider for primarily SAP environments, Security Weaver’s offerings are designed to go from small to large customers, public to private.

Sigma Business Solutions Inc. 55 York Street, Suite 1100 Toronto, ON M5J1R7, Canada Phone: 416-594-1991 Email: [email protected] www.sigma-sbs.com Booth #355

Sunera LLC 1208 E. Kennedy, Suite 225 Tampa, FL 33602 Phone: 404-275-0772 Email: [email protected] www.grc.sunera.com Booth #1155

Sigma Business Solutions Inc. specializes in SAP information life cycle management including SAP ERP archiving and BW Nearline Storage/Archiving. Our services include on-site workshops, analysis and recommendations, strategy development, solution selection and implementation and ongoing support (ADK,AS,DRB, PBS Software, content management and storage solutions). Sigma has been a Partner of PBS Software GMBH since 1998 and provides all PBS Software products, Implementation and First Level support.

Sunera specializes in deploying and implementing SAP role designs and GRC solutions to meet complex compliance requirements. Our security practice is led by former SAP integrators whose backgrounds bridge technology, compliance, and finance disciplines. Their expertise includes leading GRC system implementations and SAP role design projects, managing “Big-4” risk advisory practices, and directing Fortune 500 compliance departments. We offer organizations a preconfigured role design which is designed to be free from segregation of duties and can be customized to meet customer specific requirements. This role design can be utilized as part of redesigning security privileges or to facilitate remediation initiatives.

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Exhibiting Companies continued Synactive, Inc. 950 Tower Lane, Suite 750 Foster City, CA 94404 Phone: 650-341-3310 Email: [email protected] www.guixt.com Booth #690

Taulia Inc. 100 Pine Street, Suite 1750 San Francisco, CA 94111 Phone: 415-376-8280 Email: [email protected] www.taulia.com Booth #475 ™

Synactive and its GuiXT solutions (Desktop, Mobile, Offline, Developer) enable SAP customers to maximize their investment with an extendable user interface that can be optimized per user and per touch point. Customize, simplify, and combine transaction screens in minutes by making changes directly to the SAP interface. Without ever needing to change the backend, GuiXT enables users to improve productivity working online or offline, while greatly reducing errors. Delivering proven end-to-end solutions since 1998, Synactive with its more than 900 satisfied clients around the world remains focused on innovation and bringing new products and services to market.

specializing in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that help large organizations reduce their total spend and achieve double-digit returns on their cash positions by optimizing their financial supply chain and payment terms with their suppliers. The Taulia Invoicement® Suite offers a cloud-based dynamic discounting solution and supplier portal. Taulia has offices in San Francisco, New York, London (U.K.) and Düsseldorf (Germany). Its list of customers includes Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, Pfizer, John Deere and other Fortune 500 companies from various industries. For more information, visit http://www.taulia.com.

Techwave Consulting Inc 1 East Uwchlan Ave, Ste 101 Exton, PA 19341 Phone: 484-872-8707 Email: [email protected] www.Techwavenet.com Booth #570

Techwave Consulting was formed in 2004 by ex-Big 4 ERP consultants. We are a leading provider of consulting services specializing ERP, Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, and Business Process Consolidation. We have hands-on experience with clients of all sizes and most industries.We recognize that ERP, EPM, BI, BPM, and BPC initiatives are a strategic commitment for our clients. Our solutions, coupled with experienced consultants, can empower your workforce. We benefit our clients by addressing both the business process and technical dimensions of information usage for more knowledgeable and timely decisions, enhanced effectiveness, and improved controls.

Thomson Reuters 2395 Midway Road Carrollton, TX 75006 Phone: 1-888-885-0206 Extension #1 Email: onesource.indirecttax@ thomsonreuters.com http://onesource.thomsonreuters.com/ solutions/indirect-tax/ Booth #660

ONESOURCE Indirect Tax by Thomson Reuters: The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters created a global business unit, ONESOURCE Indirect Tax, to help small-to-medium and global multinational sized companies effectively and efficiently comply with the growing complexity of indirect tax requirements around the world. ONESOURCE Indirect Tax offers end-to-end software solutions and consulting services to streamline tax planning, indirect tax processes, and local tax compliance for sales and use tax, VAT, and GST. Its solutions integrate with SAP financial applications to provide seamless and fully automated tax reporting and compliance. Thomson Reuters tax and accounting solutions enable tax and IT departments of all sizes to better manage compliance and risk.

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Exhibiting Companies continued TimeLink International Corp. 2975 Westchester Ave., Suite 201 Purchase, NY 10577 Phone: 914-834-9301 Email: [email protected] www.timelink.com Booth #325

TimeLink is a premier provider of enterprise workforce management software and data collection hardware solutions that help organizations across a wide-range of industries to more effectively plan, deploy, track and engage with their workforce. TimeLink delivers an integrated and open web solution set that includes: data collection, time and attendance, leave management, workforce scheduling, employee self-service, reporting and analytics — which can be implemented on-premise or accessed on-demand.

Titan Consulting 3411 Preston Rd., Ste. C13, PMB 205 Frisco, TX 75034 Phone: 972-377-3091 Email: [email protected] www.titanconsulting.net Booth #200

SAP® software brings together all facets of your organization, and helps them act as one. But to perform at its highest level, you need experienced SAP consultants on your side. That’s why Titan Consulting offers senior-level SAP consultants who will help you unleash your full potential. As an official SAP partner, we are always on top of the latest upgrades, enhancements, and changes to the SAP portfolio. This helps us devise the best plan to get the most out of your business. With our experts on your side, you’ll truly be ready to unleash the power of together®. www.titanconsulting.net

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Turnkey Consulting 4750 Von Karman Avenue Newport Beach, CA 92660 Phone: 949-382-5797 Email: [email protected] www.turnkeyconsulting.com Booth #980

Verbella CMG 307 Barn Hill Road West Chester, PA 19382 Phone: 508-842-0588 Email: [email protected] www.verbellacmg.com Booth #870

Turnkey Consulting is a specialist IT security company that combines business consulting with technical implementation to deliver information security solutions in support of SAP systems. It focuses on the delivery of specialised services in the areas of security, governance, risk and compliance (GRC). Turnkey Consulting works with service providers, audit partners and SAP clients directly to provide the security controls and solutions that safeguard and complement a company’s implementation of an SAP system. Clients include systems integrators, blue chip organisations and a number of government agencies.

Verbella’s SAP content management experts will be featuring turnkey Solutions for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Human Capital Management. Tightly integrated to SAP and maximizing your Content Repository investment, in Microsoft SharePoint, OpenText, IBM, FileNet, Documentum or the SAP Content Server. Cloud based and Mobile Solutions for applications and storage. Our Solutions utilize both SAP and non-SAP workflow to meet the unique requirements of your business processes. Document imaging with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to help minimize your manual processes. Supplier Portal and Dynamic Discounting Solutions to maximize the financial benefits of your supply chain.

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Exhibiting Companies continued Vertex Inc 1041 Old Cassatt Road Berwyn, PA 19312 Phone: 800.355.3500 Email: [email protected] www.vertexinc.com Booth #375

Vertex Inc. is the leading provider of global tax technology solutions, bringing more than 30 years of experience to the marketplace. Vertex provides a comprehensive suite of tax solutions for direct and indirect tax that streamlines tax provision and compliance processes while providing unsurpassed data management capabilities. With Vertex, companies have a trusted partner for discovering new strategic tax savings across every major line of business tax including income, sales, consumer use, value added, communications, lease, retail, and payroll. Vertex is headquartered in the U.S. (Berwyn, PA) with offices in Europe (London), South America (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Sarasota, and Washington DC.

Whitaker-Taylor 1349 West Peachtree St., Suite 1995 Atlanta, GA 30309 Phone: 404-253-7760 Email: [email protected] www.whitakertaylor.com Booth #315

Whitaker-Taylor is the industry leader in providing SAP ERP Financials application lifecycle services. Using a hybrid model, we help our customers accelerate the implementation of new modules and functionality as well as streamline the on-going production support of existing SAP landscapes. Our unique approach strengthens internal teams while delivering flexible bandwidth with deep functional and technical expertise to provide the right skills at the right time. This enables the organizations we serve to keep pace with changing business requirements and to increase service levels. As a result our customers deliver increased value to their business users and are able to maximize the ROI of their software investments. Whitaker-Taylor can be reached at 404 253-7760 or [email protected].

Winshuttle 20021 120th Ave NE Suite 101 Bothell, WA 98011 Phone: 811-711-9798 Email: [email protected] www.winshuttle.com Booth #930 PLATINUM SPONSOR

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Winshuttle provides software products that improve how business users work with SAP. Whether you simply want to move data between SAP and Excel or you need SharePoint-based interactive forms and workflows for SAP, Winshuttle has the solution. Our Usability Platform enables customers to adapt SAP data and processes to meet changing business conditions in a timely and cost-effective manner, without requiring any programming. Thousands of customers have radically accelerated SAP processes, saving and redirecting millions of dollars every day.

WIS Publishing 20 Carematrix Drive Dedham, MA 02026 Phone: 781-751-8799 Email: [email protected] www.wispubs.com/sap Booth #650

WIS Publishing is the leading independent provider of information for those who deploy, manage, support, configure, and customize SAP solutions. More than 250,000 professionals worldwide rely on products and events from WIS Publishing to improve their company’s ROI in information technology. WIS Publishing is the publisher of SAPinsider, insiderPROFILES, SAP PRESS, and the SAPexperts publications, and is the producer of the SAPinsider conferences and the global interactive Web site, Insider Learning Network.

Z Option 417 Oakbend, Suite 200 Lewisville, TX 75067 Phone: 972-315-8800 Email: [email protected] www.zoption.com Booth #730

Z Option Inc., a leading supplier of complementary software solutions for SAP financials, provides desktop integration to many organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies. With hundreds of customers and thousands of users worldwide, Z Option enables organizations to streamline SAP financial data entry with Microsoft Excel. By leveraging basic Excel skills, users can quickly build spreadsheet templates and post data directly to SAP using Z Option’s world-class solutions. Z Option provides cost-effective products that are easy-to-implement and use. A 30-day free trial is available with a free remote installation session (90 minutes). For more information, visit www.zoption.com.

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Win Me! 1 Column5 Consulting

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