6-8 June, Milan

Sponsored Educational Sessions Continued
Microsoft ® Excel automation secrets: How to successfully leverage Microsoft Excel in your SAP
ERP Financials environment
Alan Gregory, Global Software
Thursday, 10.45 – 12.00 • Blue 1
Financials Track 1
Do you want to enhance your knowledge of Microsoft Excel? Attend this groundbreaking educational session and
learn a multitude of disciplines to help optimize the usage of Microsoft Excel in your SAP environment. Learn how to
make automated business processes, such as month-end report running, account analysis, budgeting, and distribution/
publishing, significantly more efficient in your SAP system. This session will arm you with an array of tips for using
Microsoft Excel — for example, how to sort by month and day, how to copy and
paste visible cells only, how to complete faster data entry, how to quickly copy
and paste cells, and how to create tables using your SAP financial data. Leave this
session with a clear picture of how to successfully integrate data from your SAP
ERP Financials applications with Microsoft Excel.
The future of business intelligence is here! Is your organization ready?
Tuomas Korppoo, Accenture
Wednesday, 14.45 – 16.00 • Blue 1
BI Track 5
In-memory data warehousing ... real-time analytics ... mobility ... predictive analytics. These technologies all signify the new
business intelligence paradigm. With the advent of new SAP solutions such as SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects BI
4.0, Sybase solutions, and other innovative products, organizations are on the brink of embracing the new paradigm and
taking business intelligence to the next level. This dynamic, forward-looking session reveals how, at the newest Accenture
Innovation Center for SAP, Accenture and SAP technologists are working side-by-side to
revolutionize business intelligence by developing the next generation of industry-specific
analytics and mobility solutions. Explore opportunities available to SAP customers for
interacting directly with the technologists developing these solutions, viewing the solutions
in action, and using your findings to inform your own analytic and mobility strategy.
Column5’s EPM Assessment: Where are you in the EPM process?
Steve Sussman, Column5 Consulting
Thursday, 14.30 – 15.45 • Yellow 1
BI Track 10
Integrated EPM solutions are high value, but how do you know where you are in the
process? What needs to be done to achieve optimal value from an EPM strategy? Answer
these questions and more with Column5’s EPM Assessment that measures exactly where
you are and establishes a roadmap to achieve next steps.
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