Value Networking Events

Working Together to Build Our
Lean Enterprise Customer Value
Network
Dave Strothmann
SAP Lean Enterprise Value Network
Director

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Networking events and thought leadership assets
facilitate sharing of business knowledge
ASUG/SAP Benchmarking
Customer Benchmark Data
Includes Best Practice Adoption
Segmented by Industry/
Functional Area
Business Transformation Studies
Customer Case Studies
Adoption of Best Practice + Solution
Include Impacted Business KPI’s
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Value Networking Events
Focused on the line of business
Customers sharing with customers
Aligned to functional areas across
industries
SAP Insights
Business Oriented Whitepapers
Derived from Benchmarking &
other customer experiences
Value Lifecycle Management
Repository of Business Best Practices

Customer Value Networks are designed to support
the Value Lifecycle
Using customer experience to build community, share innovative business
processes and reinforce the value lifecycle for our customers
�What are the future plans
to realize even further
benefits?
�What was done well?
What could have been
improved?
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�How are leading
organizations
approaching technology
investment?
�What benefits and value
have they realized?
Customer
Value
Networks
�What implementation
and rollout best practices
were leveraged?
�What was the strategy
for improving
operations?
�What was the blueprint
for success?
�What project mgmt &
governance principles
were in place?
�Who were the critical
implementation and
technology partners?

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2H 2009 - CRM CVN Event Schedule
CVN Led Regional Events
Webcast: Oki Data Americas – Service Deployment
Customer Day: General Mills
Customer Day: Securit
Customer Day: Intervoice
Customer Day: TBD
Customer Day: TBD
Customer Day: TBD
Customer Day: TBD
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Location
Webcast
Minneapolis, MN
Toronto, CA
Dallas, TX
Milwaukee, WI
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Atlanta, GA
Date
July 28, 2009
Sept 10, 2009
Sept 17, 2009
Sept 24, 2009
October 8, 2009
October 15, 2009
November 5, 2009
November 12, 2009
Contact: Jeff Eberhart; jeff.eberhart@sap.com

SAP Customer Value Network for Finance
2009 Calendar
July
August
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� 23 – SRC community, BPC for Healthcare, Fin.
Srvs.
� 29 – BPC Upgrade to 7.0, featuring Iberiabank,
with Column 5
� TBD – GRC Webcast
Septenmber
� TBD – FSCM Webcast
� TBD – BPC Webcast
� 17 – PCM Webcast, sponsored by Column 5
� 9-10 – ASUG Virtual Event
� TBD – Product costing roundtable (CO-PC)
October
� TBD – Profitability roundtable (CO-PA)
� 18-20 – Global Business Objects User Group,
Dallas
- Sunday networking event with BI CVN
- Monday executive track with BI CVN
� 26-28 – SAP Treasury conference, Chicago
November
� 2-3 – CFO Roundtable, New York
� TBD – BPC Webcast
� TBD – ASUG Northern California
December
Other
� TBD – GRC Webcast
� IFRS with E&Y as sponsor, target Q1
Legend: Webcasts / Supported Events / Customer Events / Executive Events

ASUG Virtual Education Summit
Virtual education and content previously delivered at ASUG FALL FOCUS events.
Cutting edge technology for virtual networking and education.
Complimentary as part of ASUG membership - $99 for non-members
Approximately 150 educational sessions representing the following:
Adaptive Manufacturing
Business One
Customer Relationship Management
Enterprise Asset Management
Enterprise Performance Management
Environmental Health & Safety
Financials
ASUG Chapters to host the face-to-face component in their region post-event
Webcast recordings with live Q&A
Rob Enslin Keynote Video
~5,000 – 7,000 ‘attendees’
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Human Capital Management
Product Lifecycle Management
Public Sector
Supply Chain Management
Services and Support
Small & Medium Enterprises
Solution Manager
www.asugvirtualsummit.com

Advanced Manufacturing Summit
September 15-16, Chicago, IL
The key event for manufacturing and supply chain stakeholders interested in learning
about highly successful operational excellence strategies.
You will hear from large and small organizations in the consumer products, discrete, energy, life science,
mill products, hi-tech spaces (and more…)
Learn about supporting Lean and Six-Sigma initiatives
Find out how to support, extend and simplify SAP enterprise processes
Determine how to build and drive your business case
Most importantly, interact with your peers and leverage a broad array of best practices
Day 1 – The Why
SAP’s Manufacturing Strategy
Customer Stories and value driven from their deployments
Day 2 – Deep Dive - How we did what we did
from a detailed product perspective
from Business Analysis Perspective
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