Sap World Tour 09 Recap

SAP World Tour 09 Recap
The Fairmont, San Jose. 17 Sept 09

Keynote 1: Thriving in the new reality – John Schwartz

Triple bottom line

Paradigm shifts in technology cost

30% pct of experienced workers forecasted to retire within next 9 years
Expect to battle for new talent
New talent are technology natives
Web 2.0 collaborative interactive user experience is expected (Facebook, Mobility)
Examples of the new CIUX

Business Objects Explorer

Bernie Ecclestone’s F1 Explorer

Timeless software: SAP v7 (upgrade packs not rip and replace)

Product strategy recap

Keynote 2: Business Process Excellence through sustainability solutions

Keynote 3: Interrelationships of global events and leaders - Condoleezza Rice

SAP attire was suite & tie

Customer cases

Forecasts giving way to analytics

Contract MFG BOM

Real time replacing batch

Implementation trends
Hidden costs associated with integration spells the end for best of bread
Full suite solutions are wanted by CIOs
Nimble partners and customer input provide innovation

Communities
Many people are joining communities to get hold of product information
Huge customer benefits
Pricing becomes transparent

Adding multiple revenue channels to meet customer flexibility is changing many companies organizations
Increased sales and marketing complexity and spending has many larger companies focusing on the core business
Correspondingly taking actions to lower costs elsewhere.

Switchover to SaaS revenues increases revenue recognition complexity
Quarterly reports Microsoft
Authorized Replicators
Retail channels
Smaller OEM
All product groups need to add on activation to get real time revenue recognition

Semiconductor industry specialization3 customer cases

Semi case1 : SanDisk

ECC is the foundational SAP modules

Semi case 2: SMSC

Semi case 3: Intel

SAP defines SME as under 500 million...