This document contains the agenda for the ASUG Virginia Chapter Meeting on November 6, 2015. The agenda includes presentations on SAP's Internet of Things solution, supporting S/4HANA lifecycles with SAP Solution Manager, preparing systems for SAP HANA, enhancing SAP EAM reports with Crystal Reports, leveraging SAP HANA and Hadoop for big data, and introducing a new SAP user experience across devices. The event will take place at the Altria Client Services Towers Complex in Richmond, VA and include networking opportunities, presentations from SAP and partner organizations, and lunch sponsored by event sponsors.

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ASUG Virginia Chapter Meeting
Friday, November 6, 2015
Altria Client Services Towers Complex
4201 Commerce Road
Richmond, VA 23234
(Click on the presentation title to see the corresponding abstract)
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast Compliments of our Sponsors
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Chapter & ASUG Updates
ASUG Virginia Chapter Volunteer Leadership Team
Rudy Hendricks, Board Member, ASUG
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. SAP's Internet Of Things (IoT) Solution Overview
Shantanu Sharma, SAP
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Support The Full Lifecycle of S/4HANA with SAP Solution Manager
Jon Friesen, Monocle Systems
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Prepare a System for SAP HANA®
Mike Pettinella, Intellicorp
11:15 a.m.. – 12:00 p.m. Jazzing up SAP EAM Reports Using SAP Crystal Reports
Jeff Smith, Fairfax Water
Laura Cooley, Fairfax Water
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch Compliments of our Sponsors
12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. Big Data Journey with SAP HANA® and Hadoop®
Frank Grünlich, DataVard Inc
Susan Weaver, DataVard Inc
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. A New SAP UX for iOS, Android, Web, SAP GUI
DeeDee Kato, Synactive
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Closing/Networking Event
Thank You to Our Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Datavard, Intellicorp, Monocle
Silver Sponsor
Synactive

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Abstracts
SAP's Internet Of Things (IoT) Solution Overview
 Overview of SAP's strategy for IoT
 Overview of SAP's IoT solution portfolio
 Customer case study
Shantanu Sharma, SAP
Support The Full Lifecycle of S/4HANA with SAP Solution Manager
Make your S/4HANA system a success with SAP Solution Manager's full lifecycle support capabilities. We will explore
the features of SAP Solution Manager that are relevant for S/4HANA implementations, paying special attention to
features which explicitly support the HANA database and Fiori front-end components. We'll take a deep dive into:
 Change Request Management for SAP HANA
 Monitoring techniques for HANA and Fiori
Jon Friesen, Monocle Systems
Prepare a System for SAP HANA
Migrating to the SAP HANA platform typically involves three key activities:
1. Ensuring systems are on the current support pack level.
2. Analysis of custom code.
3. Verification of master data tables and other key data that will be migrated.
Mike Pettinella, Intellicorp
Jazzing up SAP EAM Reports Using SAP Crystal Reports
After going live with SAP in April of 2009 Fairfax Water struggled with standard reporting in SAP. While some
transactions gave FW good reporting options using list edits and variants FW realized they needed better reporting in
SAP. After purchasing SAP Crystal Reports in 2012 FW saw they could get the information they need out of their SAP
system in a way that their end users could understand.
Lessons:
 Embedding SAP Crystal Layout inside of standard SAP transactions
 Using SAP Crystal to analyze data in a manner not possible with standard SAP layouts (grouping, conditional
counting, etc.)
 Using Multiple data sources to mash data into a logical report
 Turn-around time for implementation is minimal
Jeff Smith, Fairfax Water
Laura Cooley, Fairfax Water

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Big Data Journey with SAP HANA and Hadoop®
Learn from one of SAP's largest chemical customers in regards to what they did to prepare and how they moved their
BW instances to HANA, and get some insides on what they have planned to be ahead of the competition. See how
the the size of their BW instances were significantly reduced using DataVard's housekeeping and archiving software
products. The DataVard solutions leverage the standard SAP interface (NLS),and offer a choice of storage
technologies e.g. Sybase IQ, Hadoop and regular SAN/NAS file systems. The data can be stored on different storage
platforms based on its actual value to the organization and need for accessibility. With the result being a much
smaller BW system(s), it is a “breeze” to do the actual migration to SAP HANA, and allows for tremendous cost
savings on the migration process itself and the overall TCO.
Frank Grünlich, DataVard Inc
Susan Weaver, DataVard Inc
A New SAP UX for iOS, Android, Web, SAP GUI
The ability to provide functionality through an intuitive user experience is critical today in improving system usage,
data quality, adoption of business processes and delivering efficiencies throughout any business.
Liquid UI delivers a fast ROI, with dramatic increase in productivity (in some cases, more than 80% as indicated by
customers such as Hillyard), drastic cuts in SAP training time (e.g. Marathon Oil brought input notification training
down to 30 minutes), and elimination of 95% of errors as resulted by Canada Post. We have helped hundreds of
companies in Utilities, Oil and Gas, Retail, etc improve compliance, data quality, accelerate process completion time
by simplifying SAP from Plant Maintenance to Sales and Distribution, for users in the office to those out in the field
with or without network connectivity.
With deployment on SAP R/3 4.6 or above, with or without SAP HANA, you can achieve a ROI quickly, on any existing
SAP environment, without touching the backend.
A new, colorful design, creates a modern user experience through a browser or native iOS or Android app that can
connect directly to SAP without any additional software layer required. For a streamlined user experience, the Liquid
UI SAP UX platform provides one unified, fully secure, usability strategy across desktop, web, and mobile devices with
one native connection, one development effort, one code base and one script.
DeeDee Kato, Synactive