SAP Inside Track Vancouver 2013

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• Big Data at SAP Inside Track Vancouver 2013 – It’s a wrap

Session presentations: See “View Recording” links below

Announcement: Co-Innovation with SAP (Kuhan Milroy)

Lunch

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Preparing for SAP HANA™ – Latest Trends in SAP Archiving ( Clean up your SAP Data with Archiving and Nearline Storage Technology)

Attendees will learn how to develop a better strategy for information lifecycle management (ILM) for data in SAP® BW and ERP.  We will demonstrate a comprehensive approach for data archiving, audit readiness, retention management, archive process management, and better, transparent access to archived data with PBS archive.

This session will cover:

• Preparing for a smooth transition to SAP HANA with archiving in SAP BW

• Reducing operational costs of your SAP systems with archiving

• Enabling faster and more efficient archiving in BW and ERP systems with nearline technology

• Improving performance and efficiency for your archiving implementation

• Adding consistency to data archiving without extensive manual effort

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Big Data 101 with Hands-on Experience

A review of some basics of Big Data to set the stage for discussion. Highlights of several exciting research projects conducted at Simon Fraser University, along with an exploration of collaborative opportunities.

Nic Smith – SAP

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Analyze and share insights on your data (big or small) with SAP Lumira

As data volumes grow, big data analysis has been a trending market topic and analytics continues to be a top priority for organizations around the globe. There is a revolution taking place around how to visualize big  data, check out this article in the Economist.  To tackle these new big data challenges there has been a rise of the “do it yourself” data scientist role within organizations, even the Harvard Business Review has coined the data scientist as one of the sexiest jobs of 21^st century.
So, how can you get involved?  SAP Lumira can help anyone to access, transform, visualize, and share data in a repeatable way. Learn how to quickly analyze your data and collaborate with others  by sharing datasets, analytics and documents. This session will provide information on how you can get a free 1GB SAP Lumira Cloud account and download a free copy of SAP Lumira to get started today.

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SAP Runs SAP: CRM Real Time Reporting based on HANA

Having real time visibility on our Sales Pipeline and Marketing activities has been challenging at SAP due to data volumes and complex transformation requirements. Having moved SAP’s primary CRM instance to HANA is allowing real time Analytics for key Business processes used by Sales and Marketing teams.

Join our session to find out how SAP Global IT is implementing HANA as the main technology for it’s Enterprise Analytics.

Alyson Munroe – SAP Product Support Customer Experience Team;

Bhupinder Sasan and Man-Ted Chan – SAP HANA Product Support

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Tools, tips and tricks in supporting your BIG DATA solution

Learn how to engage with the AGS Customer Experience Team and get a sneak peek at upcoming improvements to the SAP Support Portal.

Learn how the SAP HANA support  team utilizes Remote Supportability tools, Knowledge Management resources, and most useful SAP HANA supportability resources to provide swift solutions to unexpected situations.

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Beyond the Vees of Big Data

Everyone has heard about the three Vees of Big Data—Volume, Variety and Velocity. But what does a Big Data landscape look like in practice? And how does NoSQL and schema-less data fit into this? I will try to get beyond the rhetoric and share some real-world specifics from Big Data luminaries such as LinkedIn, Netflix and Yahoo.

Clariss Chua, Jeremy Chao