User Experience sessions at SAPPHIRE NOW 2015: SAP Screen Personas, Fiori UX, Design Services
If you are attending SAPPHIRE NOW / the ASUG Annual Conference and have an interest in how SAP is improving its user experience, then this is your show. There are over 60 sessions that cover SAP Screen Personas, Fiori, UX Strategy, Design Services, and how customers are embracing these products and services to improve user productivity and the overall usability of SAP. This blog will list some key sessions that will help you understand how to improve the SAP user experience at your company.
For a complete list of all the UX-related sessions, please use the agenda builder tool and select User Experience in the Featured Solutions navigation on the left side of the screen.
There are also a few spots open if you want to participate in the usability testing for SAP Screen Personas 3.0.
Customer sessions are highlighted.
Monday May 4, 2015
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Time |
Session # |
Location |
Details |
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8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
ASUG pre-conference |
Navigating the New User Experience Reality in Your IT Organization In this full-day session, you will learn how SAP is enabling you to manage, navigate, and support you through your user experience transformation. First, speakers will discuss the SAP user experience and user interface technology strategy, providing insights and best practices on choosing the right user interface technology for your company’s journey. With hands-on activities throughout the day where you actively apply design thinking methods, you will learn:
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Tuesday May 5, 2015
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Time |
Session # |
Location |
Details |
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11:00 AM-11:20 AM |
PT20297 |
PT401 Platform and Technology Campus |
Build Intuitive ERP Screens Quickly and Easily for More Satisfied Users Tobias Queck will show you how to simplify business processes, increase productivity, and improve user satisfaction with user interface personalization. Explore the latest version of SAP Screen Personas software including the new scripting engine, editor, and global theming. See how more intuitive ERP screens improve performance, scalability, and usability. Speaker: Tobias Queck |
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11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
UX1880 |
S210C |
Fisker Automotive utilizes SAP Screen Personas and the Fiori UX to create a richer/vibrant user experience, more efficiency with processes to reduce training/streamline repeated activities, mobile productivity for users. Presenters will focus on key points of implementation. They will share breakthroughs for smooth operations. This presentation addresses both functional/basis work showing how collaboration leads to overall success. |
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11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
MP293 |
S322 |
Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s SAP Fiori Implementation Success Story Kimberly-Clark Corporation embarked on a program to enhance their end user experience with SAP by implementing Fiori. As an Early Adopter, they joined the SAP Early Adoption program, SAP General Availability Care (GA Care) for Fiori. Hear firsthand how end users at KCC are adopting Fiori and making their daily business processes simple and easy. |
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11:30 – 11:50 AM |
IN20942 |
Theater 5 |
Lay the Foundation for Future Growth in Retail Run your business with professional skill and expertise. Explore how the PGA TOUR Superstore operates profitable commercial processes using SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA software, the SAP POS Data Management application, SAP Screen Personas software, SAP Fiori user experience, and hosting services from SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. |
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12:00 12:20 PM |
PS20830 |
Global Service & Support Center Demo Theater 1 |
Cardinal Health partnered with TCS for its migration to SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Gain insight and key learning from the company’s experience on its journey. Discover how Cardinal improved data and reporting, optimized its business processes, and enhanced efficiency with the SAP Fiori user experience and SAP Screen Personas software. |
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12:30 1:30 PM |
UX1459 |
S210C |
Intel When delivering a new capability, do your users ask: When can we roll this out to everyone? We will share Intel’s UX strategy, journey and challenges, specifically wins with NetWeaver Business Client, Side Panels and SAP Screen Personas. Not only were we able to make users’ lives better, but we achieved clear and real productivity savings. |
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1:45-2:45 PM |
UX250 |
S210C |
Fiori Launchpad and Personas The Fiori Launchpad is a single starting point to launch role-based, simple Fiori apps and SAP Screen Personas flavors. This seamless integration lets you simplify business process, streamline decision making, and standardize SAP usage. We will demo the technical integration and discuss how these products work together and when to choose which. Speakers: Tobias Queck, Sebastian Steinhauer |
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2:30 – 2:50PM |
IN20701 |
Industries Demo Theater IN101 |
Mining – Simplify and Improve the Commodity Sales Process Enhance the contract-to-cash process in mining. Use the SAP Screen Personas software and the SAP Fiori user experience to promote positive attitudes in users. Explore ways to simplify complex commodity pricing rules and gain new insights into sales contracts by using the SAP Commodity Management solution. |
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3:00 – 3:20 PM |
21650 |
Demo Theater 2 |
Discover the Personalized User Experience of SAP S/4HANA Make your business users happier with a personalized, responsive, and simple user experience (UX) across all of their tasks and devices. Provide a modern experience for any user, in any role, in any line of business using SAP S/4HANA, the suite natively designed with SAP Fiori UX. Speaker: Katie Moser |
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3:00 – 4:00 PM |
UX2162 |
S210C |
Deploying SAP Fiori for an Amazing Mobile User Experience – Hear Boston University’s Success Story Take the journey with Boston University through the successes and hurdles to deploying SAP Fiori. Learn how project scope was set and the architecture requirements sized and built. Learn how easy the Fiori applications worked out of the box and how to manage testing. Finally, deployment and adoption strategies used will be highlighted. |
Wednesday May 6, 2015
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Time |
Session # |
Location |
Details |
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10:30-11:00 AM |
RT249 |
S320 corridor |
Influence SAP Screen Personas 4.0 Round Table Your voice counts. Influence product development to meets your needs. As we start thinking about what’s next in SAP Screen Personas (mobile and cloud), we want to prioritize based on your input. After a quick review of where we are, we’ll break out the white boards and get busy on the initiation phase to define the product vision for version 4. Facilitators: Peter Spielvogel, Sebastian Steinhauer |
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11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
UX316 |
S210C |
Norfolk Southern Take a journey with Norfolk Southern as they discuss their simultaneous implementation of SAP Fiori and SAP Screen Personas. Information will be shared about how the 10 Fiori apps and 12 Personas screens were chosen, the roadblocks that were encountered, and lessons that were learned. |
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11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
HM1032 |
S320E |
The new SAP HCM user experience: HR Renewal Learn about the next generation HCM user experience delivered with HR Renewal. Get an overview on the enhancements for HR Professionals, employees and managers, and payroll administrators. Find out how Fiori, Webdynpro ABAP, FPM, SAPUI5, Screen Personas, and SuccessFactors fit in with HR Renewal. Hear about a customer’s implementation experience. |
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1:00 – 1:45 PM |
IN20714 |
Industries Microforum IN106 |
Energy – Excite Users and Increase Productivity with Personalized User Experiences This discussion shows how your energy and natural resources company can energize users and promote positive attitudes through the use of applications with personalized user interfaces. Learn how to define business challenges, build new processes, and avoid common mistakes. Hear how to use the SAP Screen Personas software and SAP Fiori UX. |
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2:00 – 2:20 PM |
PS22293 |
Partner and SME Solutions Center Demo Theater |
SageNet Boost productivity of existing users and higher adoption rates for new users. Find out how SageNet Inc. streamlined order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and service management process flows and optimized the user experience (UX) with a combination of SAP NetWeaver Business Client software, SAP Screen Personas software, and the SAP Fiori UX. |
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2:00 – 2:20 PM |
21650 |
Demo Theater 2 |
Discover the Personalized User Experience of SAP S/4HANA Make your business users happier with a personalized, responsive, and simple user experience (UX) across all of their tasks and devices. Provide a modern experience for any user, in any role, in any line of business using SAP S/4HANA, the suite natively designed with SAP Fiori UX. Speaker: Katie Moser |
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2:30 – 3:00 PM |
UX257 |
S210C |
Building New Applications with Great User Experience Using Design Thinking Following the design thinking methodology, learn how to build better software for your users. Understand what your users really need, brainstorm on possible solutions, and create concrete first prototypes. The moderators guide you through the complete process and share a lot of best practices and lessons learned. |
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2:30 – 3:00 PM |
EA744 |
S320A |
Practical Guide to User Experience Understand what are the key components of enterprise User Experience strategy such us: architecture framework, technology infrastructure, application roadmap, user experience framework, device management strategy, application management, understanding needs of the users, knowing the business and more. Appropriate use of Fiori and Screen Personas. Speaker: Michael Falk |
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2:30 – 3:30 PM |
WD640 |
S329 |
Wholesale Distribution – Panel Discussion – User Interface (UI) Adoption, Lessons Learned The SAP User Interface landscape is getting complex. From the SAPGUI, SAP Screen Personas, SAP Fiori, Adobe Interactive Forms and more. Learn about SAP UI offerings and how they are being put to work in Wholesale Distribution. |
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4:15 – 5:15 PM |
UX289 |
S210C |
What’s New and Exciting in SAP Screen Personas 3.0 This session covers the new SAP Screen Personas 3.0. Presenters will demo and discuss enhancements that improve performance, scalability, and usability. The focus is on the new scripting engine and the process for migrating from prior versions to the new one. In addition, presenters will discuss SAP Screen Personas for Web Dynpro ABAP. Speakers: Sebastian Steinhauer and Peter Spielvogel |
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4:15 – 5:15 PM |
PL1287 |
S310A |
PLM – Improving the usability of QM through Fiori and SAP Screen Personas This panel presentation will focus on ways to make SAP QM more attractive and usable for the business users. We will present examples in Personas and Fiori as well as other tips and tricks. The panel will talk to options available as well as future direction with SAP. There will be direct audience participation with Q&A. |
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4:15 – 5:15 PM |
PO836 |
S310E |
Exploring ways to make Fiori adoption easier and faster Join this session to hear a panel of experts discussion various strategies and best practices to expedite SAP Fiori adoption – Whether by use exploration tools, custom development or by adopting cloud based components to your Fiori implementation. |
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5:00 – 5:20 PM |
PT20297 |
PT403 Platform and Technology Campus |
Build Intuitive ERP Screens Quickly and Easily for More Satisfied Users Tobias Queck will show you how to simplify business processes, increase productivity, and improve user satisfaction with user interface personalization. Explore the latest version of SAP Screen Personas software including the new scripting engine, editor, and global theming. See how more intuitive ERP screens improve performance, scalability, and usability. Speaker: Tobias Queck |
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5:00 – 5:45 PM |
PT20294 |
Platform and Technology Microforum PT406 |
Humanize IT with Design Thinking This discussion helps you employ design thinking and create a culture of innovation to solve today’s challenges and position your organization for future success. Explore with peers and experts how to foster creative confidence and find the problems worth solving by employing a design thinking approach to enrich the way people work and live. Speaker: Andreas Hauser |
Thursday May 7, 2015
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Time |
Session # |
Location |
Details |
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8:00 – 9:00 AM |
UX1740 |
S210C |
Lockheed Martin This session focuses on the user experience journey and Lockheed Martin’s use of methodologies and tools to innovate the user centric design process. Learn how the company is shifting its culture to engage users, find usability issues, and resolve them using SAP Personas. |
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12:00 – 1:00 PM |
UX204 |
S210C |
Making SAP’s User Experience Strategy Reality This session will refine SAP’s UX strategy, explain latest achievements and next steps following the UX roadmap. Key elements from design, applications, tools, technologies & services are put into context. It outlines what your next steps could be and how you can best leverage SAPs offering. This will be illustrated with real customer examples. |
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2:00 – 3:00 PM |
SC1984 |
S330B |
Freescale Semiconductor Learn how Freescale used SAP Screen Personas to customize and simplify its global procurement business process. The functional team lead for the project will discuss Freescale’s implementation strategy, best practices, lessons learned, and how the company is effectively utilizing Personas today. |
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2:00 – 3:00 PM |
UX143 |
S210C |
NetWeaver Business Client 5.0, SAP Fiori, SAP Screen Personas Learn about the cool new features available with the latest version of SAP NetWeaver Business Client 5.0 & SAP GUI 7.40. Get demos of the recent highlights and how to use it together with SAP Screen Personas to boost the user experience for your end users. |
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1:30 – 1:50PM |
IN20701 |
Industries Demo Theater IN101 |
Mining – Simplify and Improve the Commodity Sales Process Enhance the contract-to-cash process in mining (Energy and Natural Resources). Use the SAP Screen Personas software and the SAP Fiori user experience to promote positive attitudes in users. Explore ways to simplify complex commodity pricing rules and gain new insights into sales contracts by using the SAP Commodity Management solution. |
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2:30 – 3:00 PM |
20290 |
Platform & Technology Theater 3 |
Modernize the User Experience to Unlock Business Value Help users deliver business results with a personalized, responsive, and simple user experience (UX). Discover how Mahindra & Mahindra is implementing SAP Fiori UX across its organization. Understand the business value of UX to improve productivity, increase user adoption, and decrease training costs. |
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4:30 – 5:00 PM |
25128 |
Platform & Technology Theater 5 |
Disney Optimize Employees’ Experience with Human Resources Create a personalized experience to engage and inform employees. Hear how The Walt Disney Company supports employees with anywhere, anytime access to pay stubs, time sheets, and approvals with the SAP Fiori user experience. Meet employee expectations with a holistic, intuitive experience that increases loyalty and improves satisfaction. |
Every day
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Time |
Session # |
Location |
Details |
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Show floor hours |
21255 |
PT402 |
Innovate the User Experience with New Technologies Implement a great user experience (UX) for your business users. Learn about UX tools and technologies, such as SAP Screen Personas software, SAPUI5, and SAP Web IDE. Understand the design tools, branding options, and deployment possibilities. Learn how UX technology can empower your business. |
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Show floor hours |
21253 |
Discover the SAP Fiori User Experience Meet the expectations for a personalized, responsive, and simple user experience (UX) for business software. See how SAP Fiori UX works across devices and lines of business. Learn about design guidelines, the latest enhancements, and best practices for implementation. Engage with experts to plan your UX strategy and adoption journey. |
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Show floor hours |
21254 |
Deploy Your User Experience Strategy with Design Services Humanize business software by focusing on end users. Bring design thinking and a culture of innovation to your team. See how user experience (UX) design services from SAP can help analyze your UX use case, identify business value, and deliver an implementation road map. Empower your business to discover, design, and deliver user-centric solutions. |
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Show floor hours |
24745 |
Discover the Personalized User Experience in SAP S/4HANA Get a idea of how a modern, role-based user experience (UX) can simplify your business. See how you can give business users a personalized, responsive, and simple UX across all tasks and devices with SAP S/4HANA. |
Hope to see you in Orlando!
Please contact your SAP Account Executive if you want to set up a meeting with anyone from the SAP Screen Personas team.
For the SAP Screen Personas product and User Experience team, Peter Spielvogel.