SAP Inside Track Tokyo 2015: Event report
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We have successfully conducted SAP Inside Track Tokyo 2015. This is the first time having SAP Inside Track in Japan.
Organizing an event is a big task by just one SAP Mentor. I asked SAP GPO:( Global Partner Operation) team to organize event because most of SCN members in Japan are partner consultants. We had good teamwork with GPO and I could focus on designing contents.
Date: 2015-11-24 to 2015-11-27 for 4 days at evening 18:30-20:30.
Place: Tokyo/Japan. SAP Japan office
Session language: Japanese
Target audience: SCN members in Japan. Consultants who implement SAP solutions in customer projects.
Number of attendees: Total 300
|
Day |
Topic |
Total |
On Site |
Remote |
Participation Rate |
Satisfaction Rate (out of 5.0) |
|
Day 1 |
HANA & Analytics |
87 |
46 |
41 |
73.7% |
3.95 |
|
Day 2 |
HCP & Cloud Integration |
62 |
32 |
30 |
58.5% (It was rain) |
4.14 |
|
Day 3 |
S/4HANA Technology |
86 |
43 |
43 |
70.5% |
4.33 |
|
Day 4 |
UX/Fiori Technology |
65 |
34 |
31 |
62.5% (Friday) |
4.08 |
|
Total |
300 |
155 |
145 |
*35-45 attendees are good size for the room capacity 50.
Background:
SCN members in Japan have several challenges for adopting new technologies/solutions to customers in Japan.
+ Language challenge
+ Geolocation/Timezone challenge
+ In general, conservative business background
+ No SAP Labs development in Japan
What SAP Mentor can help?
I designed SAP Inside Track as a mini TechEd and shared the latest technologies to SCN members in Japan.
We also made promotion that SCN members joined SAP TechEd and directly took sessions and hands-on. Total 48 SCN members in Japan joined SAP TechEd this year. 6 of SCN members provided a session in SAP Inside Track Tokyo.
Session highlights:
Day 1: HANA and Analytics
Keynote highlight byTakashi Naito. Good summary of keynote sessions.
Panel discussion: Eiji Miyawaki, Yuuki Jinzai, Yuichiro Tsuchiya, Ryota Oshima.
They shared SAP TechEd experiences and tips for getting business trip approval to join TechEd from their manager.
HANA SP11 update by Manabu Matsudate
SP11 was just released 1 day before this SAP Inside Track. Participants got timely the SP11 update.
Cloud for Analytics by Manabu Matsudate
Day 2: HANA Cloud Platform
HCP update by Masashi Yamazawa
Cloud Foundry and Micro Services were covered.
HCI demo by Kenichi Unnai
We have got many requests for HCI hands-on after this session.
Cloud Identity and SSO: Norihito Kawabata
Security, Cloud Identity and SSO topics were covered.
Day 3: S/4HANA Technology
S/4HANA Extension concept by Masashi Yamazawa
S/4HANA is hot topic in Japan.
S/4HANA Smart Template, CDS by Masayuki Sekihara
Live demo generating an app with Smart Template. One of best sessions in SAP Inside Track Tokyo.
S/4HANA Migration by Tetsuya Kawahara
3 scenarios for migration. One of best sessions in SAP Inside Track Tokyo.
Day 4: UX/Fiori Technology
UX roadmap and New tools by Masayuki Sekihara
UXaaS and many new tools.
SAP Fiori, cloud edition by Masayuki Sekihara
Live demo with extending app on demo cloud edition.
Fiori impacts and challenges by Kazuya Furuta. Lessons and Learned for driving UX projects.
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