On October 11, we welcomed customers and partners to SAP’s Montreal office to share in a day of shared insights, feedback and learnings.
Kicking off the day was special guest Sven Denecken (@SDenecken), who traveled from Walldorf to discuss the latest innovations and resources available in S/4HANA Cloud. Sven covered the key considerations for organizations planning a move to Cloud ERP, namely:
Next we heard from Leonardo De Araujo (@Leonardo_Araujo), CTO at Beyond Technologies, a company that is both a partner and a customer of S/4HANA Cloud. Leo shared his insights about Beyond Technologies’ journey with S/4HANA Cloud, in particular, the importance of prioritizing Change Management as a key factor in ensuring a successful project. Some of Leo’s key insights included:
Other sessions included updates on the roadmap and data migration, along with a very interactive simulation competition where attendees had the chance to manage a fictional business running on S/4HANA Cloud and see the results of their decisions in real-time. Congratulations to Team B on taking home first place!
The day was filled with invaluable insights and we look forward to seeing our Canadian customers again soon at a future Empowerment Day. In the meantime, already planning our next events and hope you'll join us in a city near you. Next up, we’re heading back to SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany on December 11 for our next Customer Empowerment Day. And we’re planning a number of events globally for 2019, so keep an eye on the S/4HANA Cloud community for the latest calendar of empowerment and education events to help you on your road to success.
Happy trails!
Kicking off the day was special guest Sven Denecken (@SDenecken), who traveled from Walldorf to discuss the latest innovations and resources available in S/4HANA Cloud. Sven covered the key considerations for organizations planning a move to Cloud ERP, namely:
- Your approach needs to be standard, but extensible: While Sven emphasized the importance of managing expectations around moving to a set of standard, defined processes, he also stressed the importance of extensibility – to be able to leverage the SAP Cloud Platform and the S/4HANA Cloud SDK to create in-app or side-by-side extensions to your Cloud ERP in order to gain access to capabilities unique to a customer’s organization.
- Draw on best practices: Sven encouraged the audience to make the most of the SAP Activate methodology, a best practices framework to that provides a step-by-step guide to help organizations through their implementation, go-live and updates.
Next we heard from Leonardo De Araujo (@Leonardo_Araujo), CTO at Beyond Technologies, a company that is both a partner and a customer of S/4HANA Cloud. Leo shared his insights about Beyond Technologies’ journey with S/4HANA Cloud, in particular, the importance of prioritizing Change Management as a key factor in ensuring a successful project. Some of Leo’s key insights included:
- Start from the top-down: ensure you have strong executive and management sponsorship for the standardization that comes with cloud; and
- Think twice before creating too many customizations: choose your customizations and configurations with purpose, as they will increase the complexity of every update.
Other sessions included updates on the roadmap and data migration, along with a very interactive simulation competition where attendees had the chance to manage a fictional business running on S/4HANA Cloud and see the results of their decisions in real-time. Congratulations to Team B on taking home first place!
The day was filled with invaluable insights and we look forward to seeing our Canadian customers again soon at a future Empowerment Day. In the meantime, already planning our next events and hope you'll join us in a city near you. Next up, we’re heading back to SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany on December 11 for our next Customer Empowerment Day. And we’re planning a number of events globally for 2019, so keep an eye on the S/4HANA Cloud community for the latest calendar of empowerment and education events to help you on your road to success.
Happy trails!
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