ASUG BI Community Newsflash
Welcome to the November BI Community newsflash. This month, we put a spotlight on SAPPHIRE NOW® and ASUG Annual Conference, cover BI+Analytics Conference, touch on what took place at SAP TechEd, and review Influence opportunities and upcoming events.
Call for Presentations for 2019 ASUG Annual Conference Is Open
If you use SAP, you have a story to tell. The business intelligence community gathering for 2019 ASUG Annual Conference, held jointly with SAPPHIRE NOW®, wants to hear your experience using SAP in your industry.
Submit your presentation abstract by Dec. 1 to share your SAP journey May 7–9, 2019, in Orlando, Florida.
Topics:
- Analytics
- Data Warehousing
- Platform
- Reporting
- Visualization and Dashboard
Hot Topics
- BW/4HANA
- BI On Premise
- Hybrid BI/Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- S/4HANA® Analytics
Feedback Requested: ASUG BI 2019 Community Survey
The ASUG Business Intelligence Community needs your help. We are conducting a membership survey to help us assess the level of satisfaction with the services we provide and ways we can improve.
We want to provide services that are important to you, refine those that need improvement, and introduce new services that address your goals.
We realize you have many demands on your time. This short survey can be completed online in three to five minutes. Your input is important to us, as responses will help us better meet the needs of our members.
Please complete the survey by Dec. 8. A few submissions will be selected randomly for prizes.
BI+Analytics Conference – 2-for-1 Special
The BI+Analytics Conference is North America’s go-to event for today’s best SAP strategies and technologies for business intelligence and analytics. From sourcing and selecting the right BI tools for your company to implementing and optimizing, BI+Analytics highlights customer success stories across numerous industries and features best practices for leveraging SAP® Business Objects™ and SAP’s full range of analytics and reporting tools. Join the BIA community of influencers in business and technology, global thought leaders, industry experts, and your peers this March 11–13 in Dallas. Register early to get access to the limited time two-for-one offer!
The 2019 conference will be co-located with SAP-Centric Financials, bringing analytics and finance professionals to one location. Now more than ever, financial and analytics teams must work together strategically to leverage technologies and gain stronger insights of customers. The better both sides of the business understand each other’s needs, the better the outcome. Don't miss this opportunity collaborate with your finance counterparts so you can more effectively and efficiently succeed.
Opportunities to Influence
Customer Engagement Initiative
Want to help SAP developers get it right? SAP offers the opportunity to influence innovations for next releases through the influence program Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI). This is the third cycle of 2018.
What innovations are there?
There are several projects for which you can register. The following projects are relevant for the ASUG BI Community Members (logon is required):
Analytics Consumption Pages in Intelligent Enterprise Suite
Business Transaction Types in Closing and Analytics and SAP S/4HANA
Integration of Key User tools in SAP S/4HANA
Liquidity Planning and Analysis on SAP Analytic Cloud
Next Generation Business Intelligence Launch Pad with Fiori design for BI 4.3
SAP Analytics Cloud - Next Generation Smart Analytics
Speed up the design of WebIntelligence reports with templates
Viewing and Sharing Dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloud
These projects can be found here .
The deadline for this cycle is on November 9th
Reference:
How do I register on the Customer Influence website?
The process of registration is here.
Join us Dec. 4 for INFL: Mobile BI Influence Council Re-launch
ASUG Influence Councils provide a forum for providing feedback to SAP development teams for product enhancement. This council aims to influence the future roadmap of all the SAP Mobile Analytics applications - SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile, SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI, SAP RoamBI. By providing feedback, identifying and discussing pain points, and brainstorming ideas to improve the applications.
Register today
What happened at SAP TechEd?
SAP TechEd Las Vegas is over for 2019, and next year it will be September 23–27 in Las Vegas. You can check the replays online here. If there are any sessions you would like to see repeated as webcasts, please comment here
Upcoming Webcasts:
As a valued member of the BI community, we wanted to let you know of some upcoming webinars that may be of interest to you! In addition to providing insights from the SAP's most respected voices on the most relevant and important topics today, these webinars also help you earn CPE's/PDU's depending on your area of certification.
Keep in mind you can always watch the archived webinars later—and we offer an extensive library of on-demand webinars you can also explore here: ASUG BI Webcast Recording/Slides Reference List for 2018
November 8 Mixed Modeling with SAP BW/4HANA & Native HANA
November 13 Smart Predict
November 14 SAP Analytics Cloud Integration with SAP BW: Best Practices
November 15 BI: How to Design Web Intelligence Reports that Behave like Real Dashboards
November 20 BI: SAP Analytics Hub and SAP Hybrid Analytics Strategy
December 4 INFL: Mobile BI Influence Council Re-launch
December 11 BI: Overview of Latest BI Features in SAP Cloud Analytics
December 12 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud – Connectivity Deep Dive
December 13 BI: Roadmap: What is the Future of SAP BOBJ Web Intelligence (BI 4.3)?
January 15 BI: What's New with Application Design in SAP Analytics Cloud
January 22 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud Roadmap Update for Developer APIs and Integration
January 23 BI: SAP Digital Boardroom and SAC Mobile App - What's New, Best Practices and Roadmap
January 24 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BW and BW/4HANA
January 31 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud Roadmap
For a list of our 2018 webinar recordings/replays please see this link.
Upcoming Event:
ASUG Developers Tools Day is December 13th – registration is open.
This year's meeting will boast 3 tracks of education with hands-on demonstrations. ASUG is joined by:
- Thomas Jung - Chief Product Expert, Product Management SAP HANA
- Storm Archer - Senior Director, SAP HANA Global Center of Excellence
- Adrian Westmoreland -SAP Analytics Cloud product management team
- SAP Managed Tags:
