International SAP Conference for Utilities Recap – it’s a Wrap

I attended this conference online the other week and it was a great experience.  Usually the event is face to face in Europe, but this year it was online so I was able to attend.

First I attended a session on ACCU – SAP Advisory Customer Council for Utilities

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Time, travel

Trial membership – background, organization, why join

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1 year trial membership

Next I attended an innovations session, similar to a blog I wrote here.

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This shows capabilities

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This shows value drivers and benefits

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Journey to hybrid landscape

Embedded into S/4HANA with 1610 release

Published services on SAP API Business Hub

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I like this layout of the road map.  In case you cannot see it you can go to roadmaps.sap.com

Planned is machine learning scenarios for FI-CA

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Planned for 2022 is Maintenance centric service in S/4HANA

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Some S/4HANA adoption numbers are shown above

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Summary of session is shown above

Then there was a road map session

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Overall SAP strategy

Layers

Intelligent suite, industry cloud

Industry specific solution

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This is a summary of the information shown above

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Not a product, but a program

Address utilities specific process

Not substitute on premise; complement in first step

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Where BTP fits in

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Consume S/4HANA in the cloud and consume with cloud components

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How cloud for utilities fits in RISE

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Then I attended a round table for water utilities

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Best practices from SAP

Embedded best practices are in SolMan

Will have industry cloud solution

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I attended the final session moderated by SAP’s Tom Raftery

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All in all it was a great event; I hope the online component stays in the future so I can attend.  Special thanks to Klaudia and Dee from T.A. Cook, the event producers.