Accenture, the Platinum Sponsor for SAP TechEd 2009

Over the past four years, Accenture has been partnering with SAP at the prestigious SAP Tech Ed, the largest event for SAP professionals in India, in fact the largest SAP event in the Asia Pacific region.

As a Platinum Sponsor at this event, over the years Accenture has showcased some of the most important elements of the business relationship with SAP, ranging from presenting papers and case studies to running demos at a specially designed exhibition booth.

Many of Accenture’s key senior executives, particularly from Accenture’s Technology Delivery Center’s leadership team in India, will take part in the event, fostering a healthy exchange of ideas. All with a singular focus—to help organizations use enterprise software applications to become high performers and outpace the competition.

Be part of the SAP TechEd Bangalore 2009, November 18 to 20 at the Karnataka Trade Promotion Organization (KTPO) Center in Bangalore. Catch the action live at numerous sessions and visit us at our exhibition area to watch the state-of-the-art demos.

And if you would like to know more about the kind of work we do with SAP at Accenture, log onto SAP Careers at Accenture

Executive Keynote Session
Sanjeev Vohra, Senior Executive and
Lead, SAP, Accenture Delivery Centers for Technology in India

Sanjeev Vohra is responsible for driving the SAP capability development program across the Delivery Center Network in India, with a sharp focus on industrialization, specialization and innovation. Sanjeev has more than 16 years of experience and has worked extensively in SAP solution development, program management, large scale transitions and building SAP technology capabilities. His areas of interest include supply chain management, technology management and Six Sigma.

Topic: Creating distinctive capabilities with SAP-based solutions

Accenture research shows that high-performance organizations create unique set of processes or distinctive capabilities to help differentiate them and outperform the competition. Using our proprietary process models, our SAP-based assets and tools, Accenture collaborates with clients to develop these specific capabilities. With sustainability high on the management agenda, it is critical for organizations to develop distinctive capabilities that enable them to define and implement a health and safety strategy for high performance.

Technical Tracks

Anand Bondre, Senior Manager
Lead, SAP BI Capability, Accenture Delivery Center for Technology in India

Anand Bondre is an expert in information management and strategic implementation of business intelligence solutions. His specialization is in comprehensively executing SAP business intelligence and analytical solutions.

Topic: Understanding the SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator

The session provides the introductory details of the SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator, elaborating on its importance to the SAP BI Accelerator and its benefits while explaining how it functions. The session will showcase findings of the inclusion of the BI Accelerator in an SAP BI infrastructure which Accenture recently implemented for a large consumer goods industry customer.

Anand Biradarpatil
Specialist, SAP - ABAP
Accenture Delivery Center for Technology in India

Anand Biradarpatil has been in the IT industry for the last seven years and has worked on the latest SAP technologies, including SAP ABAP Webdynpro and SAP XML processing. He also has experience in developing and implementing SAP’s System Landscape Optimization products.

Topic: New SAP UI Technologies

The session provides a view of the how SAP UI technologies have progressed over the years. It explains the latest UI technologies such as WebDynpro, Adobe Forms, Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. The session will also offer an overview of the future path of development as well as the benefits of using the newer technologies.

Jiju Mani, Manager
Lead, SCM Center of Excellence
Accenture Delivery Center of Technology in India

Jiju Mani has been involved in multiple SAP SCM implementations and SCM solutions for clients. His responsibilities at Accenture include SAP SCM sales enablement, delivery support and practice growth.

Topic: SAP Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning

SAP Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning (CDSP) Value Scenario is SAP’s solution to provide timely and profitable response to customer demand. The session starts with a background on Accenture’s Supply Chain Mastery Research and goes on to introduce SAP’s Value Scenario premise and how Accenture and SAP partnered to build the CDSP Value scenario. Key benefits from this session include a detailed explanation of CDSP—its architecture, business scenarios, interfaces, assets and benefits.

Nilay Mehta, Manager
SAP Financials Center of Excellence
Accenture Delivery Center of Technology in India

Nilay Mehta works in Accenture’s Chemicals and Natural Resources practice and SAP Financials Center of Excellence. He has more than 10 years of experience in enterprise applications and ERP consulting. An expert on SAP Financials, Nilay has deep expertise in implementing complex SI projects in financials. He is a specialist and expert in New GL Accounting. His responsibilities at Accenture include practice growth and SME support for SAP Financials Capability.

Topic: IFRS—The Countdown Begins

As more and more countries around the globe begin to take serious steps toward adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), they need to usher in significant changes to people, processes and systems. This session will seek to provide an overview of IFRS, highlight the key impacts on SAP Financials, how they can be addressed, and the implementation challenges and options for SAP customers who intend to implement IFRS.

The demos at the Accenture exhibit at SAP Tech Ed showcase how we bring the Accenture-SAP partnership to life. Interact with our professionals as they run more than a dozen demos, ranging from Analytics Solutions, Green IT with Interactive Forms and workflow to Silent Commerce using RFID.

Accenture Quick Document Builder
Allows users to create, manage and use template documents and text modules along with master and meta-data from an ERP HCM system such as SAP® ERP HCM.

Accenture Analytics Solution for SAP ERP
Let you design and generate KPIs for use in SAP Business Intelligence.

SAP Test Data Manager
This tool digs into the SAP system to provide the right test data.

Application Enhancement Tool
This demo will show how easy it is now to add new custom fields, modify custom fields and delete custom fields in SAP CRM 7.0.

Centralized Search Function
This will show how to configure the type of searches and set of business objects according to the needs of each individual business role.

Green-IT with Interactive Forms & Workflow
This demo will be showcase an integrated application with Wed Dynpro ABAP, Interactive Online Adobe form and Workflow Approval Process. The demo will highlight interlinked architecture for all three technologies.

IDM integration with GRC
The demo is based on the automation process that can achieved in providing access in a complex landscape that comprises NetWeaver components such as PI, EP, CE, MI and third party applications such as MSSQL using NW IDM (Identity Management). The focus is also on access control, which you can accomplish using SAP GRC.

Comprehending SAP BI Accelerator
This demo will show simple functions around SAP’s Business Intelligence Accelerator (BIA). It will walk the viewer through the steps to set a BEx query for BIA usage on/off, commonly used transaction codes around BIA and changes in contest menu due to implementation of BIA.

Unfolding SAP Business Objects Explorer
SAP Business Object Explorer is a joint product of SAP and Business Object (BO). It is recommended as an ad-hoc search and exploration tool in the SAP BI-BO roadmap. The SAP Business Object explorer, previously known as Polestar, is a Web-based search and exploration application. It combines the simplicity of search with the trust and analytical power of business intelligence to provide immediate answers to business questions. The demo will show how SAP Business Object Explorer works on an SAP BI landscape.

Enterprise Reporting with Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports software is a powerful, dynamic reporting solution that helps us design, explore, visualize and deliver reports via the Web or build them into enterprise applications. Users can view reports with stunning visualizations, conduct report business modeling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself, reducing dependency on IT and developer resources. In the SAP BI-BO roadmap, Crystal Reports will replace our SAP BI Report Designer. In the demo, we will show some of Crystal Reports’ advanced features in an SAP BI landscape.

Xcelsius Unleashed
Xcelsius is an environment to design and use highly-interactive, Flash-based dashboards in PDF, documents, presentations and NetWeaver Portal. These dashboards are a visualization of important information, often tailored to a specific role or point of view, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so users can monitor the information at a glance. In the demo, we will show a working Xcelsius dashboard in an of SAP BI landscape.

NetWeaver BPM & SOA in Action
SAP NetWeaver BPM provides a set of tools and systems to model and execute end–to-end processes promoting consistency with policies, best practices and fostering innovation by providing visibility into the business process. ESOA is a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. With SAP NetWeaver as a technical foundation, SOA moves IT architectures to higher levels of adaptability with companies getting closer to the vision of real-time enterprises. In this demo, we will show key features of BPM using Service Execution Scenario and how enterprise services are orchestrated in the business flow.

Silent Commerce Using RFID
This demo will explore the use of RFID technology for self-checkout at a retail store. This implementation uses an RFID reader with SAP POS 2.1 to read RFID tags of all articles in a shopping basket at once. The result: The total time of transaction at the check-out counter is reduced by almost 80 percent. This concept can be applied effectively for loyal customers who may wish to avoid long lines at the cash register.