ASUG Ontario Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Ryerson University – Ted Rogers School of Business
55 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
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8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
8th Fl. Common Area
Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
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Welcome/ Agenda / News from Ontario Chapter/ASUG HQ/Plans for 2015 Events
ASUG Ontario Chapter Volunteer Leadership Team
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
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Working Better Connected: ASUG, SAP, and the New Technology Frontier
Geoff Scott, CEO, ASUG
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Driving SAP Continual Process Improvement Leveraging Winshuttle at Canada Post
Jason Maher, Director; Process Improvement, Canada Post
Diane Hamelin, Manager; Process Improvement, Canada Post
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break and Networking
8th Fl. Common Area
Compliments of our Sponsors
Compliments of our Sponsors
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Creating Value with SAP’s New User Experience Strategy
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Denis Browne, SVP; Head of SAP Imagineering and SAP Screen Personas, SAP
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Corporate Social Responsibility: ASUG & SAP in the Community
(room, if applicable)
ASUG Ontario Chapter Volunteer Leadership Team & SAP CSR
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
8th Fl. Common Area
Lunch in Sponsor Showcase
Compliments of our Sponsors
Breakout Session #1:
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Track 1
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SAP Mobility Customer Panel
Shawn McEwen, Director of Sales, Attunity
Milja Gillespie, Director; Mobile Security, SAP
Sana Salam, President and Founder, Sodales Solutions
Darrell McDonald, Sr. Systems Consultant, Kony
Track 2
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Transforming the SAP User Experience with Fiori: City of Mississauga
Darren Headrick, City of Mississauga
Track 3
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SCI Logistics Group Uses GLSU to Increase Productivity in Finance Team
Brad Sutton, Accounting Manager; Financial Systems, SCI Group
2:00 p.m – 2:15 p.m.
8th Fl. Common Area
Coffee Break and Networking
Compliments of our Sponsors
Breakout Session #2:
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
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Track 1
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SAP Internet of Things (IoT) Customer Panel
Glenn Paulley, Professor, Information Technology, Conestoga College
Blair Curry, VP of Business Development, IMS
Kevin Petrie, Technology Evangelist, Attunity
David Jirku, Consultant Systems Engineer, IoT Cisco
Track 2
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Taking SAP Fiori from Start to Production
Shaun Syversten, Managing Partner, Convergent Information Systems
Track 3
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Divesture and the Data Impacts
Fabian Cousley, Enterprise Data Management, The Chemours Company (A Dupont Company)
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
8th Fl. Common Area
Coffee Break and Networking
Compliments of our Sponsors
Breakout Session #3:
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Track 1
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Internet of Things with SAP Labs
Lalit Canaran, SAP Labs
Robert Noce, SAP Labs
Track 2
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Productivity Through Personalization Using SAP Screen Personas 3.0 and Customer Stories
Denis Browne, SVP; Head of SAP Imagineering and SAP Screen Personas, SAP
Track 3
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City of Kitchener: Implementing SAP for Utilities to Improve Service Delivery
Mike Bolger, Manager, Business Systems & Database Administration, City of Kitchener
4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
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Wrap-Up / Prizes / Sponsor Draws / Next Meeting / 2015 ASUG Ontario Event Planning
ASUG Ontario Chapter Volunteer Leadership Team
4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Mercatto Trattoria
(Eaton Centre)
ASUG Community Networking Event
Everyone is welcome to stay and enjoy some hospitality with your colleagues and the ASUG Ontario
Community. Bar service and light snacks provided by our sponsors.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
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Silver Sponsors
Abstracts
Working Better Connected: ASUG, SAP, and the New Technology Frontier
Abstract TBD.
Geoff Scott, CEO, ASUG
Driving SAP Continual Process Improvement Leveraging Winshuttle at Canada Post
Learn how Canada Post, one of Canada’s largest SAP implementations, is utilizing WinShuttle to realize business
value in SAP by automating core business processes. Canada Post uses Winshuttle to optimize the collection,
validation, approval, and entry of SAP data in areas that include: Finance, HR, Master Data, and Sales Distribution.
The focus of this presentation includes: identifying the business opportunities, building the internal business case,
business collaboration with IT, the gains achieved, and lessons learned.
Jason Maher, Director; Process Improvement, Canada Post
Diane Hamelin, Manager; Process Improvement, Canada Post
Creating Value with SAP’s New User Experience Strategy
The SAP user experience (UX) strategy is aimed at bringing great products to our customers. Using the principles of
design thinking, we maintain our core value of listening to our customers’ needs and quickly incorporating their
feedback into SAP products. With the influence of consumer software making its way into the enterprise, SAP’s UX
strategy aims to meet users’ expectations of easy-to-use software in the workplace.
Core to SAP’s user experience strategy of “new, renew and enable” are SAP Fiori UX and SAP Screen Personas. The
strategy is complemented by our UX design services, which offer design consulting for customers in their journey to
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achieve an optimal user experience. We help customers meet the needs of their end users, and we support IT groups
in developing a UX sensibility in their organization.
Denis Browne, SVP; Head of SAP Imagineering and SAP Screen Personas, SAP
Corporate Social Responsibility: ASUG & SAP in the Community
Abstract TBD.
ASUG Ontario Chapter Volunteer Leadership Team & SAP CSR
SAP Mobility Customer Panel
Empower and engage your employees, customers, and stakeholders in new and innovative ways – with mobile
software from SAP. Our industry-leading technology can deliver extraordinary impact across your organization,
transforming everything from business transactions to consumer interactions.
SAP solutions enable companies to combine SAP business process expertise with leadership in mobile, Big Data, and
cloud to gain competitive advantage through:
Optimized safeguards for corporate data, Real-time customer engagement through mobile devices, Increased loyalty
and awareness, Maximized revenue and productivity, Optimized application design and deployment processes
Shawn McEwen, Director of Sales, Attunity
Milja Gillespie, Director; Mobile Security, SAP
Sana Salam, President and Founder, Sodales Solutions
Darrell McDonald, Sr. Systems Consultant, Kony
Transforming the SAP User Experience with Fiori: City of Mississauga
Learn how the City of Mississauga are using Fiori the HR experience for employees and contractors.
The City of Mississauga is simplifying access and the user experience for common HR functions. Leave request and
timesheets will now be easier to use, easier to approve and easier to manage. The City will walk through their Fiori
journey and why it was important to start with HR.
Darren Headrick, City of Mississauga
SCI Logistics Group Uses GLSU to Increase Productivity in Finance Team
Like many SAP user organizations, SCI Logistic Group used a homegrown Excel upload tool to post journal entries. The
tool had many shortcomings which resulted in inefficiencies and posting delays. Learn how they implemented Z
Option’s GLSU tool as part of a Corporate initiative to improve day-to-day JE processing. In addition to improving
efficiency , the project significantly improved tool usability, enabled validation of JEs before submission to SAP and
other improvements.
Brad Sutton, Accounting Manager; Financial Systems, SCI Group
SAP Internet of Things (IoT) Customer Panel
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How can ASUG members approach the Internet of Things (IoT)? Organizations must navigate disparate data
networks, new operating models and security risks. The IoT will reverse some assumptions: many successful
initiatives will prioritize data precision over data volume, custom solutions over standard ones, and proprietary
infrastructures over open platforms. Attend this panel discussion to hear from industry experts and peers as they
share observations and best practices for playing the IoT to your competitive advantage.
Glenn Paulley, Professor, Information Technology, Conestoga College
Blair Curry, VP of Business Development, IMS
Kevin Petrie, Technology Evangelist, Attunity
David Jirku, Consultant Systems Engineer, IoT Cisco
Taking SAP Fiori UX from Start to Production
Learn how six customers across municipal, energy, utility, and service industries each made their journey from start
to production with SAP Fiori. Reviewing some key common challenges and different approaches learn how your
enterprise can quickly provide a clean, modern, and SAP user experience to the enterprise.
Shaun Syversten, Managing Partner, Convergent Information Systems
Divesture and the Data Impacts
Learn how Dupont approached its Performance Chemical Divesture and the strategy taken on Data Extraction/Data
Migration/Data Load Toolset. Moving from multiple SAP environment’s to a new single SAP instance. Will share many
of the challenges encountered from a Data Management perspective.
Fabian Cousley, Enterprise Data Management, The Chemours Company (A Dupont Company)
Internet of Things with SAP Labs
SAP Labs will be providing an interactive session on Internet of Things (IOT) solutions within the SAP Ecosystem - with
technology-partner Cisco.
Lalit Canaran, SAP Labs
Robert Noce, SAP Labs
Productivity Through Personalization Using SAP Screen Personas 3.0 and Customer Stories
SAP Customers have long requested a way to simplify their screens to improve user productivity. In this session, we
will discuss how customers use SAP Screen Personas to maximize the usability of theirmission-critical software by
personalizingtheir SAP ERP screens. With easy-to-use, drag-and-drop functionality, this product can help you boost
the efficiency of your processes and the productivity of your business users. SAP Screen Personas enables
administrators and authorized users to modify screens based on role – for faster, easier information access. It
provides a visually pleasing interface with only the information each user needs. Not only does SAP Screen Personas
decrease training time for your software users, but it also streamlines business processes.
Denis Browne, SVP; Head of SAP Imagineering and SAP Screen Personas, SAP
City of Kitchener: Implementing SAP for Utilities to Improve Service Delivery
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The City of Kitchener is mid-way through its implementation of SAP for Utilities. In 2008, Kitchener launched SAP
Financials and in 2016 SAP Utilities will be deployed for Gas, Water, Storm water and Property Taxes; a first in
Ontario. This project serves as a catalyst for improved Corporate reporting using HANA, a new Customer Portal using
MCF and business continuity assurance utilizing Hitachi environments.
Mike Bolger, Manager, Business Systems & Database Administration, City of Kitchener
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