Join SAP mentor and BI guru Tammy Powlas to learn how she drives maximum value from the SAP BusinessObjects BI and analytics tools at Fairfax Water, and how you can, too.

The face of analytics at C Spire has changed dramatically — from multiple IT-driven reports that users needed to sift through, to an invaluable resource for employees at all levels of the organization. Find out how C Spire built, deployed, and runs a successful self-service program.

Learn about Fairfax Water’s experience using SAP BusinessObjects Cloud and get firsthand feedback on the solution’s capabilities. You'll see how Fairfax Water determined project scope, goals, and objectives based on key elements of its overall BI strategy and road map.

Gain insight about both the preparation and outcome of Mead Johnson Nutrition’s recent migration to SAP HANA and SAP Sybase. Learn about TCO and RFP background, project timelines, and methodology.

Gain useful tips and tricks from Lockheed Martin’s success in leveraging SAP ONE Support Launchpad to access support tools and effectively administer its SAP solutions. Learn how the company leverages SAP BusinessObjects Lumira to provide important system data to management and support staff.

CSL Plasma recently divided its integrated SAP Data Services from the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform in order to provide additional features and capabilities in data management and to gain the ability to apply updates to analytics and enterprise information management components independently. Learn firsthand from CSL Plasma why the decision to separate SAP Data Services was made as as technical considerations.

British American Tobacco (BAT) is embedding a single instance global ERP and BI platforms into the fabric of the organization while embarking on a new journey toward becoming a data-driven organization with analytics and advanced analytics capabilities slowly being enabled.  Gain valuable lessons from the company’s implementation and migration journey and receive an update on BAT’s migration to SAP BW 7.5 on SAP HANA while migrating from SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 to BI 4.2.

Find out how Lockheed Martin is providing project managers and teams with new ways to think about their leadership skills. Walk through an exercise the company uses to demonstrate the impact perspective has on project management and leadership styles.

L3 Technologies Communications Systems-West went live with SAP ERP, using a traditional waterfall approach for enhancements to its ERP landscape after go-live. That methodology had numerous drawbacks. Learn how L3 CS-West adopted the agile/scrum methodology and how the company used small incremental production releases immediately to deliver better solutions that customers can use sooner to streamline their business processes.

Learn how C Spire built and maintains a successful BI self-service program using SAP Lumira and SAP HANA. You will explore key characteristics of C Spire’s self-service program and see how and why SAP Lumira and SAP HANA were chosen over other solutions.

Learn about Fairfax Water’s experience performing beta testing for SAP Lumira 2.0 Discovery and SAP Lumira 2.0 Designer. Get firsthand feedback on the product’s capabilities. See how Fairfax Water determined project scope, goals, and objectives based on key elements of its overall BI strategy and road map.

Find out how Breakthru Beverage accommodates the needs of analysts who insist on using Microsoft Excel, while also leveraging its investment in SAP HANA models. Get useful lessons from the company’s experience, including how it engaged its user community in a series of user acceptance tests to choose between the SAP-provided MDX connector, SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Power Query.

Learn how the ALDO Group  implemented SAP Roambi. Gain tips from its move from “traditional reporting” to making key business metrics available to those who need them in near real time.

Carpenter Technology Company (CTC) has embarked on a platform modernization program, replacing current, aged infrastructure and applications with an SAP-based solution with SAP S/4HANA 1610 at the core. The strategy not only addresses foundational reporting and predictive analytics requirements, but also lays the foundation for forward-looking strategic capabilities, such as IoT (Internet of Things). Find out how CTC leverages SAP S/4HANA out-of-the-box capabilities to adopt an agile methodology for analytics requirements realization.

Learn how C Spire developed and deployed an interactive dashboard to deliver metrics and data from multiple sources to users at all levels of the organization. You will explore how the company evaluated the pros and cons of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio for its data visualization needs, including technical prerequisites, requirement specifications, and development.

Learn how Fairfax Water leverages the new and changed features in SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office. Gain best practices based on the company’s firsthand experiences.

Newell Brands has found ways to embed SAPUI5 applications into use cases with less complexity than previous technologies. Gain insight from the company’s experiences identifying practical uses and employing the skills and resources needed. Find out how the company determined practical everyday uses, such as using SAPUI5 with many HR self-service applications and using SAP Fiori to update pay and benefit applications. Discover how the company turned SAPUI5 applications into mobile apps and distributes them.

Explore the journey of Newell Brands from traditional SAP BW objects to SAP HANA studio-based objects, focusing on performance challenges faced, and solutions identified to improve query performance. Learn performance issues encountered by the company when building its SAP HANA views and steps it took to make SAP HANA views provider run in under 10 seconds.

Learn how The Irvine Company leveraged classic data warehousing methods with new SAP HANA modeling techniques to advance business analytics capabilities. You will learn how the company designs SAP HANA organization structure and stages data in SAP HANAfor optimal performance.