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