SAP Experts Online Webinars

SAP Experts Webinars regularly hosts informative webinars specifically designed to help IT professionals expedite their key SAP projects. Many of our webinar speakers also have articles published regularly in SAP Insider and the SAP Experts. Listed below are a number of in-depth webcast events with applicable solutions to your biggest SAP challenges. View upcoming live events and recently archived webcasts on a number of important SAP topics. Most events last sixty minutes.

On-Demand Webinars

Jim Cameron Expert Integration Group

Build high-performance interfaces in SAP NetWeaver Process Integration with the advanced adapter engine

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL January 21, 2011 | Cost $99

Join us for this webinar to get detailed instructions for building three common interface patterns that can improve performance up to 1,000% over traditional techniques. We’ll take a close look at how you can build mission-critical, high-performance interfaces with the advanced adapter engine in SAP NetWeaver PI. In addition, we’ll review the newest functionality of the advanced adapter engine, including routing, mapping, and recently added adapters.

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Kent Bettisworth - BETTISWORTH ASSOCIATES, INC.

IFRS – The impact of IAS16 on Fixed Assets and Project Accounting

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL December 17, 2010 | Cost $99

The Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US and the International Accounting Standards Board are proceeding with a joint project to standardize corporate financial reporting. In short, your business processes and the use of SAP may change significantly how you create, value, and depreciate fixed assets.

This presentation will tell you what the change is, how it will affect your SAP Project System and Fixed Assets modules, and how to best manage it to minimize the impact on your business.

In this webinar, you will:

  • What IFRS is - specifically IAS16-Fixed Assets
  • How changes will impact the business process of project accounting
  • What asset valuations will change and directly impact depreciation methods and expense
  • The different between IAS16-Fixed Assets and US GAAP
  • What an IFRS assessment entails
  • How certain asset major overhaul expenses will be capitalized instead of expensed
  • How your SAP Solutions will change
  • What you should do now, including beginning an IFRS assessment and prioritizing your options and next steps.
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Jeremy Masters, Worklogix

New strategies and guidelines for leveraging SAP® functionality with employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS)

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL November 19, 2010 | Cost $99

Join us for this webinar and explore the expanded range of features that SAP now delivers with employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS), and the technical foundation upon which they run. View demos that illustrate the latest features of employee and manager self-services and how they are delivered via SAP NetWeaver® Portal.

  • Take a look at the functionality available in Enhancement Package 4 with a focus on Talent Management.
  • Understand the critical self-service components including the Homepage Framework and the OADP (Object and Data Provider).
  • Review SAP Adobe Interactive Forms functionality and how they are used within the HCM solution
  • Discuss organizational readiness topics including training and change management.
  • Review best practices that empower employees, managers, and HR to take charge of HR data.
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Bhavesh C. Bhagat Co-Founder and CEO of EnCrisp

10 key principles to building a more resilient, world-class GRC program

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL November 5, 2010 | Cost $99

Being sustainable is not sufficient anymore. This session reveals how organizations can infuse survivability and resilience into their GRC programs to more effectively monitor and comply with the regulatory impacts of a continuously evolving risk environment.

In this webinar, you will:

  • Explore the 10 key principles of a best-in-class resilient GRC program.
  • Ensure your GRC program is not just driven from an audit or compliance perspective, but from a more business-centric enterprise view.
  • Understand how to communicate and enforce governance policies, and how to share knowledge so that business users see how their day-to-day activities increase or reduce risk to the organization.
  • Find out how to communicate to key stakeholders, through the use of key indicators.
  • Take home optimal program structures to put in place to ensure success and avoid worst practices.
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Alicia Jimenez, SAP

Proven tips and tricks to get your SAP CRM implementation or upgrade on time and on budget

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL October 28, 2010 | Cost $99

Complete your SAP CRM project on time and on budget and ensure it is properly staffed with the strategies and principles provided in this webinar. Examine key criteria for successful SAP CRM implementations and upgrades, including examples to help you define your project roadmap, win executive support, address core technical and business requirements and ensure you have the required staff for each phase of the implementation or upgrade.

In this webinar, you will:

  • Gather expert recommendations and step through valuable insight from recent SAP CRM implementations and upgrades.
  • Learn strategies for project team training and for identifying the right skill sets for your implementation or upgrade.
  • Walk through guidelines for determining project scope and evaluating different approaches for your CRM projects.
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Steve Biskie - Best Practices Program Director, ACL Services

Tips and tricks to survive your next audit quickly and painlessly

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL September 24, 2010 | Cost $99

This session provides insight to help project managers, implementation teams, administrators, and users better prepare for an audit of their SAP system.

  • Learn how the audit process works in an SAP environment.
  • Get detailed advice on how to prepare for an audit.
  • Identify SAP functions and supporting business processes that will be under the closest scrutiny.
  • Review specific SAP configurable controls and learn what the auditor will typically be looking for related to these settings.
  • Explore audit issues related to the initial implementation or upgrade and how these can impact a subsequent audit.
  • Walk away with a checklist of final audit preparation steps.
  • Get practical and proven advice to start thinking like an auditor and prepare your domains for an SAP system audit.
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Super User Webinar Series

Register for all 3 webinars in Doug Whittle’s special series on Super Users and save 10% off the total cost of registration.

Doug Whittle, President of Whittle Consulting Group, LLC

Building and validating a Desired State vision for your Super User program

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL August 3, 2010 | Cost $99

After you complete your Current State Assessment, your next step is to prepare your first vision of what the “Desired State” for your Super User program will look like.

In this special, 60 minute webinar, we will explore ways to clarify your program objectives and vision with the same key stakeholders who participated in the Current State assessment, to ensure that what you are proposing will meet the needs and expectations you discovered.

You will be guided through the process of identifying high-level options for your program, how to share those with your key stakeholders, how to manage the feedback, and how to follow up with your stakeholders on the final results and recommendations.

We will also discuss the importance of updating your stakeholder map in light of these newest stakeholder conversations.

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Doug Whittle, President of Whittle Consulting Group, LLC

Building your Super User strategy and project plan

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL August 17, 2010 | Cost: $99

This session will examine the many elements that should be included in creating a formal, written strategy and project plan for your Super User program. These include:

  • Scope
  • Priorities
  • Initial emphasis
  • Roles
  • Ttimeline
  • Deliverables

The session will help you identify the stakeholders for this strategy and project plan — which then helps you identify the specific framework you want to use for your document.

We will discuss the importance of creating a project charter that supports your vision and strategy. Suggestions will be provide for how to "socialize" the concept as you share your plan with your key stakeholders. We will also discuss ways to incorporate a communications plan in your overall project strategy and timeline so your stakeholders are continually updated and informed at the appropriate level.

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Doug Whittle, President of Whittle Consulting Group, LLC

Critical roles for completing your Super User project strategy and plan

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL September 10, 2010 | Cost: $99

This session will examine and define two key roles that will be critical for you to complete your project strategy and plan: project sponsor and project lead.

We will examine what to include in those role descriptions, including attributes, skills, and competencies to ensure that the individuals who agree to take on these roles understand the expectations upfront.

Explore how you can keep those individuals engaged and actively involved throughout the creation and implementation of your program. We will also examine the use of a project steering committee to oversee your Super User program and discuss both the benefits and challenges of this model.

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