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14 — 16 March 2016, Hyatt Regency, Johannesburg

Business Analyticswith SAP Solutions

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Mastering Business Analytics with SAP is a three-day long celebration of people, technology, ideas, and innovations that are literally transforming the way we work. Through community exchange, we are unlocking and realising the potential of technology for the betterment of people, business and the world.

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The Future of Analytics

• Looking at predictive, complex and agile analytics • An up-to-date guide to SAP’s analytics roadmap • Creating a business analytics strategy that allows for

the future – mobile, open source and Big Data • Comparing the available software and tools to invest in • Taking advantage of the inevitable flashpoint and

maximising the value of your information • Exploring new and alternative business models and

aligning your BI strategy to this • How Big Data and real-time event processing can

change the face of your business • Leveraging information to better understand and

communicate with your suppliers and customers • Great power calls for great responsibility – privacy

issues in a datafied world • Exploring current and future trends in the analytics

world looking at different industries • Harnessing opportunities to become a game changer by

creating data and analytics-based products and services

Promoting the Value of Analytics to the Business

• Creating a model to understand where your business is in terms of maturity

• Finding alignment between your business strategy and your analytics strategy

• Understanding the value of internal committees to drive strategy and rollout in your organisation

• Benchmarking BI and identifying critical success factors to calculate the ROI of your BI initiatives

• Breaking down silos - bringing business and IT leaders together to develop an analytics strategy

• Tips on dealing with typical challenges when formulating and executing a BI strategy

• Using SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) to maintain a sustainable business model

• Business processes and KPIs to keep everyone in line with the business strategy.

• Single-set vs. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) capabilities • Practical tips on how to measure and communicate the

success of the BI strategy to decision-makers

The Eventful Group ran extensive research across South Africa via in-depth immersion calls and a series of round table discussions. A broad selection of Business Analytics professionals across multiple industries were asked which issues they are facing using SAP for analytics and what they would need to do to harness the technology in the next five years to achieve their strategic business goals. This sharing of challenges and solutions became the hot topics framework around which this conference has been created – resulting in a program of learning that directly addresses the needs and desires of the community.

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Skills & the BI Team of the Future

• Resourcing and running a BI Centre of Excellence to improve analytics adoption and effectiveness

• Addressing user skills and incentives as a fundamental building block of your BI projects

• Centralised teams vs. decentralised teams• Planning for positions that don’t exist yet• Successfully implementing self-service analytics • Defining the roles in your BI team – Statisticians, Data

Analysts, Data Scientists, SMEs and more • Standardising human capital metrics and definitions

across the organisation• Getting the balance right – the optimal staffing mix

between consultants and internal employees • Case studies of traditional BI competency centres that

are turning into “competency communities”• Clearly communicating new roles and responsibilities • Developing softer skills in an IT world to ensure

effective communication • How to get IT/BI to challenge their current paradigms • Promoting user adoption in times of rapid change • Leveraging user groups, internal committees and

social media to understand peer perspectives • Determining where your analytics team belongs within

the organisational structure

Predictive Analytics

• Looking at the predictive capabilities of SAP HANA • Predictive analytics tools for modeling and visualisation

– SAP’s offerings and what else is out there • Looking at use cases – what is the real return on

investment for predictive analytics tools? • Agile intellectual property – moving away from

protecting IP into recreating IP • Combining business acumen and industry experience

with predictive analytics for optimal results • The possibilities for predictive analytics with your basic

ERP system • Local use cases on using predictive analytics for

segmentation and campaign management • Demonstrating the value of predictive analytics to

decision makers • Combatting analysis paralysis – how much predictive

analytics do we really need?

Costs & Return on Investments

• Resourcing, cleaning, deployment - the costs involved• Practical ideas on how to get top-management buy-in • Decommissioning multiple reporting tools and systems

through a centralised reporting and analytics platform• Justifying the costs to acquire HANA looking at what

other companies did• Is the cost of the licence worth the ownership? • Bringing down the cost of BI in a complex environment • Supporting and maintaining the power of analytics when

faced with a shortage of skills • Transitioning from a traditional to modern BI environment • The monetisation of data by providing analytics as a

service

Analytics in the Cloud

• Private vs. Public Cloud – what are the implications? • Dealing with IT resistance to moving to the Cloud • Tips and tricks for reporting from the Cloud • Local infrastructure and bandwidth constraints • Looking at successfully integrated Cloud architectures • Moving from On-Premise into the Cloud – is it the right

move for your organisation? • Migrating your data into the Cloud efficiently • Including data security (POPI) in your Cloud strategy • Leveraging the Cloud for faster, turnkey analytics

Report Design & Delivery

• Self-service reporting - many versions of the truth or empowering your team?

• Extracting from BW, reworking and more reworking - stop wasting time

• Defining the BI Roadmap and 1st Phase implementation plan for core operational reporting

• Issues around your reporting and EDW strategy • Ensuring optimal data quality for truthful reporting • Providing answers to questions instead of more data • Defining your user requirements for choosing the best

tools for reporting • Looking at what SAP has available in their toolset for

reporting and how to choose the best option

Enterprise Data Warehousing

• How to prevent getting stuck in old habits – moving from a reporting focused strategy to a process and business optimisation strategy

• SAP Data Warehousing – what are the options? • Will SAP HANA ever completely replace Business

Warehouse (BW)? • How will open-source software like Hadoop, Spark,

MongoDB and others affect the future of data warehousing?

• How to create and document logical data integration strategies

• In-memory vs. relational vs. OLAP – where are we heading?

• Building and managing your EDW and ADM layers successfully

• Gaining clarity regarding SAP’s Roadmap for planning • Working from different data warehouses – should you

invest in different toolsets? • Moving from a centralised data warehouse to a logical

data warehouse

BI Technologies

• Visualisation – what to consider when moving from your dashboard to new solutions

• The effect of open-source technology – how do you choose the right tool for your business?

• Acquiring new tools vs. working with what you have when designing your mobility plan

• What to use for your mobile strategy? UI5 and Fiori vs. Traditional BI Tools

• Aligning your tools with both your BI strategy and your business strategy

• Looking at Lumira - how has this implementation benefitted local customers?

• Justifying the costs of new technology and getting business buy-in

• Understanding where mobile solutions should fall into your strategy

• Where does desktop functionality fit into a world that’s increasingly moving towards mobile?

• How to navigate security issues - how to include governance in your device management plan

• Android, Apple and Windows – dealing with the diversity of operating systems for mobile

Big Data & The Internet of Things

• Do you really need Big Data? • Technology readiness – how easy is it to integrate Big

Data into your current IT environment? • Quantifying the impact of real-time information on your

infrastructure investments • Preparing for a new era of analytics• Short term benefits that advanced analytics can bring

to your business• You’ve identified the perfect business case – now

what? • Choosing the best implementation option for your

organisation • Proving the value of the platform to sell to top

management – rapid prototyping • Creating an environment where data is relational • Contextualising your data to make it easier to use

Data Quality & Integration

• The tangible impact data quality has on a business• Looking at practical options for organisations who are

still battling with data quality • Using SAP Data Services to load data into SAP BW • Shaping your data to be business relevant• Privacy issues, POPI and GRC – do you need a legal

team? • Proven methods for managing 3rd party data • Consolidating many sources of data • Updates on the integration capabilities of different SAP

solutions • Best practices for enterprise-wide data management,

governance and integrity • Creating data definitions including roles, processes

and systems • Finding the root causes of poor data quality

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Opening Keynote: Digital TransformationChris Hallenbeck – Global VP, Database & Technology, SAP (FRA)

Keynote Presentation: Visual Storytelling - the Future of AnalyticsMico Yuk - CEO/Founder, Visual Storytelling Evangelist, BI Brainz (USA) (SAP Mentor Alumni)

The Big Trends in BI Competency CentresTimo Elliot - VP, Global Innovation Evangelist, SAP (FRA)

Evolving BI to Have Your Business Begging for MoreAnna Gurdon – Senior Manager, Enterprise Information Management, CSA Group (CAN)

How to Gather Requirements for Effective Dashboard DesignMico Yuk - CEO/Founder, Visual Storytelling Evangelist, BI Brainz (USA) (SAP Mentor Alumni)

Do More with Less: How MolsonCoors Enables the Business for Self-Serve BIAlexandre Papagiannidis Rivet - BI Business Partner, MolsonCoors Brewing Company (CAN) (SAP Mentor)

Innovate with Data: Driving Creativity in Business by Empowering Users with DataSaurabh Abhyankar - Senior Director of Product Management, SAP (FRA)

Challenging and Evolving the Traditional Mindset and Skills to Deliver Effectively on HANA and CloudAnna Gurdon – Senior Manager, Enterprise Information Management, CSA Group (CAN)

Stack More Beer in the Fridge: How MolsonCoors Brewing Co. Increased Its Productivity Using WebI Mobile BIAlexandre Papagiannidis Rivet - BI Business Partner, MolsonCoors Brewing Company (CAN) (SAP Mentor) Making The Internet of Things for

Business RealTimo Elliot - VP, Global Innovation Evangelist, SAP (FRA)

Guest Keynote Presentation: What Africa Can Teach You About Innovation That Business School Can’t Toby Shapshak – Globally Acclaimed Technologist and TED Talk Speaker

Closing Panel Discussion: Ask the Experts

A Good BI Strategy – the Cornerstone of Delivering Business Value Through AnalyticsMaritza Curry - ITS Business Intelligence Manager, Woolworths Holdings Limited

Rise of the Machines – an Introduction to Automated Predictive AnalyticsPaul Vermaak – Senior Solution Specialist: Predictive Analytics & Business Intelligence, SAP (Pty) Ltd

Keeping Up With the Times: The Importance of Understanding Analytics in a Telecoms EnvironmentZjaen Coetzee - Team Lead: SAP BO/GIS/EDW, Telkom SA SOC Ltd

HANA Remediation... Preventing Messing Up Faster!Mark Marais - GTO BI Solution Owner, SAB Miller plc

People Analytics as a Catalyst for Talent ManagementAmpie Swanepoel - Head: Reporting & Analytics, Group Human Capital, Standard Bank (Pty) Ltd

Reports Won’t Fix Your Business – Only Insight WillChristo Viljoen - Executive: Strategy Research and Business Intelligence, JDG Trading (Pty) Ltd

BI Tools Meet Strategy Shital Naik - Business Intelligence Analyst & Hedri Fourie - Business Intelligence Custodian, Rand Merchant Bank Holdings

Successfully Surf the Rising Data TideMarc Simonis – Pre-Sales Consultant, BackOffice Associates

SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 in a Digital World: Taking Your Company into the Digital EconomyPaul Morgan - Director & Nick Bell – CEO, Decision Inc.

Putting Energy Back into AnalyticsPhillip Janse van Rensburg – Design/Build Specialist, Sasol & Michael Bell – SAP HANA Lead, Deloitte Consulting

Expert Recommendations for Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Solution for Your Reporting and Dashboarding NeedsIngo Hilgefort - VP Product Management, Visual BI (CAN) (SAP Mentor)

Is Business Analytics a Success Factor for an Organisation? Brian Wamwenje – IT Manager, Savannah Cement (KEN)

Predictive Analytics – the Move from Opinion to Knowing Charl du Buisson – Manager of Analytics, Britehouse Operational Business Analytics – the

Missing Link for Strategy ExecutionJacques Adriaansen – Director, Every Angle Academy & Johan Von Benecke – Group Executive: Planning and Inventory, JDG Trading (Pty) Ltd

Everything About Everywhere – How AfriGIS Provides Easy Access to Location Information and AnalyticsMagnus Rademeyer – Managing Director, AfriGIS

Optimisation of BW / BPC EnvironmentsDomingo Banuelos - Technology Consulting Senior Manager, Accenture plc

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Opening Keynote: Enabling Digital Business in an Age of Disruption Timo Elliot - VP, Global Innovation Evangelist, SAP (FRA)

Workshop 1: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 with SAP BW on SAP HANAIngo Hilgefort - VP Product Management, Visual BI (CAN) (SAP Mentor)

Workshop 2: The Future of Analytics: Using Visual Storyboards to ‘Make Your Data Speak’ Mico Yuk - CEO/Founder, Visual Storytelling Evangelist, BI Brainz (USA) (SAP Mentor Alumni)

Keynote Presentation: Simple and Powerful – the SAP Strategy to Bring BI to Everyone in Your OrganisationSaurabh Abhyankar - Senior Director of Product Management, SAP (FRA)

8:00 AM Groupelephant.com Breakfast Session – ERP: Technology Development in the Fight Against Poaching David Allen - Associate Manager: ERP Technical Services, EPI-USE Africa & Professor Wouter van Hoven – Director, EcoLife


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Hot Topics

We will be co-locating two vibrant communities - Mastering Business Analytics with SAP and Mastering SAP Technologies. It will provide all delegates, partners, thought leaders and experts an even greater opportunity to come together to share knowledge, experience and innovation. This means that you will have access to all the Mastering SAP Technologies sessions, speakers and content. Check out the alongside technologies Hot Topics and view all the details on www.masteringsap.co.za/tech_sa 14 — 16 March 2016, Hyatt Regency, Johannesburg

SAP TechnologiesMastering

SAP Mobility

Integration, Process Orchestration & Workflow

SAP HANA & S/4HANA

Skills, Training & Change Management

Cloud

SAP Solution Manager

Enhancing the User Experience

Strategic Thinking around SAP Technologies

Migrations, Upgrades & Enhancements

Master Data Management

Internet of Things


Our conference is giving you direct access to some of the hottest key influencers in the world of Business Analytics, as they share their in-depth experience of technology, business and innovation.

Listen to and connect with them to be inspired and encouraged by their fresh thinking, straight-talking, ideas and insights.

Chris Hallenbeck Global VP, Database & Technology

SAP (FRA)

Digital Transformation

Entire industries are being upended everyday through disintermediation enabled through new technologies. Historically stable segments such as utilities, soft lines, and transportation are facing massive upheaval. The question is becoming not if, but when every industry will be touched.

This evolution is referred to as Digital Transformation, but what does it really mean and how can companies understand how it applies to them? Come and hear how you can prepare to defend your company’s position or even be in a place to be a disruptor.

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Mico Yuk CEO/Founder, Visual Storytelling Evangelist

BI Brainz (USA)

(SAP Mentor Alumni)

Visual Storytelling: The Future of Analytics

We constantly get calls from C-level executives who have endless data and great algorithms. They are not just seeking pretty dashboards, but they want their KPIs to tell a story that any user can understand and take action on.

We extended our BI Dashboard Formula methodology to include learning how to build a four part visual storyboard and then convert this into a data visualisation.

Understand the power of data visualisation and how it can be used to close the communication gap between business, IT and data scientists.

Saurabh Abhyankar

Senior Director, Product Management

SAP (FRA)

Simple and Powerful – the SAP Strategy to Bring BI to Everyone

Successful businesses are using analytics to innovate and differentiate in their business.

However, business users expect agile and simple tools to work with data, while IT needs sophisticated capabilities to deliver trusted BI to all users. As part of our mission to Run Simple, SAP has been simplifying the BI portfolio to focus on the core needs of business users and IT.

The SAP BI strategy is to bridge IT and business users to deliver simple, yet powerful BI to everyone.


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Timo Elliot VP, Global Innovation Evangelist

SAP (FRA)

Enabling Digital Business in an Age of Disruption

In a digital economy, speed and agility matters more than ever. While standardisation remains a key pillar for success, simplification and business innovation need to be added to the technology agenda.

This session explains how SAP has evolved to meet your simplification and digital needs. Using real-world examples, we’ll look at how organisations like yours, are taking on the challenges of Big Data, the Internet of Things, Cloud and Mobility to provide new experiences for both customers and internal stakeholders.

Toby Shapshak

Globally Acclaimed Technologist and TED Talk

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What Africa Can Teach You About Innovation That Business School Can’t

Because it has so many problems, Africa’s unique problem-solving capabilities means when it solves these problems for itself, it solves them for the rest of the world. From energy and electricity, to mobile money and micro-finance, Africa is leading numerous fields in which more developed countries are playing catch up.

Africa is a mobile-only continent, producing stand-out innovations; as our collective economies are booming. The answers to many of the world’s problems are being solved in Africa. This talk explores what they are and what the innovative thinking is behind them and how to apply them to your company.


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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) 4.1 is the latest suite release from SAP and offers a broad set of BI tools to choose from. Each tool has its own special focus in the area of reporting and analytics. This full-day, hands-on seminar is a series of activities focused on SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 products in combination with SAP BW and SAP BW on HANA.

The session will provide you with hands-on experience for the following products:

• SAPBusinessObjectsWebIntelligence• SAPBusinessObjectsAnalysis,editionforMicrosoftOffice• SAPBusinessObjectsDesignStudio• SAPLumiraDesktop,SAPLumiraCloudandSAPLumiraServer• SAPPredictiveAnalysis

This non-technical, hands-on workshop will provide attendees with the tools needed to make their analytics more intelligent and useful! This fast paced workshop will take you all the way through the fundamentals of visual storyboarding directly into real world applications. You will be provided with a challenging use case and taught how to work step by step to build a simple visual storyboard to tell your data story using proved templates and techniques.

You should expect to leave with a clear understanding of how to:

• TellaclearVisualStory• Eliminate‘useless’KPIsandmetrics• Create‘Actionable’KPIs• RelatetoRealWorldUseCases

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1with SAP BW on SAP HANA

Ingo Hilgefort VP Product

Management Visual BI

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Mico Yuk CEO/Founder, Visual Storytelling Evangelist BI Brainz (USA)

(SAP Mentor Alumni)

workshop 1 workshop 2The Future of Analytics:Using Visual Storyboards to ‘Make Your Data Speak’

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Please note: This is a hands-on workshop. Places are limited and participants are required to bring their own laptops.

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A diverse mix of SAP customers, partners and thought leaders. With authentic stories that will challenge the status quo, all speakers were carefully chosen by the Conference Advisory Committee for their proven best practices to the challenges, opportunities and investment plans around which this conference has been created.

The Big Trends in BI Competency Centres Timo ElliotVP, Global Innovation Evangelist, SAP (FRA)The notion of a BI competency centre has been around for a long time, but new trends in business intelligence such as data discovery and Big Data mean it’s time for a rethink. Drawing on real-life examples from around the globe, this session takes a look at how organisations around the world are adapting their analytics organisations to new business demands.

A Good BI Strategy – the Cornerstone of Delivering Business Value Through AnalyticsMaritza Curry ITS Business Intelligence Manager, Woolworths Holdings LimitedDespite increased investment in BI, a whopping 30-90% of BI projects fail. With no ROI, the already shaky reputation of the BI Industry further deteriorates. Over many years and through many learning curves, I have identified the critical success factors and evolved the methodology used to formulate a successful BI strategy which aligns with the overall business strategy.

Evolving BI to Have Your Business Begging for MoreAnna GurdonSenior Manager - Enterprise Information Management, CSA Group (CAN)The demand for the right analytics to assist in making the right decisions has been a growing trend for many businesses. This interactive session will discuss CSA’s recent re-implementation of BI targeting standardisation and visualisation. We will also evaluate the benefits of standardising reporting and re-engineering your current BI/BW strategy to make a lasting impression.

Successfully Surf the Rising Data TideMarc Simonis Pre-Sales Consultant, BackOffice AssociatesAs interest and investment in Big Data and the Internet of Things grows so will the volumes and types of data your business will need to store and analyse. Given that most organisations already struggle to achieve and maintain high quality data, now is the time to get a handle on things before the rising ‘data tide’ engulfs.

How to Gather Requirements for Effective Dashboard DesignMico YukCEO/Founder, Visual Storytelling Evangelist, BI Brainz (USA) (SAP Mentor Alumni)Customers contact us with dashboards that were created internally that are not only over-designed, but contains too much data! After working on hundreds of these projects we realised the main issue was not the design, but the wrong data. We dug a step further and saw that there was no formal methodology being taught on how to gather requirements.

Innovate With Data: Driving Creativity in Business by Empowering Users with DataSaurabh AbhyankarSenior Director of Product Management, SAP (FRA) Sensors, real-time data and data curiosity are driving a new area in analytics that promises to impact every aspect of our lives. How then are business users best empowered to seize these new opportunities? New agile visualisation and cloud analytics solutions from SAP empower business users to use data to be more creative and innovative in their business.

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Stack More Beer in the Fridge: How MolsonCoors Brewing Co. Increased Its Productivity Using WebI Mobile BI.Alexandre Papagiannidis RivetBI Business Partner, MolsonCoors Brewing Company (CAN) (SAP Mentor)To drive better results with repeated success, MolsonCoors made SAP BuinessObjects WebI and the SAP Mobile BI app their tools of choice! Discover how Mobility has revolutionised IT and the ways over 1,800 users across the globe work.Find out how adding Mobility to the tool mix has revealed the need for a new skill set in IT, while maintaining a sustainable organisation to keep relevance at the forefront for both users and quickly evolving markets.

Is Business Analytics a Success Factor for an Organisation?Brian WamwenjeIT Manager, Savannah Cement (KEN)Business Analytics is undergoing massive, disruptive changes. Exponential growth in data is a key driver of this change. In addition, the mainstream adoption of cloud computing continues to put pressure on the capabilities of business to incorporate all relevant data from multiple sources to enable users to make more timely, comprehensive, insightful business decisions. What does this mean for your business?

Paul Morgan Director, Decision Inc.

Nick BellCEO, Decision Inc.

Expert Recommendations for Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Solution for Your Reporting and Dashboarding NeedsIngo Hilgefort VP Product Management, Visual BI (CAN) (SAP Mentor)Examine each of the solutions available in the SAP BOBJ BI 4.x portfolio and evaluate their capabilities and suitability to meet specific reporting requirements. Understand why some solutions aren’t appropriate for certain reporting and analytic scenarios. Learn an approach you can leverage for your own business requirements.

Keeping Up With the Times: The Importance of Understanding Analytics in a Telecoms EnvironmentZjaen Coetzee Team Lead: SAP BO/GIS/EDW, Telkom SA SOC LtdAnalytics has been a buzzword for the past few years and just as the Big Data craze it seems that everyone is talking about it but there are few companies out there that are mature enough to drive this initiative. Customer analytics in Telkom has been around for some time and we have gone through numerous transitions.

SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 in a Digital World: Taking Your Company into the Digital Economy

Companies are now more capable than ever before to take their business into the digital world. Thinking in the digital economy represents a new set of opportunities and a new set of management approaches at the intersection of traditional analytics, Big Data and digital delivery platforms. Organisations that use the latest major release of SAP BusinessObjects can derive new business models and revenue sources.

Putting Energy Back into Analytics

The implementation of a new HANA Analytics platform is in itself a challenge, but doing so in conjunction with an organisation restructure and new ECC system was just totally crazy. But this is the story of how we did it.

Reports Won’t Fix Your Business – Only Insight WillChristo ViljoenExecutive: Strategy Research & Business Intelligence, JDG Trading (Pty) LtdPreviously, leadership believed that IT is the main driver for business. With major changes in the company the new leadership drives the idea that IT is an enabler to automate optimised business processes. We restructured the BI team through strategic research, amongst other things employing CA’s in the BI demand department and acquired a game-changing EA tool.

Predictive Analytics – the Move from Opinion to KnowingCharl du BuissonManager of Analytics, BritehouseAdvanced analytics being the new buzz around business has an unfortunate mystique of supreme complexity associated with it. We all know the benefits that it will bring to business in general and decision making specifically but fear that the process will have to involve highly qualified PhD types with degrees in subjects like Statistics, Computational Mathematics and Machine Learning.

Making The Internet of Things for Business RealTimo ElliotVP, Global Innovation Evangelist, SAP (FRA)More than 50 billion things will be connected by year 2020. The Internet of Things will revolutionise enterprises across all industries. Is your business ready to benefit from this ground-breaking revolution? Learn how today’s analytic infrastructures are starting to provide the foundation for the business models of the future. We’ll look at real-world examples of how organisations are using IoT and Big Data analytics to improve existing business processes; create innovative new information-based products and services; and introduce new industry-transforming revenue models.

Everything About Everywhere – How AfriGIS Provides Easy Access to Location Information and AnalyticsMagnus RademeyerManaging Director, AfriGISCapturing clean customer address data is a daunting challenge to any organisation, be it for communication, risk or regulatory purposes. AfriGIS provides a solution to this challenge with its IntiendoLS (Location Services) product. The product provides a fast and simple interface, accessible as a stand-alone or from within your SAP environment. Addresses can be validated, corrected and geocoded at the point of capture or later as a bulk process.

Phillip Janse van RensburgDesign/Build Specialist, Sasol

Michael Bell SAP HANA Lead, Deloitte Consulting

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Rise of the Machines – an Introduction to Automated Predictive AnalyticsPaul VermaakSenior Solution Specialist: Predictive Analytics & Business Intelligence, SAP (Pty) LtdMany organisations realise that Predictive Analytics has the potential to unlock enormous value in all parts of their business, but don’t know where to start or how to approach it. This session is going to provide an introduction into the world of automated predictive analytics and will provide some insight into the best ways to get started.

People Analytics as a Catalyst for Talent ManagementAmpie SwanepoelHead: Reporting and Analytics, Group Human Capital, Standard Bank (Pty) LtdManaging people in a large organisation without good information makes it difficult to know if your human capital decisions are paying off. The People Analytics Project in Standard Bank started three years ago with the goal to enable better people decision making through establishing a Business Intelligence Competence Centre within the Group Human Capital enablement function.

Challenging and Evolving the Traditional Mindset and Skills to Deliver Effectively on HANA and CloudAnna GurdonSenior Manager - Enterprise Information Management , CSA Group (CAN)The introduction of HANA and Cloud offers businesses an innovative way to analyse complex data in real time. The benefits of HANA and Cloud are promising, however, with the implementation of this new technology comes a shift in the traditional IT skill set. This interactive session will discuss how to manage and deal with this change, as well as lessons learnt from CSA Group’s recent HANA and Cloud implementation.

Do More with Less: How MolsonCoors Enables the Business for Self-Serve BIAlexandre Papagiannidis RivetBI Business Partner, MolsonCoors Brewing Company (CAN) (SAP Mentor)Low Engagement scores and increasing pressure to deliver BI solutions at a lower cost forced MolsonCoors into a business transformation to allow for better efficiencies and quicker response time to business opportunities. Learn how MolsonCoors is structuring its data, infrastructure and SAP BI tools to enable self-service BI Tools for the business.

Optimisation of BW / BPC EnvironmentsDomingo BanuelosTechnology Consulting Senior Manager, Accenture plcOnce implemented, BW and BPC systems tend to grow in size, number of objects, duration of loads, database size and report runtime. Through correct housekeeping and redesign optimisation, these parameters can be controlled. Join Domingo as he describes lessons learnt in this area from his experience gleaned from local and international clients.

Jacques AdriaansenDirector, Every Angle Academy

Johan Von BeneckeGroup Executive: Planning and Inventory, JDG Trading (Pty) Ltd

Operational Business Analytics – The Missing Link for Strategy Execution

Many businesses are struggling to close the gap between strategy definition and measurement, and strategy execution. Successfully closing this gap enables closed loop performance management - allowing operations to actually execute the company’s strategy. We enabled JD Group to use a business process oriented operational BA application that delivers answers to your questions instead of data – without the help of the IT department.


Groupelephant.com Breakfast Session: ERP: Technology Deployment in the Fight Against Poaching

Africa is losing around four elephants per hour and five rhinos per day to poaching. There are a myriad reasons for the exponential risk in poaching in the past 10 years, not least of which are increasing levels of poverty and international demand for rhino horn and ivory. The deployment of technology, including drones, data analytics and various biological interventions is having a positive impact on poaching.

David AllenAssociate manager: ERP Technical Services, EPI-USE Africa

Prof Wouter van HovenDirector, EcoLife

BI Tools Meet Strategy

Selecting and aligning the fit-for-purpose Business Intelligence tools to establish the intelligence that will empower a connected business with optimal insights for strategic decision-making, thereby ensuring user adoption and buy-in.

Shital NaikBusiness Intelligence Analyst, Rand Merchant Bank Holdings

Hedri FourieBusiness Intelligence Custodian, Rand Merchant Bank Holdings

HANA Remediation...Preventing Messing Up Faster!Mark Marais GTO BI Solution Owner, SAB Miller plcThe move from BW 7.1 to HANA was not taken lightly. A complete redesign was undertaken to mitigate the issues of the past while considering the future and the limitation in terms of the stage of the SAP HANA roadmap. The envelopes around the HANA solution to cater for a 24/7 Global Template has to be designed for, both internal and external to the BW system itself.


The hub of the Mastering Business Analytics with SAP conference experience is the solutions showcase. Here one can engage with leading technology and service providers who are serious about helping you make the smartest business and IT investments for your organisation.

Know your business and act with confidence. Our business analytics solutions give you real-time access to relevant information - processing vast amounts of data instantly so that you have the facts you need for informed decisions. Use business analytics to get the precise information you need anytime and anywhere, even from your mobile device. Respond to events as they unfold. Plan for success, knowing that you’re able to adapt to constant change. And take advantage of SAP’s guidance, best practices and tools that support continuous improvement.

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28 14 - 16 March 2016

The challenge that companies face

is knowing how to capitalise on this data to uncover

new opportunities - from new revenue

streams, new markets and product

innovations.

BackOffice Associates is a worldwide leader in information governance and data migration solutions. As a SAP Premier Consulting and Solution Extension partner, we help enterprises manage their data assets and accelerate growth, gain actionable visibility and reduce risks. Founded in 1996, we have an unparalleled track record of success in the most complex data environments across a variety of industries. We are a global corporation and are proud to include Dimension Data and SAB Miller as customers.

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Workshop Registration Fees The workshops are optional and separately bookable and you may attend only one. Preference will be given to conference attendees. R5 950 (excl. VAT)/participant

Workshop 1: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 with SAP BW on SAP HANA Workshop 2: The Future of Analytics: Using Visual Storyboards to

‘MakeYourDataSpeak’

01. Conference Registration FeesIncludes access to all content, participant contact list, entry into conference and exhibition, lunches, refreshments and networking drinks. Team bookings are encouraged to accelerate the spread of knowledge across your organisation.

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