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With prices starting from an amazing £450 (£427.50 as part of a group booking), Book Today to be part of the UK’s premier event for SAP Users.

Taking place on the 18th to 20th November at Manchester Central, you will be able to benefit from fantastic opportunities to network with and learn from your peers and SAP Experts alike; drive added value from your organisation’s SAP investment; and discover the latest innovations in the SAP world and understand the future. View our Agenda at a Glance for more details.

Why not visit our Flikr stream to view photos from our 2011 Conference, or hear what others have to say about the event from our videos.

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Ray Wang to keynote 2012 User Group Conference

Posted by spark on March 23, 2012 in Tags: Constellation Research, Ray Wang, SAP User Group Conference, UKiSUG12

We are pleased to announce that Ray Wang from Constellation Research will again be a keynote speaker at this year’s User Group Conference. Ray has been one of our most popular speakers over the years, so we are delighted that he will be returning .

R “Ray” Wang is the Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research, Inc. and the author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View”. He previously was a founding partner and research analyst for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group. With viewership in the millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and new business models impact the enterprise.

Stay tuned to find our more about other confirmed speakers for this year’s event.

Collaborating on IT best practice

Posted by spark on March 13, 2012 in Tags: Computer Weekly, SAP, SAP User Group

User Group chairman Alan Bowling discusses on Computer Weekly how IT processes can be better standardised across industry sectors and the benefits of cross-industry collaboration.

To read the full article click here.

SAP.info speak to the UK&I User Group

Posted by spark on March 5, 2012 in Tags: BOUG, Business Objects, SAP, SAP User Group, SAP.info

Recently SAP.info spoke with Alan Bowling and Craig Dale from the UK & Ireland SAP User Group regarding the role of the User Group and its plans for 2012, following the recent merger with the Business Objects User Group UK (BOUG UK).

To read the article in full, please click here

The Times highlights User Conference’s use of the latest delegate tech

Posted by spark on March 1, 2012 in Tags: LinkedIN, RFID, SAP User Group Conference, The Times

Last year’s User Conference saw us use RFID technology for the first time to connect delegates via LinkedIn. The success of the technology see us getting a mention in a special supplement on Business Events in today’s edition of The Times.

To read more click here

In memory computing – it’s now practical and it’s here to stay

Posted by ukisug on February 13, 2012

It’s refreshing to see that SAP is backing the idea of in-memory computing (http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/press.epx?pressid=14907). It’s a simple fact that the amount of data never gets smaller: as a result, as organisations deal with more and more of it, so we all need more and faster ways to actually process and use that data.

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