Computer Business Review magazine and the CBRonline.com web site provide the most targeted offline and online platforms to reach Europe’s business technology elite. Computer Business Review magazine was launched in 1993 with the aim of bridging the gap between the traditional technical IT press and the business press sectors. Computer Business Review is now widely regarded throughout Europe as The Economist of the IT industry.
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Latest News:
SAP.info becomes latest Conference media partner May 16, 2012
User Group highlights the need for a more flexible approach towards software licensing May 1, 2012
SearchSAP sign up as media partner for 2012 User Group Conference March 28, 2012
First User Conference media partners announced March 26, 2012
Ray Wang to keynote 2012 User Group Conference March 23, 2012
The Times highlights User Conference’s use of the latest delegate tech March 1, 2012
In memory computing – it’s now practical and it’s here to stay February 13, 2012
Birmingham City University to exhibit at the User Conference November 17, 2011
User Group Conference app now also available on Android & BlackBerry devices November 10, 2011
User Group Conference mobile app available for download November 4, 2011
UK & Ireland SAP User Group announces merger with BusinessObjects User Group UK October 26, 2011
1 week to go to save 30% on your delegate pass July 22, 2011
Exhibitors
This page is building all of the time. As exhibitors sign up to the event you will be able to see who will be there, who you can network with and who you can seek advice from whilst you are at the Conference.
If you are interested in exhibiting, please download Exhibition Packages document here
Alternatively you cantact jayne.coxon@sapusers.org for more details.
Media Partners

ComputerworldUK focuses on IT management and covers news from the IT manager’s perspective with a broad analytical view of how that news affects the daily operations of large technology enterprises. Computerworld is the world’s most successful media brand for IT managers and today there are 57 editions of Computerworld around the globe serving a combined audience of over 14 million IT professionals.

SearchSAP.com is the SAP community’s online resource for unbiased, SAP-related breaking news, expert tutorials, technical tips, learning guides and SAP certification guidance. By subscribing to our e-newsletters, SAP professionals can stay up to date on topics such as Basis admin, NetWeaver development tools (from XI to ABAP), SAP application modules including HR, SCM, PLM and Financials. SearchSAP.com has all the tools SAP users need to ensure long term SAP ROI.
Gold Exhibitors

Lemongrass Consulting Ltd is a leading independent SAP Technology Partner. We specialise in SAP Mobility (7+years / 30 + customers), SAP Security, GRC and IdM (Identity Management). Our team of experienced SAP Technical Architects provide services including: Architecture Reviews; Streamlining your SAP operations; Basis support; Project and Service Delivery Management.
Visit the website: www.lemongrassconsulting.com

E-Mail: ukinfo@column5.com
Telephone: +44(0)207 183 0760
Column5 is an Enterprise Performance Management consulting firm. We bring tangible benefits to large enterprises and SMEs by delivering practical and systematic improvements in strategy management, sales and operations planning, and more traditionally finance focussed processes of profitability and cost management, planning, forecasting and reporting.

Contact Name: Tania Hiskett
E-Mail: Tania.hiskett@bluefinsolutions.com
Telephone: +44 (0)7872 502750
Bluefin Solutions is a dynamic, global technology consultancy, working with clients to achieve greater business performance by optimising SAP technology. The ‘Business performance with SAP’ strategy underpins our consulting, technology and outsourcing expertise, to create sustainable value for clients. Bluefin continuously identifies business and technology trends worldwide and works closely with customers to understand their business challenges and objectives and develop relevant, up-to-date solutions.

E-Mail: sales@intelligencegroup.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)141 204 0666
iTelligence is a full-service provider, offering SAP licensing, maintenance, consulting, support and training services to more than 100 renowned companies in the UK, including Betterware, Edrington Group, Clyde Pumps, Ryanair, RBS, and Markit. itelligence acquired Chelford in 2010 to become the predominant SAP Partner and make the most of your SAP Solution.

E-Mail: sales-europe@winshuttle.com
Telephone: +44(0)208 704 4170
Winshuttle is the ERP Usability Company, providing software products that enable business users to work with SAP directly from Excel, Web forms and other interfaces without any programming. Our usability solutions radically accelerate SAP user transactions, saving and redirecting millions of pounds for SAP’s customers every day.
Silver Exhibitors

Experian QAS provides software, data and services to help you get, keep and use your customer contact details effectively. Created in 1990, Experian QAS is now a leading supplier of address management solutions, helping you to mitigate the risks of inaccurate data. We can help you to find, record, clean and enhance address data.

Contact Name: David Lloyd
E-Mail: David.lloyd@greymonarch.com
Telephone: +44 (0)7900 003 690
Grey Monarch are specialists in SAP Process Automation:
• SAP Background Process Automation and Optimization, including SAP Central Process Scheduling.
• SAP Security Continuous Monitoring and Controls with ProfileTailor™ Dynamics.
• Managed Secure File Transfer for SAP.
• PinPoint™: Automated SAP BASIS Daily Healthcheck Reporting.
• SAP Licence Management and Optimization with ProfileTailor™ LicenceAuditor.

Contact Name: Justine Hall
E-Mail: office@hanseorga.com
Telephone: +31 (0)76 578 05 00
Hanse Orga is a leading provider of standardised software for FSCM processing within SAP. Our products are certified by SAP, officially confirming the high level of integration and quality of Hanse Orga solutions. The strategy to develop enhanced SAP functionality, programmed in ABAP, is unique in the world.

Assima (Euronext ALSIM), a fast-growing international software company, develops and commercializes software infrastructure solutions for Global Fortune 500 companies helping them improve their agility by accelerating global deployment and increasing adoption of large and strategic information systems.

Contact Name: Simon Griffiths
E-Mail: info@pikon.com
Telephone: +44 (0)1332 638 070
PIKON UK Ltd. supports its customers in the process-oriented introduction of SAP ERP systems, the design and implementation of SAP Business Intelligence solutions as well as in the integration of various ERP systems using SAP NetWeaver. Our client-focused delivery ensures that all of our customers are fully supported every step of the way.

Contact Name: Olivier Simonet
E-Mail: osimonet@tjc-group.com
Telephone: +33 172 920 540
TJC is a consulting and publishing company in SAP niche subjects such as Data, Document and Fiscal Archiving and also implementing SAP QM and EHS.
We provide SAP certified software solutions for SAP data archiving automation, SAP DART automation, and SAP audit preparation (Data extracts). Those solution are available through a network of partner in 17 countries.

Contact Name: Sumeet Raval
E-Mail: Sraval@symtrax.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)207 533 6606
Compleo Suite is a SAP Certified Output Management Solution that improves business efficiency and productivity by leveraging Standard Outputs from your SAP Production System. The Compleo for SAP BC-XOM Connector provides routing, printing and delivering for all production documents facilitating flexible and adaptive output document management. All from an easy-to-use GUI without using ABAP!

E-Mail: info@esker.co.uk
Telephone: +44(0)1332 548 181
Esker helps organisations eliminate paper and improve business processes by integrating on-premise and on-demand document automation with SAP. Higher efficiency in sales order processing, invoicing, accounts payable and purchasing help shorten order-to-cash and procure-to-pay cycles. Esker solutions address the challenges of manual document processing into and out of SAP that limit an organisation’s ability to maximise performance

Contact Name: Nick Parkin
E-Mail: Nick.parkin@proceedarchiving.com
Telephone: +44 (0)1462 688310
Specialists in SAP Data Management
PAS provides services and develops solutions for SAP data and document archiving. We focus on the implementation of individually designed archiving and ILM projects that best suit our customers

Revelation Software Concepts (RSC) specialises in developing solutions to reduce risks associated with delivering SAP system changes. RSC’s SAP Change Control Technology Rev-Trac fully automates and enforces a complete range of change request activities and processes including those specific to SAP complex system landscapes, multi-stack technology and multiple solution landscapes.

E-Mail: info@absoft.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1224 707088
Absoft is one of the UK’s leading independent full-service SAP consultancies; providing strategic consultancy, implementations, process improvements, licensing, training and support . We have an exclusive focus on SAP. This year, we are proud to be celebrating 20 years’ of delivering business solutions of enduring value to our customers through the application of technical expertise, best practice and innovation.
Bronze Exhibitors

SAP Gold Partner | Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing specialists – Focussed on scoping, designing and delivering reporting solutions aligned to customers’ unique requirements through a collaborative approach to project success. Our @visualintegrator, advanced Data Warehousing integration toolkit, and templated BusinessObjects solutions streamline delivering reporting applications from SAP ERP & BW data.

Redwood software powers the processes that power your business. From sophisticated enterprise process management to IT process automation; we provide a full range of automation solutions that give your business what it needs to be smarter, faster and more cost effective – From Period-End-Close & account reconciliation, to meter-to-cash and more.

A friendly, easy to work with UK Company, that is passionate about business intelligence and knows how to leverage real business benefits with the help of your data.

Gb and Smith is a Software company providing add-ons for SAP BusinessObjects.
GBS provides powerful web solutions allowing you to optimize BO projects around: Security, backup, impact analysis, scheduling, bursting, metadata and license compliance.
200+ customers operating in 20 countries are using our 360suite to keep their BO deployments under control. Our suite is available for any BOE XI version including BI4.

Edenhouse is an award winning SAP consultancy with a core focus on providing UK-based expertise. We are known as the SAP Support experts and also for delivering cutting-edge projects using the latest technology from SAP. Come and talk to us and see how Edenhouse can make a difference to your business.

Contact Name: Richard Taylor
E-Mail: Richard.taylor@birchmangroup.com
Telephone: +44 (0)208 754 7574
Birchman provides pragmatic and flexible SAP services that deliver value for money; including end-to-end SAP Managed Services, Projects and Licenses.
Birchman has a strong SAP heritage through the acquisition of Plaut Consulting in the UK and Spain, and has grown rapidly since 2003 to a team of 750+ consultants across 9 countries.
Featured Content

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.

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.

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

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

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.












