This event is kindly being sponsored by Winshuttle.

Mark Hallam from Winshuttle will present to the group Secure and Effective Data Extraction from the SAP ERP System
The ability to easily and securely extract data in real-time from yourtransactional SAP system is critical for many business applications one-time use data extracts, operational business intelligence reports, prototyping a steady-state BI report, etc. This presentation will give a description of the variety of tools (SAP-provided and third-party tools) available for such ad-hoc reporting applications and compare and contrast these tools in terms of their ease-of-use, security, and performance.

Key Learning Points:

1. What are the applications of real-time data extraction from transactional system?
2. How do some of these SAP-provided and third-party tools for data extraction work?
3. How do the different data extraction tools compare to each other?

James Willis from SAP will explain the ERP Financials Update. Look at some of the new functionality available in EhP 4 and examples of how SAP financials could comply with IRS.

Geoff Watts from SAP will present SAP's new Finance Packaged Services. Learn how SAP's is helping its customers deliver Finance benefits with low fixed price, fixed scope, quick implementation packages.

Bring your thoughts, problems or questions for discussion with the group at the Open Forum session.