Higher Education & Research

This year in 2019 we want to bring more community back to HERSIG.

As such, we want to develop the following:

• A shared understanding of how the Higher Education community is using SAP’s tools.
• A shared understanding of what SAP’s tools can do for the Higher Education community.
• A shared understanding of how Higher Education organisations have organised themselves to face the challenges, and reap the benefits of using SAP’s tools.
• A self-help network for supporting each other’s current challenges and aspirations to do more regarding all of the above.

So how do we do this?

• The Model University:
  • A description of how a “University” could sensibly maximise their use of SAP’s tools and how they relate to the various business activities of a “University”
  • A framework to compare your institution’s use of SAP’s tools vs the model, and understand the gaps
  • A definition of the gaps in SAP’s toolset, actual or practical
• Information Sharing:
  • Who is using what SAP tools, along with how, why and lessons learned
  • What our business processes look like and how they interact with SAP
  • Specific issues, concerns or queries
  • Tender approaches, specification documents
  • Conduit for site visits
  • Success and best practise sharing
  • Agenda setting for HERSIG
• The HERSIG Support Network:
  • A contacts network with relevant areas of expertise
  • A self-help forum
  • A reality check in the face of sales people

What we are not:

• A replacement for the other SIGs.
  • For the general payroll, FICO, SuccessFactors, S/4, C/4, etc info there are dedicated SIG’s that can give you all the info you need.
  • Where HERSIG comes in is doing these things in HE
• A place to share institutionally confidential information.
  • We want to share, but it will be up to you to know where to draw the line
• A place to share your institutions protected personal information (GDPR)