Welcome to your October News

Christian has been a key exec sponsor of SUGEN’s ‘Ease of doing business’ and ‘Licensing’ charters, and he has always made time to listen to product feedback and understand how SAP could work better with customers.We look forward to hearing Christian and Jennifer’s vision for SAP as the 2025 maintenance deadline for ECC6 fast approaches."

I am sure over the coming weeks and months we will start to hear more about the journey that Christian Klein and Jennifer Morgan will be taking with SAP, from a User Group perspective we are here to help influence what happens on your behalf so please do keep in touch or take part in some of the influencing activities that we support.

 

This years conference is only five weeks away, last week the User Group Board took some time to review the preparations for this years event and look at the early plans for 2020! From what I saw we have a great conference planned for you. From the partner community we have long term supporters of the event and some new faces, there are some great presentations planned by members and partners and of course the plans for SUGFest look amazing! We have made some additions to the programme this year to support networking and knowledge sharing with round table discussions and a Soap Box on our exhibition stand. If you are looking to attend please visit the Connect website for more detail and remember to talk to your SAP partners/suppliers as many of them are able to offer you a discount on the rate to attend.

 

Paul Cooper

Chairman
UK & Ireland SAP User Group

Google Cloud invites you to join us in London on Thursday, November 21, for day two of Google Cloud Next ’19 UK. You’ll have the opportunity to meet with and learn from the experts behind Google Cloud products, get hands-on with the latest tech and address your most pressing questions about migrating and running SAP on GCP – all helping you to unlock new opportunities for your business.

 

To find out more and to register for this invite-only event, visit g.co/cloudnext/uk and use this one-time-use code: LNG1GSAP45RF71 (valid only for the first 50 registrants).

 

You can also meet us at UKISUG Connect 2019 where we will be showcasing how migrating SAP workloads to Google Cloud can boost your agility and help you to derive intelligence from your data more easily. Plus stay tuned for more information on our upcoming webinar in December with UKISUG that will focus on smart data analytics - The integration of SAP and Google BigQuery. 

 

For more information and news about running SAP on Google Cloud visit our website and follow #SAPonGCP on social media.

We have now announced your full UKISUG Connect 2019 Programme!

UKISUG Connect 2019 is now just over a month away! The event is designed to cover everything you need to know to ensure you get the most out of your SAP systems, both now and in the future.

 

This year, we have packed out your schedule with...

Not to mention your brand new Customer Experience Management stream, Soapbox Sessions and Networking Tables! Don't miss out...

Once again, a massive thank you to all those who entered this year's photography competition! The standard of entries we received was so high and made judging very difficult. We are pleased to announce the top 3 winners were...

 

1st Prize: Deepal Ratnayaka - AG Consultancy & Apps

2nd Prize: Lance Sagar - University of Leeds

3rd Prize: Peter Starr - William Hill

 

Also a huge congratulations to the rest of our winners who have secured a place in our 2020 calendar!

• Andrea Thorne - HMRC
• Steve Rumsby - University of Warwick
• Rhys Roberts - Canal & River Trust
• David Lloyd - Grey Monarch
• Paul McBride - Edrington Distillers
• John Fernie - CGI IT UK Ltd
• Cheryl Millyard - Gloucestershire County Council
• Paul Woodward - Linklaters Business Services Ltd
• Beverly Springer - London Borough of Waltham Forest 

 

You will be able to view all the winning photos in our 2020 calendar which is coming soon!

Thank you to all who completed our 2019 Membership Survey. Congratulations to our winning companies:

 

Finding Your Perfect Partner

Have you had a look at your new Affiliate Portal yet?

 

If you are trying to find a partner for your next SAP project you can now filter through 130 vendors in the SAP marketplace with just a few clicks whilst viewing their star rating and feedback given by your fellow User Group members! You’ll also have all the information you’ll need about that Affiliate to help in your decision including key contacts, news, documentation and case studies.

 

Is one of your partners a User Group Affiliate? Feel free to leave them a review to help your fellow members in their search.

 

We hope you find the Portal useful and if there’s any suggestions you’d like to make to improve the service, feel free to get in touch.

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