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1 presents October, Singapore Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Casino The event for organisations using SAP and SuccessFactors solutions to drive HR excellence. SAPinsider #HR2014 A collaboration of SAP and SAPinsider

2 Overview Conference, October 6 comprehensive tracks Track 1 HR strategies Page 6 Track 2 Core HR and system administration Page 8 Track 3 HR Service delivery: ESS, MSS, mobility, and forms Page 10 Track 4 Talent management: SAP and SuccessFactors Page 11 Track 5 Payroll and reporting Page 13 Track 6 HR projects and implementations Page 14 Conference Schedule Monday, 13 October 8.00 Registration 8.00 Welcome Tea 9.00 Opening Address Tea Break Breakout Sessions Lunch Dessert Breakout Sessions Tea Break Breakout Sessions Meet the Exhibitors Ask the Experts Breakout Sessions Welcome Reception Tuesday, 14 October 8.30 Registration 8.30 Morning Tea 9.00 Breakout Sessions Tea Break Breakout Sessions Tea Break Breakout Sessions Lunch Dessert Breakout Sessions Meet the Exhibitors Ask the Experts Breakout Sessions Wednesday, 15 October 8.30 Registration 8.30 Morning Tea 9.00 Breakout Sessions Tea Break Breakout Sessions Tea Break Breakout Sessions Lunch Breakout Sessions Tea Break Breakout Sessions Tea Break Breakout Sessions 2

3 Delegate Profile Singapore Malaysia Philippines Europe Indonesia India ANZ Middle East Other Russian Fed n Ukraine USA 43.72% 9.96% 8.66% 8.23% 7.36% 4.33% 3.90% 3.90% 3.80% 3.46% 1.30% 1.30% Global Distribution Extensive draw from Asia-Pacific, with over 75% from the immediate Western Pacific region. Professional Services Public Sector Oil & Gas Consumer Products Chemicals Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals High Tech & Electronics Other Transportation Agriculture Banking & Finance Real Estate Retail Utilities & Waste Mining HR Professionals 16.6% 16.2% 14.8% 10.9% 8.3% 7.9% 6.1% 4.3% 3.9% 3.5% 1.7% 1.7% 1.7% 1.3% 0.9% Vice Presidents, Directors, and Managers of: Human Resources Human Capital Management HRIS Talent Management Payroll Benefits Compensation Industries A wide range of industries across multiple sectors are represented at SAPinsider conferences. A sample list of Who Should Attend Recruiting Training and Development Information Systems 3

4 Expert-led Sessions Ask the Experts Customer-led Case Studies Expand Your Network Expert-led Sessions Expand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your industry counterparts. HR 2014 offers sessions across many comprehensive topics that will show you how to get the most out of the SAP functionality you already own, as well as assess and evaluate new solutions. Access to 6 Conferences in 1 Location HR 2014 is co-located with Financials 2014, GRC 2014, HANA 2014, Logistics and SCM 2014, and BI By registering for one conference, you can attend sessions at all the other conferences at no additional cost. For more information, call toll free Exhibit Hall Reception Expand Your Network Build a vast network of peers who you can call on for advice at a moment s notice through the opportunities provided at the event. You ll have the chance to swap business cards, exchange information to connect on LinkedIn, and discuss everything you learned that day. Customer-led Case Studies 6 Conferences in 1 Location Take away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics. Ask the Experts Please join us for the Ask the Experts and spend time with top field experts, SAP professionals, mentors, and customers. Learn from their unique real-world experiences and gain specific insight on topics and questions that matter to you most. Exhibit Hall Reception Interact with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. Build a lasting network of peers and meet with leading product and service vendors. 4

5 Spotlight Session HR 2014 Spotlight Session Improving HR core processes by adopting the latest offerings from SAP s HCM Cloud and on-premise solutions Ralf Wagner, Vice President HCM Solutions, SAP SE Monday, 13 October, :45-11:45 This session delves into the latest offerings and planned investments around SAP s HCM Cloud and on-premise solution offerings. By attending, you will: y Get insight into SuccessFactors Employee Central capabilities y Examine how HR Renewal, the new user experience for core SAP ERP HCM on-premise, improves the user experience y Get an overview of new rapid-deployment solutions (RDS) for HR and when it makes sense to leverage them y Understand how the different deployment options helps to transform HR business Come away with an understanding of the strategy and roadmap around SAP s core HCM Cloud and on-premise solutions. 5

6 Track 1 HR strategies A guided tour of the SAP and SuccessFactors integration strategy and roadmap Prashanth Padmanabhan, Senior Director, Solution Management, SAP This session examines the standardised integration path between cloud-based SuccessFactors applications and SAP ERP HCM on-premise solutions. By attending, you will get details on: y Various aspects of integration, including technology, data, process, and user experience y New functionality and capabilities delivered in SAP HANA cloud integration y Tools and techniques SAP recommends to achieve optimal integration between on-premise and cloud-based systems Come away with an understanding of the SAP/ SuccessFactors integration roadmap, including planned investments and delivery timelines. Benchmarking HR: Guidelines for calculating and achieving better ROI from your HR initiatives Ramya Raja Rukmangathan, Senior Associate Consultant, Infosys Limited This session examines various metrics that can be used to estimate return on SAP ERP HCM investments. Drawing on real-world examples, the speaker will illustrate how to: y Calculate the return on investment (ROI) of HR technology investments, including key factors that should be considered like cost, time, relevance, and validity y Define relationships between employee performance and business development y Overcome business challenges associated with measuring HR ROI, including properly identifying costs and expenditures Increase system agility while reducing maintenance costs for on-premise SAP ERP HCM Sven Ringling, Director, iprocon This session examines what an organisation can do to make its on-premise SAP ERP HCM system more agile and fit for faster innovation, whilst reducing maintenance costs and improving communication between HR and IT. Attend this session to: y Explore techniques to make existing HR business processes leaner for easier system maintenance, including upgrade processes y Find out what programming and configuration changes should be avoided more rigorously than others to keep your system agile and low-maintenance y Get strategies for managing organisational as well as technical change, including tips for improving user adoption after a process change Driving business performance through social collaboration in HR Roger Noia, Director of Solution Marketing, SAP Jam Attend this session to understand how to leverage SAP Jam as a social collaboration tool to enhance talent management processes, from onboarding to learning and performance management. You will explore innovative ways to: y Increase HR process efficiency and employee engagement y Reduce training costs through collaborative communities where employees can create content and share expertise y Increase new hire productivity by connecting them with the people and content they require Step through a demo that illustrates best practices for social collaboration in HR and how it can be used to accelerate and improve overall business performance. International trends in workforce planning and analytics Frans Smolders, Vice President, Product Management, SuccessFactors, an SAP company This session looks at evolving global trends surrounding workforce planning and analytics, from the impact of an aging workforce to measuring people performance, and explores how SAP and SuccessFactors technology can be used to support these trends. By attending, you will: y Review case studies for real-world insights into how leading organisations are harnessing the potential of workforce planning and analytics to drive more accurate and timely decisions y Explore the benefits of and get lessons to create a Center of Excellence (CoE) to support workforce planning and analytics y Get an overview of various frameworks you can utilise to understand the interdependencies of activities within a workforce planning and analytics process 6 Track 1 continued on next page

7 Track 1 continued HR Transformation: Options, considerations, and benefits Venki Krishnamoorthy, Solution Architect / Consultant, Talent HRO This session examines leading practices for developing and executing an effective HR Transformation project that drives innovation and helps meet business objectives for performance and growth. By attending, you will identify cost saving opportunities across HR systems, processes, and operations, including lessons to: y Create a sustainable HR Transformation programme that drives continuous improvement, including tips for developing new services and capabilities to meet long-term business requirements y Achieve quick wins with tips to streamline service delivery and improve usability, including an overview of enabling technology from SAP like HR Renewal and Fiori y Identify key areas for HR innovation, including the value of a true multi-tenant SaaS environment, and determine if and when it makes sense to move your HCM applications to the cloud 7

8 Track 2 Core HR and system administration Increase system agility while reducing maintenance costs for on-premise SAP ERP HCM Sven Ringling, Director, iprocon This session examines what an organisation can do to make its on-premise SAP ERP HCM system more agile and fit for faster innovation, whilst reducing maintenance costs and improving communication between HR and IT. Attend this session to: y Explore techniques to make existing HR business processes leaner for easier system maintenance, including upgrade processes y Find out what programming and configuration changes should be avoided more rigorously than others to keep your system agile and low-maintenance y Get strategies for managing organisational as well as technical change, including tips for improving user adoption after a process change Step-by-step instruction for creating organisational charts Danielle Larocca, Vice President, SpinifexIT Learn the best way to configure your organisational structure to produce org charts using OM functionality. Step through detailed examples that show you how to configure supervisor relationships, where to store them, and the maintenance strategies that keep them up to date. Come away from this session with: y Best practices for creating an ABAP programme to download information that is presented in an organisational chart, including tips to design a detailed selection screen y An assessment of the pros and cons of various org chart options y Detailed instructions for leveraging Microsoft Visio to create customised, realtime org charts Take home ABAP code to assist you in producing the output file. Case study How Repsol revamped its org structure to fulfil authorisations requirements Jose Manuel Perez Menendez, Project Manager, Repsol In this session, Repsol shares proven techniques to ensure you are getting the most out of your org structures in all areas of SAP ERP HCM. Hear firsthand how the company: y Leveraged the personnel development (PD) module to develop an agile authorisation system that quickly responds to organisational changes y Streamlined authorisations maintenance and governance using context solutions, including how to customise roles and structural profiles in organisational units, positions, and functions Come away with real-world lessons to design structures that provide a solid foundation for current requirements and use cases, as well as flexibility for future SAP ERP HCM components. An updated guide to SuccessFactors Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll Frans Smolders, Solution Owner Planning and Analytics, Line of Business HR Solutions, SAP This session examines Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll, and provides guidance for leveraging them to drive core HR processes in the cloud. Attend to: y Find out how Employee Central can be used to meet your local and global requirements, and how reporting and compliance are managed y Examine the latest functionality delivered in Employee Central Payroll, including support for more than 20 countries y Look at the integration path between SAP ERP HCM and Employee Central and options for leveraging a hybrid deployment y View a demo of the Employee Central interface for insight into how users interact with the system Key criteria for a successful Employee Central implementation or migration project Martin Ullmann, Business Development & Delivery Cloud Services APJ, EPI-USE Malaysia This session takes a detailed look at Employee Central and provides insight into the differences between a cloud-based and on-premise landscape that must be considered when embarking on an implementation or migration project. By attending, you will: y Get best practices for implementing or migrating to Employee Central, from data mapping to considerations for deploying it in a global environment y Examine the Employee Central Metadata Framework (MDF) and get lessons to properly configure its various components, including generic objects and foundation objects y Obtain techniques for maintaining and making changes to Employee Central configurations using XML and various admin tools Track 2 continued on next page 8

9 Track 2 continued Critical considerations for global enterprise and personnel structure design Sven Ringling, iprocon Group This session walks you through the intricacies of global personnel administration (PA) and highlights the crucial pieces of information you should know prior to and while you are designing global enterprise and personnel structures. Walk away from this session with: y Best practices for personnel administration (PA) configuration design to reduce the amount of post-go-live support needed y An introduction to the concept of a global HR process and data template and considerations when localising the process y An understanding of the impact time zone, currency, and language have on global SAP ERP HCM design, particularly for custom objects like interfaces Build or redesign your OM to get a future-proof foundation for HR reporting, authorisations, and more Sven Ringling, iprocon Group This session provides design guidelines and technical tips for SAP HCM organisational management (OM) to maximise data quality and usability whilst preparing yourself for complex reporting requirements._learn how to make the most of standard reports and query by understanding relationships, evaluation paths, and custom objects and when custom programming is required. Come away from this session with: y A good understanding of what drives data quality and usability issues in OM, including OM-PA integration issues and how to resolve them y Take-home guidelines for the steps required to build custom OM relationships and evaluation paths to solve HR reporting requirements that cannot be met with standard functionality (add-on material) y Best-practice tips for redesign, rollout, trouble shooting, monitoring, and full use of the available data in OM y A holistic view on OM and its role in the system beyond HR reporting y Examples of how to implement various real-world requirements in reporting and authorisations Build or redesign your OM to get a future-proof foundation for HR reporting, authorisations, and more Sven Ringling, iprocon Group This session provides design guidelines and technical tips for SAP HCM organisational management (OM) to maximise data quality and usability whilst preparing yourself for complex reporting requirements. Learn how to make the most of standard reports and query by understanding relationships, evaluation paths, and custom objects and when custom programming is required. Come away from this session with: y A good understanding of what drives data quality and usability issues in OM, including OM-PA integration issues and how to resolve them y Take-home guidelines for the steps required to build custom OM relationships and evaluation paths to solve HR reporting requirements that cannot be met with standard functionality (add-on material) y Best-practice tips for redesign, rollout, trouble shooting, monitoring, and full use of the available data in OM y A holistic view on OM and its role in the system beyond HR reporting y Examples of how to implement various real-world requirements in reporting and authorisations 9

10 Track 3 HR Service delivery: ESS, MSS, mobility, and forms Exploiting new and enhanced capabilities for SAP ERP HCM processes and forms Jacob Crane, SAP NetWeaver Solution Architect, EPI-USE Australia This session delves into the latest features of SAP ERP HCM processes and forms delivered in HR Renewal 1.0 Feature Pack 4 and provides expert guidance for leveraging them to streamline core HR processes and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) across an on-premise landscape. Attend to: y Find out how the latest release of HCM processes and forms compares to previous versions both from a back-end configuration and front-end usability perspective and what s required to adapt existing installations y Evaluate the new Web Dynpro ABAP UI for HCM processes and forms and how it compares to and interoperates with existing Adobe-based interface technology y Get criteria to determine if HCM processes and forms will meet your business requirements, including tips for identifying which HR processes will realise the greatest ROI if automated Lessons to extend HR functions across mobile devices using SAP Fiori Ramya Raja Rukmangathan, Senior Associate Consultant, Infosys Limited This session examines the capabilities, requirements, and benefits of SAP Fiori and how to leverage it to deploy HR applications and processes onto mobile devices. By attending, you will: y Get an overview of the various SAP Fiori applications and learn what s required to configure and deploy them onto mobile devices y Explore various use cases for leveraging SAP Fiori to streamline common HR processes and functions, from workflow approvals to self-service tasks y Find out what s required to incorporate SAP Fiori applications into an existing SAP ERP HCM environment Guidelines and best practices for deploying ESS and MSS on mobile devices Jacob Crane, SAP NetWeaver Solution Architect, EPI-USE Australia This session provides tips for leveraging the new mobile technology currently available from SAP for deploying ESS and MSS on mobile devices. Come away from this session with: y Advice for when to use standard functionality versus customisation when deploying ESS and MSS on mobile devices y Tips for which functionality compensation planning, recruiting, or performance management is more geared toward being run on a mobile device y Insight into the mobile user experience and interactivity provided in the mobile functionality Principles of successful ESS and MSS initiatives: Lessons for new and existing implementations Jacob Crane, SAP NetWeaver Solution Architect, EPI-USE Australia Whether you are newly implementing ESS/MSS or seeking ways to expand your existing self-services footprint, you ll find the best practices and configuration tips in this session invaluable. You will: y Find out which functionality to implement first if you re new to ESS/MSS, as well as how to take an existing installation to a more strategic level with new processes and functionality y Get tips for adding users to an existing ESS/MSS implementation or for rolling out new functionality to existing users y Get strategies to accelerate the time-tovalue of your self-services project, including usage scenarios that illustrate configuration and customisation techniques to get the highest return on your ESS/MSS investment 10

11 Track 4 Talent management: SAP and SuccessFactors A guided tour of talent management solutions from SuccessFactors Leong Yin Wah, Senior Solutions Consultant, SuccessFactors This session offers an up-to-date guide to the expanded range of features that SuccessFactors delivers for talent management. You will: y Examine the capabilities and requirements of SuccessFactors Performance and Goals, Recruiting, Onboarding, Compensation, Learning, and Succession and Development y Understand various options for extending existing investments in on-premise SAP ERP HCM with cloud-based talent management applications y Gain insight into the future direction for the SuccessFactors talent management suite and where your business fits into the evolution Attract, engage, and select qualified candidates for employment with an end-to-end recruiting and onboarding solution from SuccessFactors Brent Kielly, Director, Recruitment Execution, Asia Pacific and Japan- Line of Business HR Solutions, SAP This session explores SuccessFactors functionality for Recruitment Execution, including management of recruitment, marketing, enhancing the candidate experience, candidate screening, and analytics. By attending, you will learn to utilise SuccessFactors Recruiting to: y Streamline the management and process of resourcing y Increase the quality of candidates using advanced options to handle employee referrals and social recruiting y Bring candidates onboard to the organisation and get them to productivity as quickly as possible Integration techniques that maximise the return on your on-premise SAP talent management investment Venki Krishnamoorthy, Solution Architect / Consultant, Talent HRO This session provides configuration guidelines and best practices for integrating the various SAP ERP HCM talent management applications to drive greater business impact. Attend to: y Examine configuration steps and business process changes required to streamline employee data transfer across talent modules, from SAP E-Recruiting to Succession Planning y Identify the business functions that need to be activated in each of the SAP ERP HCM talent management applications prior to integration y Get best practices for creating a qualifications catalog and linking it to recruiting, training, performance, and succession processes y See how to develop a pay-for-performance environment by integrating performance and compensation, including tips to define rules for compensation calculations based on appraisal scores y Learn to mitigate common pain points that can occur as a result of inconsistent employee data An in-depth look at SuccessFactors Learning Laura Hunt, Director - Learning Products & Strategy - Line of Business HR Solutions, SAP This session provides an up-to-date look at how training professionals can leverage SuccessFactors Learning to improve compliance, increase employee development, and extend learning outside the business. You will come away with a clear understanding of: y How SuccessFactors Learning can be used to reduce regulatory and compliance risk y Best practices for driving employees skills, qualifications, job satisfaction, and motivation y The roadmap for SuccessFactors Learning and insight into future enhancements Improve employee engagement and performance with SuccessFactors Performance and Goals Michelle Clyde - HR Value Engineer - Line of Business HR Solutions, SAP This session examines how to overcome common business challenges associated with performance management processes by utilising SuccessFactors Performance and Goals. You will: y Get an overview of SuccessFactors Performance and Goals, including how it can be implemented with on-premise SAP installations or as a standalone cloudbased solution y Obtain best practices for leveraging the application to better align and optimise your workforce to increase business performance y Explore how to integrate social and mobile concepts into your performance management process to improve engagement and results Track 4 continued on next page 11

12 Track 4 continued Getting your SAP Learning Solution initiative right the first time: Lessons from the trenches Venki Krishnamoorthy, Solution Architect / Consultant, Talent HRO This session provides expert guidelines to ensure the success of your SAP Learning Solution implementation, from project scoping to go-live. By attending, you will: y Examine governance considerations that must be addressed prior to an SAP Learning Solution initiative, such as content management authorisations, privacy laws, and regulatory requirements y Understand what s required to configure a course catalog and create various course types, including the difference between external and static Web-based training (WBT) y Get configuration to enhance the approval workflow in SAP Learning Solution and integrate learning data with other talent modules in SAP ERP HCM y Know your options for displaying content in the learning portal, including required iviews 12

13 Track 5 Payroll and reporting An updated guide to SuccessFactors Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll Ralf Wagner, Vice President HCM Solutions, SAP AG This session examines Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll, and provides guidance for leveraging them to drive core HR processes in the cloud. Attend to: y Find out how Employee Central can be used to meet your local and global requirements, and how reporting and compliance are managed y Examine the latest functionality delivered in Employee Central Payroll, including support for more than 20 countries y Look at the integration path between SAP ERP HCM and Employee Central and options for leveraging a hybrid deployment y View a demo of the Employee Central interface for insight into how users interact with the system A guide to improving SAP payroll and analytics functions with SAP HANA Frans Smolders, Solution Owner Planning and Analytics, Line of Business HR Solutions, SAP This session delves into the current offerings for SAP ERP HCM on SAP HANA and examines best practices for exploiting real-time payroll and analytics capabilities. By attending, you will: y See how to leverage new reporting and analytics offerings powered by SAP HANA to enable fact-based HR decisions in real time y Get an overview of the new Payroll Control Center and its new user interface, and see how it can be used to increase payroll accuracy and reduce end-to-end processing time y Hear about the next steps in SAP s roadmap for extending the power of on-premise HR functions through SAP HANA Understanding the HR reporting landscape in a cloud, on-premise, and hybrid world Danielle Larocca, Vice President, SpinifexIT Are you confused about your HR reporting options and where they fit in amidst the onset of cloud and hybrid options? This session helps clarify the confusion. You will: y Delve into the various reporting options in a variety of HR environments cloud, hybrid, and on-premise and get criteria for selecting the most appropriate tool for your needs y Step through a detailed comparison of the on-premise standard SAP tools, from SAP query to QuickViewer, and get recommendations for when to use each tool y Learn how to define and set up query groups, configure infosets, and use logical databases, and gain insight into how your HR landscape (on-premise, cloud, or hybrid) impacts your options International trends in workforce planning and analytics Frans Smolders, Solution Owner Planning and Analytics, Line of Business HR Solutions, SAP This session looks at evolving global trends surrounding workforce planning and analytics, from the impact of an aging workforce to measuring people performance, and explores how SAP and SuccessFactors technology can be used to support these trends. By attending, you will: y Review case studies for real-world insights into how leading organisations are harnessing the potential of workforce planning and analytics to drive more accurate and timely decisions y Explore the benefits of and get lessons to create a Center of Excellence (CoE) to support workforce planning and analytics y Get an overview of various frameworks you can utilise to understand the interdependencies of activities within a workforce planning and analytics process Lessons for extending OM functionality to meet complex organisational reporting requirements This session provides guidelines to customise SAP functionality for organisational manage-ment (OM) to solve the most complex HR reporting requirements. Learn how relationships and evaluation paths work together within the SAP organisational management solution, and also gather tips for getting the best results when reporting on OM data structures. Come away from this session with: y A guide to reading evaluation path instructions and learning how to leverage this knowledge to find the data you re looking for y An understanding of the steps required to design custom OM relationships and evaluation paths to solve HR reporting requirements that cannot be met with standard functionality y Insight into the proper way to set up and troubleshoot your organisational structure for reporting hierarchies, including custom OM elements that enhance report output and display y Examples of common reporting and managerial view scenarios that may require custom OM evaluation paths and walk through the steps required to design and configure them 13

14 Track 6 HR projects and implementations Guidelines for deploying and integrating international subsidiaries into SAP ERP HCM using a tiered approach Sven Ringling, Director, iprocon This session provides guidelines for seamlessly integrating international subsidiaries into an existing SAP ERP HCM landscape by adding a tiered approach to the global template concept. Attend to: y Examine a tiered framework approach and see how to leverage it to structure your integration initiative by the makeup of your subsidiary, such as workforce size y Discuss typical sets of processes, transactions, and data for three typical subsidiary country tiers y Get tips for configuration and project management to avoid the most common pitfalls and come away with a sample project roadmap for a typical rollout to a large size of small subsidiaries, where less differentiated approaches often fail or burn a lot of money Key criteria for a successful Employee Central implementation or migration project Martin Ullmann, Business Development & Delivery Cloud Services APJ, EPI-USE Malaysia This session takes a detailed look at Employee Central and provides insight into the differences between a cloud-based and on-premise landscape that must be considered when embarking on an implementation or migration project. By attending, you will: y Get best practices for implementing or migrating to Employee Central, from data mapping to considerations for deploying it in a global environment y Examine the Employee Central Metadata Framework (MDF) and get lessons to properly configure its various components, including generic objects and foundation objects y Obtain techniques for maintaining and making changes to Employee Central configurations using XML and various admin tools Principles of successful ESS and MSS initiatives: Lessons for new and existing implementations Jacob Crane, SAP NetWeaver Solution Architect, EPI-USE Australia Whether you are newly implementing ESS/MSS or seeking ways to expand your existing self-services footprint, you ll find the best practices and configuration tips in this session invaluable. You will: y Find out which functionality to implement first if you re new to ESS/MSS, as well as how to take an existing installation to a more strategic level with new processes and functionality y Get tips for adding users to an existing ESS/MSS implementation or for rolling out new functionality to existing users y Get strategies to accelerate the time-tovalue of your self-services project, including usage scenarios that illustrate configuration and customisation techniques to get the highest return on your ESS/MSS investment On-demand or on-premise? Figuring out which HCM deployment model is right for you Sven Ringling, Director, iprocon This session offers insight into the options, business drivers, market forces, benefits and potential risks of moving all or some of your HR applications into the cloud. Attend to: y Find out how cloud deployments differ from traditional solutions, how current solutions like SuccessFactors go beyond the original SaaS model and what that means for your project management and maintenance approach y Understand the SaaS model and how to maximise benefits whilst mitigating its weaknesses y Learn how to overcome challenges commonly associated with cloud solutions, including change management, perceived loss of control and perceived security risks Leave this session with new insights to build your own cloud transformation roadmap and take home a stakeholder matrix to help with change management HR Transformation: Options, considerations, and benefits Venki Krishnamoorthy, Solution Architect / Consultant, Talent HRO This session examines leading practices for developing and executing an effective HR Transformation project that drives innovation and helps meet business objectives for performance and growth. By attending, you will identify cost saving opportunities across HR systems, processes, and operations, including lessons to: y Create a sustainable HR Transformation programme that drives continuous improvement, including tips for developing new services and capabilities to meet long-term business requirements y Achieve quick wins with tips to streamline service delivery and improve usability, including an overview of enabling technology from SAP like HR Renewal and Fiori y Identify key areas for HR innovation, including the value of a true multi-tenant SaaS environment, and determine if and when it makes sense to move your HCM applications to the cloud 14

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