Once again, TechEd is upon us and we have many exciting SAP Screen Personas and user experience (UX) sessions featuring demos, hands-on, and lectures from both customers and SAP. If you are building your agenda online or updating your personal calendar, here is a list of recommended content.
Customer session |
SAP Screen Personas session |
Monday 10/19/15
Date/Time | Title | Speaker |
8:30AM – 5:00PM | ASUG pre-conference session How to Make Your User Experience Awesome and Your Business Users Happy
Through a combination of lecture, hands-on exercises, customer case studies, collaboration with other participants, and product demos, this session will discuss how to develop and successfully execute a user experience strategy. Presenters will focus on using design thinking to guide the end-to-end process, starting with developing and validating ideas through creating metrics to track the success of your implementation. Hands-on exercises will address user research, rapid prototyping, and business user validation.
Attendees will use their own laptops to access SAP's exciting new Web-based prototyping tool for the hands-on exercises.
Several customers will share their UX journeys with an emphasis on how to scale across the enterprise and monitor progress. Learn from your peers as participants share their successes, experiences, and challenges during the exercises. Demos will highlight integration points across several complementary SAP and external solutions and how to deliver a consistent user experience.
Register for this session (additional fee applies) | Several customers will share their experiences in transforming their SAP UX.
SAP speakers will demo the latest solutions. |
Tuesday 10/20/15
Date/Time | Session | Title | Speaker |
| 11:00 - 11:30 AM | EXP27164 | Inside SAP Screen Personas 3.0 (expert session) | Sebastian Steinhauer |
11:15AM – 1:15 PM | TEC200 | Executing the User Experience Strategy Do you know how to make the right user experience (UX) decisions and how SAP offerings can help you? We will explain not only the value of UX but also how to get a remarkable return on investment. Learn how to select applications, tools, technologies, and services provided by SAP. Hear what other customers decided to do as they share their experiences. And learn about SAP’s future UX direction. | Vice President SAP
SVP, Design and Co-Innovation Center SAP |
| 1:00 - 1:30 PM | EXP27166 | SAP Screen Personas 3.0 (expert session) | Tobias Queck |
2:00 – 3:00 PM | UX122 | Fisker Automotive's Implementation of SAP Fiori and SAP Screen Personas Fisker decided to utilize SAP Fiori, SAP Screen Personas, Webdynpro, and SAP Business Explorer Web applications to create a richer user experience using SAP Fiori launchpad. This allows them the opportunity to create efficiencies with their business process, reduce training times, and reduce times on repeated activities. This presentation provides key points about landscape design options, technical challenges and solutions, project methodology, and key learning points. | Ketan Gohil Director of ERP Fisker Automotive and Technology Group |
2:15 – 6:15 PM | TEC160 | SAP Technology Highlights: Putting Them All Together This session provides an overview of the comprehensive SAP technology offerings. It reviews the following technologies that are related to the SAP HANA platform: SAP Lumira, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, smart data streaming, the Internet of Things, SAP HANA development, ABAP, core data services, OData, SAPUI5, SAP Screen Personas, and UI theme designer. | Product Manager SAP Technology SAP
Product Manager SAP
Product Manager SAP |
3:15 – 4:15 PM | UX117 | Early Adoption Services and SAP Screen Personas 3.0 This is the long awaited all-HTML version of SAP Screen Personas. SAP Screen Personas 3.0 is the most advanced solution developed to date. Understand the basics and find priority enablement destinations for SAP users experience. | Praveen Maben IT ERP Solution Architect Hunter Douglas Inc |
04:30 - 05:30 PM | UX119 | Creating a Valuable New Procurement Tool with SAP Screen Personas Learn how Freescale Semiconductor used SAP Screen Personas to customize and simplify its global procurement business process. The functional team lead for the project will discuss Freescale's implementation strategy, best practices, lessons learned, and how the company is effectively utilizing this software today. | Cheryl Sutton Business Systems Analyst, User Experience & Mobility Freescale Semiconductor |
04:30 - 05:30 PM | UX109 | Update on SAP GUI and How It Fits Into SAP's UI Strategy This session provides an update on what is new and remarkable in SAP GUI, the graphical user interface (GUI) that runs on external environments, such as Microsoft Windows and Java, and allows users to access functionality in SAP applications. Learn about incorporating SAP GUI with SAP's UI strategy, and get the latest information on client software rollouts and installation for multiple SAP clients. | Ralph Resech Product Manager SAP |
Wednesday 10/21/15
Date/Time | Session | Title | Speaker |
08:00 - 09:00 AM | UX109 | Update on SAP GUI and How It Fits Into SAP's UI Strategy (Repeat) See above. | Ralph Resech Product Manager SAP |
9:15 – 10:15 AM | UX118 | SAP Screen Personas Version 2 to 3: Migration and New Opportunities Steve Rumsby has been working with SAP Screen Personas since mid-2013 and the product has been live at the University of Warwick for almost 2 years. He was part of the ramp-up program for SAP Personas version 3 and so has been working with it for over a year already. This session will cover the migration process from version 2 to version 3 and presents some new developments made possible by the enhanced features of version 3. | SAP Technical Manager University of Warwick |
| 11:00 - 11:30 AM | EXP27165 | SAP Screen Personas 3.0 and the SAP Fiori Launchpad (expert session) | Tobias Queck |
| 1:00 - 1:45 PM | SAP Press book signing event
SAP Press is releasing a new E-Bite on SAP Screen Personas The co-authors will be present to discuss the book, demo some of the scenarios described in the book, and answer questions. | Peter Spielvogel, Tamas Hoznek, Steve Rumsby | |
2:15 - 6:15 PM | TEC160 | SAP Technology Highlights: Putting Them All Together (Repeat) See above. | Product Manager SAP Technology SAP Product Manager SAP Product Manager SAP |
| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | EXP27257 | SAP Screen Personas 3.0: Improve UX, Increase Productivity, Reduce Mods (expert session) Review of business scenarios and solutions using SAP Screen Personas 3.0 to increase productivity, improve the user experience and reduce system modifications. We will focus on simplification and automation scenarios, and leveraging the Fiori Launchpad. | Peter Spielvogel, SAP
Lavaughn Urbano, Intel |
03:15 - 04:15 PM | TEC215 | How TE Connectivity Simplified its SAP Architecture and Ecosystems IT organizations around the world are increasingly realizing that being successful requires more than an efficient software and hardware implementation. Hear some insights into how TE Connectivity simplified its SAP achitecture and ecosystem to empower business by adopting architectural strategies to position various emerging SAP tools and technologies like SAP Fiori, SAPUI5, SAP Web IDE, SAP NetWeaver Business Client, SAP Screen Personas, SAP Gateway, and SAP HANA in their overall IT footprint. | Karthik Ramanathan SAP IT Architect TE Connectivity |
03:15 - 03:45 PM (Code Review) | UX707 | Scripting with SAP Screen Personas for Web Dynpro for ABAP In this session, learn how to use the new scripting tool in SAP Screen Personas to enrich and streamline Web Dynpro for ABAP applications. | Development Expert SAP SE |
04:30 - 06:30 PM | UX263 | Improve the SAP User Experience with SAP Screen Personas This hands-on session gives you a chance to build more intuitive SAP GUI screens using SAP Screen Personas software. Simplify screens using the HTML5-based editor, record scripts and automatically generate JavaScript, and try all the new usability features with help from our experts. Learn firsthand how you can improve your users' productivity with streamlined screens and workflows. | Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP
Architect SAP
SAP Technical Manager University of Warwick
SAP Mentor / SAP Solution Architect TechEdge Group |
Thursday 10/22/15
Date/Time | Session | Title | Speaker |
08:00 - 09:00 AM | UX206 | SAP Screen Personas, Release 3.0: Functionality, Migration, and Road Map This lecture explores the latest release of SAP Screen Personas software. Join us for a discussion and demonstration of enhancements that can improve performance, scalability, and usability. The focus is on using the new scripting engine and the process for migrating from prior versions to the new one. In addition, you can preview the upcoming service pack, learn about some exciting new features, and discuss the product road map. | Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP
Architect SAP
Product Marketing SAP |
08:00 AM - 12:00 PM | TEC160 | SAP Technology Highlights: Putting Them All Together (repeat) See above. | Product Manager SAP Technology SAP Product Manager SAP Product Manager SAP |
| 11:00 - 11:30AM | EXP27164 | Inside SAP Screen Personas 3.0 (expert session) | Sebastian Steinhauer |
2:00 – 4:00PM | TEC200 | Executing the User Experience Strategy (repeat) See above. | Vice President SAP SVP, Design and Co-Innovation Center SAP |
| 3:00 - 3:30 PM | EXP27258 | SAP Screen Personas - keys to success (expert session) | Peter Spielvogel |
04:30 - 06:30 PM | UX263 | Improve the SAP User Experience with SAP Screen Personas This hands-on session gives you a chance to build more intuitive SAP GUI screens using SAP Screen Personas software. Simplify screens using the HTML5-based editor, record scripts and automatically generate JavaScript, and try all the new usability features with help from our experts. Learn firsthand how you can improve your users' productivity with streamlined screens and workflows. | Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP
Architect SAP
SAP Technical Manager University of Warwick
SAP Mentor / SAP Solution Architect TechEdge Group |
Friday 10/23/15
Date/Time | Session | Title | Speaker |
08:00 - 09:00 AM | UX206 | SAP Screen Personas, Release 3.0: Functionality, Migration, and Road Map This lecture explores the latest release of SAP Screen Personas software. Join us for a discussion and demonstration of enhancements that can improve performance, scalability, and usability. The focus is on using the new scripting engine and the process for migrating from prior versions to the new one. In addition, you can preview the upcoming service pack, learn about some exciting new features, and discuss the product road map. | Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP
Architect SAP
Product Marketing SAP |
Hope to see you in Las Vegas!
For the SAP UX team, Peter Spielvogel.