Next month, TechEd will provide many great opportunities to attend user experience (UX) sessions featuring demos, hands-on, and lectures from customers, partners, and SAP. This list focuses mostly on the SAP sessions. If you are building your agenda online or updating your personal calendar, here are some recommendations.
Tuesday 10/20/15
Date/Time | Session | Title | Speaker |
8:00 - 10:00 AM | UX261 | Simplifying Screens in SAP ERP with SAP Screen Personas (Hands-on Workshop) This hands-on session gives you a chance to build more intuitive SAP GUI interface 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. We will focus on streamlining transactions in Web Dynpro in SAP ECC 6.0, SoH, and SAP S/4HANA. | Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP
Architect SAP
Product Marketing SAP |
8:00 - 10:00 AM | UX101 | UI Technologies and Clients from SAP in Times of SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA Get an overview of SAP’s strategic UI technologies and clients and how they support the SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA software strategy. Learn about key characteristics and road maps and see them in action in live demos. See how mobile tools and technologies from SAP perfectly complement this portfolio. Topics covered include among others: Build, SAPUI5, SAP Web IDE, SAP Screen Personas, UI theme designer as well as SAP Fiori launchpad. Finally, get best practices on when to choose which technology. | Ingo Deck Dir, Product Management, SAP User Experience Platform SAP
Oliver Lehmann Director UX Roll Out SAP |
8:00 - 9:00 AM | UX117 | ASUG Influence Council: User Experience and User Interface for SAP Software Want to discuss and influence the future of UX and UI at SAP? This session introduces the missions of ASUG influence councils, how they work, and details about how to get involved in the ASUG influence council for the user experience and user interface for SAP software. The focus of such councils is to have your voice heard and bring real-life use cases directly to our product development team. Don't miss this chance to find out how to get more involved and hear the benefits of participating. | David Arfa Senior Manger PepsiCo, Inc. |
1:00 - 5:00 PM | TEC160 | SAP Technology Highlights This hands-on workshop provides an overview of the comprehensive SAP technology offerings, both in the cloud and on premise. It reviews the following technologies that are related to the SAP HANA platform: SAP BusinessObjects Cloud, SAP Digital Boardroom, the Internet of Things, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA platform development, ABAP, core data services, SAP Fiori launchpad, SAP Screen Personas, and UI theme designer. | Product Manager SAP Technology SAP
Product Manager SAP
Product Manager SAP |
2:00 - 2:30 PM Lounge 3, show floor | Expert | How SAP Screen Personas makes S/4HANA even better While the Fiori UX is ultimate goal for SAP S/4HANA, we are still on a journey to get there. The good news is that SAP provides a powerful tool for customers that want to achieve the Fiori UX now. SAP Screen Personas allows you to transform classic screens in SAP S/4HANA into Fiori-inspired designs:
| Sebastian Steinhauer, SAP |
5:00 - 5:30 PM Lounge 2, show floor | Expert | Maximizing User Productivity via SAP Personas Peter Spielvogel of SAP and Michael Pytel of NIMBL will share examples of how companies use SAP Screen Personas to improve user productivity. You will see real examples and learn tips and tricks that will make it fast and easy to improve usability for your SAP GUI or S/4HANA users. | Peter Spielvogel, SAP Michael Pytel, NIMBL |
5:00 - 6:00 PM | UX843 | Road Map Q&A: SAP Fiori Get a holistic overview of the SAP Fiori user experience and SAP’s plans to evolve the design of SAP Fiori, enhance its technology, and provide SAP Fiori apps across SAP solutions. For example, you will learn about SAP Fiori 2.0, elements of SAP Fiori, SAP CoPilot, and SAP’s plans to enable this user experience in SAP S/4HANA. Following the overview and outlook session, there will be time for Q&A. | Jan Ruessel UX & Fiori Product Management SAP |
5:15 - 6:15 PM | UX108 | Guerrilla UX Design: How to Engage with Real Users in the Face of Adversity Let's face it, User Experience Design can be costly but in the long run leaving it out could cost you a whole lot more. While many organizations are starting to realize the benefits of UX design getting the right amount of support and time can be hard. This session looks at ways you can engage with real end users quickly and inexpensively. If you are looking for ways to bring UX design to your work but you don't necessarily have a lot of time, money or support, then this is the session for you. | SAP Mentor User Experience Lead PLAUT IT Australia |
7:00 - 10:00PM |
| SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori Customer Appreciation Event Invitation-only party for SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori customers (only sponsoring partners - Convergent IS,Mindset, Masterdata, NIMBL). If you are interested in attending, please register here. Once we validate your application, you will receive instructions on how to pick up your party wristband at TechEd. |
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Wednesday 9/21/16
Date/Time | Session | Title | Speaker |
8:00 - 9:00AM |
| SAP Screen Personas Practitioner Forum Join your peers to discuss best practices for using SAP Screen Personas | Product Marketing SAP
Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP |
8:00AM - 12:00PM | TEC160 | SAP Technology Highlights This hands-on workshop provides an overview of the comprehensive SAP technology offerings, both in the cloud and on premise. It reviews the following technologies that are related to the SAP HANA platform: SAP BusinessObjects Cloud, SAP Digital Boardroom, the Internet of Things, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA platform development, ABAP, core data services, SAP Fiori launchpad, SAP Screen Personas, and UI theme designer. | Product Manager SAP Technology SAP
Product Manager SAP
Product Manager SAP |
8:00 - 9:00AM | UX105 | SAP Fiori for iOS You have a mobile app idea? Have you ever wondered how you design a new class of mobile apps, while rethinking the work processes and using a modern design language? In this session, you will learn some principles for creating a new class of mobile apps for mobile workers that transforms the way they work. You will also learn to design quality apps applying SAP Fiori for iOS design language. | UX Manager SAP |
9:15 - 10:15AM | UX126 | SAP Fiori Launchpad – Overview, Recommendations and Latest Updates SAP Fiori launchpad is the strategic single point of entry for SAP business applications and analytics. It offers a role-based, personalized, and real-time access for end users. This session provides an overview of benefits, key capabilities, configuration, integration, and extensibility options. You will get insights on the product road map and how the design concepts for SAP Fiori 2.0 will impact SAP Fiori launchpad in future releases. | Stefan Lötterle Product Manager SAP |
10:30 - 11:30AM | UX103 | Convince IT and Business to Value UX Increasingly, IT organizations around the world are realizing that being successful requires more than an efficient software implementation. They need to understand their end users. But how can you convince IT and business leaders to value UX? It is pretty simple: you need to show the business value. In this session you will hear customer examples and get to know best practices how to apply a human-centered approach in your organization. | SVP, Design and Co-Innovation Center SAP |
10:30 - 11:30AM | UX108 | Guerrilla UX Design: How to Engage with Real Users in the Face of Adversity Let's face it, User Experience Design can be costly but in the long run leaving it out could cost you a whole lot more. While many organizations are starting to realize the benefits of UX design getting the right amount of support and time can be hard. This session looks at ways you can engage with real end users quickly and inexpensively. If you are looking for ways to bring UX design to your work but you don't necessarily have a lot of time, money or support, then this is the session for you. | SAP Mentor User Experience Lead PLAUT IT Australia |
10:30AM - 12:30PM | UX161 | Prototyping with Build (Hands-On) In this hands-on session, you will use Build, the collaborative design tool, to compose an interactive prototype of a working app. You will start from static wireframes and gradually change it to an SAPUI5 prototype that is ready for development in SAP Web IDE. | Ben Ceaser VP of Product, Design & User Experience Velvan Trichy UX Product Manager Tobias Hofmann SAP Mentor Senior Consultant SAP
Robert Eijpe SAP Mentor Solution Architect NL for Business |
12:30 - 1:00PM | NET38816 | How to Run an SAP Screen Personas POC in Three Days You installed SAP Screen Personas and you want to start with a certain area but aren’t really sure how to progress. In this presentation, get an idea on how to run a fun and interactive SAP Screen Personas POC, where day one is spent on discovery, day two on design, and day three on testing. | SAP Mentor User Experience Lead PLAUT IT Australia |
1:00 - 1:30 PM Lounge 2, show floor | Expert | Using SAP Screen Personas templates to accelerate flavor development Introduced with SAP Screen Personas 3.0 SP3, templates provide a fast and easy way to build flavors. In this session, Tobias will demo how to build Fiori-inspired designs using templates. | Tobias Queck, SAP |
1:30 - 2:00 PM Lounge 3, show floor | Expert | SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori: It’s AND not OR SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori are complementary. In this session, we will discuss how to choose which to use for your business processes. We will show how to create a coherent user experience across Fiori launchpad, Fiori apps, custom apps, and SAP Screen Personas flavors. We will also demo how to build SAP Screen Personas flavors that follow the Fiori design guidelines. | Peter Spielvogel, SAP and Michael Pytel, NIMBL. |
3:00 - 4:00PM | UX601 | Scripting for ABAP in Web Dynpro with SAP Screen Personas (mini-CodeJam) In this session, you will get hands-on with the new scripting tool in SAP Screen Personas to enrich and streamline ABAP programming language applications in the Web Dynpro development environment. Get to know extended functions for scripting across sessions. | Area Product Owner SAP |
3:15 - 4:15PM | UX103 | Convince IT and Business to Value UX Increasingly, IT organizations around the world are realizing that being successful requires more than an efficient software implementation. They need to understand their end users. But how can you convince IT and business leaders to value UX? It is pretty simple: you need to show the business value. In this session you will hear customer examples and get to know best practices how to apply a human-centered approach in your organization. | SVP, Design and Co-Innovation Center SAP |
4:30 - 5:30PM | UX209 | SAP Screen Personas As Part of the SAP Fiori User Experience The SAP Fiori launchpad is the single starting point to launch role-based SAP Fiori apps, flavors of SAP Screen Personas software, and custom programs. We will demo how to create SAP Fiori UX designs using SAP Screen Personas, how to embed them into the launchpad to deliver a seamless user experience, and when to choose which solution, based on your specific business needs. | Product Marketing SAP Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP
Architect SAP |
Thursday 9/22/16
Date/Time | Session | Title | Speaker | |||
8:00 - 10:00 AM | UX261 | Simplifying Screens in SAP ERP with SAP Screen Personas (Hands-on Workshop) This hands-on session gives you a chance to build more intuitive SAP GUI interface 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. We will focus on streamlining transactions in Web Dynpro in SAP ECC 6.0, SoH, and SAP S/4HANA. | Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP
Architect SAP
Product Marketing SAP | |||
8:00 - 10:00 AM | UX101 | UI Technologies and Clients from SAP in Times of SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA Get an overview of SAP’s strategic UI technologies and clients and how they support the SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA software strategy. Learn about key characteristics and road maps and see them in action in live demos. See how mobile tools and technologies from SAP perfectly complement this portfolio. Topics covered include among others: Build, SAPUI5, SAP Web IDE, SAP Screen Personas, UI theme designer as well as SAP Fiori launchpad. Finally, get best practices on when to choose which technology. | Ingo Deck Dir, Product Management, SAP User Experience Platform SAP
Oliver Lehmann Director UX Roll Out SAP | |||
1:00 - 1:30 PM Lounge 1, show floor | Expert | Using SAP Screen Personas scripting to automate keystrokes and improve user productivity Scripting is the main way to unleash the power of SAP Screen Personas. This session will show you how to start with simple scripts that move information between transactions and advance to error checking and pop-up suppression that deliver a delightful user experience. | Tobias Queck, SAP | |||
2:00 - 4:00 PM | UX161 | Prototyping with Build (Hands-On) In this hands-on session, you will use Build, the collaborative design tool, to compose an interactive prototype of a working app. You will start from static wireframes and gradually change it to an SAPUI5 prototype that is ready for development in SAP Web IDE. | Ben Ceaser VP of Product, Design & User Experience SAP Velvan Trichy UX Product Manager SA Tobias Hofmann SAP Mentor Senior Consultant SAP Robert Eijpe SAP Mentor Solution Architect NL for Business | |||
2:00 - 6:00 PM | TEC160 | SAP Technology Highlights This hands-on workshop provides an overview of the comprehensive SAP technology offerings, both in the cloud and on premise. It reviews the following technologies that are related to the SAP HANA platform: SAP BusinessObjects Cloud, SAP Digital Boardroom, the Internet of Things, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA platform development, ABAP, core data services, SAP Fiori launchpad, SAP Screen Personas, and UI theme designer. | Product Manager SAP Technology SAP
Product Manager SAP
Product Manager SAP | |||
2:30 - 3:00 PM Lounge 2, show floor | Expert | How SAP Screen Personas makes S/4HANA even better While the Fiori UX is ultimate goal for SAP S/4HANA, we are still on a journey to get there. The good news is that SAP provides a powerful tool for customers that want to achieve the Fiori UX now. SAP Screen Personas allows you to transform classic screens in SAP S/4HANA into Fiori-inspired designs:
| Sebastian Steinhauer, SAP | |||
4:30 - 6:30PM | UX124 | Update on SAP Business Client and the SAP GUI Interface Family This session will give you an update on what's new in SAP Business Client 6.0, how to integrate the SAP Fiori user experience and combine it with other technologies for SAP UI. For the SAP GUI interface family, it will give you an update on what is new in the SAP GUI interface for Windows, as well as the latest versions for HTML and Java. It will also show what’s going on with SAP Screen Personas 3.0 and introduce the new visual theme for SAP Fiori for classic transactions for SAP S/4HANA. | Ralph Resech Product Manager SAP
Claudia Binder Product Manager SAP | |||
Friday 9/23/16
Date/Time | Session | Title | Speaker |
08:00 - 09:00 AM | UX209 | SAP Screen Personas As Part of the SAP Fiori User Experience The SAP Fiori launchpad is the single starting point to launch role-based SAP Fiori apps, flavors of SAP Screen Personas software, and custom programs. We will demo how to create SAP Fiori UX designs using SAP Screen Personas, how to embed them into the launchpad to deliver a seamless user experience, and when to choose which solution, based on your specific business needs. | Product Marketing SAP Product Owner - SAP Screen Personas SAP
Architect SAP |
Hope to see you in Las Vegas!
For the SAP UX team, Peter Spielvogel.