This session examines SAP Business Suite and the integrated applications that support core processes across finance, supply chain, procurement, human resources, and customer operations. Learn how these applications relate to one another, the roles they play in an SAP environment, and the structure they provide for managing enterprise operations. Understand how RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP serve as guided paths into SAP Business Suite and how they support a structured move to SAP Cloud ERP. Review customer success stories to see how companies have approached adoption, the results they achieved, and the lessons you can apply when planning or optimizing your own landscape.

Despite significant investment, many SAP S/4HANA programs struggle to deliver the operational agility, visibility, and business value executives expect. This session pinpoints the most common breakdowns in SAP S/4HANA transformations and examines how leading organizations address them through better process alignment, stronger data discipline, and more effective planning practices. Learn how to prevent issues such as incorrect MRP configuration, inconsistent master data, and process behaviors that conflict with standard SAP S/4HANA functionality. Come away with a practical blueprint for turning SAP S/4HANA into a business asset that delivers measurable operational and financial improvements.

In this interactive workshop, you will work in a small group to build a clear and defensible business case for an SAP S/4HANA transformation. You will walk through the core components of an effective case, including scope decisions, deployment models, cloud incentives, cost categories, risk factors, readiness gaps, and expected outcomes. The facilitator provides practical prompts to help you evaluate subscription models, key contract terms, and the operational impacts of different choices. The session concludes with a concise board readout, giving you practical experience communicating value, justifying decisions, and framing the transformation in strategic, outcome-driven terms.

Norfolk Southern knew from the start that clean, reliable data would be the cornerstone of a successful SAP S/4HANA transformation. This session shares how the organization made data cleansing a strategic priority, from implementing scalable data profiling, cleansing, and validation processes to establishing sustainable governance models to ensure lasting data integrity. Understand the business impact of clean data in SAP S/4HANA and get tips to resolve common data quality issues in the ECC environment pre-migration. Plus, discuss key metrics the company used to measure data quality improvements and support continuous monitoring.

Key takeaways:

• An understanding of how to make data cleansing a strategic priority.
• Real-world insight into our data cleansing project and processes.
• Key metrics that you can use to monitor and measure your data quality.

This session draws on Vistaprint’s SAP S/4HANA production experience and examines how on-stack extensibility was applied using an upgrade-proof, clean core–aligned approach to reshape financial operations and reporting while accelerating access to critical insights. Hear how the company combined Fiori app variants and in-app data model extensions to adapt standard SAP applications for role-specific usage without modifying the core. Explore how they created custom analytical queries that delivered deeper visibility into financial performance and trends using a combination of standard and extended data. Take away proven patterns for evolving SAP S/4HANA using standard extensibility to improve usability, insight, and flexibility.

The reality of managing data across disparate systems often results in a fragmented, siloed data landscape that hinders agility and decision-making. This session presents a detailed case study of Dodge Industrial’s comprehensive data integration journey, offering practical insights into how we transitioned from significant data disconnection to a harmonized, integrated environment with Datasphere at the center. We’ll discuss our scenario before the integration project, detailing pain points, data quality issues, and inefficiencies we faced. Then we’ll walk through the project and share with you how we arrived at our current state and lessons learned along the way.

You’ll get:

• A transparent review of the critical choices we made along the way.
• Key takeaways from our experience connecting various non-SAP data sources (Snowflake, Salesforce, MS SQL Server, SharePoint, etc.).
• How we stitched it all together - the approach we used to create a unified data fabric.
• Actionable insight into enabling bi-directional data feeds.
• Insight into the specific integration platforms, ETL tools, and middleware that enabled our solution.

This session examines how Aerospace made change enablement a strategic priority by embedding it into every phase of its SAP S/4HANA program to support user adoption and long-term sustainability. See how a structured framework of stakeholder engagement, targeted training, and continuous feedback prepared teams for new processes and reduced resistance during rollout. Hear how early planning increased user confidence and strengthened readiness across business and IT. Get lessons from Aerospace to improve the effectiveness of your change approach, better prepare users for new ways of working, and achieve smoother adoption throughout your SAP S/4HANA transition.

Join this session to understand how Dodge modernized their Data & Analytics strategy with SAP Datasphere during an SAP S/4HANA migration. You’ll see how, after a comprehensive initial assessment, Dodge adopted SAP Datasphere to centralize and streamline our data management process. Learn how we significantly simplified our architecture with a more agile approach while simultaneously getting more access to SAP data than ever before.

You will:

• Learn how a shift from BW to Datasphere enabled a more accurate, stable, and scalable data landscape.
• Understand how Dodge approached the complete rewrite of our ERP data pipelines using a combination of Datasphere and SAP S/4HANA native Extract Load Transform (ELT) functionalities.
• Hear how Dodge was able to achieve a single version of the truth, with increased governance and increased delivery agility.

Modern business demands faster delivery, reliable data, and the ability to adapt without disruption. In this session, see how Eneco modernized SAP integration by replacing traditional interfaces and ABAP proxies with standard APIs and event-driven connectivity in SAP S/4HANA to accelerate innovation, reduce manual effort and integration complexity, and improve operational reliability. Learn the architectural decisions, governance practices, and lessons that enabled these results, and take away guidance to simplify integration and scale performance across your SAP landscape.

Learn how Team Liquid is unlocking AI-driven analytics using SAP Business AI on SAP BTP with SAP AI Core and SAP HANA Cloud to support real-time competitive decision-making. Understand how large volumes of historical match data are used to train models, creating a scalable foundation for AI-driven insight generation. Explore how Team Liquid designed AI agents in Joule that translate natural-language questions into repeatable analytical workflows across historical match data. Gain insight into the company's plans to extend Joule-based AI agents and what this reveals about scaling AI use cases beyond initial deployments.

Hear how the senior leadership team at Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) guided an SAP modernization initiative that brought SAP S/4HANA, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform, Fiori UX, and a new customer portal live in a single coordinated deployment. Learn how they aligned business and IT around a shared vision; structured project teams and decision rights across functional leads, IT, and system integrators; and used a disciplined change management model with regular leadership engagement to keep people, processes, and technology in sync. Find out why they chose to implement multiple capabilities at once, how that decision shaped their target-state architecture and future platform plans, and what outcomes they achieved, so you can apply similar practices to your own SAP modernization initiative.

Key Takeaways:

• Real-world strategies for aligning business and IT around a shared modernization vision.
• Insights on how to keep people, processes, and technology in sync through a disciplined change management model.
• An understanding of how key decisions shaped architecture and future platform plans.

As American Industrial Transport (AITX) evaluated its path to the cloud, leadership needed a clear, data-backed way to assess options and justify a potential move forward. In this session, learn how AITX used SAP Signavio process intelligence and AI-driven analysis to uncover inefficiencies, quantify value opportunities, and replace assumptions with objective insight. Hear how those findings were translated into a business case that aligned stakeholders, prioritized investments, and supported informed decision-making around cloud ERP and RISE with SAP. Attendees will come away with practical guidance for using process data to evaluate cloud transformation options and structure more effective executive-level discussions.

This session explores PetMeds’ SAP Cloud ERP (formerly "SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud") implementation to modernize its core operations and support scalable growth. Hear how the company evaluated Public and Private deployment options, how they determined what to standardize versus configure, and how those choices guided their implementation approach and supported a more predictable build. Discover how Fit-to-Standard workshops, clean core practices, and preconfigured content shaped scope decisions and helped maintain compliance and quality while accelerating deployment. Come away with proven ways to manage rapid timelines, avoid complexity, maintain scope discipline, and set up your organization for a smooth SAP Cloud ERP rollout.

Join us as we explore how KPMG leverages Joule for Consultants (J4C) to help drive transformative success. As a major user of J4C, KPMG enhances its consulting services by streamlining processes and optimizing resources. This session will provide insights into J4C's impact on boosting agility and efficiency, showcasing real-world applications that empower speed to value within cloud transformation. Discover how J4C can be your catalyst for innovation and rapid organizational change.

Join us for an insightful customer story detailing our complex SAP S/4HANA migration that initiated our enterprise-wide digital transformation. This session will dive into the architectural decisions that enabled the deployment of the new digital core with both cloud-based (SAP Sales Cloud, SAP BTP) and critical on-premises systems. We’ll share critical lessons learned about the practical hurdles faced, from managing a complex legacy landscape with third-party integrations to the decisions we had to make around master data governance. Understand the ‘what and the why’ of our architectural design, what we got right, what we might do differently next time, and how we delivered a scalable platform for continuous innovation that meets the needs of the business and positions our company for the future.

Key takeaways:

• Insight into the architectural decisions around the deployment of both cloud and on-prem systems.
• The key architectural decisions we had to make and the outcomes from those decisions.
• Lessons learned from what we got right and what we’d do differently next time.

Companies of all sizes are already live, or are moving to, SAP Cloud ERP. Join this customer panel to learn directly from SAP Customers, about RISE with SAP & GROW with SAP success stories.  The discussion will revisit their successful Cloud ERP implementations, discussing best practices and lessons learned at each phase of the program, from building the business case to successful Go-Live activities, and the business value they unlocked.  This session will most benefit companies that are looking into SAP Cloud ERP, or at the beginning of their Cloud ERP journey.   

Questions that this panel can help answer include:  

• How did these customers work with their business to start their SAP Cloud ERP journey?
• What are the best practices and lessons learned from each phase of their program?
• What business outcomes were achieved at Go-Live?  
• What’s next for these customers?

Embarking on the path to SAP S/4HANA is a transformative decision, but what does the planning phase really look like in practice? In this dynamic panel discussion, leaders from Moog and Upstate Niagara Cooperative will share key lessons and takeaways from the early stages of SAP S/4HANA planning. Learn about the critical factors they evaluated, the “Aha!” moments that shifted their strategy, and the roadblocks they encountered along the way. Panelists will share the tools and resources that proved most helpful, how they built internal alignment and secured executive buy-in, and what they wish they had known before they started.

What does it take to successfully adopt SAP Cloud ERP Private as part of an enterprise modernization journey? In this candid customer panel, business and IT leaders from Kyocera, Naturipe Farms, and Woodstream share insights on what worked, what didn’t, and what they’d do differently. Get practical guidance to strengthen program governance, manage RISE service tickets effectively, resolve issues before they escalate, and use SAP Cloud ALM insights to support performance and business continuity as your environment evolves. Come away with the clarity and confidence to make informed decisions, reduce risk, and drive lasting business impact from cloud ERP.

This session explores how to leverage SAP AI Core and SAP BTP to enhance analytics and intelligence within your SAP S/4HANA landscape. Walk through a live demo to see how to build and operationalize machine learning models using tools like Python and R on SAP HANA data. Get actionable insights to integrate these models into operational workflows to enable intelligent automation, support smarter decision-making, and drive continuous improvement across your SAP S/4HANA environment.

Join this hands-on lab for real-world practice modernizing classic on-stack extensions to align with clean core principles in SAP Cloud ERP Private. Learn how to analyze existing custom code, apply the ABAP Cloud development model, and refactor extensions to reduce core modifications while preserving required business logic. Practice governing clean core development using tools such as the ABAP Test Cockpit to identify non-compliant objects and guide remediation decisions. Come away with practical extensibility patterns that complement SAP Fiori development, support side-by-side innovation on SAP BTP, and enable long-term upgradeability in cloud-based SAP landscapes.

Unlike traditional on-premise environments, the cloud demands rapid decision-making, proactive change management, and cross-functional collaboration. Mission: Cloud Command, a high-energy, escape room-style experience, prepares you for these changes by putting you in the command center of your cloud transformation journey. Designed to simulate real-world business scenarios that mirror the complexities of moving to the cloud, this interactive experience will test your ability to collaborate, strategize, and make critical decisions under pressure. You’ll come away with the confidence, clarity, and connections needed to drive an effective cloud transformation forward.

This session examines what it takes to move AI from early prototypes through pilots and into scalable, measurable business value across SAP environments. Attendees will learn how organizations assess which early ideas are worth advancing, sequence AI initiatives as maturity increases, and establish clear ownership as solutions move into live operations. Explore where organizations are seeing the strongest returns today, what differentiates high-impact initiatives from stalled efforts, and how adoption, trust, and governance shape AI outcomes at each stage. Gain practical insight into applying guardrails, managing risk as AI scales, and building the business case for continued investment using results that resonate with both technical and business stakeholders. Walk away with a clearer, end-to-end understanding of how to progress AI initiatives from experimentation to sustained enterprise value.

Are you trying to understand where AI fits in SAP’s product portfolio or how to get started with it in a practical way? If so, attend this session for an overview of AI-enabled features and generative capabilities embedded in SAP cloud applications along with guidance to incorporate them into current and future initiatives. Gain insight into current capabilities and upcoming innovations to understand how they will influence your process design, integration approach, and required skills. Come away with actionable guidance to move your AI journey forward, including tips to evaluate use cases, prepare your landscape, and structure your adoption approach for measurable outcomes.

This session draws from SAPinsider’s latest SAP ERP Deployment Research Report and provides clear, data-driven benchmarks to help organizations assess their SAP ERP deployment strategy. Learn how peers are structuring SAP landscapes across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments, and how adoption patterns for SAP S/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP BTP, and integration platforms differ by maturity level. Use benchmark data to understand where your organization stands today and how others are prioritizing governance, security, modernization, and readiness for AI-driven innovation. Come away with practical insights to validate current decisions and identify informed next steps for evolving SAP architecture with confidence.

AI is rapidly shifting from experimentation to a core driver of ERP strategy, influencing how organizations think about cloud adoption, modernization priorities, and long-term platform decisions. This session shares the latest SAPinsider research findings on AI adoption and readiness patterns across the SAP customer community and unpacks how these trends are informing decisions about ERP timing, scope, and investment priorities. Hear how your peers are aligning transformation decisions with Generative AI ambitions, and why access to embedded AI capabilities is becoming a factor in strategic planning rather than a downstream benefit. Come away with a framework for assessing how prepared your ERP strategy is to support AI and where action is needed to move from interest to impact.

Moving enterprise data to the cloud presents a transformative shift in the way data is managed, accessed, and leveraged. However, there are a number of challenges to understand and overcome. This session will move beyond the hype to explore the top five tangible opportunities and associated challenges that data professionals must navigate to ensure a successful cloud data strategy. We’ll dig into the opportunities, like how the cloud unlocks scalability and flexibility and enables real-time analytics, and then dive into the critical challenges that come with this evolution including security and compliance, cost, governance, and more. 

Key takeaways:

• Expert advice on navigating the key challenges managing data in the Cloud.
• Insight into the other side of the coin - the unique opportunities that the Cloud presents.
• Answers to your toughest data in the Cloud questions.