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.

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.

In today’s data-driven world, organizations that lack a well-defined data and analytics strategy risk falling behind their competition. But what does a strong strategy look like, and how can companies develop one that drives business value?

This session will explore the critical components of a successful data and analytics strategy, why it is essential for modern enterprises, and how organizations can approach its development. We will break down key elements, including data governance, integration, analytics enablement, cloud strategy, and AI/ML adoption. Additionally, we’ll discuss common pitfalls, best practices, and actionable steps to align data initiatives with business goals. Whether you are starting from scratch or refining an existing strategy, this session will equip you with the tools to drive data-driven transformation in your organization.

In this session, you will:

• Gain insights into real-world implementation approaches. 
• Learn how to measure the success of their strategy.
• Leave with a roadmap to build a data and analytics foundation that delivers tangible business outcomes.

CIOs and CFOs are capital allocators – they have a finite budget and multiple demands for transformation, innovation, and keeping things running. Businesses are looking to start their Transformation journeys but are facing significant budget challenges in initiating critical large projects like S/4HANA, Cloud migration, re-defining supply chains, and improving customer experiences. Technology rationalization can help organizations free up budget by identifying and eliminating redundant, dated, or underutilized tech. components. In this session, you will understand how you can conduct a successful application rationalization program in a structured manner and maximize value from your IT investments. We will cover how to identify candidates for rationalization, how to unearth shadow IT, using LeanIX to do application rationalization, and a clear 4-week action plan for the attendees to take back.

Key Takeaways:

• Expert insight into the budget challenges facing leaders on critical large projects.
• Critical advice for maximizing value from your IT investments.
• A 4-week action plan for technology rationalization.

This session provides an overview of the core capabilities of SAP Business Data Cloud and a forward-looking view of how the platform is evolving across data management, analytics, and AI. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of which capabilities are available today, what's coming in the next 12 months, and how BDC supports their data and AI priorities.

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.