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Best Practices In Reducing SAP Ownership Costs: Now’s The Time To Act
Thursday, October 22, 2009
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM GMT
5:00 PM – 6:00 AM CET

Register at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/435331515

Today’s market conditions challenge organizations to cut costs while freeing up funds to stay competitive. SAP users face especially daunting challenges given the high cost of ownership and the complexity of its core ERP system. With more than 95% of SAP customers facing maintenance renewals in December and over 50% of users still waiting to upgrade to ERP 6.0, now’s the time to develop a concerted and deliberate SAP strategy. Join this webinar to learn best practice strategies from some of the leading experts in SAP, ERP, apps strategy, and vendor management.

Attendees will gain insight into:

  • Dealing with the huge cost of running SAP
  • Discovering why discontent runs high among SAP users
  • Addressing how to reduce SAP TCO
  • “Shelf-ware” reduction
  • Third-party maintenance options
  • Strategic use of SaaS
  • New application implementation/management models
  • Realignment of SAP infrastructure costs to match cloud metrics
  • How to streamline SAP upgrades
  • Building a long-term contract negotiations strategy aligned with apps strategy
  • Understanding why you must act now.

In addition, this presentation will outline practical recommendations to negotiating SAP maintenance contracts

Presenters:
R “Ray” Wang, Altimeter Group
Vinnie Mirchandani, Deal Architect
Dennis Howlett, Irregular Enterprise
Frank Scavo, Strativa

Be sure to attend this fast-moving presentation before finalizing your SAP contract renewal for 2010

A second event that addresses similar issue for Oracle customers is planned November 5th, 2009. More details to come.

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