d.school SAPphire Experience

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d.school SAPphire Experience
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Official Facts about Sapphire

• Sapphire is SAPs primary sales and marketing
  event . Attendees include customers, prospects,
  partners, press and analysts, as well as SAP
  employees.
• It takes place once a year in the US and Europe.
• This years motto is introducing a new model for
  ecosystem co-innovation, helping to transform
  SAPPHIRE from a vendor conference to an industry
  forum that supports companies in collaboratively
  addressing IT and business challenges.
• In addition, SAP and the Americas SAP Users
  Group (ASUG) are co-locating their premier events
  drawing an attendance of 16,000 visitors.
• SAPPHIRE will feature
• Customer, partner and SAP presentations,
  highlighting the best run business motto.
• SAPs product road map, including the near-term
  plan for delivering the first fully integrated
  software suite built on a flexible business
  process platform.
• ASUG sponsors
• Customer and SAP presentations focused on
  implementation aspects
• Networking

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More about Sapphire

• Why Sapphire
• What happens in SAP Theaters
• Who is on the Exhibit Floor
• What is ASUG
• Why Press Analysts
• Who is who

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Georgia World Congress Center - Overview
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Sapphire What to expect

• We have designed your Sapphire experience to
  allow you to further explore customer and user
  needs in a software context as well as understand
  options for solution design.
• The goal is to get a broad understanding of the
  enterprise software world the different
  players, products, and problemsand to find
  ideas, tools, and technologies that might be
  relevant to the d school class project, and
  beyond.

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Sapphire Your Assignment

• Well divide up into groups based on the project
  sub-team areas
• User Experience
• Information Architecture
• Real WorldOn Wednesday in class, we will ask
  the teams to give a short description of two or
  three main observations or insights they found
  that are relevant to their projects.

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Teams
User Experience Information Architecture Real World
Coach Dan Hough Marcello Bastea-Forte Michael Camacho Osvaldo Jimenez Mike Krieger Gunny Lee Philipp Skogstad Corina Yen David Ziegler Coach Andrea Anderson Shradha Budhiraja Ben Ilegbodu Georg Koester Linus Liang Anna Ploskonos Gaurav Singh Diana Thai Douglas Wightman Coach Heike van Geel Yazid Aksas Gustavo Bitdinger Peixian Fu Irina Kuteneva Brian Ong Lior Shiff Colin Zhao








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Some points you may explore

• Real World
• What are platform options to be considered?
• How do you train your users?
• How do I implement/maintain the software ?
• What are appropriate solutions for the kind of
  design you are envisioning?
• Technology
• What different technology options and platforms
  might you consider?
• How would your solution integrate into an
  existing technology infrastructure?
• What are possible technical considerations when
  implementing software for example mobile
  devices, voice..
• What are appropriate solutions for the kind of
  design you are envisioning?
• UI
• What user interface options may fit your target
  user type?
• What are appropriate solutions for the kind of
  design you are envisioning?
• How may your users interface with your solution
  and how may that impact your design?
• How will your UI choices impact technology
  choices

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Agenda Monday April 23
Monday April 23rd Monday April 23rd
800 am Assemble in Hotel Lobby walk to convention center
815am - 915 am Meeting room Orientation/introduction to Sapphire
930 am - 1200 noon Individual team research
1215 pm 115pm Meeting room A1S Presentations/lunch Peter Zencke, Christoph Behrend
115pm 130pm Teams proceed to exhibit floor
130 am - 245 pm Individual team research
300pm - 330 pm Meeting Room Rod Massey Public Sector Speaker
330pm 400pm Meeting Room Team Meeting/Review
430 pm - 530 pm Hasso Plattner Keynote
545pm 615 pm Test-drive an SAP Solution SAP Usability Lab
615pm 730pm ASUG Networking Reception Georgia Ballroom
730 - ? Accenture Evening Event
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Agenda April 24
Tuesday April 24th Tuesday April 24th
815 am Depart Hotel
900 - 1000 am Henning Kargermann keynote
1015 1200noon Meeting Room Team Synthesis Key Insights
1200noon 1230 pm Meeting Room Event de-brief with team
1245 pm Depart for airport from Embassy Suite ( commercial flights)
200pm Depart for Hasso Jet
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More information

• The below link will lead you to the official
  Sapphire website where you can find proceeds from
  keynotes and presentations. Registration is free.
• http//www2.sapsapphire.com/usa2007/index.epx