Attending SAP Projects 2012 in Las Vegas. Started out today with the Jump Start day (Sunday:).
Attended 2 3 hour long sessions today, all filled with great information on:
For EPM, was glad to finally have learned a great deal about SAP Disclosure Management and the SAP disclosure management roadmap, a new product, until recently in Ramp Up, that allows companies in the US to file SEC compliant XBRL based (and HTML in the case of EDGAR) legally mandated disclosure statements. This is a hugely important capability. In fact, you can read here how XBRL could have potentially prevented the financial crisis.
On the mobility front, it appears the device winners are sorting themselves out, iOS or Android, and that the SAP Mobility solution has progressed a great deal since the emulators I first saw way back in early 2000. The key takeaways from the session besides the technology aspects, were that, as always, need to get the requirements nailed down, and that the users may or may not be able to tell you exactly what they need to do with it. Build it, and they might come is the message. But they will be mobile.
Talk to you tomorrow.
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