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SAP Australia Launches SAP All Cloud Connect Event in Melbourne and Sydney

Cloud content tailored to specific line-of-business audiences

SYDNEYSAP Australia today announced open registration for its SAP All Cloud Connect event, built from the ground up to address the specific technology needs of HR, Marketing, Sales, Service, Procurement and IT professionals.

Customers, partners, employees and leadership are demanding more from their lines of business, faster. SAP All Cloud Connect features SAP customers, industry thought leaders, analysts and SAP specialists, who detail best practice on how organisations across industries can deliver greater value back to the business faster, with little capital expenditure and more frequent, non-disruptive innovation.

The event series will be held in Melbourne on June 17 at the Crown Promenade Melbourne as well as in Sydney on June 19 at Sheraton on the Park.

Speakers include Craig Davis, Adjunct Professor, UTS, on ‘Conscious Capitalism: Turning Traditional Business Thinking Upside Down’, as well as Brian Prentice, Research VP, Gartner, discussing ‘Cloud Computing & The Nexus of Forces’. Attendees will also hear from local line of business managers from across industries on how they’re transitioning to the cloud and reaping gains in productivity, user experience and speed.

Line-of-business focus

SAP All Cloud Connect is designed in four tracks to focus on how cloud delivery can address the specific opportunities and pain points faced by an organisation’s various lines of business.

SAP Cloud for Customer

Marketing, Sales and Service professionals will learn how they can:

  • Redesign their selling systems to align with customer expectations and buying habits
  • Use multiple channels to build loyalty and customer satisfaction through proactive interaction
  • Use social collaboration to bring together people, data and content to deliver business results

SAP Cloud for HR

HR professionals will learn how they can:

  • Deliver real-time workforce insight to increase the business impact of HR
  • Make big data accessible so you can make smart decisions that improve workforce performance and impact the bottom line
  • Realise employees’ expectations of simplicity and great user experience.

SAP Cloud for Procurement

Procurement professionals will learn how they can:

  • Lead procurement transformations and examples of best practices for building a strong business case for their change management efforts
  • Deploy the latest technologies to drive business outcomes for their own procurement organisation
  • Run procurement in the Cloud and leverage business networks to return value back to the business

SAP Cloud for IT

IT professionals will learn how they can:

  • Free resources to innovate by moving their SAP environment to SAP’s real-time managed Cloud at a local data centre
  • Innovate in the Cloud by developing and deploying mobile and in-memory apps, fast
  • Understand the benefits of a single integrated architecture for traditional and new SAP applications.
  • SAP All Cloud Connect offers insights from thought leaders and customers across business areas on the best practices in delivering cloud solutions.

About SAP
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For more information, press only:
Perry Manross, +61 0478 303 232, perry.manross@sap.com, AEDT
Ellen Sinclair, +61 2 8281 3228, SAP@howorth.com.au, AEDT

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