A Software Insider's Point of View

Title: Industry Event: Sapience 2009
Location: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
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Start Date: 2009-12-08
End Date: 2009-12-09
Description: In 2008, SAP announced a 30% maintenance increase. For the first time in history over, 100 SAP customers spoke out publicly, organizing a press conference to express their deep frustration not only about the increase but also about SAP’s attitude; the high costs of operation; the overly complex product structure; and the treacherous pricing concept.

Many or these customers regretted their past one-stop-shopping strategy that had them over-exposed to the actions of their key application vendor. Few of them had explored the market and application sourcing alternatives. In many cases, they discovered that their SAP-bundles contained immature and lower quality products, which required expensive and time-consuming migrations with no positive business impact. The negative side of this lock-in became painfully apparent.

It’s not too late!

Sapience 2009 will present you with viable alternatives to an SAP controlled environment. We will specifically present application strategies that are customer centric and have a positive bottom line impact. Not only will we address multiple ways to reduce cost but we will inspire you to use past investments as a base for a new application strategy that focuses on your business not your vendor’s business. Enterprise support? Definitely – for YOUR enterprise.

Information at Sapience 2009 will be presented in a series of thought-provoking sessions designed to encourage open discussion and debate on the pros and cons of different strategies and alternatives.

Featuring Panels of industry veterans and experienced SAP users representing a broad spectrum of views on the viability of ERP-suites, as well as Keynotes that inform and educate on alternative strategies, Sapience 2009 will arm you with information that will enable you to move to a more cost-effective, heterogeneous environment.

INFORMATION YOU CAN PUT INTO ACTION IMMEDIATELY

* The SAP Cost Cutter\’s Roadmap
* ERP Trends
* Legal Aspects of SAP License and Maintenance Agreements – what does and does not hold water
* Third Party Maintenance
* Second Hand Licenses, how they work, and implications on maintenance and hardware changes
* Open Source Strategies for SAP Users
* Augmenting SAP Installations with Cloud Offerings
* Extending SAP Hubs with other ERP-systems
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