SAPPHIRE '08 - Berlin

SAPPHIRE ’08 is a premier international event that provides valuable business opportunities for HP. The content-rich event provides an ideal opportunity to leverage existing relationship with SAP, as well as increasing key prospects and customers.

Location:
Messe Berlin,
Messedamm 22 14055 Berlin, Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)30 / 3038 - 0
Facsimile: +49 (0)30 / 3038 - 2325
www.messe-berlin.com

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SAPPHIRE Tickets

Additional Conference Tickets (Full Conference Tickets or One Day Tickets) can be purchased at any time until sold out by registering on the public SAPPHIRE website.

Title:
Data Center Transformation at General Motors Europe

Abstract: 
Learn how General Motors Europe uses a mix of virtualization and high-availability technologies to build a grid-like adaptive infrastructure architecture based on HP Integrity servers. Hear a real-life example of how to increase agility and lower total cost of ownership using proven technologies, with a look at a Web service for the accounting and monitoring of virtualized SAP software infrastructures.

Speakers: 
Dr. Michael Missbach; HP Senior Consultant
Guenter Jadischke, Manager Global SAP Infrastructure & Operations, General Motors Europe

Date:  Tuesday 20th of May
Time:  1pm - 2pm
Location:  ERP Village Theater

Take the HP Tour to learn how to Optimize the Business Outcome of your SAP Environment

Have you discovered the power of the HP portfolio?  Many SAP customers already have understood that our solutions are unique combinations of open, flexible technologies and broad expertise. That’s why nearly 50% of all SAP solution-based installations run on HP platforms. 

Join us on a short tour at the HP booth ER 2.1 to learn how HP can help you Modernize, Manage and Optimize your SAP Applications throughout their Lifecycle, using HP solutions for three key lifecycle phases:

• Strategy & Planning
• Upgrade & Implementation
• Management & Optimization

HP Lifecycle Booth Tour times- Booth tours will be held every hour on the hour.

Join an interactive HP BI session on "Driving Operational BI with HP Neoview, SAP NetWeaver BI and Business Objects". Where: May 20, 5 to 6 pm, HP Meeting room 3.3 in Hall 3.2

Come to the HP booth to find pragmatic solutions for implementing Enterprise SOA - and book your personal SOA Transformation Experience workshop."

Prize Draw

A prize draw will be held each day for an HP navigator phone.

Monday 19th                 17.00 on the booth
Tuesday 20th               18.00 on the booth
Wednesday 21st         13.30 on the booth

HP will present the key EMEA initiatives of the SAP alliance including services, software and hardware.

Phase 1: Strategy and Planning

HP solutions and services for Enterprise SOA

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) plays a key role in synchronizing business and technology, by integrating business processes across the enterprise. HP and SAP have extended their alliance to enable Enterprise SOA, making it easier to integrate people, information and processes using the SAP NetWeaver platform. HP solutions and services for Enterprise SOA help you create more flexible and innovative business solutions, capitalizing on change and launching your enterprise on a reliable path to SOA.

HP Application Outsourcing and Hosting Services for SAP

HP Application Outsourcing for SAP applications achieves new levels of automation and optimization by providing a smooth and predictable funding model for SAP upgrades while helping you meet your needs for higher SAP availability, stability and functionality. 

Phase 2: Implementation and Upgrade

HP solutions for upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0

When you select HP solutions for your upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0, you can rest assured you’ll be able to take advantage of all the latest features SAP ERP 6.0 has to offer – whether that includes streamlining key business processes, handling multiple languages concurrently via Unicode conversion, or helping to explore the benefits of an enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (eSOA). 

HP Software solutions for Upgrade & Implementation

Your mission-critical SAP applications must deliver the best performance before and after they go live. HP BTO Software for SAP solutions help you guard against architectural interoperability, limited scalability, poor performance and functional glitches. This offering supports the entire business application lifecycle – from implementations and upgrades to patching and consolidation. You can better govern your demand-to-production and to maintain and operate your production environment.

Phase 3: Management and Optimization

HP Output Management Solutions 

HP Output Management solutions are the intelligent link that gets critical documents --   invoices, contracts, purchase orders – to virtually any destination – print, fax, email, web, wireless devices – reliably and efficiently. Document Composition optimizes complex document creation processes and produces higher quality, relevant communications of all types for high-volume and on-demand production environments.  Enterprises benefit by significantly reducing their development and integration efforts, increasing the reusability of document assets, and enhancing the consistency of communications

HP Adaptive Infrastructure for SAP

HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure solution and services allow you to standardize, consolidate and virtualized technology. This demonstration will illustrate HP Adaptive Infrastructure solution for SAP using Virtualization technology for SAP (HP VSE and HP VIS / SAP Adaptive computing) and how to assess the readiness of your infrastructure to move towards an Adaptive Infrastructure.

Operational BI Solutions from HP and SAP

HP Neoview is an integrated hardware, software and services platform for operational BI handling hundreds of terabytes of streaming data from disparate data sources such as POS and RFID. HP Neoview provides certified integration with SAP NetWeaver BI and is complemented by the Business Objects Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and Information Delivery and Design (IDD) product families to provide a complete BI solution.

HP has partnered with SAP since the earliest days of SAP R/3®. Together, we’ve created a remarkable legacy providing world-class business solutions to worldwide customers. Our solutions are unique combinations of open, flexible technologies and broad expertise. That’s why nearly 50% of all SAP solution-based installations run on HP platforms.

Did you know?

• HP servers host almost 50% of all SAP installations with more than 55,000+ installations and more than 22,000 customers.
• HP is the global disk storage market leader; No.1 position in Storage Area Networks.
• HP is certified as Global SAP Hosting Partner, and is a worldwide leader in SAP operations services, with 250+ outsourcing customers, managing over 850,000 users.
• SAP selects HP’s output management technology as its preferred strategic platform.
• HP is one of the largest SAP customers in the world. HP uses SAP solutions for Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management.
• SAP’s internal SAP ERP 6.0 system runs on HP Integrity servers.

To learn more about the HP SAP Alliance, click here