Thank you for your interest in speaking at SAP for Utilities: Presented by ASUG Best Practices, hosted at the Fountainbleau in Miami, FL on September 9 – 11, 2024.

We are currently accepting session proposals through Friday, April 12, 2024. Please refer to the information provided below for content suggestions, details on our submission timeline, and additional guidance for the development of your proposal.

We are actively seeking 40-minute sessions on the specified topics, with the requirement that customer must be confirmed to co-present in person to secure session confirmation.

Here are the topics we will cover in 2024:

2024 Content Priorities​

*designates top priority

SAP S/4HANA*

• Migration and upgrade journeys​
• Best practices for implementation​
• Transitioning from on prem to cloud or migrating legacy systems​
• How to gain company buy-in​
• Clean core – how are you approaching it, how do you get started, what’s changing ​
• RISE with SAP​
  • Examples: Post-deployment tips and tricks for maintaining a clean core or top 10 lessons learned from an SAP S/4HANA implementation

The Business of Utilities* 

• Utility trends
• Business issues and pressures​
• Partnership between IT & business​
• Complex projects using multiple SAP platforms​
• Innovations (specific to the utilities – gas, water, electric, etc.)​

Enterprise Asset Management ​*

• Combination of software, systems and services used to maintain and control operational assets and equipment​

Meter to Cash ​

• Meter-to-cash is the cyclical lifecycle within which natural gas, electric, water and wastewater organizations operate. The cycle involves starting service, metering, billing, payments and collections.​

Business Intelligence and Analytics​

• Business intelligence (BI) and analytics refers to the collective infrastructure, tools, applications, and other resources that generate data and insights, which in turn inform how businesses make decisions, uncover revenue opportunities, and evaluate performance.​
• Reporting​

Technology

• SAP BTP​, SAP Signavio​, etc.
• Generative AI (Joule)​

Artificial Intelligence​*

Roadmaps​*

• Dedicated presentations from SAP on specific roadmaps including: SAP for Utilities (what's current & what's coming); FSM; SAP S/4HANA​

SAP Support​

• How is SAP going to provide support to customers as they migrate or implement new technology?​

Other​

• Customer Experience​
• CX Service Cloud ​
• Utilities CX​
• Improved CSR experience​
• Expected value from moving to the next phase of SAP – areas improved by the users and customer experience​
• Options for getting off ECC​
• SAP technology vision – innovations and feature list​
• Group reporting​
• Work Management​
• SAM​
• Security​
• Field Service Management (FSM)​
• Reporting / data / analytics / SAP analytics pre-packaged capabilities?
• Clean Energy 2030​

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Details on How to Submit:

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3. Once you have successfully created an account for this call for proposals, you will be able to submit as many proposals as you would like up until the submission deadline. You do not need to be an ASUG member in order to submit a proposal.

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