Future plans of sap

Question

Hi all,
         Please explain future plans of sap?
regards,
shyam

Answer 1

Dear shyamkiran shetty,
A conference is scheduled on 16-18th June having the following agenda. This will give you a clear cut view of SAP's future plan. 
Solution Manager
Why use it and why do I need it?
SAP's strategy and plans
Will it become mandatory to use Solution Manager?
Customer experiences
Practical uses of the product
What tools are included in Solution Manager?
The role of Solution Manager in upgrades and loading data
Presentations showing and discussing functionality in the areas of System Monitoring, Helpdesk, System Landscape Management, Business Process Management, Change Management, Testing and Document Management
What other tools are currently available as a comparison? Why choose other tools and what are the consequences?
User Interfaces
Current UI's - what are their features, benefits and characteristics?
Why should I choose one over another?
What are the pre-requisites and support implications?
UI's developed using WebDynpro (both ABAP and Java)
Adobe UI's - Forms and Flex
GuiXt, Visual Composer, Portals, .NET
Mobile technology and mobile infrastructure
Upgrades
Building a business case
Examples of a business case and justification for an upgrade
What are the compelling reasons to upgrade?
What benefits and ROI can be gained?
To upgrade or re-implement?
Hear customer stories from completed upgrades
Leveraging an upgrade to gain a business benefit
New functionality contained in the latest versions
The new features and tools - how to find and use them
After the upgrade - exploiting new functionality
Technical aspects of an upgrade
What are the landscape and sizing implications and how do we manage those issues?
Virtualisation - what benefits can it deliver and what limitations exist?
Unicode upgrades
Preparing your technical staff and resources for the upgrade
How can I address the training and education requirements?
Planning for continuous improvement
TDMS - why use it and what benefits will it bring to us?
Planning an archiving strategy, as opposed to deletion strategy
SAP Strategy/Futures
SAP has stated its strategy for new releases up to 2011. What does this mean to the current customers who need to make strategic plans of their own?
In light of recent acquisitions what are the implications to customers and partners?
The interdependencies between the various SAP solutions such as BI, CRM, and APO
What's coming with each solution and how does this affect customers?
What is the effect of implementing each component of SAP on other areas and the total system landscape?
Using existing functionality in industry solutions within your solution
Business By Design
SAP's SDN and BPX communities
SAP training and certification changes and what they mean
What is coming next?
XI(PI)/xApps/NetWeaver
How is XI (PI) currently being used and what are the plans for the future?
Real solutions, what has been done, how is it used and what is the benefit of replacing existing interfaces with XI?
How are companies exchanging information between systems using XI (B2B)?
Customer success stories and examples of what can be achieved with XI and xApps
The xApps that are available
The NetWeaver technology strategy
NetWeaver core components and inter-relationships
What demand do the inter-relationships place on the system landscape?
Development/Modelling
Building WebDynpro applications that are supportable, upgradeable and reusable
Object oriented ABAP, ABAP shared objects, consuming web services and SAP's enhancement framework
Discussions and demonstrations of the various modelling and developing tools
ABAP vs Java and .Net and Java WebDynpro
Designing and building in the composite environment
Comparisons of the various modelling tools in the market, including Visual Composer and some common third party tools such as ARIS etc.
What skills are required within an organisation for modelling?
Business Process modelling
Testing environments - use, requirements and demonstrations of TDMS
Portals
The business case
Justifying the need to implement a portal
What are the benefits we can expect to achieve?
The new features and functionality of EP 7.1 over EP 6
Federated portals and examples of successful implementations
The technical case
Remote access and security
Single sign-on, authentication and authorisations
System dependencies, administration issues and enterprise search
Third party portals - what are the options about deploying content?
Integrating non-SAP technology and portals
What skills have customers had to employ to support new portal technology?
System Admin
Virtualisation and adaptive computing - what options are available?
System landscape optimisation, managing complex landscapes and sizing
Unicode conversions
Server consolidation and performance tuning
Database comparisons, managing large databases and database migration
To TDMS or not to TDMS?
Archiving and archive links
Document management solutions
Data integration, workflow and job scheduling
Infrastructure and architecture platforms
Installing, monitoring and maintaining SAP's J2EE server
SAP's support pack strategy
Monitoring and maintaining the SAP portal
Security
Security continues to be of interest as more people work from outside the traditional environment and also with the increasing use of Portal technology.
Best practices
Portal issues
Role management, identity management across systems and the aspects of a single sign-on environment
Authentication and authorisations in the mobile workforce
Access for non-SAP users
Access for contractors and short-term workers
Additional security products such as Versa
Support
SAP's support pack strategy and support tools
What does SAP's active Global support offer?
Outsourcing issues and options
Best practices for support
The service marketplace - Helpdesk experiences and alternatives
Building a support team
Do let me know in case of any queries.
Hope this helps you.
Regards,
Rakesh