In today’s data-driven world, organizations that lack a well-defined data and analytics strategy risk falling behind their competition. But what does a strong strategy look like, and how can companies develop one that drives business value? This session will explore the critical components of a successful data and analytics strategy, why it is essential for modern enterprises, and how organizations can approach its development. We will break down key elements, including data governance, integration, analytics enablement, cloud strategy, and AI/ML adoption. Additionally, we’ll discuss common pitfalls, best practices, and actionable steps to align data initiatives with business goals. Whether you are starting from scratch or refining an existing strategy, this session will equip you with the tools to drive data-driven transformation in your organization. In this session, you will: Gain insights into real-world implementation approaches.  Learn how to measure the success of their strategy. Leave with a roadmap to build a data and analytics foundation that delivers tangible business outcomes.

Hear how the senior leadership team at Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) guided an SAP modernization initiative that brought SAP S/4HANA, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform, Fiori UX, and a new customer portal live in a single coordinated deployment. Learn how they aligned business and IT around a shared vision; structured project teams and decision rights across functional leads, IT, and system integrators; and used a disciplined change management model with regular leadership engagement to keep people, processes, and technology in sync. Find out why they chose to implement multiple capabilities at once, how that decision shaped their target-state architecture and future platform plans, and what outcomes they achieved, so you can apply similar practices to your own SAP modernization initiative. Key Takeaways: Real-world strategies for aligning business and IT around a shared modernization vision. Insights on how to keep people, processes, and technology in sync through a disciplined change management model. An understanding of how key decisions shaped architecture and future platform plans.

In this workshop, participants are guided through the process of building a clear and defensible business case for an SAP S/4HANA transformation, including the key financial, operational, and strategic decisions that shape program success. Attendees will come away equipped with the knowledge to: Build a clear and defensible SAP S/4HANA business case that aligns scope, deployment model, costs, risks, and expected outcomes. Evaluate deployment options, cloud incentives, subscription models, and key contract terms using structured decision criteria. Assess readiness gaps, risk factors, and operational impacts associated with different transformation choices. Develop a concise, board-level readout that communicates value, justifies decisions, and frames the transformation in outcome-driven terms.

This session provides an overview of the core capabilities of SAP Business Data Cloud and a forward-looking view of how the platform is evolving across data management, analytics, and AI. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of which capabilities are available today, what's coming in the next 12 months, and how BDC supports their data and AI priorities.

This session provides a first look at findings from SAPinsider’s SAP ERP Migration and Transformation Research Report and offers a forum to benchmark key decisions against current market data as 2027 approaches. Discover how organizations are navigating timing pressure and making deployment tradeoffs as timelines tighten.  By attending, you will:  Understand where organizations currently stand in SAP S/4HANA adoption and how those positions are influencing near-term decisions.  Examine how RISE with SAP and SAP Cloud ERP are affecting existing SAP ERP customers, including impacts on scope, timing, and deployment approach.  Identify the most common challenges and roadblocks organizations report as they plan or execute their move to SAP S/4HANA . Use research insights to assess risk exposure and extended maintenance expectations.

This session analyzes the results of SAPinsider’s latest SAP ERP Deployment Research Report and provides clear, data-driven benchmarks to help organizations assess their SAP ERP deployment strategy. By attending this session, you will:  Learn how peers are structuring SAP landscape Use benchmark data to understand where your organization stands today and how others are prioritizing governance, security, modernization, and readiness for AI-driven innovation. Gain actionable insights to validate current decisions and identify informed next steps for evolving SAP architecture with confidence.s across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments, and how adoption patterns for SAP S/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP BTP, and integration platforms differ by maturity level.

Across industries, SAP leaders are under pressure to modernize analytics and adopt AI, yet many remain constrained by fragmented data estates, slow analytics cycles, and disconnected platforms. These challenges do more than delay insights — they limit the real business value AI can deliver. Without clean, unified, and governed data, even advanced AI initiatives struggle to scale. In this session, we explore how SAP-driven organizations are rethinking their data strategy to break down silos, accelerate insight, and build an AI-ready foundation - without disrupting core SAP investments. We’ll share a practical data narrative focused on unification, governance, and usability rather than tools alone, drawing on real-world patterns seen across SAP-centric enterprises. We’ll also examine the growing alignment between SAP and Microsoft data platforms, including how SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and Microsoft Fabric are shaping a more integrated analytics and AI roadmap. Attendees will learn how modern data platforms enable SAP organizations to converge analytics, real-time intelligence, and AI into a trusted data estate, reduce ETL complexity, and improve productivity through embedded AI assistants - while positioning for tighter, future-ready integration across SAP and Microsoft ecosystems. Key Takeaways: Why fragmented data remains the #1 barrier to SAP analytics and AI success. How unified, governed data estates accelerate insight and reduce analytics cycles. The role of embedded AI copilots in improving productivity across technical and business teams. How SAP customers can build custom, trusted AI experiences grounded in enterprise data.

SAP’s cloud portfolio continues to evolve, introducing new deployment options, commercial models, and naming conventions that can be difficult to interpret across planning, execution, and post-go-live phases. This pre-conference session offers a comprehensive review of SAP’s cloud landscape and examines similarities and differences across delivery models, commercial frameworks, and operating responsibilities.  Key learning objectives:  Clearly differentiate SAP Cloud ERP Public and SAP Cloud ERP Private, including architecture, extensibility boundaries, innovation cadence, and standardization expectations. Understand what RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP represent from a commercial and operating model standpoint, and how each aligns to specific deployment paths. Translate legacy and informal terminology into SAP’s current naming conventions used in contracts, delivery models, and product roadmaps. Identify the organizational, regulatory, customization, data, and integration factors that typically drive one cloud option over another. Understand how operational responsibilities shift across cloud models, including ownership of upgrades, maintenance, security, and system availability.

As American Industrial Transport (AITX) evaluated its path to the cloud, leadership needed a clear, data-backed way to assess options and justify a potential move forward. In this session, learn how AITX used SAP Signavio process intelligence and AI-driven analysis to uncover inefficiencies, quantify value opportunities, and replace assumptions with objective insight. Hear how those findings were translated into a business case that aligned stakeholders, prioritized investments, and supported informed decision-making around cloud ERP and RISE with SAP. Attendees will come away with practical guidance for using process data to evaluate cloud transformation options and structure more effective executive-level discussions.

CIOs and CFOs are capital allocators – they have a finite budget and multiple demands for transformation, innovation, and keeping things running. Businesses are looking to start their Transformation journeys but are facing significant budget challenges in initiating critical large projects like S/4HANA, Cloud migration, re-defining supply chains, and improving customer experiences. Technology rationalization can help organizations free up budget by identifying and eliminating redundant, dated, or underutilized tech. components. In this session, you will understand how you can conduct a successful application rationalization program in a structured manner and maximize value from your IT investments. We will cover how to identify candidates for rationalization, how to unearth shadow IT, using LeanIX to do application rationalization, and a clear 4-week action plan for the attendees to take back. Key Takeaways: Expert insight into the budget challenges facing leaders on critical large projects. Critical advice for maximizing value from your IT investments. A 4-week action plan for technology rationalization.

This session explores PetMeds’ SAP Cloud ERP (formerly "SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud") implementation to modernize its core operations and support scalable growth. Hear how the company evaluated Public and Private deployment options, how they determined what to standardize versus configure, and how those choices guided their implementation approach and supported a more predictable build. Discover how Fit-to-Standard workshops, clean core practices, and preconfigured content shaped scope decisions and helped maintain compliance and quality while accelerating deployment. Come away with proven ways to manage rapid timelines, avoid complexity, maintain scope discipline, and set up your organization for a smooth SAP Cloud ERP rollout.

Kick off SAPinsider 2026 with pre-conference gatherings designed to connect you with peers navigating similar priorities, decisions, and challenges. These facilitated roundtable conversations create space for candid exchange, shared experience, and practical insight in a relaxed setting before the main agenda begins. Choose a discussion aligned to your interests and walk away with fresh perspectives and new connections that set the tone for the rest of the week.