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Welcome to IMPACT 2020

Andreas shares the road forward and how we are competing in the 50 shades of Low-Code landscape

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Global CEO and Board Member of Neptune Software with 18 years’ experience in various sales and management roles within tech and software companies. A leader, entrepreneur in business development passionate about enjoying the active outdoor life.

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An Instore Story: A New Tool to Optimize Instore Sales to B2C and B2B

Elkjøp has together with Einr, built a new tool to optimize instore sales for their B2C and B2B customers. With Elkjøp’ s microservice-centric architectural approach the Neptune Planet 9 platform with its great API support, has been a perfect match. The sales tool supports a wide variety of complex sales like home deliveries, installations, digital products, subscriptions, insurances, financing, cancellations, rebooking and sales reporting - everything the sales staff need to serve the customers. With both desktop and mobile support the sales staff can also walk freely with the customers during the process. A strong omni-channel focus allows the customer to start their journey online or instore and finish it at their own convenience. This is a consumer-grade application built for our 10.000 strong fantastic sales employees! 

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Master of Information Systems. 15 years of IT consultancy, mainly within Retail.

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An Instore Story: A New Tool to Optimize Instore Sales to B2C and B2B

Elkjøp has together with Einr, built a new tool to optimize instore sales for their B2C and B2B customers. With Elkjøp’ s microservice-centric architectural approach the Neptune Planet 9 platform with its great API support, has been a perfect match. The sales tool supports a wide variety of complex sales like home deliveries, installations, digital products, subscriptions, insurances, financing, cancellations, rebooking and sales reporting - everything the sales staff need to serve the customers. With both desktop and mobile support the sales staff can also walk freely with the customers during the process. A strong omni-channel focus allows the customer to start their journey online or instore and finish it at their own convenience. This is a consumer-grade application built for our 10.000 strong fantastic sales employees!

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Sebastian has worked at Elkjøp since 2002 in various roles such as warehouse manager, department manager, store manager, logistics manager for Elgiganten Sweden and lately as a Nordic Operations Project Manager where he has been involved in several big SAP projects.

 In his spare time, Sebastian enjoys programming, woodworking and spending time with his family.

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Unlocking Your Customer's Next Best Action with Data

As mobility and cloud systems proliferate across Enterprises, businesses are striving for new ways to derive insights from the massive amounts of data being generated to drive efficiency across their workflows. Learn how Zebra Data Services simplifies data access and analytics to enable unlocking your customer’s next best action.

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Dan Quagliana is the Principal Product Manager for Zebra Data Services. Dan is responsible for building a Data Services business at Zebra, working across the Zebra portfolio to accelerate customers’ ability to transform edge data and events into actionable insight with easy to consume APIs that streamline development, simplify data access and drive interoperability. He has over 18 years of experience in the software field, with the last 12 at Zebra. He has worked in Corporate Strategy where he guided Zebra’s strategic direction with industry and technology trends, with a focus on software.

Dan successfully launched Zebra’s Developer Relations program, creating a community of over half a million of Zebra’s ISV Partners and Developers to build awareness & educate on Zebra’s portfolio and tools to enable the creation of innovative Enterprise Visibility Solutions. Dan also has experience as a software engineer and project management lead.

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FIORI Elements: Without the Elements

Template drive FIORI Elements "Like" reports, using Neptune and ABAP Open SQL - Compare and contrast with WebIDE and CDS views.

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As Senior Director of Discovery’s SAP Technology and Architecture group, Timothy directs all aspects of SAP technical implementation at Discovery, including traditional on-Premise ABAP and BASIS operations, as well as web platforms and architecture. Prior to joining Discovery, Timothy has 20+ years of SAP experience as a developer and consultant, across many industries and SAP modules.

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FIORI Elements: Without the Elements

Template drive FIORI Elements "Like" reports, using Neptune and ABAP Open SQL - Compare and contract with WebIDE and CDS views.

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Daniel has nearly 20 years of experience working with SAP, web, and mobile application development. His company, Upper Tech ConsulDting Group, provides professional services to companies in need of enterprise-grade web applications with tight integration to SAP and other backend systems.

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Unlock the Potential of Conversational AI: Lessons Learned From Building a Conversational AI Platform

Chatbots are entering the market rapidly and have broad appeal for users due to efficiency and ease of interaction. By 2021, at least one-third of enterprises will have deployed a multi-experience development platform to support mobile, web, conversational and augmented reality development.

This session covers the Conversational AI potential and lessons learned from building a Conversational AI platform.

Showcase the highlights, main features, and journey of Genie the Genius platform which was built using the Planet 9 J&J Digital Experience platform(JDX).

Highlights of the platform which includes:
• Changes the way the business interacts with enterprise systems and future of customer engagement through conversations (Chat/Voice)
• A robust and flexible end-to-end enterprise-grade chatbot platform build on top of Microsoft Azure Bot framework & LUIS
• Scalable and Works on your favorite channels (Web, Desktop, Mobile, Slack, MS Teams, Skype etc..)

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Aravinda Boyapati is currently working as Digital Transformation, Incubation Leader at Johnson & Johnson and Global Service Owner, Product owner having 17+ years’ of experience.

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Unlock the Potential of Conversational AI: Lessons Learned From Building a Conversational AI Platform

Chatbots are entering the market rapidly and have broad appeal for users due to efficiency and ease of interaction. By 2021, at least one-third of enterprises will have deployed a multi-experience development platform to support mobile, web, conversational and augmented reality development.

This session covers the Conversational AI potential and lessons learned from building a Conversational AI platform.

Showcase the highlights, main features, and journey of Genie the Genius platform which was built using the Planet 9 J&J Digital Experience platform(JDX).

Highlights of the platform which includes:
• Changes the way the business interacts with enterprise systems and future of customer engagement through conversations (Chat/Voice)
• A robust and flexible end-to-end enterprise-grade chatbot platform build on top of Microsoft Azure Bot framework & LUIS
• Scalable and Works on your favorite channels (Web, Desktop, Mobile, Slack, MS Teams, Skype etc..)

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Raj Tiwari is currently working as Digital transformation leader at Johnson & Johnson and Regional Service Owner having 16+ years of experience.

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Insights into U.S. Sugar's Warehouse Management Strategy

During this session Matt and Pedro will review how U.S. Sugar utilized mobility software to improve processes in their parts warehouse.
After transitioning the warehouse to new software, U.S. Sugar was uniquely positioned to pivot operations and workforce to face some of the initial challenges brought on by COVID-19.

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Matt is a Senior Director at US Sugar with 18 years of experience in the IT field across all areas, including Application Development, IT Operations, and Project Management.

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Insights into U.S. Sugar's Warehouse Management Strategy

During this session Matt and Pedro will review how U.S. Sugar utilized mobility software to improve processes in their parts warehouse.
After transitioning the warehouse to new software, U.S. Sugar was uniquely positioned to pivot operations and workforce to face some of the initial challenges brought on by COVID-19.

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Pedro is currently a Senior Project Manager at US Sugar with over 20 years in multiple areas of the Software Development Lifecycle with evolving skillsets from software testing and quality assurance, system integration testing, technical delivery manager, and project management.

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Paperless Warehouse Powered by Neptune Software

Rust-Oleum acquired a new DC in the UK, which integrated 4 different sites and products into one location. Business was keen on a modern solution with SAP while staying within the budget. Together with Mygo Consulting, leveraging Neptune Software, Rust-Oleum was able to achieve 100% paperless operations with a new 21st century WMS system working and stable by third day of Go-Live.

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Harish Jadav is a seasoned SAP Functional consultant who had worked at Rust-Oleum for 2 years. Harish has overall 15+ years exp in SAP across SAP modules. He is responsible for functional Design and implementations of business application solutions at RO.

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Paperless Warehouse Powered by Neptune Software

Rust-Oleum acquired a new DC in the UK, which integrated 4 different sites and products into one location. Business was keen on a modern solution with SAP while staying within the budget. Together with Mygo Consulting, leveraging Neptune Software, Rust-Oleum was able to achieve 100% paperless operations with a new 21st century WMS system working and stable by third day of Go-Live.

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Amol Dubal is a seasoned SAP Technical consultant who has worked at Rust-Oleum for 6 years. Amol has overall 15+ years exp in SAP across functional areas. He is responsible for technical design and implementations of the solution at RO.

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Paperless Warehouse Powered by Neptune Software

Rust-Oleum acquired a new DC in the UK, which integrated 4 different sites and products into one location. Business was keen on a modern solution with SAP while staying within the budget. Together with Mygo Consulting, leveraging Neptune Software, Rust-Oleum was able to achieve 100% paperless operations with a new 21st century WMS system working and stable by third day of Go-Live.

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Mauricio Grossi is the Director of Mobile Solutions at Mygo Consulting, an end-to-end SAP shop. Mauricio excels at helping clients uncover their pain points, while navigating through the deep seas within SAP, to find the right solution that fits their needs.

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Designing a SAPUI5 Web Portal for the French Ministry of Justice HR Apps

The human resources information system of the French Ministère de la Justice, named Harmonie, is a unique tool built upon the SAP module HCM. This system was designed to manage the 90,000 agents working for the Ministry: a challenge when public sector and the various private contractors all require different rules.

The Ministry used to rely on a Web Dynpro portal, but by 2018 it was outdated. Thus, a vast digital transformation project was launched to modernize their IT system, which in particular meant replacing their current HR portal with something future-proof, intuitive and multi-device.

After some research, Neptune DX Platform appeared as the best solution to satisfy requirements. With Neptune, the Ministry now had the tools to build a modern web portal based on SAPUI5, and was able to quickly develop Fiori applications

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Designing a SAPUI5 Web Portal for the French Ministry of Justice HR Apps

The human resources information system of the French Ministère de la Justice, named Harmonie, is a unique tool built upon the SAP module HCM. This system was designed to manage the 90,000 agents working for the Ministry: a challenge when public sector and the various private contractors all require different rules.

The Ministry used to rely on a Web Dynpro portal, but by 2018 it was outdated. Thus, a vast digital transformation project was launched to modernize their IT system, which in particular meant replacing their current HR portal with something future-proof, intuitive and multi-device.

After some research, Neptune DX Platform appeared as the best solution to satisfy requirements. With Neptune, the Ministry now had the tools to build a modern web portal based on SAPUI5, and was able to quickly develop Fiori applications

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Designing a SAPUI5 Web Portal for the French Ministry of Justice HR Apps

The human resources information system of the French Ministère de la Justice, named Harmonie, is a unique tool built upon the SAP module HCM. This system was designed to manage the 90,000 agents working for the Ministry: a challenge when public sector and the various private contractors all require different rules.

The Ministry used to rely on a Web Dynpro portal, but by 2018 it was outdated. Thus, a vast digital transformation project was launched to modernize their IT system, which in particular meant replacing their current HR portal with something future-proof, intuitive and multi-device.

After some research, Neptune DX Platform appeared as the best solution to satisfy requirements. With Neptune, the Ministry now had the tools to build a modern web portal based on SAPUI5, and was able to quickly develop Fiori applications

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Eastman Chemical's Journey: Maintenance Using Ease of Use and Mobile Apps

The goal of Eastman Chemical's journey was to develop ease of use applications to accomplish critical transactions performed by maintenance that are applicable to both desktop and mobile devices. 

With the help of Neptune Software they were able to develops 7 applications to over 900 unique users with only 4 internal developers.

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Tony has been in the Maintenance Organization for more than 30 years and served in various roles during that time.  His SAP career started in 1996 as the Business Process Lead responsible for the implementation of SAP Plant Maintenance at 17 global sites from 1997 – 2001 and has remained involved in SAP Plant Maintenance initiatives since.  Since that time, he has completed more than 30 full cycle SAP implementations, participated in many business redesigns, and has been involved in providing many enhanced SAP tools to the business organization throughout his career.  In his current role as the Plant Maintenance Business Analyst for Eastman Chemical, he was instrumental in the design, development and deployment of the Neptune Mobile Applications currently being utilized across a number of Eastman facilities globally. 

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How to Address Enterprise Mobility Challenges Over SAP Systems in Less Than a Month

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With more than 20 years of experience in IT management of different companies always working together with business areas, Fernando Roma, today the Senior Corporate Manager of the Gire Group. Was one of the responsible for the creation of the start-up Ducit SA, a company dedicated to Flow Transportation that already operates in the Argentine market basing its processes and logistics on technology as one of its competitive advantages.

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PreBilt: Mobile Solutions for the SAP Supply Chain

The Config Team are delighted to introduce PreBilt, a comprehensive suite of ‘out of the box’ mobile applications, which have been designed to digitize any supply chain process within warehousing, manufacturing and distribution centers. Today they team will be launching PreBilt for SAP EWM and demonstrating a Goods Receipt process, showcasing the enhanced functionality available when compared to SAP ITS Mobile.

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Originally working at Proctor & Gamble with SAP R/2 as a Technical Consultant and then transitioned to Functional Consulting where he set up The Config Team to focus on SAP within the supply chain. Twenty-five years later he has a team of dedicated SAP supply chain experts supporting leading brands worldwide, developing innovative solutions to enhance day to day SAP operations.

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PreBilt: Mobile Solutions for the SAP Supply Chain

The Config Team are delighted to introduce PreBilt, a comprehensive suite of ‘out of the box’ mobile applications, which have been designed to digitize any supply chain process within warehousing, manufacturing and distribution centers. Today they team will be launching PreBilt for SAP EWM and demonstrating a Goods Receipt process, showcasing the enhanced functionality available when compared to SAP ITS Mobile.

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With a strong technical background, Geoff heads up our Product Team with a passion for making SAP simple for end users.

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PreBilt: Mobile Solutions for the SAP Supply Chain

The Config Team are delighted to introduce PreBilt, a comprehensive suite of ‘out of the box’ mobile applications, which have been designed to digitize any supply chain process within warehousing, manufacturing and distribution centers. Today they team will be launching PreBilt for SAP EWM and demonstrating a Goods Receipt process, showcasing the enhanced functionality available when compared to SAP ITS Mobile.

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An experienced SAP EWM functional consultant with a history of working in warehouse management and the consumer goods industry. He has been involved in and led several EWM distribution and warehousing implementation projects.

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Improving Waste Collection for a Modern World

With more than 350 waste trucks handling more than 5,000 containers and bins every day, good and effective tools for the drivers are crucial. One of these tools is the driver app. This is the tool used for sending orders to the trucks, guiding the drivers through the completion of the missions and collecting data for analysis and customer invoicing. Our experience is that a well-designed solution helps the drivers work more efficient, makes the customer more satisfied and improves the data quality sent back to the backend system. This again makes it possible to improve the backend processes and gives us nice possibilities to run analyses.

In 2019 we found that it was time to replace the existing driver app. We looked at several vendors and solutions and, in the end, we went for Neptune and Planet 9. Why, and how the development project ended, I will tell more about in the Neptune summit.

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Oddleif Rotmo is a happy husband and father to three wonderful kids. He lives in Drammen and work as solution architect in Norsk Gjenvinning. Oddleif has been working with SAP for more than 15 years.  He has been the lead of SAP in Panasonic Nordic  and group lead of the SAP SD team in Capgemini Norway. In addition to this work in Norsk Gjenvinning he is also is a member of the SAP user group for waste and recycling.

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POSBE: Point of Sales by EINR! A Cloud POS Made for Enterprises

Where should your master data, your single view, or one trusted representation of data, reside? And how to update and get that master data to where it’s needed quickly? In our view, this is the single biggest advantage of a cloud architected POS.

POS has traditionally relied on its own siloed data that’s disconnected from the web and other channels. If you take that on-premise path, with different data views, you will always be playing catch-up and have very little opportunity to deliver truly cross-channel consistency.

Clearly we believe there needs to be a master data view, whether it resides in the existing ERP system, or a specific Master Data Management hub, depends on each retailer. But replicating data locally for the POS, or trying to make the POS a master data store invites unnecessary complexity.

What matters more is the ability to get this data to where it’s valuable in a ‘publish and subscribe’ approach. With the cloud this is incredibly simple to achieve using APIs and it means your business can take real-time decisions.

POS has traditionally relied on its own siloed data that’s disconnected from the web and other channels. If you take that on-premise path, with different data views, you will always be playing catch-up and have very little opportunity to deliver truly cross-channel consistency.

Clearly we believe there needs to be a master data view, whether it resides in the existing ERP system, or a specific Master Data Management hub, depends on each retailer. But replicating data locally for the POS, or trying to make the POS a master data store invites unnecessary complexity.

What matters more is the ability to get this data to where it’s valuable in a ‘publish and subscribe’ approach. With the cloud this is incredibly simple to achieve using APIs and it means your business can take real-time decisions.

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Kristian Glasø has a long experience from SAP development. He is an expert in solving challenges and problems. If all hope is gone, Kristin will get it back on track again. Kristian has been the head developer of “Point of Sales by EINR”. A brand new solution. Built from scratch but already proven, more than one billion in sales in a few months across 100 stores. 

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POSBE: Point of Sales by EINR! A Cloud POS Made for Enterprises

Where should your master data, your single view, or one trusted representation of data, reside? And how to update and get that master data to where it’s needed quickly? In our view, this is the single biggest advantage of a cloud architected POS.

POS has traditionally relied on its own siloed data that’s disconnected from the web and other channels. If you take that on-premise path, with different data views, you will always be playing catch-up and have very little opportunity to deliver truly cross-channel consistency.

Clearly we believe there needs to be a master data view, whether it resides in the existing ERP system, or a specific Master Data Management hub, depends on each retailer. But replicating data locally for the POS, or trying to make the POS a master data store invites unnecessary complexity.

What matters more is the ability to get this data to where it’s valuable in a ‘publish and subscribe’ approach. With the cloud this is incredibly simple to achieve using APIs and it means your business can take real-time decisions.

POS has traditionally relied on its own siloed data that’s disconnected from the web and other channels. If you take that on-premise path, with different data views, you will always be playing catch-up and have very little opportunity to deliver truly cross-channel consistency.

Clearly we believe there needs to be a master data view, whether it resides in the existing ERP system, or a specific Master Data Management hub, depends on each retailer. But replicating data locally for the POS, or trying to make the POS a master data store invites unnecessary complexity.

What matters more is the ability to get this data to where it’s valuable in a ‘publish and subscribe’ approach. With the cloud this is incredibly simple to achieve using APIs and it means your business can take real-time decisions.

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Per Atle Steinsland is the Managing Partner for EINR. He has extensive experience from consulting and large projects. Per has been working in the retail and IT space for a decade with technologies from mainly Microsoft and SAP. He is passionate about people, world-class products, and deliveries.  

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How the Cloud Enables End-toEnd Workflow Visibility

The cloud has transformed so many aspects of technology and business, but most enterprises are still just scratching the surface of utilizing its potential.  In this session, we’ll discuss how capturing data like labels, barcodes, tags, beacons, and location can be transformed into real-time visibility by wrapping those events with business context including the Who, What, When, Where, and Why.  And finally, we’ll talk about how we can drive tangible action in the workflow with the How.

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Nathan Clevenger is currently the Director of Portfolio Management in the Enterprise Software business unit at Zebra where he leads the roadmap for the Savanna Data Services Platform. Nathan has more than 20 years of experience working with enterprise software and is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, technology startup advisor, and author. Prior to working at Zebra, he served as Co-Founder and CTO of iFactr which was acquired by Zebra in 2015, as well as advisor to Bitzer Mobile, which was acquired by Oracle in 2013.

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Product Vision and Announcements

Come and hear the latest product announcement that will take us beyond the solar system and into a new future

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Seasoned technologist with 20 years of experience in the enterprise software business with a focus on SAP. Former software architect, now focused on product management, with a sweet spot at the intersection of technology & communication. High profile blogger & influencer in the SAP ecosystem. Well versed in tech talk and C-level business conversations. Regular (keynote) speaker at international software development conferences. World traveler and aspiring global citizen. Father of four and part- time triathlete. Constantly balancing family, work and sports.

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Using Neptune's DXP to drive innovation and deliver cost savings in the UK's largest Home Improvement Retailer - Homebase

During this Presentation Homebase will describe why adopting a low code platform has been a fundamental part of Homebase's 'turnaround strategy' why they chose Neptune, what progress they have made to date and the vision for the future.

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Paul has over 25 years experience in the Retail sector from his early career where he was a Retail Store Manager at B&Q to his time at Wickes and now his leadership role managing all the IT for the Homebase Group

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Digitalizing the Government for the Future

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Paul Chaffey is State Secretary to the Minister of Regional Development and Digitalisation . He was State Secretary to the Minister of Local Government and Modernisation from 2013. Prior to that he was managing director of Abelia.

Chaffey has a degree in political science and history, and has previously worked at Statoil. He was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1989 to 1997, and has served on the board of directors of a number of institutions, including Amnesty, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Business and Industry Security Council and the Research Council of Norway’s FORNY 2020 programme.

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Make a Wish Foundation realizes dreams the digital way

Make a Wish Foundation digitalize their old, paper based process and start their journey to helping kids realize their dreams in a new, and modern way

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Using Neptune's DXP as an integration hub between SAP and non SAP for BAT's global HR App MyBAT

During this Presentation Dinesh will present BAT's transformation journey and how MyBAT has become a strategic pillar for Employee Engagement and communication across the world. He will describe how integrating SAP functionality into the App was critical to improving the Apps' stickiness and why Neptune's DXP solution represented the best solution to address this challenge. He will describe the project, it's challenges and outcomes and how IBM & Neptune worked together.

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Since graduating from MIT Dinesh has worked for BAT firstly as a Management Trainee and then moving into IT where he has held a number of roles from Project Management to Data Lead and Product Owner for MyBAT globally.

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Developing a new HR portal in SAPUI5 for the three branches of the French Armed Forces

Tasked with modernizing its aging human resources portal, the SAP team of the Ministry of Armed Forces had to create a new portal for the Army, the Navy and the Air Force: close to 250.000 users. To meet the requirements on user experience, budget, technical compatibility and time development, they chose Neptune to develop and deliver their new portal, delivered in under a year.

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Fabrice Jean started as a system administrator in the Armed Forces in 1992. Now part of a 200 person team in the Human Resources Information System department (SIRH), he helps conceptualize and execute the functional evolutions of their SAP environment. Beyond his work in modernizing the services of the Armed Forces, he enjoys Crossfit® in his spare time.

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Supplier consignment with Asia and the USA

Melcher’s subsidiary had the requirement to give a supplier from Taipei and a warehouse keeper in the USA the possibility to access their SAP system. This was only realized with the help of the Neptune DX Platform.

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Supplier consignment with Asia and the USA

Melcher’s subsidiary had the requirement to give a supplier from Taipei and a warehouse keeper in the USA the possibility to access their SAP system. This was only realized with the help of the Neptune DX Platform.

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Product Vision and Announcements

Come and hear the latest product announcement that will take us beyond the solar system and into a new future

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Ole-Andre Haugen is the co-founder and CTO of Neptune Software. He brings 26 years’ experience with IT consulting, where hid last engagements was as Managing Director in LogNet for 5 years and Director of the SAP Business Unit of CIBER for 4 years. When he isn’t working to make Neptune Software even better, he loves to spend travel and spend time with his wife and two daughters.