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Welcome to IMPACT 2022

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

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Since 2012, Andreas has brought innovative leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, and strategic foresight to the Neptune Software team. With more than 20 years of experience in the IT and software fields, he is a strong business leader that understands the technology landscape and what enterprises need to succeed in this digital future.

With his passionate leadership style, he believes that career wellbeing is foundational to a company’s success, along with trust and dedication. Yet leading a company where employees have fun at what they are doing rises above anything else.

Outside of work, Andreas enjoys a physical, active lifestyle outdoors in both the summer and winter.

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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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With more than 25 years of experience in the enterprise software business, Ole-André’s expertise is at the intersection of technology, business and forefront technology. He’s been involved in more than 40 SAP projects as a consultant, partner, development, and project manager. An entrepreneur and tech nerd at heart who has started five companies, improving and learning new things is his passion and Neptune Software is his home.

When he’s not working, Ole-André loves traveling the world with his family, making food, and enjoying good wine.

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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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Matthias is a seasoned technologist with 20 years of experience in the enterprise software business, focusing on SAP. A software engineer by trade, he’s now a product manager by choice. He enjoys working at the intersection of engineering, go-to-market, and product marketing. He is well respected in the SAP ecosystem, regularly speaking at international software development conferences.

A father of four and part-time triathlete, Matthias is a world traveler and aspiring global citizen.

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Capacitor, Cordova, and the Web Native Revolution

Neptune Software recently announced a new partnership that will bring Capacitor, the popular open-source cross-platform native bridge, to developers and teams building mobile, web, and desktop applications with Neptune DXP.

Capacitor—a direct replacement for Cordova—has surged in popularity in recent years, and was recently rated #1 in developer satisfaction for mobile. In this talk, we’ll discuss how the mobile and web development landscape has changed dramatically since Cordova was first released back in 2009, and why switching from Cordova to Capacitor can help enterprise teams dramatically increase app performance, boost app security, and more easily access native device features.

We’ll share easy steps for migrating your app from Cordova to Capacitor, and discuss how the old definition of “hybrid” is giving way to a new mode of cross-platform development: Web Native.

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Developer Advocate and DX Engineer at Ionic – Thomas is a cross-functional Software engineer with a focus on mobile and web applications. He currently works at Ionic as the Developer Experience Engineer on Capacitor. In his free time, he likes to compose music, create 3d art/animations, and participate in game dev jams.

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Power Play – How Microsoft Power Platform and Neptune DXP facilitate enterprise low-code development

Neptune DXP enables SAP developers to expose SAP objects & services in an easy way. Microsoft Power Platform enables 20 million users every month to automate processes, build applications and integrate services in Office products in a low-code way. Bringing these two worlds together is a true Power Play which enables you to do more with SAP, Microsoft and Neptune Software! In this session, we will outline how you can use both platforms together and show scenarios of how end-users can benefit from it.

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Holger is a Product Manager for SAP architecture and integration at Microsoft. In his role he is working closely with SAP to bring SAP and Microsoft solutions closer together. Before joining Microsoft Holger was working at SAP in different roles, in the last one as a Product Manager for SAP Cloud Platform. He loves working and listening to customers and partners to help them get the best out of their SAP and Microsoft investments.

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Dussmann Group goes live in 3 months with 23 apps for firstline and desk workers

In this session, you will learn about Dussmann’s employee portal which they began creating in 2020 together with Neptune and launched within three months. Discover how they handled the initial project and how they proceeded to achieve their final vision. With the new employee portal, Dussmann has started their path to processing data faster and involving all of their employees more directly.

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Christin started out as a general business administrator at Bombardier Transportation in Hennigsdorf, Germany. There she had several opportunities to learn many different aspects of business processes. She started out in procurement, lead a team within logistics, worked several years as SAP Keyuser for Quality Management and finally became an SAP Site keyuser. Afterward, Christin started at Dussmann and became an SAP Project Manager. In 2019, she became Deputy Head of Service and Competence Center (SCC) ERP. Within this position, she became the IT project lead for their Neptune Employee Portal. At the beginning of this year, Christin became the Head of SCC Employee Portals. The fact that a new team has been created also shows the importance which Dussmann gives to their Employee Portal.

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Secil’s Digital Transformation Journey

In this session, Carlos will guide you through their Secil Digital transformation journey. From basic workflow implementations in HR and procurement to operational digital transformation in some business unit processes and ultimately going to B2B portals to improve customer and vendor relationships. All supported in Neptune frameworks!

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Carlos has more than 20 years of experience in SAP. He started as an SAP Developer/Administrator system, then became a SD expert. Carlos is also an internal logistics consultant. Recently (since 2018) he has been responsible for the introduction and implementation of Neptune in the Secil landscape.

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How low code enables the best practices of the 2020ies

During the session, you will learn why low code is strategic for enterprises to build their next-generation applications in the era of infinite computing. Why does low code matter and what enterprises can do with it – from the automation gap to the very end of the hockey stick.

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Holger Mueller is VP and Principal Analyst for Constellation Research covering Next Generation Apps and Human Capital Management. Holger provides strategy and counsel to key clients, including Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Chief Product Officers, Chief HR Officers, investment analysts, venture capitalists, sell side firms and technology buyers.

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Developer Experience and the Low Code Paradox: A view of the modern tech landscape

In this talk, James Governor will outline industry trends converging to drive the need and opportunity for low code as part of the toolkit of modern application delivery. But as enterprises, startups and scaleups increasingly appreciate the value of addressing the developer experience gap, low code and no code threaten to tip the balance back, making the lives of professional developers harder rather than easier. So how can we make both professional developers and low coders productive and happy? The answer is architecture and process, addressing the social technical systems needed to build and develop digital services in a modern way. We will look at the past, present and future of the dialectic of low code, no code and pro code.

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James founded RedMonk in 2002 with Stephen O’Grady. Together, they focus on developers as the real key influencers in tech. Understanding that people choose technology because of gut instincts not facts per se. An ex-journalist, James has managed teams and news agendas in weekly publication grind. IBM and MS watcher since 1995. Goals–build RedMonk. Specialities: Developers, developers, developers.

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Scaling Elkjøp’s in-store sales tool for Black Friday

Elkjøp, together with Einr, has built their in-store sales tool on Neptune DXP. Being a major player in the Nordic retail electronic market requires a huge focus on scalability, ensuring 10,000 employees can focus on selling. Learn how Elkjøp has built their infrastructure in Azure Kubernetes Service and preparations done to secure high availability in peak with Black Friday as the biggest sales day.

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Camilla is co-founder and partner at Einr. She has 17 years of experience with digitalization projects, mainly within the retail industry. At Elkjøp Camilla acts as the technical lead for Elkjøp’s new in-store sales tool and has from the initialization phase had the solution architectural responsibility for this solution.

Both at work and in her free time Camilla enjoys discussing and elaborating on the use of technology. In private she also loves spending time with her two kids, ideally skiing downhill together.

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Scaling Elkjøp’s in-store sales tool for Black Friday

Elkjøp, together with Einr, has built their in-store sales tool on Neptune DXP. Being a major player in the Nordic retail electronic market requires a huge focus on scalability, ensuring 10,000 employees can focus on selling. Learn how Elkjøp has built their infrastructure in Azure Kubernetes Service and preparations done to secure high availability in peak with Black Friday as the biggest sales day.

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André started working with Elkjøp back in 2011, after working some years within similar retailers while studying, making the transition easier.

He’s been involved with a handful of projects lifting Elkjøp from old-school systems running in the basement, to a modern landscape in Azure, one of which was establishing the platform for Elkjøp’s new in-store sales solution Blueberry, which is built on Neptune DXP and runs fully in the cloud, with the flexibility of Kubernetes.

In his free time, he enjoys music, festivals, traveling and spending some “geek time” on interesting technology.

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Field Inspections and Asset Data Collection for the Electricity Industry in Australia

SA Power Networks has the challenge where a large number of assets are in remote bushland environments, where connectivity is unavailable, the ability to work offline is a must and always a challenge of any of their mobility solutions.

The challenge is to provide field users the functionality to deliver an in-depth collection of asset information and additional capability to interact with their SAP asset information.

Additionally with the impending upgrade of their backend asset management system there is a need for a timely new mobility inspection tool – Blueworx – which is being rolled out and there are over 70,000km’s to cover.

Additional improvements have focused on the UX side of the tool, lowering the cognitive load on inspectors, and streamlining their time spent interacting with the tool. This is also being used in conjunction with their UAV drone fleet and currently training ground drones. This mass data capture will spearhead out machine learning libraries of asset classification and defect recognition systems,  which are to be built into future desktop inspection process’s within Blueworx.

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Born and raised in Adelaide South Australia, Tom has a Bachelors in Engineering (Mechatronics) and Master’s in Business Administration with 15 years engineering experience.
For the last 12 years his focus has been on Asset Management Systems and their maturing capability within a variety of industries such as Electricity distribution, Rail, Road, Manufacturing and Defence.

Working within SAP heavy environments, one of his main goal’s are to ‘Automate the Maintenance’ with a heavy focuses on viable upgrade paths for any maturing asset management company.

He is a Director for two charities (a festival and an animal shelter) and tries to effect positive change by helping the community.

Tom also volunteers his time at high school robotic engineering competitions to support and educate the next generation to consider environmental and community impacts.

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Finance transformation with FinDesk, a Neptune-enabled asset

Deloitte will present FinDesk, a solution developed in Neptune with full SAP S4HANA integration, that enables Accounting & Treasury teams to perform the centralized management of companywide interactions, with significant gains in process automation and reduced manual effort.

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Pedro has over 20 years of experience assisting global and local clients to reinvent their business processes and customer relationships for the digital age. He has been leading several technology-enabled transformation programs across Europe, with a focus on SAP technologies and consumer-driven businesses such as retail and CPG.

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Finance transformation with FinDesk, a Neptune-enabled asset

Deloitte will present FinDesk, a solution developed in Neptune with full SAP S4HANA integration, that enables Accounting & Treasury teams to perform the centralized management of companywide interactions, with significant gains in process automation and reduced manual effort.

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António is a manager at Deloitte’s SAP practice with an 8-year of experience in end-to-end SAP-enabled business transformation, with a focus on Finance and Accounting. Most recently António has led the design and implementation of FinDesk at the largest listed company in Portugal.

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How Neptune DXP helps Becour make the world greener

Green energy pioneer, Becour needed a cloud app development platform that would be easily accessible, stable and flexible, future proof and scale at pace with the company’s growth. Learn how they only use Neptune, end-to-end, in their development allowing them to easily connect various systems via API.

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Hans Petter Kildal (HP) has been an active contributor in establishing the European market for Guarantees of Origin. He had a leading role in the Energy Trading & Environment 2020 research project, was member of the board of Sustainable Fashion Council, and an advisor for the UN initiative “The Responsible Ecosystems Sourcing Platform”. He also participated in developing the new Greenhouse Gas protocol scope 2 guidance document.

HP started working as a power trader at Østfold Energi back in 1999, and have since then held leading international positions in Fortum, Bergen Energi Green Services and Kinect Energy Group.

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How Neptune DXP helps Becour make the world greener

Green energy pioneer, Becour needed a cloud app development platform that would be easily accessible, stable and flexible, future proof and scale at pace with the company’s growth. Learn how they only use Neptune, end-to-end, in their development allowing them to easily connect various systems via API.

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Rune Bøen has background from the IT consulting business, mainly working with development of IT systems. During his 25 year career, Rune has worked as Application Manager for Development Team within the Service Delivery organization at Orkla and co-founded Sariba, where he was part of the board of directors and chairman for the Norwegian subsidiary.

At Becour, Rune is responsible for IT and digitalization. His main focus areas are design and building of the core systems and the digital platform in Becour.