UK & Ireland SAP User Group

Don't miss out... ...on our exclusive, hands-on workshops at UKISUG Connect, designed to empower you with the tools and insights needed to excel in your SAP journey. 💪 Taking place on Sunday, these interactive sessions offer an unparalleled opportunity to deepen your knowledge, strengthen your skills and stay ahead in today’s fast-paced business environment. 🚀 Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll gain by attending: ☁️ Understand Cloud Risks and Opportunities: Immerse yourself in a gamified challenge to uncover key risks in cloud operations, assess business risks and learn how to thrive in the cloud. ⚙️ Harness the Power of Microsoft Integration: Discover how Microsoft Teams, Power Platform and SAP BTP can enhance your workflows, custom applications and AI-driven insights to elevate business collaboration. 🤝 Harmonise Business Processes: Learn how to streamline your operations, eliminate unnecessary customisations and foster collaboration between IT and business teams to maintain an agile, clean SAP core. 🔑 Strengthen Your SAP Security: Explore your SAP attack surface, identify vulnerabilities through live scans and gain practical steps to improve your security posture and collaborate effectively across teams. 💡 Optimise User Access to Reduce Costs and Risks: Discover how to align authorisations with usage and security priorities in the cloud, ensuring your licensing costs remain optimised while minimising compliance risks. Take a look at our Sunday Workshops 👉 https://lnkd.in/eguWTTMR Or register right away for the largest annual gathering of SAP professionals from across the UK & Ireland 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-pHHmrS 📢 UKISUG Connect 📅 1 - 3 December 2024 📍 The ICC, Birmingham

UKISUG visited Lille, France, for the annual USF conference. 🇫🇷 We would like to say thank you for the hospitality and the excellently organised event! We met many old and new faces and are looking forward to welcoming some of them soon at our UKISUG Connect conference in Birmingham! 🚀 Many thanks to the whole USF team and especially to Gianmaria Perancin, Mathilde Fleury, Elysabeth Blanchet & Magali Nogueira 👏

A recent survey 77% of workers believe AI adds to their workload. To read the full findings of the research, check out this diginomica article: https://lnkd.in/eg3bpMHX What has been your organisation’s experiences of AI to date? Has it been a help or hindrance to employees? Let us know how your organisation is using AI, and your own experiences of AI adoption 👇

It's World Mental Health Day today. 🧠 Mental health is a topic that is relevant to everyone and which we as a user group want to support as much as possible. Find out more about our initiatives in the area of mental health: 🤝 One of our partners is Thrive Neurodiversity and Mental Health. They provide practical training and consultancy to promote understanding of neurodiversity and mental health, offering workshops, accredited training and tailored corporate solutions to help individuals and organisations foster mental well-being and resilience. 🥰 In cooperation with Thrive, we organise both online and in-person wellbeing sessions. All our members have the opportunity to participate in these events. If you're not a member but are interested in trying out one of these events, please contact us. Have a look at our next webinar: https://lnkd.in/ex7SkTK5 🎙️ Together with Simon Nichols, Founder of Thrive, our Chief Executive Craig Dale regularly produces podcast episodes on the topic of wellbeing. Listen to our latest episode: https://lnkd.in/e-6-giCH 🚀 Thrive will have a stand at Connect again this year, to give delegates the opportunity to engage with this important topic. In addition to that, we offer two sessions in our Community & Environment Stream and Simon also offers a wellness walk every morning for anyone interested. See more on our Connect Agenda: https://lnkd.in/eJvVCj4p What is particularly important to you about the topic of mental health? #worldmentalhealthday

Have you listened to our 100th episode of SUGTalks? 🔊 Listen in to get a behind-the-scenes take from Craig as he is interviewed by Gerren Mayne, the regular host of SAPCHAT and Simon Nichols, CEO of Thrive. Together they discuss the origin of the SUGTalks podcast, their dream podcast guests and give a preview of the upcoming Connect conference. You can listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/ejtgRWXb Or watch it here on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eJQ_TKKt Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss future episodes. #SAP #SUGTalks #Podcast #Interview #100Episodes

September is over and so is our Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Challenge. Here is our last update on our 100 Miles Challenge. 🏃♂️ We are delighted to have reached and even exceeded our fundraising target of £1,500! 💰 Many thanks to each and every one of you, for every donation and every motivating message! 🥰 The whole team had a great time and everyone enjoyed getting out and about every day. Whether it was a walk, a run or a bike ride. 💪 What could be our next challenge? Please send us your ideas! 💡

It was interesting to see a private members’ bill being brought to #Parliament seeking to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (#AI) and other automated technologies throughout the public sector. To get the full story on ComputerWeekly.com, check out this article: https://lnkd.in/eBw6awqr And be sure to let us know what you think about AI ethics and regulation 👇

8 weeks until UKISUG Connect 2024 - the largest annual gathering of SAP professionals from across the UK & Ireland! 😍 Are you interested in S/4HANA and Cloud ERP? Then these customer sessions are the ideal choice for you: 🚀 Warburtons S/4HANA brownfield implementation 'journey' (with Hitesh Patel, Elizabeth Griffin & Simon Green from Warburtons). 💡 Discovery Phase: Mercury’s Migration planning phase from ECC6 to S/4HANA (with Brendan Docherty from Mercury). 🔄 SAP the Transition from Legacy and SAP GUI to SAP S/4HANA Fiori (with Rachel Morris & Chris Coleman from Boeing UK Ltd). 💻 Motiva - S/4 conversion of one of 24/7 businesses (with Robert Gobert from Motiva Enterprises LLC and Rory Clarke from KaarTech). ⚙️ Calor's Journey with SAP S/4HANA: Embracing Holistic Transformation and Process Simplification (with Emma Chambers from Calor Gas Ltd). 🔌 Electricity Supply Board - S/4 HANA Journey (with Malcolm Dalton from Electricity Supply Board). ☁️ SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Implementation with First Rail (with Eilidh Semple from Absoft, an Applexus Company). 💪 Our journey to SAP S/4 HANA with RISE (with Justin Bushby from Bakkavor and Simon Strode from HCLTech). Both streams include additional sessions with speakers from SAP, IBM, NTT DATA, Resulting IT, smartShift and SoftwareOne. They will show you user-focused examples to drive your strategies and projects forward. Get ready for the full UKISUG Connect experience! Every session definitely deserves a closer look. Sounds interesting? Register now for UKISUG Connect 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVrPzwa4 Or take your time and study our agenda 👉 https://lnkd.in/eguWTTMR We look forward to seeing you in December! 🚀

According to SAP its acquisition of WalkMe is a major step forward for the development of Joule’s capabilities. The AI copilot is now able to support digital transformations using case-specific context, which should make its outputs more accurate, and helpful. To find out more about the acquisition, you can read SAP’s full release here: https://lnkd.in/dRde97-T

Our 100th SUGTalks podcast episode is live! 🎉 Craig is interviewed by Gerren Mayne and Simon Nichols, where he discusses why the podcast was started and the inspiration behind the regular ice-breaker question. In addition, Craig provides a sneak preview into this year’s Connect conference! You can listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/ejtgRWXb Or watch it here on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eJQ_TKKt Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss future episodes. #SAP #SUGTalks #Podcast #100Episodes