Featured Speakers from 2018 Included:
The EPM Summit Experience
Effective EPM requires behind-the-scenes access to your company’s most intimate data –a true backstage pass. So this year we decided to take it up a notch and grant all EPM Leadership Summit attendees the same exclusive access and backstage pass through our event, The 2019 EPM Leadership Summit All Access Pass – with premiere guest speakers from some of the worlds largest companies, top-notch BPC and EPM session content toped off with an exclusive VIP entertainment experience all set with the backdrop of one of the worlds most data driven high-tech hotel experiences, ARIA Las Vegas. This will be the do not miss event for all SAP BPC users.
Premium EPM Educational Content
Although Column5 offers a number of free EPM educational resources, we have answered the call from the EPM community who have asked for an enhanced level of content. The Column5 EPM Summit Program offers nearly 200 hours of expanded EPM content in three tracks: Functional, Technical and Executive. The content is carefully designed to expand and intensify from event to event with the ongoing goal of advancing every attendee’s EPM knowledge as the events progress.
Other events feature a few EPM sessions with content presented by multiple SAP partners. In a multiple-partner event, EPM implementation and enhancement experts are not willing to share proprietary IP that can dramatically improve the customer experience. By driving the content for these events, Column5 has the freedom to deliver high-value, premium EPM content that is not available anywhere else.
EPM customers typically pay upwards of tens of thousands in annual maintenance for EPM products. This enhanced EPM educational content can lower your total cost of ownership and make your organization more independent. We believe that quality education is so critical to EPM success throughout your organization that we also offer CPE credit for every live session you participate in.
EPM Solution Benchmarking
Our past Summit attendees continue to tell us that our event gives them benchmarks in both a “big picture” and tactical view. Benchmarking can deliver deep insights about a company’s performance and help you identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
Measuring your solution against your peers’ to gain insights into key performance metrics can be invaluable. This event series allows you to compare your solution with other organizations and best practice scenarios to help you chart your organization’s course.
This year, we are enhancing our benchmarking rewards by inviting all registrants to enhance their return on investment by participating in the 2019 EPM Benchmarking Study. By taking part in this ground-breaking study you will receive a precise measurement of how your organization stacks up to the rest of the EPM community and exclusive data released only at the Summit that you can share within your organization throughout the year.
EPM Community Networking
Column5’s annual EPM Summit Program brings together EPM experts from around the globe who have built a community dedicated to learning and advancing EPM excellence. Although there are a number of associations and events, there is only one event dedicated solely to SAP EPM. Navigating the larger, diluted events and association functions can make it difficult for EPM enthusiasts to find each other and create relationships.
In addition to customers demonstrating EPM Excellence, we will also be joined by EPM product experts from SAP as well as our top resources and implementation partners from around the globe. Everyone you meet online and in Las Vegas is a member of the EPM community and can expand your list of valuable EPM resources and peers.
SPEAKERS
DAYS
WORKSHOPS
Online Courses
Agenda
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Breakfast
BPC Reporting for Beginners
BPC Script Logic: SQL Syntax
SAP Analytics Cloud - Part 1
Advanced Reporting in BPC
BPC Script Logic: Allocation Syntax
SAP Analytics Cloud - Part 2
EPM Transformation Workshop
EPM Transformation Workshop (Encore)
Performance Tuning - NetWeaver
Performance Tuning - Microsoft
Breakfast
How to: Drill Through to Detail & Link Documents
Visualizations and Dashboards with BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud*
High Performing & Integrated Analytics with SAP Analytics Cloud*
Lunch
BPC Solutions with S/4HANA
Using the Comments Function*
Improve BPC User Experience with the EPM Plug-in and BPC v11*
Integrating SAP Analytics Cloud & BPC*
Performance Tuning - NetWeaver & HANA
Performance Tuning - Microsoft
EPM Benchmarking: How Good is Your EPM?
SAP EPM Roadmap
Beyond the Hype: Choosing an EPM Deployment Strategy
Reallocating Finance after EPM: The New Role of Financial Planning & Analysis*
What is Darwin EPM?*
Darwin EPM Bells & Whistles: Excel Interface, Dashboards, Ribbon, DPFs
High Performance Calculations with DarCE*
Lionsgate: Using SAP BPC to Supplement Big Data Analytics for Planning/ Forecasting and Reporting Optimization
How New Balance Athletics Leverages BPC to Meet Evolving Financial and Management Needs
EPM Add-in Performance Improvement*
SAP Cloud Offerings
The Consolidation Conundrum
Data Integration Strategies
Data Validation
Consolidations: Comparing SAP FC & BPC
Exploring the Book Publishing Functionality
Latest BPC Service Packs
Microsoft Office & BPC Version Stabilization
EPM as a Bi-Directional Communication Tool for Management
Making the Case for Ensemble Modeling
SAP Predictive Capabilities
Darwin EPM Module Overview: CapEx & PPM
Darwin EPM Module Overview: HCM
Darwin EPM Module Overview: Revenue Planning
Darwin EPM Module Overview: Consolidations
How Ensign Transformed its Financial Reporting, Close Process and Automated SEC Reporting with SAP BPC
Core-Mark: Leveraging BPC to Automate Consolidation and Reporting
Telefónica UK: From Initial Implementation to Adding “Simple Genius” with DarCE
Advanced Planning Concepts
Performance Roundtable
The Top 10 BPC Mistakes
Analysis for Office Reporting
Keys to Sustainable Performance
Cost of Ownership Reduction
Heuristic EPM: Automating the Role of Analysts & Expanding Beyond Finance Users
Darwin EPM Module Overview: OpEx
Customer Panel: Maximizing BPC’s Value with Innovative Ideas on How to Improve Planning & Forecasting Processes
Improving the BPC User Experience
Driving Effective Analytics
All ACCESS
- EPM Leadership Summit
- (includes Hands-On Workshops)
- EPM Summit – Online
- (1 year of access)
- Free eLearning course of your choice!
- (1 month of access)
- Annual Hours of EPM Content Available 165
- CPE Credits Available 30+
Early-Bird Special ENDS DEC 15th
- EPM Leadership Summit
- (includes Hands-On Workshops)
- EPM Summit – Online
- (1 year of access)
- Free eLearning course of your choice!
- (1 month of access)
- Annual Hours of EPM Content Available 165
- CPE Credits Available 30+
Groups
- EPM Leadership Summit
- (includes Hands-On Workshops)
- EPM Summit – Online
- (1 year of access)
- Free eLearning course of your choice!
- (1 month of access)
- Annual Hours of EPM Content Available165
- CPE Credits Available 30+
ONLINE
- EPM Summit – Online
- (1 year of access)
- Free eLearning course of your choice!
- (1 month of access)
- Annual Hours of EPM Content Available
- 110
OUR FELLOWS
What our past attendees say about the EPM Summit.
A Peek Inside the Summit
Photos from the 2018 EPM Leadership Summit
Why Attend?
Watch moments from the 2018 EPM Summit:
Get Your Boss On-board
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SPONSORS
Aria Hotel
- 3730 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV.
- success@column5.com
- (480) 779-6990
Live Entertainment
We haven’t forgotten about having fun.
2019 Artist will be announced soon!