During the day, you'll have a unique opportunity to learn about the benefits of upgrading your SAP investment. Highlights include meeting industry analysts and experts from SAP and HP, a customer case study and an invaluable Q&A session.

Introductions, agenda & overview of HP Services and the SAP relationship: Michael Garrett
Welcome, overview of HP Services and its relationship with SAP.

Analyst speaker: IDC - Jennifer Thomson, EMEA Software & Services Group
Upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0: At What Stage Are We? Any Lessons Learnt?
Jennifer will discuss the state of the upgrade market, the benefits of an upgrade, choosing your partner, articulating those themes into a business case based on TCO and lifetime cost.

SAP Speaker: Markus Henkel, EMEA SAP Upgrade Competency Centre
Markus will cover how to upgrade to ERP 6.0, including best practice, tools and methodologies. Featuring the new SAP software lifecycle, upgrade roadmap, answering the Unicode question, key project activities, downtime concerns and resource requirements.

HP Speaker: Alex Garrick, SAP Practice Lead, HP UK Services
Alex will discuss practical approaches that can help reduce risk and total cost during the upgrade and beyond; approaches which also re-enforce the positioning of SAP as the stable strategic platform that is worthy of investment.

Meet the experts:
A line up of SAP and HP experts covering aspects of the upgrade, including strategy and resource planning, hardware, software, as well as new functionality and eSOA will be on hand so that you can get answers to your upgrade questions in pre-booked 10 minute sessions.

Customer Reference Speaker: P&G, Thomas Siebert
The customer experience, how P&G achieved their technical upgrade in partnership with HP.