SAP SIG Sessions

The SAP SIG is pleased to present the following sessions at COLLABORATE 06. Please consult the online schedule to view session abstract and speaker information and for any late-breaking room changes.

Sunday, April 23
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Delta E/F

SAP SIG Networking Reception (hosted by SAP AG) and 10g Workshop for SAP

Workshop Title: Oracle 10g - Manageability, Flexibility & Performance in an SAP Landscape
Speaker: Paul Loos, Sr. Principal Service Delivery, Oracle

Learn how the Oracle 10g database extends and enhances the capabilities of your database server.  Discover how to best utilize new functionality and features in your SAP landscape.   Features will be described and real life examples will be demonstrated live. Learn how to improve the manageability, flexibility and performance of your database system.

Monday, April 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Canal B

SAP SIG Business Meeting Featuring a Report on Oracle RAC with SAP on Linux
Gail Corbitt and James Connolly, CSU Chico

During this annual meeting of the SAP SIG we will:

•  Discuss current SAP SIG organization issues, including election of officers.
•  Review current activities, poll the members for future topics to be address by Oracle and SAP development.
•  Running SAP with Oracle 9i  Real Application Clusters on a Linux Platform:  Research Project

Preliminary findings of a current research project being conducted by Dr. James Connolly & Dr. Gail Corbitt from the School of Management at California State University – Chico . The presentation will include hardware and software configuration and testing model.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Canal D

Unicode Migration in an SAP Environment
Karen Schuh, Eastman Kodak

Supporting multiple languages in today's world is a business requirement but very complicated from a technical perspective. SAP has provided several options to enable many languages from multiple code pages to be supported in a single system. The future solution is Unicode - a character-encoding schema containing nearly all characters used worldwide. Migrating to Unicode requires a complete unload and reload of the database to support the character set change and cannot utilize native Oracle tools due to the nature of the data. SAP's view of Oracle has changed over the years and DBAs need to adjust accordingly. There are also application and interface requirements to consider. Three technical options for the migration of the database will be presented along with a case study that includes two of the methods. Backup and recovery scenarios and the impact on disaster recovery will be discussed. Also reviewed, will be the change in database size and CPU and memory usage.

Tuesday, April 25
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Location: Canal D

SAP SIG Networking Lunch, followed by Oracle and SAP Development Update
Jan Klokkers, Oracle and Christian Graf, SAP

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Location: Canal D

Oracle and SAP Development Update
Jan Klokkers, Oracle and Christian Graf, SAP

The presentation will give the latest update on which Oracle releases and functionality is certified by SAP. A special focus is placed on RAC and experience of early SAP-RAC installations. Also, the first results of using Oracle 10g with SAP products are presented as well as an update on BR*Tools.

Wednesday, April 26
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Location: Canal B

SAP SIG Q&A and Roundtable Discussion
Jan Klokkers, Oracle and Christian Graf, SAP

This session will include Q & A with the Oracle and SAP teams,  an opportunity to ask technical questions and also provide feedback to the Oracle and SAP development teams.