You have some critical decisions to make in order to deliver R/3 reports over the Web. This session will give you a detailed explanation of your 5 key options, and show you which to focus on and which to avoid.

• Know the tradeoffs between Web reporting strategies, from presentation to customizability to ease of deployment.
• Prepare for different security models required for each Web reporting option.
• 3 factors to determine when it makes sense to redevelop reports on a Web AS server.
• Know your Web-enablement options for custom reports, list-based reports, ALV, Report Painter, and more
• Avoid getting burned by hidden user licensing costs.
• Where to consider using third-party Web-enabling solutions and how to select the right one.
• Tap into BW's Web-enabling features without moving your R/3 data or implementing a full data warehouse.
• Learn what function modules available with recent releases can make your Web reporting tasks easier.
• Understand and work around ITS's Web limitations, especially when it comes to display and selection screens.
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: 10-step questionnaire to identify the right Web-enablement option; complete list of benefits, challenges, and limitations of each option; warning signs for avoiding common Web reporting headaches.

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Penny Silvia, Business Information Solutions

• This in-depth technical session will be of particular interest to developers, who will receive detailed instruction to get the most from this important tool. Find out how to:
• Add ALV functionality to custom reports and screens, as well as your existing reports
• Choose between ALV function module and class: Which is better for your implementation?
• Master the key input parameters/methods to give users what they want when they need it
• Access the ALV grid control via key SAP—delivered screens
• Deliver ALV functionality with the fewest lines of code possible
• Avoid potential performance hits with ALV before they drag down your production system
• Disable certain ALV functionality before your users wreak havoc on your R/3 system
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: Step-by-step instructions to enable/disable fields; sample code and templates to preview the most useful ALV features; detailed debugging and tracing techniques; guidelines to leverage undocumented ALV features

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Ajay Bhardwaj, Coronado Software

You will see how changes in remote connectivity to the Domino back-end can improve the performance of your applications. You uncover...

• Expert advice to use the Domino JSP tag libraries to add custom tags to JSPs, and how to use them to build more dynamic Web pages
• Techniques to leverage servlets for better applications and faster development
• The differences between J2SE and J2EE, and how they impact your applications
• Design considerations for calling Java from LotusScript using the new class interfaces
• Tips to handle the differences between local and remote access from a Java servlet or application
• Best practices to leverage code stored in Java libraries, and much more

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Ajay Bhardwaj, Coronado Software

Before you take on custom development or start wielding any of the R/3 reporting tools, see if you can save yourself lots of time and money by first tapping into the thousands of ready-made reports that R/3 has pre-built into it.

• How to quickly get your hands on the R/3 reports you want using Report Navigator
• How to find reports based on Standard Prefixes, using SE38
• The key search, navigation and customization capabilities of the General R/3 Report Tree
• 5 steps to locate hidden reports within your R/3 environment
• Proven techniques to upload pre-built reports to the Report Tree for quick access
• Exactly where your R/3 data resides and how it is updated
• The right way to copy and modify your Report Tree
• How to use hybrids of standard and custom reports to save time and money
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: "Cheat sheet" with the names and menu paths for key reports, listed by function; instructions to search your SAP system for pre-built reports you can use right away; OSS patches needed to enable the Report Navigator and General Report Tree; 5-step contingency plan for when you can't find the canned report that fits you

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Danielle Larocca Signorile, Compass Group NAD

• Streamline your report development and customization with these dynamic R/3 based tools. These tools offer those who know how to use them properly easy and valuable ways to get at important business data across all your modules.
• Leverage these tools to generate quick lookups of SAP data with little work or customizing.
• Understand how to use strict naming conventions to ease deployment of these solutions.
• Compare and contrast each tool's unique features to help users know which to use in each circumstance.
• Meet daily and weekly reporting requirements easily with these tools.
• Secure, administer and performance test reports created with InfoSet Query, Ad Hoc Query and Quickviewer.
• Avoid common user-training pitfalls, particularly when it comes to variants
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: Complete list of features and functions of each tool; answers to FAQs about Ad Hoc Query, InfoSet Query and Quickviewer; guidelines, examples and screenshots to implement and train users on these tools in just a few days; toolbar "cheat sheet" for each of these tools, so that you can learn their functionality faster.

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Danielle Larocca Signorile, Compass Group NAD

This session will eliminate misconceptions and clarify your understanding of what Business Information Warehouse (BW) is and how to prepare for it. Find out…

• How BW content is delivered and how that impacts your team
• What’s involved in bringing non-R/3 data into BW
• What the end user training curve is and how to navigate it
• The type of hardware you need to support BW
• Typical implementation approaches that fit your organization
• What hard and soft costs BW brings to the table

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Penny Silvia, Business Information Solutions

These important tools are not just for financial reporting. They can be your best options for getting data from other R/3 modules - if you know how. In this session, you will:

• Discover techniques and advice to get the most out of Report Painter and Writer.
• Maximize your use of objects, including libraries, sets, and variables.
• Link to logistics data using statistical key figures.
• See important rules of thumb for setting up Report Groups to streamline access.
• Utilize best practices for setting up naming conventions.
• Take new, more effective approaches to using sets, including conversion in 4.5b and use of groups as sets.
• Take full advantage of the important changes to Summation levels in 4.5 and beyond.
• Handle all variable types with ease, including global, local, system updated, and even variable user exits.
• Build on existing reports and data links using SAP's Report-to-Report interface.
• Boost performance by better leveraging data extracts.
• Put Report Painter to work in project systems.

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: David Nowak, Virtuoso LLC

Learn how other companies are leveraging R/3 tools to meet their real-world reporting problems.

• Avoid the mistakes they made and replicate their successes.
• Find out how one company reduced their custom ABAP requirements by over 80%.
• Get practical tips on everything from configuration to procedural changes to user exit/ABAP development.
• Discover creative ways to fulfill report requirements using standard R/3 tools instead of ABAP.
• Learn how one SAP customer tackled the challenge of daily forecasts using a 365-period fiscal year.
• Strategies from the trenches to push customization to end users.
• Discuss one company's solution to analyzing its project system reporting problems.
• See how companies integrate user feedback into the report creation process to cut post—development work.
• Learn why production-related activity is much easier to gather through a link to LIS.
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: Screenshots, sample reports, and strategies from successful reporting projects and major SAP customers; practical scenarios and solutions that you can put to work at your company.
• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: David Nowak, Virtuoso, LLC

Discover exactly how SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) complements your available R/3 reporting solutions, and prepare your R/3 team for integrating BW into your reporting landscape whether you're about to implement BW or plan to use it further down the road. In this session, you will:

• Understand BW's unique terminology, components and architecture relative to R/3
• Learn specifically where BW can improve upon R/3 with regard to analytics and display
• Discover steps R/3 teams can take to accelerate ramp-up time for BW — especially for data extraction
• See the proper process and key steps you need to take to migrate reports and data from R/3 to BW
• Navigate the integration pitfalls between your R/3 and BW reporting landscapes
• Know why and how you'll always need to use R/3 reports, especially for real-time reporting
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: BW implementation key steps and challenges for R/3 teams; criteria to determine optimal timing of your migration to BW

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Penny Silvia, Business Information Solutions

Discover how to meet all your HR reporting requirements by optimizing your use of SAP Query, InfoSet Query (formerly the Ad Hoc Query), and the HR Information System (HRIS). Discover how these solutions can put important personnel, payroll and benefits information at your fingertips as you come to understand.

• 5 core HR reporting options you have — from Standard Reports to Infoset Query
• Proven strategies and best practices to access PD and PA data
• How to unlock the full potential of logical databases — specific dos and don'ts
• The latest HR reporting enhancements in R/3 4.6C and beyond
• Best practices to deal with unique HR info types and exceptions
• How to create robust payroll data reports with sorting, subtotaling and other built-in functions
• Pitfalls of reporting on hierarchical data in Org Management — and how to avoid them with evaluation paths
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: Complete decision matrix for choosing between the key HR reporting options; feature and function lists for core R/3 reporting tools; workarounds to common HR reporting challenges

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Danielle Larocca Signorile, Compass Group NAD

Get more mileage from the financial reporting tools at your disposal, including drilldown reporting, the Report-to-Report Interface of COPA, and Special Purpose Ledger.

• Learn what is possible and the best way to use specific tools.
• Optimize your use of drilldown reporting in PA (Profitability Analysis) and PC (Product Costing).
• Fine-tune your COPA reports for optimal data flow.
• Understand what's available with non-COPA drilldown reporting (FI, AR, AP, PCA).
• Learn how to use "Report Splitting" and Summarization Levels to optimize COPA performance.
• Inventory your Product Costing reporting options.
• Discover the key decision factors for Special Purpose Ledger.
• Unleash the new graphical capabilities of drilldown reporting available with R/3 4.6C.
• Assess your Financial Statement Package from both tactical and strategic perspectives.
• Find out some key FI/CO reporting areas that are impacted by Sarbanes-Oxley and other new legislation.
• Understand R/3's Liquidity Forecast and the Cash Management Position reporting capabilities.
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: List of transaction codes that enable drill-down reporting within each module; step-by-step process for getting Special Purpose Ledger.

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Quentin Hurst, Virtuoso, LLC

Put this powerful cross-functional reporting tool in the hands of your end users, train them properly, and watch them get the R/3 data, reports, and customization capabilities they need without involving your IT staff. Learn why the SAP Query has overcome its reputation for being a performance hog. In this session, you will see how to:

• Leverage the improvements in SAP Query that are built into the latest releases of R/3
• Avoid performance bottlenecks and turbo charge your SAP Query reports
• Configure and use SAP Query, with expert tips for administration
• Spruce up SAP Query report screens with images, charts and other visuals
• Teach users to integrate reports with conditional analysis and "what-if" statements (No programming needed!)
• Unlock the advanced functionality of SAP Query via configuration screens
• Use SAP Query for transaction-based reporting, and why you should stay away from hierarchical data
• Use a simple performance trace test to predict the hit you'll take when using SAP Query for specific tasks
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: Complete "Train the Trainer" roadmap for getting your end users up to speed on SAP Query

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Danielle Larocca Signorile, Compass Group NAD

Break your reliance on custom ABAP reports and propel your reporting processes to new levels of ease, effectiveness, and efficiency. Learn how to build a blueprint guaranteed to make the most of the R/3 reporting tools already at your disposal. In this session, you will learn:

• What 5 core reporting development tools are already in your arsenal, and when to use each
• How SAP Query, ALV and other key tools are enhanced in R/3 4.6C and R/3 Enterprise
• 4 steps to optimize your report development cycles
• Success factors for module-specific reporting tools for HR, Financials, and Logistics
• 6 drawbacks of creating custom ABAP reports — and how not to get burned by them
• How Sarbanes-Oxley, new module rollouts, and other forces reshape your reporting environment
• 3 hallmarks of good R/3 reporting practices — and how to master each
• New R/3 reporting tools that give your business users "quick view" and "ad hoc" capabilities

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Taylor Erickson, Virtuoso, LLC

Consolidate many of your custom ABAP reports and give executives, analysts and users the ability to generate, display and customize reports. The key is mastering the ALV Grid Control, which is new with R/3 4.6C. In this session, you will learn how to:

• Tap into key ALV capabilities - take a tour of major features and configuration steps.
• Avoid ALV performance hits.
• Collapse multiple reports into one, drastically cutting down your report development time.
• Save many hours using built-in ALV sorting, subtotaling and filtering capabilities.
• Add conditional structures into your ALV report: No programming required!
• Combine ALV with display variants to meet a wide range of reporting requirements more easily.
• Dynamically reorder column layouts and add/subtract fields.
• Enable users and analysts to save their own personalized variants.
• Roll ALV out to your users - get proven strategies, complete with tips and pitfalls to avoid.
• See why you shouldn't use ALV for Balance and Formatting reports.

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Ajay Bhardwaj, Coronado Software

Master the challenges of setting up and using LIS & SIS to get the data you need out of your core logistics and sales modules (SD, MM, PP, etc.). See how these tools can help you extract new or changed data, and create reports that enable you to summarize, drill down, and present sales and logistics data with significant speed and flexibility. In this session, you will get expert advice that will help you...

• Optimize the two primary functions of LIS: Collection and presentation of logistics data
• Take 3 important steps to prepare your R/3 environment for using LIS
• Access underutilized statistical and graphical functions of LIS, from ABC analysis to Gantt charts
• React quickly to emerging trends, using LIS/SIS's early warning and exception management mechanisms
• Get a headstart on your future BW implementation with critical LIS terminology and characteristics
• Properly design LIS/SIS infostructures
• Use advanced LIS and SIS functionality incorporated into R/3 4.6C and R/3 Enterprise
• Build reports that integrate data between LIS, COPA and other key functional areas
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: List of user exits and sample code to help you circumvent common LIS stumbling blocks

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Taylor Erickson, Virtuoso, LLC

• Learn more efficient and flexible report distribution strategies so that you can easily get R/3 reports to the people who need them. Discover the many common and undocumented methods to put R/3's built-in report distribution technologies to work, as you:
• Uncover tricks for using R/3's report scheduling, job creation, and background processing capabilities.
• Learn how to create shortcuts and add your custom reports to transaction codes and menu-paths.
• See how to display reports in Excel with SAP GUI using the latest features in R/3 4.6C.
• Understand where the Web fits into your report distribution options.
• Find out how to add reports to area menus for simpler user access.
• Know how to exploit the mail and desktop application integration capabilities of SAP Office.
• Optimize your use of Report Trees to organize and access over 700 SAP reports.
• Incorporate variants and drill-down capabilities into your report distribution process.
• Know the best ways to distribute R/3 reports to SAP and non-SAP users.
• Employ user profiles and other proven security techniques.
• TAKE-HOME TOOLS: List of dos and don'ts for scheduling report jobs, output, and background.

• Release Covered: SAP R/3 3.0 - 3.5
• Session presented by: Quentin Hurst, Virtuoso, LLC

If you are struggling with currency limitations, legal and sub-legal entity reporting, and different fiscal-year reporting requirements, relief can be found in the Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL).

• See how to use the FI-SL to address these types of problems and get an in-depth look at the FI-SL functionality that supports ledger currencies, document splitting, custom organizational object characteristics, and specification of different fiscal year variants.
• Get new insights and advanced, undocumented tips for the Special Purpose Ledger, e.g.: find out how many currencies you should allow for the tables group in the ledger.
• Learn how to report from the FI-SL and how to make the most out of FI-SL planner functionality.
• Get an understanding of how your organization can utilize FI-SL to adapt to continuously evolving reporting needs.
   
• Releases covered: SAP R/3, SAP BW 3.5 | SAP NetWeaver 2004 | SAP NetWeaver 7.0
• Session presented by: Quentin Hurst, Virtuoso

• Tap into a wealth of practical advice to fully leverage the power of SAP BW ad hoc query functionality. Watch this session to:
• Strike the right balance between empowering users and maintaining tight control over security and system performance.
• Understand how ad hoc queries differ from pre-designed certified queries in terms of information access and SAP BW system performance.
• Get tips to overcome the 3 main causes of poor ad hoc query performance.
• Determine when it makes sense to use calculated key figures versus formulas in ad hoc queries.
• Improve the way you govern and control ad hoc queries by parsing out different levels of capabilities to different groups of users.
• Discover when it is and is not advisable to run ad hoc queries over the Web, depending on your current version of SAP BW.
• Find out how to certify and generally release ad hoc queries that may be useful to the general SAP BW user community.
• Develop clear guidelines and rules-of-thumb to avoid designing monster, performance- busting ad hoc queries.
• Evaluate if and when it makes sense to leverage the Analysis Process Designer to analyze the results of ad hoc queries.
• Learn the right way to leverage structures and hierarchies to optimize ad hoc query performance.

• Releases covered: SAP R/3, SAP BW 3.5 | SAP NetWeaver 2004 | SAP NetWeaver 7.0
• Session presented by: Penny Silvia, Knightsbridge Solutions