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Government municipalities face the same challenges in managing their business as other companies. But stiff regulations and often labyrinthine layers of bureaucracy add additional complexity that requires a combination of the right tools and the right people to navigate through  Whether you are a civilian agency, an education or healthcare institution or in state and local government,  the SAP Public Sector solutions for HCM, FI, GRC and organization management enable public organizations to better support tax and revenue management, finance and administration, knowledge and resource management, and empower public sector organizations to become best-run businesses.

The presentations in this track provide insights from leading companies and SAP experts on how to leverage SAP solutions for Public Sector to reduce costs, streamline processes, mitigate risk, and maximize ROI from their IT investments.

Other key learning takeaways include:

• Learn how to identify key positions, view high potential employees, and perform gap & bench strength analyses
• Discover how to plan and execute succession strategies to develop your talent pipeline and maximize employee value to the organization 
• Learn how the Business Process Expert (BPX) Community can help you find the answers you need
• Explore predictive models and how they can be very effective in delivery of improved organizational performance
• Learn how SAP Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture has revolutionized other industries and how it applies to government transformation
• Discover processes that deliver total resource optimization
• Learn how to maximize SAP Project Systems at a Federal Agency
• Discover how to use Workflow to support travel business policies

Highlights include:

Join Johns Hopkins as they share their story on utilizing SAP across the enterprise to reduce costs associated with hard-copy storage of documents while improving the payment turn-around time to vendors and employees To support the documentation requirements for payments to vendors and for reimbursements to employees, Johns Hopkins has utilized a scanning solution allowing for the electronic storage and retrieval of scanned invoices, receipts, forms, and other paperwork.

Hear from U.S. Customs and Border Protection how it leveraged WBTs, ILTs, and virtual learning to keep end-user training robust after going live. 

Learn how the Government of Canada’s Department of Public Works and Government Services found success with Salary Management. Hear the story of how the Salary Forecasting Tool (SFT) was developed by the Government of Canada to assist managers in monitoring the status of their salary budgets.

Hear how the Houston Independent School District used Workflow to structure multi-level approval process, streamline employee reimbursement, and support the District's many travel policies and procedures.

Other key topics addressed in this year’s program include:

• A Brave New World: Government Enterprise Performance Management
• Architecture for Advanced Analytics in Business Processes
• Business Intelligence Best Practices and Public Sector Success Stories
• Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture – A New Promise for Government
• How to Implement a FMBCS BI Solution in Three Months
• Managing a More Efficient County Government  with SAP CRM
• Maximizing SAP Project System at a Federal Agency
• Overpayment Recovery Solution within Concurrent Employment
• Position Control and Budget Using PBC
• SAP's Next Generation Public Sector Budget Formulation Solution
• Sharing a Center of Excellence
• Solutioning for Critical Scenarios with SAP for Public Sector