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Swen Conrad

Swen Conrad SAP Employee
Company: SAP
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Swen Conrad is the SAP Solution Marketing Director for IT Optimization and Governance.

Swen has 15 years of experience in enterprise application consulting, IT management, product management and marketing. His specific focus areas are business and IT integration, application lifecycle management (ALM) as well as service oriented architecture (SOA).

Prior to his current role at SAP, Swen was the Product Manager for SAP's middleware offering, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration. Before joining SAP, Swen worked at a several leading organizations including Hewlett Packard and IDS Scheer.


TechEd 09 - IT Optimization for Dummies ... note: I am talking about myself ;)
Can you Optimize IT by looking at the three parameters Business Value of IT, Cost and Risk? Join Swen at TechEd Phoenix to find out how a simple framework can guide your IT Optimization efforts. Three practical examples will be at the center of the discussion. Oct. 5, 2009
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ARIS for SAP NetWeaver Modeling Tips and Tricks for Business Process Experts
Process Modeling Tips and Tricks for Business Process Experts. Apr. 19, 2007
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XI Customer Polling 2006 – Summary of Results
Some of you may have seen the call for action for the XI customer polling end of last year. With this blog, I like to thank all the customers and systems integrators for their participation and share some high level results with you. Jan. 26, 2007
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XI ccBPM Performance: under-perform or out-perform?
Cross component Business Process Management (ccBPM) of SAP XI is a very powerful tool for orchestrating system to system processes based on the BPEL standard. Of course, it comes at a cost of consuming systems resources. - This blog addresses customer concerns about the additional resource consumption. It also provides tips & tricks how to minimize the overhead and get the best bang for the buck in using ccBPM. Dec. 22, 2006
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BAM 101
Business Activity Monitoring - or BAM for short - is an excellent example of great technology facilitating even greater business processes and solutions. It let's your company move from a re-active to a pro-active state to what Gartner calls a "real time enterprise". Read this blog to find out more ... Dec. 5, 2006
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Influence future product direction for SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
SAP is conducting customer polling for SAP NetWeaver usage type Process Integration (XI). Consolidated customer feedback will influence SAP's product investment and development. Please read this blog to find out how to participate. Oct. 26, 2006
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Change Management Demystified
This blog is a practical introduction or discussion of change management. It is based on a real example and will provide a long, yet incomplete list of tools/activites that you may want to use during your change management effort. The main goal is to have you walk away and say: "This is easy, I can do this!" Jul. 26, 2006
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Business Analyst … ARIS for NetWeaver … Business Process Expert …
The Business Process Expert (BPX) community on SDN was just launched, recognizing the importance of this instrumental group of people in a modern (IT) organization. But what is a Business Process Expert (BPX) and how can he/she evolve from today’s skill sets and organizations? - Part 2 of 2 Jun. 1, 2006
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Business Analyst … ARIS for NetWeaver … Business Process Expert …
The Business Process Expert (BPX) community on SDN was just launched, recognizing the importance of this instrumental group of people in a modern (IT) organization. But what is a Business Process Expert (BPX) and how can he/she evolve from today’s skill sets and organizations? In this series of two blogs, I will look at the role of a Business Analyst today, the use (or lack of use) of tools and the transition of current team members into process modeling within the role of a Business Process Expert. May. 13, 2006
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