SAP TechEd is here again...

BANGALORE: SAP, the leading provider of business software solutions, today announced the return of SAP's largest technology education conference, SAP TechEd '05, to Bangalore. Around 2500 SAP Developers and Partners are expected to convene at the largest SAP NetWeaver® Education Event of the Year. The three-day event will be held at KTPO's Bangalore Trade Centre, Whitefield from October 5 to 7, 2005. Additionally, the global SAP TechEd conference series will be held in Vienna, Austria, Sept. 21-23, in Boston, Mass., Sept. 27-30 and in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 26-27, 2005.

The key theme for SAP TechEd '05 will be SAP's strategy for Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based solutions, powered by the SAP NetWeaver. As the industry's only major application vendor to provide SOA solutions and composites such as SAP xApps(tm), mySAP(tm) Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM) and SAP Analytics, SAP is in a unique position to help other organizations drive maximum business flexibility.

Announcing SAP TechEd '05 Bangalore, Martin Prinz and Georg Kniese, Joint Managing Directors, SAP Labs India said, "With IT becoming more and more embedded in business, companies are seeing the value of Services Oriented Architecture. SAP TechEd '05 Bangalore is an event where developers, customers, partners can learn more about SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) and understand how a foundation for ESA can be laid with the SAP NetWeaver platform."

One of the highlights of SAP TechEd '05 Bangalore will be the keynote presentation by Dr. Peter Zencke, member of SAP's Executive Board, detailing how SAP is evolving SAP NetWeaver into a Business Process Platform. "SAP continues to deliver on its road map for Enterprise Services Architecture and leads the market towards business solutions that will offer new levels of flexibility and innovation. We see India playing an increasingly important role in the global success of our business process platform SAP NetWeaver," Dr. Zencke added.

This year's expanded SAP TechEd '05 curriculum offers new educational programs for business analysts, consultants, IT managers and system administrators. More than 300 hands-on workshops and lecture sessions will focus on topics such as Business Process Management, Web services, Services Oriented Architecture and Linux and Java development. The lectures and classes will be led by SAP experts from within the SAP development organization-the actual developers, technical strategists and product managers who build SAP products

Two programs that made a successful debut at SAP TechEd '04 will return in 2005: SAP certification opportunities and the SAP Developer Network (SDN) Clubhouse. The SDN Clubhouse blends the virtual community of SDN (free access at www.sdn.sap.com) with live events to create a real world SDN experience for conference delegates. The SDN Clubhouse will host Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and a Demo Jam session showcasing the hottest new SAP NetWeaver technology, hosted by top SAP executive. SDN has experienced tremendous growth and adoption over the past year. In fact, India boasts of one of the fastest growing SDN communities globally and has over 15000 members.

Registration information and the conference agenda for each of the SAP TechEd '05 events can be found at www.sapteched.com .