Representatives from practically all the University Alliance institutions in the Americas as well as those from Germany, Austria, Russia and Australia have participated in the conference.

The nine participants from Russian UA SAP came from SPbSPU, MGIMO, PSUMC and TIT SFU.

The conference had three parts to it:

1. The plenary session where the report for 2009 was given and the directions of the future medium and long term interactions between SAP and universities were presented.

2. The workshop for the lectures that dealt with the usage of the SAP solutions in the educational process.

New and updated course curricula which could be easily included into the programs were presented during six workshops:

Accounting / Accounting Information Systems;

Business Intelligence Using SAP BusinessObjects Software;

ERPSim: A Serious Game to Teach ERP Concepts

Introduction to ABAP Programming

Project Management Using SAP Project Systems

SAP Business Process Introduction  

3.      The poster sessions where all the participants were able to share opinions and experiences and discuss possible collaboration opportunities.

The detailed description of the conference and the additional materials can be found at the UA global portal: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/uac/ua-events?rid=/webcontent/uuid/f00edb50-b67e-2c10-918f-945d9df0235e