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Meet Our Customers Pavilion

The Meet Our Customers Pavilion offers a unique opportunity to meet face-to-face with executives from large and small companies from more than 25 industries worldwide that are successfully running SAP solutions. Here you can learn how SAP solutions are helping successful companies maximize returns on their IT investments while minimizing their total cost of ownership. In this executive lounge environment, top-level managers from approximately 100 companies using a wide range of SAP solutions will be available to meet with you one-on-one to answer questions about your unique business needs.

The following customers are currently available for one-on-one meetings. Check back regularly for updates.

Company

Description

Achmea

Eric van Mierlo, Mgr, Information Management
The merger of Interpolis and Achmea created the largest insurance company in The Netherlands. A single financial center was needed to manage the newly formed group, and SAP software was selected. Learn how the company achieved the buy-in of Achmea users, who had never used SAP software before.

adidas

Eduardo Gonzalez, Program Mgr, PI Program
The adidas Group is one of the global leaders within the sporting goods industry, offering a broad range of products around the three core segments adidas, Reebok, and TaylorMade–adidas Golf. Headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, the Group has more than 31,000 employees and generated sales of €10.3 billion in 2007. To industrialize interface migration, adidas leverages the SAP NetWeaver Process Integration offering with SAP Consulting services.

adidas AG

Ken Anspach, Head, Retail Competency Center
Not only is adidas AG innovative in designing and marketing sportswear but it is also innovative in its distribution channels. "Verticalization" is the key to adidas's success and a logical move for any consumer products company wanting to expand its retail capabilities.

Aker Kværner

Peter Svelander, Advisor, Supply Chain and PLM Team
Aker Kvaerner is a leading global provider of engineering and construction services, technology products, and integrated solutions. Aker Kvaerner employs more than 27,000 people on five continents, with its headquarters located in Oslo, Norway. Aker Kvaerner uses SAP software globally to support shared service processes, as well as to plan and control the product-oriented business units' logistics flow.

Alex & Gross Communications GmbH

Jochen Gross, Managing Partner
Alex & Gross Communications focuses its expertise on three business units: targeted sales, marketing support, and management of whole business areas. The Germany-based professional services company is benefiting from the latest addition to SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies: the SAP Business ByDesign solution.

AOK Systems GmbH

Udo Patzelt, Division Mgr, Product Management and Architecture
AOK Systems GmbH, part of AOK, Germany's largest public health insurer, specializes in software developing, deployment, consulting, training, and support for the German healthcare market. Its main product is oscare, the SAP software–based add-on, as an industry solution for Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) and its deployment.

ARGO-HYTOS GmbH

Kai Sievers, CIO
ARGO, with more than 50 years of experience in hydraulic filtration, has developed into one of the global market leaders, especially in the mobile hydraulic sector. HYTOS. for more than 50 years one of the world's leading manufacturers of hydraulic components for the industrial and mobile hydraulic sectors, ranks as a leading specialist in control technology. Together known as ARGO-HYTOS, these companies have more than 1,200 employees in two production facilities and are supported by a large number of international distribution companies. The companies have extensive expertise in fluid and motion-control technology and filtration in mobile and industrial hydraulics.

Arla Foods amba

Claus Qvistgaard, CIO
Arla Foods is a cooperative based in Århus, Denmark, and one of the largest producers of dairy products in Scandinavia. To support well-structured and systematic management of its numerous new product development projects, Arla Foods implemented the Collaboration Projects and SAP Resource and Portfolio Management applications. Managers can view the status of all initiatives simultaneously, support qualified go/hold/kill decisions, and ensure alignment of projects with company strategy.

Audi AG

Christoph Fuesers, Head, IT and SAP Development
Audi is a manufacturer of exquisite cars: attractive, sophisticated, and technically perfect. Audi strives to lead the way with its innovations and to set new standards that substantiate the company's brand claim of "Vorsprung durch Technik" ("Advancement through technology"). Representatives are available to speak about the SAP ERP application, the SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) application, enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), and compliance in the areas of trade, governmental regulations, and tax.

BAE Systems Land Systems

Sandy Higgins, Head, Business Systems
Learn how BAE Systems leveraged the standardized services from the System Landscape Optimization group of experts from SAP Consulting and SAP Custom Development to plan and realize conversion and migration projects cost-effectively while supporting mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. BAE realized greater alignment with business processes and IT strategies and reduction of IT complexity.