SAVE THE DATE
SAP
S/4HANA
Forum
VIRTUALLY
June 26, 2025
8:00am - 12:00pm PST
truData's S/4HANA Forum is an invitee only event designed for SAP customers to share best practices and lessons learned in support of their SAP S/4HANA transformation journey.
Discussion topics include public versus private cloud, best practices in global rollouts, BTP and BDC — what does it all mean, and the news of extended ECC support thought 2033 to include a few.
Agenda
Full lineup to be announced soon
8:00 am
8:05 am
8:45 am
9:20 am
10:00 am
10:40 am
11:20 am
12:00 pm
Introduction
Wrap Up
Topic Leaders
Full lineup will be announced soon
Brian Monks
SVP, Enterprise Applications, Korn Ferry
Discussion Topic:
Korn Ferry Finance, Operations and HCM Transformation Journey to S/4HANA
Brian has over 20 years of experience as an IT Executive. Brian has led multiple SAP Program rollouts including optimizing a 9000 user SAP implementation. He has integrated and acquired a global company onto single SAP instance and single Salesforce instance across 50+ countries and has integrated and Supported Oracle applications.
Jason McMurdie
CIO, iFIT
Discussion Topic:
iFIT’s S/4HANA Transformation Journey and Global Rollout Strategy
Jason is an outcome-oriented tech leader with strong business and financial acumen and extensive global experience across diverse verticals including Aerospace and Defense, Wholesale, CPG, Food and Beverage, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Chemicals. He is a proven accelerator with a forward-thinking approach to leadership and innovation; leveraging analytics, governance, and business relationships to deliver high-impact productivity advances.
Jason as several decades of SAP experience and an in-depth background in planning and delivering large-scale, multimillion-dollar SAP transformations.
Joe Peraino
Director SAP Center of Excellence, Benjamin Moore
Discussion Topic:
Benjamin Moore’s journey to S/4HANA in the Public Cloud
Joe started his career as an accountant and controller and has spent the past ten years leading the SAP COE for Benjamin Moore. He recently led Benjamin Moore’s SAP S/4HANA transformation to the Public Cloud for an acquisition in the United Kingdom.
Darren Anderson
VP, Architecture and Program Delivery, Sony Pictures
Discussion Topic:
TBD
Darren is lead in Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture accomplished in delivering global projects within high profile business environments, typically characterized by mission critical, "follow the sun", 24/7 operational processes. Darren is a people-orientated, strong leader accountable to the global leadership team of Sony operating at board level to enable successful transformation.
Experience gained through a series of successful on time and on budget project life cycles and various re-engineering projects as an Architect, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, Project Manager and Program Director.
According to Gartner:
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As organizations accelerate their digital transformation, Gartner emphasizes the value of a hybrid and multi-cloud strategy—balancing the scalability and innovation of public cloud platforms with the control and compliance of private environments.
For global SAP S/4HANA rollouts, Gartner recommends best practices including strong governance, localized deployment strategies, standardized automation, and the creation of a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to ensure consistency and strategic alignment across regions.
Within the SAP landscape, Gartner underscores the strategic role of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) in supporting S/4HANA transformations. BTP enables seamless integration, advanced analytics, and rapid innovation without disrupting core ERP functions. Legacy methods like SAP BDC (Batch Data Communication) are giving way to modern, cloud-native integration tools that offer greater scalability, real-time data access, and operational efficiency—key drivers for success in today’s AI- and data-driven enterprise.
