PwC to present at SAPPHIRE® NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference

NEW YORK, May 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- PwC US today announced its participation at SAPPHIRE® NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference, where it will share key insights on how to enable business transformation through technology and innovation to meet business objectives. The conference will take place June 3-5 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

PwC is this year's recipient of the SAP® North America Regional Partner Excellence Award 2014 for Innovation. At the event, PwC professionals will present on various topics, including fraud management; budgeting and planning; solutions from Ariba, an SAP company; access control; and utilization of receivables management processes in SAP® solutions and more. PwC will showcase its services in booth 408.

"As this year's recipient of SAP's notable regional partner award for innovation, we look forward to sharing our insights on how organizations can navigate and leverage today's evolving technologies such as those offered by SAP," said Rodney Seligmann, PwC Advisory principal and Global SAP Alliance Leader. "From strategy through execution, PwC collaborates with SAP in order to help clients align their technological resources and applications with their business objectives in order to address the financial, operational, technical and regulatory challenges inherent to software investments."

PwC and SAP help their mutual clients align SAP technologies and applications with strategic business objectives and strategies. Through this collaboration, they help mitigate the financial, technical, operational, and compliance challenges companies may encounter when seeking the value of considerable investments in SAP software.

At the conference, PwC and SAP are also sponsoring a networking event series called Women in Technology (WIT), which will focus on the main issues impacting women that work in technology and provide a unique environment to enlighten, empower and inform women.  The two WIT sessions being held on June 4 include an invitation-only breakfast called "Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Developing connection intelligence & savviness" at 6:30 a.m. EDT at the Hilton Orlando in the Lake Eola meeting room and a panel discussion with PwC's Advisory Chief Diversity Officer, Lisa Feigen Dugal, called "Diversity as a Lever for Growth and Innovation: Learn how to develop female leaders in technology" at 8:00 a.m. EDT in the Forum Theater A.

For more information about PwC at SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference, please visit: www.pwc.com/sap/events.

SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference are the world's premier business technology event and largest SAP customer-run conference, offering attendees the opportunity to learn and network with customers, SAP executives, partners and experts across the entire SAP ecosystem. For general information about the conference, visit www.sapandasug.com.

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