Utopia, Inc. Presents on Data Migration and Enterprise Asset Management at SAPPHIRE® NOW

MUNDELEIN, Ill., May 03, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Utopia, Inc., a global leader in enterprise data lifecycle management (EDLM) solutions, today announced it has been selected to present two presentations one on data migration and the other on enterprise asset management (EAM) during the ASUG annual conference held in conjunction with SAPPHIRE NOW.  The event takes place in Orlando, Florida, May 15-18, 2011.

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Sushil Tiwari, project director at Utopia, Inc., will present "Legacy Data Migration to SAP® ECC, a Practitioner's Methodology" on Wednesday, May 18.  For the presentation Mr. Tiwari will outline the benefits of obtaining a single cleansed and unified source of master information, and how SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services software can be used as the platform for delivering the cleansed and transformed data into SAP ECC. Attendees will be introduced to key process steps in a data migration such as data profiling, source to target mapping, cleansing and de-duplication of master data, and other core concepts.

The second presentation "Don't Let Your Data Lead You Astray" will be presented by Peter Aynsley-Hartwell, vice president of solutions consulting at Utopia, Inc.  For the presentation Mr. Aynsley-Hartwell will explain how managing and maintaining assets and equipment can make or break a company's bottom line.  He will address the key elements that affect EAM such as service maintenance, MRO materials procurement, and inventory levels.  The presentation will showcase an oil and gas company's EAM business problem and how the solution was effectively framed around data, business processes, and ERP optimization using the "Top Down, Bottom Up" EDLM approach.   This presentation will take place on Monday, May 16.  

SAPPHIRE NOW and the 2011 ASUG Annual Conference are the world's premier business technology events and the must-attend business outing of the year for professionals using SAP solutions. Thousands of professionals who use, support, and innovate with SAP solutions gather in Orlando to share insights, intelligence, and experience to drive business results across all levels.

ABOUT UTOPIA, INC.

Utopia, Inc. is a global services and strategy consulting firm focused exclusively on EDLM.  Utopia's offerings range from strategic roadmap development and systems integration to data migration, data archiving, legacy decommissioning, data quality, and data governance services.  Utopia is an SAP services partner in the SAP PartnerEdge™ program and an SAP gold partner in the SAP Consulting Partner Program for North America.  Utopia was recently named the North America Services Partner of the Year 2010 granted by SAP America, Inc. and a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Services,  2011.(i)"

Copyright © 2011 Utopia Inc., Mundelein, Illinois, USA. All Rights Reserved. SAP, PartnerEdge and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries.  Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.  (i) Gartner "Cool Vendors in Application Services, 2011" by Susan Tan, Matthew Goldman, Arup Roy, Helen Huntley, Partha Iyengar, Alex Soejarto, Asheesh Raina, April 7, 2011.

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