By Freya Purnell
SAP Australian User Group (SAUG) chairperson Ian Harvison unveiled the new brand for the user group at this morning’s opening session of the SAUG Summit 2012 + SAP Forum Australia in Melbourne.
The new brand incorporates the three core deliverables for the user group – networking, influence and knowledge.
Harvison also gave attendees the first look at the user group’s revamped website, which will be launched in September and features the new brand.
“Importantly for us, we will have a single repository of data on our members,” he said. “It’s a very exciting change for the user group to have the opportunity to share knowledge and network with other members [through the website], which we haven’t been able to do in the past.”
The new brand and website are only part of the work SAUG has been doing over the last 12 months to examine its mandate from member organisations.
“It has been a pretty full year in terms of what we have revisited and taken back into our member community as a user group,” Harvison said.
Also in train are a number of changes to the SAUG’s Constitutions, reducing the number of Committee members from nine to eight; instituting a two-year term for committee members, with 50 per cent rotation each year; and the removal of the BusinessObjects category of membership.
These changes will be voted on at a Special General Meeting to be held on 31 August.
In addition, Harvison announced that the annual SAUG Plenary will become a two-day event in Sydney, to be held in 2012 on 22-23 November at the Australian Technology Park.
