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.
