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The early bird registration period for the 2010 European CWG Conference will end, Friday, 19 March 2010.  So, hurry and register for the conference before and receive the lower rate. 

The time is not very far away for the 2010 European CWG Conference April 19 - 21.  It is being held in Wein [Vienna], Austria and the registration is now open for CWG members.  This conference continues the theme of "Education, Influencing and Networking" that we had in the North American Conference in October, 2009.   So, make your plans to join other Variant Configurator and IPC professionals for an informative conference and Register.  

Remember when you said you would make a presentation at the next CWG Conference?

Well, the time is quickly approaching for the 2010 European CWG Conference in Vienna and we are calling for presentations. So, it’s time to dig out your notes, your project slides and start thinking about an interesting topic and then create an interesting and energetic presentation to share.

The 2010 European CWG Conference is April 19 - 21, 2010 in historic Vienna, Austria.   The 3-Day conference begins on Monday with General Session presentations from SAP and customers.  Tuesday is filled with multiple tracks; one from SAP, another for Partners and always a focus on VC and IPC projects, and Wednesday will have additional customer presentations.  There will be three full days of great content. 

There is a "Meet and Greet" planned on Sunday evening, April 18th for everyone to attend and network with other conference attendees and have some fun, too.

The theme for the Vienna conference is "Education, Influencing and Networking". For examples of the presentation at the previous 2009 North American CWG Conference click here.    

CWG members in Australia are in process of forming a CWG Chapter.  Phil Martin is the Chapter leader and is working with the CWG Chapter Committee and Board to organize existing members with the intent to provide a localized forum.  A webinar is planned as the first meeting.

The French Speaking CWG Chapter has been launched and is in process of organizing for its first meeting. 

The Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN) CWG Chapter is now forming and emails have been sent to current CWG Members in the area.   The area defined is approximately a 1-1/2 hour drive of Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN.   This Chapter is open to any SAP customer using the VC, IPC and CRM configurators. 

At the 2009 North American CWG Conference in Marco Island, FL, CWG announces a major new expansion of capability in our CWG Sandbox.  Current CWG members and registered users of the CWG Sandbox now have SAP CRM 7.0 available as well as ECC 6.0. 

The latest SAP CRM 7.0 is connected to CWG ECC Sandbox and you have access to both SAP GUI and CRM 7.0 GUI.

The English language version is now available for the 2009 North American CWG Conference in October at Marco Island.

This is a complete resource that teaches users how to implement, set up, and use variant configuration functionality with SAP ERP 6.0 and CRM 2007. Consultants, managers, and even business decision leaders will learn about the business processes and integration issues, details of configuration in SAP CRM, special features of industry solutions, extensions of SAP customers and partners, and the selected challenges of using variant configuration. This is the one-stop resource to mastering Variant Configuration with SAP.


The venue is ready.  The presentation abstracts have been submitted and the three days are full of some exciting new topics like Analytics Reporting and updates from SAP.  We have a keynote speaker and an update from AMR on the CWG survey on Monday, some round table discussions and three full tracks on Tuesday.