Transforming Product Models - including Migrating from 3rd Party Configurator to SAP VC

PresenterDavid Silverman
BioDavid is CTO, Principal Consultant, and Co-Owner of eSpline LLC.  He has worked within SAP development teams on the IPC product configurator and pricing engines, contributed to multiple IPC and VC customer projects (IPC, CRM, SD, MM, PP, PS) over the past fourteen years as product modeler, data migration specialist, technical architect, and project manager. At eSpline he has an additional mission: to help raise the bar, through innovative products and services, on how SAP product configuration and pricing projects and maintenance processes are done.
CompanyeSpline LLC 
AbstractThere are many important scenarios in managing configurable product offerings that require  transforming  product models, including:  migrating from legacy to SAP configurator engines, web-enabling or mobilizing VC models using the IPC or a 3rd-party configurator, implementing a set of common or best design patterns across the enterprise, tuning models to enhance performance, consolidating characteristics, changing naming conventions, merging similar models, converting models from acquired companies, applying mass changes, synchronizing two or more systems or clients.  Sometimes It is possible to transform the models in place, but sometimes it is necessary to create new models.  Traditionally these scenarios have required significant manual effort, and are difficult to apply to productive models.

This presentation introduces the business reasons for and implications of model transformations.   Then it focuses on a pragmatic, proven, iterative transformation technique that we have successfully applied to many of the above scenarios.  It concludes with a demonstration of an automatic transformation that addresses an issue discovered by an automatic "health check" that "critiques" an existing VC product model.  
 
Audience Intermediate:  General Audience,  Modelers, Business Mgr, Product Manager, Project Manager, Configuration Mgr/Dir
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