This session offers expert tips, best practices, and time-saving advice to prepare you for an upgrade to SAP ERP HCM 6.0. Take a tour of the latest HCM features and functions and get tips to analyze and document the changes between your current and target release versions. Learn how to identify and correct enterprise structure design flaws from your initial implementation that could impact your ability to use new functionality, such as enterprise compensation management (ECM), SAP E-Recruiting, and SAP Learning Solution. Get new ideas on how to streamline upgrade development efforts and lower support costs by performing audits for custom programs and objects that can be replaced by standard functionality. Examine the importance of Web Dynpro for both Java and ABAP development and prepare for the changes to development skill sets and processes in SAP ERP 6.0. Leave this session with an understanding of when and why a Unicode upgrade should be a part of your project scope.