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Enterprise Applications Solutions For SAP: Business Case

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In order to remain competitive you have to provide innovation as quickly as possible. That means you must modernize your applications architecture to support changing business needs. SAP solutions represent a vital element in this modernization, but outdated SAP software does not provide the flexibility you need to support business innovation. You need upgraded solutions for SAP to help you achieve future growth and expanded productivity.

SAP Is the Key To Enterprise Innovation

Enterprises need a flexible, service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment that can extend throughout the entire organization to succeed in today's always-on world. If you operate on an earlier version of SAP, you need to upgrade to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 6.0 to modernize your applications, achieve flexibility and increase productivity.

Transform Your Business Into an Agile Enterprise

EDS has the expertise to connect your applications into a seamless enterprise solution. By implementing critical information technology (IT) practices with the SAP NetWeaver® platform, our solution helps you meet your IT needs now and expands into your other projects over time. By creating an agile SOA you can facilitate business processes, exchange information quickly and execute transactions smoothly. SAP software can help you improve your customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across your supply chains and business operations.

SAP's Upgrade To ERP 6.0 Provides New Functionality

SAP's latest platform includes 28 configurable industry solutions to fit your business needs and growth plans, and it is as easy as flipping a switch. An innovative upgrade switch framework makes future growth easy. The appropriate switches are flipped and all changes are delivered in an inactive state to minimize the impact to your business.

By upgrading to SAP's current service-enabled platform, your organization can deliver innovation faster by evolving as your business needs change. With an enterprisewide SOA, your organization has a foundation for the future.

Business
Business Strategy
Operational Excellence
  • Enable business innovation
  • Drive competitive differentiation
  • Support globalization
  • Foster intercompany collaboration
  • Respond quickly in a dynamic business environment
  • Drive continuous improvement
  • Foster business process efficiency
  • Enable process automation
  • Facilitate process standardization and harmonization
Information Technology
Sustainability
Total Cost of Ownership
  • Cover new and changing legal requirements
  • Guarantee business and IT-system stability
  • Provide continuous system support and maintenance
  • Ensure quality through world-class testing practices
  • Reduce costs for implementation and upgrade projects
  • Lower ongoing software and hardware costs
  • Reduce the frequency of user training

Replace Your Complex Systems Using Process Integration and Consolidation

You can streamline your disparate platforms so they remain connected across the entire enterprise with help from EDS. We'll work with you to create end-to-end, integrated systems across your enterprise and reduce the cost of your IT infrastructure. We can provide you with the backbone you need to integrate your systems in the near and long term, to help your systems grow as your business changes. By implementing our SAP solutions we enable SOA to provide an agile framework for your future growth.

Consolidate Your SAP Solutions Into a Single Global Footprint

While you may already rely on SAP applications in your enterprise landscape, you need to unify your business processes and eliminate data silos to optimize these systems.

  • Align your applications across the enterprise: If you've experienced a merger or acquisition, rationalizing disparate platforms and applications can be overwhelming. We can help you retain the value of your applications by delivering service-oriented enterprisewide solutions.
  • Create flexible business processes: With our deep knowledge of legacy systems and IT services experience, we can deploy SAP NetWeaver solutions across organizations' application landscapes, enabling data unification, process integration and business information management on an SOA platform. Working closely with SAP, we can join all your business processes together to leverage your entire IT portfolio, including both SAP and non-SAP systems.
  • Gain long-term value at a lower cost of ownership: EDS can deliver long-term maintainability and a lower cost of ownership by delivering solutions across the entire applications stack, including world-class implementation, integration, applications management and hosting services.

Integrate Processes Across Your Enterprise

EDS knows how to deliver SAP solutions to facilitate change for your business. We have experience implementing the full range of SAP NetWeaver functionality to help you lower the cost of your IT investment through end-to-end process integration.

  • Exchange infrastructure/process integration: Using open integration technologies, EDS supports the following among both SAP and non-SAP applications:
    • Application-to-application integration
    • System consolidations and migration
    • Business-to-business process management
  • Business intelligence: Our consultants make your information actionable by identifying, integrating and analyzing data from numerous sources, enabling analytics, data warehousing and reporting
  • Master data management: We enable the delivery of harmonized, consistent information to applications across your enterprise as part of ongoing data consolidation and management
  • Enterprise portals: We deliver and support internal, partner and customer portals to focus on:
    • Collaboration and knowledge management
    • Facilitating Web services deployment and content management
  • Composite applications: EDS develops custom and composite applications, using SAP design tools, methodologies, services and processes, including user interface patterns and an abstraction layer for objects
  • Mobile access: We enable mobile access for your enterprise applications through multiple channels so your employees can remain connected to the online and offline information they need

Position Your Organization For Future Growth

EDS provides you with expert consultants who have a wealth of experience performing upgrades on SAP solutions for clients in many industries. By upgrading you'll receive the following benefits:

  • Accelerated delivery: Our project management experience, along with SAP's upgrade road map and methodology, helps you avoid unnecessary delays and cost overruns
  • Comprehensive upgrade strategy: We offer three types of upgrades to match your specific needs:
    1. Standard upgrades that lay the architectural groundwork for future innovation while focusing on eliminating unused system modifications and importing new and updated objects
    2. Complex and functional upgrades that reduce system complexity by replacing custom modifications with SAP standard functionality
    3. Transformational upgrades that extend and improve your business processes using new SAP core functionality
  • Flexible solutions that enable future SAP upgrades and give you the support packages and functionality you need to grow your organization
  • Reduce upgrade costs by leveraging your existing personnel so you save on upgrading and EDS can execute your upgrade more efficiently
  • Mitigate risks that integrate quality assurance, testing, training and change management

The Power of Partnership

We don't just implement SAP applications. We have the expertise to design, build and manage SAP solutions that drive down your total cost of ownership and maximize your IT business value. SAP chose EDS as a partner because we have an approach that encompasses infrastructure, application and business processes. In fact, our strategy, Designed for Run™, considers the function and expense of your IT systems and applications as a whole. It also charts a complete course to meet your goals and implement a measured modernization process while anticipating the cost of operating your entire system over its lifetime. In other words, we make sure every IT dollar counts.

Because of our ability to focus on two upgrade areas, complex upgrades and transformational upgrades as part of a modernization road map, SAP has expanded our partnership, which provides us with exclusive access to the latest upgrade data and proprietary tools. This will help you upgrade to the very latest SAP solutions.

We're the first hosting and service provider to participate in Run SAP®, a next-generation SAP program designed to help you develop a clear, shared methodology for the ongoing management of your end-to-end solution. As a certified Run SAP partner, we help you gain sustainable business value from your SAP applications with the scalability, high availability, global delivery and industry innovation you need.

SAP also chose EDS as a partner in the MOVE project, which aligns SAP and EDS to assist with your upgrade to ERP 6.0, accelerating your journey toward more modern SAP platforms while increasing your SAP functionality.

Our special alliance with SAP provides us with the expertise to help you lower costs, reduce risk and increase agility with our complete start-to-finish solutions for your entire SAP landscape.

Governance, Risk and Compliance Solutions For SAP

To complement our application implementation and management we have partnered with a specialist in anticipating and managing change. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) will help automate end-to-end governance, risk and compliance for SAP and other ERP applications. Regardless of the organizational structure of your enterprise, the software being used or employee roles and responsibilities, EDS and PwC deliver comprehensive access and process controls to define and oversee authorization throughout your enterprise. Instead of just reacting to risk, you gain the ability to identify risks, prevent fraud and protect critical information.

The benefits you gain by this alliance include:

  • The ability to define risks and opportunities for strategic decisions
  • Minimized operational impact through proactive monitoring
  • Protection of your company's reputation and brand by reducing the fraud potential
  • Increased organizational efficiency by automating access and process controls
  • Standardization of your internal, external and regulatory controls

Choose EDS

Using our experience as one of the leading enterprise applications management companies, we can help you plan and build for your entire life cycle – implementation, configuration, integration, hosting, tuning, upgrading and management. We don't just implement SAP applications, we have the expertise to design, build and manage them so you can drive down your total cost of ownership and maximize business value.

Our experience is what makes us different. We've been working together with SAP to provide enterprise solutions since 1990. Our very own SAP implementation is one of the five largest in the world. Together with SAP we have created a partnership to provide companies like yours the best practice SAP solutions supported by EDS' world-class services. With our help you can concentrate on your core business. We'll ensure your applications are functioning optimally so you reduce your total cost of ownership and increase service quality.

For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.

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