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Your company is under constant pressure to provide fast innovation. As a result your SAP solutions are an invaluable asset to modernize your applications architecture to support your company's changing business needs. If your SAP software is outdated you cannot provide the flexibility your company requires to support business innovation.

You need a flexible service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment that can extend throughout your entire company. If you're operating on an earlier version of SAP, you need to upgrade to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 6.0 to modernize your company's applications and help them achieve flexibility and increased productivity. EDS has the upgrade solutions for SAP that can position your company for future growth and expansion.

Create an Agile Enterprise With an Experienced SAP Partner

EDS upgrade solutions for SAP provide expert consultants who perform upgrades on SAP solutions for clients in a broad spectrum of industries. Our goal is not only to upgrade your SAP system but to position your organization for future growth as well.

You'll also benefit from:

  • 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:
    • Standard upgrades that lay the architectural groundwork for future innovation while focusing on eliminating unused system modifications and importing new and updated objects
    • Complex and functional upgrades that reduce system complexity by replacing custom modifications with SAP standard functionality
    • Transformational upgrades that extend and improve your business processes using new SAP core functionality
  • Flexible solutions that enable future ERP upgrades and give you the support packages and functionality you need to grow your organization
  • Reduced upgrade costs by leveraging your existing personnel so you save on upgrading and EDS can execute your upgrade more efficiently
  • Mitigated risks that integrate quality assurance, testing, training and change management

Together With SAP We'll Help You Prepare For The Future

Using our partnership with SAP we go beyond successfully upgrading your company's SAP software. Together, we position your company to change as you leverage new technologies and reinvent your information technology (IT) organization into a service-enabled enterprise.

Using our proprietary analysis programs and methodologies to understand your company's current state, EDS develops a technical upgrade plan that focuses on risk mitigation and sustainability of your existing SAP solution.

Our SAP partnership provides you with best-practice SAP solutions supported by EDS implementation, integration, applications management and hosting services. This partnership provides you with:

  • Expanded capabilities that encompass an end-to-end approach for implementing and managing your SAP applications
  • A flexible SOA framework to support your need for scalable and predictable services
  • Industry-focused processes and tools to provide business-proven SAP solutions
  • Testing and optimization services that deliver high-performance, reliable solutions
  • Access to consultants trained on SAP's proprietary and rigorous education program
  • Services management and governance processes that ensure performance, quality and productivity

The Benefits of Upgrading To SAP's Current Service-Enabled Platform

By upgrading to ERP 6.0, your company can deliver innovation faster by evolving as its business needs change. An enterprisewide SOA will:

Provide Operational Excellence
Drive continuous improvement
Foster business process efficiency
Enable process automation
Facilitate process standardization and harmonization
Provide Sustainability
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 Total Cost of Ownership
Reduce costs for implementation and upgrades
Lower ongoing software and hardware costs
Reduce the frequency of user training

SAP's Upgrade To ERP 6.0 Provides New Functionality

SAP's latest platform includes more than 25 configurable industry solutions to fit your company's needs and growth plans. 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 company's business.

Upgrade Methodology

To perform SAP upgrades EDS combines the SAP upgrade methodology with its own upgrade experience. We develop an upgrade road map that defines the overall upgrade project approach. There are four project phases in our SAP upgrade:

Value Capture
Identify and measure the need and success of the upgrade
Implement the project's standards and procedures
Initiate functional, technical and training planning
Business Blueprint
Generate a process-oriented view of your business
Analyze existing implementation to capture system design
Determine needed new functionality
Establish upgrade development/test environment
Realization of Development and Quality Assurance
Upgrade all nonproduction systems, while minimizing the impact on production and production support
Perform detailed testing of the upgrade
Resolve issues
Create end-user documentation and training materials
Realization of Production
Complete end-user training and the final preparation steps for upgrading the production environment
Make the upgraded production system available for business transactions

Additionally, with our SAP preconfigured Flight Plans you receive the benefits and expertise of SAP and the EDS-SAP partnership combined with the EDS' Designed for Run™ total solution. You'll also benefit from EDS':

  • Business & technical services
  • Management of change disciplines:
    • Organizational change management
    • Stakeholder communications and management
    • Business operations support
    • Change leadership capability management
    • Value management services

Implementation Methodology

Accelerated SAP (ASAP) is SAP's implementation methodology specifically designed to:

  • Mitigate risks
  • Reduce costs
  • Improve your acceptance of the SAP implementation

With this methodology and our SAP preconfigured Flight Plans, you will receive the benefits and expertise of SAP and the EDS-SAP partnership along with the EDS' Designed for Run total solution. There are five phases, which include:

  1. Project Preparation: Developing the project plan, assigning resources, defining scope and documenting project processes
  2. Business Blueprint: Gathering business requirements and determining configurations, enhancements, interfaces, conversions and reports
  3. Realization: Designing and developing enhancements, interfaces, conversions and reports and developing/executing the test plan
  4. Final Preparation: Conducting user acceptance test and preparing to go live
  5. Go Live and Support: Implementing the project and beginning to provide ongoing support

Run SAP Methodology

Run SAP, a robust operational methodology that underpins end to end (E2E) solutions operations standards and complements SAP’s implementation methodology ASAP (AcceleratedSAP). The methodology includes:

  • SAP standards for Solutions Operation
  • Roadmap to implement E2E Solutions Operations
  • Training & Certification

Run SAP is “ASAP” for Operations. Run SAP is a proven methodology to optimize the implementation and ongoing management of E2E Solution Operations. There are five phases which include:

  1. Assessment & Scoping: Define business and technical requirements for operational changes, define scope
  2. Design Operations: Design operations processes, create blueprint, plan testing, train resources
  3. Setup Operations: Implementation of E2E solutions operations
  4. Handover into Production: Execution of E2E solutions operations
  5. Operations & Optimization: Operating the live solution and optimizing its operation

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, EDS Designed for Run, considers the function and expense of your IT systems and applications as a whole and recognizes the interdependent nature of the elements that make up your complex IT systems. 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. It unites our applications services, infrastructure services and business process outsourcing services capabilities into a single, focused effort to maximize your ability to extract value from your IT assets.

Because of our ability to focus on two upgrade areas, complex technical 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 new 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 project MOVE partner, which can help accelerate your upgrade to ERP 6.0.

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.

Embed Regulatory Controls Across Your Enterprise

To complement our application implementation and management, we have partnered with a specialist in anticipating and managing change. Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) will help automate governance, risk and compliance into SAP and other ERP applications. Our allied solutions identify and manage your risks by integrating disconnected processes and implementing corporate policies and regulatory controls across your enterprise systems. This gives you the ability to increase operational transparency and ensure accountability.

Governance and compliance frameworks and supporting technology integrate these processes into your systems for complete compliance:

  • Role management: Automate access and authorization based on user, business role and system access needed to complete business tasks
  • User provisioning and administration: Ensure proper access using integration of duties and user authorization control, including proper access during emergency situations
  • Change management: Establish controls needed to achieve compliance and continuously meet regulatory mandates in a timely and cost-effective manner
  • Risk management: Implement a strategy for risk management and compliance activities with automated business control, transparency and predictability
  • Process controls: Ensure compliance for all cross-enterprise systems and gain complete visibility into your business processes with centralized documentation, testing, remediation and monitoring
  • Global trade services: Manage international trade compliance with sanctioned party list screening, import/export controls, custom monitoring and cross-border risk management

EDS' Complete SAP Applications Management Services

EDS does more than just upgrade your SAP applications. We offer unparalleled support for your SAP systems. Our full-service approach provides not only greater flexibility and cost savings but also a balance of performance, reliability and risk management. We ensure your SAP software is optimized and the integrity is maintained, which allows for cost-effective upgrades and preparedness for change and innovation.

Choose EDS

As a global leader in systems integration and a certified SAP partner, EDS has the expertise to connect your applications into a seamless enterprise solution. By creating an agile SOA foundation, your company can orchestrate business processes, exchange information quickly and execute transactions smoothly.

EDS has the experience to help your company get the sustainable business value from your SAP applications. We have worked with SAP to provide enterprise solutions since 1990, performing more than 220 SAP implementations and supporting more than 873,000 SAP users in 54 countries. Together, EDS and SAP have the expertise to help your company lower costs, reduce risk and increase agility with our complete start-to-finish solutions for your entire SAP landscape.

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

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