SAP upgrade practice: overview
Understanding your point of view
Some companies perceive an upgrade as merely a pain from which they want fast relief. Others see it as a small stepping stone to achieving more business value from their current SAP investments. And still others view it as the foundation for a whole new realm of business expansion into areas such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM).
Regardless of your point of view, Deloitte is capable of implementing your upgrade as quickly and painlessly possible. We do this by:
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Working with you and your executive and business community to develop the business case for the upgrade.
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Providing you with R/3 Enterprise experience and expertise that will allow you to gain true business benefits from the upgrade, such as reducing IT total cost of ownership, migrating from legacy systems onto SAP, extending your current SAP footprint, minimizing the cost of projects, consolidating skills, and more.
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Applying best-in-class tools and solutions to accelerate the implementation and to mitigate risk.
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Combining proven methodologies, proprietary tools and highly experienced people to address security, technology, project management, functionality and business process, infrastructure, and learning and change management.
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Assuring that measurable knowledge transfer occurs.
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Delivering on-time and on-budget.
Bringing people into focus
Many consulting firms have excellent SAP expertise. But few have an entire practice devoted to SAP upgrades. Deloitte has chosen to go this route because we understand that upgrading to R/3 Enterprise is not a trivial task to be taken lightly. By focusing an entire practice on upgrades, we can invest more heavily in training our practitioners on R/3 Enterprise; acquiring internal R/3 Enterprise systems for practice and research; and ensuring that all of our team members have SAP upgrade experience.
If you're considering Deloitte as a partner in your upgrade project, it's probably even more important for you to know that we have a highly respectful, flexible and collaborative working style. Our practitioners are smart, experienced, collegial, committed to success, and — perhaps most significant — they truly enjoy what they do for a living. If you've ever received service from a disgruntled person who would rather be doing something else, you know that being committed to one's craft and being a pleasure to work with are differentiating criteria that can make or break a deal.
Walking the walk
Over the years, we have mastered the process of estimating and delivering SAP upgrade projects on-time and on-budget. Regardless of whether or not the upgrade is purely technical or highly complex — involving expanded functionality, decommission work-a-rounds, or new modules — we have the methodology, tools and people to deliver.
Questions?
Learn more about Deloitte's SAP Upgrade practice, our assessment and diagnostic process and the solutions and tools we offer. Questions? Please contact us via email at: sapupgrade@deloitte.com.
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