Master the SAP balancing act

“How do we choose the right path to modernize our SAP environment and meet our specific business needs?”

“Our SAP environment is already too complex to refresh, expand and operate.”

If you are running SAP today, this no doubt sounds very familiar to you. Truth is, you’re faced with a tough balancing act: On one side, the pressure to modernize as you upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0. One the other, the need to manage your SAP environment more efficiently.

For thousands of companies of all sizes and industries, SAP applications are an essential link between business and information technology. But do you find that your existing SAP environments have become increasingly complex, difficult to modify and very costly to maintain?

What’s more, your business users continually ask for new functionality, which can often take too long to implement—and may require a level of flexibility that your SAP environment currently lacks. At the same time, your business users are looking for ways to minimize the risk of downtime for mission-critical SAP applications.

It’s essential to make sure you have the most current SAP functionality in place to help run your business. But the challenge comes as you wrestle with the balancing act—finding the best way to modernize and manage your SAP environment while maintaining service quality and responding faster to changing business needs

Modernizing your SAP environment can help deliver a faster return on new SAP investments while lowering costs, reducing complexity and minimizing risk.

HP can help you choose the right path, or a combination of paths, to modernize and manage your SAP environment. We can work with you to meet your precise needs, whether you are looking to define an upgrade path, migrate data, streamline complex processes or mange your entire infrastructure and applications environment.

Building on our long-term alliance with SAP, we offer HP Services for SAP that focus on:

• Upgrading with HP Upgrade Services for SAP ERP 6.0 bringing together a comprehensive suite of technical, functional and strategic upgrade services that accelerate your move from an SAP R/3 environment to an enterprise service-enabled environment based on SAP ERP 6.0 and SAP NetWeaver technologies
• Application outsourcing with HP Application Outsourcing for SAP enabling you to offload the ongoing complexity and costs of SAP maintenance with new levels of automation and optimization, plus provides a smooth, predictable funding model for your SAP upgrades

Leveraging HP Services’ proven global delivery methodologies and processes, we’ve also created the HP Upgrade Factory for SAP ERP 6.0, which takes an industrialized approach to technical upgrades from SAP R/3 to SAP ERP 6.0.

The benefits quickly add up in your favor, thanks to our consistent, unified approach that improves repeatability and reduces upgrade time and budget requirements. This way, you can rest assured the path to SAP ERP 6.0 leads to better business outcomes.

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