DataXstream will be present at Retail’s Big Show later this month (Jan 15-17) to talk all things SAP Retail. Will you be in attendance? Send us a message below to connect with us in New York later this month.

DataXstream: A Proven Expert in SAP Retail

Since a great number of SAP shops exist these days, you might ask yourselves why, as a retailer, you would choose DataXstream to implement SAP for Retail for your business.  It is a good question, and we have a great answer.

First and foremost, we at DataXstream are proven experts in SAP, having worked in the SAP world for more than 15 years and having established an excellent reputation.  Simply speaking, we understand SAP extremely well.  You can absolutely trust us with any SAP project.

Secondly, we have a proven track record when it comes to the specifics of SAP for Retail. With us on your team, you can expect to implement SAP for Retail 50% faster; have all the unique configurations of the system you need to best reach your business goals, and even have your system customized to improve upon SAP’s already excellent functionality.

Thirdly, we are experts in virtualization, as well, which means we give you the unique opportunity to virtualize your SAP environment if you so choose.  Many cost-savings and other benefits (including flexibility and increased responsiveness to business growth) can result from a virtualized environment.  For more details on the benefits of virtualization, read here.

What: SAP TechEd 2011

September 12-16, 2011

Where: Booth 204, The Venetian / Palazzo Congress Center, Las Vegas, NV

DataXstream is pleased to announce that, for the sixth year in a row, we will be exhibiting at the annual SAP TechEd conference. Visit us at booth 204 to discuss with our experts how you can utilize the latest ERP technologies, strategies, and best practices to bring value to your SAP solutions. Learn how your ERP initiatives can benefit by leveraging DataXstream’s SAP Project Management and Technical Consulting services, as well as our SAP solution offerings for Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Hosting, Implementations & Upgrades, Solution Manager, Enterprise Support, Enterprise Information Management, Integration, and ISV Enablement.

Win an Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl XLI Plaque Autographed by Peyton Manning! To celebrate the start of the NFL season we’re giving you the chance to leave TechEd with a framed and autographed photo of Peyton Manning, one of the greatest Quarterbacks of all time. Visit our booth for your chance to win!

Duration: 30 Minutes

Speaker: Steve Park, Senior SAP Interface Consultant, DataXstream

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This thirty-minute webinar will provide you with a synopsis of the strategic advantages of integrating your enterprise ticketing system into your overall ticketing process.  This session will highlight and discuss the business benefits, challenges and specific implementation details you need to know in order to successfully integrate SAP Solution Manager with a third party Ticketing System.  This webinar will also discuss the key business requirements that must be understood to build a successful integrated ticketing process as well as highlight some of the limitations and challenges of leveraging the SAP enterprise services. 

What Will Be Highlighted:

• Key knowledge learned while building the standard integration for CA Service Desk to SAP Solution Manager
• Challenges faced during specific customer implementations
• Specific configuration, import standard coding objects, and techniques used to adapt and enhance the standard integration

Duration: 30 Minutes

Speaker: Matt Lestock, Lead Infrastructure Architect, DataXstream

This session will provide you with a synopsis of the strategic advantages of virtualizing your SAP landscape, as well as an outline of the critical factors that one must consider and decide on to ensure successful execution of the virtualization process.

What Will Be Highlighted:

• Comparing and contrasting the major differences between upgrading SAP in a physical environment vs. a virtual environment
• Examples that illustrate virtualization’s positive impact throughout the phases of an upgrade project
• The long-term benefits that a company will realize by having their system virtualized after the upgrade is complete
• A real-life business case comparing hardware requirements, performance metrics, and costs of a physical hardware implementation vs. virtual hardware implementation

Date:  Thursday, August 11, 2011

Time:  1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT

Duration: 1 hour

Speaker:  Craig Stasila, Principal, DataXstream

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Please join us Thursday, August 11 at 1 pm ET for an overview and best practice guide for upgrading to the recently released SAP .Net Connector (NCo) 3.0.  This one hour webinar will supply you with knowledge of features specific to the new upgrade, as well as an overview of the advantages that come with investing in NCo 3.0.

What Will Be Highlighted:

• Changes and new features brought upon by the NCo 3.0 update
• Demonstrations of best-practices for implementing new and existing NCo code
• Live demonstration of inbound and outbound function calls between a .NET solution and SAP ECC

Win a Dell Streak!

We’ll be giving away a sleek Dell Streak to a random registered attendee at the end of each webinar. You must be in attendance to claim your prize.

DataXstream and Dell Partner to Run Live Disaster Recovery Demos of a Virtual SAP Environment

DataXstream is pleased to announce its participation at SAPPHIRENOW and the ASUG Annual Conference. Visit us at booth 2326 as we team up with our Dell partners to host presentations and demos of Disaster Recovery (DR) of a virtualized SAP environment on Dell hardware. Both DataXstream and Dell subject-matter-experts will be available to answer your questions and help you learn about the strategic advantages of virtualizing your SAP landscape, as well as the critical steps and tools that need to be in place to ensure a fool-proof DR plan.

Where: Booth 2326, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL

When: May 15 – 18, 2011

• May 16: 10:15 – 10:30, 12:15 – 12:30, 1:45 – 2:00
• May 17: 10:45 – 11:00, 12:15 – 12:30
• May 16: 11:15 – 11:30, 12:15 – 12:30

Win one of three Dell Streak 7s!

This year at SAPPHIRENOW we’re holding three separate drawings and giving away a Dell Streak 7 Android Tablet to the lucky winner of each! That’s right; you have three chances to win. We’ll be holding a drawing for the following three categories:

Virtualizing the Best-Run Businesses

Virtualization technology has completely changed the state of IT landscapes forever, including SAP infrastructures, by enabling businesses to significantly reduce hardware and energy costs while simultaneously increasing overall systems flexibility and performance.  Whether you’re migrating from an existing physical landscape or undergoing a new implementation, our streamlined SAP virtualization solutions will allow you to realize the benefits of your virtualized SAP infrastructure to their fullest potential.

Virtualization is just the beginning. Here’s how else we serve the Best-Run Businesses

Crafting the Best-Run Businesses

Other companies may have consultants that match ours in talent, but no one matches our skill. Talent is natural. Skill is only developed through tremendous work ethic and endless hours dedicated to honing your craft. Our craft is SAP: from the program level down to the specific functional, technical, and administrative details. Our depth of understanding and experience in SAP allows us to clearly see the big picture, and our detailed SAP expertise is used to build the solution to match your vision.

Leading the Best-Run Businesses

A great SAP Project Manager requires more than just raw management skills. One must have a thorough level of understanding of ALL facets of an SAP system as well. There is no substitute for experience and exposure. DataXstream understands the complexity and challenges of an SAP project and is able to avoid common pitfalls because we have been exposed to them before. Many times. Hundreds. DataXstream’s SAP Project Managers use that experience to create better informed project plans and estimates on timeline, budget, resources, business needs, and scope for your venture.

Supporting the Best-Run Businesses

The effectiveness of an SAP Lifecycle Support model is determined primarily by one factor: attention. In particular, the amount and quality of attention. A body shop wouldn’t employ the same lifespan support model to a sports car that it does a minivan. So why settle for a boilerplate SAP Lifecycle Support Model? DataXstream provides the attention needed to develop an onshore support model that is tailored to your needs, and the ongoing attention needed to adjust that model to best support your organization as changes occur.

Integrating the Best-Run Businesses

The difficulty of integrating existing business solutions with SAP is one of the most complex obstacles faced today by SAP customers. You know where you want to make the connection and can foresee the value that your business would gain from it, but the obstacles just seem too many. DataXstream understands SAP integration better than any other consulting organization. Period. For over 15 years, we have helped customers and software vendors successful implement flexible, scalable, and reliable SAP integration solutions.

Enabling the Best-Run Businesses

BusinessWeek reports that SAP now has more than 27,000 major customers who run over 91,500 installations of its software. That number will continue to grow, as SAP recently released a statement claiming a 26% software revenue growth and 20% service revenue growth in the first quarter of 2011. For an ISV, this represents a new customer channel that, if tapped, can potentially grow your business exponentially. The challenge is in creating a certified integration solution between your product and SAP and then tapping the proper channels to introduce your product to SAP customers. Our skilled partner-enablement specialists can work with your sales, marketing, development and support organizations to help you maximize the potential of the SAP marketplace.

Facilitating the Best-Run Businesses

“Included with your purchase is a Thingamajig. It’s a very complex contraption and you may not understand its value to your purchase, but trust me, it’s there. Oh, one more thing, you have to use it.” That Thingamajig for many SAP customers is SAP Solution Manager. DataXstream understands how to implement and leverage Solution Manager’s rich tool set to facilitate systems transparency and collaboration during your SAP implementation. Whether your SAP solution is just getting started or is mature, there are many tools and features within Solution Manager to help improve the management of your SAP solution.

Advancing the Best-Run Businesses

DataXstream understands SAP upgrades and the need to execute an upgrade quickly and effectively to minimize disruption and ensure business continuity.  We help clients understand the options available to them.  We help define and balance a technically-driven upgrade and one that simultaneously delivers enhanced business capability based on the client’s business needs and budget.  DataXstream focuses on understanding both the technical and business environment, establishing the approach, delivering an SAP upgrade project plan best suited to your company’s goals, and then executing that plan.

Time: 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT

Duration: 30 Minutes

Speaker: Matt Lestock, Lead Infrastructure Architect, DataXstream

Please join us on Tuesday, May 3 at 1 pm ET for an overview of SAP virtualization. This thirty minute webinar will provide you with a synopsis of the strategic advantages of virtualizing your SAP landscape as well as an outline of the critical factors one must consider and decide on to ensure successful execution of the virtualization process.

What Will Be Highlighted:

• Hardware, Software, and Infrastructure Architecture Considerations
• How the right combination of the three can help reduce the cost of IT through highly automated and scalable solutions
• Best practice and planning consideration for cost effective deployment of an efficient enterprise and simplified virtualization management

Going Virtual: How Lumber Liquidators Optimized Its IT Investments and Lightened the Demand on Its IT Organization

The April 2011 issue of SAP insiderPROFILES magazine will feature an editorial on the virtualization of Lumber Liquidators’ SAP implementation. The piece takes you inside the thought process of Lumber Liquidators’ IT team as they recount the factors that led them towards virtualization, the selection of DataXstream as their implementation partner, and how they feel today about about the decisions they made a year ago during the virtualization process.

Visit DataXstream at the IT 2011 Conference

What: IT 2011 Conference

When: March 15 – 18, 2011

Where: MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV

Do More, With Less

Through our industry best practice tailored solutions and our rare combination of project leadership, thorough understanding of business processes and high level company goals, and SAP technical expertise, we allow you to achieve higher business performance,  maximize your return on investment, and truly do more, with less.

Come visit us at Booth 421 to learn more about these featured solutions:

• Server / Storage Virtualization
• SAP Solution Manager / CA Service Desk Integration
• SAP .Net Connector (NCo) 3.0 Upgrade
• SAP Upgrades
• Custom Integration and Product Development

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Leave Vegas A Winner!

Forget the slots. Fill out the form below and when you come by our booth you will receive a free DataXstream lanyard / flash drive filled with only the information that matters to you and be entered in to win our Grand Prize Giveaway at the end of the conference!

When: October 18-22

Where: The Venetian/Pallazo Congress Center, Las Vegas, NV

Is virtualization in your company’s future SAP landscape vision?  How about an SAP upgrade? Are you having issues integrating SAP with other systems?  Do you want to know how Solution Manager can add tremendous value to your business?

The virtualization technology offered by DataXstream not only optimizes your SAP infrastructure, it also makes your company more sustainable.  At DataXstream we value sustainability and recognize the importance of sustainable business practices. Virtualization improves the efficiency of servers and reduces the energy and carbon emissions because fewer physical servers are actually needed to fulfill your business needs. The fact that fewer servers are used also offers the added benefit of less maintenance and back power are required. Thus, not only will you cut energy consumption, you will also cut costs. Integration is ideal if you are looking for a long-term development strategy that utilizes different technologies and methodologies. Solution manager, on the other hand, optimizes SAP performance while minimizing IT costs. Regardless of your SAP need, DataXstream is the answer to revolutionize your SAP infrastructure.

If any of these topics are relevant to you then come by booth 120 and talk to the industry’s leading technical consultants, DataXstream.

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