In many respects the success of an SAP implementation depends on the team members at the detailed working level taking a strategy and high level objectives and converting them into work product. Team leaders need to know how strategic goals convert into team activities and how the activities across many teams inter-relate and have to be coordinated.
An SAP implementation is a complex, often organic endeavor with multiple moving parts, changing priorities and a constantly evolving critical path. Team leaders need a constant awareness of the numerous building blocks, their dependencies and areas of risk.
How DataXstream Helps
DataXstream consultants have team leadership experience and bring practical results-oriented approached to engagements. Our consultants’ experience ensures a focus on value adding activities and not on following a process for the sake of it. Some of the areas where our consultants lead teams are:
Technical Teams
We bring expertise in ABAP and XI/PI development of interfaces, data conversions and loads, reporting, user exits and workflow. Along with formal technical skills we deliver project standards, policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure that development work is of a high standard and is sustainable.
Our technical team leaders plan and manage and audit work product to ensure it is completed and delivered in a timely manner to meet overall project objectives.
Functional Teams
Our functional team leaders bring in depth knowledge of multiple SAP modules and have real world experience with the integration between them. We understand the dependencies and relationships between master data, transactional data and reporting that are critical to successful business process design and deployment. Our experience ensures that functional teams deliver comprehensive business capabilities.
Our expertise ensures that SAP functional configuration, data content and business processes are fully represented and thoroughly tested at all stages of the project life cycle. We pro-actively incorporate lessons learned from testing and business process design into cut-over and go-live planning.
Infrastructure & Basis Teams
Architecting, building, installing, managing, monitoring and tuning your technical environment is critical to overall project success. Our consultants lead SAP infrastructure teams to ensure hardware is sized appropriately and is made available in a timely manner to support project activities. Similarly, they constantly monitor and tune the systems to ensure performance meets business and end user needs in terms of response times and processing capacity.
We also provide SAP security and authorization consulting team leadership to guide, structure and deploy an end user and system user administration program throughout the project life cycles.
DataXstream is the Right Choice
DataXstream worked with multi-national rocket launch company to scope, design and build their SAP development and infrastructure program. The DataXstream technical team leader managed group of more than 60 consultants and in-house developers (ABAP, SAP PI/XI). The role established formal development processes, including a functional specification review process in the development cycle to ensure consistent standards were used for all developed RICEFW objects. The team leader also determined the integration infrastructure requirements, the systems landscape, and security integration strategy along with the creation of a robust and auditable promote-to-production process.
