SAP Upgrade: Detailed Examination & Flawless Execution
What We Offer: A Smooth SAP Upgrade and Minimal Business Disruption
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It looks like 2010 is going to be the year of the SAP upgrade. SAP is encouraging customers to upgrade from their current release to ECC 6.0 in order to be able to implement SAP’s enhancement pack (EHP) strategy and in the long run say goodbye to upgrades as we know it.
DataXstream has the experience to help you get through the upgrade process quickly and with minimal disruption to business as usual so you can reap the benefits of being on the SAP release that optimizes your business processes and ability to serve your customers.
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Why DataXstream
DataXstream understands the need to execute an upgrade quickly and effectively to minimize disruption and ensure business continuity. We can help clients understand the options open to them to find the balance between a technically-driven upgrade and one that simultaneously delivers enhanced business capability.
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SAP Upgrade Project Plan & Execution
Our focus is on understanding your technical and business environment; establishing the approach; delivering an SAP upgrade project plan best suited to your company’s goals; and then executing against that plan.
Our approach looks at what you need to get through the SAP upgrade and ensure you are positioned to reap the subsequent benefits. In particular we work with our clients to:
- Clearly articulate the goals of the upgrade from both a technical and business perspective
- Identify the affected systems, SAP and non-SAP, and develop a strategy to support the upgrade process while maintaining business continuity in current production systems
- Develop, test and time trial a production upgrade plan that minimizes system downtime
- Utilize tools and techniques to rapidly identify custom development objects and subsequent remediation actions; e.g. retain an object as is, modify it to work with new release, decommission it as functionality is now standard in new release
- Prioritize work lists for object and process remediation and testing
- Leverage deliverables from earlier projects that can be used to minimize rework, e.g. test plans and approaches, business process procedures, security and authorizations test scripts, etc.
- Identify opportunities for technical improvement after the upgrade is completed and lay out an approach for moving forward after the upgrade to reap additional benefits
- Collaboratively develop support strategies and methodologies to allow ongoing production support and internal functionality releases to be deployed in parallel with the upgrade project
In short, DataXstream can provide a wealth of planning and execution experience to help clients design and execute an upgrade project that works.
