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How can you get the best out of a SAP implementation or upgrade?

Three perfect opportunities to optimise your SAP investment!

World leading organisations use SAP Business Solutions to make them perform better than their competitors; ensure they provide an excellent service to their customers at all times and to be assured that they have the highest level of integrity and compliance to all regulations.

If you are looking to upgrade your current SAP Business Solution, or are considering using one, one thing is certain - the role of your business processes is absolutely central.

Business Process Managament - BPM - is a proven way of getting control of your business through your business processes. The ARIS Platform is the world leading BPM platform adopted by SAP to ensure you get the maximum return on your investment in your chosen SAP Business Solution.

Using the ARIS Platform will ensure you can streamline your upgrade, seamlessly integrate SAP Solution Manager into your business and deliver the benefits from SAP Enterprise - Service Orientated Architecture (E-SOA)

Are you considering a SAP implementation to make your organisation more effective? How can you take advantage of a SAP upgrade to streamline your organisation? How will using the SAP Solution Manager or the transition to a Service-oriented Architecture benefit the business? One thing is certain - the role of your business processes is absolutely central!

Get more out of SAP with ARIS

World leading organisations understand that to get the best out of their SAP Solutions, they have to start with their Business Processes. Business Process Management, delivered using the ARIS platform, will ensure that you can deliver real, tangible benefits to the business - for example….

IDS Scheer's ARIS platform enables you to get the best out of SAP. By giving business processes the central role during a SAP implementation or upgrade, you bridge the gap between IT and the business. But this is not the only advantage Business Process Excellence with ARIS can deliver. According to a recent survey of ARIS users you may also experience higher acceptance by the business of IT changes (71%), quality improvement (57%), and successful redeployment of best practices and process knowledge (42%) as advantages. Decide for yourself which of these opportunities you are ready to take advantage of!

Optimisation opportunity 1

Save time and money on your SAP upgrade
Are you about to switch to a new version of SAP or considering a re-implementation? In that case ARIS can tell you exactly how SAP is being used inside your organisation at the present time. How do the processes flow, what (customised) SAP transactions and reports are included, and which roles carry them out? Such accelerated documentation of your SAP deployment improves your insight into the current situation and provides an ideal starting point for your future blueprint.
Apart from the time saved, the added transparency will also lead to a huge reduction in cost; in practice it turns out that an average 70% of all customised reports and transactions are never actually used. So most of them do not have to be transferred to the new version of SAP! This means you are in an excellent position to re-use the blueprint recorded in ARIS in the SAP Solution Manager. Which brings us to the second great opportunity for optimisation.
Expertpaper Simplifying SAP upgrades Through Business Process Management

Optimisation opportunity 2

SAP implementation using SAP Solution Manager
The blueprinting phase is critical to ensure that the requirements of the business are clearly captured, analysed and translated into the solution design. It is during this phase that the majority of the cost and complexity of the final solution is determined. SAP and IDS Scheer recognise the importance of this stage and have therefore collaborated for over 20 years developing innovative products to ensure success of final solution.

SAP Solution Manager contains best practice building block processes, transactions, and configuration elemements. The unique bi-directional interface into ARIS enables this content, to be transferred into ARIS modelling repository so that additional business logic, non SAP steps and the roles that carry out these activities can be included. This then reflects the complete business needs rather than just IT requirements. The benefit of this approach is higher quality, reduced timescales and therefore typical cost savings in excess of 30% over traditional system-oriented approach.
Once the project hits realisation phase the end to end processes can be used for testing and training purposes, in addition the content from the ARIS repository can be used for EA, SOA, process costing and continued process improvement.
Expertpaper From Business Process to SAP Configuration

Optimisation opportunity 3

Heading for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Many organisations already appreciate the benefits of a service-oriented architecture. It enables them to respond quickly to changing regulations and market conditions, cut IT costs, and align their IT with the business. The first step is to map out the business processes so they can be linked to services. Using ARIS all the recorded processes, services and data can be automatically exchanged with the SAP environment. This enhances your flexibility, increases the redeployment of successful services and greatly reduces the implementation time of your SOA project.
Expertpaper On the way to SOA

Getting started with IDS Scheer and the ARIS platform:

Do not let these opportunities pass you by!
Is your organisation about to make a SAP investment? In that case be sure to find out how you can get more out of SAP with the help of ARIS.

Business Case
Would you like us to look into the possibilities of ARIS for your organisation immediately? In that case please fax us the enclosed form, contact us by e-mail at info@ids-scheer.co.uk, or phone us on +44.121.767.1813 for a customised Business Case.