SAP implementation projects are highly complex projects based on long lists of functional and non-functional requirements with high organizational and IT dependencies. Such projects normally comprise the complete Enterprise Architecture layers of
1. Business processes and organizations
2. Data and information flows
3. Application architecture
4. Technology and infrastructure
Enterprises need to have a deep transparency into these layers following a complex blueprint and project plan. The project scope normally covers core and context areas of the layers. The value of Cloud contributes in the instant provisioning and inclusion of services in context areas.
Steer up with cloud services
With the evaluation of pre-defined services customers can try and test their scope and fit instead of trusting the blueprinting only which heavily reduces risks. It also moves the evaluation phase to the beginning of the project with the requirement engineering instead of having this after initial implementation.
1. gear: Gain speed on infrastructure and technology
On the technology and infrastructure with ready to use Infrastructure as a as a service (IaaS). Enterprises gain speed by using pre-configured IaaS offerings which already include the service in provisioning and maintaining infrastructure in the exact scalable size and with pre-defined qualities (SLAs). Enterprises can rent or subscribe to these IaaS offering and do not need to purchase and setup the infrastructure themselves which reduces technology and infrastructure use by several weeks or months.
2. gear: Gain speed on application layer
On the application architecture layer SAP provides with its
3. gear: shift data to the lowest complexity
Using a data platform as a service (DBaaS) enterprises can use the latest capabilities of designing and maintaining data and information flows.
4.gear: Full speed with standard process usage
With the use of software as a service (SaaS) offerings like
- SAP Cloud for customers (CRM processes)
- SuccessFactors (HR processes)
- Hybris (marketing, ecommerce processes)
- Ariba (procurement, SRM processes
- Field glass (workforce management processes)
- Concur (travel and expense processes)
customers can reuse pre-defined business functionality and integrate it into their business processes instead of rebuilding the functionality. With the adoption of the given process steps it is often quicker to adjust the internal process flow instead of customizing the solution to the internal process. This saves money and time of future functional updates and extensions as backward compatibility is ensured by the vendor and need to be elaborated by the enterprise.
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