Enterprise Applications Solutions For SAP®: Executive Overview
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Pressure to be always on. Older applications. Need to increase productivity.
Your company cannot afford downtime. To meet changes in the marketplace and maintain your competitive advantage, your company must become agile. You need a flexible, service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment that extends throughout your entire organization. You need to:
- Modernize your applications
- Achieve flexibility
- Increase productivity
EDS Designed for Run™
EDS Designed for Run™ is an EDS corporate strategy that considers the function and expense of the client's IT systems and applications as a whole. It charts a complete course to meet the organization's goals and implements a measured modernization process while anticipating the client's cost of operating the final collective system over its life time.
EDS has the SAP solutions that can position your company for future growth and increased productivity. We use experience gained from managing more than 1.7 million SAP users and one of the largest implementations in the world to ensure SAP applications are Designed for RunTM.
SAP applications operate in a complex environment and integration with other applications is critical. EDS offers full life cycle services that lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) and ensure your applications portfolio and infrastructure align to your business priorities, operational requirements and budget needs. Our services include:
- SAP Implementation Services: Align your SAP implementation to your business processes, increasing process efficiency and lowering cost, using the EDS Designed for RunTM approach
- SAP Upgrade: Upgrade SAP applications and infrastructure technology to the desired state, enabling your readiness for adding new application functionality or SOA enablement.
- SAP NetWeaver and Enterprise SOA: Deploy SAP NetWeaver functionality as part of the SAP landscape while moving to an SOA solution, to enable business innovation.
- Applications Management Services: EDS' Manage for PerformanceTM approach gives you the visibility and support you need for your SAP and legacy applications so you can become more agile and improve operational efficiency, security and performance
- SAP Application Hosting: Spend more time focusing on your core business and less time on system outages, security breaches and server downtime with EDS' best-in-class application hosting
And when you're ready to modernize your SAP applications, you benefit from:
- Accelerated delivery to help you avoid unnecessary delays and cost overruns
- A comprehensive upgrade strategy with three types of upgrades:
- Technical upgrades that lay the architectural groundwork for future innovation while focusing on eliminating unused system modifications and importing new and updated objects
- Functional upgrades that reduce system complexity by replacing custom modifications with SAP standard functionality
- Strategic upgrades that extend and improve your business processes using new SAP core functionality
- Solution flexibility to enable future SAP upgrades and the support packages and functionality necessary to grow your organization
- Reduced upgrade cost by leveraging your existing information technology (IT) personnel
- Risk mitigation by integrating quality assurance testing, training and change management to ensure visibility into every part of the project
- Our EDS Designed for RunTM strategy that considers the function and expense of your systems and applications in totality so we can meet your goals and develop a modernization road map to your IT future and provide you with a lower cost of ownership in getting there
Because of our ability to focus on two upgrade areas – functional upgrades and strategic upgrades – SAP has expanded our partnership, which provides us with exclusive access to the latest upgrade data and proprietary tools; this will help you upgrade to the very latest SAP solutions.
EDS/SAP Partnership Overview
Together, EDS and SAP have the expertise to help you lower costs, reduce risk and increase agility with our complete start-to-finish solutions for your entire SAP landscape.
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You can also take advantage of EDS' participation in the new Run SAP partner program, which is designed to help you develop a clear, shared methodology for the ongoing management of your end-to-end solution. As a founding Run SAP partner, we help you gain sustainable business value from your SAP applications with the scalability, high availability, global delivery and industry innovation you need. EDS' and SAP's complete start-to-finish solutions for your entire SAP landscape will also help you:
- Lower costs
- Reduce risks
- Increase agility
EDS' Global Delivery Model and Best Shore® have become synonymous. EDS' Best Shore strategy provides the right blend of onshore, near-shore, and offshore delivery capabilities. Our global strategy results in the seamless delivery of high-quality, cost-competitive business outputs.
To complement our application implementation and management services, we have also partnered with a specialist in anticipating and managing change. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) will help automate end-to-end governance, risk and compliance for SAP and other ERP applications. Instead of just reacting to risk, you gain the ability to identify risks, prevent fraud and protect critical information.
Our industry frameworks are knowledge repositories that host various architectures and assets that EDS has accumulated throughout our more than 45 years of experience. Starting a project from an industry framework reduces the cost, time and effort involved in executing the business process transformation while increasing the quality of the business process models. An industry framework describes the processes of an industry or enterprise domain and defines the boundaries and requirements for the business components and services that support those processes.
You can depend on EDS to deliver upgrade solutions for SAP as we've been working together with SAP to provide enterprise solutions since 1990. EDS has performed hundreds of SAP implementations and supports more than 1.7 million SAP users in 54 countries.
By upgrading to SAP's current service-enabled platform, your company can deliver innovation faster by evolving as your business needs change. With an enterprisewide SOA, your company gains a foundation for the future.
- Download the SAP Enterprise Applications Solutions At-A-Glance PDF, 239K
- Download the SAP Partnership Overview PDF, 601K
- Download the SAP Applications Management Solution Overview PDF, 732K
- Download the SAP Upgrade Service Solution Overview PDF, 581K
- Download the SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance Solution Overview PDF, 973K
- Download more information on Designed for RunTM PDF, 104K
- Download the Environmental Sustainability Profile Sheet PDF, 103K
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.