Transform Your SAP Applications Landscape to Meet Changing Business Requirements

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1 SAP Brief SAP Landscape Transformation Objectives Transform Your SAP Applications Landscape to Meet Changing Business Requirements

2 Stay ahead of changing markets and technologies Stay ahead of changing markets and technologies Companies are realigning their corporate and IT strategies to streamline business and IT activities, reduce risk, secure business continuity, deliver innovation more quickly, and leverage opportunities from selling, buying, and restructuring corporate assets. They seek to increase the quality and transparency of their data while speeding up financial closings. Many companies have data governance initiatives or distributed master data that requires data unification and transformation programs. Or they may wish to take advantage of new technologies such as mobile and cloud computing or the SAP HANA platform for in-memory computing. To consolidate and reduce IT costs, they may need to centralize and streamline system landscapes and decommission systems they no longer need. SAP Landscape Transformation software provides standard and proven support for data conversion, migration, and replication related to mergers and acquisitions, structural reorganization, or master data harmonization. Integrated with the SAP Manager application management solution, the software fosters business and IT processes that are highly automated and standardized. provide strategic consulting, analysis support, training, and system optimization. 2 / 10

3 The extended portfolio of SAP Landscape Transformation software and services provides preconfigured support, the flexibility to meet specific IT and business needs, and guidance in selecting suitable transformation solutions and enabling and evaluating project decisions. In addition to comprehensive documentation, scenario-specific road maps, and best practices, you get robust functionality for landscape analysis and transformation. The portfolio offers high business value with minimum effort or disruption of daily operations. Combining the software with SAP MaxAttention and SAP ActiveEmbedded services for guided project execution and safeguarding makes your transformation more effective. Adding services from the SAP Education organization provides classroom training and e-learning for your software. SAP Consulting services offer standardized and highly flexible support for meeting your unique requirements. A mature portfolio of complementary solutions for strategic consulting, analysis support, training, and system optimization provides additional assistance. Together, these offerings can turn your change management organization into a transformation factory that standardizes business processes with an appropriate organizational structure. The result is maximum agility and efficiency in evaluating and managing your transformation projects. 3 / 10

4 A highly standardized and flexible technology platform helps you address your specific requirements quickly and consistently. The platform is open for enhancements and project-based transformation solutions. Analytical functionality helps you identify the most suitable transformation approach and facilitate the scoping, effort estimation, and technical feasibility for your transformation projects. Functionality for organizational change, value chain harmonization, and IT consolidation supports the most common transformation requirements. The platform provides both generic and scenario-specific analysis for selling or restructuring a business or updating financials and controlling, logistics, or operations processes. Assess your current needs, verify the technical feasibility of a transformation solution, and estimate the complexity, scope, and effort involved. 4 / 10

5 SAP Landscape Transformation offers an integrated approach to transformation projects that can make the most of new business opportunities. Support for organizational change helps you manage the impact on your SAP software landscape when selling a company or business unit, merging with or acquiring another company, or restructuring internal activities. In sales and divestitures, you ll find help for cleansing your company s organizational structures of data elements associated with the divested entity in a way that maintains transactional integrity while meeting all legal requirements. The software guides you safely through a carve-out of company codes via detailed instructions, predefined templates, and bestpractice guidance in project evaluation, preparation, and execution while preserving a complete data history. The software can help you combine company codes, controlling areas, profit centers, and cost centers to accommodate tax and legal requirements, an acquisition, or company reorganization. Road maps and integrated analysis functionality help you decide which business objects and organizational units are relevant for the merger (such as financial and controlling master data, accounting documents, plants, or sales organizations). 5 / 10

6 In today s global economy, your enterprise must be able to handle multiple languages and comply with state- and country-specific tax regulations as well as more widely accepted standards, such as generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Given the need for high-quality and consistent data in running reliable and efficient business processes, it is important to increase the transparency and standardization of your financial, logistics, and sales processes. With SAP Landscape Transformation, you can readily respond to new legal requirements for financial reporting, gain more transparency in financial reporting and controlling, and harmonize master data after the acquisition of other companies or business units. The software can help you convert charts of accounts, cost centers, profit centers, fiscal years, asset classes, asset account determinations, customer numbers, and vendor numbers. It can also help you rename controlling areas, company codes, and material numbers. Enhance data accuracy and consistency across your business and IT landscape. 6 / 10

7 Many international companies operate a widely distributed system landscape with data centers spread across the world. This often leads to disparate systems that boost operating expense and maintenance efforts. As a result, the need to rationalize the capabilities of strategic data centers is a top concern for many corporations. A lean and clean data system is essential for transparent data management and is a prerequisite for quick and sustainable business decisions. System consolidation can be a first step in designing a more rational, efficient, and resilient IT infrastructure that can support the targeted business model. In addition, this centralization can significantly lower the overall cost of and reduce the effort required for maintenance and administrative work. SAP Landscape Transformation uses a clienttransfer approach for system consolidation, with different releases or matching releases, to support your business needs more effectively. By consolidating and retiring systems and simplifying your SAP software landscape, you can reduce efforts for system maintenance and upgrades and decrease your total cost of operations. You can also remove data redundancies and improve data quality. 7 / 10

8 SAP Landscape Transformation includes additional software and tailored support to cover the entire lifecycle of your transformation project. These complementary solutions include strategic consulting, analysis support, and training as well as optimization services. For in-depth knowledge about transformation scenarios, request training specific to SAP Landscape Transformation. You can combine these solutions as you wish to get help with: Choosing the best transformation scenario for your company s business strategy Accelerating project preparation, project planning, and technical feasibility assessment Meeting transformation needs not yet covered by SAP Landscape Transformation software Learning to manage scenarios supported by SAP Landscape Transformation 8 / 10

9 A single platform that reduces complexity and cost A single platform that reduces complexity and cost Powerful and proven SAP technology for conversions and migrations can optimize performance, safeguard historical data, help maintain business continuity, and increase business agility. SAP Landscape Transformation and its complementary solutions help to reduce risk with detailed assessment at an early stage, ensure near-zero downtime, and reduce rollback cases. Centralized operation and management thanks to integration with SAP Manager also help ensure the success of your transformation project. The support for solid analysis and highly standardized and automated processes provided by SAP Landscape Transformation software and services can help reduce the time, effort, and cost involved in your transformation project. Project road maps and best practices accelerated by guided project execution provide further support. By facilitating technical execution that is scalable, performance optimized, and safe, SAP Landscape Transformation can increase operational agility. The data harmonization and system consolidation you achieve with SAP Landscape Transformation can be the first step in designing an IT infrastructure that is more sustainable, efficient, and resilient. 9 / 10

10 Objectives Summary SAP Landscape Transformation software helps you align your SAP solution landscape after restructuring a business, updating processes, integrating an acquired company, removing data in a divestiture, or decommissioning unneeded software. It can also help you move data to the SAP HANA platform or incorporate mobile and cloud computing. The software helps ensure data consistency and integrity. It can reduce transformation costs while increasing project speed, scalability, and safety. Objectives Leverage opportunities in selling, buying, and restructuring corporate assets Streamline business and IT activities Reduce risk and secure continuity Drive agility and flexibility to deliver innovation more quickly Guided execution accelerated by project road maps Predefined applications for analysis and execution Proven technology for consistent and optimized transformation Work center with a state-of-the-art user interface, central access to relevant functionality, and monitoring of technical execution Integration with the SAP Manager application management solution Secure business continuity and reduce risk Reduce transformation time, effort, and cost Increase operational agility Harmonize data and consolidate systems to enhance IT sustainability Learn more Call your SAP representative, or visit us online at www54.sap.com. 10 / 10 CMP23731 (13/05)

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