HP SAP Upgrade Services

HP SAP Upgrade Services

A fast and cost-effective approach to modernizing and managing your SAP environment

Solution overview

deliverthe agility your SAP environment requires.

In a fast-paced business environment, your SAP solution is a mission-critical investment. It drives efficiencies, helps manage customer relations, supports analytics, and enables intelligent decisions—unless years of add-ons and expansions have rendered it obsolete. Outdated software is not only inflexible; it can hinder your efforts to achieve flexibility and increase productivity.

How do you quickly modernize and transform your SAP environment and simultaneously reduce costs?

HP experts believe that a smart choice is to implement SAP ECC 6.0. This is the first fully service-enabled platform for business excellence and innovation, offering superior functionality and ease of use. By upgrading to this latest version of SAP ERP, you can boost productivity, streamline business processes, and make getting the right information to the right people dramatically faster and easier. It will also help you adapt to your industry’s changing requirements and implement innovations more effectively while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) and improving operational efficiency.

Using HP SAP Upgrade Services, you can adapt your applications architecture to support growth and provide the agility your business processes demand of SAP.

HP Upgrade Services for SAPHP makes this upgrade process as effective and efficient as a possible. Working with our Agility Alliance partner SAP, we’ve developed our HP Upgrade Services for SAP ECC 6.0—optimized services and methodology to accelerate SAP upgrade projects that modernize your environment as they reduce risks and costs. These services include the HP Upgrade Factory, a global delivery approach to SAP ERP upgrade projects, which significantly reduces risk, time, and budget requirements for upgrades.

HP Upgrade Services for SAP ECC 6.0 can help you:

• Provide a world-class SAP ECC 6.0 upgrade assessment for free using the latest HP and vendor SAP upgrade tools.

• Develop a business case for upgrading to SAP ECC 6.0. • Efficiently plan an enterprise-wide upgrade, including

testing and quality assurance. • Identify which systems need consolidation, migration,

or replacement. • Determine improvements for system-wide performance. • Minimize system downtime during the upgrade. • Ensure custom programs and add-ons you built for

SAP R/3 will work with SAP ECC 6.0. • Better understand what Unicode conversion will

mean for your SAP environment. • Provide a road map to SAP Business Suite Upgrade

to include CRM, SRM, BI, and SCM suites.

Further, we can deliver any and all aspects of the project through the extended HP portfolio, which covers hardware, software, and services solutions for SAP, as well as a financing service to address investment options. This breadth can be significant when you’re faced with the upgrade challenge and are also running SAP applications on older hardware platforms.

HP can provide the complete road map for your upgrade journey and deliver every element, including a scalable global pool of specialized skills and resources to support sales cycle and delivery needs, a more cost-effective hardware platform that lowers overall IT TCO, and an application environment that is more flexible to meeting future requirements.

Most importantly, we get you back to business quickly by using HP’s rapid transition services framework for SAP upgrades. This approach uses standard methodology that includes a proven set of best practices and support tools, complemented by HP’s Best Shore® global delivery capability.

Transform your business into an agile enterprise HP has the right mix of SAP expertise and real-world experience to upgrade your SAP applications and infrastructure technology to the desired state. As a result, your organization is ready for adding application functionality or enabling service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Our goal is to develop solutions that enhance your organization’s competitiveness through:

• Comprehensive upgrade strategy—We offer three types of upgrades tailored to your organization’s needs. Our technical upgrade lays the foundation for change by upgrading to the latest SAP release and focuses on eliminating unused system modifications and importing new and updated objects. Our functional upgrade centers on reducing system complexity by replacing custom modifications with SAP standard functionality. Our strategic upgrade focuses on extending and improving business processes using the new enterprise resource planning core functionality.

• Flexible solutions—Plan your upgrade at your own pace while minimizing business disruption. We can develop an accelerated upgrade deployment plan with phased approach along with ECC 6.0’s innovative SAP switch framework to selectively activate industry solutions and latest enhancement packages/support packs on your schedule.

• Risk mitigation—Testing can be expensive, often comprising 30% to 40% of project cost. A risk-based approach focuses on the important areas. Test-automation software increases reliability, reduces dependence on business resources, and provides agility. The HP upgrade delivery model integrates quality assurance, testing, training, and change management—leveraging the HP software portfolio to reduce risk while streamlining the upgrade process.

• Accelerated delivery, greater efficiency—Our approach leverages your existing IT personnel, which not only lowers the cost of upgrading, it enables HP to execute the upgrade more efficiently.

• Minimized disruption and costs—Our proven methodology, proprietary tools, and best practices—coupled with the SAP upgrade road map and methodology—help minimize cost and disruption to an upgrade project. Our Designed for Run strategy and SAP Upgrade Factory—a fast, cost-effective approach for upgrading to ECC 6.0—reduce your risk and long-term cost of ownership. This method provides a scalable, global pool of skilled professionals, working in a delivery model with the right mix of onshore, near-shore, and far-shore resources.

• Industry experience—Accelerate your business transformation and innovation by leveraging HP industry solutions and components aligned with SAP best practices.

Delivering everything you needHP blends the SAP implementation methodology, called ASAP, with our breadth of experience in executing SAP solutions. We guide you through a clear and consistent process for successfully completing your upgrade as quickly as possible. Our comprehensive suite of technical, functional, and strategic upgrade services helps to make your upgrade a smooth one, with less cost and risk for you to worry about. And after installation, we can provide flexible mission-critical support options to get your SAP ECC 6.0 environment off to a smooth start and plan for continuous improvement.

Key elements on the path to a seamless SAP ECC 6.0 upgrade include:

• Core Services Portfolio – SAP Upgrade Assessment Workshop—Workshop to establish upgrade scenarios and foundations for business case

– Technical Upgrade—Services for completing a technical upgrade to SAP ECC 6.0 that retains existing functionality and carries over modifications from previous versions

– Functional Upgrade—Services to reduce customization and achieve highest possible level of standardization, introducing new functionality in SAP ECC 6.0

– HP Services for SAP NetWeaver and Enterprise SOA—Services for modernizing SAP applications to implement new process scenarios, build Supply Chain Management, and SAP Finance and enterprise services and composite applications, and introduce new solutions based on Controlling Solutions SAP ECC 6.0

BenefitsAccelerate business growth

• Faster upgrade

• Reduced time to market for new solutions built on SAP Enterprise SOA

• Improved decision-making with more powerful business intelligence capabilities of SAP ECC 6.0

• Faster response to business change

Reduce costs

• Lower SAP maintenance costs

• Less expense and fewer resources required for upgrade and testing

• Improved operational efficiency

Mitigate risks

• Reduced upgrade risk

• Quality assurance

• Performance validation

• Improved ongoing change management

• Proven methodologies and tools

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• Extended Services Portfolio – Platform and OS/DB Migration Services—Services that enable customers to migrate SAP systems from high-cost legacy environments to more efficient infrastructures with reduced risk and lower overall cost

– SAP Performance Tuning and Testing—Holistic analysis that encompasses all SAP application and infrastructure components to enable better performance and meet business requirements

– Proof of Concept—SAP Discovery System for Enterprise SOA from HP allows rapid verification of assumptions and helps to establish business case

– Unicode Conversion—Conversion of the existing SAP landscape to Unicode for significantly enhanced local language capability

– HP Mission Critical Services—Unique HP-SAP integrated delivery processes, tools, and joint problem resolution to help ensure performance and availability; ITIL-based proactive and reactive services

– Output Management and International Printing—Services for architecting, installing, and implementing the HP Output Management and International Printing solutions to support reliable document delivery and Unicode printing

– HP Application Outsourcing for SAP—Application operations or full application outsourcing services, offering flexible, multiyear contracts with structured service level agreements and HP governance (outsource before or after the upgrade project)

Leveraging our partnership on your behalfHP delivers SAP solutions that go beyond a successful upgrade to ECC 6.0. Our partnership with this industry leader can accelerate your journey toward more modern SAP platforms while increasing the flexibility of your SAP application.

We assess your environment using HP assessment tools complemented by SAP methodologies, then recommend the steps needed to benefit from SAP ECC 6.0. Next, we tailor the upgrade assessment to meet your particular business needs. The resulting upgrade plan focuses on risk mitigation and sustainability of your existing SAP solution.

In addition, you receive a detailed recommendation based on your choice of architecture that addresses how it will meet performance, availability, and cost-of-ownership requirements.

A holistic, integrated approach for modernizing your enterprise Take advantage of the HP and SAP partnership to provide your organization with best-practice SAP solutions. Your organization can be in a better position for innovation now and growth in the future with world-class HP methodologies, tools, and techniques that provide:

• Industry-focused solutions that leverage our industry and business expertise with SAP software

• Best-practice SAP solutions supported by world-class HP implementation, upgrade, integration, applications management, and hosting services

• A combination of HP and SAP testing and tuning services—delivering high-performance, reliable solutions

• Experienced, SAP-certified consultants trained using SAP’s proprietary and rigorous education program

• Experienced, Run SAP-certified consultants, who bring innovative end-to-end solutions for optimal operations

HP and SAP: Fast Facts HP and SAP have a long history of providing high-quality solutions and services to businesses of all sizes. Highlights from this 20-year partnership include the following:

• HP Services provides SAP services to some of the world’s largest enterprises.

• HP is SAP’s largest technology partner and one of SAP’s largest customers, supporting more than 1.8 million SAP users in 54 countries and 9 languages.

• HP is an SAP Services Partner in 10 countries spanning the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.

• HP is the #1 partner to SAP for SAP ECC 6.0 upgrades, with more than 250 successful projects to date.

• HP servers host almost 50% of all SAP installations.

• HP offers global applications implementations, management, testing, support, and hosting services around the clock through more than 8,000 SAP professionals in six Industrial Delivery Services Centers.

• HP is a leading provider of imaging and printing solutions for SAP—70% of SAP customer installations include HP printers.