SAP Upgrade Services

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE TO UPGRADING SAP

The most successful companies in today’s economy maintain a competitive advantage through continued product innovation, fostered customer intimacy, and continuous improvement in operational and cost performance, while avoiding disruptions to the enterprise. Critical to this objective is achieving continued increases in the value of your IT investment. In order to maximize the value of an SAP investment, increase internal efficiency, and maintain a stable IT environment, an upgrade is essential. By upgrading to SAP ERP, you can improve business processes, leverage existing IT assets, and boost productivity and profitability.

WHY UPGRADE TO SAP ECC 6.0

  • Operational Excellence - Demands for new functionality to improve operational excellence, enable innovation, and support new business models
  • Business Strategy - Achieve flexibility for future innovations (without disruption)
  • Sustainability - Remain compliant with regulations and ensure business and system stability
  • Total Cost of Ownership - Reduced TCO results from combining your SAP upgrade with other IT initiatives

NEW DESIGN AND CAPABILITIES OF SAP ECC 6.0

SAP ECC 6.0 includes significant improvements in advanced, built-in analytics that support strategic decisions from insightful business intelligence. Built on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), SAP ECC 6.0 incorporates countless new services for flexible and adaptable business processes. SAP ECC 6.0 uses enhancement packages to rapidly and easily deploy functional enhancements, business and industry-specific functionality, and end-to-end process improvements. Using enterprise SOA, your company can implement business innovation more quickly and with minimal effort.

DICKINSON + ASSOCIATES UPGRADE SERVICES

Dickinson + Associates provides solid experience, pragmatic methodologies with accelerator tools that deliver a better managed, cost-effective, low-risk upgrade. We can support any of the following types of upgrades:

Types of upgrades

THE DICKINSON + ASSOCIATES APPROACH

An assessment minimizes risk and achieves benefit SAP Upgrade approach

The Dickinson + Associates Upgrade Service first delivers a comprehensive, detailed upgrade plan based on an SAP Upgrade Assessment. This establishes a solid foundation for clients in performing the actual SAP ERP upgrade. Our experienced consulting team begins with an analysis of the current condition of your SAP environment. We employ automated tools to efficiently identify and assess the issues and impacts, consider solutions, and plan the upgrade itself.

The Dickinson + Associates Upgrade Assessment Provides:

  • An estimate of the effort required to perform the actual upgrade
  • An estimate of the production down time required during the upgrade cutover (key to managing business disruption)
  • A detailed project plan for executing the upgrade
  • An evaluation of the benefits your business may be able to derive from the functional enhancements in the latest release of SAP

WHY DICKINSON + ASSOCIATES

Dickinson + Associates bring the tools, knowledge, and experience in SAP Upgrades. Let our experienced consultants perform custom assessments of your SAP environment, discovering the value an SAP upgrade can add to your company. The risks and investment that might be involved will be clearly identified with emphasis on leveraging the skills of your own staff for the upgrade project.