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Build Quality into SAP® Software
Implementations with Expert
Advisory Services
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Enhance the quality of your
SAP® software projects
Enhance the quality of your
SAP® software projects
Companies invest in SAP® software because it offers integrated, industryspecific functionality needed to optimize operations and gain competitive
advantage. But in our experience, having a successful project – one that’s
completed on schedule, within budget, and with quality – requires rigorous
inspection, alignment, and monitoring of project elements, from start to
finish.
we will help you establish a strategic quality
program and identify tactical project risks,
quality issues, and mitigation strategies while
showing you how to establish management
best practices and fundamental success
criteria. Finally, we’ll confirm that your overall
project and solution strategy aligns with the
SAP product road map. By applying knowledge about future product enhancements
and building them into your solution design,
you can maximize the value of your investment long term.
With quality assurance services from the
SAP Services organization, you can analyze
your SAP project and take actionable steps to:
•• Help ensure that the solution design meets
your business needs and expectations
•• Complete the project on time and within
budget
•• Prepare your employees for success
Our experts will inspect and help you optimize the governance, project management,
organizational, functional, and technical
components of your projects. Along the way,
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A planned, systematic approach
to quality by SAP experts
A planned, systematic approach
to quality by SAP experts
An objective analysis of all
aspects of solution design
An independent review of project
management activities
•• Lower project costs
•• Reduced risk
•• Better governance
•• Greater system performance and stability
•• More successful business and IT strategy
execution
Quality assurance services from SAP are delivered by directors, architects, and principal
consultants who are trained and experienced
in SAP software implementations. They will
suggest planned and systematic quality activities to enhance your SAP software project –
for example, through early and continuous
risk identification and mitigation.
As the product vendor, we also bring in-depth
product knowledge, support for industry
best practices, and lessons learned from
thousands of client projects. We leverage and
share this knowledge with you and combine
it with independent analysis and recommendations to help you get the most value from
your SAP software.
Using consistent, global methodologies and
standards, our review teams can improve the
overall quality of the SAP solutions you deploy. These methodologies and standards
lead to:
Our systematic approach plays a vital role in
helping ensure you implement SAP software
projects on time, within budget, and with quality.
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An objective analysis of all
aspects of solution design
A planned, systematic approach
to quality by SAP experts
An objective analysis of all
aspects of solution design
An independent review of project
management activities
•• A fit/gap analysis of the application design
and business needs
•• Identification of design risks and mitigation
strategies
•• Assurance that, at the time of the review,
the proposed solution is in line with best
practices and SAP software implementation standards
Our design review service analyzes the proposed design of your SAP solution. The result
is an objective analysis that detects potential
solution risks early on and offers actionable
recommendations for risk mitigation.
The service includes:
•• Interviews with subject-matter experts and
a review of design documentation
•• An evaluation of the flexibility, efficiency,
completeness, and maintainability of the
design
•• An assessment of the justification and
quality of individual customization
enhancements
In addition, you will gain insights and recommendations on how to increase the efficiency
and effectiveness of your SAP solution. We’ll
advise you on how to best maximize the use
of SAP standard software functionality, which
can lower implementation and maintenance
costs.
You can initiate quality assurance services
from SAP during any implementation phase
to optimize project and solution quality
management.
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An independent review of project
management activities
A planned, systematic approach
to quality by SAP experts
An objective analysis of all
aspects of solution design
An independent review of project
management activities
Armed with early insight and expert advice,
you can proactively identify and address project management risks – one of the keys to
successful business outcomes. And by taking
a complete view of your project, we can also
help ensure that you have efficient, effective
solutions that really work for your business
both technically and organizationally. For example, by assessing whether your organization is prepared to manage the business
transformation enabled by SAP software, you
can facilitate organizational change management for smoother, more productive operations when your solution goes live.
Through a holistic review of your project, we’ll
independently assess your project management activities and processes. This evaluation covers program governance, project
management, people, processes, and technology and is based on a series of on-site
interviews with stakeholders.
You’ll walk away with:
•• An assessment of your current project
status
•• A detailed report summarizing identified
risks and issues, along with suggestions for
mitigating them
•• Actionable recommendations for
improvement
With quality assurance services from SAP,
your executives can keep their finger on the pulse
of strategic SAP software implementations.
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Enhancing quality while reducing
project costs and risks
Enhancing quality while reducing
project costs and risks
As a result, you’ll realize:
•• Reduced implementation time frames and
costs due to fewer overruns and change
orders
•• Early conflict and risk identification and
mitigation
•• Lighter workloads for implementations,
upgrades, and rollouts
•• Less downtime for business users and
reduced demand for support
•• Early identification of opportunities that
will deliver rapid business improvements
•• Greater alignment between IT and the
business
•• Simplified business innovation throughout
the enterprise
Any weakness within quality management
practices can have huge ripple effects –
including project delays, cost overruns, and
project failure. Quality assurance services
from SAP can help ensure that you take full
advantage of best practices and key lessons
learned from thousands of successful SAP
software implementations. Together, we’ll
help you prove that your project aims are
realistic and achievable. And we’ll help you
ensure that proper best practices and
success criteria for implementation program
management are in place.
You can tailor quality services from
SAP to meet your needs and priorities.
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Summary
Through quality assurance services from SAP,
an independent team of experts will assess
and oversee all aspects of your next SAP®
software implementation. Our experts inspect and enhance your entire SAP software
project while sharing best practices and
quality processes to help you execute quality
activities at every step. As a result, you can
dramatically reduce project risks and costs
while increasing overall solution quality.
Solution
•• An in-depth project review covering all
aspects of project preparation, blueprinting,
realization, and final preparation
•• Support for adopting project management
and solution design best-practice standards
and success criteria
Benefits
•• More stable applications that meet
business needs
•• Early identification and mitigation of project
risks
•• Shorter implementation time frames
•• Reduced downtime and need for user
support
•• Lighter workloads for upgrades and rollouts
Objectives
•• Make project costs and delivery time
frames more predictable
•• Align IT transformation initiatives with
business needs
•• Reduce the risk of project failure
•• Optimize solution design
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