Going beyond being a business aid, technology today actively powers your business. Balancing cost pressures and IT organizations that are more vital to company goals are critical in today's economy. Budgets are being scrutinized as never before. At the same time, businesses need to keep going and remain competitive. Investment in business technology is still essential.
For many enterprises around the world, SAP solutions have become an integral part of the business for everything, from managing customer and partner relationships, to driving efficiencies on the manufacturing floor, to exploiting business intelligence and innovation. An SAP solution represents a large, mission-critical investment that has grown over many years of updates and expansion. Often they are dated, inflexible and at a high degree of risk for failure. Outdated SAP software cannot provide the flexibility needed to support business innovation. How do you quickly modernize and transform your SAP environment and simultaneously reduce costs?
Strong Allies For the Economic Battle
HP Rapid Transition Services, a new offering co-developed by HP and SAP, help customers streamline their SAP implementations, while accelerating their return on investment and lowering their long-term support and maintenance costs. This service combines HP's methodology and global delivery capabilities, with HP's concrete reference architectures and software technologies, and SAP's best practices to offer customers prepackaged implementation and application management solutions. Customers can realize value by driving phased innovation to new and existing SAP investments.
“Our customers are looking for innovative ways to drive down technology costs while maintaining a high level of quality in their technology solutions,” said Bob Hershey, vice president and practice leader, Global SAP Practice, HP. “HP Rapid Transition Services provide prepackaged offerings that enable enterprise customers implementing SAP solutions to further reduce technology costs while increasing competitiveness as the economy recovers.”
Lower TCO and Increase Time-To-Value
HP Rapid Transition Services bring together the strength of HP's services and technology to quickly transition existing SAP implementations to more efficient and more easily maintained solutions.
By pre-packaging automation software like HP Quality Management Solutions for SAP applications and reference architectures with HP's methodology, global delivery capabilities, and industry best practices from selected partners, enterprise customers are enabled to lower their total cost of ownership and increase time to value.
Designed for RunTM, Designed For Better Business Outcomes
HP Rapid Transition Services are built upon specific, proven and repeatable optimization packages delivered by HP and SAP. IT optimization is enabled through the HP Designed for RunTM (DfR) principles that provide the foundation for achieving efficiencies throughout the SAP life cycle.
The focus of HP DfR is to optimally plan, build and run a customer's SAP solution by capturing more than 20 “tunable” dimensions necessary to reflect a customer's unique needs. With these 20 dimensions, HP DfR utilizes HP's next-generation applications management solutions for SAP, concrete reference infrastructure architectures, business consulting services, and HP's SAP industry alignment to create custom SAP solutions that boast lower long-term support and maintenance costs.
Because HP DfR can be applied to existing systems, customers quickly realize significant incremental benefits by adopting the HP Rapid Transition Services approach that best suits their needs.
HP Rapid Transition Services helps customers lower TCO, increase ROI and realize immediate value by:
- Leveraging HP's unique capability of supporting business technology holistically from hardware to software to business applications and business processes.
- Providing the flexibility of a measured SAP modernization process that aligns with your business needs.
- Increasing time to value of SAP projects by an average of 15 percent through the implementation of specific, proven and repeatable optimization packages.
Accelerate Implementations and Quickly Reduce Costs
HP Rapid Transition Services help optimize SAP implementations and lower TCO by as much as 20 percent. These savings set the stage for emerging from today's economic climate stronger and more competitive. HP Rapid Transition Services changes the economics of technology and builds an infrastructure that delivers whatever the business demands – today and into the future.