You need to find ways to improve productivity, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and achieve a faster return on your investment in technology. To achieve your company's business goals and remain competitive you must keep pace with the ongoing changes in the marketplace and rapid evolution of technology. This is becoming more of a challenge with each passing day. Your current work force is already burdened with having to support existing older applications and developing future technology skills can be difficult, as well as a risk to your ongoing operations.
To improve your business and financial performance and reduce application life cycle costs, you need to transform your company into a more agile enterprise. That means you'll have to seek out a service provider that can:
- Implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to replace your legacy business system
- Upgrade your SAP or Oracle system to the current version
- Merge multiple ERP systems
- Expand the usage of your ERP system
The Right Partner Makes All The Difference
You need a partner with the specialized skills and experience to apply them in your ERP environment. Whether you're implementing, upgrading, consolidating or enhancing your ERP system, you need a partner with a project management approach designed with a focus on:
- Usability
- Scalability
- Consideration of industry standards
This approach promotes:
- Upfront planning and teamwork in managing the scope of the project
- Timely response to your changing business needs
- Effective risk management
You'll also need to reduce the total cost of your ERP expenditures.
The right partner for the job must be capable of providing:
- A strategic vision that can guide an effective ERP system implementation, upgrade, consolidation or enhancement
- Skilled resources and best practices for using ERP systems in your industry
- Processes and tools that support disciplined project management
Transform Your Business With Enterprise Application Implementation Services
HP's Enterprise Application Implementation Services (EAIS) can help transform your business by redesigning your business processes and configuring and implementing best-in-class technology and enterprise applications from SAP, Microsoft and Oracle (which includes PeopleSoft and Siebel software packages) to provide you with the following:
Implementation Services help transform your business by redesigning business processes along with implementing and configuring best-in-class enterprise applications and technology.
Upgrade Services help keep your enterprise software current with product and technology life cycles, while taking advantage of new features developed for the enterprise system.
Consolidation Services streamline the number of ERP instances, leading to dramatic business and operational efficiencies.
Enhancement Services help add new functionality to your company's existing enterprise system by enabling new modules or by integrating existing modules with other business functions.
Improve Your Business' Performance With EAIS
HP's Enterprise Application Implementation Services can provide you with solutions that cost less to operate and maintain over the life of your application and enable you to:
- Improve productivity and operational performance and remove technology constraints with standardized business practices
- Uncover key business performance metrics with consistent data from integrated solutions that span the enterprise value chain
- Reduce general and administrative expenses using integrated business functionality from ERP and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions
- Replace complex and inefficient legacy applications with modern, packaged solutions to reduce licensing and maintenance costs and lower your total cost of ownership
- Meet business demands and support future business growth with a responsive and flexible application platform
- Perform upgrades and instance consolidations efficiently, without disruption and leverage new product features and functions
Implementing Packaged Applications Involves More Than Just Software
Delays and cost overruns can be a major concern when you implement packaged solutions. Usually it's not the implementation of the software that increases your costs but the lack of a plan to ensure the software is successfully integrated into your business. HP's Designed For Run™ philosophy helps enterprises avoid potential bumps in the road by helping them gain critical insight for the development of their multiyear modernization plans. You're able to plot your course around costly implementation pitfalls and significantly reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO).
We don't just implement enterprise applications. We have the expertise to design, build and manage solutions that drive down your total cost of ownership and maximize your IT's business value. Our strategy, Designed for Run, considers the function and expense of your information technology (IT) systems and applications as a whole. It also charts a complete course to meet your goals and implement a measured modernization process while anticipating the cost of operating your entire system over its lifetime. In other words, we make sure every IT dollar counts.
Integration Is Vital To Your Enterprise Applications Solution
Your enterprise application systems don't exist in a vacuum. These critical applications must be tightly integrated with your custom, legacy and commercial applications. That's why HP helps you untangle your disconnected applications and replace them with a unified, best-in-class enterprise system that efficiently supports your business processes.
Proven Capabilities Can Make Your Goals Attainable
Acting as your strategic partner we focus our solution to help you achieve your goals and take full advantage of standard product suite features while minimizing customizations.
Our EAIS solution offers you:
- Trained and certified resources that have years of experience with similar projects so your time and budget expectations are met
- Program and project management that translate into possessing the capabilities to get the job done right the first time
- Reduced TCO because HP's Designed for Run approach to building solutions will cost less to operate and maintain over the life of the application.
A Strategic Vision Is The Key To Designing The Right Strategy
You need to find a partner that understands the challenges you face of continually changing business and rapidly evolving technology. Your partner must be able to take your future vision and create a bridge from where you are today to where you want to be.
To help you reach your desired enterprise application state you need a partner with proven Enterprise Application Implementation Service experience so you can:
- Reach your goals with reduced risk
- Anticipate and be prepared for change so you remain ahead of your competition
- Quickly and cohesively respond to changing market demands
- Achieve innovation and agility in your ERP environment
Committed, Highly Qualified Resources Make Success Possible
You need to choose consultants with extensive IT experience in ERP. The HP consultants assigned to you will likely have worked on multiple ERP projects. As subject matter experts their experience is invaluable in gaining an understanding of how your ERP application integrates into your enterprise. In addition, you'll benefit from HP's dedicated Centers of Expertise focused specifically on Enterprise Application Implementation Services.
Take Advantage of Disciplined Program and Project Management
You can count on HP to effectively manage your ERP project because we integrate the following:
- Our project management methodology, which is focused on usability and scalability to help you achieve optimum value
- Our systems engineering methodology, which is customized to support various tasks such as new application development, maintenance, minor enhancements and system integration
- Product family-aligned methodologies coupled with HP's own pre-configured “flight plans” that effectively start, plan, execute and close down your projects
Your HP team identifies real or potential risks associated with your project and develops a strategy to monitor and mitigate each risk before it can adversely affect the project. In addition, project risks are managed throughout the life cycle of your project.
Reduce Your TCO and Increase Efficiency
HP can help you reduce costs by standardizing ERP processes and streamlining operations so you can reduce maintenance costs. We'll help you quickly identify and enable the application connection points so your enterprise is integrated seamlessly. This eliminates redundant work and enables data transfer to stakeholders in the value chain so you have a faster, more accurate, consistent and cost-efficient way to process your data.
Your total cost of ownership is reduced in many ways, including:
- Targeted service adjustments, productivity and cost savings initiatives, targeted modernized applications, legacy renewal and continuous improvement
- Visibility, flexible services, predictive pricing and an adjustable contracting mechanism that empowers decision making and results in immediate business impact
- Improved applications performance through Service Excellence, backed by service levels
- An Applications Management roadmap that provides a step approach for moving clients from full-time equivalent (FTE)-based support to services-based support
An Enterprise Service Management framework that includes a Standard Operating Environment for IT Service Management, Business Management and Project Management built on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) industry standard processes.
Choose HP
Trust HP to consistently meet your expectations and deliver on enterprise application implementation, upgrade, consolidation or enhancement projects. You can depend on us to deliver on-time and on-budget services that will:
- Improve your business processes
- Optimize your operational costs
- Minimize your risk to business continuity
As your strategic partner HP can equip you to meet your future and transform your business by:
- Meeting your current demand and providing the ability to scale operations
- Implementing enterprise applications into complex heterogeneous environments and integrating their functionality into your existing legacy environment
- Improving your business performance with increased visibility into your business operations
- Lower your TCO for operations
For more information about what HP Enterprise Services can do for you, submit a business inquiry.