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WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions summary This white paper gives an insight into the challenges faced by small to medium sized enterprises (SME’s), and how SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution can help SME organizations to build a solid IT foundation for the future, through a low-risk, easy-to-implement solution tailored to the prospect’s industry through pre-configuration of the solution according to best practices PAC spoke to SMEs from around the world that were outgrowing their IT systems and needed a proven,...

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions 1. The challenges for the SME The small/medium enterprise (SME) market is a fast-moving and diverse segment of the global economy, with company aspirations ranging from survival to growth aspirations or to a build-out for acquisition, to name a few. SMEs looking to make the jump into rapid expansion, new business lines, or new geographies will find at some point that the manual processes that served it well during earlier stages have become inefficient. In addition, IT systems that never adequately...

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions To adapt with change: Several of the interviewed SMEs encountered a hurdle in their business, perhaps a major shift in their industry or new laws or compliance. In several cases, companies risked failure or becoming increasingly inefficient by continuing with legacy solutions that couldn’t support new business lines or models, or that didn’t offer timely updates of functionality according to new laws and compliance issues 1.1 AN OVERVIEW OF SAP BUSINESS ALL-IN-ONE RAPID DEPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS...

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions 2. Selecting SAP and Rapid Deployment Solutions Most of the SMEs interviewed for this report considered not only SAP, but other global ERP vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, etc.) as well as local ERP solutions that at many times were already in place. In general, the local solutions were quick to fall off in the selection process, since they didn’t have the scalability, complete functionality, and anticipatory support for niche solutions that SAP and other global vendors could offer. The SMEs...

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions 2. Total solution approach SMEs do not have the time or resources to select and procure each component of their ERP system separately. By using the rapid-deployment solution, companies received a complete solution with all the necessary software and services pre-configured to run optimally together at a lower price point. Additionally, SAP Business All-in-One provides customers with a standardized methodology, documentation, and accelerators in order to simplify the implementation process....

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions 3. Business value achieved Outside of the “time and budget” metric, where the SAP Business All-inOne rapid-deployment solution has an extremely high success rate, most SMEs measured value in highly personal and qualitative ways: “Are users happy?” “Do they feel more efficient?” “Are invoices being processed faster?” “Does our organization have a better view into our data?” Listed below are five concrete examples from SAP customers who were interviewed for this report. The examples highlight...

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions company to lower costs by 6% in its first year using an SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution. ____________________ Cilaos Conseil, a French IT services company, now sees itself as a more professional organization because it can demonstrate to new and existing employees and customers that it has matched its growth ambitions with a serious ERP platform. Being in a people-intensive industry, this is very important in enabling Cilaos to attract and maintain the highest quality consultants...

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions 4. Post-go live: what’s next? With an SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution now implemented, many SMEs are already looking into the next step. Having SAP as the core platform for their businesses, these companies can now look to other SAP Rapid Deployment solutions in order to extend into new lines of business or industry solutions, or to innovate with rapiddeployment solutions in mobility, SAP HANA, analytics or cloud. . Many of the companies interviewed are either looking into...

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions they now have in place. In the case of Nuestro Queso (page 9), with the backing of large investors, the company is planning to expand from three to over twenty distribution centers over the next three to five years through a series of small acquisitions. The company believes that the acquired distributions centers will be rather unsophisticated when it comes to IT, so rolling out its SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution will create a clean slate and efficiency gains at each center,...

WHITE PAPER Building a foundation for growth with SAP Business All-in-One and Rapid Deployment Solutions 5. The advice for new SAP Business All-in-One customers Go Standard, Wherever Possible… With over 800 industry-tailored versions of SAP Business All-in-One, customers found that the standard features of the solutions were most times appropriate for their business, even if initially they didn’t believe this to be the case. In general, customers commented that SAP delivered surprisingly deep industry solutions that support business best practices. Also, they found that part of what made the...