sap business all-in-one rapid-deployment solution - service companies

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Quickfacts for Service Companies SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution

Business Challenges

• Rapidly implement an

integrated solution to

manage your business

• Accurately anticipate and

control project costs and

scope

• Adapt and grow to meet new

requirements and

opportunities

Key Features

• Online configurator – Identify the

functionality and total cost of a solution

that best fits your needs

• Fixed project scope and solution price

– Achieve a predictable outcome with

lower risk

• Enablement and educational guides –

Support faster employee adoption

• Expertise of SAP partners – Gain

valuable insight and experience

Business Benefits

• Accurate budgeting and scoping via automated

tools

• Fast time to value with a defined project scope

and preconfigured functionality

• Safe investment built on the proven SAP ERP

application

• Rapid implementation of targeted functionality

based on best practices for service companies

• Adaptable and extendable solution with support

for multiple countries, languages, and

currencies

Summary With the SAP® Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution, you can achieve centralized

control of finance and operations in weeks. Your SAP partner can have you up and running for a

fixed price and on a predictable project time frame. Proven, preconfigured software, based on

best business practices, offers essential business functionality for service companies while

reducing implementation times and lowering project risk. Best of all, as your business grows

and your needs change, you can readily extend your foundational solution to support additional

business processes.



The SAP® Business All-in-One rapid- deployment solution helps smaller midsize companies evaluate, acquire, and implement an SAP Business All-in-One solution from one of our SAP partners quickly, affordably, and with minimal impact on internal resources. This offering helps you analyze your options, select the right software, and deploy an SAP Business All-in-One solution quickly and cost-effectively.

Designed for You

The SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution provides everything you need to get started today and to build for the future. It provides tools and methodologies for you to improve software acquisition and shorten implementation times. It gives you the ability to configure a solution online and get cost estimates before you start. The solution includes complete, pretested software, including options for lower licensing, installation, and operating costs. Your implementations can be quicker because the solution uses a clearly defined set of preconfigured industry specific functions. You don’t need to worry about a strain on limited IT resources or about the many variables in software, configurations, and functionality.

Comprehensive Solutions for Service Companies

The SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solution offered by our partners supports the business processes you perform on a daily basis. You need access to real-time information about the availability, level, and delivery of your inventory. You also need to offer your customers value-added services, such as easy online inquiries and transactions. Operational excellence, while key to delivering on these expectations, is not easy to achieve. Consolidation is widespread, and the proliferation of contract pricing is leading to fewer opportunities to recover costs. The solutions is based on decades of experience SAP has accumulated working with wholesalers. This comprehensive and flexible enterprise resource planning (ERP) software includes support for industry best practices. With SAP Business All-in-One solutions, you get:

• Comprehensive, integrated, business functionality to help you gain visibility across your business and streamline your core business processes – from business planning, marketing, and sales to service delivery, management of partners, financials, and analytics

• A flexible and scalable foundation for your business processes, built on the proven SAP NetWeaver® technology platform

• An ERP solution that can be extended with preintegrated functionality for customer relationship management (CRM), supplier relationship management (SRM), and business intelligence (BI), or further SAP product innovations like mobility, analytics or SAP HANA solutions.

• An intuitive interface and role-based navigation to improve employee productivity and adoption

Like all SAP Business All-in-One solutions, the rapid-deployment solution can be reconfigured as the business changes and grows, domestically or internationally; it supports multiple country requirements, languages, and currencies.

Whether you offer IT services or

strategic consulting, your success

depends on how well you

manage your key accounts to

ensure long-term relationships

and the highest possible margins.

In the current climate of intense

competition and increasingly well-

informed clients, it can be difficult

to maintain market share – let

alone grow your business.

Today’s clients are buying

smarter, fixed-price contracts,

which means greater project and

delivery risks for you. To

succeed, you need to improve

operational efficiency and more

tightly controlling your costs. You

need a comprehensive business

management software solution.



Preconfigured to Support Service

Companies

The SAP Business All-in-One rapid-

deployment solution offered by our

partners supports service industry best

practices in the following categories:

• Services

• Accounting

• Controlling

• Forms and reporting

Services

The SAP Business All-in-One solution

helps improve your visibility into data

so that you can better manage your

financial and operational performance

throughout the client life cycle.

Functionality includes contract

management and billing for fixed-price

and resource related engagements, as

well as time and expense recording,

period-end closing for projects and

service orders, external procurement,

and more.

Accounting

The SAP Business All-in-One solution

supports the back office of a complex

services environment. The solution

enables you to automate accounting

processes and unify financial data

across multiple service lines and

business units through support for the

general ledger, accounts receivable

and payable, and cash management

functions.

Controlling

Closing the books at the end of the

fiscal year dependably, accurately, and

consistently is a challenge heightened

by organizational restructuring,

employee mobility, and changing local,

regional, or national reporting

requirements. The SAP Business All-

in-One solution supports best practices

for this work.

Forms and Reporting

Reporting financial and operational

results can consume too much time

and energy if the infrastructure lacks

automation or makes custom reporting

difficult. The SAP Business All-in-One

solution allows you to manage all kinds

of reporting, with best practices for

forms and reporting built in. Custom

reporting – both on a recurring as well

as an ad hoc basis – is fully supported.

Getting Started

Your first step to engage in the SAP

Business All-in-One rapid-deployment

solution is to access the online solution

configurator for SAP Business All-in-

One. This tool displays various

supported business scenarios and

functionality for a possible SAP

Business All-in-One solution

configuration. This configuration is

available from selected partners. The

solution configurator tool also connects

you with one of those local SAP

partners or an SAP sales consultant

who will counsel you on next steps.

Next, your SAP consultant or partner

can create a personalized demo using

your data that has been automatically

sent to the demo assistant tool from the

configurator. The demo, which can run

on a laptop, will show you end-to-end

business process scenarios – for

example, a day in the life of a service

company.

With the decision in place to purchase

the software, you have the option to

select a low-cost operating system and

the right database.

The SAP Business All-in-One

rapid-deployment solution

provides what you need to get

started today and to build for

the future. It provides tools

and methodologies for you to

improve software acquisition

and shorten implementation

times.



The SAP partner then can use an

installation wizard to assemble the

software stack – including the database

and the SAP software – and complete

the installation process. Then the SAP

partner uses the solution builder tool to

automatically activate the desired

settings in the SAP software and

begins your functional implementation.

Quick Deployment

Using the rapid-deployment solution,

you can implement an SAP Business

All-in-One solution within a predefined

scope and with minimal risk. Because

the relevant software for service

business processes is pretested and

preconfigured for you, choosing and

configuring those processes can be

quick – accelerating your time to value.

The solution provides not just the

functionality you need but also the

detailed guides and documentation that

allow for quick deployment.

You also can acquire a joint solution

that combines a pretested software

stack. The stack consists of an SAP

Business All-in-One solution, the SAP

Sybase ASE® database, and the

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or

Microsoft Windows Server operating

system. Alternatively, some SAP

partners offer a subscription-based

hosting licensing and delivery option for

SAP Business All-in-One solutions.

Rather than licensing your solution up

front and managing everything in-

house, you can pay a flat monthly or

quarterly fee for the use of an SAP

Business All-in-One solution that is

hosted and managed by an SAP

partner. With either of these options,

you can eliminate the guesswork and

implement an affordable solution for

your company.

Safe and Scalable

You can adapt your SAP Business All-

in-One rapid-deployment solution to

your changing business needs, making

it a safe investment now yet supporting

aggressive growth goals. You can

begin with a solution that meets your

current needs and later incorporate

other SAP solutions, which can include

CRM, SRM, and BI solutions.

Learn More

For more information on what the SAP

Business All-in-One rapid-deployment

solution can do for your company,

contact your SAP representative today

or visit us on the Web at

http://www.sap.com/businessallinone.

Leverage the SAP Business All-

in-One rapid-deployment

solution to …

Start

• Establish foundational

ERP

Grow

• Adapt business & add

additional functionality to

solve new challenges.

Expand

• Address highly complex

business needs through

multiple rapid-deployment

solutions.

Innovate

• Move forward with SAP

HANA, Mobility, Analytics

& Cloud, predictably, with

clearly defined benefits

and minimal risk.

Rapid-Deployment Solution

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