Landscape Planning

But SAP itself is bringing about changes.

The SOA concept and the new SAP releases are no longer based on a singular ERP system. Instead, they are based on a network of special applications such as ERP, BW, APO, CRM, SRM, XI and portals, along with archive systems, communications servers etc.

Once an architecture is introduced, it is difficult to alter it. In spite of SOA, the degree of mutual dependencies?/interdependencies? is extremely high and the requirements on no-downtime operations do the rest to make changes more difficult.

All this increases the need for forward-looking landscape planning.

Technical or organizational changes have to be assessed not only with reference to investments but for the follow-on costs as well.

You need to know how the costs can be changed by the steps you plan to take. At the same time, you create a basis at the planning stage that will remain valid over the long term. That way, you don't even have to look for cost-savings potential later. To do this you need an instrument that forecasts the effects on costs and quality of SAP operations.

Our procedure is based not only on abstract projections; the VMS method is based on the VMS Benchmark base which is made up of more than 1,300 SAP systems. On the basis of these systems and with the help of complex mathematical modeling processes, we can then make reliable statements.

Forecasts on the consequences of planned measures are thus based on the data from real SAP landscapes – with unparalleled reliability.