DNA-Level Benchmarking for SAP – "Keyhole Surgery"
Each SAP landscape is unique because it reflects your company's unique needs. When you need to optimize this environment, take a look at the largest collection of SAP enterprise data. The VMS benchmark base holds data from more than 1,300 SAP systems.
However, many benchmarking projects begin with a large dollop of skepticism.
The more you know about the specifics of your company, the more likely it is that you won't believe it's possible to use benchmarking to achieve improvements. The problems are too specific, you've used all the standard solutions, all you really need is a bit more time – and now you're supposed to invest in benchmarking?
The skeptics are right – a benchmark exercise that gets lost in a jungle of benchmark figures is no help. VMS can counter this situation with action-oriented benchmarking.
- action-oriented alternatives instead of lifeless comparisons
- cause-effect analysis instead of a list of symptoms
- clarity instead of unfathomable science
A Waddling Duck Hobbled by a Rubber Band
That's what the press called the 2004 German National Soccer Team, its new coach at the time and the "rubber band fitness-test".
It's also a good way to describe benchmarking – it's an analytic tool. We use it to determine what kind of shape your SAP system, an IT landscape or an organization is in and how to optimize the entire system. Each member of the German National Soccer Team had a pretty good idea what his strengths and weaknesses were. But what was needed was a fitness program that would achieve the maximum possible success for the whole team. In your case, you need to achieve success for your entire company.
VMS uses a new method to carry out such training analyses (benchmarks). Our "rubber band" is called a DNA-level benchmark. (Details here)
But we also deliver practical points of reference you can work with. We not only give you "Fitness-Level 3", we also give you a list of procedures you can put into practice that will help you succeed. Depending on the problem or the initial situation, these procedures may differ completely in their nature, from technical optimization through the design of migration strategies to the classical benchmark area of cost-reduction.