Blue Ocean Upgrades
HCL AXON consultants have unique and extensive experience in performing upgrades for all versions of SAP, ranging from rapid 3 week technical upgrades to full system evolutions delivering significant new business benefits. With this pedigree, we fully understand the challenges involved as well as the opportunities that can be exploited from an upgrade.
The ideal world...
Technology today has reached a point of inflection. The ideal state every CIO wants to have; is an application that does not need more maintenance than the value it provides, a strategy that can foresee the near to long-term future, a deployment that is scalable to demands of the business.
...does not exist.
Increasingly we see the world of SAP being faced with red ocean challenges like: Increasing commoditization, increasing technological complexity, Rising TCO and thereby declining ROI, Commitment to a platform less interoperability, tightly coupled applications making it difficult to adapt or modify, multiple instances leading to higher IT intensity, Lack of standardization leading to ineffectual service management and Non-optimized business application portfolio leading to higher costs and service development effort.
"But, with Blue Ocean - you can create it"
Why HCL AXON for SAP Upgrades?
- Blue Ocean Upgrades - HCL AXON will invest upfront in client's SAP Upgrade and expect payment from the client in fixed annual installments over 3 years. HCL AXON will create funding for payment of installments by generating savings in client's current ADM budget over a period of 3-5 years*
- HCL AXON's SAP Toolset provides you with:
- Up to 20% reduction in upgrade efforts
- Up to 20% control in high and medium severity defects in Operations
- Up to 20% reduction in development efforts
- Zero defects in code quality
- Up to 20% reduction in consumption of system resources
- Up to 10% reduction in implementation efforts
- Significant reduction in TCO for customer in both projects and operations
- Tools appreciated by SAP as world class
- Strong Track Record - Multiple award-winning upgrades completed globally for various environments along with unicode conversion
- Best Upgrade Project 2008 - for Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore. This citation speaks about the complexity, commitment, risk plan and partnership model which were combined to its best to achieve this first upgrade to ECC 6.0 for a Government customer in Singapore and the first GeBiz interface with ECC 6.0 system
- "Best ERP 6.0 Upgrade" 2006 ST Engineering Singapore Year
- "Best Upgrade" 2004 Megachem Singapore Year
- Dedicated SAP Upgrade Competency Center
- Premium Partner in SAP's 'MOVE' Program
- Accelerated Execution and Downtime Reduction - With automated "Upgrade Assessment" and "Upgrade Execution" tools and remote processing
- Improved reliability of project and reduced associated business risks with HCL AXON's 24 month long study's findings
- Flexibility in Engagement Model - understand utilization factor of client's internal IT team on SAP Upgrade project to create an overall resource plan
- Reduced overall costs by up to 40% - using automated tools and remote upgrade methodology done globally
- Provide Post Upgrade Services
- SAP Performance Optimization Service
- SAP Instance Consolidation Service
- Transformational Business benefits thru iERP Service
- SOA services - strategic initiative to reduce cost and increase IT flexibility
ESS/MSS Migration with SAP Upgrade - Employee Self-Service is critical HR process application in any organization. Hence ESS/MSS migration is one of the key drivers for many organizations to go for SAP Upgrade. There are multiple versions of ESS/MSS business packages available and organization have implemented according to their adoption stage of SAP in landscape. The challenges observed for ESS/MSS migration are:
- ESS has been customized as per organization specific HR processes
- Identification of impact due to ESS /MSS migration
- Decide between two step approach recommended by SAP or re-implementation with ERP6
- Reduce unavailability time of ESS/MSS to employees while migration
- Lack of information on compatible versions of ESS/MSS with ERP6.0
- Knowledge of running and target version of ESS to re-enable ESS
HCL AXON provides packaged service - for ESS/MSS migration assessment along with SAP R/3 upgrade assessment remotely. The results of the assessment performed helps to address the challenges of ESS/MSS migration along with SAP Upgrade. The key benefit of assessment provides:
- Impact analysis to re-enable ESS business package with ERP6.0
- Estimate timeline along with SAP R/3 Upgrade
- Cost effective effort estimation based on impact analysis
- Recommended approach for migration to reduce the unavailability
- Help to plan next step for smooth migration along with SAP Upgrade
