Advisory for SAP is BearingPoint’s solution offering for SAP-specific IT strategy and transformation. Our Advisory for SAP solutions focus on the three areas “enable business and innovation”, “manage risk” and “improve efficiency”. Related to these three focus areas we leverage the most up-to-date and innovative ideas and our thought leadership, our overall SAP project experience, and BearingPoint’s best practices.
SAP Innovation Check
Based on business relevancy, mapping of current SAP technical product and announcements with clients’ current landscapes and strategies. Providing transparency and understanding of current and future SAP product offering and strategy.
SAP Application Strategy
Definition of a tailor-made SAP application strategy based on relevant business processes using the up-to-date SAP solution portfolio and BearingPoint leading-edge industry process knowledge. Unbiased pathway to efficient system harmonization, cost take out and application roadmap.
SAP Enterprise
Services Oriented Architecture
Holistic design of eSOA strategy considering current and future business processes and services. Comparison of packed application vs. eSOA-based development based on potential areas for composites and enterprise services.
SAP Data Strategy
Development of a cooperative data management strategy to establish the ”single source of truth” using existing data issues like data quality, duplicates, data governance and system hierarchy. Support for a tool evaluation considering cost and individual demand structures.
SAP Project Advisory
Assessment of project/program initiatives based on BearingPoint's project management best practices and methods. Delivering accelerators and efficiency checks and support implementing changes to adopt findings (one-time as well as continuous activities).
SAP Development Management
Design client-specific development collaboration processes to leverage development services to offshore / near shore providers. Definition of project-specific procedures for communication, approval, escalation, monitoring, maintenance and operation mechanisms embedding BearingPoint's best practices and experience.
SAP Project / Program Portfolio
Assessment of ongoing client project initiatives and their interdependencies leveraging BearingPoint´s project management best practices and methodology. Setting up of a project/ program management cockpit to identify consequences of project issues on other projects and programs and mitigate risks within the portfolio. Analyze and optimize sourcing and investment strategy.
SAP Roadmap
Creation of a roadmap (12-36 months) incorporating current and future ERP objectives matched against SAP product offerings. Evaluation of business drivers to embed the business view into the SAP architecture perspective.
SAP Organizational Excellence
Design and implement clients’ organizational structures in business and supporting functions impacted by current and future SAP projects like SAP competence centers or application support. Definition of process and governance model to prepare the client organization for the new SAP/IT scenarios “after project”.
Global SAP Platforms
Support client managing global SAP projects by providing best practices in the areas of multi-cluster planning, cultural and change management, industrialization supported by the development of a client-specific toolset to ease rollout. Aspects of organizational change will be addressed as model for template governance.
