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Posted:  26 Sep 2008
Published:  26 Sep 2008
Format:  PDF
Length:  16   Page(s)
Type:  White Paper
Language:  English


ABSTRACT:
This document explains the subject of squeezing ongoing costs throughout the SAP life cycle and typical SAP life cycle challenges. They fall into three categories. These are the challenges that hundreds of SAP customers are faced with throughout the life cycle.

The first category is more risk-oriented. We look at the infrastructure, the availability of these SAP systems and more complex Netweaver infrastructures certainly - those are the risk elements. However, in the current environment, many more customers are more interested in the ongoing costs throughout this entire lifecycle. You can see the sorts of critical issues here. How can I control all of my lifecycle costs over the long term and at the same time retain my internal SAP experts to respond to the challenges that SAP provides them throughout the lifecycle?

And then lastly you need to see more business value faster. This means that's the lifecycle picture. I need more business improvement projects, I need to see real business return on investment, and I need to see faster time to benefits. These are the real core challenges that all SAP customers are faced with, and today's subject is focusing heavily on the total cost of ownership throughout the lifecycle.



Authors

Derek Prior
Research Director ,  AMR Research
Derek Prior is a AMR Analyst specializing in infrastructure, architecture and life cycle support issues for SAP customers. He spent 17 years at Hewlett-Packard, 6 years at Gartner and 3 years at AMR. He has spoken at many SAP and SAP User Group conference around the world.

Jeff Greenwald
Director of Enterprise Product Management ,  Acresso Software



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