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How to Plan for an SAP® ERP 6.0 UpgradeContents
Why Customers Are Choosing SAP ERP 6.0 . 4
Upgrade Scenarios. 7Technical Upgrade. 7Functional Upgrade. 8Strategic Business Improvement Upgrade. 8
Best Practices During an Upgrade Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Planning an Upgrade. 8- Handling Modification . 9- Simplifying the Testing Process. 9- Additional Tools, Preparations . 9Building the SAP ERP 6.0 Landscape. 10
What SAP Customers Are Saying About the Upgrade. 11
This document provides decision makers the information they need to evaluate, plan, and perform an upgrade to the SAP® ERP 6.0 application. It also introduces the tools and services SAP offers its customers during the transition to this new enterprise software.
Through extensive experience with customer upgrades, SAP has learned how important it is to safeguard production systems for your mission-critical activities - which is why SAP ERP 6.0 strongly supports system requirements for stability and availability while at the same time offering the high degree of adaptability and flexibility you need for business process innovation.
Why Customers Are Choosing SAP® ERP 6.0
What is driving the upgrade to SAP's new enterprise software? Most customers are making the change to achieve one of the Sustainability. With SAP ERP 6.0, SAP ensures business continu-goals listed in Figure 1. ity by delivering all the functionality available in previous core SAP R/3 software and ensures legal compliance and system .Business Information Technology security through the continuous delivery of support packages, Business Strategy Sustainability. Enable business innovation . C over new and changing . Drive competitive differentiation legal requirements "We can execute the same straight-. Enable fast business adoptability . G uarantee business and . Support globalization IT-system stability through payment and bank reconciliation . Foster intercompany collaboration . P rovide continuous system support and maintenanceIT processes almost anywhere in the world, Systems and this lowers our cost of operations."Operational Excellence Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Drive continuous improvement Keep TCO as low as possible by: Roger Shannon, Assistant Treasurer, Brown-Forman. Foster business process efficiency . R educing costs for implementation . Enable process automation and upgrade projects. Facilitate process standardization . Cutting ongoing software costs patches, and "hot-fixes."and harmonization . Decreasing ongoing hardware costs. R educing the frequency of user (Note: The mainstream maintenance period for SAP R/3 4.6C trainings ended on December 31, 2006; extended maintenance is offered until Figure 1: Reasons for an ERP Software Upgrade December 2009 for an additional fee.) Here's how the SAP® ERP 6.0 application helps you achieve these In addition, SAP ERP 6.0 helps your business comply with an .goals. increasing number of national and international legal .requirements for financial reporting and corporate governance. .Improved business strategy. In a world where ... [download for more]
