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Nine Reasons Why SAP® Rapid Deployment Solutions Can Make Your Life Easier

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Delivered at the Speed of Your Business

Why be a statistic when you can take advantage of a streamlined implementation strategy, predictable costs, and a short time to business value? And when you can look forward to tools that are designed to work as smoothly with future technology as they do with your existing functionality?

SAP® Rapid Deployment solutions are revolution-izing the way people buy and consume software. A prescribed scope and predictable cost can help you meet your project deadlines, stay on budget, and quickly achieve your business goals by:

• Addressing the requirements of a specific industry or line of business

• Giving you a choice of deployment options – including on- premise, hosted, or cloud options

• Letting you incrementally unleash new innova-tions in your company – such as enterprise mobility, in-memory computing, analytics, and more

• Providing clearly priced and scoped implemen-tation services – measured in just days or weeks – for maximum predictability and mini-mum risk

• Accelerating time to value with best practices, templates, and tools

• Providing guides and educational materials to train power users and speed broader, company-wide end-user adoption

Release new productivity apps on mobile devices in eight weeks? Add speed and capacity for ana-lyzing data in less than a month? Is this possible? Rapid-deployment solutions, available from SAP and its partners, are designed for quick, simple, and affordable installations in companies of any size.

Meeting many business needs, the solutions offer:

• Predictability of costs, timelines, and outcomes via clear pricing, defined services, and precon-figured content

• Integration with current functionalities, future landscapes, and innovations such as mobile, cloud, and in-memory computing

• Choice of modules that address specific business needs

You need answers fast to pressing business problems. Implementing new software can be daunting, however, for good reason. According to Michael Krigsman, CEO of Asuret Inc., up to 70% of IT projects fail to meet target deadlines, stay on budget, or deliver the expected functionality.

SAP Rapid Deployment solutions are revolutionizing the way people buy and consume software. A prescribed scope and predictable cost can help you meet your project deadlines, stay on budget, and quickly achieve your business goals.

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Here are nine reasons why SAP Rapid Deploy-ment solutions can make your job easier.

Reason #1: Each Is a Complete SolutionThe solutions combine SAP software with imple-mentation services provided by the SAP Consult-ing organization or SAP partners. The solutions incorporate support for best practices, precon-figured content, and end-user educational mate-rials in an innovative delivery model to speed the time to value for your investment.

Consider the manager who wants to see how a particular product line is performing in various markets versus other company lines. Previously, this would require integrated analytics – a major IT undertaking. The SAP HANA® Operational Reporting rapid-deployment solution delivers predefined reports for sales, finance, and logis-tics in a matter of weeks.

Packaged with SAP BusinessObjects™ business intelligence solutions, the rapid-deployment solution gives managers and key business users access to the latest data in real time on a PC browser or a mobile device. There, the manager can see in a modern, graphical user interface which geographic areas exceed a specified profit-ability level for the product in question.

Reason #2: We’ve Got You Fully CoveredThe highly targeted solutions are available for many different line-of-business and industry- specific processes. Today, the solutions support key process areas such as:

• Sales, service, and marketing • Supply chain management and procurement • Product development and manufacturing • Human resources • Financials • Operations and IT • Mobile, in-memory, and cloud computing

Reason #3: You Can Hit the Ground RunningMost projects can be completed within 12 weeks – a single business quarter. Many take even less time.

You get this fast time to value by utilizing SAP methodologies and implementation-acceleration tools honed over decades of installations at com-panies of all sizes, industries, and locations. The preconfigured content and proven educational materials, along with remote implementation delivery, further speed the deployment and get users up and running quickly.

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Reason #4: You Take Advantage of Standard SAP SoftwareThe solutions are based on standard SAP software, with the same enterprise-grade performance, inte-gration, and scalability. You can use SAP Rapid Deployment solutions with all of the leading-edge functionality available in other SAP software. The solutions can form the foundation for a core enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Or they can broaden your existing ERP footprint to quickly meet new business needs – for example, by addressing your HR requirements through the rapid deployment of SAP SuccessFactors® solu-tions. Our rapid-deployment solutions can also serve as integrated replacements for non-SAP software and can integrate with non-SAP systems.

Reason #5: We’ve Designed the Solutions to Address Specific NeedsWith SAP Rapid Deployment solutions, predict-ability and flexibility go hand in hand. You decide up front what functionality you want to install. You can pick the exact business needs, adoption paths, licensing, and deployment options that suit your specific requirements. You can then customize or build on this functionality if you desire, now or in the future.

Reason #6: SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions Can Cut IT CostsThe prescribed scope and predictable cost keep your projects on budget. Reduced service expenses help keep the cost relatively low. You further control your budget by choosing only the software you need and taking advantage of cost-effective hosting options or cloud solutions.

The solutions reduce the effort and total cost of implementation as demonstrated in an SAP sur-vey of customers and consultants in 2014–2015. Of the 850 survey participants, up to 62% real-ized a 20% to 70% decrease in deployment effort, while 59% achieved a 20% to 70% decrease in cost.

Reason #7: SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions Can Reduce RiskImplementing enterprise software can present challenges due to scope creep, loose project management, unpredictability of costs and time-lines, and internal demands for customization. The prescribed scope, predictable cost, and sup-port for best practices offered with each solution help keep your project on track. The preconfig-ured content and templates help you get exactly the functionality you expect, with minimal need for customization. And enablement and tailored training guides help ensure that postimplemen-tation solution productivity is covered.

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Reason #8: You Have Many Implementation and Hosting OptionsOur partners offering implementation services for SAP Rapid Deployment solutions have the expertise and capabilities for successfully deliv-ering the solutions under the same predictable-price and prescribed-scope framework. While cloud and hosting services from our partners bring a wide array of flexible pricing options, many offer predictably low monthly pricing for the infrastructures that support SAP Rapid Deployment solutions. Our partners also offer a comprehensive array of options for hardware and financing.

Reason #9: It’s Much Easier to Meet New Business NeedsSAP Rapid Deployment solutions provide a foundation upon which you can integrate new software as new challenges and new technology come along. Given the large portfolio of SAP Rap-id Deployment solutions, you may begin with one or two solutions and have several others in mind for the future. As your competitive environment, business strategy, or general needs change, you can prioritize the rapid-deployment solutions you want to implement next.

The results speak for themselves. SAP Rapid Deploy-ment solutions have been successfully installed by organizations of all sizes, from small businesses and midsize companies to the largest enterprises in the world, across all types of industries.

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There’s No Catch

The results speak for themselves. SAP Rapid Deployment solutions have been successfully installed by organizations of all sizes, from small businesses and midsize companies to the largest enterprises in the world, across all types of industries. These customers have witnessed the unprecedented time to value and predictability, integrated support for business growth, and flexi-ble deployment options the solutions provide for implementing innovative business capabilities.

With their preconfigured content, best practices, and prescribed scope, the solutions can signifi-cantly simplify and shorten the time it takes to put new software to work for your business needs.

Find Out MoreTo learn more, call your SAP representative or visit us online at www.sap.com/rapid-deployment.

“By taking advantage of the rapid-deployment solution, we were able to quickly provide our employees with the functionality we needed to establish a course for rapid growth.”Pascal Hoerter, General Manager, alfanar electric

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