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Consolidating and Harmonizing System Landscapes with SAP® Services

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SummaryTo prevent unmanageable proliferation of technologies and business solutions, compa-nies need to regularly review and consolidate their system landscapes. Using the system landscape consolidation and harmonization service from SAP, firms can quickly simplify and streamline their technology solutions and data. This service, offered by the System Land-scape Optimization group at SAP, helps com-panies reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), enable continuous improvement, and adapt to changing business requirements. Objectives

• Reduce complexity of operating heterogeneous, distributed systems

• Lower costs by consolidating multiple productive SAP® software deployments

• Harmonize financial data for enhanced compliance

Solution • Comprehensive service to address all project phases, from strategy to implementation

• Tool-based, method-oriented approach to identify affected business units and assess project scope, cost, and duration

• Mature, audit-compliant procedure to migrate and convert large volumes of data

Benefits • Decreased maintenance and administration effort and cost through reduced system redundancies

• Increased ability to quickly adapt to changing business requirements with a standardized, streamlined system landscape

• Improved data quality through harmonization and consolidation

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Overview

Companies with widespread operations and het-erogeneous business systems often need help managing complexity. Many firms have adopted a collection of technologies, applications, and solutions to help them handle numerous busi-ness processes and a variety of locations, lan-guages, and regulations. To reduce the cost and effort of operating distributed systems, organi-zations need to regularly review and streamline their system landscapes.

That’s why SAP offers a system landscape consolidation and harmonization service. With this service, companies can assess which orga-nizational units are affected by a consolidation project. Then they can develop plans and migrate and convert large volumes of data across systems

and releases. The tool-based, method-oriented approach used by our consultants includes a client transfer service, a system client merge service, and transfer of selected data into a defined target environment. The consolidation is executed quickly and with minimal disruption to the business.

By reducing or eliminating system redundancies, companies can lower the cost of maintenance and administration while shrinking TCO. Consoli-dating and harmonizing the system landscape can help enterprises increase data quality. A stan-dardized, streamlined system landscape can also support continuous improvement through-out the organization, and it enables the flexibility needed to quickly adapt to changing industry requirements.

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