The SAP Green Book: A Business Guide for Effectively Managing the SAP Lifecycle - Softcover

Michael Doane (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592294073 ISBN 13: 9781592294077

Publisher: SAP PRESS (a division of Rheinwerk Publishing), 2012

Synopsis

Breaking news: Implementing SAP doesn't help your business! It's the actions taken after go-live that ensure continuous success. Learn how to assess your SAP maturity, how to make business talk to IT (and vice versa), how to keep your end users happy, and more. 1. SAP Maturity: Is your organization taking full advantage of SAP? Are your end users? In this book, you'll learn what it takes to find out. 2. Center of Excellence: Learn how to establish an organization that maintains success with SAP: Discover roles, responsibilities, KPIs, and more. 3. Staffing and Outsourcing: What resources do you need to be successful? How do you find providers that are worth your money? How do you keep them motivated? Find the answers here. 4. Measure Success: Did your processes actually improve after go-live? By how much? Define indicators and measure performance to understand what you've gained. Topics covered in this book include:

• SAP implementation lifecycle
• Assessing your organization's SAP maturity
• Building and sustaining a Center of Excellence
• Outsourcing SAP applications support
• Continuous business process improvement
• End-user training

About this title

About the Author

Michael Doane has 35 years of business and information systems experience, including 12 years of industry, 16 years in enterprise application consulting and six years as an industry analyst. Since 2001, he has been advising clients on strategies, implementation and integration strategies, service provider selection and management, and best practices and methods for deriving value from enterprise applications investments. Michael Doane has been publishing information about SAP since 1996.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAP PRESS (a division of Rheinwerk Publishing)
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592294073
• ISBN 13: 9781592294077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 265