NOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD A BEST RUN BUSINESS. *
"Like dangerous curves on a racetrack, economic downturns create more opportunities for companies to move from the middle of the pack into leadership positions than any other time in business."A slow economy brings on mounting cost pressures - from customers, the competition, and investors. Orders may be down, but customers still want innovative products and services. To sustain growth in a difficult market, you need to focus limited resources on the right technology solutions that will help streamline processes, drive efficiency and reduce costs in a tough economic environment.
As the global market environment continues to shift dramatically on a daily basis, it becomes more important than ever for companies to utilize smart IT investments to proactively capitalize on opportunities, and to respond rapidly for long-term viability and success.
SAP can help you make sense out of an unstable economy:
BEST-RUN-NOW PACKAGES:
1. Business Planning and Consolidation
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation streamlines the planning; budgeting and forecasting process to improve budget cycle times and provide forward-looking planning via predictive analysis.
It also supports an automated consolidation process that meets all statutory, regulatory and financial reporting requirements (GAAP, IFRS, IAS and FASB) to ensure compliance.
Consequently, books are closed faster, with a complete audit trail and at reduced costs. Read more2. Accelerate Savings in Procurement
The Accelerate Savings in Procurement package can help to rapidly maximize cost savings. It closes the loop between identified and negotiated savings resulting in
increased spend under management, reduced costs, and improved compliance with contracts and policies. All are key to quickly driving real impact to the bottom line.Read more
3. Managing Workforce Through Economic Uncertainty
Includes tools essential to helping quickly assess a workforce situation, identify and maintain the right people within the organization and provide cost effective training to up-skill and maintain certification and compliance levels within the organization.Read more
4. Optimize IT Fast Track
The Optimize IT Fast Track package allows companies to get more out of IT, today, by targeting key areas of
cost and accelerating the value timetable for business applications. This will reduce IT operational costs
and user support costs and will shorten the time to value for critical applications.
Read more5. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
with SAP BusinessObjects Polestar
The SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse Accelerator boosts the performance of analytic processing and enables business users to access and analyze large volumes of business data without labor-intensive set-up or design activities. And when used with SAP BusinessObjects Polestar, this combination provides the speed and the simplicity of search together with the trust and analytical power of business intelligence (BI) to provide immediate answers to business questions. Polestar also leverages the BI platform's universe metadata, security, trust, and administration services thus reducing IT backlog and making it deployable in days. Read more
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* In chaos lies opportunity WSJ.com 09/30/08 by Darrell Rigby and Steve Ellis Bain and Company



