The FAZ describes the consultants as "just married" cans that hang on SAP like the cans on the car of newlyweds on a rollercoaster ride.
Every junction, every pothole hurls them through. (FAZ from 03.01.2021 - Updated: 04.01.2021, 09:58 a.m., https://www.faz.net/-ikh-a74ma).
Due to the rapid change in the SAP product landscape, SAP is also presenting its service providers with challenges: They need to familiarize themselves with the new products and roll out pilot projects in order to gather their own best practices so that they can provide their customers with expert advice.
Due to the wide range of possibilities and the use of cloud technologies, the service provided by SAP consultants begins with advice on technology selection and ends with support for the specialist processes that are supported by the software. The focus of consulting on software installations and the associated services is changing to digitalization and adjustments to operational processes.
However, this change also creates opportunities for customers and consulting firms.
Customized BI architecture thanks to diverse SAP product portfolio
The diverse SAP product portfolio offers many interesting opportunities to develop and modernize the BI landscape.themmodernize. Consultants can use a wide range of tools and solutions that optimally map the requirements of their customers.. Technical aspects are playing less and less of a role here, with move increasingly on process-related or organizational aspects. are increasingly coming into focus:
This raises the question of whether the processes determine the BI architecture or the BI architecture determines the processes and organization.
With the analysis of the existing BI strategy and an outlook/desire/target image, both the organization and processes as well as the technical BI architecture can be harmonized.
The challenge for service providers is to map the aspects given by their customers with the right technology while always keeping an ear to the ground of the SAP strategy. But is this BI tool jungle really impenetrable or are there "only" a wide range of options for designing modern (cloud-based) BI architectures?
Change management in the SAP consulting business
ISR invests in the training and further education of ISR consultants in order to do justice to the changing nature of the SAP consultant's work and the constantly expanding product portfolio.
Workshops with SAP and development partnerships ensure that ISR consultants are always "on the ball".
Our consultants are therefore optimally prepared to design strategies, architectures and processes together with our customers. The resulting findings and ideas are discussed with SAP and, if necessary, integrated as best practice in the further development of the tools.
We do not see ourselves as "just married" cans, but as the fuel of the car, which brings the newlyweds into a secure future and thus supports customers in a wide range of ways on the path to digitalization.
Consultants bring structure to your BI landscape
SAP is facing up to the constantly changing requirements of agile companies in the technological change and is continuously developing and optimizing this broad-based BI tool landscape. However, the right choice of business intelligence tools with an ever-increasing number of variants is often a challenge. Nowadays, there are many ways to build or modernize a future-proof and stable BI architecture. At the same time, the technological boundaries between operational, tactical and strategic reporting are becoming blurred. How do I ensure clean data integration of different source systems? And what role does self-service BI, which has been so much discussed in recent years, actually play? Which BI tools can be used to successfully implement business intelligence?
In order to make these decisions within the company, motivated and experienced consultants support you in finding the right answers to your questions.
ISR procedure for structuring your BI landscape
In our projects and workshops, we draw on a wealth of experience of over 20 years and combine this with the "research spirit" of the recently joined SAP BI consultants. In doing so we have at our disposal for strategy definition/determination a methodology kitwhich allows us to analyze individual issues in a well-founded manner and derive visions and recommendations for action.
We pass on our knowledge
You do not (yet) have no specific request or see currently see no need for action, but would like to get an overview of the SAP portfolio in the area of SAP Analytics. In other words, you have entered the aforementioned "roller coaster" and need support in the various developments in the SAP Analytics environment.
Then we offer you an orientationworkshop, which will give you an overview of the SAP tools in the context of Business Intelligence context. In a joint discussion/brainstorming session, we determine together whether and how your specific situation should be examined in more detail.
If you see current challenges in your BI architecture and need a sparring partner to define solutions and goals, we can offer you the following additional service packages:
Do you have specific questions about certain analytics components? Then perhaps one of these workshops will help you:
Still nothing? Then give us a call and we will create a customized workshop to discuss your questions and develop possible solutions.
Wiebke Schulz
Managing Consultant
SAP Information Management
Wiebke.Schulz@isr.de
+49 (0) 151 422 05 422
