ARMONK, N.Y., May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today introduced IBM Rapid Move for SAP S/4HANA, a new approach
designed to provide a smarter and faster way to digital
transformations. Businesses across industries can look to
accelerate the process of migrating existing SAP systems to SAP
S/4HANA, enabling them to speed up the reinvention of core business
processes and integration of new technology.
Arauco, a manufacturer of sustainable forest product solutions
in Chile, is one of the first
companies to benefit from the new capabilities. IBM Services
is working to upgrade and transform Arauco's existing SAP systems
across the company's financial, procurement and production
activities. By deploying IBM Rapid Move for SAP S/4HANA, Arauco
anticipates achieving a reduction in time of up to 50% for certain
activities during the project based on their specific environment
and configurations, such as unicode conversion, generating
significant time savings for the overall project.
"As we prepare for future growth, we needed to implement a
digital platform that will streamline our processes through
business transformation, including converting our existing SAP
systems to SAP S/4HANA. Speed of deployment has been key to
ensuring we experience the benefits of digital technology faster,"
said Leandro San Miguel, CIO Arauco.
"The IBM Rapid Move for SAP S/4HANA approach can help accelerate
our modernization of processes, allowing us to deploy an integrated
and consolidated financial reporting system across the business
with SAP S/4HANA."
Companies in every industry are reinventing their processes and
operations with digital strategies enabled by new technologies,
such as AI, automation and blockchain. SAP S/4HANA allows companies
to simplify complex business processes while upgrading their
technology infrastructure and enterprise systems resulting in
greater efficiency and improved business outcomes.
"Businesses working to transform themselves amid ongoing market
disruption must consider how to convert and extend their existing
investments, while at the same time capitalizing on the digital
reinvention imperative," said Mark
Foster, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services
and IBM Services. "With IBM Rapid Move for SAP S/4HANA, we've
introduced an approach that helps simplify migration, enabling our
clients to safely and securely move to the future at pace."
Since forming the Digital Transformation partnership three
years ago, IBM Services and SAP have worked together to provide
services and capabilities that help accelerate how customers around
the world modernize their systems and processes on their path to
becoming an intelligent enterprise. The two companies continue to
deliver new solutions that address rapidly changing market needs,
including SAP Model Company services combined with enhanced
industry specific pre-configured IBM Impact accelerators, which are
designed to simplify the change process, speed-up innovation
enabled by SAP S/4HANA and unlock business benefits faster. As
announced late last year, IBM Services completed more than 100 SAP
S/4HANA implementations.
IBM Rapid Move for SAP S/4HANA, complete with integrated
delivery framework from SAP, including the SAP Value Assurance
program and SAP Model Company service, helps accelerate migration
to the SAP S/4HANA platform with minimal risk. This agile
transformation approach offers more design and build flexibility
that can deliver an enhanced user experience and automated business
processes. By taking advantage of IBM Rapid Move, businesses
can also leverage and transform existing SAP investments without
the need to fully redesign their legacy systems.
"The partnership between SAP and IBM continues to grow. With IBM
Rapid Move for SAP S/4HANA, IBM is delivering an innovative way to
give customers a major head start on their digital transformation
projects and provide their clients with the ability to realize
value from their deployments with even greater speed and agility,"
said Michael Kleinemeier, member of the Executive Board and head of
the SAP Digital Business Services organization, SAP SE.
IBM Services teamed up with transformation software company SNP
to create a highly automated migration that combines the SAP
management and technical expertise of the two companies. IBM
Rapid Move for SAP S/4HANA incorporates a hybrid transition
approach to target process redesign and standardization, only where
it is needed. IBM has embedded automation into the process
leveraging "digital workers" that execute SAP S/4HANA
configuration, code remediation and data reconciliation to reduce
the complexity of implementation.
"Almost every company deals with SAP S/4HANA and wants to tap
into the opportunities of digital transformation," says Dr.
Andreas Schneider-Neureither, CEO
SNP. "Working with IBM Services, we can now offer a simpler and
faster way to take advantage of SAP S/4HANA. With the rapid
adoption of SAP S/4HANA, companies accelerate their digital
transformation and take advantage of the platform earlier than with
traditional methods. This includes improving performance in complex
and time-critical business processes such as real-time planning,
execution, reporting, analytics and forecasting based on live data,
as well as a personalized and simplified user experience across all
business units, tasks and devices."
About IBM
For more information about IBM Services, visit
https://www.ibm.com/services.
For more information about IBM's SAP services, visit
https://www.ibm.com/services/sap.
IBM will be exhibiting and speaking at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW &
ASUG Annual Conference, May 7 – 9,
2019 | Orlando, FL | Booth
#711
About SNP
SNP supports organizations in adapting their business models and
using new technologies. SNP software and services make it easy to
implement business or technical modifications to business
applications. CrystalBridge® and SNP Transformation Backbone® with
SAP LT is the world's leading software suite for data
transformations that automatically analyzes, implements and tracks
changes to IT systems. As a result, they offer clear qualitative
advantages, while significantly reducing the time and expense
involved in transformation projects. The SNP Group has over 1,300
employees worldwide. Headquartered in Heidelberg, the company
generated provisional revenue of 131 million
euros in the 2018 fiscal year. SNP's customers are global
corporations from all industries. SNP was founded in 1994 and has
been publicly traded since 2000. As of August 2014, the company is listed on the Prime
Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ISIN
DE0007203705). Since 2017, the company has operated as a European
stock corporation (Societas Europaea/SE)
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