Planning an SAP upgrade to help improve process agility and return on investment across your ERP systems? IBM can help.

You want to improve process agility, drive innovation and support new business models and processes—all while responding to the pressure of evolving industry trends and rising costs. IBM can provide a time-tested, integrated approach to streamline the SAP upgrade process for your specific requirements. We can help you:

• Implement new functionality.
• Support new business models and processes with enhancement packages from SAP.
• Increase process efficiency and reduce the total cost of operations.

SAP upgrade solutions from IBM can offer physical consolidation and optimization of your system landscape after evaluating your systems using a pre-upgrade assessment and project design analysis. IBM has proprietary tools for analyzing systems, customizing SAP security features and the ABAP code (including Unicode) while also forecasting the incremental delta sizes for systems for release upgrades.

SAP upgrades can be combined with:

• Other infrastructure projects, such as migrating to a different operating system or platform.
• Major operating system or database release upgrade cycles.