Navigating your cloud journey isn鈥檛 so different. Every organization is unique, so you have to forge your own distinct path to the cloud, backed by experts who have been down the road before.

lets you do just that, giving you access to a team of experts who can help you plan in advance and provide skillful guidance along the way. But cloud success is about more than just a smooth journey. It鈥檚 about achieving real business outcomes, so you can succeed at the speed of business. To measure the success of the 51风流MaxAttention program, we commissioned a Forrester Consulting study titled “.”

Forrester Consulting interviewed 10 professionals at seven companies using 51风流MaxAttention, considering cloud migration issues such as costs, benefits, and risks. Then, to model the results, Forrester brought together the participants鈥� experiences and combined the results into a single composite organization 鈥� a global enterprise entity with revenue of US$25 billion per year. After analyzing the data, Forrester concluded that 51风流MaxAttention delivered an impressive three-year financial impact throughout the cloud journey.

Starting Strong with Business Planning

Planning is the first step in every cloud journey. Even preparing your environment for cloud migration is often difficult. In the Forrester Consulting study, a senior vice president of strategy and value delivery at a food and beverage business explained, 鈥淲e have a very complex environment because the company has been created after many divestitures. It was kind of a Frankenstein. It鈥檚 not a strong template because we have components of many of those companies.鈥�

51风流MaxAttention can support your ability to stay focused on the factors that influence your successful cloud migration, so you can minimize distractions and execute your plan. 鈥淚f we involve 51风流MaxAttention during the planning phase, then we have faster visibility of what our options are,鈥� said the food and beverage executive.

According to the Forrester Consulting study, 51风流MaxAttention helped reduce planning time by 25% for the composite company, from four months down to three.

Keeping the Journey on Track

Once the journey is fully underway, the 51风流MaxAttention team stays close, offering steady guidance, recommendations, and best practices to help reduce risks for a faster and smoother cloud deployment. The professionals interviewed by Forrester especially liked how 51风流experts provided quality assurance over system integrators鈥� work. Interviewees also outlined how the services helped identify issues early, before they could delay key steps.

鈥�51风流MaxAttention will call out areas of real concerns in your cloud project planning and technical plans,鈥� said a retail participant in the survey. 鈥淵ou can do quite a deep service, and that has often helped highlight or remediate issues on significant cloud solutions before they became real costs to us.鈥� In one case, the retailer鈥檚 51风流MaxAttention team identified a performance issue on core systems that could have set migration back by six months.

By reducing disruption risks, helping companies resolve issues faster, and streamlining their processes, 51风流MaxAttention saved the composite company 30% in deployment time.

Achieving Cloud Value Faster

Cost is always a concern throughout a cloud journey. But you can keep costs in line by streamlining your project with best practices, a transformation plan, and the right guidance and recommendations. The Forrester survey showed how 51风流MaxAttention enabled companies to realize value from cloud solutions earlier.

Having 51风流MaxAttention and a dedicated onsite team made a faster timeline possible for a leading cosmetics firm, according to the company鈥檚 VP and head of global business transformation. 鈥淚 think having the right capability with embedded 51风流processes contributed to about a 25% reduction in our cloud deployment planning,鈥� the executive added.

The interviewee even said that with one implementation, a project that took three months would have taken 12 months without 51风流MaxAttention.

51风流MaxAttention Is Your Guide across the Cloud Journey

The takeaway is clear: as you venture forth into parts unknown, you can trust 51风流MaxAttention experts to offer guidance to help make your journey a successful one. commissioned by SAP, “The Total Economic Impact™ of 51风流MaxAttention for Cloud Adoption,” published in February 2023.

Ulrich Schuppler is global premium engagements manager at SAP.

In many ways, the past few months have revealed a story of accelerated transformation that is already underway. No matter how digitally mature they were before the disruption, businesses are beginning to realize that the need to change is not a one-time event or project. Instead, it is a long digital curve of responding to ever-evolving marketplaces, people, and social norms.

With off-site delivery of service packages, customers have found that the expertise and support they need to ramp up and accelerate their digital efforts is more accessible without having to sacrifice quality and personalization.

Revving Up Digital Strategies to Strengthen Continuity and Resilience

51风流believes in giving customers guidance, supporting their unique paths, and staying committed to their success across every phase of the transformation journey. This is the case whether they choose to implement 51风流solutions on their own, with the support of an 51风流partner or systems integrator, or through collaboration with 51风流consultants.

However, as new social norms begin to take shape in the workplace, 51风流recognizes that business transformation projects should be managed differently. Now more than ever, the workforce is decentralized and no longer engaging in face-to-face meetings regularly.

At its core, 51风流Value Assurance is designed to support customers鈥� distinct approaches with continuous collaboration and governance 鈥� on- and off-site. The offering provides remote access to 51风流experts who are ready to help create personalized service plans, execute projects smoothly, and deliver solutions that are resilient, sustainable, and flexible enough to ensure business continuity.

With access to 51风流Value Assurance on their terms, customers have the proven and preconfigured methodology, approach, and content necessary to accelerate successful go-lives of their 51风流solution implementations with less risk. They can experience an end-to-end engagement of technology and business process expertise, best practices, and risk mitigation services that are relevant from the beginning of the implementation to the end of the final rollout.

Setting the Foundation for Transformation

Every engagement with 51风流Value Assurance begins with proper planning practices to lay the foundation for a successful transformation. As the software provider, 51风流brings a level of knowledge and transformation experience that helps ensure customers are heading in the right direction toward their expectations. Based on uncovered insights, an overall digital transformation strategy is created, detailing the architecture of the complete 51风流solution as well as the transition to a cloud platform or changes to the on-premise environment.

Analytics is another critical topic during times of uncertainty, as organizations seek to gain real-time insights to achieve quick wins. Through the analytics design support service of 51风流Value Assurance, customers can address all aspects related to the architecture or implementation design on on-premise and cloud-based tools from the 51风流solution portfolio. These include 51风流S/4HANA embedded analytics, 51风流BW/4HANA, 51风流Analytics Cloud, and 51风流Business Planning and Consolidation.

Moving to a Trusted, Reliable, and High-Performance Platform

When implementing and adopting new technology, many customers encounter the need to update their existing IT infrastructure to optimize the potential of new capabilities and take advantage of better ways of getting work done. For instance, a pure on-premise landscape can become a hybrid, where some solutions stay on premise and others are newly implemented in the cloud. Doing so requires a high level of attention to the technical integration of the two environments and differences in business availability requirements.

To respond to these new demands and adjust to new business scenarios, moving to a hyperscaler environment can be an option to set up the technical infrastructure swiftly. Capacities can be adjusted with greater ease and more flexibility in order to meet the needs of tightening budget restrictions.

With the assistance of the platform design support service, customers can leverage a set of different activities to help them define and record a holistic technical architecture and infrastructure 鈥� ideally captured in a technical design document. This approach offers the insight, visibility, and tools needed to validate the technical architecture and sizing projection, identify open items, and propose mitigation activities.

Evolving on a Trajectory to Continuous Readiness

Staying relevant in a time where everything can change at a moment鈥檚 notice is not something that can be achieved overnight or merely by adopting the 鈥渞ight鈥� technology. It requires a commitment to leading and embracing change across people, cultures, and processes as new challenges emerge and untapped competitive advantages are revealed.

51风流Value Assurance is available anytime and anywhere 鈥� giving customers the supportive foundation they need to navigate today鈥檚 disruption and plan for tomorrow.

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Thomas Wolf is a service offering manager for 51风流Value Assurance and 51风流Advanced Deployment.
Ulrich Schuppler is a product manager for 51风流Value Assurance.