About VMS - Slides

Value Management for SAP
Towards Best Practice with VMS
1 MEASURE
2 ANALYZE 3 OPTIMIZE
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Content
• VMS at a glance
• Challenges and solutions
• VMS products
• VMS solutions
• Current hot topics around VMS assessment
• Project workflow
• References
• About VMS
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VMS at a Glance
VMS analyzes SAP systems with the help of measurement software (600 ERP plus 400 BW metrics),
very advanced statistical analysis tools and our own database containing best practice comparison values.
Our customers are large companies or companies with intense use of SAP.
More than 100 customers and 2,700 SAP systems (among those 650 BW Systems) so far.
In many areas VMS replaces the traditional, laborious “ask people and compile their answers” way
by straight forward, fast measurement and the analysis of real facts.
SAP systems are unique in their huge amount of information about use, processes and quality.
VMS has the drilling technique to open up that resource.
VMS helps on the operational level (e.g. performance of ERP or BW, reduction of database size),
on the tactical level (identification of process SLAs, weakness analysis of a supply chain) and
on the strategic level (business case for consolidation, crafting the cloud architecture for SAP).
The benefit of the VMS methodology is the fact-based root cause analysis of technical, organizational or financial
optimization potentials. VMS supports your decision making process with facts out of your own systems as well
as out of comparable environments of other companies.
VMS works at fixed price or on a risk sharing basis. The ROI of a typical project is less than six months.
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Challenges and Solutions
Complexity dimensions
• VMS addresses the root challenge of all SAP landscapes: complexity.
• The SAP application is an extremely powerful tool to reflect
real life business processes.
• But each single dimension is complex in itself and even more in
combination: the technology stack, the business application and its
customizing, the organization to run and maintain SAP, etc.
• Complexity is part of SAP applications’ genes. However complex does not
necessarily implies complicated.
• In order to successfully run and develop an SAP landscape over time, it is
essential to manage the complexity. It is a continuous challenge to avoid the
turn of an SAP landscape into a complicated, problematic, expensive or even
unruly stress factor.
• We help you to gain transparency and to resolve complicated issues.
• As a result, we lower cost, reduce stress, improve quality and generate
satisfaction at user and owners of business processes alike.
• VMS assessments offer a unique and easy to adopt methodology:
Measure – Analyze – Optimize.
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VMS Products
Complete coverage of the IT and the business process view
Process
Cost
Performance
• Performance
• The ERP performance will be assessed with the CPA
Core Performance Assessment.
• The BW performance will be assessed with the HPAA
High Performance Analytics Assessment.
• Cost
• The TCO will be assessed with the CWA Cloud
Worthiness Assessment.
• For cost and price assessments workshop input is
needed, too.
• Process
• The process optimization takes place in a customer
individual project.
• Advisory
• All standard products can be complemented with
customer-specific advisory.
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Current Hot Topics
A summary of the currently most asked SAP issues
• How can I master my ever growing BW systems?
• Can I tune my BW even further?
• Or do I need to switch to HANA?
• Can I lower my ERP cost even more?
• I have already tuned for the last number of years.
• And I have already virtualized.
• What can I gain with the data center automation capabilities of private
clouds?
• Does the public cloud make sense for me at all?
• Amazon lowers their cost radically and constantly.
• Shouldn’t I look at the public cloud just out of economic reasons?
• Can I still afford to look only after the IT? Or do I need to get involved into
the business processes as well?
• Maybe business process optimization is the next frontier of efficiency
which I need to support?
• And what about SaaS? What’s the impact on our core SAP solutions?
On the IT and on the processes?
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Highly Standardized Project Workflow
Minimal efforts due to automated data collection and analysis
Project Kickoff
3-8
days
Installation of the
VMS DataCollector
AdaptiveTCO
Modelling
Typical effort in days, on the customer side, for a
VMS assessment of average complexity
Project
Work
•VMS Assessment Steps
Automated
Process
Meeting
Automated Data
Collection and
Transmission
Collection of cost,
prices, services and
SLA data
4-6
weeks
Presenting
Results
xxA Results
Presentation
Typical effort in weeks for a VMS Assessment of
average complexity
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VMS Customers
Coverage of various industries and business models
Consumer Goods
Retail
Process / Pharma
Discrete
Manufacturing
Automotive /
Aerospace
Energy /
Infrastructure
Banking
Insurance
Services
IT Services
IT Manufactures
Daimler
Financial
Services
Bayer
Bayer
Business
Services
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What Makes the Difference
Identify facts – identify options – manage results
1 MEASURE
Xource: Driesen+Kern GmbH
2 ANALYZE 3 OPTIMIZE
Facts
VMS is not a consulting but a software engineering company. We develop software which makes
complexity measurable, transparent and in the end comprehensible and manageable.
Results
By comparing systems and organizations, we develop optimization potential. It is not about what
we think what‘s good to do, but what we can proof to be effective and efficient.
And VMS is not a “One Trick Pony”. Results depend on individual consideration of facts.
Bottom-Up
The methodology of “measuring” supports a different approach to optimization: Bottom-up.
VMS delivers a more detailed view on use, quality and processes than you have ever seen before.
Applicability
The VMS methodology is enormously versatile. The scope ranges from technology of systems thru
performance and quality of application code until IT organization and business process needs.
Past and Future
Classical benchmarking means only judging on the past. That may raise an alert but rarely delivers
a solution. The VMS bottom-up approach enables as well the simulation of alternative actions and
their impact on future situations. VMS enables thinking in actions, fact-based strategy decisions
und investment planning in a single integrated approach.
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About VMS
Who we are
2002
2005
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2010
2012
• VM Solutions GmbH, Heidelberg
• VMS = Value Management Solutions = IT creates value
• Creation of a new methodology: DNA-level benchmark
to measure and compare complex systems
• Finalist CyberOne 2005
• Germany’s most active benchmarking company
• > 50 international customers
• Advisory Service: SAP know how - best practice processes
• > 1,600 years of SAP data collected
• VMS Benchmarkbase is the largest repository of SAP usage worldwide
• > 100 international customers
• Conversion to VMS AG
• Launch of VMS Process Dashboard
• “Top Innovator 2010”
• Launch of Cloud Worthiness Index (CWI), Core Performance Index (CPI)
and High Performance Analytics Index (HPAI)
• > 2,700 measured SAP systems, 650 measured SAP BW systems
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