SAP Business All-in-One FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

It's time to position your business for growth. First and foremost, this means dealing with outdated, homegrown software applications that don't provide the visibility you need to manage your clients, costs, and resources – and could be preventing you from delivering additional client value.

To grow profitably while providing clients with higher-quality service at the pricing they demand, you need to:

• Eliminate cost through efficiency of operations and tight control of project-related costs
• Maximize resource utilization
• Automate and streamline processes for new business development, time tracking, and billing
• Gain greater visibility across your business

If you're thinking about challenges like these, you should think about a modular, integrated solution – from SAP.

SAP Business All-in-One for Professional Services: Delivering Client Value for Maximizing Revenues and Margins

The SAP Business All-in-One for Professional Services solution combines proven SAP software with SAP Best Practices and "quick start" accelerators to help you gain control over every aspect of your business, from business development to resource planning to client billing. Plus, as a single, integrated solution, SAP Business All-in-One provides real-time visibility into time, costs, revenue, profitability, so you make informed decisions quickly – and deliver projects profitably, on time and on budget.

SAP Business All-in-One was created specifically for companies of your size, at a price you can afford. In fact, a solution to handle your core business processes can be implemented in 12 - 24 weeks. And, because it's built on open standards, SAP Business All-in-One supports modular deployment – so you can add to and adapt the solution as business needs change.

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SAP Business All-in-One for Professional Services is a complete solution for the midsize services firm. Every part of the solution – from managing projects to managing talent – is built with deep expertise based on 35 years of experience with nearly 1,600 professional services customers.

Select SAP Business All-in-One, and you improve your ability to:

• Enhance project visibility – Efficiently plan and execute projects with real-time visibility into time, costs, revenue, profitability, and knowledge gained from past engagements.
• Maximize resource utilization – Extract full value from your investment in consultants and staff when demand is high, while minimizing the impact on profitability when demand declines, with visibility into demand and the tools to apply the best mix of resources to the right projects.
• Improve the quality of service delivery – Ensure your clients' service level expectations are met – and avoid costly penalties – by carefully tracking the creation, processing, and monitoring of service-level agreements and requests.
• Gain operational efficiencies – Automate and integrate your order-to-cash process, lowering administrative costs and the likelihood of inconsistent or inaccurate data.
• Accelerate billing cycle times – Monitor time and expenses as they occur, increasing your control and flexibility. With T&E reporting tightly integrated with billing and accounts receivables, you can ensure timely, accurate, detailed, and flexible billing that meets client-specific billing requirements.
• Acquire profitable clients and manage risk – Identify new client opportunities and qualify projects and clients based on potential profitability, conflict, risk, and resource utilization information – during the proposal stage.

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In professional services, success begins with best practices – proven practices that have enabled successful companies to maintain and grow a profitable client base in the midst of challenging business realities.

The SAP Business All-in-One for Professional Services solution includes SAP Best Practices, providing preconfiguration settings to handle your core business processes, including:

• Project and resource management
• Proposal and order management
• Time and expense management
• Invoice management/resource-related billing
• Inter-company service delivery
• Period-end accrual
• Financials
• Call center processing
• Customer and maintenance service processing
• Rental contract management
• Subcontractor handling
• Rental accounting

Experience You Can Count On. Results You Can Measure.

With SAP Best Practices, you can take advantage of proven industry practices without reinventing the wheel. Our best practices:

• Target key business performance metrics
• Are localized for specific regions
• Provide a solid foundation that can be adapted to meet your own unique processes and changing business needs

Plus, preconfigured software based on SAP Best Practices – along with our SAP ASAP Focus methodology and extensive documentation – make implementation fast and predictable. Your solution can be ready for use in 12 - 24 weeks, with tools to ensure successful end-user adoption and continuous improvement over time.

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With SAP Business All-in-One, you can introduce efficiency and automation into your core business operations. And because the solution is fully integrated, you can automate and streamline your entire business, end-to-end. Your SAP Business All-in-One solution includes:

• SAP ERP application – The same enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that runs Fortune 500 companies can integrate your core business processes, giving you a full view into your business operations. The software provides comprehensive support for managing financials, human resources, operations, and corporate services.
• SAP CRM functionality – Leveraging standardized best practices, SAP CRM empowers sales professionals with full visibility into the opportunity pipeline and sales performance, providing the tools and information they need to reduce the sales cycle, enhance revenue potential, and improve sales productivity.
• SAP NetWeaver platform – The SAP NetWeaver platform powers all SAP software, including SAP All-in-One solutions. As a standards-based, open technology platform, SAP NetWeaver ensures that you have a solution that can grow with your business. Partners can easily add industry-specific functionality or business processes to the system to help address your unique requirements.
• SAP Best Practices – Because SAP Business All-in-One comes with preconfigurations based on industry best practices, you don't need extensive customizations before streamlining processes and reducing costs. SAP Best Practices include the documentation, forms, and reports needed to get your system up and running quickly.

SAP Business All-in-One Innovations

Recognizing your need for a comprehensive solution that can be easily implemented, adopted, and adapted to meet changing business requirements, SAP has further enhanced SAP Business All-in-One solutions with:

• An enhanced user experience driven by role-based navigation and a user-friendly interface
• Enhanced SAP Best Practices optimized for productivity and ease of doing business
• Extended functional capabilities designed to help midsize companies run their entire business
• Added extensibility by partners, enabling personalization and configuration to meet granular, industry-specific needs
• Streamlined implementation processes that offer a lower, more predictable total cost of ownership

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