The end-to-end SAP for Public Sector portfolio offers federal, state, and local governments the following benefits:

• Shared services excellence – Achieve shared service excellence while optimizing resources, providing responsive services, and lowering costs. SAP solutions are deployed in a shared services delivery model across all levels of government in hundreds of sites around the world – where our unified solutions, flexible technology platform, and experience with shared services help cut costs, improve productivity, and achieve economies of scale.
• Public ROI – Fully demonstrate the value of government programs and services across both quantitative and qualitative dimensions. SAP is leading the development of a methodology – called "public ROI" – for defining, measuring, and communicating the economic, social, and political returns of government IT programs. Find out more about SAP's public ROI initiative.
• Protected IT investments – Incorporate specialized systems and leverage past IT investments – while providing a framework for adding solutions in the future – with a standards-based enterprise architecture that provides an adaptable technology platform.
• Improved collaboration – Gain support for horizontal (cross-agency) and vertical (federal, state, and local) collaboration and business processes. With SAP solutions, you can reduce agency stovepipes by consolidating basic systems such as payroll and procurement across divisions and agencies.
• Reduced costs – Reduce overall IT costs and decrease total cost of ownership – particularly compared with one-off, custom-built solutions – with highly integrated and standardized solutions.
• Better decisions – Enable better decision making by providing enterprise-wide visibility into processes across organizational and technological boundaries – and by delivering instant access to information in a secure environment.
• Mitigated risks – Manage change with a comprehensive integration and application platform that works with your existing IT infrastructure. With this platform, you can flexibly and rapidly design, build, implement, and execute new business strategies and processes. The platform also helps you drive innovation throughout your organization by reusing existing systems while maintaining a sustainable cost structure. You can add innovative new business processes, with reduced risk to existing systems and a strong return on your technology investment.