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

• Public ROI – SAP is leading the development of a methodology for defining, measuring, and communicating the economic, social, and political returns of government IT programs. Called Public ROI, this initiative will help governments fully demonstrate the value of government programs and services across both quantitative and qualitative dimensions. Find out more about SAP's Public ROI initiative.
• Protected IT investments – SAP for Public Sector supports a standards-based enterprise architecture that provides an adaptable technology platform. This allows governments to incorporate specialized systems and leverage past IT investments while providing a framework for adding solutions in the future.
• Improved collaboration – With SAP for Public Sector, you have support for horizontal (cross-agency) and vertical (federal, state, and local) collaboration and business processes. This reduces agency stovepipes by consolidating basic systems such as payroll and procurement across divisions and agencies.
• Reduced costs – SAP solutions are highly integrated and standardized, helping reduce overall IT costs and decrease total cost of ownership, particularly compared with one-off, custom-built solutions.
• Better decisions – SAP for Public Sector enables better decision-making by providing enterprisewide visibility into processes across organizational and technological boundaries and by delivering instant access to information in a secure environment.
• Mitigated risks – SAP for Public Sector is built on a comprehensive integration and application platform that works with your existing IT infrastructure to help you manage change. This platform enables you to flexibly and rapidly design, build, implement, and execute new business strategies and processes. It 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.