SAP

SAP is by far the global leader in ERP solutions for large, complex organizations and has become recognized by most third-party evaluators as the ERP software of choice for those organizations requiring high performance, scalability, and enterprise-wide integration. SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company, and the world's third-largest independent software supplier with over 27,800 people in more than 50 countries, and all of them are dedicated to providing high-level customer support and services. SAP's growth and leadership in the ERP marketplace (58% market share) provides the financial strength and resources to offer an excellent long-term solution.

SAP was recently named once again by Gartner Group as the clear leader in vision among the major ERP vendors. (Reference Gartner Group Magic Quadrant below). SAP software handles complex, integrated tasks including finance, procurement, fleet maintenance, inventory management, human resources, payroll and more. For more than two decades, SAP customers, analysts and industry leaders have recognized SAP as having set the standard of excellence in software technology.

SAP has leveraged its extensive experience to deliver the definitive e-business platform for the New Economy-mySAP.com. The mySAP.com collaborative e-business platform allows employees, customers, and business partners to work together successfully-anywhere, anytime. mySAP.com is open and flexible, supporting databases, applications, operating systems, and hardware from almost every major vendor.

The formation of SAP Public Services, Inc. in the United States underscores SAP's commitment to the public sector while at the same time allowing it to leverage SAP's global public sector expertise. Recent project implementations in the states of Arkansas and Pennsylvania demonstrate SAP's momentum in the U.S. public sector market. Worldwide, SAP supports over 700 Public Sector customers. SAP Public Services continues to enhance its products in order to meet the unique needs and practices of the public sector through specific solutions, templates and services. Underscoring this commitment, SAP Public Services operates a development center located in Washington, D.C. to provide product support for its U.S. public sector solutions. SAP will continue to evolve its solution to leverage continuing advances in human resource management, financials, procurement and related technologies.

 

 

Partnered for Success

was selected to partner with the State of South Carolina and SAP R/3 product to meet the State's core enterprise system needs.


BearingPoint, SAP and the State of South Carolina

BearingPoint will provide the State of South Carolina a dedicated, knowledgeable and experienced group of public sector SAP implementation experts to lead the South Carolina project. They recognize the importance for the State to have ownership and leadership of this major initiative. They offer an approach that supports client leadership and acknowledges mutual benefits, risks and rewards that will be essential to implementing the changes needed.


BearingPoint and SAP's Implementation Strategy and Plan

Their approach places emphasis upon configuring the SAP software to meet the business requirements of the State of South Carolina and incorporate the best business practices of SAP. Implementation teams will work closely with the state departments and agencies and to go into production on time, on budget. SAP's ASAP methodology not only allows for, but encourages, rapid implementation. The META Group has confirmed that SAP, on average, is implemented faster than other ERP packages (please reference chart below). These results are achievable for the State because of the ASAP methodology and the many years of ERP experience provided by SAP and BearingPoint implementation partners.



Further META Group's study has shown that SAP implementations provide benefits to users significantly faster than most of the competition (please reference chart above).  This combination of fast implementation and fast time-to-benefit means that the State can maximize its return on investment with SAP.

The selection committee are confident SAP is the right Solution for the State of South Carolina. The State will find, as did the State of Arkansas, State of Pennsylvania, State of Louisiana, State of California Department of Water Resources and many other public 
sector entities, that SAP provides a solution for today's needs and continues to provide benefits through the broad range of solutions delivered with SAP R/3 and SAP's delivery of new products and technology designed for the public sector.

The core functionality of SAP R/3 provides a solution for the current business requirements and, at no extra charge, provides functionality for the following growth areas, after initial implementation is completed:


SAP's Commitment to the Public Sector and South Carolina

In addition to SAP's commitment to improving its software functionality and ease of use, SAP's commitment to the public sector is also an important tenet. In addition to public sector fund accounting requirements, the new GASB 34 requirements dictate that public sector organizations account for, track and report on its funds differently than they have in the past. SAP software is GASB 34 compliant.

R&D is the lifeblood of SAP's success and our continued growth with our clients. SAP re-invests more than any other ERP software vendor to ensure a continued ROI for it's customers. SAP's commitment to the public sector is further demonstrated through the establishment of a public sector development center in Washington to help provide public-sector-specific functionality to SAP's solution. 


Web-enabled Applications and a Solution for e-Government

SAP is a web-enabled software product. SAP's "thin client" architecture is the ideal model upon which to web-enable applications. In fact, SAP was one of the first software vendors to web-enable applications with functionality like Employee Self Service, a long-time feature of the SAP Human Resource solution.

The benefit to the State of South Carolina is that SAP's web-enabled system, known as mySAP.com, is based on stable and robust SAP architecture installed and proven in over 13,000 customer sites around the globe, and will provide a platform for future enhancements.

Today, application software is the platform on which modern organizations are built. While government executives are demanding more information from their systems in order to manage their complex organizations, new requirements such as GASB 34 place additional demands upon financial and administrative systems. Constituents are also demanding more from government and its systems. Electronic government is the wave of the future and SAP, provides the ideal platform for electronic government.

Demands for portals, internal and external, can be addressed with SAP's Workplace. Automated procurement and  Government-to-Business and Government-to-Constituent demands are the new paradigms. When the State looks to extend its enterprise system, SAP products are available to help with additional functionality, including fleet management, facilities maintenance, tax and revenue administration and other functionality-all as a part of it's "off-the-shelf" system. Even linking disparate systems, including the new enterprise system and existing legacy system is supported. SAP's software is designed to be flexible, to mold itself to the way you work and designed to work in your existing environment, no matter what your environment and direction for the future.


The Breadth of the SAP Solution

To illustrate the breadth of SAP's software functionality, following is a graphic representation of it's public sector solution map.