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SAP-MICROSOFT Unite Partner Connection
With an unprecedented commitment to co-innovation, go-to-market support, and field sales enablement and training, SAP-MICROSOFT Unite Partner Connection helps partners of both companies increase business opportunities and more effectively deliver solutions to customers. Designed for partners that are members of both the SAP® PartnerEdge and the Microsoft Partner Network, the SAP-MICROSOFT Unite Partner Connection program drives alignment and collaboration between SAP, Microsoft and key partners, enabling optimized results through better knowledge of each company's roadmaps and enhanced opportunities to develop new solutions with decreased technical risk and a "future-proof" architectural approach to customer solutions.
SAP-MICROSOFT Partner Development Jams
At SAP-Microsoft Duet Enterprise Development Jams, partners from around the world have the opportunity to work with product experts from both companies to learn about Duet Enterprise and how quickly they can develop solution templates. Over the course of a few days, partners develop proof-of-concept solutions that can help customers streamline processes, reduce costs, and implement better change management. Here are examples of some of the solutions created at the Development Jams that show how Duet Enterprise can benefit customers:
- Accenture/Avanade – Sick Leave Follow Up Tool: Managers of companies following the "Integrerende Arbeidsliv" agreement in Norway have to follow up with a number of activities related to employees that are on sick leave. To facilitate this process, the Sick Leave Follow Up Tool provides Managers with all the information, reminders and forms in one place saving them time and minimizing the risk of getting fined for not delivering the information to the social insurance on time.
- ALEGRI & CaRDPLM – Sales Variant Configurator: To remain competitive, manufacturers often enable customers to self-configure products. Providing an easy way for customers to customize products and then producing and delivering them has traditionally required complex solutions linking heterogeneous systems and distributed business processes. The Sales Variant Configurator uses product master data stored in SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), including configurable material, configuration profile, classes and characteristics, and specific product knowledge. Through a SharePoint Server 2010 portal, customers can view product images, descriptions, and prices of individual components and create sales orders.
- Campana & Schott – Procurement Portal: Procurement activities are often affected by organizational and IT fragmentation. Usually, the operating departments define their demands, request proposals and evaluate them using Microsoft Office and e-mail while the supplier data, master agreements and formal orders are managed in SAP. As infrequent users, operating department's employees often find it difficult to access relevant data in SAP resulting in inefficiencies and lack of transparency. With the Procurement Portal, all involved in the procurement process have a central point of access to relevant information and tools through a familiar SharePoint user interface. The solution helps employees improve productivity while allowing the company to leverage existing SAP investments.
- Capgemini – Hiring Manager Portal: Businesses with positions to fill often experience delays in hiring new employees due to complicated processes. Hiring managers must initiate position requisitions, review incoming resumes and applications, and conduct initial phone interviews, often using more than one software application. The Hiring Manager Portal is an SAP-certified solution that provides hiring managers with a consolidated view across the entire hiring process, including recruiting, vetting, and interviewing candidates. They can request new candidate requisitions, review candidate applications and resumes, edit candidate lists, capture interview feedback, and process job offer requests.
- Capgemini – Purchase Requisition: Many businesses have employees who fill out requisition forms by hand and send them to procurement. Employees' failure to follow processes for purchase requisitions can result in errors when purchase orders are created or delays in approving requisitions for important materials. With the Purchase Requisition Business Package solution, employees can complete purchase requisitions, view the status of pending requisitions, and review and approve requisitions through a simple web form in the familiar interface of SharePoint Server 2010, without logging on to SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
- Cordis – Employee Lifecycle Management Application: HR has a critical role to play in helping organizations be better prepared to face business challenges by providing a motivated and appropriately skilled talent pool. As companies turn to self-service HR capabilities, HR processes now need to span a much broader range of employees than just the HR department while being supported by a variety of enterprise systems. The Employee Lifecycle Management Application makes it easier for HR to hire, manage and transition employees. The solution helps streamline HR processes, ensure process consistency, and facilitate the interaction with business users. It also provides employee self-service capabilities to help drive efficiency, increase adoption and reduce costs.
- Cordis – myPurchase Procurement Portal: As Category Managers are asked to deliver measureable bottom-line savings and make decisions around supplier risk, a streamlined procurement process is required in order to ensure compliance with agreed processes and preferred supplier agreements. The myPurchase Procurement Portal provides a central hub for all employees involved in the procurement process. The application makes it easier to purchase goods and services by guiding the requisitioner through the purchasing process while encouraging collaboration and keeping users informed of Procurement activity.
- HCL – Resource Management Workspace: Today, many team and project managers must manage a variety of functional areas often across time zones. In many organizations this requires accessing data from multiple systems, making it difficult to acquire a complete picture of the situation prior to making a decision. The Resource Management Workspace is a scalable tool that displays project or team information pulled from multiple SAP solutions through a collaborative user interface in SharePoint Server 2010. It helps managers focus on tasks that require quick decisions. Managers can see at a glance the effort split by staff, approval requests, organizational information, and quick links to related resources.
- Infosys – Buyer Manager Dashboard: Users today are looking for better ways to get value from SAP and collaboration within their buyer management process context. They don't want to switch between Microsoft Office, SAP and other applications causing errors and suboptimal decisions regarding vendor, price, quantity, etc. The Buyer Manager Dashboard eliminates time consuming manual cumbersome processes providing: improved buyer productivity, effective vendor selection by looking at vendor's historical performance against SLAs and other vendor options, effective pricing decisions, consult colleagues for review and feedback, track spend effectively.
- Infosys – Duet Enterprise E-Procurement Solution: Today manual entry of data in SAP® e-Procurement system from Microsoft Excel based Purchase Request forms are resulting in data errors and data integrity issues. Any modification to Purchase Request requires new version of PR Form from Requestor via e-mail which will lead to multiple redundant copies of PR form and is not easily traceable and impacts approval workflows. The
E-Procurement Solution for Purchase Request gives Faster Purchase Request process, High data Integrity, Easy and Simple User interface and Access Controlled Workflow.
- Logica – Customer Extranet Sales Order Form: At some large companies, customer orders are processed through spreadsheets that customers send to their sales representatives by email. Fulfillment must manually enter order information from spreadsheets into SAP systems, which can result in errors. In addition, fulfillment may not receive an email with a customer order, which results in confusion and delays. With the Customer Extranet Sales Order Form, customers can enter orders in an online form where they can choose from pre-populated options. Customers can also save and edit orders before they submit for final purchase. When a customer submits an order, fulfillment can confirm the order and place it in a queue to be processed. Customers can also view their order status and their order history.
- NNIT – Sales Opportunity System: Most companies strive to get the right customer intelligence early in the sales cycle. These companies recognize the need for collaborative tools, and they know they can benefit from SAP data if they can extract it into an easy-to-use interface. They also know that employees outside sales often have customer information and insight, and they want to extract that information to help drive the business. With the Sales Opportunity System, customers can interact with data from two SAP systems—Customers and Inquiries—through Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. They can view and work with customer data in a central location, which helps them to identify opportunities and define next steps in the sales cycle based on valid customer information.
- Reply – Reply TED: Reply TED helps companies manage tenders in a SharePoint workflow while keeping in sync with SAP CRM data. The solution leverages the ease of use and flexibility of the workflows while guaranteeing the consistency of the master data and its full integration into the company reporting.
- Tata Consulting Services – Plant Maintenance Management: Manufacturing operation executives, plant managers, production supervisors, maintenance engineers, and production operators need real-time access to information across many enterprise systems to take action quickly when a problem occurs. With the Plant Maintenance Management solution, employees can select a plant in any location around the world and access details about equipment on the plant floor. In addition, they can receive alerts and view the real-time status of all resources and work centers or view a range of resources.
- Tieto – HR Self Service: Designed to increase the efficiency of administrative processes in HR, the HR Self Service is a ready to run solution extendable to fit business needs to the fullest. The solution focuses on components that help optimize and expedite key HR processes. Such components include absence management, HR master data management and the assignment of documents to SAP relevant data by employees.
- Unisys – IT Services Request Management (ITSM): With the goal of offering employees a single and familiar point of access to IT Requirements (Service Requests), ITSM integrates the company's ITSM processes delivered by SAP workflows with a familiar SharePoint or Office interface. ITSM is based on an SAP authorization model to provide a secure solution while enhancing user's productivity and simplifying IT service requests management.
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