SAP-Solution: Alegri

Double interview with Hinrich Mielke, Devoteam/Alegri as well as DSAG spokesperson, and Marcus Sommer, Microsoft. At the beginning of this year, the DSAG investment report clearly showed it: Microsoft's Azure cloud is high on the list of priorities for SAP's existing customers. The early partnership between Microsoft and Suse and Microsoft's many years of experience with SAP are now bearing fruit.

The change of name from Alegri, Microsoft and SAP partner, to Devoteam Alegri has taken place. With the change of name, a uniform brand presence in the Devoteam Group has been achieved.

More and more frequently, the IT strategy communicated from above is: "Cloud first". At first, this is an understandable strategy - but when it comes to implementation, many questions often arise.

In order to test the improved procurement of S/4, there is the possibility to set up an S/4 system in front of the existing SAP landscape - and this without a cost-intensive project, change to Hana or burdening the key users.

How can the extended functionality of S/4 be used in procurement without having to switch to S/4 Hana? How does EIM turn data into valuable information? How does the Edge approach lead to high performance in IoT projects? How can budgets for these innovations be freed up without conflicts? Alegri accompanies its customers holistically on their way into the world of S/4 Hana, neutrally and independently. The following four perspectives show how it is done.

More and more customers intend to take advantage of S/4. Alegri is itself productive with S/4 and has already accompanied several customers in their conversion to S/4.

The title says it all, because the latest ERP system from Walldorf has a different architecture than its predecessors. One reason for this is, of course, Hana. SAP has tried to preserve what is good and enable innovations - but this does not make the "release change" any easier. Andreas Emhart and Hinrich Mielke from Alegri E-3 give an overview of the master plan for S/4....

Hana is widely accepted in the market as a productive stable database. Customers are already using Hana as a DB for their business-critical systems. Others are still waiting because the business case is not yet clear enough for them. This is changing with S/4 Hana.

With S/4 Hana, SAP provides the digital core of a future-proof ERP system. With the centralized orientation, modules and services that were previously outsourced to separate systems are brought home. As a result, S/4 promises to simplify existing IT landscapes and improve integration.

The decision to rely on SAP S/4 Hana Finance was strategic and forward-looking for Alegri. The intended goals of the project were achieved. The requirements of the Alegri Group could no longer be met by the previously used legacy system.

As one of the major IT consulting companies for Microsoft and SAP, Managed Services and Internet of Things in the DACH region, Alegri successfully introduced S/4 Hana Finance in the first half of 2016. In this part three, the technological aspects of the realization are highlighted.

Alegri International Group is one of the large IT consulting companies for Microsoft and SAP, Managed Services and Internet of Things in the D-A-CH region.