Thinking about investing in SAP Software? Are your in-house and/or legacy systems failing to cope with the ever-demanding change in the marketplace and in the way your customers, suppliers and partners want to interact with you? You know that you need to change your IT Systems but you are struggling to articulate to you superiors the “why”, “how” and the “value” of your idea – which essentially means you are having difficulties to receive the necessary funding. Or maybe you are required to build a business case for the transformation and provide your executives with a high level roadmap? How will you go about ensuring that the identified value of the IT Solution is actually realised? How can you track the value generation or measure it once the solution goes live and there after? If those are the scenarios and questions would like to have played out and answered, you came to the right place.

In a series of short articles I will try to offer you some the experience I have gained from the development of numerous major IT investment and business transformation justifications as well as SAP centric IT Strategies and Roadmaps for some of the largest of SAP’s existing and new customers globally. Having said that, the information and experience I’m about to share is just as applicable to a small and medium size enterprise. In essence the process of building a business transformation business case and IT strategy roadmap is the same for either sized business.

Walking you through the process of building the SAP Business Case and Roadmap, I will point out any publicly available SAP-specific and non-SAP tools as well as advise you of SAP Services available assist you on your way. Hopefully these articles will help you in the development of your business case and roadmap.