Thousands of world-class organizations rely on the power of SAP solutions to run their businesses.  Since every business is unique, many of these companies find that customizing “out-of-the-box” SAP is necessary.  Documenting the customizations ahead of time is critical to managing the scope, cost and length of the project.  Unfortunately, the only tools to document proposed changes are text documents, static screen shots and spreadsheets, all of which are difficult to interpret and understand for the business.  Building ‘sandbox’ environments is an alternative to these documents, but in the end has proven to be expensive and time consuming. 

Historically, defining gaps between vanilla SAP and unique business requirements has been a time consuming proposition.  The resulting blueprint phase of these projects can literally take months to complete.  But that's just the beginning; the remainder of the project can take months or years of extra time to complete if the extensions were not defined properly up front.  A poor design can be disastrous to the entire solution (not just the extensions).

These issues are brought into even sharper focus if the development is being done by a global sourcing partner.

There has to be a better way. 

For the first time there's a solution.  iRise has developed a comprehensive visualization product for simulating extensions to SAP solutions before coding. Starting with the library of pre-configured content from iRise and

leveraging the power of iRise Studio, business analysts can bring together a working preview of proposed SAP extensions in a fraction of the time and cost it would take to modify a sandbox environment or generate paper documents. Business stakeholders can ‘test drive’ the visualizations on their own or in collaborative meetings that directly involve subject matter experts. Comments can be logged and acted upon quickly, speeding consensus and eliminating confusion about what to build.  The iRise product for use with SAP solutions contains all of the same industry leading functionality of our enterprise product line, enabling business analysts to rapidly create cross-platform visualizations of SAP-based screens, legacy applications, custom developed applications; as well as simulate integrations to mobile devices.

Visualizations created in iRise also offer a high powered alternative to text specifications for global sourcing implementations on SAP projects.  iRise gives the business the power to deliver to their sourcing partner a high fidelity, interactive SAP visualization as an unambiguous specification for what to build.
Benefits:

• Dramatically accelerates project delivery by speeding up requirements cycle times
• Eliminates costly rework on mission-critical SAP projects
• Ensures the right requirements are captured – the first time by engaging the business with full function simulations that mimic the final system
• Lowers risk out of global sourcing by delivering an exact replica of proposed extensions that everyone understands
• Empowers the SAP business analyst with a modern requirements approach
• Accelerates training, documentation and roll-out teams by getting a jump start on their deliverables

• Pre-configured SAP visualization templates for v6 & v7 SAP Netweaver™ implementations
• Team-based collaborative authoring
• Self-guided stakeholder walkthroughs from a central server
• Powerful comments management functions
• Facilitated usability testing with multi-user feedback
• Direct connection to simulations by global sourcing partners
• Check-in/Check-out for disconnected authoring
• Secure access to critical intellectual property through LDAP enabled user authentication