Complex SAP implementations can be tricky business for any IT organization. Whether the goal is initial implementation, upgrades or rationalization of multiple instances, successfully configuring, extending and integrating SAP into your end-to-end workflow involves many complex steps, along with precise coordination of people, process and technology. In addition, many advanced companies are looking to model new innovative processes and mobile solutions, but lack a platform for discovery. Getting the business requirements right is imperative. But oftentimes companies get tripped up during this critical first step.

iRise and IBM have teamed to help companies visualize before they build, with dramatic results. SAP solutions get to market twice as fast, with 30% less cost, all with improved quality and usability. The ability to demonstrate complex company centric solutions is much simpler. IBM’s experience in SAP blueprinting using iRise provides users and stakeholders the ability to test drive key innovations such as Mobility, Embedded Analytics, Process Alerts, and simple-to-use Composite Applications. As an early adopter, IBM’s SAP practice has assembled over 175 SAP components across multiple modules, to further accelerate the creation of process simulations.

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Complex Oracle applications implementations can be tricky business for any IT organization. Successfully configuring, extending and integrating Oracle applications into a company's end-to-end workflow involves many complex steps, along with precise people, process and technology coordination. Getting the business requirements right is imperative. But oftentimes companies get tripped up during this critical first step.

The reason is simple. The way that business requirements are elicited, documented and shared for Oracle application projects hasn't changed in over 20 years! Business analysts document requirements in text, spreadsheets and flow diagrams, artifacts that are nearly impossible for business people to understand and interpret. The resulting confusion can delay projects for months. Change management is delayed until working code appears. And downstream developers and global sourcing partners get incomplete information, compounding the delays and cost overruns.

The bottom line is that business people really don't know what they want until they see and interact with it. Months can be wasted trying to gain consensus on what to build using traditional requirements methods.

Now there is a better way.

Many companies have turned to iRise enterprise visualization as a strategy to dramatically accelerate time to value for Oracle projects. Visualization empowers the business to fully experience and interact with proposed Oracle implementations early in the process; without any coding. iRise visualizations can be assembled at light speed, and look and behave just like the final product, accelerating understanding and eliminating confusion. Stakeholders 'test drive' their Oracle implementations before expensive coding. Change management begins on day one. And downstream development partners get an exact guide for what to build, eliminating confusion, change orders, delays and cost overruns.

In partnership with iRise, IBM Global Business Solutions has created pre-assembled definition content for Oracle application solutions that speeds time to visualization even further.

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