Embrace Innovation and Realize Value with the SAP® Value Partnership Service

Find out moreChoose a committed transformation partner that can help you build a clear road map and guide you on your transformation journey. To learn more about SAP Value Partnership, contact your SAP representative, contact us at valuepartnership@sap.com, or visit us online at www.sap.com/services/bts/vps.

SAP HANA and cloud solutions from SAP offer a wide range of choices that can help your company become more responsive and competitive. When you’re ready to take advantage of these innovative solutions, partnering with SAP – a company that knows these technologies intimately – only makes sense. With SAP Value Partnership, you get access to the latest software, methodologies, and governance models to help you implement and adopt advanced technologies faster than ever. As your committed transformation partner, SAP can help you build business models and embrace innovations that deepen insight and expertise while supporting the vision to unleash value throughout your company.

The obvious choice to support innovation

Machinery products dealer Bonfiglioli Group chose SAP Value Partnership to transform IT from a maintenance fulfillment group to an industry-leading innovator. Headquartered in Bologna, Italy, the company employed the service to create a strategic road map for innovative and scalable IT. Value-based, structured decision making helped Bonfiglioli optimize IT investments for demand management, customer relationship management, and business analytics.

Foundation for strategic innovation

By engaging SAP Value Partnership, nearly 150 customers around the world have realized significant benefits, including:

Higher customer satisfaction

Lower risk

Greater realized value

Value you can count on

SAP Value Partnership service components

Trusted advisorsOur experts work with you to set a direction and establish clear transformation objectives. An on-site business transformation principal provides industry exper-tise, program management, con-sulting, and SAP solution expertise. A team of enterprise and solution architects works with the principal to support the design, execution, and implementation of your SAP solution landscape.

Guidance and measurementTo help ensure decisions are well managed, our advisors work with you to develop a governance model that aligns your technology road map with your business strategy. Using our business transformation management methodology, we monitor key performance indicators, deploy a value management framework to measure benefits realized, and demonstrate results.

Strategic road mapClose the gap between strategy and technology by aligning your transformation plans and solu-tion architecture with upcoming SAP software development. The service delivers a jointly defined IT road map that translates your vision of the future into specific architecture, initiatives, and solutions.

Day to day, you focus on keeping business operations running smoothly and efficiently – despite a complex IT landscape that supports your unique processes and multiple business functions, divisions, product lines, and geographically diverse subsidiaries.

Yet volatile, ever-changing market conditions demand that you continually reassess your business requirements and embrace innovative new business processes. You need the right partner and road map to align your technology landscape with your business goals.

That’s why we offer the SAP® Value Partnership service, the strategic engagement model that helps you maximize the value of today’s investment in SAP solutions while building an innovative technology solution for tomorrow.

Premium service, optimized outcomes SAP Value Partnership is a premium, strategic engagement model powered by the business transformation management methodology from SAP. The service offers a business-driven approach that enhances the intrinsic value of the SAP HANA® platform and cloud solutions from SAP. By combining on-site business experts, a strategic IT road map, a governance structure, and services from the SAP Services portfolio into a single offering, SAP Value Partnership helps you accelerate time to value. We act as a true transformation partner, helping you create a clear technology road map that supports your business needs and is agile enough to change with shifting market conditions.

SAP Value Partnership gave us the guidance we needed to maximize our IT investments.Tiziano Pacetti, CFO, Bonfiglioli Group

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Quantifiable benefits

200%

SAP Value Partnership delivers measurable value to our customers, including:

5-year cumulative benefits realized from implementa-tion investment1

40%Improvement of perfor-mance index, including 50% less time and effort to create service orders in the call center2

25%Reduction in total cost of ownership3

10%Reduction in SAP ERP transactions4

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Sources1. SAP Customer Success Profile: "SAP Value Partnership Service Helps Ausgrid Switch On Productivity Gains and Add Measurable Value," 2013.2., 3., and 4. SAP Customer Success Profile: "SAP Value Partnership Helps Vorwek Transform Its Direct Sales Business with SAP Solutions," 2013.