Geus Technology

Geus Technology has the solutions, technical leadership and staff necessary to successfully guide your organization through a seamless SAP upgrade. Our experience in SAP Implementations and Upgrades is unsurpassed in the industry. Our consultants are recognized experts in the industry. We will provide you with knowledgeable answers and insight, as well as supporting you through the process of upgrading your SAP systems to the latest release.

Traditionally, many SAP implementations involved interfaces to other legacy systems either through BDC’s, ALE, and/or EDI. Additionally, many installations have programmed additional enhancements and reports in order to keep their company’s processes flowing smoothly.

Some companies have also knowingly, or even unknowingly, modified the base SAP system to meet their current needs. History has shown the technical aspects of an SAP implementation were time consuming in development, but integral to the success of running SAP. The challenge current customers face is determining how a company can upgrade to the latest release of SAP, while ensuring its functionality and processes continue to operate without significant interruption.

There are many possibilities and scenarios to choose from with an SAP upgrade. Some customers only upgrade SAP, others upgrade the hardware and database systems, and even others add new SAP functionality during the upgrade. Whichever scenario is yours, Geus can accurately plan for all of the events in the process, and deliver a complete and successful SAP version upgrade to you.

Geus Technology has the experience, leadership, and resources to provide you with a timely, cost-effective, and successful version upgrade. We utilize SAP’s ASAP upgrade methodology as the road map for our process. As an added value, we have supplemented this approach with our unique technical accelerators to enhance success. Our accelerators provide you with a structured approach to upgrading developed objects, methodologies for landscape and change management transports, along with a successful, proven, detailed and complete project plan.

During our upgrade process, we first assist you with choosing the right release by sharing critical information and our past experiences on the various releases; helping you make the right decision for your business. Geus provides many services to ensure a successful migration to your new release. Some of these services are:

Project Management

During our pre-Planning session we will determine and alleviate compatibility issues between your Operating System, database, and SAP to make sure that they will function correctly together. Many installations have external systems that will need to be evaluated as well. The bolt-on systems will be reviewed and recommendations will be given for any changes that may need to occur with them. During this time we will undertake the following activities:

The Preparation phase in the upgrade process is to plan for the upgrade. We can provide you with resource planning, budgeting, project plan and time frame to ensure successful completion. We check that all of the necessary technical prerequisites are ready such as: Hardware, Operating system, Database and SAP software. We do not move forward until we receive full support and approval from your management team.

The Realization phase in the process is to begin the work of upgrading the development system. Many times there are other non-SAP components upgraded as well. These will need to be carefully researched and planned for during the upgrade. Some of the non-SAP components that we have expertise in are:

	Interfaces
	Scheduling
	EDI
	Tax
	Output Management
	Bolt-on Modules
	Faxing
	Monitoring/Capacity tools

Our process is to apply the upgrade to the system and apply all fixes required to prepare for migration to the other systems in the landscape. It is during this phase of the project that the technical objects are tested to ensure operability and that the functionality works correctly. If there are changes to the objects they are coded and tested during this phase of the project.

After the development system is upgraded and the technical functionality of the system has been proven, the additional systems in the landscape will be upgraded. Throughout the process of applying the upgrade to additional systems the processes are refined to streamline and ensure success during the cutover of the production system. Before we proceed to the Go-Live phase, we make sure we receive full management approval.

The Go-Live phase is when the upgrade is applied to the production system. Any non-SAP upgrades are done and then the SAP version upgrade is applied. All migrations are moved from the test system to production. The functional leads check the system to ensure it is operating correctly. Once agreement that the system is operational the users are then allowed to sign on and begin usage of the new system.