| The main objective of SAP Education Benefit was to | | | | This OCPS has some financial procurement, HR, |
| achieve a successful technical upgrade. This SAP | | | | payroll, plant maintenance, teacher certification, and |
| Education Benefit article was mainly focused on | | | | some other modules. |
| changes in the project level. The project | | | | Sap's on Demand Version |
| management approach permitted the orange county | | | | SAP previews the on demand version in his back |
| public schools to achieve the successful upgrade from | | | | office some software product like enterprise |
| SAP 4.0 to 4.7. | | | | resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship |
| Regarding the project management, some impressive | | | | management (CRM) at a recent analyst summit. |
| numbers were also disclosed by the consultant. Mr. | | | | Mr. David Bradshaw says regarding this preview: he |
| Jerry veal, the managing consultant of this project | | | | says "Each consumer will have their separate case of |
| said that in a year 200,000 hours of manpower was | | | | the software running on a separate server blade, |
| saved. He also says that $ 750,000 runtime hours in | | | | with a separate database for storage of data. The |
| an annual year were also saved. | | | | SAP will maintain this software directly, fixing bugs |
| If arithmetic is performed, it even adds up the saving | | | | and providing updates without taking the system |
| of millions of dollars in a year. This is what we have | | | | down." |
| heard from other school systems with successful | | | | In such a situation, the on demand versions of SAP |
| enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations. | | | | software will be preconfigured for certain verticals. |
| Another important factor is that OCPS has already | | | | The SAP service-oriented architecture (SOA) |
| worked out with change and project management | | | | approach will allow consumers to squeeze the |
| strategy which is upcoming functionality expansion. | | | | functionality. Customization started increases for |
| The destination is same for OCPS to take its own | | | | mid-market CRM and ERP, so that it will increase or |
| way. For instance, OCPS avoid the big bang approach | | | | improve the technology development. |
| to implement, placing a phased approach into play. | | | | |