Sparta can take you through a clear method for analyzing solutions and their potential value, along with the financial impact they will have. Sparta has created a proprietary Value Assessment toolkit for SAP area that helps organizations chart out a strategic road map to support business growth while aligning with SAP’s product direction. This toolkit leverages several decade man years of intellectual capital that we possess woven into interactive questionnaires, workshops, interview guides and other assessment techniques.

Why do you need a Value Assessment?

Many of our customers seek direction and guidance for their SAP initiatives, even though they know exactly what they want, but need help determining the most efficient and effective strategy and roadmap to get there. Others are not exactly sure how to embark on a SAP journey. Here is a check point to see if you need one too.

• Are you looking to significantly enhance functionality in new areas and not sure how?
• Are you curious to know the value add of a particular SAP solution for your organization
• Do you have silos of data and processes?
• You are not sure how to look for value nuggets in your business operations?
• Are you planning to undertake an impending Upgrade or Migration and are curious to quantify the value it can bring?
• Sparta’s SAP practice can help you in above scenarios with assessment offerings tailor made to your specific needs.

What does a Value Assessment entail?

We value your time and hence would approach the assessment with precise agenda and schedule to bring out maximum value for your investment employing pre-built templates and questionnaires. A typical assessment cycle consists of:

• Pre-Assessment Planning – Usually conducted remotely and helps ramp up the project finalizing the SOW, draft project plan, schedule interview and workshop schedule.
• Project Startup and Direction Setting – Conduct key stakeholder interviews to assess strategy and vision which helps to tweak potential opportunity areas.
• Analysis – Conduct interviews and workshops with business process owners to assess Business pain points, requirements, KPIs and metrics, Integration, Architectural needs and access requirements.
• Road mapping, Planning and Final report - The solution components are identified, prioritized resulting in a business value map. The SAP roadmap is presented for review and approval, resulting in an Implementation Planning exercise.

What are the key areas of a Sparta Assessment?

Sparta can help you with wide range of assessments from one day education workshop, Strategy and Road mapping assessments or Upgrade/migration assessments in all areas of SAP. Some of the most popular assessments offerings that Sparta undertakes are as follows:

Business Value Assessment and Roadmaps

• Business Case and Solution Roadmaps
• SAP ERP Scoping Assessment
• HCM
• SAP CRM process (customer data, interaction, e-commerce strategy)
• BI Environment Assessment
• Global IT Strategy and Rollout Approach
• Upgrade and Migration Assessments involving
• SAP NetWeaver Assessment