Sparta believes in the success of your enterprise wide SAP initiative and seeks a close partnership between your business and IT services ecosystem. With a team of mature and senior leadership, strategy experts, SAP product and industry process experts, we can show you the way forward for a disciplined and focused implementation.

Our consulting and implementation services focus on creating competitive advantage by determining appropriate implementation strategies to maximize benefits. Sparta follows a holistic approach of looking at people, processes and technology alike to deliver maximum value out of your SAP initiatives.

Sparta’s SAP practice has deep-rooted competencies across ERP, SCM, HCM, SRM, CRM, NetWeaver, and BI platforms. Our implementation methodology is woven around the ASAP and Solution Manager framework. With many proprietary tools, templates and accelerators in the works that leverage proven and successful SAP engagements ensures effective project management and business process optimization aligned with your Enterprise application solution strategy and technology rationalization.

Sparta’s implementation services strive to transform your business for optimum performance through various phases of the SAP implementation. Our Solutions Implementation competency is at the core of how we help our customers become “Best Run Businesses." The Sparta SAP portfolio is comprehensive and complete and can help you with any solution and service that brings about business transformation. Sparta ensures the success of these implementations through a set of value propositions and an operating philosophy outlined below:

Complete Program and Project Management Services: Effective program and project management is a key to successful implementation and minimizing risk. Leveraging program and project management services from Sparta Consulting allows you to benefit from our expertise in accelerating the delivery of quality projects. We work in close collaboration with the business and IT to forge a successful partnership that guarantees success using SAP best practices, ASAP, and Sparta project management techniques. 

Business Process Optimization and Re-Design: Sparta’s service offering around business process refinement and redesign is geared to improve efficiency and reduce cost, taking a holistic approach and structured framework of looking at people, process and technology. Our Process experts will work with your business to identify and recommend process improvement opportunities designed to meet/exceed enterprise wide goals and objectives. This approach includes applying “best practices” and industry templates along with proprietary IP capital from Sparta. Emphasis must be given to map individual and cross functional processes steps against organizational roles and responsibilities and identify areas of improvement. 

Value Assessments and Road mapping:  In today’s application landscape, enterprises are caught between short term targets to establish long term IT strategy planning and navigating through multi-vendor solution landscapes. 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 areas that helps organizations chart out a strategic road map to support business growth while aligning with SAP’s product direction.

Some of the offerings of the value assessment services include:

• One day education workshop
• Strategy and Road mapping assessments
• Upgrade or migration assessments

Organization Change Management: Sparta OCM experts have the expertise and experience to help your organization successfully strategize, integrate, and institutionalize change. Sparta OCM approach is tightly integrated within our service delivery framework and is available as a standalone offering or integrated within an implementation. This approach provides a roadmap and helps prepare your people for change, and a new way of looking at processes and technology tools, training, and learning.   

Proof of Concept:  Sparta can help you explore and enable a business process in a controlled environment that can be used to build a business case or gain business buy in for full-fledged implementation. Sparta hosts many SAP demo servers that can be exploited if necessary for such proof of concept and Pilots.  

End-to-end SAP implementations: Sparta’s SAP practice is well equipped to carry out end-to-end SAP implementation projects from planning to go live and subsequent deployments. Our implementation approach and methodology are comprehensive, and highly flexible to meet your needs and requirements. Implementations are aided by SAP best practices-based ASAP implementation methodologies, Sparta tools and templates, and solution accelerators for best results. 

Template-based Rapid Deployment Solutions:  Sparta can initiate fast track SAP implementation and position it for quicker deployment and project success with our Rapid Deployment Packages. Leveraging SAP best practices and proprietary templates, we can get you started on your SAP roadmap with a low risk and cost effective implementation. 

Architecture, Sizing and Installations: Careful planning and architecture of the SAP landscape is very crucial with newer NetWeaver-based solutions coming into existence. Sparta BASIS, NetWeaver and Integration experts take a look at your existing SAP landscape and provide best practice and practical recommendations, taking into consideration future application landscape, modes of access, security and governance, Integration scenarios and any third party communication.  Our SAP sizing expertise takes into account capacity, user based and throughput volume using SAP quicksizer and other considerations.

Continuous Improvement, Enhancements and Custom development: As the usage of the SAP application increases beyond the initial go live and deployment, continuous improvement and enhancements are required as your business needs evolve and change.  Change is imminent in a highly competitive landscape. With consultants who were involved in the development of the core R/3 and new dimension product at SAP Labs, Sparta can help you with your SAP Custom Development Projects by incorporating established SAP development strategies and practices to deliver custom-developed solutions that meet unique business needs.