Like your own organization, SAP also works continuously on improving and renewing its product portfolio. Enterprise SOA, SAP Netweaver and ERP Central Component 6.0 are just a few examples of new (versions of) solutions that have been brought to the market recently and each one delivers important new possibilities and functionalities.

For you as a client each new version or release means that you must decide whether your organisation will buy and implement, and if indeed so, when and in which order. What benefits and advantages does it bring to your organisation, and which impact does it have on your existing infrastructure? Also, what are the consequences if you prolong or skip an upgrade? All these questions must be answered before being able to make a well-considered decision.

Upgrading to a higher version of SAP often offers numerous advantages. Uphantis can support you with this decision-making process. On the basis of our knowledge and experience we have developed a highly professional approach and strategy for upgrading SAP-products. This approach is used daily by a fixed upgrade-team at large, national and international operating organisations.
 
Our experiences show that, in general, the following factors are the most predominant reasons for an upgrade:

• Termination support old version: an upgrade ensures you of support from SAP
• Improved functionality: improved functionality can lead to a better, faster and/or more flexible completion of your company-processes
• New functionality: a new version ensures a continuous standard package selection as old applications are adapted
• Serious lag on installing Support Packages: with a great delay on installing Support Packages, an upgrade can be more advantageous.

The Uphantis Upgrade Strategy takes all these factors into consideration. Thereafter it is decided, depending on your layout and the capacity of your system, which developments are necessary to be made or ‘frozen’ and what is the minimal impact of this on your organisation.