Application management - SAP

SAP is a strategic business tool that is designed to fundamentally improve how your business processes operate. IBM understands that our client's SAP applications are business-critical and comprise a key component of your company's application strategy.

As a global SAP hosting provider, IBM also understands that many dependencies can exist when deploying a robust SAP application environment. Not only are the data center facilities costly to build, continuously upgrade and maintain; the technical resources needed to run the application environment can be quite expensive to attract and retain as well. In addition to these increasing technological complexities and investments, many companies are also facing a growing number of compliance- and certification-related requirements, further draining resources and requiring even more capital to maintain a responsive application environment.

The IBM Application Services for mySAP Business Solutions are based on our long-standing alliance with SAP and our history of leadership in the managed hosting market. Highlights of our SAP experience include:

• Extensive experience in SAP implementations with over 25,000 IBM users of SAP systems globally
  
  
• The only company to be an SAP partner in all areas and a Global Hosting Partner
  
  
• More than 20 years of SAP experience starting as the first global alliance partner; SAP R/3 hosting for more than 11 years
  
  
• Currently the outsourcing/hosting leader with 70% of SAP's Fortune 500 clients
  
  
• 3,700 successful SAP engagements worldwide at over 6,000 sites
  
  
• 95% customer satisfaction and the only systems integrator to win the SAP Award of Excellence every year in every country since the service has been offered
  
  
• 13,500 SAP consultants in 60 countries and global SAP Competency Center.
  
  
• Nearly 500 SAP clients hosted and managed by IBM around the world, over 50 of them using an Applications on Demand services model.
  
  

Compare a traditional ERP environment to a man aged solution

Explore your Applications on Demand options:

• End-to-end solutions delivering applications management and infrastructure support services for a predictable monthly fee – our Full Service option
  
  
• Remotely-delivered application management service for your enterprise application running on your infrastructure – our OnSite option
  
  
• Development sandbox environments for a monthly fee – our Development option
  
  
• SAP is a strategic business tool that is designed to fundamentally improve how your business processes operate. IBM understands that our client's SAP applications are business-critical and comprise a key component of your company's application strategy.