Helping your business become more agile and productive through SAP and Microsoft interoperability
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Helping your business become more agile and productive through SAP and Microsoft interoperability
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Capgemini ERP+ with Duet Enterprise
Helping your business become more agile and productive through SAP and
Microsoft interoperability
Your Our Proven Further
Challenges Response Experience Information
To achieve true agility, ERP+ with Duet Capgemini has Find out more about
your enterprise needs to Enterprise enables extensive expertise in how Capgemini can
combine structured SAP integration between SAP and Microsoft, help your organization
data with unstructured SAP and Microsoft and a track record become more agile
Microsoft data. You platforms (such as of increasing and productive by
want to extend the SharePoint). You’ll interoperability between taking advantage
capabilities of existing achieve greater agility, them. A pioneer of SAP-Microsoft
line-of-business wider access to of Duet Enterprise interoperability.
applications, and allow business services, lower implementation, we
more employees to total cost of ownership invest in “business
access them. (TCO) and better packs” to help clients
compliance. get more from the
platform.
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Your Combining Structured data stores, which can easily get
and Unstructured Data for out of sync and are difficult for the
Challenges Increased Agility organization to control. Clients are
Major organizations have invested now asking for their two separate
millions in the structured workloads sets of data – structured and
of SAP, and separately in the unstructured – to be combined so
unstructured workloads typical of that they can avoid these problems
Our Response the Microsoft environment. As a and achieve true agility.
result, related information may be
held within both SAP and Microsoft Increasing ERP Value by
applications. For example, a sales Widening Access
person logging a customer order may Today’s competitive marketplace calls
Proven need to transfer contact information
manually from Outlook to SAP.
for ERP systems that go beyond the
traditional model to achieve reduced
Experience cost, improved productivity, and
Faced with these time-consuming increased business agility.
tasks, users often invent workarounds
that can result in multiple local At the same time, users of all types
and levels are becoming able – and
Further keen – to drive business processes
Information themselves thanks to developments
like the rise of the Internet, the
adaptation of business applications
for mobile devices, and the general
availability of personal productivity
tools such as Microsoft Office. That
means enterprises can improve the
return on their ERP investments by
making services accessible to a
wider range of users across a greater
variety of devices. However, the
majority of organizations have yet to
do so systematically.
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Your Capgemini has developed the it easy for us to integrate SAP with system management, single sign-on,
ERP+ solution set in order to align SharePoint. Duet Enterprise enables authorization and user management,
Challenges the SAP (structured) and Microsoft companies to: life cycle management, data
(unstructured) environments. ERP+ model mapping, traceability, and
provides applications integration Drive People Productivity: supportability.
between SAP and Microsoft, and also business users can enjoy a
the TCO benefits associated with unified view of data and tasks „ Tools and Business Content to
Our Response running SAP on the Windows Server via Microsoft SharePoint 2010. compose solutions that blend the
and SQL Server platforms. The ERP+ Planned for both individuals and worlds of process and collaboration.
team harnesses industry-proven teams, Duet Enterprise boosts Duet Enterprise takes advantage
methodologies and best practices people’s productivity in successfully of the respective tools of Microsoft
ERP+ WITH DUET to help organizations build a tailored performing business tasks. and SAP to reduce IT training.
ENTERPRISE integration strategy that optimizes These tools are enriched to support
Microsoft and SAP interoperability. Expand Value of IT investment: end-to-end solution development
Duet Enterprise helps IT realize between SAP and Microsoft. In order
KEY BENEFITS Duet Enterprise is a new platform extended value by broadening the to accelerate development of Duet
created by SAP and Microsoft. It use of SAP software throughout the Enterprise composites, configurable
complements and strengthens the enterprise, and expanding the scope templates and building blocks are
existing ERP+ solution set by making of Microsoft SharePoint. delivered.
Proven Respond Rapidly to Business
needs:
„ Ready-to-Use Capabilities that
allow users to interact with and
Experience Duet Enterprise provides greater collaborate around SAP information,
participate in SAP workflows,
ability to meet business requirements
by quickly composing solutions to access SAP reports, and browse
changing needs. a SharePoint “My Site” profile,
enriched with HR information from
Further Duet Enterprise provides the SAP applications.
Information following functionality:
„ Foundation for interoperability
between SAP and Microsoft
SharePoint. Key focus areas are:
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Your By adding interoperability, Improved Compliance: Because Costs Savings: ERP+ with Duet
users can easily access the data they Enterprise allows you to cut costs by
Challenges Capgemini ERP+ with Duet
Enterprise gives you: need, they are not tempted to create making better use of technologies
local data stores, and so there are you have already licensed – including
fewer compliance problems. Microsoft Office, Hyper-V, SharePoint,
Better Value from Existing IT Windows and SQL – instead of
Investments: Take more advantage of Better Data Control and Business licensing additional products. Training
Our Response your SAP and Microsoft investments Analysis: With a global view of costs and TCO decrease as a result.
(particularly SharePoint) by broadening customer data, businesses can
the use of both throughout the rapidly improve the customer
enterprise. The familiar Microsoft experience and strengthen
ERP+ WITH DUET interface means employees can relationships. Better information
ENTERPRISE access and respond to information control allows more informed
fast. decision-making.
KEY BENEFITS Greater Agility, Less Complexity:
Our approach simplifies the application
landscape, resulting in improved
agility. The ability to pull SAP data into
Microsoft makes your business more
Proven responsive.
Experience Increased Productivity: Integration
of SAP applications and familiar
Microsoft tools allows for blended
processes and collaborative
work efforts that simplify the user
Further experience. That dramatically
Information increases employee use of SAP,
reduces instances of replicated data,
and streamlines business processes.
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Your As a founding member of the SAP/ With Duet Enterprise, users can quickly organizations to streamline hiring
Microsoft Unite program, Capgemini create applications that streamline
Challenges combines SAP business expertise business processes for improved
manager functions while improving
overall staffing systems.
with technical Microsoft knowledge. productivity and potential reductions
We have an extensive track record in staff size. Capgemini is developing BUSINESS PACK #2: Purchase
of helping increase interoperability ready-made “business packs” to Requisition
between SAP data and processes accelerate this process further. To our This business pack helps set up a
Our Response and Microsoft interfaces. Across knowledge, Capgemini is the only process that allows end users to
Capgemini we have over 20,000 systems integrator to develop this create SAP transactions seamlessly
people skilled in the SAP and core competency. Our Duet Enterprise by filling in a requisition form in
Microsoft ecosystems. We were the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Business Pack Factory in India will
first Systems Integrator (SI) with
step up this activity, creating a broad
Proven certified Duet Enterprise solutions,
and the first SI to deploy these
portfolio of business packs providing
Experience solutions in a production capacity;
both industry-specific and general
solutions.
we currently have the most certified
engineers on Duet Enterprise of any
SI. When Microsoft looked to go live We have already developed the
The Capgemini following business packs, both of
on Duet Enterprise within its own
Advantage ecosystem, it called in Capgemini’s which use Duet Enterprise for Microsoft
experts to help. SharePoint 2010 and SAP.
Success Story Capgemini has been successful in Our Investment in Business
making a wide range of organizations Packs
more agile with ERP+, tailoring
SAP-Microsoft interoperability to BUSINESS PACK #1: Hiring Manager
their specific needs. Clients include Portal
Prima Industrie, Enel Servizi, Lennox, This business pack provides a hiring
manager with a consolidated view
Further Suzhou Far Eastern, InBev, DSM
Engineering Plastics, Green Cargo, of SAP business processes across
Information and Cofathec. multiple SAP systems. It is an easy-
to-use solution that empowers
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Your GT Advanced Technologies We worked with Capgemini to leverage
Streamlines Purchase
Challenges Order Approvals with Duet
Duet Enterprise’s interoperability to allow
our executive teams and mobile users the
Enterprise ability to review and approve purchase
GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) orders outside of the SAP environment
is a global supplier of polysilicon and from their mobile devices while
travelling. This greatly improved the
production equipment and crystalline
Our Response growth systems and materials for a
process.
variety of industries, including the Tom Doyle, VP of Information
solar and LED markets. It needed Technology at GT Advanced
to simplify a Purchase Order (PO) Technologies
approval process where the steps
Proven and tasks varied across the growing
Experience organization. Because of the
complexity of the screens, the
approval of purchase orders
became time-consuming and
The Capgemini inefficient for Managers.
Advantage
Capgemini helped GTAT to tackle
this challenge using ERP+ with Duet
Success Story Enterprise. We created a portal,
which makes it easy to create, view,
and approve or reject POs after
viewing them alongside contextual
information. SAP transactions and
data are presented via a familiar
Further Microsoft interface. Duet Enterprise
provides the bridge between SAP
Information and Microsoft technologies, while
SharePoint’s InfoPath provides the
forms.
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Your Next Steps to Business Agility: Please visit
Challenges Contact us to find out how Capgemini http://www.capgemini.com/services-
ERP+ with Duet Enterprise can help you and-solutions/technology/microsoft/
improve your business by integrating solutions/erp-plus/ for more information.
SAP line-of-business processes with the
familiar Microsoft interface. Capgemini
Key Contacts
Our Response offers delivery flexibility that provides
you with a cost-effective, seamless Capgemini
service. Our renowned collaborative way Krystianne Avedian
of working translates to any business Global Microsoft Alliance Enablement
need. Manager
Krystianne.avedian@capgemini.com
Proven Phone: +1 949 378 4949
Experience
Further About Capgemini
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40 countries, Capgemini is own way of working, the Collaborative
one of the world’s foremost Business ExperienceTM, and draws on
providers of consulting, technology and Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
outsourcing services. The Group reported
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