Services

• Business and Technology Consulting
• IT Services
  • SAP
    • Transformation & technology
    • SAP overview
    • Capability statement
    • SAP retail
    • 170 Markview
    • SAP upgrade
  • Oracle
  • Data & Integration
• IT Outsourcing
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Finance and Accounting Outsourcing
• HR Outsourcing
• On and Offshore Delivery

SAP overview

Overview

Xansa has been a SAP services partner for 16 years, and in that time received the Partner Excellence award four times, and supported over 300 implementations across 21 countries. Our relationship with SAP is enhanced by our pioneering integrated offshore capability, Enterprise Innovation Centre, adoption of new SAP technologies and strong client relationships. Our clients demonstrate their satisfaction through loyalty. In 2006, more than 50% of our revenue came from organisations that have been with us for five years or more.

Our SAP experience spans large implementations, upward of £150 million, and industry-focused small and medium implementations (SME implementations). The current client based industry specialist teams cover the following industries:

• Construction industry
  
• Financial services
  
• Logistics
  
• Utilities
  
• Retail
  
• Public sector
  
• Professional services

Approach

Xansa collaborates with partners to enhance our core SAP offering of services. Currently these include Redwood, 170 Systems and Adobe.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a form of Enterprise Architecture that is specifically geared to enable the agile business to change its internal structures to meet new market demands and pressures.
SOA is becoming an integral part of Xansa's service offering, underpinned by:

• IT outsourcing (ITO)
  
• Business process outsourcing (BPO)
  
• Deep industry knowledge
  
• In-depth client knowledge through long term partnerships

Capability and track record

Capability overview
Xansa's expertise lies in the ability to combine deep industry and product knowledge with exceptional technical ability to implement and innovate using the SAP product suite. This combination of skills and knowledge enables Xansa to do more with the standard SAP functionality.

Other compelling Xansa value drivers for SAP:

• FUNCTIONALITY EXPERTISE - We harness intellectual and human capital to deliver innovative solutions using standard functionality.
  
• USABILITY - Our dedicated SAP teams use the Enterprise Innovation Centre to really stretch the art of the possible in delivering SAP solutions. We understand SAP solutions and have a history of awards and client case stories to prove it.
  
• INTERNAL PROCESSING - We remain the largest European based Financial & Accounting outsourcing provider. Xansa is the second largest F&A provider in the world, based on 2002-6 total contract value. We are trusted to manage over £30 billion of our clients' cash annually.
  
• INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE - We have a proven record of combining consultants' industry knowledge with SAP expertise to provide leading industry solutions. We continue to work with SME industries to provide pre-configured solutions.

We offer the full suite of SAP products and technology to deliver efficient systems to support your business processes. Services include SAP architecture, functional consultancy, project and programme life cycle development, training and testing, application support, upgrades, SAP auditing, change management and the provision of interim programme managers.

Track record

• We delivered the world's largest SAP Retail implementation for the UK's leading health and beauty retailer. As part of our outsourcing arrangements, we deliver the systems underpinning the service to over 1400 wholly owned stores in the UK and franchised operations internationally.
  
• We managed the first-ever company-wide implementation of SAP R3 and BW functionality for ourselves using a truly integrated onshore/offshore delivery model. We delivered a common reporting platform to both our statutory entities, standardised processes across our multi-sector organisation and across the business cycle, and trained over 7,000 employees without using external trainers.
  
• Our work with the UK's leading postal service delivered a management information system capable of storing and accessing in real-time up to 2.5 terabytes of data. This has enhanced the organisation's competitiveness by reducing costs, streamlining decision-making and increasing productivity.