SAP AG and iRise, the enterprise visualisation solutions providers, have announced that they have signed a worldwide reseller agreement. Through this agreement, the companies will set a new standard for enhancing the validation of business requirements and improving the efficiency of communication between business users and IT departments on projects involving implementation of SAP solutions.
The SAP Application Visualization software by iRise, now a solution extension offered by SAP is designed to improve time to value for customers. It empowers stakeholders to develop and validate business requirements and it bridges the communication gap between business users and IT departments early in the project lifecycle. The ability to convert business requirements into visualisations during the SAP solution design phase can accelerate the validation of the business blueprint and project realisation. Paired with frequent and early design reviews, visualisations can reduce costly change orders and rework during the build and test phases of a project.
Accelerating Solution Design for Customers During Business Blueprint Phase Using ASAP Methodology
SAP customers across all industries are under tremendous pressure to deliver business-critical, high-quality SAP solutions faster, with reduced risks and lower costs. Without the ability to visualise the solution, business stakeholders and development teams are often challenged to interpret and understand business requirements and validate what users really need.
“Visualisation enables project teams and customers to see how their planned SAP solution will look, feel and interact without having to code or deploy production systems. It is quickly becoming a best practice for all SAP implementations” said Ross Wainwright, vice president of Services for North America, SAP. “Seeing SAP solution implementations come to life early in the project lifecycle will provide tremendous value for our customers. Now they can experience the value of their implementations of SAP solutions faster than ever through the use of SAP Application Visualization by iRise.”
SAP Application Visualization transforms the blueprinting process by empowering implementation teams to create visuals of end-to-end solutions and functional gaps. Implementations of all SAP solutions can be enhanced through visualisation, including the SAP Supplier Relationship Management and SAP Customer Relationship Management applications, the enterprise resource planning (ERP) application SAP ERP and the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution, as well as solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio. Custom front-ends to SAP solutions can also be easily visualised, including rich Internet applications and mobile solutions. As a result, experiencing end-to-end integrated business processes and scenarios becomes possible during the early stages of solution design.
“Visualisation is an absolute game changer when it comes to improving the way business software is designed and delivered” said Emmet B. Keeffe III, CEO and co-founder, iRise. “SAP is the largest and most successful supplier of business software in the world. Through this global reseller agreement, SAP is now going to make visualisation available to organisations that are looking to adopt industry best practices. Our vision is that all software will be visualised by 2020 as a best practice and our relationship with SAP will accelerate the realisation of this vision.”