Strategic IT
Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
As competition intensifies, the rate of change accelerates, and business networks undergo significant transformations, organizations are finding that closing the gap between business strategy and execution is key to sustaining their competitive edge. Not surprisingly, businesses are turning to IT to deliver the efficiency, insight, and flexibility they need. Organizations that use IT strategically can improve operational efficiency, while enabling business innovation simultaneously.
According to Geoffrey Moore, managing director of TCG Advisors, "Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process platforms create the common ground for coordination and collaboration beyond business boundaries." SAP gives you a jump-start into strategic IT by providing solutions that enable SOA and help transform your existing IT infrastructure into a more flexible business process platform. As a result, you can:
- Efficiently govern and manage your IT best practices and end-to-end industry processes
- Gain critical insights from your data to drive towards business goals and performance optimization
- Innovate continuously, turning insights into competitive advantage without disrupting essential business processes
SAP makes the adoption of SOA more affordable by delivering the service-enabled family of applications, SAP Business Suite. It comes with enterprise services that help increase the level of automation of existing processes or compose new ones. You can also ensure efficient support of those processes by using the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. Combined with a comprehensive portfolio from SAP Services and a vibrant ecosystem of partner solutions, a business process platform for standardization and innovation can be efficiently deployed – making your IT organization a strategic enabler of business.
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