proceed content solutions

Proceed Content Solutions

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Who are Proceed?

What we do

Proceed’s team of SAP Consultants based across Europe, North

America, South Africa and India are all experienced SAP solutions

experts.

Our success is attributed to this and the fact that we specialise,

specifically in this area. We know our business so we can help you

make the best of yours.

As IT systems evolve there is an ever growing need to manage

business data and documents within SAP environments.

Correctly managing SAP structured and unstructured data can

greatly reduce the cost and complexity of running your key business

systems.

Our expertise in SAP and non-SAP content management will help you to:

n Plan and implement a SAP content storage solution

n Reduce your on-going IT maintenance costs

n Access archived business data quickly and easily

n Enhance your business processes with quick and

easy access to related business documents

n Mitigate risk and increase legal compliance

SAP content management by ProceedProceed deliver a clear and structured approach to SAP content management,

providing everything you need to deliver a successful project with great ROI

and ongoing business benefits.

By combining proven best practice, innovative tools, and SAP add-on

applications, we tailor solutions and services that meet specific business needs.

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What we do (c0nt.)

Our goals

n Lower application licensing fees

n Streamline your data for efficient IT operations

n Compress and control your application data and

business documents

n Reduce energy consumption delivering green IT

n Deliver a successful project, with a great ROI

Our consultants are experienced in the deployment and

management of SAP content and data solutions. Making best use

of SAP certified content storage platforms we aim to provide the

greatest business benefits with the minimum spend.

Proceed consultants have many years of experience in deploying

and supporting SAP content solutions, specialising in plugging

the skills gaps between the dedicated SAP system integrators and

Content Storage provider consultants.

Our consultants analyse the business requirements to advise our

customer on the best approach for content storage within their SAP

environments.

We deliver the appropriate technology providing users with the tools

they require to support key business processes whilst allowing them

to discard the data they no longer need.

Our team will keep the customer informed throughout the process

and ensure a smooth project with continuing support.

Our consultants




Global presence

With offices and consultants deployed around the globe, Proceed

has the capability to facilitate projects worldwide.

Our multilingual consultants integrate well with the customers’

project teams working in partnership with our customers and their

business partners.

Having a global presence enables us to be conversant with the legal

and regulatory requirements of customers for their specific country

requirements.




Cloud solutions Proceed’s Content as a Service provides a comprehensive and very

cost-effective solution for customers to move their content solutions

into the cloud.

This can be delivered to either a private cloud managed by the

customer, or public cloud managed by Proceed.

Content as a Service can provide an easily accessed cost-effective

solution.

Proceed partners with multiple cloud hosting companies to provide

a global Cloud presence for its customers.

Content as a Service benefits: n Hosted in cloud located around the world including the UK

and Germany

n Fully managed solution as a service

n Platform supports storage of documents, traditional data

archiving, and SAP ILM

n Consumption based model, keeping TCO costs low

n Document compliance kept in-line with business data

retention rules

n Future proof solution (including S/4HANA and beyond)

n Deployment options:

> Migration of existing content solution onto the platform with expert

support, minimising risk and reducing legacy support costs.

> Managed switch over and deployment services for smooth

implementation.

Our servicesProceed provide the following services to ensure a smooth delivery of both

solution and ongoing support of SAP content solutions.




One of the big issues all companies face is the efficient and prompt

payment of Vendor Invoice Documents. Proceed have partnered

with OpenText to bring a best in breed Vendor Invoice processing

solution which can accommodate paper, email and EDI invoices to

provide a common integrated Invoice Processing platform, ensuring

invoices are validated and posted into the SAP environment ready

for payment.

Included in the service:

n Design the Vendor Invoice Management Solution to meet your

business requirements.

n Design the required content storage for the Vendor Invoice

Management solution.

n Design the data capture solution for the Invoice Documents

(OCR extraction).

n Deploy the designed solution into your company’s SAP

environment. > Installation of Open Text Vendor Invoice Management add-on

> Configuration of Vendor Invoice Management by Open Text

to meet your company’s requirements

> Installation of Open Text Invoice Capture Centre (if required by

the design)

> Configuration of Open Text Invoice Capture Centre (if required

by the design)

> Support of the Vendor Invoice Management solution for

one-month post project go live

n Deployment of the designed content storage solution onto your

existing on premise or hosted platform.

n Support of deployed content storage solution during the duration

of the Document content project and the first month post project

go live.

n A tailored ongoing support service.

n Knowledge transfer and training for support staff to enable them

to manage and support the solution going forward.

Vendor invoice management by OpenText




Any successful business needs to manage and control electronic

documents as part of an overall content management solution,

integrating these with their core business processes. To support this

requirement, Proceed has partnered with OpenText to provide and

support Extended ECM for SAP.


n Sizing and Design of a suitable SAP Extended ECM solution by

OpenText to meet your business requirements.


existing on premise cloud or hosted platforms.

n Support of deployed content storage solution during the duration

of the Document content project and the first month post the

project go live date.



When customers have an existing content storage platform and are

migrating to a new content storage platform, because the index

data is managed within SAP many content migration solutions

cannot perform a successful migration of the content resulting in

the need to update SAP to point to the migrated content.

Proceed has a suite of content migration solutions designed

specifically for SAP to allow the content data to be migrated from

any SAP certified server to any other SAP certified server regardless

of content server vendor or design.


n Review content migration requirements.

n Deployment of the correct tools to meet the requirements of

the migration.

n Migration of the content from the source content server to the

target content server.

n Validation of the content migration reporting to the customer any

failures and total success of the migration.

n Support for issues with the migrated content for the first month

following the completion of the migration.

Extended ECM by OpenText for SAP

SAP content migration




There are times when there are advantages to sharing SAP business

data and documents with your business office users to allow for a

smooth end to end business process. With our certified partners,

Proceed can take your SAP environment and extend it into the

SharePoint portal.

Included in the service.

n Review business requirements for sharing data and documents.

n Design the best solution to meet the business requirements.

n Deployment of the correct tools to meet these requirements.

n Support of the deployed content storage solution during the

duration of the project and the first month post the project go

live.

n A tailored ongoing support service.



At the core of a successful content management solution is the

design of the infrastructure and deployment of the solution. During

this phase of a project the business requirements for integration,

storage and retention will be discussed and agreed in detail. This

will lead into a well-designed platform which meets the current and

future business requirements.

The design considers the key data management and retention

requirement for both structured business data and documents.

Once the content storage solution has been designed to meet the

key business requirements, Proceed consultants deploy the SAP

certified content storage solution and integrate the solution within

the customers SAP landscape as a complementary component to

their existing SAP solution.

SAP integration with SharePoint

Analysis and design

Solution storage deployment




As the content storage solution becomes part of the key business

processes it becomes a mission critical system which requires

specific support and maintenance. To enable continued business

success and maximising ROI Proceed can either train your existing

support teams or provide specialised ongoing support services

tailored to your own environment. This will ensure that the content

storage environment remains stable and secure.

SAP Content Storage As part of any successful SAP implementation,

there is always a requirement for a stable and secure storage

platform for both documents and structured business data. Proceed

can help design and implement a content storage solution for your

company which delivers the best in breed solutions following best

practices.

Included in the service

n Sizing and Design of a suitable SAP Certified content storage

solution for your company’s managed structured data and

documents


existing on premise, cloud, or hosted platform. We can also assist

in the deployment of a managed cloud solution

n Support of the deployed content storage solution during the

project or as an ongoing service contract

n Knowledge transfer and training for key business users and

support staff to enable your business investment in the platform

to be maximised

Contact us if you would like to begin discussions on what content

management strategy is right for your business.

Content storage management and support




For further information on our Content Solutions contact us here:

Proceed Content Solutions

400 Thames Valley Park Drive

Thames Valley Park

Reading

Berkshire

RG6 1PT

United Kingdom

T: +44 (0) 118 207 9734

Email: [email protected]

www.proceedgroup.com





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