Key facts: Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
Around 95% of companies are small and medium-sized entities (SMEs). Even if we do not work for an SME, it is more than likely that we will do business with one of them on a daily basis.
As small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) expand, they often add new systems and procedures to get by, but over the time these setups slow down with growth. In the past, SMEs were able to struggle along with outdated methods. In today’s fast-paced global economy, complicated systems are fatal to SMEs. And businesses are not just battling internal inefficiencies in their own firms; SMEs now compete with their counterparts from all over the world and with large entities as well. The business world is getting more complex.
Companies, who don’t deal with such complexities today, will begin to fail. It will be too late once they decide to deal with it. So the urgency to do it now, is stronger than ever. Simplification must be at the core of an SME’s growth strategy. SMEs must focus on creating a simplified, streamlined business process that scales well into the future. In the new digital economy, simplification can deliver growth to the SMEs consistently. In our rapidly changing world, consistency can be maintained by using technologies and systems, which are built around innovation and simplification only.
Where Simplification can help?
- To achieve Operational excellence: Drive strategy, control, and operations for an information-driven controlled organisation.
- To attain Economic prosperity: Achieve sustainable 360-degree support to deliver the product & services, to customer’s needs.
- To maintain Resilience and security: Create a controlled organisation with effective processes and technologies, which keep up overall mission of the organisation.
- To satisfy Employee needs: Improve transparency, performance & governance while meeting the welfare of the employees.
How to land simplification?
SAP Analytics and EPM solutions help to manage your business insights, allowing to make informed decisions and running business more effectively.
SAP BI, EPM or Analytics software are designed and priced for small business and midsize businesses. On premise or in the cloud, scalable SAP solutions can work with any existing infrastructure to help run business more efficiently.
SAP Analytics Products & their usefulness:
SAP Crystal Solutions
- SAP Crystal Solutions help to drive faster, creating more informed decision-making across the organization.
- Ideal for small businesses, it turns information from almost any data source into a sophisticated, interactive report.
- Interactive dashboards and presentations can also be created with ease, for a comprehensive view of the business.
- An affordable entry-level busines intelligence solution is possible with features, which allows to Explore, manage, and share personalized reports, dashboards, and analytics across the business departments.
SAP BI Edge Solutions
It is a more complete tool-set for midsize businesses that help with Business analytics, Business Intelligence, information management, and performance management.
- It gets real-time business insights with ad hoc reporting and data visualization.
- It integrates, transforms, improves & Analyzes data to support organization’s critical information-driven processes and decision-making.
- It simplifies planning, budgeting, and forecasting and improves resource utilization.
- It is fine to start with the tools needed, and rest can be added on as the company grows.
SAP Predictive Analytics
SAP Predictive Analytics software brings real time insight to the company, making it easier to make better & most profitable decisions. It allows creating better and faster predictive results, delivering machine learning at scale using a factory approach and bringing predictive insights where people interact in business processes and applications. SAP Predictive Analytics can:
- Automate data prep, predictive modelling, and deployment, which can easily retrain these models for later
- Harness in-database predictive scoring for a wide variety of target systems.
- Leverage advanced visualization capabilities to quickly reveal insights.
- Integrate with R to enable a large number of algorithms and custom R scripts
- SAP Predictive Analytics can be deployed stand-alone or with SAP HANA.
SAP Lumira
It is a self-service data visualisation tool for everyone in the organization. This affordable and powerful software can help to create beautiful and interactive maps, charts, and infographics, from MS Excel or from any other external sources. It uses a lightweight in-memory server to perform visual BI analysis using intuitive dashboards, and securely share insights and data stories within the team or externally.
Example SAP Analytics sites in the UK (SME Sector):
- Barron’s Wholesale Tire
- VI-Spring
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Liverpool
- Spar Shops
- Robinson’s Brewery
- Umbro
- VocalLink
Why SAP?
SAP is world’s third largest independent software manufacturer, based on market capitalization. It is the market leader in applications, analytics and mobility solutions. It is also the fastest growing database vendor.
SAP solutions connect processes for a variety of industry value chains by integrating horizontal lines of business with industry-specific solutions on premise, in the cloud, and through mobile devices. SAP software helps to simplify business processes, improve decision-making, improves customer relationship, which ultimately accelerating business growth.
SAP serves >263,000 customers in 190 countries. More than 80% of SAP customers are SMEs. SAP customer profile includes: 86% of the Global Fortune 500 companies, 98% of the 100 most valued brands, 100% of the Forbes top scoring sustainability companies. SAP customers produce: 78% of the world’s food, 82% of the world’s medical devices, 86% of the world’s athletic footwear. 74% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system. SAP touches US$ 16 trillion of retail purchases around the world.
Why CPI Consulting Associates?
CPI Consulting Associate is a SAP Partner in the UK & Ireland. We supply, implement and provide on-going support for the SAP BI, Analytics & EPM solutions.
With over 20 years experience within the software industry, catering for 20+ industry sectors, it best places us to understand your specific business needs but more over, to understand whether SAP BI, Analytics & EPM solutions will be right for you.
- Fully integrated practice across SAP BI, EPM & Analytics space.
- Free, no obligation, on-site business reviews.
- Full access to our support team via phone or email for after sale reassurance.
- Subject Matter Experts to implement the system for you, as per your specific business requirements.
- We can help to set up and running with SAP Analytics solutions in as little as six days.
- We recommend to start with the tools/features needed by our customers urgently, and rest we suggest at appropriate stages.
- Our goal is to make it simple for you.
Contact us at sales@cpicon.com and we will rush you the required support for all your Analytics and Performance Management needs.