The Research Of SAP Implementation Methodology In China

It has been 20 years since SAP entered China,after the initial rapid expansion and rapid growth,the company enters a stage of steady development.Although in China market place SAP has been recognized by customers and always in the place of a market leader.After entered 2010,with the development of new IT technology,such as Cloud Computing,Social Media,Mobile Internet Computing,IT industry is undergoing a profound transformation,enterprise application software gradually shift from product centric to service centric.In this revolution,SAP China also faces challenges,the ecosystem which was built according to the traditional implementation method cannot sustain the profitability of the enterprise and the growth of whole SAP ecosystem,SAP China has innovated a new implementation model – SAP One Service to help Chinese customers respond to the rapid changes in the competitive market environment,continue to achieve their business innovation,and also to accumulate the industry experience from the implementation and to enhance the core competitiveness of SAP itself.This paper leverages SWOT to analyze both SAP Internal and External environment,by combining SAP’s own advantages and the technical development trend in enterprise application industry,it has been made a conclusion to design a new implementation methodology.First,the internal and external environment analysis.Describes the status and analyzes the reason why SAP China’s growth rate has slowed in recent years under the background of technology revolution,customer rapid requirement changing and increasingly sharp competition with SWOT.Second,the strategy analysis.Combining the internal and external environment analysis and the industry trend,explores and leads to the necessity of the innovation for a new implementation methodology.Comparative analysis of SAP’s traditional implementation method and the new innovated methodology on their significance.Last,introduces the standard of SAP One Service Implementation Methodology and the details of the innovated implementation methodology.The research would like to share some ideas on helping the growing Chinese software companies on how to keep responding resiliently to the various challenges and make correct strategies and tactics correspondingly.As there should be some deficiencies in the proposed relevant strategies and tactics,any suggestion or comments is welcome.