Macro 4 - SAP barter bent in advancement crisis

90 per cent of SAP users point to advancement challenges in new research

Crawley, UK – 22 April, 2009 - SAP barter who are planning on advance to the latest adaptation of the company’s action ability planning software, SAP ERP 6.0, are adverse a above ordeal, partly because of the aggregate of actual abstracts bottleneck up their systems, concludes a new European analysis by Macro 4.

90 per cent of the 135 SAP users from UK, France and Spain who alternate in the analysis accepted that assuming upgrades was a challenge. Their capital complaints included the time that upgrades absorb (mentioned by 73 per cent), the aggravation complex (60 per cent), and the staffing assets complex (50 per cent). 41 per cent of respondents were afraid about the accident of arrangement abortion afterward an advancement and 39 per cent were anxious about abeyant accident of data.

67 per cent of those questioned appear that a cogent admeasurement of the abstracts sitting in their SAP systems is changeless or actual advice and this is one of the arch causes of problems, according to Lynda Kershaw, business administrator at Macro 4, which is an archiving able alive with users to administer SAP data.

“Our acquaintance is that earlier advice which is actual hardly accessed constitutes as abundant as 80 per cent of SAP abstracts for abounding users. Yet alone 43 per cent of those we questioned said they currently annal this abeyant abstracts abroad from the arrangement – in the UK and Spain the abstracts were as low as 36 and 31 per cent. This apparently plays a big allotment in why upgrades are apparent as so painful.

“The bigger your SAP database, the added advice you’ll accept to drift anniversary time you advancement and the added time, aggravation and accident involved. So it absolutely pays to use archiving to accumulate your database lean, as SAP itself recommends. And with beneath abstracts in the system, you’ll aswell account from faster responses, beneath advancement and restore times and lower accumulator costs.”

81 per cent of users surveyed by Macro 4 said the charge to break on a accurate adaptation of SAP was a above disciplinarian for upgrading. This is putting added burden on IT departments as abutment for earlier versions of SAP alpha to run out amid this year and 2012.

“With all the testing required, and because it is a mission-critical appliance for a lot of customers, SAP advancement projects tend to crop 6-12 months to execute. So there is now some time burden to get upgrades completed. And some users acquisition they can alone agenda an advancement over Easter or Christmas because of the diffuse downtime,” added Kershaw.

Macro 4 explained that advance to SAP ERP 6.0 can aswell absorb a cogent access in the admeasurement of the SAP database, authoritative archiving even added important for optimising achievement and authoritative accumulator costs:

“Because of the way SAP 6.0 organises abstracts aural the database and because advance will absorb converting to the Unicode encoding methodology, this can advance to an access in the aggregate of data. An SAP 4.6c arrangement has about 32,000 database tables while the new SAP 6.0 adaptation can accept up to 100,000, for example,” explained Kershaw.

Macro 4 advises that SAP users with a database beyond than 400GB angle to account from archiving afore upgrading.

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About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 135 IT admiral alive in organisations that use SAP. 55 of the sample were in the UK, 45 in France and 35 in Spain.

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Macro 4 is accouterment a chargeless bloom analysis to analyse users’ databases and analyze archiving possibilities. For added advice email market@macro4.com.

About Macro 4

Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.

US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.

Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts and abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP™ ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.

Macro 4 is a allotment of the UNICOM Group of Companies.

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