Whether you are focusing on improving your IT processes, implementing a new SAP business application, or managing your IT operations, you are forced to do more with less. In this challenging economy, traditional IT approaches often do not scale to meet growing stakeholder demands. Systematic IT process optimization is needed. And when IT budgets are cut without warning, IT optimization needs to deliver almost immediate payback.

SAP provides software and services that enable you to build an integrated business of IT solution in incremental steps with short payback periods. Each of these IT optimization solutions help improve IT effectiveness and efficiency, get the most out of your applications, and deliver continuous innovation without disruption.

Increased Executive Participation as a Trusted Advisor

The ability to quantify IT's business contributions is a sure way to increase your influence in the boardroom. IT insight provided by SAP BusinessObjects Spend Management and SAP BusinessObjects Performance and Cost Management can help you to achieve this goal.

More Successful IT Projects for Increased Revenue at Lower Costs

With the dynamic world we live in, yesterday's priorities may not be relevant today. SAP Resource and Portfolio Management and its deep integration with the SAP Business Suite enables a systematic approach to project and portfolio management that ensures your program management office is driving the most relevant priorities at any given time.

Better Use of Highly Skilled IT Analysts and Developers

Today's IT implementation processes are often siloed with little end-to-end integration from design to release to operations. With SAP Solution Manager, SAP provides an extensible application life-cycle management platform that facilitates IT implementation and operations processes via end-to-end solution operations standards. Aligned with IT infrastructure library (ITIL) guidelines, these standards outline key IT processes and are brought to life by the extensive customer support experience of the SAP Active Global Support organization, as well as SAP Enterprise Support and solution extensions from our partners.

Less Incidents and Problems that Impact Daily Business

Despite your best efforts in system implementation and maintenance, your business users need support. Based on ITIL, the SAP IT Service Management application enables key IT processes, including incident, problem, or change management. Full adaptability to your organizational rules is provided via the SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management component. Additionally, due to its integration with SAP Business Suite software, SAP IT Service Management takes traditional IT processes one step further and enables backend integration for cost allocation or invoicing.

Of course, SAP also offers lower-level solutions, such as application virtualization, via the Adaptive Computing Controller tool to maximize the utilization of your compute resources or the SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management component to govern and control the growth of your data center.