Support & Application Management

Support & Application Management Services

Support „Made in Europe“: Local with a global focus

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Initial Situation

Constant coordination between business process requirements and the implementation in IT
Know and be able to implement the legal requirements worldwide
Internal lack of resources leads to outsourcing of IT
Requirement of cost transparency
Resource problems due to current political and economic situation
Complex transformation projects such as S/4HANA or BW/4HANA are binding the IT department’s own resources
Markets are currently changing rapidly, processes must be adapted accordingly
The role of IT is changing from implementer to enabler, and therein lies a great strategic responsibility. The task of the IT manager is to free up resources for this purpose
The shortage of skilled workers in the labour market is becoming increasingly relevant: It is important to bind the existing IT staff to the company by offering interesting and challenging jobs
Due to demographic change, many employees will retire in the next few years without successors being available for all positions and without the necessary knowledge transfer having taken place

How we support you with our full-service SAP support concept

Incidents and Change Requests

As a full-service partner, we solve your SAP incidents, issues and change requests for the following SAP applications in SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA:

SAP ERP Finance
SAP ERP Logistic
SAP Document Compliance
SAP BASIS
SAP HCM
SAP BI
PIKON SAP Add-ons
As well as other service solutions: Ask us!

Our services

Second/Third Level Support
Acceptance, processing & monitoring of tickets
Scheduling & monitoring of process chains
System analysis and performance optimisation
Creating documentation
Carrying out functional and technical tests (e.g. for support package upgrades)
Training

Added value through AMS at PIKON

Continuous optimisation of your system through ongoing adaptation to your business processes
Continuous system maintenance to ensure operation
Ensure system performance
Concentration on ongoing projects and coordination with specialist departments
Workload taken off your colleagues (e.g. holiday replacements, month-end closing work, etc.)
Transparent (cost) concept: your costs and required resources for support can be planned exactly
Simple recording of incidents/issues via the web-based jira ticket system
Fixed contact person for the support process: You have a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) via the PIKON Engagement Manager
The individual tickets are assigned to the respective expert within PIKON
„Glocal“ => Global approach with local knowledge/ local resources: SAP Incidents Management from Europe: no off-shore call centre where you end up in a queue, instead PIKON’s own resources.
Due to our international focus, we can offer support in different languages
Through an onboarding concept, important questions about your existing system and applications are worked out in advance.
We have experience in various industries, e.g. mechanical and plant engineering (make-to-order, engineer-to-order), automotive, chemicals (PP-PI, EH&S) and others
Many years of expertise in the ECC and S/4HANA environment, both in implementation and migration projects
Furthermore, we also have extensive experience in the area of business intelligence
We guarantee high-quality developments through customised SAP add-ons and our broad product portfolio
With our Competence Center for Legal Requirements, we can also ensure the compliance of your SAP system with legal requirements worldwide
Over 25 years of experience in the market

Support and Application Management

How we support you

Find out how you can set up 2nd and 3rd level support more effectively and cost-efficiently and get valuable input for the further development of your SAP systems and developments. Arrange a non-binding consultation with our support specialist Andreas Adam.

Your road to the Application Management Service at PIKON

Analysis / Onboarding process

In an analysis workshop, we look at your systems and processes. The aim of this procedure is to gain a precise understanding of your system landscape and your processes. Through a standardised concept, we work out how the support must be structured so that we can support you optimally.

Request Analysis Workshop

Customised AMS concept

You receive the concept created on the basis of the analysis workshop for application management services individually adapted to your needs. This includes, among other things, the SLAs, the configuration of the ticket portal and the representation of the support process for your company.

Start of the Application Management Service

We process your incidents and change requests. If our employees recognise potential for optimisation through the clustering of topics or the work on your support topics, we will of course point this out to you.

The distribution of tasks between your own support organisation and PIKON can be arranged flexibly. We can take over level 2 or 3 support, depending on your requirements:

PIKON SAP support procedure according to the ITIL-Standard

You enter tickets for your problems/incidents or change requests via a central access to the PIKON support system (jira). The further procedure is as follows:

Tickets can be entered at any time by the people nominated by the customer. Customer-specific information can also be attached to the ticket.
The user does not need to know the right contact person at PIKON. The person responsible for processing is automatically assigned by our support organisation.
The processing status as well as the entire communication regarding the ticket and its solution can be viewed at any time in the portal. As a standard procedure, the ticket creator is also informed of all changes to the ticket by email.
You do not have to order support for every single incident. The support contract regulates the support over the defined term.
You receive a monthly statement of actual expenses, which ensures full transparency of costs.