IT integration plan reduces SAP complexity and lays strategy for Alinta to meet business targets
“We now have an SAP strategy which gives us a clear path to upgrade that places primacy on gaining the business efficiencies and benefits at the earliest possible time.”
Brett McLean, IT Strategist, Architecture and Strategy, Alinta
“The value of the SAP strategy project is in ensuring we make the right decisions and have a efensible logic for governance of a very complex program of work that ultimately will take Alinta to a new level of process integration.”
Brett McLean, IT Strategist, Architecture and Strategy, Alinta
Challenge
- Create a clear SAP enterprise architecture strategy to address current and future business needs and in doing so provide a key component in a wider master plan to align and integrate business planning and operations at Alinta
- Reduce complexity involved in integrating the range of different enterprise software products and underlying enabling technologies that make up Alinta’s IS environment
- Enhance utilisation of, and increase return on, investment of Alinta’s SAP systems
Solution
- Provide actionable recommendations on the key elements of a cohesive enterprise architecture for Alinta’s strategic set suite of SAP applications Assess third party applications such as Cognos, webMethods and Opentext Livelink to ensure their impact on the SAP strategy was understood and incorporated in the recommendations
- High level assessment of the current, planned and envisaged requirements of all Alinta business units, asset owners and associated geographic locations currently using SAP or identified as potential target for moving to SAP Analysis of Alinta’s strategic business direction and current IT strategy, taking particular note of stated requirements in the areas of process integration, enterprise portal, reporting and analytics, and enterprise content management
- Review Alinta’s entire SAP environment, including the impact of the AGL merger; understand and document number of users, processes and applications, current releases and operating environments, support infrastructure, A2A and B2B integrations, customer development and the level of change over the preceding 12 months
Return on Investment
- An SAP strategy, which provides a clear upgrade path that, will generate business efficiencies and benefits at the earliest possible time.
- Stakeholders have an improved view of the ‘whole of business’, not just the part relevant to them, which has resulted in buy-in for a long and complex program of work
- Better understanding of the enhanced capabilities offered in the MySAP product, ensuring the program of integration and upgrade will deliver enhanced capabilities in a coordinated way
- Critical investment in establishing strategic direction and identifying a path forward so future business projects do not conflict with wider business strategy
This Oxygen project won an SAP Partner Award of Excellence in 2006. View our Awards here.
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Customer Profile
Alinta
Business Profile: Alinta is a leading Australian energy company with operations and investments that span fi ve states of Australia and New Zealand.
An ASX Top 100 company with a market capitalisation of A$5.8 billion, Alinta manages, operates or owns a diversified portfolio of energy assets worth A$14 billion.
Alinta’s operations and management services span every link in the energy delivery chain from generation, transmission, distribution wholesale and retail sales.
