The CyberOne 2005 bwcon award

Heidelberg, 2005/05/20 – The Value Report won 5th Place as the best software-based service

On May 12, 2005, the Baden-Württemberg economic initiative, Connected (bwcon) awarded the CyberOne Technology and Innovation Competition prizes, for the seventh time. Value Report, a product made by the Heidelberg, Germany company VM Solutions, won Fifth Place as the best software-based service solution.
For the first four prizes, the jury chose concepts and solutions from the areas of construction parts manufacturing, optic sensors, services for servers, and medical technologies. In total, 50 concepts took part in the most important regional business plan competition in Europe.

Value Report, which was nominated for the award, is a central, software-based service made by VM solutions, which provides companies with a comprehensive and easy to understand report on the quality and value creation of their IT solutions, primarily with regard to the widely-used SAP system.

As with a long-term ECG, the systems and processes are monitored during the production run-time of the system. The Value Report shows the measured benchmarks, in a compact and easy to understand format. Every Value Report contains information from more than 400 IT landscapes that VM Solutions already analyzed (for example, Siemens systems, OMV, Burda, T-Systems, and Schering).

Using this treasure trove of experience, mathematical and scientific methods are used to precisely model an ideal system, which is then used to optimize the system being looked at. As part of that, the costs of hardware, software, and services are compared to the use value, as well as to other factors of the business processes. But more importantly, potential for savings are discovered and systematically represented, on how available resources can better be used, and which investments really make sense, based on the company requirements.

About VMS

VMS has been optimizing SAP landscapes since 2002. VMS scans SAP installations from the process-level to the transaction-level and, partnering with CIOs, and identifies strengths and weaknesses. In doing this, VMS works with an integrated concept that comprises the IT infrastructure and the IT and business processes. VMS’ methods are “minimally invasive”, because the work puts only a minimal strain on the client’s resources. VMS offers the collected experience and data from about 2,600 SAP systems that it has measured, and that enables VMS to provide action-oriented advice on optimization and cost management. The structure and dynamics of the IT environment are then reproduced in a final VMS Report, which is used as the navigation system of the SAP landscape.