DNA-level Benchmark for SAP – Minimally invasive

However, many benchmarking projects begin with a large dollop of skepticism.

The more you know about the specifics of your company, the more likely it is that you won’t believe it’s possible to use benchmarking to achieve improvements. The problems are too specific, you’ve used all the standard solutions, all you really need is a bit more time – and now you’re supposed to invest in benchmarking ?

The skeptics are right – a benchmark exercise that gets lost in a jungle of benchmark figures is no help. VMS provides action-oriented benchmarking to counter that.

A Waddling Duck Hobbled by a Rubber Band

That’s how the German newspapers referred to the 2004 German World Cup National Soccer Team, its new coach Klinsmann, and its fitness test.

It’s also a good way to describe benchmarking – it’s an analytic tool. How “fit” is an SAP system, an IT landscape, an organization ? And how does one optimize an entire system ? Each member of the German National Soccer Team had a pretty good idea what his strengths and weaknesses were. But what was desired was a fitness program for the team as a whole, for the maximum success of the total organization.

VMS uses a new method to carry out training analyses (benchmarks) of that kind. Our “rubber band” is called the DNA-level benchmark. (Details here)

But we also deliver action - things that you can use now. We not only give you “Fitness-Level 3”, we also give you a list of procedures you can put into practice that will help you succeed. Depending on the problem or the initial situation, these procedures may differ completely in their nature, from technical optimization through the design of migration strategies to the classical benchmark area of cost-reduction.