The SAP technical infrastructure has become increasingly more complex with the introduction of Netweaver, Portals and the Java stack. Now, more than ever, a high quality basis function is needed to ensure your business achieves the system availability and reliability they have come to depend on.

Bollina Technologies offers full service basis consulting for all of SAP's technologies to help you navigate through the needs of migrating, upgrading, implementing and supporting your SAP Eco system. Although we offer a full complement of SAP technical services, here is a sample of the most often requested areas of assistance.

SAP Unicode Upgrade
SAP is requiring that it's base ECC systems be Unicode enabled for new installations, and strongly recommend that customers upgrade to Unicode soon. The new technology stack is more open resulting in easier integration with legacy and third party applications, but a non-Unicode backend makes that process fraught with danger through the "silent data loss" problem as described by SAP in their Unicode documentation. For more complete info on this important technical upgrade, view our SAP Unicode Upgrade website. SAP Technical Upgrades

In the light of the slowing economy, few companies have the budget or staff to go through a full SAP upgrade that includes functional enhancements. SAP recognizes that and is now rolling out Enhancement Packages to provide for incremental functional upgrades that are in essence as easy to apply as a support pack. In order for you to make use of these enhancement packages, you need to be on ECC 6.0.

The business case for the SAP upgrade is easier to justify if the Enterprise can achieve an ROI by the addition of new functionality without having to go through the expensive upgrade projects of the past. We have extensive experience in doing SAP upgrades, let us show you how to do it as cost effectively as possible through a mix of remote delivery, project accelerators, upgrade methodologies and leveraging your in house expertise. We can help with the creation of your business case if required as well.

SAP Datacenter Migration and System Copies
With the expanded SAP Ecosystem as well as the need for cost containment companies are reducing their hardware footprint through server consolidation, migrating to lower cost solutions like Linux and even switching to virtual platforms as offered by VMWare. This migration can be a complex undertaking, especially when server technologies change that have different Endians. HP-UX for example represents data in big endian format, while Linux on an x86 architecture does so in little endian. This data format translation needs to be taken into account when migrating to a new datacenter or performing a platform change during your SAP system copy.

We have extensive experience in managing, planning and executing data center migrations of your SAP systems, as well as heterogeneous and homogeneous system copies. Call us for information on how we can keep your costs down during this migration effort through a mix of remote delivery and project accelerators.

Complete, Full Service SAP Basis Consulting Services
Although we could continue to list our areas of expertise, call us with your specific need to see how we can solve your problem in an innovative, cost effective way. We understand the cost pressures you are under, and can help to define how to achieve your goals. Our management and oversight team have more than sixty years of SAP implementation experience, as well as many years of big four consulting company backgrounds. Don't risk your reputation on unproven companies, and don't break the bank with big four consulting fees.