ERP ShapeShifter takes the cost and complexity out of your ERP estate and gives you back business agility.

Is the inflexibility of your ERP application hampering greater business agility?

Would you like to significantly reduce the cost of running your ERP Systems without the risk of rip and replace?

When your customized ERP systems requires an upgrade, is the project likely to have increased risks, cost more and take longer to update than you can easily justify?

ERP ShapeShifter takes the cost and complexity out of your ERP estate and gives you back business agility. For instance, ERP ShapeShifter can migrate your ERP customizations into the lower cost Cordys Business Operations Platform, returning your ERP to a “vanilla” state that makes upgrading far less painful. You can still tailor discrete processes to the needs of your business and provide competitive, agile process differentiation, but with a more robust ERP system that’s simpler, safer and less expensive to maintain, update and support.

ERP ShapeShifter combines CSC’s industry-leading process and systems integration consulting expertise, with the CordysTM Business Operations Platform. It puts the business in control of accelerating the deployment of high-value capabilities without the associated cost and risk of wholesale changes to your IT systems.

The “DNA” in your ERP system doesn’t have to change. We take the complexity out of your existing system and put it into a different layer of the enterprise architecture, known as the business process layer. In many cases we offload the ERP or improve it by giving the enterprise a better front end, a better back end, integrating the ERP into the enterprise better, or making it more efficient.

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Benefits of ERP ShapeShifter

With CSC ERP ShapeShifter you can:

• Make substantial savings in ERP-related licensing fees, support charges and infrastructure costs
• Reduce the IT function’s workload and give business functions greater agility through self-service process customization
• Unlock existing process logic and reuse it across your business for continuous performance improvement
• Improve quality with consistent, standardized processes across multiple systems and an enhanced user experience
• Reduce the risks, costs and timescales associated with upgrading heavily customised ERP systems

We follow a four-phase process to deliver ERP ShapeShifter:

• Explore: We will spend two days working with you to define the project(s) scope and identify pilots for proof of concept.
• Validate and Verify: Over three to six weeks our consultants will investigate and plan a roadmap. This includes defining a target end-state and running a proof of concept or pilot.
• Orchestrate and Customize: Along with consulting and system integration we will iteratively design, develop and deploy new business capabilities.
• Service Management: We will provide application management and support services through a multi-year contract.

At each stage we’re process-centric, using our maturity models to benchmark your current performance and identify high-value, underperforming processes. We then model and transform these processes according to pre-defined patterns.Who Can Benefit from ERP ShapeShifter

There are 7 scenarios that we believe can significantly benefit from ERP ShapeShifter

• ERP to ERP integration: where an enterprise has multiple ERPs and lacks a single view of their business
• Sunset: where the enterprise wishes to retire certain ERP modules because ERP ShapeShifter is a more agile and less expensive way of delivering this functionality,
• Roll back to "vanilla": for those enterprises that have heavily customised their ERP preventing them from easily upgrading it or changing their business processes. ERP ShapeShifter returns the ERP to a “vanilla” state, and puts the bespoke functionality in a purpose-built business process layer.
• Fine tune and mature: adds value around the ERP, such as dashboards giving real-time visibility of the business’ key performance indicators.
• Point solution integration: extends the value of the ERP by combining ERP functionality with other siloed systems to produce new, real time, dynamic composite applications that reuse existing business logic.
• Front end: creates a richer user experience by providing a more dynamic method to leverage and make visible the information locked within the ERP and other IT assets.
• Custom development: adds new or improves existing business processes that leverage the ERP without tailoring it.

Why CSC ERP ShapeShifter?

We have a strong track-record of delivering the Cordys Business Operations Platform and have:

• Extensive global applications development and business process management experience
• A very well regarded consulting and systems integration practice
• A strong relationship with Cordys as their strategic implementation partner
• A global network of Cordys Centers of Excellence (COE) to deliver and refine our ERP ShapeShifter solution
• Many satisfied clients with successfully completed Cordys projects