Leading the presentation will be ERP industry veteran Steve Bergstrom, director of customer support services for IntelliCorp, and Terry DellaVecchia, Technical Development Director, McCormick & Company. Terry DellaVecchia will provide insight on how automated software from IntelliCorp helped with their upgrade from 4.6c to ECC 6.0. McCormick’s SAP environment has multiple production instances running 4.6c. With 3,000 total users, they are using Core R/3, BW and CRM. They were on the fast track to an ECC 5.0 upgrade but decided to switch to ECC 6.0.

“We knew if we could quickly identify a majority of the gaps and what needed to be fixed, we would ultimately save time and money during the course of the project,” said DellaVecchia.  “We added the cost of the software into the Upgrade budget and reduced the number of man-days for the programming effort by 39% .”

"Companies are faced with enormous challenges when trying to determine the impact an upgrade will have on their SAP environment," said Bergstrom. "Understanding what's inside an SAP system reduces the risk of testing and training, while ensuring the stable environment you worked hard to create is maintained during and after the upgrade process."

Symposium attendees will learn how automated software can help them understand the impact of a mySAP ERP upgrade before beginning the project. By taking a look at McCormick’s  experience, this session will address how they were able to leverage automation technology to support the development of a business case and budget for the upgrade. It will focus on how technology helped McCormick assess the impact and effort, project resource need, create a detailed project plan and precisely monitor the upgrade progress.  It demonstrates how automating the diagnostic and comparison effort between systems reduces time, resources and risk to lower total cost of ownership.

About McCormick & Company   

McCormick is the global leader in the manufacture, marketing and distribution of spices, seasonings and flavors to the entire food industry. Customers range from retail outlets and food service providers to food processing businesses. Founded in 1889, McCormick has approximately 8,000 employees and over $3B in revenue.

About IntelliCorp Inc.

IntelliCorp provides lifecycle management and system support software and applications for SAP customers and partners.  IntelliCorp’s SAP Integration Certified NetProcess™ tool suite, individual modules and Point-In-Time solutions take an automated diagnostic approach to analyze SAP solution-based environments.  Increased system knowledge and efficiency reduces the time, costs and risks associated with upgrades, installations, consolidations, compliance, process management/modeling, testing and training.  IntelliCorp customers, such as Cadbury, Farmers Insurance, Harrods, IBM, McKesson, Peugeot and Philip Morris, have decreased the total cost of ownership of SAP solutions and maximized the value of IT investments.  Founded in 1980, IntelliCorp is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, has offices throughout the US and Europe, and maintains partner and distributor relationships worldwide. www.intellicorp.com

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