Intelligroup Launches Uptimizer(SM) for New Dimensions Targeting SAP BW, SCM, CRM, SRM Upgrades

by Intelligroup Inc.

Intelligroup, Inc. a global provider of business consulting, technology, and outsourcing services announced today the launch of Uptimizer for New Dimensions - UptimizerND(SM). UptimizerND(SM) allows customers upgrading their SAP New Dimensions applications to understand the complexity, time, and effort needed to upgrade in the areas of Business Intelligence (BW 7.0), Supply Chain (SCM 5.0/APO), Customer Relationship Management (CRM 5.0), and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM 5.0). UptimizerND(SM) is the most comprehensive offering in the market going beyond sizing the production logs. UptimizerND(SM) creates an inventory of customizations, business transactions, and utilizes its proprietary knowledge base to analyze and identify potential upgrade errors, screen errors, transactional deltas as compared to the new upgrade releases. Customers continue to rely on Intelligroup solutions to accurately scope, budget, and accelerate their upgrades. The New Dimension UptimizerND(SM) shows Intelligroup's continued commitment and depth of experience in SAP upgrades.

UptimizerND(SM) builds on Intelligroup's industry award winning tool Uptimizer, and extends the capabilities to the New Dimensions applications. Uptimizer has helped over 400 customers in the US, Europe, Japan, South America, India, Middle East, and Australia, to assess, plan, and execute upgrades when migrating from earlier versions of R/3 to mySAP ERP 2004 or mySAP ERP 2005. Using Uptimizer, customers have reduced the total cost of upgrades by up to 40% when compared to traditional upgrade processes.

According to Vikram Gulati, CEO and President of Intelligroup, Inc., "The customer benefits of UptimizerND(SM) are immediate cost savings by reducing the time it takes to upgrade and informed decision making by providing details to accurately scope and plan for executing an upgrade. We continue our focus on providing services throughout the ERP lifecycle, and this latest offering extends our leadership in the SAP upgrade space."

Raj Katari, CIO of Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. (NFCL) said, "NFCL utilized Uptimizer when we upgraded to mySAP ERP 2004 last year. Uptimizer helped us plan and execute our upgrade project on-time and within budget without any disruption to the business."

"UptimizerND(SM) helps to identify the customizations, modules and sub- modules implemented in each of the new dimension products like BW, SCM, CRM, and SRM," said Sandeep Saberwal, Global Director, Tools at Intelligroup. "This information helps in sizing, budgeting and executing accelerated upgrades by determining the complexity, scope, business critical objects, transactional usage, functional testing and resources required for the upgrade project".