In the ever-evolving landscape of digital business, staying ahead of the curve is not just an advantage but a necessity. With decades of experience in identifying, scaling, mobilizing, and implementing digital transformation initiatives, the M&S Consulting team is driving success by combining process and technology. Regardless of where your business is at in its tech evolution, our expertise extends across seven main service line focus areas, ensuring that businesses in consumer, energy & industrial, finance & professional services, government & public sector, health & life sciences, and tech, media & telecommunications industries are not just ready for the future but … Read More
Struggling to build an SAP BRIM team?
In previous articles, we described some of the business challenges our client had faced while implementing SAP BRIM to manage billing and invoicing for their media sales business. Now, let’s focus on what is likely your greatest challenge: building the right team. We were able to build a team with the right amount of industry knowledge, SAP BRIM experience, and strong project leadership in a short amount of time. Previous firms had been unsuccessful in their implementation efforts in large part due to their inability to build quality teams. Our success in other areas of their business gave our client … Read More
SAP BRIM Implementation Delivers Increased Flexibility and Profitability
In a previous article, we described our client that was attempting to implement SAP; today we will start to describe some of the problems we were able to solve for them. They are a large client that sells a variety of consumption-based media advertising products which can be delivered multiple times, under a variety of circumstances, and through different advertising delivery systems. The business is further complicated by a complex hierarchy of business partners. As a result, a single invoice could include over a million billable items. Previously, the client used their delivery system for billing and invoicing. However, this … Read More
Proper Project Management Helps Rescue SAP Implementation
Sometimes a project needs rescuing to avoid added delays and unnecessary costs. This happened to one of our larger clients when trying to implement SAP. Multiple teams outside of M&S had tried and failed to implement the solution our client needed. Because we had several successful medium- and large-sized projects with them across various technologies, we were called upon to step in and take on the challenge. The initial focus of our Project Management as a Service (PMaaS) team was to evaluate the SAP project’s current state and identify any significant gaps. However, very quickly, we realized that no requirements … Read More
On-Premises Identity and Access Management – Vendor + Product + Feature Matrix (2021)
Finding the best Identity Management (IdM) products for your enterprise is not a trivial task. This is especially true when different products from different vendors that accomplish other objectives or services have remarkably similar (and therefore confusing) naming conventions. Not unlike other COTS enterprise suites, the ‘cloudification’ of these products has matured rapidly. To help layout the current Identity Management vendor/product landscape as we see it, we’ve put together the following matrix of products by vendors. Click Here to enlarge the table below. Identity management is challenging in today’s world, organizations must manage user identities across a wide range of … Read More
M&S is Now a SUSE Gold Partner – Press Release
M&S Consulting is proud to announce that we are now a SUSE (and Rancher) Gold Partner! SUSE has been around for more than 28 years and is the world’s largest independent open source company. SUSE provides a range of solutions, including open source products and enterprise support for a range of Linux distributions, cloud solutions, container orchestration (with Rancher), high-performance computing, SAP, storage, and edge computing. In December of 2020, SUSE completed the acquisition of Rancher Labs, a market leader in Kubernetes management and container orchestration. This acquisition, as well as SUSE’s collaboration with a broad open source community, brings … Read More
What Do SAP, Salesforce, and Solar Have in Common?
A large, publicly-traded solar power company used Salesforce to track sales activities and SAP for billing and other finance-related functions. Each of these systems performed their respective functions effectively; however, our customer believed that sharing information between systems could greatly improve efficiency with new customer deployments and internal processes. They called on us to help advise them and implement a new integration. Our team focused first and foremost on the business needs. Many data integration projects fail to deliver returns because they focus on tools and tech at the expense of the business drivers. Once requirements were fully understood, we … Read More