Knowledge Integration Dynamics

KID certified for SAP's recently ratified Master Data Governance RDS


By Johann van der Walt (Knowledge Integration Dynamics).
Johannesburg, 2 Aug 2013

Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID), the enterprise information management (EIM) business, has followed up its certification as a SAP Africa Special Expertise Service Partner with specific expertise in master data management and governance, to become fully certified to deliver SAP's Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) in the same fields.

SAP RDS seeks to cut down deployment times and give customers pre-defined scopes and costs in modular and scalable solutions.

"The benefit of SAP RDS is that customers can expect at least a 40% reduction in time and effort to deploy solutions with fixed scopes offering them a rapid business blueprint and based on best practices," says Johann van der Walt, MDM practice manager at KID. "There are even industry- and market-specific solutions with more being added over time."

"This is a real opportunity for partners such as ourselves to bring true value to customers because they no longer need to experience lengthy deployment schedules that run over budget and over time – they get defined costs, schedules and scopes upfront so they know what they're going to get, when they're going to get it and how much it's going to cost them. In our field of expertise we're looking at implementation times of 10 weeks, which is unprecedented in this market."

KID has SAP MDM skills rare in South Africa and will continue to build on its capabilities during the next 18 months. It will specifically focus on candidates with SAP skills as it makes new appointments and also has SAP's extensive training programmes open to it. These consist of modular exposure to SAP's solutions that facilitate expert transfer of knowledge.

The SAP Master Data Governance RDS enables governed maintenance, profiling, validating, monitoring, and remediation of master data for financials, customers, suppliers, and materials. Companies can affordably streamline master data management processes – while optimising data quality with this integrated software-and-service solution.

"SAP Master Data Governance also enables businesses to identify and mitigate data problems by seamlessly integrating information governance and improve the accuracy and reliability of master data analyses," says van der Walt.

"We attended the first SAP Partner Summit in Cape Town where SAP mentioned that 35% of their revenues are generated from partners and these RDSs are a clear indication that they are giving partners like us the tools we need to meet their customers' needs," says van der Walt. "Customers want to minimise business disruption, contain costs and deploy solutions rapidly so they can get on with their business and the SAP RDSs really go a long way to helping us achieve that."

KID is continuing to train its specialist consultants in SAP data services and the entire EIM stack.

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