Overview

GDT leads customers to innovation and

productivity through technology.
- JW Roberts, GDT president

AGENDA
Who is GDT?
SAP Footprint at GDT
Why SAP S/4HANA?
Implementation Approach
Benefits seen already
Lessons learned and next steps

Who is GDT
GDT SPECIALIZES in designing, building, and delivering best-of-breed
technology solutions that fit the needs of our customers.
GDT DELIVERS increased resource productivity and powerful, scalable IT
ecosystems that realize the vision of both IT professionals and business
leaders.
GDT is an award-winning and leading Cisco VAR.

GDT ACCELERATES business outcomes.

Solutions
GDT transforms the systems that support
the tasks of today and tomorrow.
DESIGN IT. The powerful and scalable IT ecosystems we design, realize the
vision of both business leaders and IT professionals and increase resource
productivity.
BUILD IT. GDT stages and tests our best-of-breed technology solutions in
state-of-the-art facilities to ensure the continuation of a clients business
operation.
DELIVER IT. Turnkey installations. Knowledge transfer and training. Satisfied
clients that meet their business objectives.

SAP footprint at GDT

SAP S/4HANA SAP Products implemented

ECC 6.0
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)
SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP Fiori UX
Process Orchestration (PO)
Solution Manager

Cisco UCS Appliance for SAP HANA

Cisco UCS B series for application servers running virtualized

Sandbox
Development
Production
DR
Quality Assurance

Server platform
Landscape

Why SAP S/4HANA?

GDT has and always will be on the cutting edge of technology and
deliver the best of breed to our customers
Therefore we wanted to learn ourselves how to implement and
manage the best in class ERP solution
SAP S/4HANA brought so many benefits to GDT
- Financials across the organization
- Real-time insights for executives
- Enhanced business processes
- Enhanced reporting
- Reduced footprint with regards to hardware
Allowed GDT to connect devices, people and our customers more
effectively
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Implementation Approach
GDT utilized the SAP Activate Methodology

Benefits seen already

Executives have visibility for the whole process Quote to cash

Enhanced business processes
No more batch processing!! YEAH!
Increased data integrity
Increased educated decisions from executives across the
organization
Segregate roles and responsibilities more effectively
Joined the organization departments together
Project managers now have financials across projects from beginning
to end
Streamlined the sales process
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Lessons learned
Make sure you pick the right SI partner for your organization
Allocate more time on data conversion, blueprinting, and realization
Make sure all business units are represented and involved in the entire
process

Next steps
Implement SAP CRM
Implement hybris
Implement Concur
Increase the reporting with SAP BusinessObjects
Build more mobile apps for remote workers
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