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Application Consolidation at Evonik

European chemical, utilities and real estate conglomerate, Evonik Industries, pinpoints application consolidation opportunities and economies of scale with planningIT.

“By documenting applications in planningIT you can see everything from a process-related perspective which lets you easily identify redundancies or areas you may harmonize or consolidate applications."


  • Project Goal: Gain economies of scale of IT support across heterogeneous businesses
  • IT Snapshot: Heterogeneous landscape with 88 SAP applications in place including 5 major ones

Project

Evonik is an international industrial group with conglomerated business areas Chemicals, Energy, and Real Estate. Much of the company’s growth is owing to mergers and acquisitions that has resulted in a high degree of IT heterogeneity. Evonik required transparency over the application landscape to make quick and informed decisions on:

  • How can the effort and time to consolidate financial data be reduced?
  • Which of the 88 SAP systems in place are performing the same task?
  • What areas can be consolidated and what will be the impact?
  • What savings can be made by reducing interfaces between and maintenance of redundant or overlapping applications?
  • How can IT transparency be retained and planning be improved continuously over time?


Evonik uses the standard methodology delivered with planningIT to analyze and compare SAP systems and other appliations at component module level in business support maps. planningIT's integrated Project portfolio management capabilities allow them to completely map processes from demand to budget giving the planning and strategy stakeholders at Evonik an integrated view of the whole IT landscape.

Benefits

  • planningIT used to honor heterogeneity of businesses but to identify consolidation opportunities and economies of scale in IT
  • Successfully achieved information transparency of SAP landscape to implement cost-cutting consolidation plan
  • Achieved rapid integration of SAP template implementations into a common process for analysis
  • Portfolio optimization enabled through establishment of common project approval process for all businesses


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