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Hello Everyone, SAP Practice Newsletter, PULSE, April 2008 Edition received good feedback, comments and suggestions from all of you. This second edition for May 2008 will provide updates on the activities we have completed in May 08, activities we are currently working on as a team and provide highlights on the activities that are planned for in future. We seek your inputs and feedback to enhance this newsletter and make it a successful communication tool for the practice. Thanks, Bhalchandra Bhosale Sr. Vice President - Global SAP Practice

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Organization/ Practice Updates

Some of the prominent practice activities during Month of May were: V2R project kick-off for Solution Manager. We will be building POC for prominent functionalities in Solution Manager which are Service Desk Management, Change Request Management and Documentation. Ratnaker Pendyala is leading this initiative with active contributions from India and US team members. V2R project kick-off for CRM Service: We will be building POC for prominent functionalities in CRM Service which are Service Contracts Management, Service Order Management, Installed Base Management, Billing, Complaints & Returns, Customer Accounts Management and Product Master Management. This initiative is being lead by Rakesh Jangid with active contributions from India and US team members. We will also be configuring IC web client for various scenarios listed above CRM service under this initiative. Configuration of IC Web Client is being led by Neil Dash along with India and US team members. V2R project kick-off for CRM eCommerce: We will be building end-to-end Sales order processing scenario which includes product selection from catalogue, product catalogue search, internet pricing, sales order creation, product modeling, internet customer self service, B2C customer registration, availability check, credit check processes. Surya Rao is leading this initiative with team members from India and US. We have progressed significantly on TMS 6.0 POC building initiative. The activities completed are, system installation, master data integration between TMS-ECC, stand alone transportation processes configuration in TMS, Netweaver business client installation etc.. There are still significant technical challenges we are going through on the TMS-ECC integration side. Team members from functional area, Techincal/netweaver area, basis area are working diligently for past 4 weeks to resolve these challenges. Efforts being put in by all team members are admirable. We are confident that we shall be resolving these challenges pretty soon. Supply chain team continued to work diligently and very hard on various on various scenarios in APO-DP, SNP, PPDS and GATP. We are ready with the system demo. Shortly we will be conduction training session for broader audience. SCM team st had a target of making system demo ready by 1 week of next month for customer demonstration, which is achieved by SCM team. Kudos to all SCM team members for their tireless efforts to make demo ready in all APO suite of products. We have conducted SNC 2007 training/awareness sessions for SNC team members. We will be starting V2R SNC project during this month. Venkat Kanchadapu will be leading this effort with team members from India and US. We continued to work on GTS POC preparation on latest GTS release 7.1 for various global trade scenarios on our internal landscape. We have conducted GTS demo for one of the multinational companies and subsequently conducted GTS requirements gathering workshop. Akhilesh Sinha is leading GTS initiative and working with active contributions from India and US team members. We are also working on to create requirements gathering templates for each area in SCM and CRM including upgrades. This is part of solution for accelerated implementations. Our competency leads are working diligently to come up it.

Contents
Organization/ Practice Updates Accomplishments Initiatives

Practice Presales Updates Initiatives

Project Updates Projects Delivered New Wins & Initiatives

Events & News

The template on Livestock (Hatcheries) Industry vertical is progressing well. Completed most of the documentation. This project will be completed by the end of June 2008 Musali Reddy Yeddula conducted training on Batch Management for SCM & CRM. . WebEx session was also arranged for enabling associates at Hyderabad site 4 of our associates from Logistics practice are participating in SRM partner testing program at SAP Labs, Bangalore. This program will be concluded by the end of June 08. This program provides an in-depth knowledge of SRM 7.0 functionalities and facilitates the growth of SRM competency

In Intelligroup, we started many eSOA initiatives in April 2008 and we also take pride in stating the significant achievement on SAP selecting Intelligroup as the Finalist for the Pinnacle Awards 2008 in the most coveted category: Enterprise SOA Thought Leadership for Services Partners. As these initiatives have just begun, we are still in process of developing more talent and participation for this practice and encourage the interested aspirants to come forward. The following ESOA Champions have been nominated from respective practices so far: Oracle Practice: Suresh Matkar, Neeraj Ramani E-business Practice: Gopalkrishna Sattiraju Murthy, Diwakar Mahanthi Testing Practice: Amarnath Varanasi SAP Practice: Feroz Khan, Lakshmi Munnungi, Venkat Marni, Arvind Neelakantan, Ajith Nallari, Sameer Shadab, Prasanna Gollapudi, Ashutosh Mutsaddi, Satish Ananthakrishnan This list is expected to grow continuously and rapidly in the coming months as we solidify the practice initiative and its activities going forward.

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 We are actively working on establishing the training and demo landscape for SOA Middleware, Composition & Modeling Tools and Business Process Management engine with business rules etc. from main product vendors such as SAP, Oracle & Microsoft. Venkat Marni from NetWeaver Practice has already completed the SAP PI 7.1 training available for ramp-up partners. We will seek his help and conduct internal training sessions to reciprocate that knowledge across SAP Practice. Marketing & Alliances Team conducted the first Analyst briefing with Ian Finley from AMR research on March 25. The second one was conducted with Paolo Malinverno from Gartner who focuses on mainly SOA Governance. We validated our thought process on the ESOA initiatives at Intelligroup and had received a positive feedback from both on our directions & thought leadership in this area. eSOA teams are actively working with Logistics Practice to enable the SOA based application: Transportation Management 6.0 within Intelligroup internal landscape. Arvind Neelakantan is managing the eSOA aspect for this initiative. eSOA Awareness session was conducted for all the Sales/CSEs in the past. Now we would like to leverage our internal e-learning platform to more effectively educate our field forces and make sure everyone understands the basics of SOA

The Bengaluru SAPNTW team had organized a team outing team which comprised of HR and SAP team members (Jiby, Maninder, Aditya Divakar, Shiva Krishna Nagaraj, Bhaskar Shah, Kundan Jha) on 24th May, 2008 at a beautiful resort in the outskirts of Bengaluru. This was a fun filled day with over 80 associates of the SAP team participating in the event. The activities included team building activities like mini Olympics.

Basis Practice had many competency related activities in May 2008 and following are some important ones: Q2 Training calendar published for the practice. This is a combination of Advanced Basis, NetWeaver, Security and Data Management courses designed to keep our consultants up-to-date on these skills. Training sessions were conducted on SAP Upgrade, GRC Compliance Calibrator, Microsoft Duet and Enterprise Portal and were well attended.

The monthly SAPNTW Practice meeting was held on May 27, 2008 at Hyderabad with about 90 associates. We also had celebrations of birthdays and service anniversaries. A quick update on the NTW practice and SDN-top contributors was presented. The meeting ended with the Managers of SAP throwing Technical Nuggets to the team and a Q&A session.

Finance Competency had a major push and activities on sales offering around CPM. Both onsite and offshore team members from Finance practice participated in this initiative. Sales force enablement presentations will be made in the month of June 2008 to all sales regions. Following are some of the competency initiatives that Netweaver Practice teams worked on. ABAP Intelligroup Certification Program (ICP) Review and Re scoping. ABAP Reusable Code Catalogue (RCC) Solution Tracker Completed - On track EP MOSS Interoperability Solution Offering 60 % complete - Development is on track PI EDI Accelerated Maps Development on track RFID/AII evaluation : Identified and Contacted Partner for Readers and Tags integration The xMII competency has planned its first demo and th training on May 24 for the Practice Team. Lanka Murthy would be conducting a SAP Portal session th for the Joy Mining team on 28 May. The Portal demo for SRM is completed by the Portal Competency team which involved the SRM Business Package and enabling SRM Analytics. The Portal competency leads are involved in the AIF/GP project being delivered for HTI.

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Practice Presales Updates

SAP BI Practice was involved in many presales initiatives. Following are some of the key ones. Fender Musicals We have successfully completed our first pilot dashboard project using business objects Xcelcius tool. This Sales & Operations Dashboard will provide complete 360 degrees view of operational performance of fender by Product lines, starting from Budget, Forecast, Orders, Delivery, Inventory and Sales with variances and Order fulfillment rate (Revenue recognition) by product line. Next step would be acquiring software and start the project for top management. This project also demonstrated great collaboration and synchronization between onsite and offshore team members. Magellan We have presented our dashboard capabilities on supply chain to the CIO. Dashboard @ Fender was demonstrated and Customer was very impressed with our approach. CIBA Vision We have submitted SOW for AMS assessment of their existing BI system. The scope includes support, development and optimization and will have more offshore component.

companies in North America. A 2-day Data Management Workshop was conducted for CIBA vision to lay down a roadmap for their Archiving/DaRT implementation. SAP BI Practice completed multiple Sales awareness sessions on BI service offerings with Midwest, Southeast and North East teams. Meetings with west coast and strategic accounts were planned in June. During these interactive sessions, we covered the services, market potential & dynamics, overview of SAP BI Business Objects roadmap and our approach. SAP BI Practice has completed 3 new service offerings for SRM Analytics, SCM Analytics and AMS. The AMS offering was used for CIBA vision and Sara Lee sales meetings. Knowledge Transfer trainings on Retractors from R/3 was completed, New trainings on Outlooksoft and Xcelcius Dashboards was scheduled on May 30th. Workshop on Duet : SAP BASIS and SAP Duet teams are in the process of setting up an internal environment to conduct Duet workshops internally.

Proposals in Pipeline Major Paint Manufacturer. Intelligroup had a face to face meeting with IT team to discuss about their upgrade plans from v4.7 to ERP 6.0 (ERP Instance), Upgrade ECC 5.0 to ERP 6.0 (SAP HR Instance) and possible upgrade of BW v3.5 upgrade to BI v7.0. Intelligroup need to propose a complete Upgrade roadmap considering Unicode in scope and carry a Upgrade assessment. Largest Gelatin Capsule Manufacturer. Intelligroup had a face to face meeting with client to discuss the upgrade proposal submitted for v4.7 upgrade to ERP 6.0 along with Unicode. Based on the discussion we need revert with the commercials for the Upgrade along with some clarifications required. Eastman, TN Estimates provided for SSO and NWDI, customer accepted and scope is being finalized. Professional Consulting Co. Potential ABAP Development opportunity to staff multiple positions for ABAP development. Customer is a SAP service provider for European clients like Airbus and they intend to use our services (FTE) to manage their growth in India development center.This lead came to us from SAP AG. Tire Manufacturer, OH Presented Intelligroups capabilities in GTS, xMII and MDM. Team is working with sales team in Midwest and also customer to finalize on next steps. Polymers Manufacturer.VA Customer is planning to have a customer Portal project that would leverage SAP Portal and CRM. Intelligroup is working on understanding the requirement and responding to the RFI on this upgrade assessment work which will be taken up immediately in the next one or two weeks. Basis and Unicode capability presentation was done for a Major Pharmaceutical Company in NJ, Cleaning equipment manufacturer in Midwest and an Automobile manufacturing

Trainings Conducted in May 2008 Adobe Print Form BSP training CRM Functional Overview SAP Archiving ABAP upgrade training MDM training Business Objects Training Visual Composer and WAD Training Solution manager overview for functional and technical Practices FS-CD Training is being conducted for First batch on FS-CD. Subramanyam Rachapudi (HYD) is handling the training and is expected to complete the training this month. Finance Practice is planning to conduct second batch of training next month.

giant in the Southeast. Archiving proposals were submitted to 2 midsize

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Project Updates
Projects delivered successfully
Magellan France Roll-out this project went live successfully. We have delivered this project in record time of 4 months. Hatsoff to all team members. This project was led by Rahul Bhosale with team members Bhushan Kommaraju Satya, Boopathi Thangavel; Chandra Sekhar Atakari, Gunasekhar Bhavanasi, Kalpana Tyagi, Krishna Rao Kothlapuram, Kumar Subramanian Arcot, Mahesh Babu Srikakollu, Moosa Haroon, Padmanabha Raju Upendram, Prasad Pendse, Sameer Rahim Shadab, Sivaramamoorthy Puligandla, Sreenivasulu Gurijala, Sujani Medabalimi. Amcor R/3 Upgrade Successful upgrade to ECC 6.0 on time with in budget. This is first upgrade project we have executed with SAP America. Customer is highly impressed with our deliverables. The project was led by Krishnan Mahadevan with team members Badrinath Gadamchetty, Surya Seemakurty, Shalini Tripathi, Abhijit Mallik, Raja Bathula, VinayaKumar Gyara. Successfully completed SRM testing project at Convergys, Bangalore We have successfully completed the SEM-BCS and BPS implementation at Momentive Performance Material (MPM), this is our first end to end implementation of SEM-BCS and BPS. Sekar Tiruchanur was instrumental in making this project success with timely delivery and smooth transition to their closing cycle. Carrier Inc project went live in May 2008, Carrier is part of UTC group. We implemented GL, AR, COPA, PC and CM as part of this project. Gustavo Gordon was working on this project for close to 18 months, his expertise and capabilities were highly appreciated by the client. th BMS upgrade project went live on 27 May, they upgraded their system to ECC6. Intelligroup provided resources to help in upgrade especially in the testing area. Sridhar Vasudevan was part of the upgrade team and worked close with the client team in making the financial system error proof. T-Mobile archiving project went live along with their Dart implementation, we are now working on their SAP upgrade project to ECC 6. Thanks to the effort of Vipin and Srinivas Bandi we were able to complete the project on time. Successful delivery of this project is going to help us with some additional projects at T-Mobile. Successfully completed the Convergys DuPont testing. We were working on HCM testing that is being done from off-shore, We have close to 10 consultants working on this assignment. We have gone live with Belco upgrade project, this is our first Upgrade project that was delivered completely from offshore. With the help of this project we can look forward to more and more such upgrades that can help reduce the cost to the customer. KSB India's REL-2 (Release-2) roll-out project kicked off in Coimbatore. KSB India's Rel-1 was for Pune and Rel-2 involves Coimbatore and Nasik plants of KSB. The modules involved are: FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, QM, IM, ABAP. The project is expected to go live on 31st March/1st April 2009. Second phase of Travel management reporting project at Apple Vacations was started for multiple locations. Ramkumar M and Pushparaj Laxman were recognized by client for their efforts. First phase of BI sales reporting at 2wire is scheduled th to Go-live on May 30 , 2008 Completed the Harrow eLearning project Lundbeck, Denmark: Went live with one of the first duet implementation project.

New Wins / Initiatives

Mayo Clinic We have started the BI 7.0 th optimization project on May 19 with portal and basis scope. Aspen Marketing We have started with one BI th onsite resource on May 14 to fix immediate reporting issues and also gave proposal on optimization as next step. T-Mobile ECC6 Upgrade- This is a significant initiative involving several parallel projects, complex interfaces and a huge database size (~10TB). Work is underway with the upgrade activities. T-Mobile DaRT project - A milestone was also achieved by Vipin Singh and his team when the DaRT (Data Retention Tool) implementation went live. This is SAPs solution for supporting IRS Tax Audits and was accomplished on time. Joy Global BI Upgrade- A two-day onsite assessment was carried out by Mehul Shah to determine the security setup and recommend a roadmap to the client for a successful implementation of the new BI 7.0 authorization model. GTS System Setup for WR Grace : Weve won the Installation services for performing the initial setup for GTS at WR Grace . FMC Technologies Complete APO suite implementation. We will be implementing APO SNP, PPDS and GATP in phase 1 and we will be implementing APO-DP in phase 2. Entire SCMAPO team members have done phenomenal job during 2 day workshop for FMC which got is this deal. Team has put in significant time, efforts and hard work to win this project. Team members for pre-sales initiative are Ajay Deshpande, Firoze Mithaiwala, Sanjay Agrawal, Anand Srinivasan, Kishore Kulkarni, Venkat Kanchadapu, Saravana Venkatesa, Tamil Mohan, Kiran Adikacherla, Janakiram Katakam, Sayeed Mohammed. There was great support from Harish Chava, Chandra Sekhar Chaparala, and Pradeep Soma Kumar for working with SCM team to make sure that SCM system is available for demo. Hershey GTS implementation This is significant win for us as this will be completely owned by us. We will commence this GTS implementation in first week of July. This presales initiative was led by Akhilesh Sinha from practice

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with other GTS team members.

Team Picture

Joy Global BI Upgrade: This effort is focused around upgrading the existing BI system to BI7 in Joys complex landscape. This is an active project and has its own challenges around change control. Joy Global Proof of concept for Unicode conversion: This involves providing an idea of the complexity in enabling Unicode within the existing 4.7 system. This proof of concept will lay the platform for the actual remediation and testing effort going forward.
Radisys Upgrade: This ECC 6 upgrade project is a new win and would be executed based on the onsite-offshore delivery model. Europackaging UK Support Package Implementation: This was a new win for us in implementing support packs and our HotPac Analyzer Tool was leveraged extensively for this. HADCO, KSA, ECC 6.0 Implementation Project kicked off. This will be the first implementation in Poultry Industry in Saudi Arabia. The scope of the project is: FI, CO, MM, PP, PS, SD, PM, QM, Basis, and ABAP. The team is led by Natarajan Namasivayam and comprises of Subrahmanya Sarma Tadikonda (FI), Krishna Mohan Sarma MV (PM), Murali Krishna Jonnalagadda (SD), Chakrapani Koosam (QM), Subrahmanyam Reddy Kandati (CO), Kali Naga Charan Upendram (PP), Krishna Rao Paidipalli (PP), Anandamurthy Ramachandra (MM), Uma Maheswara Rao Gobbaka (PS), and Sahabuddin Syed (Basis). Order to Cash EDI Dashboard project was also completed at Magellan Navigation. Following eSOA projects are currently in various stages of delivery. Global Distribution System migration from IBM WebSphere to SAP PI at KC Data (Apple Vacation) Porting of Collaboration Workspace from SAP to NetWeaver CE 7.1 at SAP COIL, Palo Alto SAP PI Implmentation for T Mobile

Names from left to right... Jai Kishore, Robbie Maupin, Ramesh Grandhi, Harish Gupta, Ravi Vempati, Biju Panicker, Chandra Chaparala, Jim Shaffner, Dave Tessendorf, Rajsekhar Atmakuri

SNC 2007 for GE Fanuc. This is one of the greatest achievements for Intelligroup. We have implemented SNC 2007 while it was in Ramp-up. Team had to go through lot of challenges to make the system work. SAP has released over 100 OSS notes based on our inputs during this project.

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Events & News

ASUG We have presented BI 7.0 technical upgrade success story at Hitachi Europe at ASUG annual conference on May 06th. Forest City IT team attended the session, shown interest and asked to share our capabilities and differentiators. As a key initiative from ESOA Practice, we were the ONLY SI Partner selected by ASUG to conduct a 5 session webcast series on XI/PI. As part of this webcast series, Intelligroup conducted 3 sessions with our customers including Sharp Electronics, LSI Logic and Magellan Navigation in this webcast series while opening session was done by SAP and EDI session was conducted by SeeBurger. Following is the link to SDN blog on this webcast: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/8853 March 12th 2008, 2 p.m. EDT / 1 p.m. CDT/ 11 a.m. PDT ESOA Success story - Publishing and Consuming Services using PI Speakers - Vin Mohite, SHARP electronics and Liladhar Bagad, Intelligroup (Sharp Electronics won the ESOA showcase contest at SAP TechEd07) March 26th, 2008, 2 p.m. EDT / 1 p.m. CDT/ 11 a.m. PDT XI/PI Implementation strategy Speakers - Chip Harring, LSI Logic and Liladhar Bagad April 2nd, 2008, 2 p.m. EDT / 1 p.m. CDT/ 11 a.m. PDT Enabling Business Network Transformation using SAPs Process Integration Platform Speakers Satya Prakash Avala, Narinder Prashar from Magellan GPS and Liladhar Bagad All the session presentations and webcast recordings are available on ASUG website. We participated in second Face-To-Face Meeting of CAG Heterogeneous Landscapes and PTLC Meeting in SAP Labs, Bangalore on April 23, 2008. Ajith Nallari and Sameer Shadab from our India organization, represented Intelligroup in this meeting where SAP discussed their strategy on future composite development, Enterprise Services Repository & Process Integration 7.1.1 along with the next generation Business Process Management integrated with Business Rules engine: Project Galaxy. May 13: CAG Heterogeneous (e)SOA Landscapes Face2Face Meeting happened at SAP COIL in Palo Alto. Intelligroup is the only SI who would be presenting SOA implementation experience from the Apple Vacations project to highlight current product limitations and also help SAP to drive future product roadmap. Venkat Marni has done an excellent job in representing Intelligroup here and this session became the highlight of the day. We also understood the iTKO Product Solution and demo which is focused on SOA Testing during this meeting. Another important aspect covered in this meeting was the Upgrade from older NetWeaver XI 3.0 release to SOA based PI 7.1 release. We will need to have more focus on this as it would be an opportunity to embark upon at many existing customers having XI and looking for leveraging the SOA features in PI 7.1. May 18-21: Europe - Sapphire annual conference & Pinnacle Awards Ceremony at Berlin. May 19: Second Face2Face meeting of Community Definition Group for Enterprise Services Bundles on Sales Order Cockpit: Goal is to provide a solution that delivers a new tool a sales order cockpit / monitor supporting the every-day-activities to keep track of the pending orders and to find products in the distribution network to fulfill the pending orders - on one central monitor that offers the possibility to change information on the screen or to jump to related application e.g. transportation opportunities / supply chain management. May 27 June 10: Enterprise SOA Boot Camp at SAP Labs, Bangalore With the support and initiative from Marketing and Alliances Team, we are conducting an external TechTarget Webcast on June 24th o Topic: SOA Enabled Business Network Transformation in Heterogeneous Landscapes o Speakers: Rogy Varghese (Architect, Apple Vacations), Dion Graham (VP, SAP) We had five sessions (Speaker slots) at ASUG/Sapphire. We had overwhelming attendance to all of these sessions conducted by our Practice and delivery leaders along with customer. Complexities and Optimization Opportunities in Implementing SAP Warehouse Management at Elpida Memory presented by Sivakumar Gurupackiam. SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Upgrade and Utlization at Hitachi Europe Ltd. Presented by Vijay Reddy Gondesi, Enterprise Widgets: Insight into Advantages and Usage presented by Prasanna Gollapudi. 2Wire Success Story: Rapid Remote APO Technical Upgrade from SAP Supply Chain Mangement 4.0 to 5.0 presented by Rahul Bhosale / Ravi Vaidya. Technical Upgrade from SAP r/3 to SAP ECC & Testing Automation presented by Srinivas Vankamamidi

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Updates from SAP The new edition of the SAP NetWeaver Technology Map (Edition 2008) SAP has released the new edition of the SAP NetWeaver Technology Map (Edition 2008). The new edition of the SAP NetWeaver Technology Map has a simplified, capability-based structure, an alternative to the former scenarios-based approach. Also please note that the capability structure defined in the new technology map is the foundation for SAP NetWeaver-related navigation structures. A Fresh Look for a Better User Experience. Shaving kilobytes off images to save precious time, and matching design with function the SAP User Experience - The new signature design, widely known inside SAP by its code-name, Nova, made its big debut at SAPPHIRE 2008 in Orlando, Florida, draped on products such as SAP Customer Relationship Management 2007 (SAP CRM), SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business All-in-One, as well as on SAP Graphical User Interface (SAP GUI). SAPs Acquisition of Business objects has started coming out with multiple joint offerings. . Packages from SAP and Business Objects leverage the expertise of two leaders in the enterprise software industry to produce offerings unmatched in making employees more self-sufficient in a constantly changing work environment. At the same time, these packages empower IT organization with a strong and agile infrastructure, so that it can become a strategic partner of the business by focusing on the intelligent use of information. Some Key joint offerings are o o o o o o Financial Performance Management (FPM) Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Enterprise Query, Reporting and Analysis Visualization and Reporting Master Data Services Data Integration and Data Quality Management

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