This document discusses key factors for effectively planning, reducing costs and most importantly minimizing the risk of your SAP NetWeaver Upgrade.

The upgrade to SAP NetWeaver® is a major undertaking and presents a tremendous amount of risk in terms of balancing cost and performance. IT budgets are under increasing pressure, and demands for new functionality do not recede while the upgrade is going on. Predictive IT Management® help organizations reduce project risks by getting budgets, hardware sizing, and capacity right the first time. With Predictive IT Management, IT operations teams can:

• Deliver accurate, defensible cost projections to support TCO and create a more predictable IT budget planning cycle
• Guarantee SLA's by understanding the performance and scalability of the current and planned landscape
• Ensure precise alignment between the business and IT to predictably support business growth
• Make informed investment decisions and intelligently negotiate with hardware vendors to "right-size" the landscape to support business functions
• Experience significant reduction in time spent firefighting performance issues
• Minimize the investments required for a full-scale test lab for application performance
• Provide accurate predictions of application behavior as a result of cascading, cumulative changes