We offer a broad range of services, from advising and planning a digital innovation roadmap to implementing proven best practices. We also provide support for all deployment models and optimization for continuous innovation.
SAP, Cloud & Technology Strategy
Improve Performance and Efficiency.
We provide a big-picture roadmap and offer a commitment to end-to-end services, helping our clients seamlessly transition to a new way of doing business. We are able to leverage customized solutions, including in-memory technology, SAP Leonardo, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, mobile devices & apps, social media, cloud services, Internet of Things (IoT) and much more. We are the perfect partner to help businesses integrate their systems with SAP, capitalizing our exclusive tools to provide complete solutions.
Let’s Work Together To Digitally Transform Your Business With SAP Solutions.
Backup Strategies
We help organizations to choose the data to be stored in the best way using the best architecture, instruments and the most suitable ways to optimize time and costs.
Backup and disaster recovery are both of fundamental importance to implement and validate data protection policies.
Protecting, making available and restoring data restricts potential negative impacts on business productivity. Working on a good data protection activity helps companies to observe compliance and legal obligations, such as the GDPR.
The approach adopted
- Backup: Duplication of information and storage of the same.
- Recovery: Use of technologies that aim to reactivate the systems and all the infrastructure in a short time, respecting the agreed RTO and RPO times.
- Business Continuity: Guarantee the continuity of the services provided to customers and of the workflow performed.
Strategies to optimize time and costs:
- Stefanini has the answer to your data storage and recovery needs. At the same time, the extensive experience and skills accumulated out in the field allow Stefanini to help its partner in identifying the best configuration to optimize the performance of the applications installed in the corporate Storage Area Network. We define the periodic Disaster Recovery tests and the contents of the tests themselves.
- Stefanini has a significant history of success in defining, supporting and designing, for SAP ecosystems, optimal strategies and solutions for the Back-up, High availability and Business continuity (Data Guard, Always on, replication and standby mode) of our customers. We design Disaster Recovery solutions for our customers and integrate their existing plans, identifying the reference class for each individual application (Critical, Vital, Delicate or non-critical), also providing direct assistance to partners who host the Datacenters.
Project & Service Management, Training & Coaching
Portfolio of solutions and services to optimize, manage and protect applications, information and infrastructure.
Overview
We provide resources and our experience to give the customers the opportunity to enrich their know-how. Our customers are our partners. Our goal is to always provide quality and professionalism, anywhere. We manage complex technological projects and also support customers in the execution of management activities, within the scope of our skills and objectives. We provide training for internal technology teams, both through the provision of ad hoc courses and through on-the-job training sessions. Stefanini is founded on people, we believe in people, our own and those of our customers, which is why we want to develop talent, irrespective of whether they are Stefanini colleagues or the customers themselves.
Project Management
Thanks to its Project Management team, Stefanini is able to support its partner both in the management of SAP projects and in complying with time and cost constraints. In order to try to achieve the objectives within the pre-established times and costs, Stefanini provides the customer with a team made up of people with many years of experience in the sector, a team that is also capable of taking into account design risks that can only be effectively faced with the aid of consolidated cognitive experience. Digital Transformation, Intelligent Enterprise, Cloud, SAP Rise: our consultants can accompany you through the era-defining changes that your business needs to face.
We become a part of your complex management teams, using latest project management practices. We embrace SAP innovation by sharing the best approaches to guide your transformation into S/4 HANA through the adoption of the SAP ACTIVATE methodology. Agile, Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy and RUN: objective achieved. Sharing the same vocabulary, the same tools and instruments is key to a successful project. In complex areas, we provide highly trained figures who support the customer in the daily management of application maintenance and service management, as well as in the definition of procedures, while performing Quality Assurance tasks. We provide our support in defining the best strategy to make the new technologies selected by the business usable. We assist clients in complex migration and transformation projects.
Training
Over the years, Stefanini has consolidated the Stefanini Academy project, which is capable of responding to any market request relating to training in the main technology areas. We are able to provide methodologies and courses aimed at improving and increasing our partners’ know-how, from basic training to advanced courses.
Our training packages are always “customized” according to the context and the needs of the partner; in so doing, we are able to provide an effective education service, both as a training activity to complete projects, as well as the “permanent training” of technology personnel. Our trainers are, in turn, engaged in qualification and certification paths that allow them to always be up-to-date regarding market demands, especially on SAP, ORACLE and Microsoft environments, as well as on technological and methodological security, Data Bases and Virtualization.
Coaching
Stefanini has adopted the etymological meaning of this term, which is increasingly used in every area: “Coaching is a partnership relationship that is established between a coach and the customer in order to help the latter to achieve optimal results”. Faithful to this principle, in recent years Stefanini has supported various partners through personal coaching sessions aimed at defining/achieving objectives, developing and calculating infrastructure investment return, coordinating the group and improving strategies concerning management and investment in the technology area.
We have tried to enhance everything by organizing both brainstorming and discussion sessions with other actors in the field of training and through collective periodic meetings, while also leaving space for individual meetings, when necessary. The coaching techniques adopted are more result-oriented than problem-oriented, in order to help people develop a “METHOD” so that they are able to achieve more effective performances and new strategies of thinking. We provided dedicated sessions for our partners through systematic paths, with the express purpose of providing an innovative contribution to the increase and reorganization of their commercial strategies and related investments in the field of IT.
SAP Security & Authorization
Implement SAP Security Concepts To Protect Customers’ SAP Environment
Security management is a fundamental success factor
By definition, SAP systems contain corporate information and sensitive personal data, all data that must be safeguarded from improper access, managed and stored in compliance with a series of laws, regulations and frameworks relating to privacy and security. However, the task of protecting and safeguarding does not end with mere user profiling for the timely access to data, it also involves a series of activities aimed, at a technical SAP infrastructural level, at reducing the opportunities for attacks by potential hackers, implementing all the fundamental precautions for security, such as creating ACL files, encrypting communications and changing parameters. It is worth keeping in mind that security is not a tool, but a process that involves all corporate functions.
The SAP BASIS expertise gained our company over the years has allowed us to develop vertical skills in the field of perimeter security for individual SAP instances and communications between systems. To complete the range of services offered, as well as ensure efficiency, productivity and security for our partners during the implementation and management of their technology solution, Stefanini has also accumulated expertise on the use of the main cutting-edge tools in this field.
SAP Profiling Projects
The skills and experience gained on numerous Security projects allow us to deal extensively with every aspect of this type of project and to offer our skills and knowledge to our partners and their personnel. Over the years, we have gained significant expertise in the management of SAP user profiling and SAP GRC projects that allow the procedures and flows related to the customer’s business to function in an optimized and safe manner. We work in critical contexts where our groups are required to ensure compliance with regulations, for example (GDPR, SOX, ISO, GXP).
Anyone connecting to SAP systems must have all the necessary authorizations to carry out the cycle of activities for which they are responsible, but they must not be able to access or interfere with other procedures. Through innovative Secure Login solutions (SAP Single Sign-on), productivity is improved for both the user and the technology department. We protect business-critical data in SAP solutions through a single secure connection to the environment. Secure access is guaranteed by a high level of encryption, managing accesses centrally, ensuring the speeding up of activities and increasing the level of security of the entire technological structure.
Infrastructure Security/SAP Hardening
The service consists of sequential phases designed to structure analysis and implementation work tailored to the customer. Starting from an exploratory phase of the SAP systems and their specific use in the customer’s business processes, we then perform a specific security analysis of individual SAP components, so that we can outline the security level of the infrastructure with a list of weak points, vulnerabilities and consequent corrective actions.
A short interview with the customer provides a general view of the business flows of the various systems and related technologies in use. This phase is of strategic importance to properly structure the subsequent phases for the analysis and definition of security implementations.
The Details Of The Analysis
- Analysis of individual SAP systems and communication channels by BASIS experts:
- Landscape SAP ABAP
- Landscape SAP Java
- SAP Web Dispatcher
- Areas of ACL (Access Control List) analysis Creation of specific ACL rules to filter incoming communications on individual systems, blocking any unwanted or unknown calls.
- Communications encryption Implementation of SAP Cryptographic Library and Secure Network Communication (SNC) security products to ensure secure communications for communication channels between SAP server components (e.g. RFC) and with front-end devices such as the users’ SAPGUI.
- HTTPS security protocol checks for all WEB communications:
- Hardening of the Message Server and SAP Gateway components
- Encryption of network traffic through SAP Web Dispatchers
- Management of digital certificates signed by the Certification Authority (CA)
- Isolating the publication of specific pages/services shown through SAP Web Dispatcher
- Creation and analysis of SAP Early Watch (EWA) reports for the identification of any additional security parameters recommended by SAP specifically for the system in question
Data Analysis And Categorization By The Following Categories
- Alert
- Description
- Urgency/Criticality
- Implementation effort
- Impact on the Customer
Sharing of Results
Every detail of the reports is provided, including the actions to be taken weighted on the basis of the urgency/criticality of the vulnerabilities, implementation effort and impact on the customer.
This allows the shared identification of the implementations that need to be completed with a particular focus on possible impacts.
Security Measures
The last phase is a purely operational one, in which our SAP BASIS engineers implement all the agreed security solutions to achieve the desired level of security.
Tuning, Performance & Quality Assurance
Performance & Tuning are critical operations when creating operative computer systems. Sap system tuning is one of the main tasks of a system administrator.
Systematic and proactive performance optimization increases the benefits of any SAP system and reduces the cost of ownership. The consequences of poor performance tuning can cause additional work, production delays and financial loss.
Crucial success factors:
- A reduction in waiting times
- An increase in user productivity
- The optimization of technology equipment performance
The Adopted Approach
Thanks to a dedicated team and extensively tested methodology, Stefanini is able to perform tasks aimed at improving performance and optimizing information systems.
The goal we wish to pursue is that of allowing our customers’ systems to respond promptly and effectively to the stresses generated by business needs.
Thanks to decades of experience gained by our people in a vast range of SAP solutions, Stefanini consultants are specialized in carrying out the timely and detailed screening of our partner’s SAP systems and optimizing the steps necessary to ensure that the environments meet the standards required by SAP.
Virtualization
Reduce Costs And Increase Your Business With Virtualization.
Virtual infrastructures represent an advantageous solution in terms of cost reduction, server consolidation, business continuity and scalability.
Analysis And Intervention Strategies
Stefanini is able to design, plan, implement and manage a virtualization project for a corporate datacenter, operating within the limits and optimizing the available resources and budget by making the most of the latest innovative technologies and skills that can be found on the market.
Usually, the first phase of the analysis project ends with the drafting of a project document that highlights every aspect of installation, data migration, activity scheduling and staff training, as well as containing information that can be used when choosing the virtualization software.
Stefanini’s Experience
Stefanini’s personnel have successfully completed a number of projects based on the most widely available software on the market, namely VMWare, XenServer and HyperV
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