Usability Accelerates with Automation

Since you're in the SAP world, you know that everyone has to have a name for everything. It's an occupational hazard, and we do our best not to add more acronyms to your word pile. But sometimes a concept cries out for special recognition. So let us introduce you to PAFA.

PAFA represents Whitaker-Taylor's fast-track approach for improving SAP HCM and SAP Financials usability. It's shorthand for Process Automation Feasibility Assessment, so you can understand why we coined the snappy acronym. Here's the skinny on what PAFA does:

Revives Usability
• The usability of SAP stems not only from the software's ability to perform business tasks. Usability comes to life as users lean more heavily on the software to do their jobs. The more they embrace SAP for all facets of their work, the greater the return. PAFA
  ferrets out the degree of use and identifies such bottlenecks as users working outside
  the system, users lacking sufficient training and users bogging down in the proliferation
  of third-party applications.

Identifies Improvements
• PAFA provides a fast way to identify meaningful systems improvements. By uncovering usability issues, we identify options for automating HR and Accounting business processes. The payoff is more efficient SAP performance.

Evaluates Effort
• We capture data on all your HCM and Accounting activities and consider the work that you're doing within the framework of a cost/benefit analysis. Based on this analysis, we weigh the merit of new approaches and summarize our findings for internal staff.

Extends ROI
• Ultimately, PAFA points the way to greater return on your SAP HCM and SAP Financials investment. That's the foundation of why we conduct an automation assessment. Of course, the final choices are yours, and we prepare a functional and technical blueprint to guide the selected business process-automation initiatives.

We designed PAFA to benefit companies who currently use SAP HCM or SAP Financials. Our assessment tools draw from our deep experience with the HR functions of SAP, but we don't conduct the assessment in a vacuum. We immerse ourselves in your business space.

Our assessment begins with Whitaker-Taylor subject-matter experts who meet with your team in conference sessions. There, we uncover hidden opportunities for optimizing SAP. We jointly explore your existing business-process bottlenecks while refining the assessment scope.

As with our Production Support, Skills Development and other Consulting Services, we target your complete satisfaction. With Whitaker-Taylor, usability starts with support, continues with skills development and accelerates with automation.