Norstar Consulting Group: Specialized SAP Services for Next-gen Businesses
Edmund Manrique, Partner and VP of AnalyticsNorstar Consulting Group brings more than two and a half decades of implementation experience in SAP. Norstar sets themselves apart from their competition with their ability to leverage that experience to evaluate multiple solutions and recommend the most efficient. They also have the ability to quantify the value and communicate the reasoning behind their recommendations, allowing them to leverage their approaches and garner quick results. As Edmund Manrique, Partner and VP of Analytics at Norstar, explains, “We combine our experiences and tools, our customer’s strategy, industry trends, and our pulse points with SAP to give us an advantage.”
Norstar’s three integral toolsets: the Agile toolkit, Data Trek Migration toolset, and Test Cycle Manager, work in unison to ensure that companies can seamlessly migrate their heterogenous data to a common SAP platform like S/4 HANA. The Agile toolkit has templates and accelerators that allow Norstar to leverage their experience to diagnose findings and make recommendations.
The Norstar Data Trek Migration toolset focuses on the migration of data into the SAP framework. This toolset allows the users to extract data, cleanse data, and harmonize data so it can easily align with new hierarchies and data structures while doing this in hyper fast, user friendly manner not requiring technical skillsets. This works in heterogeneous legacy sources and legacy SAP.
As the Data Trek Migration toolset creates, harmonizes, and cleanses data, Test Cycle Manager will automatically be able to test that data
The Norstar Test Cycle Manager allows customers to define data scripts, business scripts, and integration processes to enable test automation that will help a company’s project testing and allow them to do this in a repeatable operational manner. “As the Data Trek Migration toolset creates, harmonizes, and cleanses data, Test Cycle Manager will automatically be able to test that data, in multiple scenarios and environments,” says Manrique.
Norstar’s clients tend to be larger, more complex businesses that are mature in terms of SAP. One such client was a large, multi-national company with one of the highest transaction volumes using SAP. They had multiple ECC and legacy environments while acquiring multiple other entities. They knew they had challenges on the SAP side, yet they did not know the extent of those issues until Norstar conducted an assessment and prepared a business case and value proposition that included simplyfying their SAP Organizational Structure. This led to an SAP HANA S/4 migration from their old and heavily modified SAP ECC environment.
Part of the success of Norstar’s methods is the use of templates that allow them to repeat what has worked in the past saving time and money, while fostering communications between the business and IT. Norstar houses their toolsets under their Norstar Data Solutions subsidiary to maintain a deep focus on in-house R&D. Manrique says, “R&D allows focus on our toolsets, which further enables our customers and consulting practice in the field.” Add Norstar’s ability to communicate with the client, and they have a winning combination.
Company
Norstar Consulting Group
Headquarters
Alpharetta, GA
Management
Edmund Manrique, Partner and VP of Analytics
and James Weller, Managing Partner, Phil Morrison, VP of Software Solutions and Alliances
Description
Develops solutions that help companies navigate today’s complex business environment and migrate to the latest SAP solutions
