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WHITE PAPERS

Here you will find Utopia’s latest White Papers. Our library will continue to grow.

DATA STRATEGY

DATA MIGRATION

DATA QUALITY

DATA STRATEGY

	Enterprise Asset Management
	The Devil is in the Data
	This white paper explores the findings and insights gained at the conclusion of an EAM Data Analysis for a global oil and gas company. On the outset, the client sought to optimize their EAM processes, reduce inventory and improve plant maintenance and operations. They found that key business processes were compromised as a result of incomplete and inaccurate data in the company’s production ERP systems. The knowledge gained provided opportunities for process and business optimization as well as unforeseen benefits related to business insight and decision making.

	Enterprise Data Management and Leveraging SAP's EIM Solutions
	Preparing for ERP, Achieving Customer Insight, Enterprise Data Warehousing and Mergers & Acquisition An Executive Summary
	This paper will help you understand the drivers and the importance of your data as a strategic asset. We will describe the steps and approach used by SAP and Utopia to help you realize a key business goal for the creation and maintenance of clean, accurate, and relevant data in your company.

	How Utopia Complements SAP to Provide Enterprise Data Life-Cycle Management to the SAP Ecosystem
	IDC Partner Connection \| Steve White, Program Director, Software Solutions Alliance Leadership Council
	Utopia Inc., headquartered in Mundelein, Illinois, with offices in Dubai, Singapore, and Bangalore, is a systems integrator and strategic consulting firm focused on enterprise data life-cycle management (EDLM). Utopia began its partnership with SAP in 2005 and since then has engaged with the SAP ecosystem on many levels, including the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG), the SAP EcoHub, and the SAP Service Marketplace. In addition, an SAP partner services advisor (PSA) helps Utopia navigate SAP's ecosystem and highlights the most relevant resources for the company.

DATA MIGRATION

	Data Migration Management
	Sustaining data integrity after the go live and beyond
	Data migration is a key event for your enterprise. By recognizing and preparing for the critical impact that data plays during a large system roll out significant risk and costly overruns can be mitigated and eliminated. Additionally, the sustainable management of data via an EDLM strategy will not only support your data migration event, but also yield significant process improvement and financial benefits over the long term. Embracing the five phases of the Data Migration Management methodology is simple. Deploying the methodology with rigor demands an organizational commitment of operational excellence, and with that commitment the methodology delivers a new system with quality data.

DATA QUALITY

	A Case for Good Quality Data
	An ROI Calculator
	Through a few quick steps, this white paper provides a simple yet powerful framework to dimensionalize return on investment for every dollar invested in cleaning up enterprise data. What is not obvious or intuitive is that such investments often yield a return that competes with the top 10% percentile of investment opportunities on a CFOs radar company wide.

	Creating a Data Quality Strategy
	In reading this paper you can expect to learn the importance of organizational goals and the driving force behind the strategy, and how to use those goals to direct the strategy effort. From there the five aspects used to build the strategy are explored, and lastly we close the paper with a section on the implementation of the strategy.