Chieftain Solutions Limited



Chieftain Solutions can provide consulting in an efficient and diligent manner at any stage of your SAP project, from pre-planning advice, to detailed project plans, to implementation help, to go-live suggestions to on-going maintenance and support recommendations.


Consulting 

Planning

Technical and Strategic Architecture, Landscapes and Topologies, Technical Resourcing, RFP

Installations

to Version 7.1/ECC6, Industry Solutions, MCOD, SAPone, Netweaver, Interfaces

Copies

Homogenous and Heterogeneous copies, Exports/imports including Java

Upgrades

to Version 7.0 and ECC6, IS add-ons, Plug ins, Oracle

Backup and Restore

DR strategies (SPOF analysis), Tivoli, Legato, Netbackup, Omni-backup, brtools

System Tuning

Troubleshooting and Monitoring

Change management

CTO, TMS & CMS, Patch management, Governance

User Authorisation

Profile generator, Activity Groups, Central User Management, Certificate and SSO via SNC

Data migration

LSMW, Excel Loader, ETL tools,

System Security

Auditing and File Logging, VIRSA

System Interfaces

ALE, sftp, Secure Shell, Info Exchange, Connect Direct, MQ series, IHUB, XI

Web interaction

ITS, WAS, MSS/ESS, BW, EBPro, Bus Connector, JRUN, J2EE, Netweaver, EP

Data Dictionary

ABAP Diagnostics and Report Tuning

Reporting

Reporting, BEx, WAD, HRIS, Portal/i-views

Service Delivery

Create and manage relationships with offshore resources to meet SLAs

Training

Users and Support Staff (SAP accredited Basis trainer)

Documentation

Training Guides and Operation Manuals

Technical Team Leadership

Mentoring and Coaching


SAP Experience

Installs

Core R/3 versions 3.0C thru WAS-700 & Netweaver on both Unix/Linux and W2K
IS add-ins (A&D, Retail, Oil, Utilities), EBPro/J2EE/BC, BW 2.0 - BI 70 installs, SAPone/MCOD

Upgrades

Version 3.x to 4.x to mySAP to ECC6 to NW 7.x, BW 2.x to 3.x to 7.x, EBPro 3.x to 4.x to SRM 6.x

Upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit HP-UX, 32-bit to 64-bit AIX, AIX 433 to 5.2L,

Oracle migrations - 7.x to 8.x to 9.x to 10g, 32-bit to 64-bit, Oracle RAC server,

SQLServer 6.5 to SQLServer 7.x, SAP BC/MSC 3.x to 4.x, EP 6.2 to 7.x

Patches

SPS, HP, LCP & CRT loads, PI / ST-PI, Add-ons, SPAM/SAINT, XI content, EP BPs, JSMP, SDM
Various R/3 kernel, Oracle, Java, Unix and Windows patches

Copies

Homogeneous and heterogeneous system copies, Unix to NT migration, O2O,
AIX to HP transition, local/remote client copies and client transports, DB exports

Tuning

CCMS, ST03/ST04/ST06 cursor cache and Oracle analyze, OS kernel rebuilds, STAD, Wily, SMD, EP trace

Monitoring

CCMS monitoring, Luminate/BMC Patrol, Syscheck external monitors, SolMan

DBA Activities

Tablespace admin, reorgs, CBO, backups, restores, DB recovery, archiving, Legato Networker, Veritas Netbackup, Arcserve, OFS, Oracle RAC

Loading

High availability, Load balancing, App server groups, ServiceGuard, HACMP, OFS, Oracle RAC

Front End

SAPgui, WebGUI, Interactive Excel, BEx, Workplace (ESS/MSS), Portals

R/3 Internals

WBO setup, ABAP, SNOTE, authorisations and activity groups (PFCG), transport management (TMS), System security auditing, advanced user admin, advanced output management (printer and fax), Workflow, Internet Mail Gateway, SAPconnect, ICM, ICF, Unicode, Java NWDI, Java CMS, NWA, ESS/MSS, BI-accelerator, SLD, SLM, MCOD

R/3 Projects

Euro conversion, Data migration (LSMW), Y2K conformancy, ALE interfacing, Language importing (code set changes), Unicode migration, Complex Scheduling, Backup/Restore DR, HR Org Man, HCM+BI integration, SLM/SLD, NWA/portal, SNC

Training

Delivery of SAP50, BC305, BC310, BC325, BC340 and BC360 for SAP UK Limited and bespoke technical training for several clients both on and off-site.

Hardware Experience

Front End

Apple Mac, Various PCs (Compaq trained in PC maintenance), Network terminals, Sun/Wyse/NCD X-Terminals

Servers

IBM, Sun Sparc, HP-UX, HP-Alpha, Various Intel based W2K & Linux,

Miscellaneous

Cisco (various routers), Xylogics terminal/modem servers, 3-Com Netbuilder

Software Experience

O/S

AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, TRU-64, Win2003 (MCP Certified), SCO (ACE), Linux (various)
Logical Volume Manager/Disk Admin/NFS/DNS/NIS/HACMP/MC Sericeguard/MCS, NetApp OnTap

Databases

Oracle 7.x through 10g, SQLServer 6.5, Ingres 2, 4thDimension, Paradox

Applications

SAP R/3-BEx-BBP, MS-Office, Lotus Notes, Corel Office, Documentum, Quetzal, HP ITSM, Tivoli Maestro, Arcserve, Legato Networker, Veritas Netbackup, HP Omniback, TSM, ADSL, Peregrine ServiceCentre, Remedy, pcAnywhere. Livelink, Sharepoint, MQC, Net App Flexclone

Languages

Shell (Bourne & Korn), SQL, ABAP, HTML, C, M68000, Pop11, Java

Front-end Experience

Front-end

Please see our Front-end Services section


This vast array of experience, tapped from our extensive list of previous
clients, can be made available to you at a fraction of the cost of most of the large business consultancy/SAP implementation houses.