SAP a new tarheel

SAP Public Services, Inc. representatives have announced what thay call in the biz “a big win.” The state of North Carolina has selected SAP and BearingPoint to modernize and streamline its human resources and payroll operations. Entitled the Building Enterprise Access for North Carolina’s Core Operating Needs project, a.k.a. the BEACON Project, the state will use SAP’s flagship ERP application for more than 80,000 state employees.

BearingPoint will be responsible for implementation services. Responsible for the choice of mySAP ERP as backbone for North Carolina administrative functions was the State Controller’s office. Naturally, the state had innumerable independent programs functioning. Some were unbelievably over thirty years old. Through SAP software, North Carolina state seeks help in state employee turnover, recruitment and retention. The state reckons that access to benefits information and inter-agency job opportunities will be improved. Additionally, the state will provide employees with 24×7 access to their personal data with an online portal and will streamline employee record handling theoretically allowing state employees to easily transfer between state agencies and facilitate career growth. By consolidating multiple legacy systems onto mySAP ERP, the state hopes to automate virtually every system. The first phase of the implementation, in which SAP is delivering the software and BearingPoint is delivering implementation services, will focus on human resources and payroll applications and is expected to go live in early 2008. SAP Public Services, Inc., is a subsidiary of SAP America, Inc.