Smart Development Works

Vision & Mission

SNV is dedicated to a society in which all people, irrespective of race, class or gender, enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development.

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Agriculture

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Renewable Energy

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Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

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working in …

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39countries

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1million

50years

2000local

organisations

2000professional

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Funders

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Partners

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Organisational Change

• From 100% Subsidy (2011) to 0% in 2016

• From 2016 onwards: 100% project funding

• More focus on Project management

• More focus on efficiency and cost reduction

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IT Infrastructure Change

• New IT developments:

• Cloud

• Use of best practices vs tailor made solutions

• SAP ECC as a legacy from the past

• Re-configuration of SAP ECC to make a match with the new SNV: comparable with new implementation project

• SAP Bydesign, a better match with SNV’s practice

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Why cloud?

• Location independent

• Time independent

• Device independent

• Pay per use

• No HW-infrastructure

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What in the cloud?

• We started with:• Back up

• Mail filter

• Website

• Salesforce

• Current projects: • Office 365

• SAP ByDesign

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ByDesign Project

• Feasibility study and Proof of Concept (2014)

• Dec 2014: GO

• Implementation 2015

• Partial go life: 1-10-2015

• Full go life: 1-1-2016

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Lessons learned

• This is NOT an IT Project

• Involvement of Key users and Management (Business Process Owners)

• It takes time to take (organizational/process) decisions

• Important message:

If there is a gap, first try to change the process, if that is not possible, then change the system.

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