If you're thinking about deploying SAP applications in your company, your first thoughts might be about increasing productivity, reducing costs and gaining strategic advantage. However, your second thought might be this: How do I do all that with the least business disruption?

That's a good question, considering the depth and breadth of SAP applications. As an enterprise suite, SAP links and tightly integrates every business process across your company. Since it touches so many business functions, the potential for problems during the implementation, management and upgrade cycles is that much greater - and there are many pitfalls along the way.

The first step to avoiding these pitfalls is to gain a full understanding of what they are.

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