Maastricht University - Transformation to a digital university

One of the youngest universities in the Netherlands, founded in 1976.  

Why Maastricht University chose McCoy

Strategic Objectives

• Transformation to a digital university with integrated operations.

• Digitising and optimising all generic business processes, starting with the basics by implementing SAP S4/HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud and Ariba.   

McCoy as a partner

We won this European tender with what we call 'the perfect score'. According to MU, our bid was head and shoulders above the rest in terms of quality, lead time, and estimated implementation costs. Another important factor for MU was that McCoy is a one-stop shop with all the necessary expertise in-house. 

How it's benefited them so far

The project could go live in just a few months! We’re executing it according to SAP Activate phases and are now gearing up for the Deploy phase. We hosted fit-to-standard workshops to test the best practice processes and associated scope items for suitability for MU. That means we're one of the first in the Netherlands to use SAP Focused Build as a 'requirements to deploy' tool. McCoy has set up the SAP Ariba system and S/4HANA Finance for MU based on SAP Best Practices. The result is agreement and clarity on the new harmonised processes. 

How we achieved it together

• Two factors in particular contributed to the success of this project:
  Our ability to collaborate with multiple partners. It requires setting egos aside and looking at the business interest for Maastricht University.

• The Design Authority with MU, McCoy and SAP represented in it. It makes fundamental design choices, which help to keep the final solution standard. That allows us to build a future-proof application landscape.