.CONTEXT/INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The European Commission's financial and accounting management is supported by a corporate information system known as ABAC. It consists mainly of ABAC Accounting (SAP ECC-based), ABAC Workflow (in-house developed using Oracle database, WebLogic and JAVA) and ABAC SAM (SAP ECC-based). Furthermore, it includes the ABAC Data Warehouse (in-house developed using Oracle database and SAP Business Objects reporting) and a middleware (SAP PI service bus, Oracle service bus). The Directorate General for Budget (hereinafter BUDG) supervises the continuity and reliability of ABAC, plans the future evolution of ABAC, strives for its continuous improvement, and ensures the compliancy with the Financial Regulation and Accounting Rules. As detailed in the business case on the modernization of the corporate finance system, BUDG will modernize ABAC to come to a new single Finance Platform based on S/4HANA (hereinafter S4H), this project is code-named SUMMA (originally ABAC2). Implementing this platform will help BUDG to make its financial IT landscape futureready, improve its user experience, increase its capacity to process data and strengthen control of available data, raise cost-effectiveness, support reliable, consistent, and timely information, and allow for predictive analytics and flexible modifications - whilst driving system robustness and business continuity. However, the success of this implementation relies greatly on the adoption of S4H's standard processes and industry best practices by keeping any customizations or developments to the bare minimum. The program is structured in multiple phases following the SAP ACTIVATE methodology and the objective of this contract is to provide IT services and support for the overall architecture of SUMMA, the Solution Design and the Realize phases. The resource has to work in the accountancy area, IT, SAP-minded area of DG BUDG – European Commission. http://ec.Europa.Eu/budget/biblio/documents/regulations/regulations_en.Cfm Specific Knowledge and Skills: In addition to the Knowledge and Skills, 4 of the following: (1) Expertise in SAP HANA database (3) Expertise in architecting a system running HANA and/or S/4HANA on-premises (private cloud platform), or on public cloud (Amazon AWS or Azure) or else on SAP Cloud Platform. (8) Expertise in XML technologies (XML schemas, XSLT, Xquery, ...) or JSON datainterchange format; (17) Working knowledge of one of the following databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite WORK ENVIRONMENT/CONDITIONS As per conditions in tender documents. CLARIFICATIONS AND/OR ASSUMPTIONS DG BUDG will analyze the Specific Knowledge and Skills from the CV with regard to the missing skills in the team at the time of contracting. Hence, some of the requested specific knowledge and skills might be more or less relevant. DG BUDG keeps the right to weight them according to the actual project needs
