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Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP Activate

By : Vinay Singh
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Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP Activate

By: Vinay Singh

Overview of this book

It has been a general observation that most SAP consultants and professionals are used to the conventional waterfall methodology. Traditionally, this method has been there for ages and we all grew up learning about it and started practicing it in real world. The evolution of agile methodology has revolutionized the way we manage our projects and businesses. SAP Activate is an innovative, next generation business suite that allows producing working deliverables straight away. Manage your SAP Project with SAP Activate, will take your learning to the next level. The book promises to make you understand and practice the SAP Activate Framework. The focus is to take you on a journey of all the phases of SAP Activate methodology and make you understand all the phases with real time project examples. The author explains how SAP Activate methodology can be used through real-world use cases, with a comprehensive discussion on Agile and Scrum, in the context of SAP Project. You will get familiar with SAP S4HANA which is an incredibly innovative platform for businesses which can store business data, interpret it, analyze it, process it in real time, and use it when it's needed depending upon the business requirement.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Introduction to SAP Activate and its three pillars


The SAP Activate methodology is a modular and agile framework, which can be used for the following purposes:

  • Implementation or migration of SAP systems (with additional focus on SAP S/4HANA)
  • A unique combination of SAP best practices, methodology, and guided configuration
  • System conversion or a transformation of a larger landscape
  • It is the fastest way to simplify your operations with or without SAP S/4HANA

The salient features of SAP Activate are as follows:

  • It delivers ready-to-run business processes optimized for SAP S/4HANA with a reference solution
  • It has a set of tools for an assisted implementation, covering everything from the initial implementation of a project to running in a production environment and beyond
  • It accelerates the initial implementation of SAP S/4HANA and is designed for continuous innovation
  • It is the combination of SAP best practices, tools for an assisted implementation, and an agile methodology to simplify the adaptation of SAP S/4HANA
  • It facilitates different starting points for customers to move to S/4HANA—new implementation, system conversion, and landscape transformation
  • It uses a single methodology for all deployment modes—cloud, premise, and hybrid

Three pillars

SAP best practices, guided configuration, and SAP Activate methodology form the three pillars for SAP Activate, with each bringing special capabilities along with it. In the following diagram, we have jotted down some of the key capabilities that each of these provides to SAP Activate:

Three pillars of SAP Activate

Let's go a step further and see how these three pillars (SAP Activate overall) support customers' adoption scenarios (details of scenarios are discussed separately):

New implementation

System conversion

Landscape transformation

SAP Activate - best practices

Supported

Migration and cloud integration

Supports use cases, such as migration and cloud integration, company code carves out

SAP Activate - methodology

Supported

Supported

Supported

SAP Activate - guided configuration

Supported

Not applicable

Applicable if SAP best practices are used for implementation

Table: Three pillars supporting different scenarios

There are three scenarios for the transition to SAP S/4HANA. Let's see the three scenarios and find out the innovation that SAP Activate brings with it for these scenarios.