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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

SAP Activate for landscape transformation


Customers who would like to consolidate their existing SAP landscape or carve out selected entities or processes as part of their move to SAP S/4HANA use the SAP landscape transformation scenario of SAP S/4HANA. A typical scenario could be the consolidation of a current regional SAP business suite software landscape into one global SAP S/4HANA:

Landscape transformation specific activity in transition to SAP S/4HANA roadmap

Whenever we discuss landscape transformation, we discuss system conversion and new implementation, so the preceding figure has landscape transformation boxes (components). The landscape transformation project should not be treated as only an IT project, as it's tightly coupled with business process optimization and efficiency. There are many path options from existing system landscapes to SAP S/4HANA, so the checks, prerequisite, and action steps to follow depend on specific circumstances (depending upon where you are and what you...