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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 (6 chapters)

Project examples


Let's see some examples, where earlier discussed concepts were used and implemented.

Project 1 - S/4 HANA finance implementation

Challenge: The customer was running very tight on timelines. This means that it would be difficult for them to start everything from scratch and also had no time and resources to develop test plans.

Realized benefit

  • Used model company
  • Proof of concept project proved the feasibility and benefit of method used, refined the business needs and technological limitation, and paved a way for an IT project

Project scope

  • Implement data lake for the data science team using SAP HANA, SAP Vora, Hadoop, Spark, and other tools
  • One of the sources for the data lake was SAP S/4 HANA system

Implementation approach

  • Used the SAP Activate methodology with agile accelerators
  • Used scrum-based approach to implement the solution

Project 2 - Moving from legacy system to SAP SuccessFactors

The company was using a legacy system and wanted to move to SAP SuccessFactors.

Realized benefit...