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RISE with SAP towards a Sustainable Enterprise

By : Adil Zafar, Dharma Alturi, Sanket Taur, Mihir R. Gor
Book Image

RISE with SAP towards a Sustainable Enterprise

By: Adil Zafar, Dharma Alturi, Sanket Taur, Mihir R. Gor

Overview of this book

If you’re unsure whether adopting SAP S/4HANA is the right move for your enterprise, then this book is for you. This practical and comprehensive guide will help you determine your next steps toward building a business case, while preparing you for all the possible scenarios and enabling you to make informed decisions during implementation. RISEwith SAP toward a Sustainable Enterprise is packed with clear and detailed advice, including a run-through of what it takes to design the landscape using RISE with SAP. As you go through the chapters, you’ll get a solid understanding of precisely what services are available (such as Process Discovery, data migration, the fit-to-standard approach), and which scope items on RISE with SAP should be considered, allowing you to make the most of RISE with the SAP-based model. Finally, you’ll get an overview of different industry-based use cases and how they can be brought to reality with the platform that’s set up on the RISE with SAP offering. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build a detailed business case to determine if RISE with SAP is the right transformation engine for you, along with a clear idea of optimized landscape design on RISE with SAP that addresses the pain points for your implementation and support activities.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1: Overview
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Part 2: The Journey with RISE with SAP
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Part 3: The Way Forward: The Art of Possible

Keeping the core clean

Every aspect of global business today seems to move significantly faster than 10 years ago. For on-premises enterprise systems, a clean digital core is the only way to cope with that speed. SAP’s rationale behind the “clean digital core” paradigm is simple: allow customers to extend their SAP S/4HANA software while eventually making software updates non-events. A clean core facilitates faster software deployment, as well as the easier adoption of SAP innovations, process improvements, and regulatory changes. This reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) without jeopardizing flexibility. In practical terms, keeping the core clean means the following:

  • Applying a zero-modification policy from the project’s first day
  • Eliminating enhancements that are redundant to standard code and functionality, as well as “clones” of standard code
  • Using released APIs, only leveraging the key user (in-app) extensibility of...