Book Image

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)
1
Part 1: Overview
5
Part 2: The Journey with RISE with SAP
11
Part 3: The Way Forward: The Art of Possible

Understanding the roles and responsibilities of standard, optional, and additional services

In this section, we will walk you through the roles and responsibilities of RISE with SAP, which have been categorized by SAP into standard, optional and additional services. Organizations need to understand which activities within the technical managed services are covered by default within the contract and what other activities need to be added either as optional or additional as required. While each of the activities contributes towards the well-defined SLAs and single accountability both from a product and an infrastructure point of view, there is an additional cost involved when it comes to these optional and additional services. The following figure shows, on the left-hand side, how multiple services being performed by different vendors or having different add-ons is only going to complicate the support model with committed SLAs, whereas the right-hand side of the figure shows how a well...