SAP Activate Amit Amin

Methodology
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 Why does SAP need a new methodology?
 Since Decades SAP Projects were considered the most long-
running, Budget and resource consuming IT projects at big and
mid size enterprise. Time, budget and Quality were often getting
out of hand.
The  Optimize Time, People and Resources
Methodology  Change in Customer Expectations.
Story  More simplified and streamlined ways to implement SAP solutions
 Leverage SAP’s solid best practices without losing the competitive
advantage of their own expertise
 Projects with speed and agility, meeting the challenges of a fast-
changing business environment.
 Reducing Risk of the unexpected challenges of an SAP S/4HANA
implementation
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Activate
Journey of SAP SAP
Implementation Run Launch - 2016 for S4
HANA
Methodologies ASAP SAP - 2015 for
Cloud
-2007-08
Addition of
- 1992 R2 -> R3 Solution
Manager
 SAP’s 40 years of experience
Tools:
• Templates
Methodology • Questionnaires
• Checklists
• Guidebooks
• project accelerators.
Activate Guided
Configuration documents
Test scripts
Framework configuration Process diagrams

Best Practices
 SAP Activate contains complete and consistent pre-configured best
practice scenarios and functionalities, which speed up the migration
path.
The Best Practices includes the following
 Business process Structure with technical steps.
 Accelerates your project implementation.
SAP Activate  Integrated Information with other Cloud solutions, such as Ariba
Best Practice Network, Success Factors Employee Central.
 Migration documents, which help to migrate your SAP or Non-
SAP systems.
 Graphical representation of all the business process.
 Test Automation process in SAP S/4HANA.
 Pre-defined test scripts.
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 It is a set of tools, accelerators, and assets, which helps the
implementation of SAP S/4HANA. It is provided through the “Manage
Your Solution” Fiori-application.
Depending upon your landscape (On-Premise or Cloud), there are a
SAP Activate- different set of tools.
 Cloud Edition: –
Guided Self-service configuration user interface’s & expert configuration allows best
Configuration practice processes to be altered, while expert configuration allows new
process to add to the existing set.

 On-Premise Edition: –
SAP implementation guide and Solution Manager provides configuration
activities to do in-depth custom configuration.

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Activate-
Deployment
Activate Three
Pilar comparison
for various
deployment
options
SAP Activate for
Managed Cloud
and On-Premise
- Iterative
Implementation
with Frequent
Validations
Greenfield
Approach –

New
Implementation
System
Migration
Approach-
Brownfield
SAP offers Expert-Guided Implementations (EGI) powered by the SAP Enterprise
Support Academy, which are also included in the SAP Enterprise Support value
maps, to cover each phase of your conversion project, aligned with the
transition roadmap
Hybrid
Bluefield
Approach -
Combination
of Greenfield
and Brownfield
Customer
Benefits
  Highly scalable
 Only-4 Key phases – Reduced project lifecycle.
 Not more than 10 key deliverables per phase.
 Agile as a default implementation methodology.

Implementation  Built in Quality Gates

benefits
* Moving forward there will be no further content enhancements
made to Accelerated SAP 8 as all the new implementation assets
will be made available through SAP Activate framework
  Methodology Jam – the best place to get started, learn about the
methodology and collaborate with others
 Roadmap Viewer – detailed WBS for various project/solution
combinations, great for any team starting the project
Access Activate  Solution Manager 7.2 – if you are in ramp-up with this release you
can download the WBS (same as what is in Roadmap Viewer) into
Solution Manager and use it in IT-PPM functionality to plan and
manage your project
 Where to find further information about SAP Activate:
 SAP Roadmap Viewer in SAP Solution Manager
 SAP Activate Implementation Methodology Jam Group
 Demo/Trial version of SAP S/4HANA cloud or on-premise
 SAP Community Network Blogs
Further  SAP S/4HANA cloud or on-premise (demo/trial version)
Resource  SAP PRESS E-Bite (E-book): SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Implementation
with SAP Activate
 Packt Publishing Book: Manage Your SAP Projects with SAP
Activate: Implementing SAP S/4HANA
 SAP Open Course (Free): SAP S/4HANA in a Nutshell
 Amit Amin
+91 9115529900
Thank you
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