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SAP Activate
Dorina Timariu
Elena Oprisor
Silviu Popa
April, 2016

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SAP Activate key aspects

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SAP Activate key aspects

SAP Activate is a combination of SAP Best Practices, guided configuration, and agile
project methodology optimized for S/4HANA

SAP Activate provides:

• a faster and less service intensive initial
implementation
• Ready-to run business processes
• rapid adoption of SAP S/4HANA
innovations and continuous innovation and
improvement over time
• Set of tools for an assisted implementation
from initial implementation to running in a
production environment and beyond

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SAP Activate

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How SAP Activate supports customer adoption scenarios

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SAP Activate Methodology
What is SAP Activate Methodology?

SAP Activate methodology :

 addresses all deployment modes: Cloud, On premise and Hybrid

 supports all transition scenarios: New implementation, System conversion,

Landscape transformation

 covers all SAP solutions and any project size

 starts with SAP Best Practices as the starting point of any implementation
applies SAP Best Practices for high-level scoping

 is an Agile project methodology, the successor of ASAP (for On Premise) and

SAP Launch (for Cloud)
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ASAP Methodology

ASAP 7.0

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SAP Activate Methodology – New Implementation

Please be aware that Content Lifecycle Management is not available for on-premise deployments with SAP S/4HANA 1511.
Please read OSS note 2234180.

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SAP Activate Methodology – System conversion

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SAP Activate Methodology for On-Premise Solutions

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SAP Activate Methodology for Cloud

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Customer’s benefits from using SAP Activate methodology

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SAP S/4HANA Best Practices
for SAP Activate
SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4 HANA

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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4 HANA

What exactly are the SAP Best Practices included as part of SAP Activate?

• These are the ready-to-run business processes optimized for S/4HANA that also cover the
integration and migration fundamentals. And the best part is that they are still based on the same
comprehensive and flexible model that the SAP Best Practices team has cultivated from
implementations in more than 50 countries with well over 10,000 customers.

• These particular best practices (for SAP S/4HANA as part of SAP Activate) are business processes
that include finance and logistics. They can be integrated with other cloud solutions, such as
SucccessFactors Employee Central or Ariba Network. Or if you choose the migration scenario, these
business processes will guide you through the optimal steps, whether it be a migration from a legacy
SAP system or a migration from a non-SAP database. And last but not least, included as part of
these SAP Best Practices is a reference solution running in the cloud and details on extensibility for
how best to enhance SAP processes for your own needs.

• In short, SAP Activate starts with SAP Best Practices for any implementation and uses one methodology for any deployment mode –
cloud, hybrid, on premise, or mobile. Our goal, and the goal of SAP Activate, is help you take advantage of all the power and potential
available via S/4HANA but tailored to your circumstances and business needs.

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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4 HANA

• With SAP Best Practices for the on-premise version of SAP

S/4HANA, you have full flexibility over how quickly you adopt
innovation and how you make changes to your processes.

• No matter if you want to streamline your procure to pay

processes, optimize your order to cash flow or take advantage of
simple finance, we provide a pre-configuration for many of your
business needs.

• These business processes are easily integrated with other cloud

solutions, such as SuccessFactors Employee Central or the Ariba
Network. SAP Best Practices also guide customers through the
migration process to SAP S/4HANA, whether they migrate
existing SAP ERP solutions from a non-SAP database or legacy
systems. Also included are details on extensibility, for example
how to extend SAP Fiori to your needs.

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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4 HANA

• SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition allow you to
benefit from the latest innovations by automatically getting quarterly
updates provisioned in your solution. Currently, SAP offers best
practices for all deployment options (listed below) of SAP S/4HANA,
cloud edition:

 SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition

 SAP S/4HANA, cloud project services edition
 SAP S/4HANA, cloud marketing edition

• For example, the Project Services business scenario shows you how
to manage the complete end-to-end process of selling project-based
services to customers. The SAP Best Practices for this scenario outline
how to integrate sales orders with project management, allowing you to
create invoices for time and expenses recorded against a customer
project.

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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4 HANA

Just like with the on-premise version of SAP S/4HANA, the SAP Best Practices included with SAP Activate, walk you through how to configure
and integrate SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition with your other systems and cloud services.

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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4 HANA

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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4 HANA

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Guided Configuration
Guided configuration for SAP S/4 HANA

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SAP S/4 HANA guided configuration with Manage your Solution in
the app in the cloud
Guided Configuration is an integral part of the product SAP S/4HANA and is provided through the
“Manage Your Solution” Fiori-application. It consists of the following elements.:

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Guided Configuration

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Guided Configuration - Configure Your Solution

SAP Fiori-based, easy to use Self-Service

Configuration UIs are provided alongside the
phases of the implementation project in order to
tailor the pre-configured processes to customer
requirements.
These UIs include only those configuration
activities required for the preselected scope and
are provided along the implementation phases of
the project.
With these UIs for example, adding a new
subsidiary
(company code) to the system, setting up a
purchasing organization or adjusting approval
thresholds in accounting is just a few clicks away.

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Guided Configuration - Configure Your Solution starting from Model
Company

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Guided Configuration - View Solution Scope

This feature provides

you with a simple
overview of processes
that have been activated
in your SAP S/4HANA
solution. You can easily
evaluate which business
processes (scope items
of the pre-configuration
best practices) and
which country versions
are ready-to run.

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Guided Configuration - Test Your Processes

Automated customer tests drastically

reduce test efforts in the implementation
project. The SAP S/4HANA solution
provides a test automate and test plans
tailored to the selected scope.
You can create your own test plan, adapt
customer data in the system and test the
configuration changes that have been
performed via the Self-Service
Configuration UIs.

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Guided Configuration - Manage Your Test Processes

You can manage the test

processes in this area.
Here, you decide which
processes should be
available in the test tool
and change existing or add
new test processes.
Adding new process steps
can be done manually or
via a recording of system
activities

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Guided Configuration – Migrate your Data

There are 2 options for data

migration: you can use Files or
System to system transfer.
Migrate your Data app is used for
data migration.

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Learning materials
http://go.sap.com/services/s4hana-deployment.html

http://go.sap.com/docs/download/2015/10/64bc4eb9-467c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.pdf

http://scn.sap.com/community/rapid-deployment/blog/2015/05/21/run-simple-with-sap-activate-best-practices-methodology-guided-configuration

Best Practices

http://scn.sap.com/community/rapid-deployment/blog/2015/09/17/sap-s4hana--best-practices-delivered-with-sap-activate

http://scn.sap.com/community/rapid-deployment/blog/2015/07/02/sap-activate-what-are-the-sap-best-practices-optimized-for-s4hana

https://jam4.sapjam.com/groups/about_page/VGdROFfkTdGDYHp5izTHZX

https://jam4.sapjam.com/groups/about_page/VGdROFfkTdGDYHp5izTHZX

Guided Config

https://jam4.sapjam.com/groups/9r5WJBNNoROvqgQxyqIcMD/overview_page/91892

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Learning materials
SAP Activate Methodology On Premise and Cloud

https://jam4.sapjam.com/groups/about_page/EAENVgSPSqyji1kDQjWt8H

https://jam4.sapjam.com/groups/about_page/4IpPKa7JYlAQQnA0mmHXcb

https://roadmapviewer-supportportal.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com/#/group/EB3B5648-7DCC-4EE9-8C4E-B04A9AAAED19/roadmapList/68E7F304-4E74-4A4A-AA36-B6AB47DF660E

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Q&A session

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