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Describing the 3 Pillars of

SAP Activate

Objectives

Discovering SAP Activate After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Identify the three SAP Activate pillars

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Describing SAP Activate Describe SAP Best Practices
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Describe the deployment tools and SAP Activate Methodology
Structure
Describing the 3 Pillars of SAP
Activate Describe SAP Activate Methodology and benefits
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The Three SAP Activate Pillars
Outlining SAP Activate Methodology
Foundation

Using SAP Signavio to Support

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The SAP Best Practices

SAP Best Practices helps project teams accelerate time to value. They
provide content that helps jump start the implementation with ready-to-run
processes and other assets.

The Best Practices contain rich business scenarios and business content.
This helps customers get predictable and repeatable results from the Best

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Practices. The Best Practices and some prototyping, for example,

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personalization, additional configuration, or enhancements of the pre-
delivered content, can be used as a baseline for an implementation project.
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SAP Best Practices are available in two distinct formats:

1. Documentation:

The documented format of the SAP Best Practices can be found on the
SAP Signavio Process Navigator,
https://me.sap.com/processnavigator/HomePage . From this platform,
best practices content is available for review, download, and use with
your projects.

2. Configuration:

The configuration format of the best practices is found directly inside of

the system. These best practices are preconfigured business processes
which lay dormant inside of the system. Once activated these Best
Practice processes are now 'ready to run'. Configuration best practices
allow the user to execute the process inside the system.

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The SAP Signavio Process Navigator provides package content specific to

the scope of your solution. It includes all business process scope in
documentation format for all business processes inside the application.

The following information can be found in SAP Signavio Process Navigator:

Scope item fact sheets: A description of the business process including

business benefits and key process steps covered.

Process flow: A representation of the standard business process to show

how the software works by default.

Process flow (BPMN2): A downloadable version of the business process

flow that can be edited in process modeling applications if the standard
process flow is customized. It's important to document any process that
no longer follows the standard process.

Test scripts: A procedure for testing the standard Best Practice processes
in the system.

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Set-up instructions: A guide with instructions to set up the prerequisite

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of operations by using the pre-delivered processes,
and use the country-specific content to manage multiple geographies,
divisions, subsidiaries, and ledgers. Best Practice content is updated on the
Release to Customer (RTC) date for your selected solution with the latest
enhancements and new features.

The following additional content can be found on the SAP Signavio Process
Navigator.

SAP Signavio Process Navigator Solution Package: contains descriptions

and corresponding content.

Guidance: helps select best approach, for example, in Analytics or

Integration.

Solution Description: provides high-level structure and description, such

as Partner Solutions.

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For cloud solutions tool: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Release Assessment and
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Scope Dependency helps to find inter-dependencies between scope items
for upgrade planning.
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The diagram above displays the naming structure of the best practices
documentation in the SAP Signavio Process Navigator.

When accessing the SAP Signavio Process Navigator, logging in with an S-

User ID is required to display all of the available content. When browsing via

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public access, you will be prompted with a log in screen for the user to log
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SAP configuration Best Practices is an accelerator, as the standard

processes are already configured, and once activated, make the system
'ready to run'. But Best Practices may not always provide coverage for every
customer around the world. In any case, should the Best Practice provide
good coverage for the business, then creating a Best Practice client and
activating the Best Practice processes is the preferred approach. When the
Best Practices do not provide coverage for the business, the traditional
approach is applied, which entails configuring the system from the
beginning without leveraging the Best Practices.

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The configuration Best Practices can be found in the Solution Builder

transaction using transaction code /n/SMB/BBI inside of the SAP S/4HANA
system.

From the Solution Builder, all available Solution Packages can be searched
for by country, language, and version. Once found using the Implementation
assistant all project / customer scope, Best Practice can be activated.

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The task is performed by the SAP Basis consultant when doing an on-
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premise implementation, and is a service performed by SAP when doing a
Cloud or Private Cloud deployment.
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The above diagram displays a comparison of the different Best Practices

terminologies between the SAP Signavio Process Navigator, the Solution
Builder, and SAP Cloud ALM using the example of S/4 HANA..

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Configuration in the public cloud solution is performed via Self-Service

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SAP Central Business Configuration is a tool designed to configure business

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Best Practice content. Leading to increased business process flexibility and

reduced configuration efforts.

Configuration for on-premise solutions as well as private cloud is performed

via the traditional Implementation Guide (IMG) in Transaction SPRO.

SAP Central Business Configuration is designed to provide guidance for your

implementation project by controlling the completed activities sequence. In
the Project Experience, you can manage your team members, complete
activities to set up and configure your systems, and view the project status.
Activities are grouped into phases, and each phase ends with a milestone.

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The configuration activities in SAP Central Business Configuration are

designed to support customers in adapting the preconfigured SAP Best
Practices content to their requirements. The available configuration activities
are based on the active scope and country selections. Configuration
activities may vary by country because not all business scenarios (scope
items) are available in all countries. Configuration activities can be
mandatory, recommended, or optional.

The Project Management tasks from SAP Central Business Configuration can
also be transferred to SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation. Then the status
can be tracked centrally in SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation together with
all project tasks, requirements, user stories, testing activities and defects.

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Learning All configuration for on-premise and private cloud is performed via the IMG
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in transaction SPRO. By starting your build with the activated Best Practices,
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additional functions or features requested by the business during the
Explore phase workshops.

The SAP Activate Methodology and

Benefits

The third component/pillar of the SAP Activate framework is the SAP

Activate Methodology.

The SAP Activate Methodology provides one simple, modular, and agile
methodology, and is the successor of ASAP and SAP Launch methodologies.

SAP Activate Methodology provides full support for initial deployment and
continuous business innovation with a harmonized implementation
approach for cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployments.

SAP Activate Methodology is designed to support all SAP solutions.

The methodology also enables co-innovation with customers, and is

accessible for partners.

The methodology uses, as default, agile project delivery principles. It builds

on the ready-to-run business processes and the SAP Best Practices
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documentation. It uses the configuration tools to adjust the baseline

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solution to customer needs based on the results of the fit-standard
workshops, which is conducted in the Explore phase.
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approaches to implement the solution and the solution and product
specific content for implementation or transition to SAP S/4HANA and other
SAP products.

The SAP ecosystem is familiar with the ASAP methodology. there are some
differences between SAP Activate and ASAP that you should be aware of for
an on-premise implementation:

In SAP Activate Methodology, we are leveraging the SAP Best Practices as a

default way to build the baseline system for fit-to-standard.

There are four core project phases in SAP Activate that we do not have
separate phases for the final preparation and go-live support, but instead
execute them in one phase called 'DEPLOY'.

In the SAP community page, you can learn about SAP Activate, which
describes the deliverables per phase. This helps those accessing the SAP
Activate materials to review content and to understand the key goals of a
phase.

The blueprint activities that were represented in ASAP, have been replaced
with fit-to-standard analysis workshops. The project team uses the SAP Best
Practices based system to validate the customer's requirement against a
working baseline solution. Then, the team captures the delta requirements
and/or user stories in the backlog. This information is then used for
implementation of requirements during the Realize phase.

SAP Activate Methodology supports not only the on-premise deployment,

but also cloud deployment, with one consistent approach. SAP Activate
brings together the approach for on-premise and cloud. It harmonizes the
approach across these different deployment models which also helps to
support hybrid deployment projects.

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SAP Activate supports not only SAP S/4HANA, but also other solutions like
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SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Sales Cloud, SAP Service Cloud and SAP Ariba.
SAP offers content for these solutions in the SAP Activate Methodology,
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The SAP Activate Methodology six phase descriptions will vary slightly for
each implementation scenario (for example, SAP Activate Methodology for
SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises) but will have the same phase name.
In the example in the figure SAP Activate Methodology for RISE with SAP
S/4HANA Cloud, private edition will have the following high-level phase
descriptions:

Discover phase
In the Discover phase customer’s core team is enabled to understand
breadth, depth, and functionality of RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private
edition. The team would learn the benefits and value the solution can bring
to customers’ business.

Prepare phase
The Prepare phase is where the project is jump-started. The project
environment gets set up, the project manager needs to set up the project
governance, clarifying the project team roles and responsibilities, and
provide the team with project standards. Project is kicked off and the team
starts answering the Business-Driven Configuration questionnaire. Towards

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the end of this phase the team will be setting up the initial system for fit-to-
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identified. Organizational learning needs are identified and documented.
After sign-off on delta requirements, design documents, and implementation
plan the Q-gate from Explore to realize gets closed.

Realize phase
Project management joint with workstreams will plan sprints. Project team
focuses on implementing defined solution using incremental build
iterations. It will configure, extend, integrate, test, confirm, and document the
entire end-to-end solution and prepare for legacy data conversion. The
project team actively works with business representatives to ensure a good
fit of the built solution to the requirements from the backlog.

The team executes build cycles called ‘Sprints’ to build and test the
functionality. The team will conduct walkthroughs with the business users
within each sprint to provide frequent checkpoints that the build is meeting
the requirements. And will go through multiple iterations to develop
functionality that is then ready to be released to production. For each
release, the team conducts full end-to-end testing. The project team
releases results of multiple iterations to the business users to accelerate
time to value and provide early access to finalized functionality. Each sprint
release is thoroughly tested in the end-to-end integration test and the user
acceptance test.

The Realize phase is completed with the Realize-to-Deploy Q-Gate

Deploy phase
In the Deploy phase, the team makes sure that the business is ready to
perform the cutover activities. The complexity of these activities will depend

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on various factors including the number of users that are impacted by the
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solution and the business scope of the deployment. Teams may need to
conduct multiple cutover simulations as part of the preparation for go-live.
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go-live support (sometimes called the hyper-care period). The project is
then formally closed, and the solution is now in a separate PRODUCTIVE
OPERATIONS or RUN phase

Run phase​

Customer is live, with this begins the continuous learning process, that
includes validation of newly released features and value assessment of
business relevant innovations against current solution.

Behind this high-level phase descriptions, SAP Activate Methodology

provides helpful details for deliverables and tasks as well as more sources
to relevant information.

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