"SAP
Activate: Project Management for SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud"
by Sven Denecken
(Author), Jan Musil (Author), Srivatsan Santhanam (Author).
Planning Your SAP S/4HANA Implementation Project?
This book provides expert guidance for every step of your SAP S/4HANA journey. Learn SAP Activate fundamentals: key concepts, methodology and supporting technologies. Understand configuration, data migration, extensibility and deployment workstreams. Discover successful project phases and deliverables for new implementations or system conversions. Explore two-tier ERP setup benefits.
Managing Your SAP S/4HANA Project
Effectively manage cloud or on-premise SAP S/4HANA projects using tools for:
- Configuration
- Data migration
- Extensibility
- Integration
- Testing
SAP Activate Fundamentals
Unlock SAP Activate's potential! Learn the methodology, project management phases, five implementation rules and key concepts: workstreams, deliverables, accelerators and more.
Implementation and Conversion
Deploy SAP S/4HANA confidently! Follow implementation guidance for on-premise, public or private cloud solutions. For SAP ERP users, achieve seamless system conversion.
Hybrid System Landscapes
Maximize two-tier ERP setups! Discover improved finance, sales, service and manufacturing scenarios. Hybrid landscapes bring tangible business value.
Deployment Options
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Agile project delivery
- New implementation
- System conversion
- Hybrid landscapes
- Business-driven configuration
- Extensibility
- SAP Best Practices
- Organizational change management
This book is structured into eleven chapters and an appendix.
Chapter 1: SAP S/4HANA Fundamentals
We begin with an introduction to SAP S/4HANA
Cloud and SAP S/4HANA and discuss deployment strategies customers can apply
via SAP S/4HANA in their organizations to meet their goals. These strategies
include deploying software in the cloud, on-premise or in a hybrid two-tier
setup.
Chapter 2: Introduction to SAP Activate
This chapter takes you through SAP Activate,
explaining fundamentals of the approach, methodology structure, golden
rules for implementation and recommended governance. Additionally, it covers
the importance of the SAP Activate community on (link unavailable)
Chapter 3: Accessing SAP Activate
In this chapter, we delve into key tools
supporting SAP Activate users: SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer,
SAP Best Practices Explorer and SAP Solution Manager. You'll learn what
each tool does and how to leverage them in projects.
Chapter 4: Starting with a Working System
Chapter 4 focuses on preconfiguration
types for SAP S/4HANA deployment: SAP Best Practices and the enterprise
management layer. Comprehensive descriptions outline business content,
consumption and fit-to-standard workshop importance.
Chapter 5: Configuration, Data Migration,
Extensibility, Integration and Testing
This chapter explores configuring, extending,
integrating and testing solutions. It provides foundational concepts for
these topics, setting the stage for Chapters 7 and 8.
Chapter 6: Agile Project Delivery
Before deployment processes, Chapter 6
explains incorporating agile concepts, scaling agility and agile team roles,
organization, governance and processes.
Chapter 7: New Implementation of SAP S/4HANA
Learn to perform new implementations of
SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA solutions. This includes a three-system
landscape, SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise
solution.
Chapter 8: System Conversion and Selective
Data Transition to SAP S/4HANA
Chapter 8 discusses strategies and steps
for system conversion and selective data transition. It guides project
teams through SAP Activate phases.
Chapter 9: Deploying Hybrid System Landscapes
Explore SAP S/4HANA deployment in hybrid
landscapes across finance, sales, procurement, manufacturing and analytics.
Chapter 10: Organizational Change Management
Understand critical organizational change
management concepts for successful SAP S/4HANA adoption.
Chapter 11: SAP Activate for Other SAP
Products
Discover SAP Activate assets, implementation
guidance and intelligent enterprise solutions for products like SAP SuccessFactors,
SAP Analytics Cloud and upgrading SAP S/4HANA.
Appendix A: SAP Activate Certification
Preparation
Find practice questions for SAP Activate
certification exam preparation, aligned with certification exam topics.
| Author's background and qualifications
Sven Denecken serves as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SAP S/4HANA and Head of Product Success. As COO, Sven oversees business operations, organizational development, talent growth, controlling and communications for the SAP S/4HANA unit. Additionally, he ensures alignment of the SAP S/4HANA product portfolio with market and customer needs, driving thought leadership. Jan Musil is SAP Activate's Chief Product Owner at SAP. He leads an experienced team of product managers designing, developing and maintaining SAP Activate. This innovation adoption framework guides customers and partners in deploying SAP solutions: SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Analytics Cloud and more. Jan's team updates SAP Activate content continuously, aligning with product capabilities, best practices and deployment expertise. Collaboration with product engineers, field consultants, customers and partners ensures precision. Srivatsan Santhanam has been at SAP Labs
India since 2004, heading the SAP Concur Engineering Product Unit. With
20 years of industry expertise, Srivatsan is a pioneering thought leader
in hybrid cloud/two-tier ERP landscapes within SAP S/4HANA Cloud. His extensive
experience shapes innovative solutions.
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