SAP Activate Methodology

Overview
October 24, 2019

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SAP Activate Overview
Objectives

At the end of this unit, you will be able to:

 Explain the SAP Activate methodology guiding principles
 Describe how the new methodology changes the delivery model
 Describe the SAP Activate methodology framework
 Discuss the scalable approach

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SAP Activate Approach
The mind-shift towards public cloud
Traditional
“Can I take your order?”
▪ Requirements driven
▪ Highly customized solution
▪ Time consuming and costly
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Transformative for Cloud
“Let us guide you”
▪ Lead with best practices
▪ Agile approach accelerated by
tools, templates and predefined
content
▪ Prescriptive guidance through all
phases
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SAP Activate

Innovation as a Service is how your business deploys new capabilities, when and how you choose,
to build a sustained competitive advantage

Launch quickly and efficiently, Self-service to expand capabilities when,

standardized for integration where, and how you choose

Business-Driven Innovation with SAP Activate

Self-service configuration through a clear deployment

methodology of solution-specific practices, in a
standardized environment Speed of Innovation Greater Productivity

Business Processes Clear Methodology for Apps for Adoption

Delivered Adoption and and Extensibility
Ready to Run Extensibility
Growth & Scalability Business Impact

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Agile and Cloud are High on a CIO’s Agenda

“The mission is to have innovation and the speed of small

companies .. and see if we can do that at scale”
Jeff Smith, CIO, IBM on his plans to practice Agile software development
and project management at scale
WSJ CIO Journal, April 2015

“My organization has a very clear understanding that

we will never purchase another server at this company”
Tim Weaver, CIO, Del Monte Foods Inc. on the building IT
infrastructure for the company
WSJ CIO Journal, February 2015

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Business Expectations Changed

SHORTEN TIME TO VALUE REDUCE RISKS, WHILE FLEXIBILITY AND CHOICE

AND REDUCE COSTS MOVING FORWARD

Big-Bang

On premises
Cost Time to Value

On cloud On premise

Cost Time to Value

Incremental Approach
Hybrid Mobile

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Customer Benefits of this Approach

Up to 40%1 Up to 50%1
Cost and effort savings Faster deployments

Reduced Risk Choice of packages

by re-using standard, pre-built & tested For innovation in
packages cloud, mobile or SAP HANA

1 All data is derived from the SAP Research organization.

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SAPACTIVATE Methodology accelerates your journey to
SAP S/4HANA with these principles

Based on over 40 years of implementation experience.

START WITH BEST PRACTICES & MODEL CLOUD READY

COMPANY Leverage the flexibility and speed
Use ready-to run business processes of the cloud

CONFIRM SOLUTION FIT PREMIUM ENGAGEMENT READY

Confirm fit to best practices with Fit-to- Build and Run fully supported
Standard workshops or Fit/Gap, capture delta via SAP control centers

MODULAR, SCALABLE AND AGILE

QUALITY BUILT-IN
Structure project to deliver the solution
Identify risk early with total quality approach
incrementally

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SAP Activate Methodology
Next Generation Agile Methodology that Drives Customer Success

Customers achieve fast and cost efficient deployment of SAP innovations

with ONE simple, modular and agile methodology

 Drive delivery of customer value and lower TCO Discover Prepare

 Broad coverage of SAP solutions starting with
SAP S/4HANA
 Full support for initial implementation and on-going
business innovation
SAP ACTIVATE
 Enabled for cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployments Run Methodology Explore
 Modular, flexible, and agile to accommodate today and Build Smart, Run Simple
future delivery approaches, including SAP partners
 Enables co-innovation with customers
 Successor of the ASAP methodology
Deploy Realize

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Deploy SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Activate
Journey Overview and Key Milestones
Qualification / Brand Guardian

Journey
Discovery Assessment Finalized scope and backlog
and Key with delta requirements
Milestones Buy Go-Live Readiness Quarterly
OCM Delivery & Monitoring Assessment Upgrade

Onboard Project
Team Go-Live Activate new
SAP S/4HANA scope / add
Cloud
countries

Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Continuous Innovation

Fit-to-
Discovery Setup and Scope and Migrate, Integrate, Onboard Users Innovate,
Standard Extend
Assessment Enablement Configure Test and Deploy Operate, Support
Analysis

System Trial System

Landscape
Starter System

Quality System

Production System

Initial Transport Ongoing Transports

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 Deploy SAP S/4HANA On-Premise with SAP Activate
Journey Overview and Key Milestones

Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

SAP S/4HANA
Fit/Gap Analysis with
Operate,
Experience SAP Best Practices Scope and Migrate, integrate, Onboard and
monitor,
Trial or SAP Model configure​ extend, test deploy
support
Company

NEW IMPLEMENTATION

Project
Lifecycle
Solution Manager Integration

Technical
Functional Operate,
SAP S/4HANA Experience Preparation Steps Integrate and Onboard and
Conversion monitor,
Trial and Test extend deploy
and Cut-Over support
Conversion

SYSTEM CONVERSION

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 Digital Transformation to SAP S/4HANA with the SAP Activate/Model Company

Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Project
SAP Digital Business Services for SAP S/4HANA
Lifecycle
Solution Manager 7.2 Integration

Experience Migrate, Onboard Operate

SAP S/4HANA Prototype based Configure
Trial Integrate, Users and Monitor
Fit/Gap Analysis and Test
System Extend, Test Deploy Support

• Experience SAP • Setup Project Governance • Iteratively build • Execute • Innovation

S/4HANA role-based trial functionality – resolve End-User Cycle
based on pre-configured • Ramp-up your team gaps Training
business scenarios • Update
• Set expectations with customer • Configure solution • Go-Live SAP
• Understand the value of business users S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA for your • Leverage
• Setup initial system from pre-activated Configuration Tools
organization appliance like Implementation
• Create transition plan • Conduct Fit-Gap/Fit-to-Standard Guide in SAP
analysis using SAP Best Practices and S/4HANA on-premise
SAP Model Company content and edition
processes • Test Execution

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Enablers for Your Digital Transformation
SAP Activate Tools and Community

SAP Activate Jam Group SAP Roadmap Viewer
• Engage SAP Activate • Browse implementation
experts guidance for your digital
• Ask questions and transformation
collaborate • Access SAP Activate
• http://bit.ly/SAPActivate methodology assets and
accelerators
• https://go.support.sap.co
m/roadmapviewer/#
SAP Best Practices
Explorer
• Browse SAP Best
Practices content
• Power your project with
ready-to-run processes
• https://rapid.sap.com/bp/
SAP Solution Manager
• Optimal toolset for your
Digital Business
Transformation
• Management platform
for your SAP solution
•
https://support.sap.com/
solutionmanager

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SAP Activate Methodology Jam Group
Join the Exclusive Community with the Latest Content on SAP Activate Methodology

Community benefits:
▪ Learn from our experts on various topics, gaining key insights, and stay up-to-date on the latest releases

▪ Webinars & events outlining the key topics which help organizations during project phases

▪ Open hours to engage live with our methodology experts

▪ Interactive collaboration with users regarding content, questions, and updates

▪ FREE access to the latest content to help organizations with projects

Join our community today: http://bit.ly/SAPActivate

Current members, access our community by clicking here

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SAP Activate Key Characteristics
Customer Journey to SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate
Three customer situations, three transition scenarios

Starting Accelerating your transition to SAP S/4HANA

point… SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate implemented
New S/4HANA transition project and lifecycle
Implementation

SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Edition
System
Conversion

SAP S/4HANA
Selective Data On-premise Edition
Transition

…depending on your
transition scenario

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Validate Solution Instead of Blueprinting

Workshop A Workshop B
7. Release & Sprint
Solution Validation Delta Design Planning

1. Reference Value
 Provide process, value and
strategic context
 Set boundaries
 Tie to Business Case, Value
Drivers

6. Verify & Accept

 Verify process & solution
2. Validation of SAP Solution design
 Show and tell SAP standard  Design Acceptance
key design elements

5. Delta Design
 Update Business Models
3. Identify Deltas & Gaps
and Process Design
 Identify delta scope and  Solution Design and
requirements Visualization / UX
 Document gaps

4. Delta Scope
Prioritization

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Agile Build: Use of SCRUM-Based Approach to Build Solutions

Sprint Review Meeting

Sprint Execution

Sprint Retrospective Scrum Process Sprint Backlog

Recurring Cycle

Sprint Planning Meeting

Scope Product Backlog Design Usable Software

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Agile Build: Iterative Realize Phase

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 Premium Engagement Ready
Safeguard Build and Run with ICC/OCC and MCC

Build SAP like a Factory, Run SAP like a Factory – embedded and accountable
• The Innovation Control
BUILD SAP LIKE A RUN SAP LIKE A Center (ICC) is the show
FACTORY FACTORY room for prototypes and
Every 6 months,
a new “release” Operation new business
Innovation with tangible
Control benefits (KPI
Control
Center
models/processes
Center (ICC) measured) for
each LoB (OCC)
• The Operation Control
Center (OCC) is the show
End user efficiency
Support new business models room for business process
(co-)manage innovation within Implement “always connected and 100%
innovation budget integrated enterprise” operations as well as
Prototyping and piloting with LOB heads Simplify System Landscape system operations

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Project Quality Built-In

SAP places quality, built-in, at the center of projects that we deliver for our customers

Quality oversight and early visibility of potential problems have a profound impact on reducing
project risk and drive customer value

Project Quality Gate Process supports:

• The project quality gate process is a formal way of specifying and recording the transition
between critical stages in the project lifecycle

• Each project quality gate verifies that acceptance is meet for the deliverables required and
actions to be completed for the associated critical stage

• The project quality gate plan is defined in the Project Management Plan

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Proof Points: Customer Value and Key Differentiators with SAP Activate
“SAP has an Activate process which really helps takes those
best practices and drives standardization, particularly for
cloud.”
“It’s really important that it’s a journey you want to go on from a
change management perspective and that Activate Methodology
really helped us sit down and look at our processes and then
map to best practices and common business practices.”
Kris Cowles, VP, Global Application IT, Topcon Corp.
SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 Orlando, June 2018
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Carrier discusses how SAP Activate guided them on their
implementation journey – focusing on the Fit-to-Standard
approach.
“For us Fit-to-Standard meant that we could make a transformation,
make a migration, convert the organization on to a standard that is
continuously moving... we looked at it as a business transformation,
the ability to say ‘what are the best practices,’ adopting those from
our partners – fitting our organization into those approaches and
then being able to move forward in a rapid pace.”
Scott Moore, Managing Director, Carrier Corp.
SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 Orlando, June 2018
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 SAP Partners are Adopting SAP Activate in Their delivery

“SAP Activate formalizes the agile, lean, and “Cognizant has been using the SAP Activate innovation “We are lock step with SAP on their
DevOps approach Capgemini embraces to help adoption framework to accelerate many digital Activate journey which is designed to
transformation programs for clients. The combination of achieve value faster through the
clients achieve market leadership in the face of
Activate and Cognizant’s own hybrid agile methodology has application of agile techniques.”
unrelenting change. That’s why we fully commit
helped us to take a programmatic approach that clients have
to the SAP Activate Framework — because we
welcomed because of the increased transparency, improved
measure our value to clients by how fast, how
quality and agile infused adaptability it provides.”
often, and how well we help them innovate.”

“T-Systems has been achieving best results for its

“NTT DATA grew its SAP business during the past customers by blending SAP Methodologies with
years massively to above 10,000 SAP people globally. its own. The SAP Activate innovation adoption
Hereby, NTT DATA’s One Method plays the key role to framework has introduced a kick start method for
“The release of SAP Activate has been perfectly providing highest quality in SAP implementation to total digital transformation. T-Systems offers its
timed for a market demanding the use of Rapid employees and clients. The reason for success is customers the best of both worlds for accelerated
Deployment Solutions and deployed using Agile owing to the great structure and content of SAP SAP S/4HANA implementations from end-to-end
techniques. IBM has wholeheartedly embraced Activate, which NTT DATA continuously adopts to through the use of standardized transformation
Activate and Agile within its own new IBM Ascend provide the best SAP standards to its people. SAP packages, agile methods and best practice. The
methodology and Impact Industry Solution. Our Activate has everything NTT DATA needs, because it tools and templates from the SAP Activate
Clients have welcomed this new approach that covers the best expertise in S/4HANA and Cloud, and framework combined with T-Systems own SAP
generates faster speed to value under a lower risk is being increasingly used for the new S/4HANA Transformation methodology reduces
delivery approach.” implementations, conversions, and transformations of project risks and delivers faster customer
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SAP Activate Methodology Training Curriculum
Available to Customers, Partners and SAP Consultants

Courses Certification
• ACT10e – Introduction to SAP Activate Methodology* • C_ACTIVATE05 – SAP Certified Associate -
SAP Activate Project Manager
• ACT200 – Agile Project Delivery (2 day classroom course)

• E2E600 – SAP Solution Manager 7.2

* Also offered as classroom training ACT100

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Mastering SAP Activate
Key Takeaways

NOT STARTING FROM SCRATCH - principles are not new, built on proven techniques
Agile
ASAP
A2O

STANDARD FIRST - best practice concept at core

Value
Model Services
Company Fit/Gap

FASTER PACED - demands early preparation

Tools
Resource
HW

VALUE DRIVEN - priority based design and build

Build
Backlog
Design

INCREMENTAL APPROVALS - deliverables acceptance

Approve
Sprint
Test

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