Many SAP customers, both multinationals and Italian companies, have implemented SAP S / 4HANA in their organizations to extract greater business value from their operations , whether it be acquiring financial information in real-time, reorganizing business processes, managing and homogenizing a heterogeneous IT landscape
flexible methodology available at the same time that allows the implementation of technological migration projects ( Brownfield ) and the overall redesign of processes on a new Landscape ( GreenField ) is essential for the success of the project, within the expected times and costs.
SAP provides the right content and tools in SAP Activate , which allows customers to maintain agility and achieve project goals. SAP Activate is available to all customers and contains prescriptive guidance in the SAP Activate methodology , ready-to-use business processes in SAP Model Company / SAP Best Practices , and flexible apps for configuration, data migration, extensibility, integration, and testing.
SAP Activate leverages preconfiguration to accelerate time to value by running standards-compliant workshops to determine delta requirements to tailor the solution to customer needs. Then an agile approach is followed to implement the required deltas iteratively and quickly. Activate continues to support SAP customers in continuously innovating their solution as they receive regular software release updates and adopt new features.
The methodology is available for both “on premise” and “cloud” implementations, as well as for transitions from on premise to cloud implementations.
The methodology is divided into a series of phases, which cover the entire life cycle of the project.
They are:
- Discover
- Prepare
- Explore
- Realize
- Deploy
- Run
The Discover phase concerns the exploration of the new possibilities for redesigning processes offered by the transition to S/4 HANA . In this way users are able to understand what the potential of the system may be.
The Prepare , Explore , Realize and Deploy phases concern more specifically the implementation project, and range from the setup phases, project preparation, to the Fix-To-Standard Analysis phases, up to the actual configuration phase of the system, to data migration and testing.
The last phases, Deploy and Run , concern the transition to production and post-golive assistance which are always two essential phases for the completion and success of an implementation project