A new implementation

For a new implementation, where the customer is implementing a new SAP S/4HANA system with initial data load, SAP Activate brings in innovations, and the mentioned innovations can be discovered in the discover phase of SAP Activate:

Let's see phase by phase how SAP Activate supports a customer's implementation of a new SAP S/4HANA system.

SAP Activate's discover phase lets you try and experience the digital business processes offerings:

Innovations delivered with SAP Activate for a new implementation to SAP S/4HANA:

• Preconfigured trial role-based self-led evaluation of SAP S/4HANA based on model company
• Utilizing SAP Fiori user experience
• Integrated help functionality embedded into the product
• Free, click-through license for customers and prospects
• For cloud and on-premise

For the prepare and explore phase of SAP Activate, SAP has delivered the following innovation (for new implementation); this allows customers to start with a model company:

• Prepare setup of projects, install—SAP HANA DB (with applications core), SAP S/4HANA, and Fiori UIs
• Explore ready-to-run business and integration processes optimized for SAP S/4HANA leveraging preconfigured enterprise structure and predefined master data
• Enterprise template to support multiple countries in one client
• Includes International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Embedded into the standard product shipment of SAP S/4HANA

For the realize phase of SAP Activate, SAP has delivered the following innovation (for new implementation); this simplifies customers, scoping and configuration activities:

• Helps realize solution scoping and scope activation
• Guided configuration allows customers to work with SAP best practices
• User adaptation is a self-service configuration enabling customers to view and change basic settings, such as organization structure
• Expert configuration option available to help customer adapts to SAP model companies and add additional processes as needed
• Predefined mappings to target business objects; this makes the task of landscape transformation easier
• Support for initial data migration (for new implementation scenarios)
• Best practices for integration, for example, integration between SAP ERP HCM and success factors employee central

For the deploy phase of SAP Activate, SAP has delivered the following innovation; this simplifies customers, onboarding and deployment activities:

• Embedded learning and documentation for simple onboarding of end users
• Role-based learning content
• Guided tour to jumpstart the onboarding process for new users
• Context-sensitive screen help

For the run phase of SAP Activate, SAP has delivered the following innovation, which is integrated with solution manager 7.2, to ease the operate, monitor, and support phases:

• SAP solution manager integration for operations, monitoring, and support
• Continuous innovation with content lifecycle management
• With SAP solution manager 7.2, SAP best practices provide reference content for process models, project implementation guidance, and configuration documentation through WBS for each deployment scenario