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SAP Activate and SAP Solution Manager

Basic concept

SAP Activate What does it provide?

Guided configuration è Provides a selection of activation packages

Methodology è Provides project phases and activities based on activated content

è Personalization of activation content è Delivers accelerator documentation è Activation of customizing è Recording of customer specific activities for content lifecycle © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Best Practice content è Supports implementation by predefined processes and process documentation: - Process descriptions - Configuration guides - Process diagrams - Test case descriptions è Possibility to adopt the models and content Internal

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SAP Activate Where to find and how it is integrated?

Guided configuration Implementation Cockpit

Methodology SAP Solution Manager IT PPM

Best Practice content SAP Solution Manager Solution Documentation è Best Practice packages

Scope of content activation influences visibility of project tasks

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Definition of project plan, assignment of resources to projects and project tasks

Project related changes on solution documentation

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SAP Activate Integration to Change Control Management

Guided configuration Implementation Cockpit

Methodology SAP Solution Manager IT PPM

Best Practice content SAP Solution Manager Solution Documentation

Change Control Management è Transport management © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

è Convert project tasks e.g. into Request for Change

è Controls solution documentation changeability and its publishing Internal

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Handling of SAP Activate as IT process

Handling in SAP Solution Manager IT process • Install S/4 Hana sandbox system • Select relevant processes in Solution Builder • Personalize activate content (parameter for content activation) • Activate process configuration

• Assign project to release • Review project method • Adjust phases and tasks • Maintain project plan • Upload project related documentation • Assign resources

IT PPM

Implementation Cockpit Review/select Guided Configuration

Best Practice content Review/import content

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Customer Adaption

Use content for implementation

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RDS content use Detect Best Practice content Collection of relevant business or IT requirements for a domain initiates the research for standard solutions. Rapid Deployment Services can offer a bright range of possibilities how to satisfy the requirements. The Best Practice (BP) content is stored centrally in the cloud and always up to date.

Import Best Practice content Download the BP content into the local SAP Solution Manager and place the content into a sandbox branch. From now on the content is owned by you.

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Decide on usability

Run innovation

In the sandbox branch you can review the BP content (also by activation of the content in your sandbox environment) and decide which parts shall be used for the next innovation phase. Therefor you can release subtree changes (new processes) into the innovation branch. By that the released content gets visible in innovation branch.

Now the content selected from the BP is brought into the innovation branch and can be used for implementation of the functionality in your organization.

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Tool centric architecture

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Search for Best Practice content Download of the content into SAP Solution Manager branch Creation of dedicated Project Scope of relevant processes in Implementation Cockpit Content activation

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Development branch

Production

Change cycle

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Linkage of the project to a Change Cycle (assignment to branch done automatically) Decide on documentation scope and release into development branch

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Customer Adaption in configuration and process design

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