SAP Implementation

Tools and
Methodologies
Overview
SAP Consulting
Delivering Successful Solutions

Achieve your People

implementation and
Expertise
goals through
leveraging SAP
experts, services, Consulting
Services
methodology,
content and tools.

Methodology

Content
and
Tools

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 Delivering Successful Solutions
People and Expertise

Description
SAP provides customers with expert counsel at all stages, in all situations – from design and
implementation through ongoing operations.

At a glance: SAP Consulting

• Over 9000 highly trained consultants
• Delivering services in more than 50 countries
• Extended reach through 120,000 certified partners
• Experience gained in more than 8000 projects
• Expert advice and assistance are never far away
• We understand the challenges you face
• SAP Consulting helps you achieve self-sufficiency through knowledge transfer and proven
best practices
• Together we can plan, build and run a solution that is tailored to your organization, goals and
market.

More info
http://www.sap.com/services/consulting/

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 Delivering Successful Solutions
SAP Consulting Services

SAP Consulting
 Helps you develop strategies for success
 Puts your strategies into action, quickly & effectively
 Gets the very best out of your SAP solutions
 Maximizes benefits through process optimization
 Finds new ways of continuously enhancing efficiency

Description
SAP Consulting Services are grouped into 4 categories:
• Strategic Consulting services
• Development of business & IT strategies
• High level planning of solution and architectures
• Solution Delivery Services
• Development of blueprints for enterprise solutions
• Implementation support and systems integration
• Operations Services
• Optimization of system operations, migrations & upgrades
• Lifecycle Management Services
• Quality & risk management, program & project management

More info
http://service.sap.com/consulting
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 Delivering Successful Solutions
AcceleratedSAP Methodology

Description
AcceleratedSAP methodology is proven, repeatable and successful
approach to implement SAP solutions across industries and
customer environments.

AcceleratedSAP provides content, tools and expertise from

thousands of successful implementations.

More info
http://service.sap.com/asap

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 Key components for success
AcceleratedSAP - proven methodology

Project Management expertise

Management of the implementation project
Aligned with industry standards and procedures (PMI PMBOK®)
Specific to implementation of SAP solutions

AcceleratedSAP toolset
SAP Solution Composer SAP Roadmaps SAP Solution Manager

Aligns customer’s business Offers AcceleratedSAP Facilitates efficient solution

requirements to SAP roadmap composed to fit design, documentation,
solutions specific project needs configuration, testing and
operations

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 Key components for success
AcceleratedSAP - proven methodology
AcceleratedSAP methodology
 Provides proven, comprehensive, repeatable and rich implementation
methodology to streamline projects
 PMI aligned framework with templates and tools for performing effective
project management

SAP Solution Composer SAP Roadmaps SAP Solution Manager

New Toolset

 Aligns customer’s business  Delivered offline in SAP Service  Facilitates efficient solution
requirements to SAP solutions Marketplace and in SAP Solution design, configuration, testing
Manager and operation

SAP Solution Map Implementation Q&Adb, BPML, Diagram

ValueSAP Toolset

Composer Assistant Explorer

Evolved to Evolved to Replaced by

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 SAP tools in Discovery & Evaluation

Discovery Evaluation Implementation Operations

Scenario and Process Content Repository

SAP Business Case Builder

SAP Solution Composer

ASAP Roadmaps

Best Practice

Solution Manager

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 Tool: SAP Business Case Builder
Build a high-level value proposition and business case

Definition
A sales support tool used to help position SAP solutions
and to assist with the preparation of a high-level business
case.

Usage
Map current industry forces and trend data, customer
business goal to SAP solution and generate high-level
value calculation.
Target Group
Virtual Account Team and pre-sales support

Availability
Currently available through link on web page referenced
below.
Benefits
 Education on current industry trends, esp. if working in unfamiliar industry/solution
 Cust profile stored on central database for sharing and handover
 High-level value calcs (inc. Assumptions, formula, KPIs, etc) documented for handover to
business consulting for more rigorous business case development
 Free ‘service‘ to customer might generate sufficient customer interest to invest in a formal
business case.

More info
http://service.sap.com/casebuilder

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 Content: SAP Business Maps
Visualize business processes
SAP Solution Maps SAP Business Scenario Maps
Definition Definition
 A consistent multi-level  A graphic representation of a
blueprint showing the key industry-specific or cross-
processes for a particular  industry business scenario.
industry or cross-industry
solution. Benefits
Benefits  300+ Business Scenario Maps available
 40+ Solution Maps available  Support solution selling
 Common industry view  Quantifiable business benefits
 Support structured scoping of  Link to implementation relevant content
IT requirements

Usage
Business maps enable visualization, evaluation, and further communication of company business processes
aligned with SAP solution

Target Group
SAP Consulting, Account Teams, Customers, Partners

Availability
Available on SAP Service Marketplace and in SAP Solution Composer

Availability
http://service.sap.com/businessmaps
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 Tool: SAP Solution Composer
Map Customer requirements to SAP Solution capabilities

Definition
A PC-based tool for developing customer specific
Solution and Business Scenario Maps from standards
delivered

Usage
Used for business process overviews, High-level project
Scoping and end-user documentation and training

Target Group
Virtual Account Teams and project teams

Availability
Available as download from web.
Automatically downloads latest content and tool updates
as needed.
Benefits
 340+ industry and cross-industry business maps
 Business maps help to educate and reduce complexity for all solutions, in industry language
 Can easily modify standard maps to orient towards customer goals, situation, landscape, etc.
 Composed maps can be exported into html or ppt files, where they can then be further enhanced
to contribute in powerful presentations

More info
http://service.sap.com/s-composer
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 Content: SAP Best Practices
Rapid implementation leveraging pre-packaged know-how
Cost
Definition
Pragmatic Solution that is easy to
methodology • identify with
• implement
• adapt to specific requirements
SAP • reuse entirely or just relevant parts
Best
Practices Usage
Get a living and fully documented prototype and
repository of pre-configuration that can easily be reused
for other preconfigured solutions.
Target Group
Detailed Proven SAP Consulting, Partners and (Customers)
documentation preconfiguration

Time Risk Availability

Best Practices are available on SAP Service Marketplace
Benefits
 Save time and money and achieve predicted results
 Manage project risk, avoid common beginners‘ mistakes
 Empowerment through competitive business expertise
 Fast track to extending your business solution with new SAP business processes
 Repository for flexibly reusable Business Content including all deliverables for installation, test and use
 No trial runs - start straight off with a fully documented prototype that is fully reusable
 Consistent approach focusing on integrated end-to-end business processes

More info
http://service.sap.com/bestpractices
http://help.sap.com (Best Practices section)
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 SAP tools in Implementation

Discovery Evaluation Implementation Operations

Scenario and Process Content Repository

SAP Business Case Builder

SAP Solution Composer

ASAP Roadmaps

Best Practice

Solution Manager

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 Content: AcceleratedSAP Roadmaps
Guidance and navigation for your implementation team

Definition
ASAP roadmaps outline the activities involved in
implementing, upgrading, or enhancing SAP solutions
enriched with set of deliverables, accelerators, role
descriptions and additional guides

Usage
Provide content (work packages, activities, tasks,
deliverables, accelerators) that can be used during the
entire project lifecycle.

Target Group
Customers, Partners, SAP Consulting

Availability
The roadmaps are made available through: SAP Solution
Manager and SAP Service Marketplace

Benefits
 Transparent, proven approach helping the project team to really work as a team and to reduce
implementation time, costs and risks
 Achieve better results since you base your project on the experiences others made before. Both hard facts
as well as soft skills are addressed
 Knowledge management - use the Implementation Roadmap for SAP solutions to gather knowledge on how
to organize and run your implementation projects

More info
http://service.sap.com/roadmaps
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 Roadmaps Add Value to the Implementation

When used properly, a roadmap will provide guidance on the following:

Why you should do it

What to do,
and when to
do it

Who does it
How to do it

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 How SAP delivers ASAP roadmaps

AcceleratedSAP
Roadmap delivered via
SAP Service
Marketplace and SAP
Solution Manager

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 SAP Solution Manager in Implementation
Design, Configure, Test and Go-live with SAP solution

Definition
Customer platform for Solution Design, Configuration,
Testing and Operations

Usage
Team platform for Solution Design, Configuration,
Testing & Message Handling

Target Group
Customers, Partners, SAP project resources

Availability
Release 3.1 generally available
Benefits
 Central point of access and support of key implementation activities
 Updated implementation content
 Process-driven solution Design, Configuration and Testing capabilities for ASAP and
GlobalASAP projects
 Unique customizing distribution and comparison features
 Smooth hand-over to operations & central storage of project documentation

More info
http://service.sap.com/rkt-solman
http://service.sap.com/solutionmanager
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 SAP tools in Operations

Discovery Evaluation Implementation Operations

Scenario and Process Content Repository

SAP Business Case Builder

SAP Solution Composer

ASAP Roadmaps

Best Practice

Solution Manager

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 Tool: SAP Solution Manager in Operations
Realize ROI by operating your solution optimally

Definition
Customer platform for Implementing, Managing and
Operating SAP Solutions

Usage
Platform for Monitoring, Services, Support and Message
Handling

Target Group
All Technical and Operations Management teams

Availability
Release 3.1 generally available

Benefits
 Monitor entire SAP landscape and core productive business processes centrally
 Service Level Management and Reporting
 Direct access to full range of SAP support services
 Centralized system administration
 Help Desk integrated with SAP Support

More info
http://service.sap.com/rkt-solman
http://service.sap.com/solutionmanager
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 SAP tools in Engagement Life Cycle

Discovery Evaluation Implementation Operations

Scenario and Process Content Repository

SAP Business Case Builder

SAP Solution Composer

ASAP Roadmaps

Best Practice

Solution Manager

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