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Published on October 18, 2023
In our previous episode, we emphasized why combine SAP Signavio and LeanIX to achieve your business success. We learned that by leveraging the strengths of both platforms, you can position yourself for greater success, innovation, and competitiveness in your respective industries. Ultimately, we teased that both SAP Signavio and LeanIX cover all phases of the SAP Activate project methodology to accelerate and reliably support your SAP S/4HANA transformation. So, let’s dedicate today’s episode to this one!
What is SAP Activate actually about?
SAP Activate is the go-to methodology for implementing SAP S/4HANA. It streamlines project planning, management, and execution. In short, SAP Activate consists of six phases: Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run. The Discover phase involves understanding business needs, while Prepare sets up project infrastructure. Explore focuses on defining system requirements, Realize involves system configuration, Deploy ensures a smooth transition, Run focuses on continuous improvement. This methodology encourages a flexible and agile approach, enabling faster implementations and quicker ROI. It emphasizes collaboration, best practices, and SAP’s latest innovations. SAP Activate optimizes project efficiency and product quality for successful SAP software deployments.
With SAP Activate towards SAP S/4HANA
SAP Activate is essential for SAP S/4HANA implementations because it fully aligns with the specific requirements, agility, and innovation focus that SAP’s next-generation ERP system demands. It’s a streamlined process, ensuring that every aspect of the project is well-defined and managed efficiently. By emphasizing quicker realization of business benefits, SAP Activate accelerates the time to value for SAP S/4HANA, helping you to modernize your business processes rapidly.
The role of SAP Signavio within SAP Activate
SAP Signavio solutions cover each SAP Activate project phase while continuously considering industry best practices, benchmarks, and improvement recommendations. SAP Signavio supports the conversion to SAP S/4HANA from an end-to-end perspective, covering all SAP Activate project phases as follows:
SAP Activate project phase
SAP Signavio support
Discover
- Analyze the status quo
- Understand and document
- Identify opportunities and validate
Prepare
- Benchmark and run analytics
- Document the processes in detail
- Check process conformance
- Assess time, cost, and effort
- Identify key KPIs
Design
- Align on future state
- Standardize processes
- Simplify where necessary
- Simulate changes
Realize
- Document variants
- Generate system requirements
- Automate using workflows and iRPA
Deploy
- Publish process updates
- Educate on the new state
- Check performance
- Govern processes
Run
- Monitor process and business performance
- Continuous improvement
In short, SAP Signavio enhances your process optimization and transparency, while SAP Activate focuses on the efficient implementation of SAP S/4HANA. When used together, they can improve your overall business process performance by accelerating time-to-insights as well as time-to-adapt.
The role of LeanIX within SAP Activate
LeanIX too brings everything to the table to support your SAP Activate project phases – this time from an Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) point of view. From project management, team enablement to technical architecture, infrastructure, application design and configuration all the way to extensibility, integration, testing and data management, the LeanIX features for SAP Activate are holistic in several extends. Moreover, LeanIX offers great capabilities for operations, support, solution adoption as well as analytics.
In short, LeanIX and SAP Activate complement each other in the context of your SAP S/4HANA transformation journey, with LeanIX helping to manage and optimize your IT architecture and SAP Activate streamlining the efficient implementation of SAP S/4HANA.
During the upcoming episode, we will emphasize more on the different capabilities of SAP Signavio and LeanIX in the context of SAP Activate – also introducing which solutions are included within RISE with SAP. Stay tuned!
Wrap-up
SAP Activate represents an essential methodology to effectively support your SAP S/4HANA transformation journey. Both SAP Signavio and LeanIX offer reliable and powerful tools along the SAP Activate project phases – from discover and prepare all the way to deploy and run.
Talk to us at Westernacher Consulting and learn more about how the powerful solutions from SAP Signavio and LeanIX can take your SAP S/4HANA transformation to its next level.
