Driving Innovation with SAP Activate Framework
Traditional vs SAP Activate Approach
The traditional approach to development is highly requirements-driven. This means that there is no ready-to-use solution and all builds are done from scratch. Though this approach provides highly customized results, it comes at an immense cost and is extremely time-consuming.
On the other hand, SAP Activate is a transformative approach that leads with best practices and provides rapid and repeatable delivery steps. The predefined content, tools and template, together called SAP Activate Elements, accelerate the project lifecycle with an agile approach that is also cloud-friendly.
How does SAP Activate drive Business Innovation?
Sap Activate offers businesses an opportunity to build a sustained competitive advantage while deploying new capabilities. Their Innovation-as-a-Service enables you to choose when and how you want to build products that are standardized for integration and are quick to launch. Ready-to-run business processes, clear methodology and apps for adoption and extensibility are a part of the solution-specific practices that are provided by SAP Activate in a standardized environment. The self-service capabilities add to the speed of innovation, scalability and productivity of your business to enhance growth as and when you choose.
SAP Activate is essentially an innovation adoption process that is aimed at continuous innovation throughout the product lifecycle. It advances SAP S/4HANA implementation and supports faster and less service-intensive deployments. Whether it is new implementations, system conversions or landscape transformation, SAP Activate enables customers in any scenario. Customers can realize key cloud functionalities for faster adoption of SAP S4/HANA with a fit-to-standard approach and pre-configured SAP best practices. The prescriptive and comprehensive tasks along with agile implementation methodology accelerate product development. Guided configuration tools and automation testing further reduce the time-to-market.
How does the SAP Activate Methodology work?
Sap Activate is divided into 6 phases. To ensure that all deliverables are as per standards, there is a quality gate at the end of each phase. All phases are iterative, keeping in line with the agile framework. These have been explained in the figure below.
Conclusion
SAP Activate is taking product development to a new level by transforming the complete lifecycle. With ready-to-use templates, accelerators and step-by-step guidelines, it is enabling businesses to implement SAP S4/HANA efficiently and smoothly. As a result, customers can innovate and deploy at a much faster rate compared to traditional methods of product development. Whether it is Cloud or On-premise solutions, SAP Activate caters to all types of business needs for customers at any point in their SAP journey.
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