Rapid Deployment of SAP Solutions
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2013
Book
Hardback
401 pages
978-1-59229-910-2 (ISBN)
Description
Learn how to take the challenge out of implementing or extending your SAP solutions in the cloud or hybrid environments. SAP's new paradigm, SAP Rapid Deployment solutions, will change the way you deploy your software. Asking yourself about how pre-configured best practice processes can shorten your time-to-value? This book reveals the whys and hows.
1. A New Paradigm
Explore the origins of SAP Rapid Deployment solutions. You'll understand the fundamentals of the new approach and the benefits it brings.
2. Solution Phases and Structure
Explore. Scope. Deploy. Run. Understand the phases and composition of a solution, how it simplifies the interaction between your business and IT team, and what services are available for its support.
3. Tools and Methodologies
What steps do you need to take to kick-start a rapid-deployment project? This book details the steps, tools, and best practices to get started.
4. Support Your Solutions
Learn about the available resources that will keep your business solution moving forward and help you stay ahead of the curve.
5. Rapid-Deployment Solutions in Action
Seeing is believing. Read how industry leaders implemented a multitude of different solutions, and understand the time-frame, results, and benefits realized.
Highlights include:
SAP Best Practices
Pre-assembled solutions
SAP Business All-in-One
Assemble-to-order
Simplified Rapid-Deployment Solution Experience
Self-service tools
Support services
Solution maintenance
SAP Solution Manager
ASAP
SAP Partner program
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Persons
Author
Bernd Welz is an executive vice president at SAP and global head of the Solution & Knowledge Packaging organization responsible for enabling the customer adoption of SAP innovations at scale-in the cloud and everywhere. The team develops solution content for implementation, migration to the cloud and integration of hybrid solution landscapes and produces enablement content for SAP, customers, and partners.
As Senior Vice President and Chief Product Owner, Stefan is responsible for all of SAP's solution package offerings for Lines of Business and Industries (SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions, SAP Business All-in One).
Stefan looks back at a track record of leadership roles spanning product and solution management, go-to-market, and consulting. Before joining the packaging business, he headed up go-to-market, new product introduction, and field enablement for all industry solutions. Prior to this, he owned the SAP CRM Marketing and Trade Promotion Management product lines. He also worked several years in consulting inside and outside SAP. He holds a masters degree in Management and Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Stefan Kätker is a senior vice president at SAP and head of the Taxonomy & Content Architecture unit within Solution and Knowledge Packaging. Stefan is responsible for the SAP corporate taxonomy, the content architecture of SAP's knowledge assets, and the solution implementation methodology based on rapid-deployment solutions.
He joined SAP in 2001 as a solution manager in the area of supplier relationship management. He's held various leadership positions spanning product innovation in the cloud, software engineering, business process engineering, and product architecture.
As a senior vice president and head of the Packaging Framework unit, Thomas Reiss is responsible for developing products and tools that enable efficient packaging of content and for enabling efficient consumption of the content via the simplified implementation experience.
Elvira Wallis is an SAP senior vice president of Packaged Solutions. She leads the Database & Technology (DB&T), Analytics, Cloud Integration, Mobile, UX SAP Rapid Deployment solutions packaging team. This team drives the innovations in SAP Best Practices content, services, and enablement packages with SAP's software. Each quarter, her team delivers new, upgraded, updated and translated packages that have saved some of the world's best performing businesses several millions of dollars in IT and productivity savings, performance improvements, and elevated competitive advantage.
Content
Introduction ... 15
Book Overview ... 15
Reading Guidelines ... 16
1. Why Rapid Deployment of SAP Solutions? ... 19
1.1 ... Evolution of the New Paradigm ... 21
1.2 ... Key Benefits of the Rapid-Deployment Approach ... 28
1.3 ... Is IT (Still) Strategic? ... 30
1.4 ... Summary ... 31
2. Smarter, Faster, Simpler: The New Implementation Paradigm ... 33
2.1 ... Key Essentials to the New Implementation Paradigm ... 34
2.2 ... SAP Best Practices, SAP Business All-in-One, and SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions ... 37
2.3 ... The Assemble-To-Order Approach ... 50
2.4 ... Pre-Assembled Rapid-Deployment Solutions and the Cloud ... 51
2.5 ... Use-Cases and Delivery Options for Rapid-Deployment Solutions ... 56
2.6 ... The Simplified Rapid-Deployment Solution Experience ... 66
2.7 ... Services Complementing Rapid Deployment ... 78
2.8 ... The Role of SAP Partners in the New Implementation Paradigm ... 79
2.9 ... Benefits ... 80
2.10 ... Summary ... 83
3. Value Case Studies around the Rapid Deployment of SAP Solutions ... 85
3.1 ... Database Migration to SAP NetWeaver BW Powered by SAP HANA ... 85
3.2 ... Data Migration to the SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA ... 93
3.3 ... Rapid Deployment of SAP ERP with SAP ERP Rapid Deployment Solutions and the Assemble-to-Order Approach ... 101
3.4 ... Deploying SAP CRM with SAP HANA ... 108
3.5 ... Combining SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions with an Incremental Rollout Strategy to Integrate Disconnected CRM Systems ... 113
3.6 ... Assemble-to-Order Deployment of SAP ERP ... 120
3.7 ... Telco Accelerates Billing Project Using a Rapid-Deployment Solution ... 124
3.8 ... Consumer Products Company Deploys SAP Demand Planning in Weeks ... 130
3.9 ... Deploying Integrated Supply Chain Solutions Rapidly ... 133
3.10 ... Integrating Multiresource Scheduling into SAP ERP and Plant Maintenance ... 137
3.11 ... Assemble-to-Order Finance on SAP HANA ... 142
3.12 ... SAP Business Intelligence Adoption Rapid-Deployment Solution ... 151
3.13 ... Enterprise Performance Management ... 157
3.14 ... Mobile Apps and Infrastructure ... 164
3.15 ... SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud ... 170
3.16 ... Case Study for a Rapid-Deployment Solution Implementation of SAP Fiori ... 175
3.17 ... Winning the Ratings War with SAP Personnel Administration and Organization Management Rapid-Deployment Solution ... 180
4. Content Architecture: Foundation of SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions ... 185
4.1 ... Content Architecture Defined ... 187
4.2 ... Content Architecture of Rapid-Deployment Solutions ... 196
4.3 ... Rapid-Deployment Solution Domain in the Context of SAP Taxonomy ... 210
4.4 ... Assemble-to-Order Content Architecture Principles ... 217
4.5 ... Summary ... 223
5. Tools for an End-to-End Experience: From Discovery to a Running System ... 225
5.1 ... Exploring SAP's Solutions with SAP Solution Explorer ... 226
5.2 ... Scoping Your Solution with the SAP Solution Configurator ... 232
5.3 ... ASAP Methodology for Implementing SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions ... 244
5.4 ... Project Execution with the Rapid Deployment Cockpit, SAP Solution Manager, and Solution Builder Tool ... 251
5.5 ... Operating Your Solution with SAP Solution Manager ... 265
5.6 ... Summary ... 269
6. Support Services for the Rapid Deployment of SAP Solutions ... 271
6.1 ... Engineered Services ... 272
6.2 ... Services for Solution Implementation ... 276
6.3 ... Services for Enablement ... 291
6.4 ... Summary ... 310
7. The Rapid Deployment Partner Program ... 311
7.1 ... SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions for Partners ... 313
7.2 ... Getting There Fast: Enablement and Qualification ... 320
7.3 ... Sample Partner Case: F.I.T. Consulting ... 323
7.4 ... Sample Partner Case: Fujitsu ... 325
7.5 ... Sample Enablement Session ... 327
7.6 ... Summary ... 331
A. SAP Rapid-Deployment Solutions: Packages ... 333
A.1 ... SAP ERP Rapid-Deployment Solutions ... 335
A.2 ... SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA ... 336
A.3 ... Line-of-Business Rapid Deployment Solutions ... 340
A.4 ... Industry-Specific Packages ... 361
A.5 ... Mobile Packages ... 365
A.6 ... Technology Packages ... 366
A.7 ... SAP Business All-in-One ... 377
B. The Authors ... 387
B.1 ... Chapter Authors ... 389
Index ... 395