What is Activate Methodology
Activate is an Agile Based methodology exquisitely made for SAP products. Activate is highly recommended for its proven capability in simplifying SAP implementation, Activate does it by accelerating implementation activities, reducing Risk and bringing transparency.
Is Activate Usefull ?
If you want to be more agile in your SAP projects Activate is the answer. However Activate is not just about being Agile, the value is in facilitating consumption of best practices and simplifying implementation process.
Best Practices
Using Activate methodology consuming sap best practices is simple and becomes part of the implimentation process
We recommend that you develop your target business processes based on best practices if not using the best practice processes directly.
From our SAP experience we have seen significant reduction of risk along with gained efficiency by using best practices.
Methodology
Activate is a proven methodology to implement SAP. Activate reduces wastage and delivers predictable outcome. Activate is an Agile based methodology.
Although methodology can be implemented without a tool we recommend using focused build tool because adoption and transition to Activate is much easier.
Accelerators
Accelerators are artificats, guides or even explanation provides in the Activate content. Accelerators save time and effort when used as a starting point. Accelerators also bring higher quality to project documentation.
How to implement Activate Methodology
We implement activate with key focus on transitioning all your activities to activate processes and training. Activate methodology requires Agile experience and our coaches are well versed with transitioning SAP customers.
Explore
Activate content should be explored to identify what can be used for current project. Exploration also gives a chance to understand the orchestrated sequence of implementation activities. The outcome is selected tasks and accelerators for consumption in current project.
Enable
Activate is a methodology by itself, the team has to be enables by the terminology, the phases, outcomes and milestones in Activate. The good news is that Activate follows standard Agile so it can be adopted very easily.
Transition
Current implementation processes and activities have to be transitioned into Activate way. You might adopt completely new implementation processes if migrating from waterfall or pure agile. Transition is important so that there is no double entry and no wastage.
Excel
Enjoy the benefits of Activate. You will start to notice high productivity, the perfect time sequence of implementation activities saves time and effort and results will be predictable. Activate lowers risk in SAP implementations.
How we can help with Activate
Our Activate coaches are well experienced in transitioning projects and we tackle it with extensive planning. We understand the pain points and risks involved in adopting a new methodology. We have proven it repeatedly that benefits are much greater than the risks with Activate. Your team will be enabled with activate knowledge so that you can continue the Activate journey.
Process Oriented
We have established a process starting with Planning all the way to support and continuous improvement. Being process oriented has helped several clients in the transitioning to focused build much easily. transitioning to focused build is involves organizational change and our processes are designed to smoothen the transition.
Training
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Support
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SAP Focused Build
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Focused build is the only tool you need to implement SAP. Focused build will reduce risk and faciliate the consumption of best practices while accelerating all implementation activities.
SAP Process Documentation
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Realize value of your business process innovation effectively with upto date process documentation. Process centric view of all implementation activities is more meaningfull and traceable.
SAP Testing
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Benefit from SAP Testing tools in a seemlessly integrated system. SAP testing saves thousands of hours from manual test cases development and from integration effort.
Agile tools Transition
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Plan, Control, Measure and Monitor imlementation activities with smart Project management tools which are fully integrated with Process and Change management.
Agile Planning
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Highly efficient and Agile based, Activate is the proven method to implement any SAP product. Tighly coupled with best practices and accelerators Activate methodology is a must for all SAP implementations.
Activate Coaching
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Proactively measure, monitor and improve the system using a wide variety of montioring and alerting techniques. Take advantage of standard KPI, reports and build-in dashboards.
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