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News on Requirements to
Deploy with SAP Solution
Manager and Focused Build
Tim Steuer, SAP

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Agenda

SAP Solution Manager and SAP S/4HANA

Implementation projects

Conversion projects

Summary

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SAP Solution
Manager and
SAP S/4HANA
Implementation – Overview

Build Test

Design Deploy

We provide the harmonized and integrated implementation experience for the

intelligent enterprise, covering all relevant SAP solutions for customers.
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The way to SAP S/4HANA – Greenfield or brownfield?

Greenfield Brownfield
With a new implementation, you build With a system conversion, you turn
a new SAP S/4HANA system. your existing SAP ERP system into an
Either you cut over to the new system SAP S/4HANA system.
(the so-called “big bang” scenario) Technically, the system conversion is a
or one-step procedure with a single
downtime.
you migrate the individual business
units sequentially from your legacy SAP
ERP application to the new system (“a
phased rollout”).

Of all customers, 95% decide for one of these options.

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Focused Build supports both ways

Greenfield Requirements-to-deploy process

Management of simplification items and conversion

Brownfield activities (available as of SP6 of Focused Build)

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Move to SAP S/4HANA

Implement SAP S/4HANA Convert to SAP S/4HANA

Leverage SAP Model Company Additionally:
services
▪ Check conversion readiness
Use SAP Best Practices packages
▪ Identify simplification items
Analyze landscape data
Plan and execute tests
Manage deployments

Software logistics tools

Provision landscape Plan landscape Convert landscape

Transformation

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Project success criteria for transition projects for SAP S/4HANA

Use the transition road map for SAP S/4HANA to SAP Model Company SAP Activate
manage your project.

Use the SAP Activate methodology and an SAP

Model Company service to accelerate your project.

Use the Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager

solution to manage your development activities.

Safeguard system conversion projects:

▪ Use the SAP Readiness Check tool to prepare project
SAP´s smart delivery platform to manage
▪ Use custom code management to clean up implementations end-to-end
with Focused Build
▪ And more

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Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is fantastic for SAP S/4HANA

Role-based rollouts
Requirements-to-Deploy
Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Requirements Agile development Modern applications Project governance

management within projects: from sprint to with high usability for with automated status
process models release all involved roles reporting

Focused Build is a turnkey solution to manage agile development projects.

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Implementation
projects
Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager and SAP S/4HANA

SAP Transformation SAP Model Company

Navigator

Content Business process

reality check
SAP Best Practices
SAP Activate
methodology Focused Build

Core
Make your Readiness Landscape Custom Process Requirements Test Change Release App ops BP ops,
case check management code management suite control management improvement
management management.

Choice
Project Data volume SAP Value BP
management management. Assurance improvement

SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA

Go-live Operate and optimize

Move Project kickoff Project

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Focused Build
Outcome based delivery – Constant feedback loops with the business

Ready-to-run, integrated, tool-supported methodology to manage

requirements and software development in large, agile projects.

Value added by methodology and tools

▪ Automated visibility of solution readiness against
due dates, with integrated risk management
▪ Management of distributed development teams
▪ Agile release and software engineering with
optional JIRA integration
▪ Automated test planning, change, and release
management to support continuous delivery and
integration and DevOps
▪ Full integration of requirement, project, process,
change, release, and test management

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Project phases with SAP Activate

Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Continuous Innovation
Go-Live

Operate,
Discovery Setup and Fit-to-standard Solution Migrate, integrate, Onboard users
Design Release planning maintain, support,
assessment enablement analysis realization extend, test and deploy
innovate

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Project phases with SAP Activate,
and Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager
Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Continuous Innovation
Go-Live

Operate,
Discovery Setup and Fit-to-standard Solution Migrate, integrate, Onboard users
Design Release planning maintain, support,
assessment enablement analysis realization extend, test and deploy
innovate

Handover
to Release

Functional integration test

Import standard Process management
Planning Sprint execution

+ regression test
Release management
Release With Unit Test per WI
WPs to Wave Single Functional Test per WP
System Capture & approve requirements WIs to Sprint Acceptance Test end of Wave
preparation (backlog)
Support of Urgent and Standard
Changes in Hypercare and Operations
Team Agile development Single Track Landscape - ‘Fix Pace’
Solution design documentation
enablement Dual Track Landscape – 'Fix Pace' > ChaRM

Project
Project Management
management
Including,
(including, ‘mass
‘Mass change’,
Change’, andand dashboards(‘Solution
Dashboards (‘solutionReadiness’,
readiness’, ‘Test
‘test Management’,
management’, ‘Release
‘release management’),
Management’), and
and traceability
Traceabilitymatrix
M atrix)

Phases of Prepare
Release Cycle Create Prepare Build Test Prepare Deploy Hypercare
for Deployfor Deploy

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Transparent requirements to deploy with Focused Build

Unprecedented transparency Unprecedented usability

Simple efficient user interfaces for build teams Real time PMO dashboard for solution readiness

Understand
requirement, process
context, and due dates
Microsoft Excel–
Drag and drop your free
specs or test cases automated
into the work package reporting

Manage workflow

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Conversion
projects
Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager and SAP S/4HANA

SAP Transformation SAP Model Company

Navigator

Content Business process

reality check
SAP Best Practices
SAP Activate
methodology Focused Build

Core
Make your Readiness Landscape Custom Process Requirements Test Change Release App ops BP ops,
case check management code management suite control management improvement
management management.

Choice
Project Data volume SAP Value BP
management management. Assurance improvement

SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA

Go-live Operate and optimize

Move Project kickoff Project

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Conversion project support for SAP S/4HANA
Overview

+
Export,
import SP06
SPS11

SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA

Upload collected data

SAP ERP, 6.x

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Perform SAP Readiness Check – Preparation

SAP
Note

Zip
Development Quality assurance Production
system system system

SAP Note 2913617 describes the prerequisites and execution of the check in your production system.

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SAP Readiness Check – Result export

▪ The downloaded file is uploaded to the SAP

Readiness Check tool.
▪ The analysis can be edited online.
▪ When the readiness check is finalized it can be
Zip
exported as zip file.

Zip

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Upload of SAP Readiness Check in Focused Build

Zip

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Simplification item management UI5 application

▪ Graphical display of simplification items and

related conversion activities by condition,
phase, type, status, and follow-up type
▪ Table display with all simplification items and
related conversion activities and their most
important information
▪ Powerful and fast multifilter options
▪ Direct creation of follow-up requirements or
work packages and assignment in projects of
Focused Build
▪ Postponement or rejection of nonrequired
activities possible from the UI5 application

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Conversion project support for SAP S/4HANA
Process flow

Focused Build –
Project

Focused Build –
Requirement

Focused Build –
Evaluate and Work package
New launchpad tile Categorize
Simplification item management UI5 app Activities

The seamless integration of the SAP Readiness Check and Focused Build accelerate conversion projects.

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Summary
Why do customers love to run their projects with Focused Build?

Bridge business and IT view

Save effort and shorten duration for controlled rollout projects

Clear project status with business process context

Handover solution documentation seamlessly to operation

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Key takeaways

Focused Build
Fast and cost-efficient
▪ Is a preconfigured add-on solution for implementations based on best-
SAP Solution Manager 7.2 practice process content and
▪ Enables you to jump-start SAP Solution Manager for methodology
your innovation project
▪ Provides a best practice, tool-supported methodology
SAP Model
for the requirement-to-deploy process based on + + Company

proven project processes in an agile project

environment SAP
S/4HANA
▪ Perfectly complements the best-practice process
content for SAP S/4HANA provided by the SAP
Activate methodology and SAP Model Company
services

SAP Solution Manager is the one and only delivery platform from SAP to scale the implementation with
SAP Activate and SAP Model Company services for SAP S/4HANA and digital industries.
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Taking the next step for Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager

Want to learn more?

Join our regular “What’s new webinars” for SAP Solution Manager and the focused solutions. SAP
Learning Hub hosts all live webinars and recordings.

Need a quick overview?

See the “What’s New” section in the help portal for SAP Solution Manager and Focused Buildhts.

Ready to implement?
Leverage the expert guided implementation services.

And stay in touch with our monthly Application Lifecycle Management Community Calls.

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Exercises and system access
Knowledge transfer and demos

Media center Internet demo system Private cloud system

Are you searching demo material You want to play with a pre-
for various functionalities and configured public demo system?
features for Focused Build for
SAP Solution Manager? ▪ Use the internet demo system to try out data
provided by SAP on a preconfigured public demo
system in the Internet.
▪ Navigate through a virtual demo environment
at your own pace. ▪ Experience a fully-configured SAP Solution Manager
7.2, including Focused Build and Focused Insights.
▪ Discover new functionality of
SAP Solution Manager 7.2. ▪ Understand how SAP Solution Manager 7.2 interacts
with SAP S/4HANA.
▪ Practice when and as often as you want.
▪ Take advantage of a free trial that is unlimited
▪ Take advantage of a free trial that is unlimited without any additional costs.
without any additional costs.
▪ There is a regular system refresh, governed by SAP.
You want to experience SAP Solution
Manager in private cloud?
▪ Use the SAP Cloud Appliance Library tool, a
preconfigured private demo system in the cloud.
▪ Test content activation before executing the upgrade
to 7.2.
▪ Prepare and explore the transition to SAP S/4HANA
with Focused Build.
▪ Get a 30-day free trial. You will need a cloud
provider account (Amazon Web Services (AWS) or
Microsoft Azure).
▪ There is no system refresh; you govern the system.

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