SAP Activate

Accelerate your transition to SAP Autonomous Suite with a standardized implementation framework.
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What is SAP Activate?

SAP Activate is an adoption framework for SAP Autonomous Suite that combines solution-specific best practices, expert guidance, and a structured, phased approach to help organizations streamline and accelerate the transformation journey.

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Simplify your transformation with insights and guidance from thousands of implementations that can help you:

  • Embed Joule Agents and Joule Assistants in your processes for AI-first innovation.

  • Enable end-to-end integration and simplified operations between applications and systems.

  • Launch your fit-to-standard processes quickly and efficiently.

  • Reduce complexity with self-service tools, automation, and sustainable processes.

Key benefits

Jump-start deployment with ready-to-run AI-enabled processes

Adopt preconfigured best-practice business processes and employ Joule Agents and Joule Assistants to create a strong foundation for continuous innovation.

Streamline adoption with a clear AI-assisted pathway

Follow solution-specific guidance to simplify configuration, extensions, data preparation, testing, and user enablement.

Address enterprise-wide needs with extensibility

Customize SAP Autonomous Suite capabilities to meet evolving business needs and accelerate innovation across your organization.

Maximize the value of your cloud solutions

Use the SAP Activate framework to give your business the tools to succeed.

STEP 1

Discover

Formulate your business case, understand the value that SAP solution capabilities provide, and determine project scope.

STEP 2

Prepare

Start project planning, onboard the team, and provision the initial environment and application lifecycle management tools.

STEP 3

Explore

Perform a fit-to-standard analysis of preconfigured processes, including Joule Agents and Joule Assistants. Identify gaps and determine necessary extensions.

STEP 4

Realize

Perform a series of agile iterations, enrich your data, and implement and test the solution quickly to realize value.

STEP 5

Deploy

Finalize setup, identify risk factors, complete final testing, and go live with the new solution. Assist business users in adopting the solution.

STEP 6

Run

Maximize the solution value by continuing adoption across your organization and detecting opportunities for continuous innovation.

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Enhance your SAP Activate experience with Joule

Get clear, helpful answers throughout your adoption of SAP Autonomous Suite using Joule, now available for the road map viewer in SAP Activate.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP Activate

Embarking on a hypergrowth journey with SAP

GetYourGuide, an online travel marketplace, implemented SAP Cloud ERP to help consolidate its fragmented systems and manual processes.

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Helping global subsidiaries speak the same language

MANN+HUMMEL used SAP Cloud ERP to combine disparate systems into one solution for greater consistency, transparency, accuracy, and speed.

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Accelerating innovation with a swift move to the cloud

Business Evolution cut infrastructure costs, enhanced scalability, and became more agile using the SAP Activate methodology.

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Painting a colorful future with maximum scalability

Benjamin Moore adopted a two-tier ERP model and SAP Activate to run its US operations on an ERP environment in the private cloud while quickly onboarding new business units in Europe.

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Resources

Learn more about the tools and preconfigured processes that can accelerate your deployment with SAP Activate.

VIDEO

Digital discovery assessment

Explore a toolkit that helps assess your requirements across business areas and matches you to the right SAP Cloud ERP capabilities.

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TOOL

SAP Cloud ALM

Deploy and run your SAP solution with SAP Cloud ALM using SAP Activate project road maps with quality gates and checkpoints for each phase of your journey.

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SAP FOR ME

SAP Signavio Process Navigator

Gain insights into SAP's process portfolio with process models, documentation, and implementation accelerators.

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PRODUCT

SAP Business AI Platform

Build, integrate, scale, and run AI that delivers real business impact.

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Road map viewer for SAP Activate

Check out the methodologies that can guide you from adoption to acceleration. The road maps are organized by categories or solution and enable you to keep track of your improvement and innovation deliverables.

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SAP Activate community

Join the SAP Activate community to explore valuable content and resources; connect with SAP partners, customers, and experts; and participate in discussions and knowledge sharing.

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SAP Learning Journey

Deepen your expertise of managing SAP Cloud ERP implementations, specifically focusing on SAP tools, methodologies, and SAP Autonomous Suite.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP Activate offers a structured approach to implementing SAP solutions supported by ready-to-run best practice processes, tools, and AI-assisted guidance.

 

The framework’s task content—including setup guidance, enablement resources, templates and accelerators for fit-to-standard workshops, and detailed guidance for test sprints—is embedded in SAP Cloud ALM, offering detailed, role-based guidance for all project team members across every step of the implementation journey. 

The SAP Activate framework provides a structured approach to activation and implementation of SAP solutions with six distinct phases supported by best practices and tools. It builds on SAP’s strong foundation of fit-to-standard and clean core principles to assist customers with implementing robust and agile environments that enable continuous innovation.

The RISE with SAP Methodology encompasses a standardized framework, an integrated toolchain, and expert guidance to support your transition to the cloud. SAP Activate is the framework. It provides best practice and road map recommendations, guidelines, and checkpoints organized into six distinct phases.

The SAP Activate framework includes guidance that’s organized into six phases:

  1. Discover: Understand solution options and define the scope at a high level.
  2. Prepare: Finalize the project plan, set up the environment, and get the team aligned.
  3. Explore: Conduct fit-to-standard workshops and confirm the solution design.
  4. Realize: Configure, build, test, and validate the solution.
  5. Deploy: Cut over to the new system and transition to production.
  6. Run: Operate, support, and continuously optimize the solution.

 

The road map viewer in SAP for Me is the main hub for project teams—as well as customers, partners, and registered users—to access implementation road maps, deliverables, tasks, and accelerators such as templates and guides.

SAP Activate provides a structured framework, comprehensive support, and valuable resources that guide organizations through each phase of their adoption journey. This approach ensures that potential risks are identified and mitigated early, leading to a smoother and more predictable project outcome. Additionally, SAP Activate offers self-enablement resources, preconfigured business processes, AI-assisted guidance, fit-to-standard workshops, agile implementation cycles, and SAP Cloud ALM capabilities to further accelerate the process.

SAP Activate supports continuous adoption of new capabilities with minimal disruption through ready-to-run best practices that are updated regularly. The Run phase is also focused on supporting operations, optimizing processes, and enabling iterative improvements so teams can continuously innovate without needing a major reimplementation.

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