Understanding Your Onboarding Journey

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe the onboarding journey concept, how it helps kick-start your project, and what resources are available for each phase.

Customer Onboarding Journey

The Customer Onboarding Journey is designed to guide you from contract start to first value realization. You will receive proactive guidance, a clear road map, and access to relevant resources and services throughout your onboarding experience.

With this structured approach, you can realize value faster and set the foundation for long-term success.

We do it through a structured onboarding journey that guides customers step by step, from getting started, to implementation, enablement, and go-live preparation. This ensures an exceptional first experience, accelerate first value realization, early guidance and empowerment and rapid solution adoption.

The Customer Onboarding Journey consists of four phases:

  • Get started with SAP: This initial phase is about creating the foundation for a successful project. Customers are introduced to the essential SAP tools and assets needed to access their SAP solution.
  • Plan your implementation: Understand SAP Best Practices and the methodologies that you can leverage to launch your project. We offer services and assets to help you form your project team and give it a strong start.
  • Get enabled: Once your project is underway, the team may need support gaining the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively use your SAP solutions. The goal is to ensure that the team is confident and capable of leveraging SAP to its full potential.
  • Prepare to go live: Time to make sure that all systems are ready and that the team is ready to start using SAP. In this final phase, we show you how to prepare for a seamless transition and provide the resources you should use to run the day-to-day operations of your SAP solution.

Digital Experience Offerings

The Onboarding Digital Experience is formed by four main components that together form the foundation of the SAP Onboarding Experience for all our customers.

1. Welcome E-mail:

Sent on the contract start date to the Technical Administrator (IT Contact) specified in the contract, this initial communication helps new customers understand how to get started with SAP.

2. Onboarding Resource Center:

Provides easy to consume, ungated enablement resources, ensuring easy access to the basic resources as part of your onboarding journey. To see the coverage for your solution, please visit the Onboarding Resource Center.

Onboarding Resource Center

3. Customer Onboarding Webcasts:

Visit the Onboarding webcast page and select your solution of interest to access live and on-demand webcasts tailored to simplify your journey with SAP.

Customer Onboarding Webcasts (sap.com)

4. Cloud Onboarding Courses:

Beginner-friendly courses with guided learning paths that help you build the knowledge needed for successful cloud adoption.

Cloud Onboarding Courses (learning.sap.com)

The digital foundation is the core of our onboarding strategy. It includes things like onboarding resource centers, learning journeys, automated communications, and 1-to-many sessions. The goal here is simple: give every customer easy access to the right information at the right time, without barriers.

Conclusion

After receiving the welcome e-mail, you can begin setting up your initial access to start using SAP. Exploring the resources available at our Onboarding Resource Center is a great way to get your project started. Additionally, webcasts offer helpful guidance on a range of topics.