The standardized framework leverages an enhanced SAP Activate methodology implementation road map. Implementation road maps offer a comprehensive view of your project teams' associated activities, deliverables, and tasks with accompanying accelerator assets in document and hyperlink format. The Roadmap Viewer provides access to these road maps as an easy-to-navigate way to access SAP Activate methodology guidance for your specific solution.
The clean core success plan leads through the customer value journey. Clean core quality gates (QG) support adherence to the clean core success plan and the project KPIs.
Watch the following video to get an overview of how the standardized framework leverages the SAP Activate methodology.
Discover Phase: Business Value & Architecture Artifacts Handover
The standardized framework leverages an enhanced SAP Activate project roadmap and begins with the Discover phase. The customer’s existing IT architecture, business processes and operations are analyzed to refine the target scope and value proposition for the future implementation. Documents referred to as "artifacts" are completed by the pre-sales and/or sales people working with the customer to gather their requirements and technical architecture needs. These artifacts are handed over to the implementation team once the implementation project begins to create a smooth transition from the Discover phase to the Prepare phase.
Handover Deliverables
| RISE with SAP Methodology / Clean Core Strategy | Required |
| Business Strategy Map | Recommended |
| Architecture Principles Catalog | Recommended |
| Value Discovery Approach (Clean Core Maturity Assessment ) | Recommended |
| Digital Discovery Assessment | Required |
| Business Capability Map | Required |
| Business Value Flow Diagram | Recommended |
| Application Architecture Overview Diagram | Required |
| Solution Component Diagram | Recommended |
| Software Distribution Diagram | Recommended |
| Product Map | Recommended |
| Bill of Materials (including Solution Sizing) | Required |
| Technical Assessment (Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure) | Required |
| Architecture Roadmap (Capability, Solution) | Required |
| Value Roadmap | Required |
| RISE Adoption Plan | Required |
| Executive Proposal | Required |
Note
Find the tasks and deliverables for each SAP Activate phase in the following road maps:.
Prepare Phase: Onboarding Sessions with the Customer
In the Prepare phase, a series of five calls are led by the Onboarding Advisor from SAP to introduce the customer to concepts of the RISE with SAP Methodology and introduce them to some of the key tasks that will be competed throughout the implementation.
Call #1: Get Started with SAP
The Onboarding Advisor offers the project team a comprehensive overview of the solution's capabilities and the additional entitlements included in the SAP Cloud ERP Private package (e.g. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, SAP Build, and more). The customer IT contact is the designated SAP contact at the customer's organization that has "super admin" permission to their identity provider and SAP for Me, where some systems can be provisioned. The project team refers to other core members of the implementation team, including the implementation partner, and other core project roles from the customer. This call sets the foundation for future calls which will describe the rest of the RISE with SAP Methodology onboarding process.
Call #2: RISE with SAP Methodology
The Onboarding Advisor will discuss the Clean Core principles with the customer IT contact and project team and explain how the tasks and structure of the RISE with SAP Methodology is designed to support the customer's implementation from start to finish, whether the implementation is led by SAP, an SAP partner, or the customer's own team.
Call #3: Create your Clean Core Project
The Onboarding Advisor will explain how to set up the Clean Core Success Plan in SAP Cloud ALM and provide guidance on how to complete tasks using the SAP Cloud ALM applications to the customer IT contact and project team. The Clean Core Success Plan aggregates tasks related to "Clean Core" across the different phases of SAP Activate in one location, and the status of these tasks can be reviewed in the Clean Core Runbook, which is also located in SAP Cloud ALM.
Call #4: Complete your Clean Core Quality Gate
This Onboarding Advisor will help the project team complete their Quality Gate 1 assessment. This is a time for the customer and core project team members to ask questions before the first quality gate is completed and the assessment is submitted via SAP Cloud ALM. Participants of this call include members of the customer's technical team, the implementation partner, and potentially senior leadership or business process owners.
Call #5: Review your Clean Core Quality Gate Assessment
The Onboarding Advisor will work through the Quality Gate report that was generated in response to the Quality Gate 1 assessment. They will help the customer and core project team understand details of the report and reflect on possible improvements that could be made. Participants of this call include members of the customer's technical team, the implementation partner, and potentially senior leadership or business process owners.
Explore through Run Phases: Completing the Success Plan with SAP Cloud ALM
The RISE with SAP Methodology provides a consistent framework that supports customers and partners in their move to RISE with SAP, ensuring smooth and effective transformations. A key element of this methodology is the creation of a Clean Core Success Plan, which serves as a guide to the tasks and deliverables that must be completed throughout the implementation.
SAP Cloud ALM is the tool used to complete iterations of the success plan during implementation, along with documenting the completion of tasks and deliverables throughout each phase of the implementation. The success plan includes over 150 recommended clean core tasks and a detailed runbook, enabling precise progress monitoring throughout the transformation journey. To maintain integrity and alignment with transformation goals, the methodology incorporates proactive and iterative quality gate checks. These checks occur at each phase, covering essential clean core dimensions and key transformation enablers. This iterative validation process helps prevent issues and mitigates risks early.
