Exploring SAP Transformation: Methodologies, Tools, and Core Business Capabilities

As organizations embark on their journey towards business transformation, the path to becoming an agile, sustainable, and resilient enterprise demands strategic changes. SAP is here to support this transformation. We'll focus on four software solutions that are essential to achieving these goals.

• SAP Cloud ALM: The core foundation for customers, SAP Cloud ALM is an essential tool in the application lifecycle management process. It is indispensable for enterprise architects and is consistently part of their toolkit.
• SAP LeanIX: Is primarily used by customers with over 100 systems. It provides valuable architectural insights, fitting naturally into the tool chain, but may be unnecessary for those with fewer systems.
• SAP Signavio: Is ideally adopted by all customers for business process management. However, all solution components may not be adapted in every transformation project.
• Tricentis: Is a key tool for rigorous testing after the implementation of business processes. It becomes crucial in the later phases of system development when time-sensitive, thorough testing is required.

We see the solutions as a foundational element, centered around two key roles: the Business Transformation Consultant and the Solution Transformation Consultant.

Let's guide you through the key capabilities and benefits of each of the four focused offerings for Business Transformation.

SAP LeanIX is a market leader for enterprise architecture, driving the modernization of IT landscapes and continuous business transformation.

It's software-as-a-service solutions, empowers organizations to create transparency, enabling them to visualize, assess and manage the transition towards their target IT architecture.

• Optimized IT cost.
• Increased efficiency.
• Improved security.
• Enhanced IT sustainability.

• Application Portfolio Management: Gain transparency over the as-is application landscape and all dependencies and understand how your business capabilities are supported.
• Technology Risk and Compliance: Proactively address potential vulnerabilities and threats, compliance issues and obsolescent technology.
• Architecture and Road Map Planning: Design and plan the to-be application landscape and build a technology road map to get there faster, with less risk and greater confidence.

SAP Signavio, our cloud-based suite for business process analysis, optimization, and management, you can optimize your processes, increase efficiency and drive transformation and innovation.

The market-leading solutions gives your organization the ability to visualize, optimize and transform every aspect of your business processes to drive sustainable growth and resilience - fast and at scale​ to archive a more agile and resilient enterprise .

• Achieve transparency.
• Improve performance.
• Streamline collaboration.
• Accelerate time to value.

• Process mining and recommendations: Collaborative process analysis and mining supports continuous business process monitoring, assessment, and improvement to enable operational and experience excellence at scale.
• Business process management: An intuitive and comprehensive modeling platform captures, unifies, and maintains process models to centralize modeling processes and drive collaboration.
• Process best practices and journey modeling: Customer-centric imperatives blended with operational excellence and process best practices connects journeys, processes, and data for ongoing experience improvements.

SAP Cloud ALM provides businesses with a robust and scalable solution for managing their entire solution landscape in the cloud. It enables faster adoption of innovation and more efficient operations through streamlined processes, increased transparency and improved collaboration.

• Reduce the total cost of ownership of solution landscape.
• Supports both cloud and hybrid deployments.
• Instantaneously available (As a subscription service instantaneously available to consume).
• Included in subscription (Available to a customers with Enterprise Support Agreement or Cloud Contract).

• Implementation: Holistic support for implementation and maintenance of all SAP solutions, covering all aspects from design, build, test and deploy with integrated analytic and traceability.
• Operations: Proactive problem detection for integrations, exceptions, jobs, performance and accelerated problem resolution with automated corrective actions integrated into customer service management platform.
• Service: Collaborative workspace for consumption of SAP services, management of service results and follow-up activities.

SAP Application Testing Solutions by Tricentis accelerates end-to-end testing of your applications, data, and business processes across the digital enterprise.

• Continuous Test Automation.
• Change Impact Analysis.
• Performance Testing.

According to the commissioned Forrester Consulting study, "The Total Economic Impact™ of SAP Application Testing Solutions by Tricentis," automation accelerates application delivery as much as four times, with fewer errors, less risk, and higher time to value.

Based on three-year financial benefits for SAP customers who are using SAP application testing solutions. Forrester found out that customers:

• Achieved an ROI of 334%.
• Realized present value benefits of $6 million.
• Recouped investment in less than 6 months.

Now that you have been introduced to the four focused offerings for business transformation, let's check your understanding with a short quiz.