Working with the Integrated Toolchain in the RISE with SAP Methodology

Customers embracing a clean core approach are, on average, realizing up to 75% incremental business value and are less likely to experience incomplete or cancelled IT modernization projects. Customers and their implementation partners use the integrated toolchain to support the end-to-end business transformation journey.

First, an implementation project starts with SAP LeanIX to analyze the customer’s existing landscape architecture and identify their current systems and integrations. It’s important to understand what your current IT landscape looks like to accurately plan a transformation.

For customers with an existing SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA system, SAP Signavio is used to evaluate the customer’s existing business processes and identify where improvements can be made. A free one-time data load is available through SAP Signavio Process Insights, discovery edition. There are additional business process analysis and optimization tools within the suite of SAP Signavio, for example SAP Signavio Process Manager to document custom business processes in the standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) format.

During implementation, there will likely be use cases where custom extensions need to be built. For more complex extensions, we recommend building and hosting them in the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to keep the core ERP system as clean as possible. SAP BTP can also be used to build and host an integration that connects the extension with the target system. There are services on SAP BTP that support low/no-code development (SAP Build Apps, Process Automation) and services that support pro-code development (Business Application Studio, ABAP environment, SAP Build Code) along with integration services (Integration Suite, Connectivity Service) described in the SAP Discovery Center.

As the implementation project moves into business process configuration, integration setup, and data migration, it’s important to test the processes, integrations, and data to verify everything is working as expected. Tricentis Test Automation is a tool embedded in SAP Cloud ALM that can be used to create and run manual and automated business process tests. SAP and Tricentis have a partnership with a dedicated product, Tricentis Test Automation for SAP.

After a new system has been implemented, it’s important to enable end users in how to navigate the new processes. SAP Enable Now allows customers to create guided simulations where employees can learn step-by-step how to complete a business process in a simulated view of the system. Many of these simulations are already available for customers who use the standard business processes from SAP Signavio Process Navigator along with the process flow diagrams, test scripts, and other process documentation.

If users are frequently getting stuck in certain business processes, SAP WalkMe can be used to identify workflow issues and provide personalized guidance and automation of the process.

Throughout the implementation, SAP Cloud ALM plays a key role as the digital backbone for the project execution, task management, project reporting and clean core success plan. By supporting project management and governance, SAP Cloud ALM helps the implementation team meet their transformation milestones while maintaining system integrity, ultimately driving faster, high-quality, and more sustainable business outcomes. After go-live, the operations-focused apps enable the customer’s IT department to monitor their landscape, improve efficiency, and identify future opportunities for improvement.

Watch the video to get an overview of the solutions included in the integrated toolchain and how they work together.​