Helpful links for your SAP transformation

The architecture chapter can use and recommend the tools and services below to guide and equip (and create principles and guardrails to) professionals and managers to support evidence-based decisions for your business and digital transformations.

The links below can help to provide visibility and clarity of your SAP ecosystem, especially to non-SAP professionals and leaders, so they can also make better questions when discovering and exploring the myriad of capabilities that SAP can offer.

You will need an SAP S-user (me.sap.com) and an SAP account (sap.com) to access the content.

• SAP Best Practices based on SAP Signavio Process Navigator, alternatively,?SAP Signavio Process Explorer?is the gateway to get insights into SAP's process portfolio and leverage related process implementation guidance and reference business and solution architectures. These include business-capability and solution maps, process models, metrics, industry best practices, and SAP best-practice and product recommendations.

• SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library to explore, plan and implement SAP Fiori, the latest user experience from SAP including all relevant content for the SAP Fiori launchpad.

• SAP Business Technology Platform?to explore and understand different architecture patterns which can be implemented using SAP BTP services.

• SAP BTP Guidance Framework?for architects, developers, and administrators.

• SAP Business Accelerator Hub ?(or Intelligent Enterprise Reference Solution Architecture) to help discover, consume, and create integrations, extensions, and innovations.

• SAP Activate?provides a clear guided methodology to deploy, adopt and extend new capabilities with different approaches, e.g., agile or waterfall, cloud, hybrid or on-premise, implementation or upgrade.

• SAP Road Maps ?support the journey to SAP's future product portfolio. Before customising, check for future enhancements.

• SAP Customer Influence? offers a range of programs that give customers the opportunity to influence SAP software development decisions, request specific enhancements or features, and adopt new innovations early on. Before customising, check (and vote) for opportunities and ideas to speed up SAP's development and delivery of new requirements. Customers should engage SAP account team to work internally with the development and product management teams.

• SAP Secure Operations Map?ensures smooth operation of SAP solutions by taking action proactively, before severe security problems occur.

Depending on use case, when the company is ready for transformational initiatives, use the tools and services available to customers:

• SAP Value Lifecycle Manager?for a value analysis, total costs of ownership calculation and more.

• SAP Readiness Check?conducts a detailed analysis of our existing SAP system to help plan our digital transformation, e.g., SAP S/4HANA Conversion, SAP S/4HANA Upgrade, SAP BW/4HANA Conversion, SAP ERP Usage and Data Profiling, SAP Customer Experience Solutions, SAP SuccessFactors Solutions, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Datasphere, SAP BW Bridge.

• SAP Custom Code Analytics uses aggregated Custom Code Management (CCM) data from your SAP Solution Manager. The application gives an overview about the custom code footprint of the ABAP systems and provides insights about code quality and usage.

• SAP Continuous Quality Check & Improvement Services?are included in the SAP Enterprise Support contract. After each service, you receive a service report with an executive summary, findings and a detailed action plan to mitigate risks or improve your situation.

• SAP Customer Evolution Kit?for cost-free engagement to accelerate digital transformation to the cloud.

• SAP Signavio, Process Insights, discovery edition, the successor of Process Discovery and Pathfinder on Spotlight, can get innovation recommendations based on the usage of the current system.

• SAP AppHaus?and its network partners offer different engagement types. From discovering innovation opportunities like rethinking business processes and user interfaces to delivering scalable solutions.

• SAP Cloud Appliance Library?offers a quick and easy way to create SAP workloads in our cloud infrastructure.

• SAP Digital Discovery and Assessment?is used to plan the scope of a planned SAP S/4HANA project (for SAP partners only).
• SAP Simplification Item Catalogue?helps better prepare for the transition to SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW/4HANA, providing a description of all relevant changes that might have an impact when converting from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA or SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA.

• SAP Extensibility Explorer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud?covers a broad spectrum of topics that allow us to adapt standard business software to our business needs by leveraging the extensibility patterns and sample scenarios from SAP.

When customising is required (Clean Core), refer to the following frameworks and additional resources:

• SAP Store is a digital marketplace with over 2000+ extensions where we can discover, try, and buy solutions from SAP partners.

• SAP Partner Finder to find the best SAP partners to meet our needs.

• SAP Cloud Application Programming Model helps build cloud-native applications with maximised productivity at minimised costs, based on proven best practices served out of the box.

• SAP UI Development Toolkit for HTML5 is a platform for developing rich user interfaces for modern web business applications.

• SAP Learning?offers free online courses, tutorials, trials, and official SAP help documentation for anyone who wants to build in-demand SAP skills and prepare for SAP certifications.

• SAP Community?offers access to experts, knowledge sharing, the latest news, resources, and insights on SAP solutions and technologies.

• SAP for Me is the digital companion to interact with SAP and aggregates important alerts, metrics, and insights about the SAP product portfolio with a single access point.

• Microsoft Azure Architecture Centre on guidance for architecting solutions on Azure using established patterns and practices, including SAP on Azure (as Microsoft is our strategic partner).

I hope it also helps guide and drive your project. It is a starting point to equip your colleagues to support business and tech decisions.

Surely I missed many helpful links here, so feel free to add yours below. Thanks!