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Accelerate SAP S/4HANA Success with SAFe Executive Guide

Key Takeaways

• SAP will suspend maintenance of its business suite applications at the end of 2025, pushing organizations to fully transition to SAP S/4 HANA and adapt their operating models, processes, and customer interactions accordingly.

• To maximize the return on investment, organizations must transform their end-to-end value streams and develop SAP delivery agility, which is essential for navigating dynamic and complex business environments.

• Accenture's expertise in Lean-Agile delivery approaches has already supported over 600 large-scale SAP implementations, emphasizing the importance of mastering the minimum integrated business process concept and SAFe Essentials for successful SAP S/4HANA operations.

The SAP S/4HANA deadline brings both financial risk and transformative potential. Many organizations struggle to deliver on time and realize ROI from their SAP programs. SAP Activate identifies SAFe® as a critical enabler for implementing SAP at scale with Agile ways of working. Learn how SAFe helps teams overcome common pitfalls, accelerate migration success, and choose the right partner to guide their journey.

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SAP has announced that starting at the end of 2025, it will suspend maintenance of its business suite applications as clients move to the cloud-based SAP S/4 HANA. That means for successful organizations, it is more than a system upgrade. Organizations will have to extract maximum value from new technology by first understanding its potential impact on their operating model, processes, and customers. They will also potentially have to transform end-to-end value streams to achieve a higher return on investment  with SAP delivery agility. SAP delivery agility is a competitive imperative in dynamic, complex situations. It provides critical core systems to lay the foundation for business agility. This enables business to run smoothly and delivers better economic outcomes by harnessing the power of disruption to lead with speed, confidence, and innovation. accenture has helped over 600 Agile-based SAP engagements to successfully accelerate large-scale SAP implementations, leveraging leading edge Lean-Agile delivery approaches. This white paper introduces the minimum integrated business process concept and 10 Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Essentials that are at the heart of SAP delivery agility and should be mastered for SAP S/4HANA implementations and operations to win in today’s market.

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