RISE with SAP Methodology: The Advantage of Adopting SAP’s Integrated Toolchain
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Approximately 90% of companies face delays in SAP cloud ERP transformations, with 65% reporting significant quality issues, highlighting the complexity and challenges of such projects.
⇨ The RISE with SAP methodology includes an Integrated Toolchain, aiming to mitigate risks and accelerate value realization by integrating best-in-class tools for process design, testing, and project governance.
⇨ Successful SAP migration requires a comprehensive approach to quality assurance, embedding it as a continuous discipline from the outset to avoid common pitfalls like budget overruns and missed deadlines.
SAP transformations to a cloud ERP present a significant challenge. A recent webinar by Tricentis revealed the complexity of these projects, with the speakers citing research indicating that approximately 90% of companies miss their scheduled completion dates and 65% experience significant quality deficiencies.
Common obstacles include undefined business processes, data quality issues, and reliance on inefficient manual testing protocols. Together, these factors can lead to production defects and business disruption. To address these challenges, the RISE with SAP methodology now includes an Integrated Toolchain. This curated suite of solutions guides companies through the migration process, mitigates risk, and accelerates the time to value.
Automation, Collaboration, and Project Governance
According to the information provided during the webinar, the unified framework orchestrates best-in-class platforms. Each of these provides a specific function within the transformation lifecycle:
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- LeanIX: Governs enterprise architecture, mapping the IT landscape to define a rationalized target state.
- SAP Signavio: Provides deep process insights, enabling the redesign and optimization of workflows for a cloud environment.
- SAP Cloud ALM: Functions as the project command center, managing timelines, risks, and governing the overall project execution.
- Syniti: Manages data quality, ensuring data is clean, compliant, and ready for migration to SAP S/4HANA.
- Tricentis: Provides the quality assurance framework, validating processes and systems with AI-powered automated testing and risk intelligence.
- OpenText: Enables compliant access to historical data and reduces system bloat and cloud costs.
Enterprise Quality Assurance
Within SAP’s Integrated Toolchain, Tricentis establishes an AI-powered software quality assurance discipline, moving beyond traditional, end-of-cycle testing. Its function is to provide a comprehensive quality intelligence layer that addresses four critical questions:
1. Where is the risk?
Utilizing intelligent risk analysis, the platform identifies the potential impact of changes and prioritizes testing efforts on the most critical business processes.
2. Will the update or application work? Know what to test.
Tricentis’ test automation platform generates test cases directly from the business process models created in SAP Signavio and manages them within SAP Cloud ALM. It enables continuous testing from the earliest stages of the project.
3. Is the data correct?
Tricentis ensures that data remains accurate as it transitions through new workflows, which is crucial for reliable infrastructure, reporting, and future AI applications.
4. Does the system scale?
Performance testing ensures that new cloud-based processes can operate effectively under real-world user loads, preventing capacity and security issues after going live.
By integrating with other toolchain components, such as Syniti for test data provisioning and SAP Cloud ALM for test orchestration, Tricentis helps ensure that both SAP and non-SAP systems work as intended. This approach provides the velocity and assurance required to manage a complex enterprise transformation effectively.
The success of modern SAP migration relies on an integrated ecosystem of solutions. SAP’s Integrated Toolchain approach turns quality assurance into a strategic business enabler, ensuring a predictable and successful modernization initiative.
Watch the full on-demand webinar here.
What This Means for SAPinsiders
Connect business process design directly to automated testing. As demonstrated during the Tricentis webinar, changes made to a business process model in SAP Signavio can be automatically synced with SAP Cloud ALM and generate corresponding test cases in Tricentis. This creates a direct, governed link between business requirements and quality validation, ensuring that what you test is always what you designed.
Quality assurance is the foundation for a successful migration. The most common transformation pitfalls, such as budget overruns, missed deadlines, and production defects, stem from treating quality as an afterthought. A successful migration integrates quality as a continuous, proactive discipline from day one, safeguarding business continuity.
Modernization is too complex for a siloed approach. SAP has officially endorsed this suite of tools, which includes LeanIX, Signavio, Syniti, Tricentis, and OpenText, to work in concert. This ecosystem provides a holistic framework for managing architecture, processes, data, and quality, significantly de-risking the journey to the cloud.
