As you are planning out your project, you will find that stakeholders play a vital role in its success. As a result, you should incorporate analysis of current stakeholders and execute a quality stakeholder management strategy throughout the creation and implementation of the project. What Are Stakeholders Specifically? The Project Management Institute defines stakeholders as anyone who is interested in a project’s success. 1 More specifically, internal stakeholders are anyone directly particip [...]

As the project team sets out a plan for the implementation, resource allocation is among one of the most important aspects to consider. When the team puts resource organization and optimization at the forefront, they achieve a project that performs efficiently, produces quality results, and incurs lower costs. Additionally, they can more easily deliver the project within the designated timeline. Fundamental Steps to Resource Allocation and Optimization As the team begins to work on this process [...]

              Yesterday, SAP publicly released the notes for their Cloud ALM Q4 2023 presentation for Operations, which reflects on SAP’s current Cloud ALM operations process, recent advancements, and roadmap for the past, present, and future.1 Achievements Made in Q4 2023 Below are some focus areas SAP had in Q4 2023 for Cloud ALM: Business Process Monitoring Integration and Exception Monitoring Real User Monitoring Synthetic User Monitoring Job & Automat [...]

As a follow up to our discussion on SAP’s approach to generative AI, we will take a look at the specific generative AI integrations SAP is implementing for late 2023/early 2024: Joule In our last post, we discussed how SAP plans to prioritize cloud and generative AI integration. Soon to be integrated on the public SAP S/4HANA Cloud through the SAP cloud enterprise portfolio (it is already on SAP SuccessFactor solutions and the SAP Start site!), Joule is an example of this effort.1 Joule primari [...]

      As SAP establishes its main focus points for 2024, a large priority for the ERP company is generative AI. SAP recognizes the benefits that the emerging technology has not only for its own systems, but also the ERP and technology industries as a whole. To further understand how generative AI will benefit businesses that use an ERP system, we will explore SAP’s fundamental approach:     SAP’s Goals and Approach A brief interview with Rahul Vig (Senior Director at S [...]

As the final step to the implementation process, go-live/post-implementation is an essential step to business success. So long as you have conducted the project planning and construction process properly, go-live should be fairly straightforward. However, a successful post-implementation can be more involved. Preparing for the Go-Live Along with monitoring the systems to ensure everything is going according to plan, the team needs to prepare for the go-live event. Before the go-live, the team s [...]