SAP customers across all industries are under incredible pressure to deliver business-critical, high-quality SAP solutions faster, with reduced risks and lower costs. Without the ability to visualize the solution, business stakeholders and development teams are often challenged to interpret and understand business requirements and validate what users really need. 

    Otherwise, the Dynamic competitive demand in an economy that remains volatile means that for companies leveraging SAP solutions, they must be quickly adaptive to changing business needs. So the researches  indicates that application visualization can enable effective coordination with regards to requirements across teams, leading to more successful software deployments. As a response to provide customers flexibility, lean implementations and a value-based approach, SAP recently enhanced its longstanding ASAP methodology, enabling more harmonized implementation processes.  As well known, ASAP stands for Accelerated Systems Applications and Products (data processing). Beschleunigte Systeme Anwendungen und Produkte (Datenverarbeitung) = Germain etymology.

      Generally, ASAP methodology is the SAP roadmap for implementing SAP solutions in a cost-effective, speedy manner. The fact that SAP customer expectations are changing continuously: (they expect quality implementations focus on quick time to value, insight optimization for fast access to info on a suite devices, want early and frequent confirmation on the delivery of benefits and need to demonstrate capability to solve pain points ) leads that ASAP implementation methodology focus turned  or shift from project (which demarche was: configuration, enhancement, testing) to value of program (value management, business process management, solution management)

 Benefits:
ASAP provides: 

 · Flexible, holistic approach that not only guides users through the implementation of SAP    products but also covers the operational aspects of a solution. (Instant use and instant value)
· Proven, repeatable implementation methodology to streamline projects and achieve lower total cost of implementation (TCI).

· Supports multiple types of lifecycles, including value, business process, and project and application lifecycle management. (Enhanced visibility and measurable results)

· leverages an iterative solution demo approach, in particular during the business blueprint phase, to validate the solution design early and frequently.( enable sustainable growth) 

ASAP implementation methodology structures (the roadmap):

Phases:

  ASAP implementation methodology consists of six essential phases which cover entire lifecycle of a project:  

-          Project preparation (project formally initiated and planning commenced)      

-          Business blueprint (requirements gathered and conceptual design conducted)       

-          Realization (solution built and integration tested)      

-          Final preparation (end – users trained, solution confirmed for cutover)       

-          Go live support (solution confirmed and ongoing support operation)       

-          Run (operability of the solution ensured)

Work streams:

The methodology is structured around key project work streams which identify the deliverables to be produced in each phase.        

 -Project Management: methodology administration of project planning, execution and     controlling
 -Organizational Change Management: stakeholder management and organizational alignment      

  - Training: project team and end user skills development       

 - Data Management: legacy data migration and data archiving

  - Business Process Management: business process design and system solution build

   -Technical Solution Management: architecture and technical systems       

  - Integration Solution Management: solution test deliverables, processes and procedures

  
         In brief, the roadmap is structured as a work breakdown structure (WBS) that represents a complete list of deliverables that need to be completed by the project team.  The ASAP methodology for implementation projects represents a standardized work breakdown structure that provides the foundation for defining implementation project work in a deliverable-oriented, hierarchical manner and managing the project work to completion.
ASAP methodology contains a standard set of templates, samples, accelerators, guidelines, and checklists for use by project teams in effectively managing and completing SAP solution implementation projects.