Basic understanding on ASAP Methodology for beginners

so in sap we have some methodology saap methodology accelerated sap so which means which means so normally we have

started today is our first class so to work on the sap to work in the SAP systems first of all we have to do the

SCP installation sap application installation we have to perform it here to from the application installation directly we cannot go ahead and so do it

in the organization so there is a procedure we have to follow there is a procedure for the there is a procedure we have to follow for the sap

implementations this is called the sap implementations why because sometimes we may get the sap implementation work sometimes we may get the sap support

work so suppose if you get the sap imp impementation so then installations will come into the picture sap installation

so directly you cannot go ahead and do the sap installations so in this case the first of all so we have to do the so

for every implementation project we may have to follow the esap methodology rules we have to follow esap methodology rules why we have to follow this rules

means to to build the successfully to implement the successful project to install the systems to deliverables road

maps documentations recommendations team structure how many members we required all kind of all kind of things that will

be covered in the SF methodology phases that is called the SF methodology phases here so there are the total five phases

the SF methodology consists of total five phases here theoretically sometime they may ask you this question that's why I am explaining this is the first question here so why because normally we

are keeping like some people they're keeping like 3 years four years experience we have some experience right so sometimes tomorrow if you get the interview question or some technical discussions with your manager they may

ask you so if you want to go for the sap implementation there the some phases we have to follow some rules there are the five five phases of the implementation

we have to follow it here each phase of the each phase they will provide the some road maps some detailed planning

documentations recommendations and also implementation of SAP systems here each phase of process at the end of the phase

each phases of processs with the some quality check that helps to do monitor the deliverables factors control criticals team structures everything we can do it

here right so that is the the agenda of the each and every phase at end of the phase we have the some quality checks some de some like some we are meeting

the project deadlines when is the project going to end so the implementation projects here we have the two types of projects before we go for this one so we have the multiple

projects in sap here within the sap we have the projects so what is the implementation projects sometimes the new customers if it's a new customer so

new customer so suppose example I'm going to start the one food business for my business I need for for my business I

need the one one application I required for the tracking the business the orders and everything I need the one application right so for that one if I

give this work to the one of the company so they will start implementing the SAP systems the functionality scenario strategy everything they will start

implementing it here for that one the first they will follow the implementation methodology implementation methodology they will follow it here that is the for new

customers for new clients for new projects this implementation methodology is the very important right then once the implementation is done then that

will go to the support work means business live the business will go to the live then that time onwards we will support it so that is called the support projects few members they will go to the

support projects directly few members who are already experienced people they will go to the implementation projects so we have the implementation projects that and we have the support

projects suppose you are doing the upgrade then some people they will divide it like upgrade projects then migration projects then conversion projects something like that depends

upon the use case they will de but so these all are comes under the support support work means daily monitoring the SAP systems issues tracking all those things will comes under the support

projects here implementation project means building the SAP systems here so this sap methodology is for the so to to work the support project first of all we

should know right how to install the sa systems and everything so that's why first we are discussing about the installations of the SCP systems to perform the installation first of all in

the installation we have the methodology that is called the so s s of methodology s of methodology means let me write it

here kind of accelerated accelerated methodology here

means accelerated so SCP accelerated SCP methodologies here that is called the ASAP methodology okay so in this methodology we have the total five

phases here in each page represent to the some specific activities here first one is the project preparation activities project preparation

activities here so then the second one is called the business blueprint business blueprint business blueprint

here the third one is called the realization phase here realization phase here realization phase the fourth one is

called the the fourth one is called the final preparation final preparation activity then fifth one is called the

the go live go live go live go live activities and support support go live or support some people they will divide this go live into the one phase and they

will divide they will go for the six pH is called the support project support support so go live and go live support activities here so I clubbed this two

into the one phase here right so total we have the five phases in the ASAP methodology right so what exactly we will do in the project preparation

activities what exactly we will do it in the project so prepar preparation activities sorry what exactly we will do it here in the project

preparation the mainly the focus of the the project preparation is initial planning the preparation of the goals

the deadlines timelines so the scope the clarity first of all project preparation means the mainly is the so initial planning the planning related activities

initial planning how how we want to go for the implementation planning the scope the clarity and the scope what type of activities we have to perform it

here then team establishment definitely the team structure so the people will start recruiting the people in the the project preparations building the

commitments so teams code project Consulting all kind of activities and also the sequence of activities will follow so it kind of discussions project

preparation discussions here so the mainly the project managers the delivery team so they will they will start they will they will involve in this case here

right our managers project managers so delivery managers they will start involving in this project preparation activities here right it kind of team

structure why because whenever new project comes immediately so they will estimated how many team members are required right project preparation

activities sequence of what is our scope what activities we have to do it here how many systems we have to build it so initial plannings so it kind of planning related that's why project preparation

activities so here start they will start preparing the recuiting the people building the team structures so how they want to go they will proceed it as for their organizational policy here right

so the next one is the business blueprint here business blueprint here in the business blueprint so what exactly here they will do it here in the

business PR the aim of this phase is understanding the the procedures blueprint procedures understanding the so the support project

here the the aim of this common understanding of the the procedures scenarios detailed document containing the all the requirements so

brainstorming sessions initial meetings then project revise objectives goal settings schedule for each and every goal those things normally it kind of

project enti blueprint documentation kind of mainly for the documentation the mainly they will work on the documentation part in the initial time whenever you go for the any

implementation project the blueprint is very important here the project blueprint means preparing the land landscape diagrams

architectural diagram normally here in our group maybe if you are already working normally you know right documentation is very important normally you have seen the architectural diagrams

right who will develop the during the implementation so the people will start developing the documentation detailed documentations and also all the

requirements meetings so all those things will happen here blueprint means whenever you go for any shopping mall in the each and every floor or maybe the

near to lift or outside it's near to Le there is a the shop floor related blueprint is available right detailed information in case of fire where to go

how to go there is a detailed documentation is available in the the blueprint right so same as like here the detailed documentations initial meetings

those things will be scop those things will be discussed in the business blueprint here right so this at all we will not be involved here anywhere we will not be

involved here right why because here the higher people they will take care of all kind of work and everything here our work is only actual see when they want

to install it we will install it then so that's it but here any phase we will involve we will not involved here just for for understanding purpose I

discussing this one so the next one is the realization phase here so so in the realization phase here in this phase we

have the so the phase in this phase we have to work on the bills implementing the system installations bills implementing the all

the business process requirement project requirement here so the project maners should attach the sign up from the stakeholders so here all those things

here Baseline preparations scope final configurations so everything so everything thing we will do it in the here the realization pH is the very important here here we will do the

Implement means installations of the sap system here installations like building the scenarios building the functional team they will build the scenarios here

Security will create the security roles here so the PMS the project managers will get the sign off will get the sign off from the stakeholders so all kind of

configuration activities they will perform in the relation pH maybe here we will be involved in this case here in this case our basis team will be

involved in this case here installations right installations means bu uh installing the new SAP systems that post configuration activities that

functional team they will start creating the business process scenarios requirement based upon the business requirement this is a very long running phase here project man will get the

should attach the sign off project managers should attach the sign off here so Bas line preparations so scope what

is a scope here all the kind of work they will so do it in the the realization phase that's why this is the very lengthy phase

here so then final preparation phase here the final preparation phase means here final preparations means testing

T testing testing kind of activities here testing kind of activities testing kind of activities here right final preparation testing so

system management system testing and system management related activities here so this kind of activities they will perform it here system IND user

trainings testing training on the system how they want to use the systems IND trainings cut our activities preparations here cut our

activities cut our activities so all kind of the major all kind of stuff so once they have successfully completion of the final preparation then they are

ready to begin the new system means they will go for the go live activities they will go for the go live activities here okay final preparation testing

preparation testing related activities system measurements trainings right cutover activities all kind of work will

be performed in the final preparation activities here right so just here they will go for the testing why because here we will do the installation scenarios

building everything sign offs take over everything we will get it out from here but here in the final preparation in the final preparation so testing testing

will be performed why because we have done the installations functional team will done the scenarios testing and everything here we will do the testing

activities system management how how we want to manage it some signups so successful testings trainings to the IND users cut hour activities so everything

is okay or not load testing performance testing all kind of activities will be performed in the final preparation this is also very important phase

here right the next one is the go live and support here go live and support here so go live and support is this this here

the here is the the actual Journey starts go live activity here actual the business start using the your production systems business start using the systems

here business start using the systems here in the go life this phas is Journey from the pre-production environment to the live system business operations here

the most critical element is for is here production setup monitoring transactions system performance all kind of work here will be supported here go live means

from this phase onwards your production activities will start live business live operations will start here so which means from here onwards your system

should be support by the 24x7 support in case of your business is 24x7 24x7 support then here uh some support some

monitoring monitoring we have to do it here daily monitorings we have to do it in the systems so we have to check the DB size monitoring kind of DB monitorings of the systems performance

checking kind of monitoring and also support support team support team means we will hand out the project to the support team here support team hand over

means project hand over to the support team here so why because here once we hand over the system to the support team from there onwards the people will start doing the daily

monitoring activities so transport Imports changes development issues fixing why because your business will be live business will be live here means

all the users business will start using the your production system from here up to here no one will use why because we are creating the projects here so from here onwards they will start using the

business and everything here so in this case that is the very important here in this case that is the very important here monitoring performance so here your team is different here here up to here

to here one team will start working on it here then from here to so some other team will work on it here other company maybe or same team maybe work on it here

depends upon the your agreement with the customer here inial planning with the customer support team team that's what sign of all those things here so this is

the if you want to implement one project these are the one order wise see here if you don't have this methodologies this rules then who will

do what there is no planning there is no preparation activities there is no documentations so nothing is there right there no sequence of activities also we are not going to achieve this Milestone

also if we don't have this one we are not going to achieve the the one the proper Milestone also here we are also we we if we don't have this this preparation activities so we cannot say

when the project is going to complete and everything here here we will meet the deadlines if you follow this one step by step step by step we will meet the deadlines here okay so that is the

the main thing of the ASAP methodology the advantage of the ASAP methodology is covers the entire Project Life Cycle will cover

the so it will cover the entire Project Life Cycle here Project Life Cycle here it will cover the entire project project

so life cycle here from starting to ending so it will cover everything here initial from initial evaluation through

the post project management so transparent value transparent so transparently so from w space timelines

when it is going going to complete when we are going to start it proper testing trainings everything will be covered here everything will be covered here so

that's why so every organization SCP recommended to follow the saap methodology when they are going to implement the new business they are

going to start this one here so here here we are going to discuss about the so first of all here we are installations part why because it's

purely our work here right so installations then support work here support work here installations and support work here so why because these

are our scope here support sometimes nowadays if you directly will go to the support work and we will start supporting the systems installations it's kind of implementation methodology

we will do the installation normally you will get chance or not so no one sure here you will get chance or not so that we are not sure if you are lucky guy you will get the work start working on the

installations for so but you are the support person you are the support person then we are going to the support projects then you will get the all the

support work and everything but in our class we are going to discuss about the installations work then support work as well okay so

that is the implementation methodology okay any questions from anyone here so the installations is for the sap

applications yes yes sap applications databases all kind of work we will do it here all kind of things so inst mean infrastructure here teams

building as I told you right the team structure here team structure means here the team structure here is like so OS team operating team database Team

Network team infrastructure procure the hardware so purchase in the hardware so o purchasing licensing all those things will happen here so all those things

planning scope infrastructure how much cost budget all those things how many team members are required each and every team what what are the teams here

involved so W Network then infr so we have to procure the hardware Hardware we have to procure it so data center we have to build it so there are many things that's why so if you have the

proper planning here preparation these all will come from the preparation activities then documentations all those things will go here here major thing is

installations are the major thing here because without we do the installations how the teams will go and do the testing scenarios cut over all those things business will not be live

so installation is the major part here so first our work is the installations this document preparations meetings attending everything it's

normally the people will do so documentation workshops with the customers the people like man higher management people sometimes they will also involve me then we will also work on it but here this is the main

installation is our Pure support work we have to do the installations as well yeah thank you sir uh sir what about you were talking about stakeholders right so who they are and

uh what about the monitoring tool do we have any any option in the sap to monitor the performance or do we need to do any other tool no no no we have the

sap sap we have everything is equipped sap means in the application itself we have the so transaction codes to monitor the systems to monitor the system

performance how the system is behaving how many users are logged in what is the response time what the users are doing all kind of things we can monitor in the sap itself so yeah we will discuss this

all will come from the support so yeah we will discuss all those things which comes in our classes in the day-to-day classes we will discuss all those things okay and what about the

stakeholders who they are like are we going what is the objetive of stakeholders stakeholders means uh maybe

maybe it's uh customers customers means who want to use the business our business they the stakeholders means stakeholders means

uh they will place in the customer customer environment sorry so means who wants the right word is the

right word is stakehold some organization it kind of some like right in some sometimes it's kind of organization they will start using the

so business business they will start using the business organization so investors Partners right we have something like that we have the stakeholders business stakeholders means

sometimes the stakeholders may be called as the partners some investors who wants to for this project funding under investors maybe some customers customers also comes under the stakeholder

sometimes here some internal this company who are directly are financially involved in this operation this projects here in this board members directors

donors investors so project man those will comes under the stakeholders so in the stakeholders also we have the internal stakeholders internal Stak in

the company suppose like XYZ company in the XY company in the XY company so that company is responsible for funding for you getting the salaries

funding everything building budget everything those are the directly the internal stakeholders here the company who are directly are financially

involved in their operations example project managers board of directors donors investors so they in the they will they're investing in the company to

build your systems so to build the to to successfully go live to for your business they building here for your business they're investing the some amount here right shares some amount so

those are the stakeholders here so external stakeholders mean outside of the organizations here suppose example customers shareholders shareholders suppliers

suppliers so some governments so these are the suppliers supplying supplying here stakeholders so some suppliers they will supply the some materials to the suppose you are in the product based

company in your factory there in your factory they are just the so the company means they are not only one person right they are the multiple people some suppliers they will supply

the some materials to their company your company will prepare that one those are suppliers right suppliers so custo it can some meetings will be changed some

communities suppliers helpers shareholders some people you are the low budget that time of shareholders they will they will shares so suppose you don't have that much of money then you

will you will sell the sold the shares and everything right so that kind of comes under the the stakeholders here business stakeholders so some internal stakeholders internal means managers

board of directors donors investors so exteral stockholders means suppliers shareholders not the stakeholders shareholders so those will

help to the company to beat the objectives these all the stakeholders will help to compar to the so strategic objectives experience necessary

materials to the resources so right decisions decision making of the company suppose you want to go you want to shut down the business then who will Who will give the sign up will you directly will

go and will you approach if you approach your manager your manager will The Client customer customer means stakeholders the stake objectives here the stakeholders the primary role is to

help the company to meet the objectives objectives here so the party who invest in their company and either affect or affected by the business

they're the primary stakeholders investors employees customers these all are comes under the so the stakeholders

word maybe higher offal higher officials may give them more examples because maybe managers who are in that respective word who are in the

stakeholders that respective positions so they make can they can give more information on the stakeholders as why because they are the main person they're investing right so they're

they're putting some amount and everything the finance everything right so their Deion is very important here their decision is very important here so why because for each and every bu their

de is very important here so that's why I mentioned like stakeholders anyone thank you

yeah so this is the project preparation activities here so when it comes to the the installation work the theoretically no one ask questions as

nothing it's not part of our scope also just for your understanding purpose I explained the that that s methodology for better understanding purpose right

so mainly our first topic is the sap installations so for sap installation means we have to build the new system here new sap system here without

building the new system how the people will go and will do the work in the SAP systems it's not possible right it's not at all possible here so building the sap

system is very important here so how they can build it what we how they means we how the basis team here basis team will start involving in the

installations work here so for in for installing the SAP systems here for installing the SAP systems here first of all we should know about the first of

all we should know about the requirements here what we required here to install the any application suppose you want to install the one media player

on your laptop what you required you required the one of the OS Network right space Ram then software all those things are

you required right to use the media player you need all those things here same as like here to install the SAP systems we have to we have to we have to

so provide we have to get the we have to gather the Hardware requirements first of all Hardware requirements here Hardware requirements so Hardware

requirement means it will convert the what type of operating system you required right what type of database you required what is the network right how

much RAM you required how much space you required right so so these are the things will comes under the so Hardware requirement then software requirements

software means what are the softwares we required here what are the softwares we required so all those things will come from the here in this picture here all

those things will come from in this picture here right so here o

sap can be installed on can be installed on any operating system can be installed on any operating system system any

operating system which means either the windows Windows Server Edition or are non Windows as well non Windows

as well non Windows means your Unix Linex so Unix Linux so whatever it may be so ax these all are comes under the

non Windows systems here so sap application sap application software we can install on the any operating

systems okay that is clear also any DB is fine here so anyb means what are the

databases we have in the market SQL Server vakil Max DB cbase and

Hana so and db2 and Etc so any database is fine here to install means our application software definitely DB is important here

as we discussed yesterday as we discussed yesterday so here so uh sap will depend on the

basement basement is called the how the house one house will depend on the basement here also uh sap will depend on

the database here without database sap will not be available will not be there that's why we will discuss about the other database here right so sap so we

can install on the any database any operating system is fine here so what type of network we require Network bandwidth what type of network means you

require the a or act that is not the network network band with here so sap recommends will go for the 1 gbps per

second so it's kind of I can say like better Network good good Network good Network it should go to the good

Network bandwidth here so 1 gbps here so Ram how much RAM is required for sap here so sap for SAP systems we don't so here

normally we can go for the either so rough estimation of the ram either sap fix Sizer tool here fix Sizer tool for the ram estimation how much memory we

required here fix Sizer tool tool here for Ram estimation Ram estimation how much size we required here so this is the what we required here this is the

thing we required here Ram estimation sap quick Sizer tool is the one of the web based tool we can estimate the we

can get the how much RAM we required so how much space we required all the information we required generally so for 16 GB

RAM memory is required 16 GB minimum 16 GB is required for the for Ram here so for the

space space minimum 250 GB space free free space required here free space sap appli does not require terabytes of data and everything hanai required Han time

we'll discuss more on the how to get the Ram size and space so but SCP you don't require much space and everything here multiple SAP systems we can install it

here so if it the training purpose in the 8GB also we can install the sap system here so that's why if I tell the 8GB the tomorrow also you will tell the same same figure to the during the

interview point of time also that's why I told you 860 GB minimum 16 GB is required here right 32 GB for the production 16 GB for the sap

applications non production systems like that here right so here so here so these are the hardware requirement sap quick sizeer tool also there is a tool sap

provided that is called the sap fix Sizer tool here sap fix Sizer tool so this is the fix Sizer

tool here to estimate the how much RAM you required how much Hardware requirement such as how much memory how

many CPUs what is the space Network all kind of information you will get here fix Sizer tool here so here we need to go to

the fix Sizer tool we need to go to the quick Sizer tool here then so here we have to go to the quick

Sizer then so Han based or non Han based fizer or you are going to the database Han database or non database or what what database we are going to implement

it some like Nana so then select it then we can fill the here it will ask the user ID and password here to log to

the sap there is s user ID is required we have to do it here otherwise rough estimation we can take it out we can install the SCP applications then in

tomorrow if any memory issues we can simply uplift we can do the uplift option here so sap we can install so here one thing hardw requirements is

fine here one thing I would like to mention here we can install on the on print means our own data centers here or

in the cloud the cloud also we can install the SAP systems here Cloud also we have the cloud nowadays everything is on the cloud means the cloud providers

they will provide you the infrastructure which means so your CPUs memory Hardware Hardware

Network everything they will provide in the cloud infrastructure so we can use all those things here space and Etc tools for monitoring tools

everything here so directly we can check the we can procure the we can take the subscription of the cloud then we can install our sap system on the the cloud

missions here so which means we don't require to build the one old place here then separate data Center separate room separate data center separate proc all

those things here everything we are taking the rent from the cloud here that is called the cloud here means we are taking the r what is the difference between the on PR and Cloud means on PR

means it's our own data center our own infrastructure our own CPUs we are paying the amount we are getting by our own memory Hardware everything is in the

our premises were on premises here Cloud means it's not in our premises here it's in the so other premises just in the remotely we are

accessing the their CPUs we taking the rent of the CPU memory Hardware suppose example if you want to plan a restaurant business what you are doing so if you

what you have to do previously we have to go for we have to build we have to we have to choose the one new one space in that space we have to we have

to build the we have to construct the house there we have to change the names construction permissions everything it will take very lot of time here but Cloud means you have already there is a

restaurant is there just you have purchased that restaurant Tak the rent then you are working direct you are starting the business from Tomorrow onwards today you have ch the restaurant you have purchased it tomorrow onwards

you are starting your business right but if you want to construct your home so that will take some time right minimum one year two years it will take but you want to start immediately then you are taking the rate the infrastructure

everything you are taking the rate here then you are using here for this business that is the cloud concept here just remember that word so it's not our bu own our own words you are just paying

the amount for the for taking the rent of here CPUs memory Hardware space and ATC here just you are paying the amount for them here you don't need to pay any amount for them why because you are

already invested some amount to get the permanent get the RAM memory it kind of your own laptops Reta laptops and your own laptops here

that's the best example here okay so that is the sap installation to do the sap installation o should be ready

database soft we have to download Network Ram how much RAM space so these are all the requirements we have to gather it simply we can directly suppose

if you want to download one media player directly go to the Google directly go to the Google and we will do the installations here right it's not

like that here here what we have to do so have to go and download the media player something like that you will use it here here there is a one preparation

activities we have to perform so here W sap o what type of because a business software it's a live business we are doing we are going to do so that is the

purpose carefully we need to plan the all those things here carefully we have to plan what type of os Database Network Ram why because if you install one time

then we should not face any issues in the real time business if you face on the business go live is done so then you you have properly not done the installation you have properly not done

the all those things here then what's the go live is during the live operations now I am trying to book the one ticket in IRCTC the system will go

down then there is a business loss right so that is the one thing here so go live means the project is Met Live then people start booking the orders and everything here people start booking the

orders tickets whatever they want depends on the business they will start doing everything here if you are not properly planned your application you the less memory then

whenever you book The Ticket try to book the ticket system will be slow site will be slow it's very slow then it will be down some times then the users the users

the business will will get the negative feeling oh always the site will be the down why should I book the tickets here I will go to the another site then their business is going down right so that's

the impression we should not get that's why that is the reason when you are planning this Hardware requirements we have to carefully plan all those things here so you have to use the brand new

Hardwares brand new operating systems brand new database ass everything should be the new so if you choose the lowest low quality Hardware definitely it will fail right so that's why when you're

planning the hardware requirement for your live business we should not compromise about the pricing so we should should check the the life that is the very important here so that's why

properly we have to plan the Hardwares and everything here okay so that's it for the today so tomorrow