Enterprise Architecture with SAP: Planning, Management, and Transformation - Softcover

Das, Anup

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493225731 ISBN 13: 9781493225736

Publisher: SAP Press, 2024

Synopsis

Calling all SAP enterprise architects - the strategy guide you need is here! See how the SAP EA Framework and SAP LeanIX support your enterprise architecture with methodology, reference content, tools, and services. Explore examples of architecture design pattern implementation for real-world use cases, including business model transformation, TCO reduction, sustainability, and more. Follow SAP's blueprint to set up your own enterprise architecture practice. Get best practices, expert tips, full-color architecture diagrams, and more!

In this book, you'll learn about:

a. Fundamentals
Learn the basics of enterprise architecture within SAP landscapes. Walk through SAP EA Framework and understand its integration with ancillary business functions such as process, portfolio, and application management.

b. Use Cases
See enterprise architecture transformation at work! Practical use cases showcase how architecture patterns can be used to solve design problems in various business scenarios: cloud transformation, sustainability, automation, and more.

c. Implementation
Launch your own enterprise architecture transformation. Following guidance from the experts, create or improve your practice by setting up roles, processes, and deliverables. Use tools such as SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio to support your transformation.

Highlights include:
1) SAP EA Framework
2) SAP EA Methodology
3) SAP EA Designer
4) SAP LeanIX
5) Business function integration
6) Reference content
7) Enterprise architecture practices
8) Cloud transformation
9) Business process transformation
10) Sustainability
11) Mergers, acquisitions, and divestures

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About the Authors

Anup Das is a chief enterprise architect and the regional delivery head for the SAP Transformation Hub in North America. He leads a team of enterprise architects and is responsible for accelerating business transformations for strategic customers using SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and SAP MaxAttention architecture planning services. Anup is a graduate of mechanical engineering and post-graduate of marketing management. He has more than 23 years of professional experience in SAP consulting, SAP premium engagement, people management, project management, sales and sales support, and as head of SAP S/4HANA and supply chain practice. Anup is also an experienced trainer and coach.

Peter Klee leads the SAP Transformation Hub within SAP's Adoption Services Center. The SAP Transformation Hub is a global group of enterprise architects supporting SAP MaxAttention customers in their transformation programs by providing architecture planning services. Besides working directly with customers, the SAP Transformation Hub constantly improves services, methodology and tools working closely with architecture teams in development. In this capacity, Peter co-leads SAP's overall enterprise architecture methodology as part of the cross-architecture program at SAP. Prior to joining SAP in 2011 Peter led global enterprise architecture teams at Procter & Gamble. He has more than 30 years of professional IT experience. Peter is based at SAP's corporate headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. He holds a degree in computer sciences from the University of Karlsruhe and is a passionate long-distance runner in his spare time.

Johannes Reichel is a principal enterprise architect for the SAP Transformation Hub EMEA, delivering enterprise architecture planning services to strategic SAP customers, and at the same time contributing to the development of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework. Johannes holds a degree in computational linguistics and sustainable development cooperation from the University of Heidelberg and University of Kaiserslautern. Johannes has more than 10 years of professional experience in international digital transformation programs, sustainability, and enterprise architecture.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAP Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493225731
• ISBN 13: 9781493225736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 562