Instance & SuccessFactors Implementation Methodology

Instance & SuccessFactors Implementation Methodology:

SAP is a 3 tier Architecture:

👉Development

👉Testing (Quality)

👉Production

What is Data Centre?

A data center stores and shares applications and data. It comprises components that include switches, storage systems, servers, routers, and security devices.

Each Data Center has 2 servers

👉Quality

👉Production & Development (Preview)

We can find SF Data Centers by giving google search and each data center has 2 URL’s

What is Instance?

Instance is the front end of the SuccessFactors Cloud Application. Customization of SuccessFactors system as per custom needs.

SF Implementation Methodology:

👉Launch (Old One)

👉Activate Methodology (New One) (Based on the Agile)

Types of Phases you have in both old and New:

In Launch you have

👉Prepare > Realize > Verify > Launch

In Activate you have

👉Prepare > Explore > Realize > Deploy (Go Live or Launch Page)

PREPARE

During this phase, the project team conducts the initial planning and preparation activities to get the project started optimally:

• Define project goals, a high-level scope, and a project plan.
• Establish project standards, organization, and governance.
• Define roles and responsibilities.
• Establish project management, tracking, and reporting mechanisms.
• Gain access to the cloud system.
• Develop the project launch plan.
• Prepare for the Explore phase.

EXPLORE

In the Explore phase, the project team reviews the solution scenarios to verify that business requirements can be met within the boundaries of the solution and project scope. During this process, configuration values are identified.

• Continue Customer team enablement
• Identify master data and organizational setup requirements
• Identify and define configuration values
• Review data requirements and begin data cleansing
• Prepare for migration from legacy system as required
• Prepare for data integrations to/from other systems as required

REALIZE

The Realize phase encompasses taking the plans and requirements determined in the Explore phase and applying them to the system. The key Realize activities include the following:

• Customer team will work with SAP Consultants to refine configuration decisions
• Customer team will load data to perfect your data imports
• Data integrations will be built and deployed
• Customer team will prepare test scripts for the next phase

At the end of this phase the Customer team will sign off on the system configuration.

During this phase, the project team will test

DEPLOY

During the Deploy phase Customers will be putting the final touches on the SuccessFactors solution in preparation for the system launch. This includes

• Executing the communication/change management plan
• Sign the Deploy Quality Gate
• Meeting and learning about the Customer Success Organization

SF Release Management happens every half yearly (Bugs System Updates).