The SAP Activate methodology is a modular and agile framework, which can be used for the following purposes:

• Implementation or migration of SAP systems (with additional focus on SAP S/4HANA)
• A unique combination of SAP best practices, methodology, and guided configuration
• System conversion or a transformation of a larger landscape
• It is the fastest way to simplify your operations with or without SAP S/4HANA

The salient features of SAP Activate are as follows:

• It delivers ready-to-run business processes optimized for SAP S/4HANA with a reference solution
• It has a set of tools for an assisted implementation, covering everything from the initial implementation of a project to running in a production environment and beyond
• It accelerates the initial implementation of SAP S/4HANA and is designed for continuous innovation
• It is the combination of SAP best practices, tools for an assisted implementation, and an agile methodology to simplify the adaptation of SAP S/4HANA
• It facilitates different starting points for customers to move to S/4HANA—new implementation, system conversion, and landscape transformation
• It uses a single methodology for all deployment modes—cloud, premise, and hybrid

SAP best practices, guided configuration, and SAP Activate methodology form the three pillars for SAP Activate, with each bringing special capabilities along with it. In the following diagram, we have jotted down some of the key capabilities that each of these provides to SAP Activate:

Let's go a step further and see how these three pillars (SAP Activate overall) support customers' adoption scenarios (details of scenarios are discussed separately):

There are three scenarios for the transition to SAP S/4HANA. Let's see the three scenarios and find out the innovation that SAP Activate brings with it for these scenarios.