Tips and Tools for the Implementation Process 06 Once you have chosen your partner and Know Your Workbooks selected your deployment preference, there are many things you can do Inside and Out to better prepare for a successful Robust workbooks are imperative, and it is important to know your workbooks. They SAP SuccessFactors implementation. There are tasks that you may not have help you understand your system and make considered before getting started but the right decisions. become readily apparent as you are in Workbooks help review functionality that the middle of a project. Sometimes these is already live. It is important to know that are technical, sometimes they are more thoroughly because you need to know people focused. how that functionality will 昀椀t with the new Likewise, there are actions to take modules coming in. Reviewing workbooks throughout the project that will optimize frequently will ensure you know when consultant advice is needed for modules your implementation. Throughout this section, we will discuss some key actions that you to get along well. should take throughout the upgrade process. De昀椀ne workbook ownership at each phase of the implementation ahead of time. As you Before You Get Started go along you need to bring in teams to do cross-module reviews of workbooks so that integrations are planned appropriately. Have a Plan for Deploying Instances Workbook ownership is critical post-Go You need to be aware of how instances Live, most notably with the scheduled will be deployed in the cloud. For example, SAP SuccessFactors release program. SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central We will dig into managing releases later. comes standard with three instances, while Recruiting and Onboarding come with two. It is important to manage those instances Rizing Blueline can replace because it greatly bene昀椀ts the integration your current management of modules if you can do cross module of con昀椀guration settings con昀椀guration and testing—this will not via spreadsheets with the work if your Employee Central instance is one step ahead. capability to automatically Make a plan ahead of time for how you will generate workbooks. The use the instances provided for development, TIP app allows you to manage testing, and deployment. Engage your all information in a single consultants early and often to determine place during implementation, whether it makes sense to purchase more planning, and execution. instances from SAP. Learn more / 15 © 2020 Rizing LLC or a Rizing LLC af昀椀liate company. All rights reserved.