Innovation Discovery 2.0
Susanne Schneider, Product Design Innovation Discovery
March 2016
Customer
Version: 1.0 | Date: 29/03/2016
Innovation Discovery –
A faster and easier way to discover SAP innovations
SAP's Innovation Discovery service, available free on the SAP Support Portal, has been created to help
customers easily find innovations and new features in the SAP Product portfolio.
Easily search for SAP
innovations and new
features
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Find how to turn adoption of
SAP innovations into tangible
value for their business
Ensure that IT employees and
Line of Business employees
clearly understand the value and
implications of SAP innovations
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Searching for innovations that best fit your purpose
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Select & Search & Personalize
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Selection options by industry and/or areas of responsibility
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Full-text search for innovation details and features
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Saved selections´ management
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Favorites´ management
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My systems overview
Using pre-defined selection tiles
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SAP has predefined innovation content for specific “hot
topics” such as: SAP S/4 HANA, User Experience etc.
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You can define “my interests” using saved selections for
quick access
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System specific insights
Using system-specific information: On basis of system
landscape data as well as EWA data activated and
published innovations are categorized for ready-to-use, high
impact etc
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Access, Filter, Download and More
Features & Functions
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Use filters, i.e. products, spotlights etc.
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Access innovation information
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Add innovations to your favorites
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Save selections for quick access in the future and
activate notification service
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Download result list for further offline usage of
innovation and feature information
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Innovations and Product Features in Detail
Features & Functions
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Description of Business context
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Key benefits of innovation
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Product features assigned with all content (i.e. screens,
videos)
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Again download, share and add to favorite option
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Technical view, including
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Software Product Version
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Support/Feature Package Stack – if applicable
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Business Function – if applicable
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Software Component Version
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Support Package - if applicable
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Innovation Discovery – personalized view
on basis of your system landscape data
In order to get a more personalized view on innovations and features you can map innovation data to your system landscape by using
SAP EarlyWatch Alert data out of your productive Business Suite systems:
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you can map 1 or several systems to all innovation and feature content
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there are 3 categories for which mapping is done on single system basis
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you can decide yourself for which system and which category mapping is displayed
to your user on Innovation Discovery
Activation Status
all innovations that
contain business
functions which are not
yet activated.
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High Business Impact
which are the transactions
used by the highest
number of users in the
specific system for which
new functionality is
available
Ready to Use
innovations that can be
used without any
upgrade in the specific
system (incl no EHP or
Support Package Stack)
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Prerequisites for usage of the system specific part
Solution Manager 7.1 (minimum)
Send SAP EarlyWatch Alert data to SAP
SAP EarlyWatch Alert data (not older than 12 months)
Agreement needs to be given that usage data shall be
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analyzed
Only Productive systems are analyzed
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SAP Business Suite systems considered only
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(ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM)
User needs to have read or write authorization
for specific systems
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Innovations and Product Features in Detail
Result list for system specific view on category
„High Business Impact“
Technical view on product features with system
specific information per system chosen containing:
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Ready to use status
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Business Function
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Business Function status
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Measurement object (i.e. transaction code)
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count/ number of users
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Tool access and contacts
Tool access with valid S-User: www.sap.com/innovationdiscovery
Documentation on SAP EarlyWatch Alert
Want to address any questions or feedback? mailto innovation-discovery@sap.com
Want to address (technical) tool issues: Create Incident on XX-SER-INND
Want to have a presentation or live demo? mailto susanne.schneider@sap.com
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Thank you
Contact information:
Susanne Schneider
Product Design Innovation Discovery
SAP SE
mailto: innovation-discovery@sap.com
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