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However, SAP ONE Support only complements the basic offering of Enterprise Support. Premium support offerings such as ActiveEmbedded or MaxAttention must still be booked additionally, but these also apply regardless of the operating model. For example, SAP ActiveEmbedded and SAP MaxAttention for on-premise solutions can be supplemented with premium support offerings from SuccessFactors or Ariba for cloud solutions.
It is usually managed with a mix of flexible on-site resources and remote support, depending on your budget and requirements. With Incident Handling, our first goal is to eliminate the impact on your business as quickly as possible. Although we cannot guarantee to solve the problem immediately, we will always set up a workaround so that you can maintain business continuity.
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SAP offers a whole range of services and tools here. The switch to SAP S/4HANA is an opportunity for customers to further differentiate, optimise and innovate. Examples include SAP S/4HANA Adoption Starter, Business Scenario Recommendations, SAP Transformation Navigator, SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check and extensive benchmarking with the help of SAP Innovation & Optimisation Pathfinders. As part of our SAP Enterprise Support, our customers receive active expert help and a structured approach using SAP Value Maps. The SAP Mission Control Centre helps our customers with complex issues to integrate our new solutions such as SAP S/4HANA. It collects experiences from early adopters and implementations at customers, where complex hybrid solutions with large data volumes are built. With this project experience, we are expanding our maintenance offering, for example with Meet-the-Expert Sessions of the SAP Enterprise Support Academy. We also publish best practices for analysis and quick solutions to technical problems in SAP Knowledge Base Articles.
Many users are looking for a suitable tool for better knowledge transfer, especially when it comes to establishing new standard business software in the company. But it is particularly time-consuming and burdensome to put together suitable learning aids at the same time, especially during the introduction of a complex ERP application system such as SAP's. Are you still planning traditional introductory training? Forget it. Online learning is needed. But what does it look like in practice? Shortly before the software launch, the support team will hold intensive training sessions for the users within the department. If the start date is delayed by a few weeks, users have already forgotten what they have learned and cannot use it in writing. Often it is still lacking in the current documentation of the processes, because until the rollout the processes sometimes change. We found a method to procure useful training material despite the introduction stress in the Ondemand Personal Navigator tool of the US company Ondemand Software.
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In the working group "CCC/Service & Support", SAP customers, among others, have joined forces to establish a Customer Competence Centre (CCC) or a Customer COE (Centre of Expertise) in the more recent term, on the basis of contractual obligations.
In addition, constantly changing business requirements put IT departments under constant pressure to meet quality, predictability, and responsiveness requirements.