Online Course
SAP Activate: Managing Your SAP S/4HANA Project
with Heiko Stichel
01/13/2026 – 02/03/2026
The course in detail:
Master SAP Activate! In this four-day course, expert Heiko Stichel will outline core project management concepts and show you how they’re deployed in each SAP S/4HANA project type. Get to know guided configuration, packaged business processes, quality gates, and more. Consider your tools for project planning, delivery, and change management. Apply best practices from successful SAP S/4HANA projects, and review cautionary tales to identify root causes and solutions. Drill into SAP Activate for your transition to on-premise, private, and public cloud SAP S/4HANA!
What you'll learn:
- Master the content, tools, and methodology of SAP Activate
- Explore SAP workstreams and associated deliverables
- Dive into testing, delivery, data migration, and more
- Prepare for on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud deployments
🕒 The courses start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 3:00 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is this SAP Activate course suitable for?
- Project managers
- Functional and technical consultants
- Business process owners
- Customer IT personnel
- Key users
Prerequisite: Participants should have a basic understanding of project management for IT implementations, but don't need any prior experience with SAP Activate. If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us.
These SAP Activate topics will be covered in this course:
- Agile project planning and delivery
- Project phases
- Workstreams
- Deliverables
- Testing tools and data management
- New implementation, system conversion, and selective data transition paths
- On-premise, private cloud, and public cloud deployments
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Note: Can’t join live? No problem! With your purchase, you’ll receive access to the session recordings and slide decks directly on the learning platform shortly after each session concludes. Learn at your own pace, revisit key concepts, and reinforce your understanding of the topic. Whether live or on demand, this course offers you the opportunity to learn directly from a top SAP expert. Don’t miss out!
Online Courses
SAP Activate Concepts for Project Management
Get started with SAP Activate! Lay the groundwork with its three pillars: best practices, guided configuration, and methodology. Explore critical elements of the project delivery lifecycle.
Topics:
- Rationale
- Lifecycle phases
- SAP Activate vs. ASAP vs. agile project management
- Fit-gap analysis and fit-to-standard analysis
- Delta design workshops
- SAP Control Centers (Innovation, Mission, Operations)
- Agile SWOT
SAP Activate Workstreams and Deployment
Learn the flow of SAP Activate! Break your project into workstreams, such as customer team enablement and application design and configuration, and dig into their soft and hard content deliverables. Review your deployment options, transition paths, and available project planning tools.
Topics:
- Workstreams
- Content deliverables
- Deployment options
- New implementation
- System conversion
- Selective data transition
- Project planning
SAP Activate for On-Premise and Private Cloud SAP S/4HANA
Put theory into action! Apply the SAP Activate framework to your on-premise or private cloud SAP S/4HANA project. Learn deployment strategies, anticipate system testing tasks, and assess the tools you need for successful project delivery. Manage change and find the right host for your company’s needs.
Topics:
- On-premise vs. private cloud transition paths
- Big bang, phased, and localized deployments
- Testing strategies and tools
- Project execution and tracking
- Data migration and archiving
- Change management
- SAP Fiori vs. SAP GUI
- Hosting
SAP Activate for SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud
Making the jump to public cloud? Understand this “true SaaS” paradigm and its corresponding project management. Quell concerns about standard process implementation by reviewing the innovations unique to this deployment option. Learn how to sustain your public cloud investment!
Topics:
- Fit-to-standard analysis
- Testing strategies and tools
- Change management
- Atlassian Software, SAP Jam, and SAP Solution Manager
- SAP Fiori apps, roles, and titles
- Hosting and the Cloud Appliance Library
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Your Experts
Heiko Stichel is an IT consulting executive with strong business acumen and a record of aligning business and IT. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born and raised in Germany, where he received his master’s degree in business informatics from the University of Mannheim. Heiko has managed global SAP implementation and transformation projects in multiple industries, using ASAP, SAP Activate, and other methodologies. He has Big 5 experience with PwC LLP and served as a senior project manager for large consulting organizations, including SAP.
Pair This Course with These Books
Gearing up for SAP S/4HANA? Pave the way for a successful implementation project with SAP Activate! This handbook guides you through the SAP Activate methodology for agile project planning and delivery. Walk through your new implementation—public cloud, private cloud, or on-premise—or your system conversion project. See how to deploy a hybrid system landscape using a two-tier ERP setup. Get your SAP S/4HANA project right, from planning to go-live!
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Whether you’re making the move to SAP S/4HANA, or just curious about what the suite has to offer, this introductory guide is your starting point. Explore your business processes in SAP S/4HANA, now optimized by AI: finance, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, and more. Get insight into SAP S/4HANA’s architecture and key features for reporting, sustainability, extensibility, and artificial intelligence. Build your business case, choose your adoption path, and get ready for your implementation!
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