The new SAP Best Practices Explorer will change the way you consume SAP Best Practices

Today we would like to announce the general availability of SAP Best Practices Explorer SAP Best Practices Explorer is the new web-channel to search, browse and consume SAP Best Practices content for SAP S/4HANA and other SAP products.

SAP Best Practices Explorer replaces the well-known functionality on SAP Service Marketplace as the publishing channel for SAP’s packaged solution offerings. We havebuilt in the following key benefits for you:

1. Simple and Easy Navigation

Built using SAP UI5, SAP Best Practices Explorer provides a simple and easy navigation option for all SAP Best Practices and Rapid Deployment Solutions.

2. Powerful Search Mechanism

You can search for your favorite packages, browse via the catalog or use the A-Z index. Or simple use the free text search to find what you’re looking for.

3. Quick access to accelerators (based on user authorization)

All you need for your SAP deployment project, such as Process Diagrams, Test Scripts, and Configuration Guides are only one click away. Are you travelling a lot? No problem – just download our complete library for offline consumption. Simply use your existing SAP Credentials (S/D/I/C User) to access/download the relevant materials.

4. Access via Tablet and Mobile Devices

All the pages are optimized to be accessible via Tablets and Mobile Devices. This provides you the opportunity to access the Best Practices content anytime anywhere.

5. How to Access SAP Best Practices Explorer

There’s multiple ways

• Direct Access [link: https://rapid.sap.com/bp]
• Through the overview page on sap.com
• Using the Solution Finder

Implement S/4HANA with SAP Best Practices Reference Guide

Do you need to know how to use SAP Best Practices, SAP Activate and SAP Solution Manager 7.2 to implement SAP S/4HANA on-premise or a hybrid project with cloud?   Are you the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 administrator? Or are you a project team member who will use SAP Best Practices and document your implementation in SAP Solution Manager 7.2?   If so, the detailed reference guide will help you. Access it here http://bit.ly/S4BPRefguide.

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The guide can be used by customers, partners and consultants free of charge and provides accurate and up to date detailed technical information based on what is possible with the current releases of software. It provides granular knowledge for administrators of SAP Solution Manager 7.2, SAP Best Practices and the SAP S/4HANA systems. Administrators might use content from this guide to brief project team members and some sections can be used by project team members directly.

Although other resources are available for each topic separately, this reference guide brings the content together in one place and describes how to use the tools and content together.   The guide is designed to complement the SAP S/4HANA on-premise implementation roadmap available here. It provides a recommended sequence of tasks organized into the SAP Activate phases. It also includes annotated demonstrations that walk you through some of the key steps in the tools.

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