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Enterprise Performance Testing: A critical element of the SAP Activate methodology

By December 2027, all SAP customers are required to have migrated to its S/4HANA platform. To streamline this mandatory migration, SAP developed its SAP Activate methodology. The methodology itself is broken down into six key phases as shown below: When we examine these phases through a quality lens, focused on ensuring that the outcome is a highly performant and scalable system – we find that the need for Enterprise Performance Testing is critical at every stage.

Balancing risk with the need for speed

The pace of change in the world is rapidly accelerating. Technology companies must prioritize speed to market to stay ahead of this curve, but speed can sometimes come at the expense of risk. The recent CrowdStrike incident is a sobering reminder that even the largest and most capable organizations are not immune to errors that can lead to significant downstream impacts.