Streamline Your SAP S/4HANA Cloud Upgrades with RASD

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers receive mandatory updates twice a year, introducing numerous innovations and improvements. These updates can raise questions about their impact on your current environment, tools, and processes. To help you prepare, SAP provides the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency (RASD) tool.

Proactive Preparation with RASD

Approximately one month before each upgrade, the RASD tool assesses the impact of the upcoming and subsequent releases. Accessible through SAP for Me, this tool not only prepares you for changes, but also highlights new features that could benefit your business. Enhancements are applied only to currently activated business processes. Between bi-annual upgrades, optional smaller feature enhancements are available. If not opted into, relevant items will be included in the next bi-annual upgrade.

Key Features of RASD

• Informed Decision-Making: RASD filters data to include only used and activated scope items, ensuring relevance.
• Impact Assessment: Identifies deletions and deprecations, giving you time to train users on new tools or find alternatives. Deletions will be removed from the upcoming release while deprecations will be eliminated in the subsequent one.
• Simplified Process: While RASD organizes results, interpreting them and implementing resolutions can be challenging without SAP expertise.

Partner with Our NTT DATA Business Solutions Team

Our NTT DATA Business Solutions team of SAP specialists can analyze the RASD report and prepare a customized, easy-to-read report with specific priorities and actions. We meet to review the report with you to determine the most important affected items. We then develop a roadmap with specific steps, priority actions, and resolutions.

If you use our Application Management Services, you can submit a ticket for our team to address the items you want to tackle. All selected upgrade-related items can be added to a single ticket. You can also request further research if a resolution is not immediately clear.

Maximize the Benefits of SAP Upgrades

SAP’s upgrades and tools offer significant improvements for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers. However, they require interpretation, additional research, and a plan of action to fully benefit from them. Let us handle these tasks so you can focus on your core business. Contact us today to learn how our NTT DATA Business Solutions team can support your business and ensure you get the most out of your SAP investments.

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• Application Management Services
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