Now you are ready to go live with your productive system!

Now you are ready to go live with your productive system! Afterwards,the project team focuses on supporting the end users, for which training maynot be completed. It is also necessary to establish procedures and measurementsto review the benefits of your investment in ECC/ERP on an ongoing basis.
Key SAP Services to support you in this phase include
The Online Service System (OSS)
Remote Consulting
EarlyWatch Services
These services encompass a series of remote analyses of specific ECC/ERP Systemsettings, with recommendations for improving system performance.
The last phase of the implementation project is concerned with supporting and optimizing the operative ECC/ERP System, both the technical infrastructure and load distribution as well as the business processes. Activities such as the following are carried out:
Production support facilities are defined, for example, checking systemperformance on a daily basis
Validation of business processes and their configuration
Follow-up training for users
Signoffs, etc.
This phase can also include a series of follow-up projects for adding new application components or automating and improving business processes, such as with SAP Business Workflow. The project manager monitors the fulfillment of the enterprise goals and the return on investment.
During Phase 5, the first EarlyWatch® session should beheld, where experts from SAP analyze the system’s technical infrastructure.The aim is to ensure that the system functions as smoothly as possible. Thepurpose of SAP’s Early Watch® Service is to improve the performance of yourlive ECC/ERP System by preventing system bottlenecks. The underlying concept ofSAP Early Watch® Service is prevention: taking appropriate action beforea problem situation develops.
Regular analysis of live ECC/ERP Systems by teams of experts ensuresthat potential problems can be recognized and remedied at an early stage. Thismaintains system availability and performance at a high level. SAP EarlyWatch®measures the server, database, applications, configuration and system load.The results are recorded in a status report with recommendations for systemtuning.
From early productive operation onwards, SAP EarlyWatch®provides regular performance and error analyses by evaluating statistical dataon the various system components.
System and Release Upgrade
As part of ECC/ERP system maintenance, new releases of the software,including new and enhanced application components and corrections, are shippedat regular intervals. You will normally need to verify or reconfigure some ofthe settings in order to use them.
Accelerated SAP offers two kinds of roadmaps for moving thesoftware forward to new releases or versions. One is the Continuous ChangeRoadmap, which provides ongoing support and assistance for the post go-livephase, and is described below. The second is the Upgrade Roadmap, whichyou can use to plan and carry out an upgrade to your ECC/ERP System.
Special Release IMGs specific to your system configurationare available. You can read the online documentation for a new release directlyfrom the IMG.
Upgrade and Release Changes
When you implement a new release, you can decide whether youwant to keep working with the same functions within the selected components(Upgrade Customizing) or whether you want to implement the new functionalitysupplied for the existing release (Delta Customizing).
For legal changes affecting some country versions, in particularfor the HR component, you can now see which legal changes have taken effectin your country and carry out the corresponding Customizing activities to haveyour system include these changes.
One of the strengths of the ECC/ERP System is its ability to growwith the enterprise. Imagine you have to set up a new organizational unit, ora new plant, for example. The IMG can help, using preconfigured or existingorganizational units as a basis. All you need to do is adjust the configurationuntil it matches your exact requirements, verifying the mandatory activities– to get a new, fully functional organizational unit, ready for accounting,purchasing, sales or warehousing, for example.
ASAP for Upgrades
Accelerated SAP provides an Upgrade Roadmap and upgrade manuals to facilitaterelease changes and upgrade projects. The Upgrade Roadmap enables you to takea systematic approach to release changes and complements the available technicaldocumentation.
Although implementing new versions of ECC/ERP is carried out in the form of a newproject, the project team will profit from their experiences during initialimplementation. Many documents already exist and only need to be verified orextended.
In order to systematically carry out an upgrade project, theASAP Upgrade Roadmap will generate a project plan with only the activities required.All other activities have either already been carried out or they are not relevant.As with the Roadmap for the initial implementation, there are descriptions ofthe individual tasks, and wherever possible, additional accelerators in theform of checklists, templates or examples. The technical documentation of theupgrades is extended via ASAP to include release-specific project management.
Release 4.0 of Accelerated SAP contains the Continuous ChangeRoadmap, with standard activities necessary after the initial implementation.In this way, SAP provides ongoing support and assistance for post go-live activities.The tasks in that structure provide solutions for all known types of continuouschange: Business changes, technology changes or changes in the user community.