Discover How To Use SAP Road Map Explorer In Five ...

Discover How to Use SAP Road Map Explorer in Five Steps

Take a first look to view how the interactive SAP Road Map Explorer tool can help you navigate the complexities of planning for the future. Using the tool, you can:

Create your own road map: In just a few clicks, the interactive tool showcases recent and future innovations (or product features). You can create and tailor your own road map, filtering innovations from SAP solutions, industries, business processes, and strategic topics and even focus topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation. Use filters to help narrow or expand your road map search.

Make informed decisions: Using the tool, you can gain a more holistic view of each innovation, making it easier to come to informed decisions. Planned innovations have an overview and benefits section, while delivered innovations have additional information such as specific features and a technical view section. Stakeholders from business management to IT teams can all be part of the conversation.

Collaborate with colleagues: The collaboration continues with the tool’s “Save and Share” features, making it easy to share a specific innovation or a whole road map with other colleagues. The “My Road Maps” section lets you view and share your saved road maps and innovations once you log back in. Additionally, you can download road maps to your desktop to view them offline. Create and collaborate with ease with SAP Road Map Explorer.

To first access the tool, log in with your S-user credentials or create an account for free on roadmaps.sap.com. Then, simply follow the steps below to start exploring.

Step 1: Search for your topic

There are four ways you can view a road map (see Figure 1):

Browse on the top according to a product, industry, business process or strategic topic.
Use the search bar to type the topic of your choice.
If you have not decided which specific road map you are looking for, browse “Explore SAP Road Maps.”

Figure 1: Viewing Road Maps in SAP Road Map Explorer

Step 2: Customize with filters

On top of the Kanban board, there are four categories for you to choose from: products, processes, industries and focus topics. Numbers on the right side of filters indicate how many innovations will appear if you choose that filter (see Figure 2). Filters will only appear if there are innovations available to show, so you’ll never experience zero results.

Figure 2: Customizing Your Search in SAP Road Map Explorer

Step 3: Explore innovations on the Kanban board

The Kanban board is the page that showcases all the innovations (or product features) in quarters. Use the left or right scrolls to browse through the road map. Each quarter column has an arrow on the top right – click to change your view preferences of the innovations by collapsing or expanding the innovation cards (see Figure 3).

Figure 3: Exploring Innovations

Click each innovation card to view more details such as the innovation description and benefits. Planned innovations will have additional information such as features and the technical view (see Figure 4).

Tip: Use the “star” button to favorite certain innovations that stand out to you. This makes it easier to spot innovations on the Kanban board.

Figure 4: Additional Information on Innovations

Step 4: Share with your colleagues

The top right of each innovation card has a share button, giving you a link to copy and paste. Once you save your road map or innovation, a link with the url to share is copied to the clipboard (see Figure 5).

Figure 5: Sharing Road Maps

Step #5: Save and download

The top right corner of the Kanban board has a “Save” button, which allows you to save the road map you created with the selected filters. Easily access them later under “My Road Maps.” If you want to save certain innovations, click on the “Add to Collection” button on the innovation card to either add it to an existing collection or create a new collection (see Figure 6). You can access your collections under “My Road Maps”.

Lastly, a download button is available, which will automatically produce a Microsoft Excel file with all innovations pertaining to the road map you created.