Advantedge Components
Big Block
AAF
WBS
Prescriptive Delivery
100

Concept and tool which allows capturing and defining a solution roadmap with our customer during Affirm Value phase. It is part of Solutionlink.

What is a Big Block?

100

Identifies the primary business areas and functions that the solution will support, such as machinery engineering, product cost management, or electrical/fluids design.

What are Business Domains?

100

Monitoring system health and verifying delivered business value are key activities in this phase.

What is the Optimize Solution Phase?

100

Work Packages can be mapped to this other Advantedge component.

What is the Advantedge Agile Framework?

100

This Siemens integrated, prescriptive framework, based on solution and delivery best practices, enables customers to achieve faster value realization.

What is Advantedge?

200

Contains nine elements with risks and success factors to ensure customer success for a large PLM deployment.

What is the Success Program?

200

Defines the solutions to be deployed in a period of time and the order to be deployed.

What is Phasing?

200

The Big Block is just one of the outputs of this phase led by pre-sales.

What is the Affirm Value Phase?

200

Describes the sequence of tasks and functions to be performed to achieve the work package outcome.

What is Workflow?

200

Once a project is handed over to Services the Solutions, scenarios and User Stories would be imported from Solutionlink to this tool.

What is Advantedge-Project Execution, (A-PE)?

300

Aligns best practice enabled business processes with capabilities of our software solutions to enable faster value realization through Siemens prescriptive approach.

What is the Solution Definition Practice?

300

TIPS help to provide this; it refers to the metrics and objectives that the enterprise solution aims to deliver.

What is Value?

300

In this phase the deployment-ready solution is configured.

What is the Iterate Solution Phase?

300

The Solution Workstream has six of these.

What are Work Packages?

300

This common business gesture represents the transition from the opportunity team to the customer outcomes team.

What is Handshake?

400

Defines and organizes the work required to deliver value through Siemens software solutions.

What is the Work Breakdown Structure?

400

Solutions are further decomposed into these elements which illustrate the steps and actors required to meet the solution objective.

What are Processes?

400

Activities in the phase may include User Acceptance Testing, Training and Handover to Support teams.

What is the Deploy Solution Phase?

400

These groups of people are responsible for managing their Workstream and its Work Packages.

What are the Communities of Practice?

400

As an Architect, your involvement in this phase helps to be more prescriptive and enables a smoother transition.

What is Affirm Value?

500

Our standard and consistent approach for implementing our solution delivery practices.

What is Advantedge Agile Framework?

500

This framework is used to capture a qualitative value map.

What are TIPS?

500

 In this phase pre-sales hands over the solution definition to the lead Solution Architect for the project who would import it into A-PE once the project is created.

What is the Validate Solution Phase?

500

Implement or Implementation is the most common example of this WBS element.

What is the Portfolio Work Package?

500

These contain a collection of curated assets that help services engagement teams to position and sell our services to customers and enable solution architects and service delivery teams to design and deliver the solution aligned with Advantedge.

What are Service Offers?

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