Are You Ready to Migrate to SAP S/4HANA

The launch of SAP S/4HANA was a significant milestone for the SAP Corporation. SAP has its aim set on running simply in a complex and digitalized world. Enterprise software can generate Business value through large scale simplifications and thorough innovations. SAP taps into this principle using the in-memory platform serving as the technological foundation for the S/4HANA. SAP S/4HANA has leveraged close to 40 years of industry experience to bring out a perfected application tool for the enterprise of tomorrow. This is a wholly re-imagined Business suite.

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There are three factors to consider with regard to migration to the SAP S/4HANA application:

1. Transition Effort for the IT team and the enterprise as a whole

The SAP S/4HANA is a product that has been designed in such a way as to enable migration from previous versions in a non-disruptive manner. Migrations at SAP are designed to be as non-intrusive as possible. In this particular scenario, the new product streamlines the abstraction of previous transactional semantics. It also offers a comparability layer of equally named views, while generating a highly simplified physical data model at the same time.

SAP S/4HANA is touted to be the next-generation business suite that is based on the HANA platform. It comes with a new code line, user experience, data model and data storage options as well. One has to remember that such a profound level of innovation and simplification is possible only on the HANA platform.

If a customer wants to move from a conventional SAP ERP 6.0 to S/4HANA, then a database migration will be needed, from any possible database to SAP HANA. This will also include moving to the latest enhancement package as well as the deployment of exchange information on various levels. This also means that existing code will be replaced by new code. In case the enterprise is looking to move from existing SAP Business Suites to the SAP S/4HANA tool, then it will be at a relatively accelerated pace even though code replacement will happen.

2. Planning for a successful transition

Successful transitions stand a better chance with incremental approaches. Here, the core processes can be migrated first which includes a core technical migration to implement key innovations. The next step would be to innovate atop the core technology.

SAP and its partners have an understanding which enables support for its customers with pre-defined migration schedules and plans. Also provided will be assistance for deployment packages, system conversion including the cloud, and more. Guided configurations are yet another way to simplify new implementations of the SAP S/4HANA application. Also useful is the easy and simple onboarding which starts from solution discovery and goes on until deployment using best practices that are pre-configured.

3. Innovation for the enterprise

Ever since the Cloud has captured the collective interest of the global enterprise, businesses have tried to stay as competitive as possible in the age of IoT, Big Data and Cloud.

To take an example from the SAP Simple Finance tool, the migration took 51 days even though the complexity level for such strategies is consistent across customers. Simple Finance powers large scale IT simplification with a technology outline that eliminates aggregates and replications. Compare this to a conventional enterprise taking up to 15 days to end a quarter

Optimized supply chain processes such as sales, manufacturing, and inventory management are all essential components within the IoT, and collaboration between businesses and their suppliers are at the heart of a networked economy. SAP S/4HANA is natively connected to the Internet of Things and Business networks for real-time collaboration (machine-to-machine, Ariba Network, Concur Network), and it is natively engineered for providing choice of deployment either on cloud, on-premise or in a hybrid model.

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Conclusion

I hope that by now you have had an overview of SAP S/4 HANA Finance. Before you enroll in ZaranTech’s certification course on SAP S/4 HANA Finance, do check out the S4 HANA Finance demo: