Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA is a significant shift for enterprises looking to utilize enhanced business processes and real-time analytics. The transition provides the opportunity for companies to embrace growth and adapt to the evolving business landscape by leveraging data-driven insights, automation, and collaboration.
This process involves syncing your business process data and enterprise architecture data to connect technology, IT, and infrastructure investments directly to business processes. This allows process architects and enterprise architects to use tools of their choice while maintaining a shared transformation view. The aim is to ensure that stakeholders across the organization collaborate effectively.
A holistic approach should be adopted for enterprise transformation that considers methodology, tools, and data management. That’s why excellence in project management lies at the core of every successful enterprise transformation. There should be a focus on continuous improvement, innovation, and stakeholder engagement to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
The process of data migration is vital to both business transformation and migration. It involves optimizing business processes, building a solid business case, and building a learning and community engagement network. It also involves gaining a strong understanding of the new capabilities your organization will develop due to your digital transformation. A successful migration turns the SAP S/4HANA migration into an opportunity for true business transformation.
Migrations often involve an enormous amount of data, leaving decision-makers with the challenge of deciding which data and documents to keep and which ones to archive. While deleting data is not usually an option, data that isn't needed for day-to-day business operations can be moved to a read-only legacy system. However, this approach can be expensive and time-consuming.
For most organizations, maintaining a read-only legacy system involves ongoing costs and rarely adds value. With that said, for other companies, an effective solution for managing legacy data while ensuring efficient data storage is necessary to fulfill their data retention obligations such as for operations, tax audits or internal data analyses. This is a key part of our project scope discovery process.
