This blog looks to address what truly determines success in an SAP data migration project: practical strategies and guiding principles, forged from real-world SAP ECC to S/4HANA conversions.
Migration to SAP S/4HANA: What it means to SAP Customers
Globally, the technology space is changing fast and as such, the business enterprise systems are under immense pressure not only to keep up with these advances in technology but also the agile needs of business organizations and their desire to improve efficiency while simplifying business processes. It is with this regard that SAP embarked on a journey in 2015 to offer its customers new improved best practices, a simple and intuitive user interface coupled with faster processing speeds and embedded analytics powered by SAP S/4HANA. SAP, therefore, announced in 2015 that all its customers that the support for the SAP ERP will be ending by the close of 2025. According to a survey carried out by a market research firm IDC, 73 percent of surveyed businesses were planning to migrate into SAP S/4HANA, 18 percent currently deploying and 54 percent of SAP customers were planning to migrate in the next 3 years. Whether this is a sale strategy by SAP or not, we seek to evaluate what this migration means to the existing SAP customers and the expected changes.