Faster SAP S/4HANA migration with archive add-ons

⇨ The migration to SAP S/4HANA presents complex technical and financial challenges, making effective data management essential to success.

⇨ PBS archive add-ons facilitate the transition by minimizing data redundancy, enabling seamless access to both archived and live data, and maintaining compliance with regulations like the EU GDPR.

⇨ By archiving legacy ERP data prior to migration, businesses can significantly reduce data volume, streamline the migration process, lower operating costs, and ensure operational functionality post-transition.

SAP S/4HANA is proving itself as a powerful cloud platform designed to meet the needs of businesses undergoing digital transformation. However, the migration process from legacy SAP systems to S/4HANA is often complex, posing both technical and financial challenges. Managing data efficiently is crucial to overcoming these obstacles, and archive add-ons offer one solution to streamline the process by simplifying access to archived information.

Transitioning to the cloud involves more than upgrading software. SAP S/4HANA introduces key innovations, such as the high-speed SAP HANA database, the modern SAP Fiori interface and a simplified data model. While these features are designed to enhance agility and support real-time analytics, they also require businesses to rework existing data models and processes.

One major challenge is data redundancy. During migration, data from legacy systems is often duplicated to ensure no information is lost, which can lead to increased storage costs and system oversizing.

PBS Software, a provider of add-on solutions for SAP systems specializing in data archiving, information lifecycle management, nearline storage and compliant data management offer PBS archive add-ons to make the transition to SAP S/4HANA smoother by providing seamless access to both archived and live data.

These add-ons integrate with SAP modules, enabling businesses to view and analyze legacy data alongside new information from S/4HANA. This reduces the need for technical migrations of archived data and helps avoid data duplication during the conversion process.

Additionally, PBS archive add-ons help organizations meet regulatory requirements for data access and retention, an important factor for audits and compliance.

Data archiving plays a big role in reducing system complexity and cost during the migration. By archiving legacy ERP data before transitioning to SAP S/4HANA, businesses can reduce the overall data volume, which can significantly speed up the migration and lower operating costs.

PBS archive add-ons enable continued access to archived data post-migration, allowing businesses to maintain full operational functionality while keeping their data management compliant with regulations such as the EU GDPR.

For SAP users making the migration to SAP S/4HANA, PBS archive add-ons offer a practical solution, helping businesses streamline access to both live and archived data without needing to fully migrate all legacy information. By reducing data redundancy and ensuring regulatory compliance, these add-ons can ease the transition to SAP S/4HANA while minimizing costs and maintaining access to critical business information.