The Importance of Testing for Successful SAP S/4HANA Migrations

According to recent SAPinsider research, 54% of the companies surveyed reported that the approaching end of life for core SAP Business Suite applications is the biggest external factor influencing their plans for SAP S/4HANA. Beyond ensuring continued support and maintenance from SAP, using SAP S/4HANA and moving SAP workloads to the cloud provide significant advantages to companies that strive to achieve increased efficiency and productivity.

Advanced Features of SAP S/4HANA that Support Modernization

• Automation of tasks and advanced prediction capabilities are enabled through Artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated machine learning (ML) models.
• Cloud deployment helps companies scale up their operations as required, which ensures improved sustainability.
• Integration with Internet of Things (IoT) supports innovative applications, enhances operational efficiency, and helps handle large volumes of data.
• Real-time data insights enable strategic planning and informed decision-making.
• Increased data security and privacy is achieved through robust security features and compliance requirements.

SAP S/4HANA is updated frequently to provide the latest features and high security to companies. While this is innovative and beneficial, these companies must also ensure that testing is conducted before changes go live.

Tricentis accelerates SAP enterprise software modernization by eliminating transformation blind spots through intelligent quality engineering solutions, AI-powered test automation, and best-of-breed quality engineering practices.

SAP testing solutions provide up to 90% risk reduction and 10x faster testing speed, de-risking and accelerating customers’ journey to becoming an intelligent enterprise. It also leads to 50% in cost savings.

Companies approaching S/4HANA migration must ask themselves four questions to develop a successful testing strategy:

1. Where is the risk (what to test)?
2. Does it work?
3. Does it perform?
4. Is the data correct?

Tricentis SAP solutions help you address each of these critical questions.

• Tricentis LiveCompare known as SAP Change Impact Analysis  (CIA) offers AI-powered identification of risks and areas to be tested. After LiveCompare identifies what to test, it creates the associated test plan and requirements in Tricentis Tosca or Tricentis qTest  that will determine if it works.
• Tricentis NeoLoad known as SAP Enterprise Performance Testing provides on-demand load testing for all browser-based SAP applications, allowing customers to determine whether an app can perform under peak load conditions. Tricentis Data Integrity  known as SAP Enterprise Data Integrity Testing confirms whether the data is correct, maintains the accuracy of data, and helps improve quality.

Companies can make an accelerated and secure move to SAP S/4HANA with Tricentis’ SAP testing solutions. “This partnership agreement is unprecedented in the ALM space –it’s a once-in-a-decade announcement. Together, we will help ensure that the adoption of SAP software is accelerated, customers get the most out of their SAP solutions, and costs for continuous testing of cloud and hybrid landscapes are significantly reduced,” said Marc Thier, SVP Application Lifecycle Management, SAP.