Making the move to SAP S/4HANA smoother with Red Hat’s Migration Toolkits
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Organizations are transitioning to SAP S/4HANA or cloud solutions in preparation for SAP's end of maintenance in 2027, but the process can be complex and resource-intensive.
⇨ Red Hat's OpenShift offers essential toolkits to facilitate SAP S/4HANA migration by combining modern software with existing legacy applications, ensuring a smoother transition.
⇨ The migration toolkits from Red Hat help identify potential migration issues early, allowing organizations to address them proactively and avoid disruption during the modernization process.
With SAP’s end of maintenance in 2027 approaching, organizations are transitioning their on-prem infrastructures to SAP S/4HANA or cloud-based solutions to stay ahead. However, such digital transformations can be time-consuming, costly and sometimes confusing for those without technical expertise.
Irrespective of brownfield or greenfield transition approaches, any transformation involves either building new applications or modernizing existing ones. The journey to the cloud, or for that matter, any modernization journey isn’t an overnight overhaul, either.
Red Hat’s OpenShift contains the necessary toolkits needed to help with the migration to SAP S/4HANA, making the journey easier by combining modern software with the traditional legacy applications a client may use. By providing a consistent operational and management experience, Red Hat can help the workforce adapt to the new, incoming process changes.
Red Hat’s OpenShift provides comprehensive toolkits that organizations can use to streamline their SAP migration journeys. Through the use of the virtualization migration toolkit, organizations can use on-premise migration analytics to identify any possible migration issues before the process is underway. This way, money and development time can be saved in case the pre-transformation SAP S/4HANA migration is detected to unwittingly trigger mass business disruption. Once the issue has been identified and highlighted, the toolkit can provide data on how to solve it.
The migration toolkit for applications can provide open source tools that will aid in the large-scale modernization and migration of integral business apps. Many SAP systems will be massive operations, with a medley of different systems, processes and apps to adapt to an entirely new business platform. Through the use of the migration toolkit for apps, those looking to upgrade to S/4HANA and adapt to the future with scalable, agile apps can do so with this toolkit.
When making the decision to migrate over to SAP S/4HANA, it can help to have Red Hat’s OpenShift migration toolkits on hand to make the transition over to new systems smooth, painless and with as little complexity as possible.
