SNP and smartShift Partner to Simplify SAP S/4HANA and RISE with SAP Transformations, Paving the Way for Composable Enterprises
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Key Takeaways
⇨ The composable enterprise model enhances organizational agility and adaptability, enabling businesses to respond effectively to market changes through modular and flexible IT systems.
⇨ SNP Group and smartShift's partnership aims to simplify SAP S/4HANA transformations by providing solutions that minimize risks, reduce downtime, and leverage AI for efficient custom code transformation.
⇨ Key criteria for selecting partners for SAP S/4HANA migrations include automation capabilities, clean core enablement, and tools that offer real-time monitoring and selective data migration to ensure a smoother transformation experience.
As businesses strive to remain competitive in an evolving digital landscape, the concept of the composable enterprise is emerging as a critical model for future success. By enabling modularity, flexibility and agility, the composable enterprise empowers organizations to adapt quickly to market changes, leverage advanced technology and streamline operations. However, transitioning to this model, particularly through an SAP S/4HANA transformation, could be a complex task.
RISE with SAP offers enterprises an opportunity to modernize their ERP systems while moving toward a composable enterprise. This approach replaces monolithic IT structures with modular systems, providing advantages like enhanced agility, innovation and future-readiness. Despite the benefits, these migrations are notoriously challenging, requiring careful handling of data, custom code and system architectures to ensure success.
To address these challenges, SNP Group and smartShift have formed a partnership aimed at helping organizations achieve a smooth and efficient SAP transformation. Together, they offer solutions designed to minimize risks, reduce downtime and maximize the value of S/4HANA migrations. Their joint efforts focus on enabling businesses to establish a clean core, a fundamental component of a composable enterprise.
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Key Benefits of SNP and smartShift Solutions
SNP Kyano Move for Seamless Data Migration
SNP’s new platform Kyano with its enhanced capabilities leverages the Move components to analyze and migrate only relevant data to the new SAP environment. Key advantages include:
- Selective Data Migration: Reduces data volume, speeding up transfers while lowering costs and system load.
- Transparent Migration Flows: Standardized workflows, real-time monitoring and clear documentation ensure smooth execution and reliability.
- Minimized Downtime: Rigorous testing and controlled cutover plans prevent disruptions, while automated transfers shorten project timelines by up to 75%.
- Future-Proof Database: Optimized data and a clean core approach deliver a high-performance S/4HANA system with easier scalability.
smartShift’s AI-Powered Custom Code Transformation
smartShift’s expertise in custom code transformation significantly enhances the migration process with cutting-edge solutions. Its proprietary custom code analysis provides comprehensive insights into custom code health to create precise, data-driven transformation plans, delivering predictable outcomes.
Leveraging industry-leading automation, smartShift uses advanced AI algorithms to resolve compatibility issues–and provide above-and-beyond code optimization that would not be addressed by other approaches–with 99.99% precision, enabling code transformation up to four times faster than traditional methods. smartShift’s dual maintenance eliminates code freezes and ensures synchronization between production and project landscapes for smooth go-lives. Additionally, its AI-powered analysis supports next-level clean core realization, identifying opportunities for modernization and seamless integration.
What it Means for SAP insiders
Revolutionizing Day-to-Day Operations: For ERP professionals like IT managers, system architects and transformation leads, the partnership between SNP and smartShift can be a game-changer in simplifying SAP S/4HANA and RISE with SAP transformations. Transitioning to a composable enterprise has long been associated with significant challenges, including managing complex data migrations and reconfiguring custom code. With SNP’s Kyano Move and smartShift’s AI-driven code transformation solutions, day-to-day tasks can become more streamlined, predictable and less error-prone. By reducing downtime, eliminating code freezes and ensuring efficient data migration, these tools can empower you to focus on strategic priorities rather than troubleshooting migration bottlenecks.
Navigating a Growing and Competitive Market: The SAP S/4HANA market is a cornerstone of the broader enterprise resource planning industry. Major players, including SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, are also playing a part in shaping the transition toward modular and cloud-based ERP systems, reflecting a global shift toward flexibility and scalability. SNP and smartShift’s partnership arrives at a critical juncture, addressing one of the most complex hurdles for organizations adopting S/4HANA.
Key Criteria for Evaluating Transformation Partners: When selecting a technology partner for your SAP S/4HANA and RISE with SAP migrations, prioritize providers that excel in automation, clean core enablement and risk mitigation. Solutions that leverage AI for code transformation, like those offered by smartShift, ensure faster, more accurate results. Look for tools that provide granular insights, selective data migration and real-time monitoring, such as SNP’s Kyano Move, to reduce system disruptions and project timelines. Additionally, evaluate the provider’s track record in scalability, modularity, and delivering future-ready ERP environments. By focusing on these criteria, you can ensure a smoother transformation journey and position your enterprise for long-term success.
