SAP ECC Migration


What is SAP ECC Migration?

Following the release of SAP S/4HANA in 2015, SAP initially announced that mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 and core applications, such as SAP ECC, would end in 2025. In February of 2020 this was extended to 2027. Organizations will have the option to purchase extended maintenance until the end of 2030. This means that organizations running these solutions will need to move to SAP S/4HANA from their existing SAP ERP systems.

What is SAP ECC Migration?

Following the release of SAP S/4HANA in 2015, SAP initially announced that mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 and core applications, such as SAP ECC, would end in 2025. In February of 2020 this was extended to 2027. Organizations will have the option to purchase extended maintenance until the end of 2030. This means that organizations running these solutions will need to move to SAP S/4HANA from their existing SAP ERP systems.

SAP ECC migration involves evaluating an organization’s existing systems to see whether they are ready for the move to a new system, acquiring licenses for new software, converting data to the requirements for the new system, determining a deployment model, sourcing infrastructure, and determining whether you will make the move yourself or whether external resources are required. These all represent decisions that need to be made before any SAP ECC migration occurs.

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:

  • An ECC migration can be challenging, so what do you need to do to make the move successful? In talking with SAP Mentor Tammy Powlas, SAPinsider received some recommendations that can make any migration successful. Testing is an integral part of the migration. Prepare and cleanse your data before you move using the checklists that SAP provides in order to make sense. Make sure your third-party tools are SAP S/4HANA compliant. Perform at least a couple of dry runs or sandbox systems to work out kinks before the final go live. You can see the full interview here.
  • Listen to what other customers have to say about their SAP ECC migration, and what they were and were not prepared for. SAPinsider has talked to many customers about their move from SAP ECC, and this conversation with Fairfax Water, Newport News Shipyard, and Dow Jones covered several different topics around their environments, the deployment models they used, testing approaches, security challenges, and plans for future upgrades. All these and more are topics that need to be considered for the migration.
  • Evaluating and preparing your customized code for migration can be a significant step, but there are ways of making sure you’re ready. Most SAP ECC systems contain customized ABAP code. To perform an SAP ECC migration involves evaluating and determining what part of that code is still needed, and whether it is even still applicable given the underlying data structure changes in SAP S/4HANA. This presentation walks though migrating legacy ABAP code into a new system and highlights challenges along the way, tools that are available to help make the transition easier, and how you can get your development team up to speed for the future.

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  1. SAP S/4HANA Migration Tips with Tammy Powlas image

    SAP S/4HANA Migration Tips

    Companies are migrating to SAP S/4HANA because of SAP’s 2027 deadline for ending SAP ECC support and because they want easier reporting, workforce mobility, and digital transformation, observes Tammy Powlas, Senior Business Analyst, Fairfax Water.  Powlas says that having the time and expertise to pull off the SAP S/4HANA migration can be challenging. You need to decide whether you do everything in-house or get help from outside consultants.   She recommends…
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    SAP S/4HANA Migration from SAP ECC – A Controls Perspective

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    Many organizations are creating a disjointed customer experience (CX) and need to find new ways to capture the exponentially growing amount of customer data, integrate their isolated systems, and achieve a single view of the customer. While companies commonly are talking about doing more with less and improving customer satisfaction, few seem to be allocating…
  4. The Road to SAP S/4HANA from ECC6

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    Reading time: 7 mins

    After being spun off in 2013, specialty biopharmaceutical maker AbbVie needed to unify technologies across more than 100 global sites. It rolled out SAP ERP and standardized global processes across these sites. Find out how the company developed a standard SAP global template that, after a few updates, allowed it to move swiftly and successfully…
  6. Case Study: How We Successfully Upgraded to SAP ERP Enhancement Package 7

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