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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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Lessons Learned from ECC Carve Out and System Conversion to RISE with SAP S/4HANA at SecuritasAug 12, 2024 — This project involved a carve-out from the original ECC system, a brownfield conversion, and a migration to RISE with SAP under an aggressive TSA deadline as one project. Watch this webinar
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Improve Access Management and Protection of Export-Controlled and EH&S DataMay 31, 2024 — Ensuring compliance with EH&S and export regulations is crucial for Solvay to avoid penalties, reputational damage, and maintain international trade integrity. Solvay’s challenge of managing data access due to complex static roles was addressed by implementing NextLabs’ zero trust data security suite, which offers dynamic data-level security controls and fine-grained access governance. This solution not […]
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Conquer SAP Licensing Challenges for SAP S/4HANA and the CloudApr 12, 2022 — The first critical step with managing SAP licenses is to understand what you have, so you can better manage your assets and maximize the return on the investment. Join this virtual panel discussion, where experts from SoftwareONE and Snow Software will discuss how to gain visibility and unlock powerful insights into your SAP engagement. As an […]
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Video: Output Management’s Vital Role for SAP CustomersDec 2, 2021 — When organizations with hundreds of SAP systems and thousands of printers in different parts of the world make big changes in their SAP architectures, ineffective output management add to the complexity and hamper the success of digital transformation initiatives.
This is why it’s important to understand the vital role output management plays for SAP customers. According to Leo Kaltenhauser, Director EMEA Central, LRS, customers need to consider the complexity in managing business-critical outputs with SAP solutions such as SAP S/4HANA, especially in large organizations.
What role does output management play in reducing costs and complexity and supporting agendas such as digital transformation and sustainability? Read this Technical Insights to:
- Learn why output management is relevant in today’s increasingly digital world and a core talking point in digital transformation conversations.
- Explore how a complex and costly output management architecture can be centralized to address business and technical pain points and support digital-first agendas.
- See how output management can drastically reduce the number of print servers, simplify SAP output management, provide more control, and reduce the cost of maintaining hardware.
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SAP S/4HANA Migration TipsAug 27, 2021 — 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 that companies considering a migration attend SAP enterprise support workshops for guided implementations, which discuss the readiness check report, the custom code migration, and how to migrate to SAP S/4HANA Finance.
To learn more, watch SAPinsiders' brief video interview with Powlas.
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SAP S/4HANA Migration from SAP ECC – A Controls PerspectiveJun 3, 2021 — Compliance needs are in constant flux thanks to new laws and changing regulations. Private and sensitive data must be protected at all times as cyber attacks on critical systems increase. Control frameworks need to meet the evolving demands of the digital age. Whatever the driver for migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, audit and controls professionals know that migrating data must be done in a controlled way.
However, the process can include challenges such as incorrect or incomplete migration of business partner data such as customer and vendors, conflicting G/L account figures, and instances where stock totals per materials do not match. Audit and controls professionals must also determine if there are sufficient controls to ensure correct and complete migration through the process and validate the results.
Ad van Dijke and Hugo Rothengatter of KPMG Advisory | GRC Technology have faced these challenges with previous SAP S/4HANA migrations. Their article provides practical guidance for SAP audit and control professionals involved in risk and control activities before, during, and after SAP S/4HANA migration.
This practical guide illustrates steps for executing the SAP S/4HANA roadmap from a data migration controls perspective. It focuses on migrating existing SAP ECC systems data to SAP S/4HANA.
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Closing the Customer Experience GapJul 31, 2019 —
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 budget to reach this end. In this article, SAP experts share advice for how companies can respond to evolving customer needs and take steps to improve the customer experience. Topics include what customer experience means, how to allocate budget for improvements, and how to ensure the right software solutions are in place to keep up with customer expectations and not lose out on opportunities.
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