SAP ECC migration to S/4HANA (SAP Hana)

SAP's decision to end support for SAP ERP Central Components (ECC) at the end of 2025, makes SAP users must move quickly to migrate their systems to S/4Hana (SAP Hana).

To help CIOs and SAP users migrate the SAP system, here are five important points to understand and consider before migrating SAP ECC to S/4Hana:

1. Readiness to migrate to S/4Hana

Based on a 2019 survey by the Americas ‘SAP Users’ Group (ASUG), it explains that around 56% of respondents still do not have plans to migrate to S/4Hana, even 12% of respondents are not interested in migrating. At the same time, SAP users revealed the reason why they did not migrate was the priority of implementing other systems that were considered more important, the lack of resources and technology they had, and the inadequacy of their staff. However, SAP still decides all ECC users to migrate to S/4Hana by the end of 2025.

 2. ECC end-of-support

SAP together with its partners continues to encourage SAP users to migrate from ECC before a predetermined deadline. SAP provides another alternative if its users are still not ready to migrate, to use other solutions such as C / 4HANA, Concur, Success Factors or Ariba, said Len Riley, commercial advisory practice leader at UpperEdge.

3. Business Case is very important to move to S/4Hana

Before migrating to S/4Hana, SAP users are required to really understand the technical needs to run the SAP system and make a business case first. SAP users can determine to run their system on the cloud or their respective servers, of course with their respective advantages and disadvantages.

Actually ECC itself has developed modules for a variety of industries and a variety of functionalities, but the SAP Leader considers these capabilities have not been able to process large amounts of data and real-time. That is why SAP launched S / 4Hana to process large data and has high complexity.

4. Implementation of "Intelligent Enterprise"

SAP S/4Hana is designed to be able to answer the needs of intelligent enterprise by focusing on processing information in detail that is approaching real time. To get a complete intelligent enterprise, SAP users are advised to use a complementary platform to help automatically retrieve data such as IoT sensors, which can be used for analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. S/4Hana is able to present it all in an interface that is easy to navigate.

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