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Do not migrate, re-implement your SAP

If you are running SAP for your business, soon you will be making some

fundamental decisions for the future of your business application portfolio. The

digital world is evolving at a blistering pace and the need for the technology for

business growth is becoming an essential part of the business success. Especially

for some businesses, there is no other option than using the latest technology

available to survive and stay competitive.

SAP announced a new digital strategy and a new business suite in early 2015

mainly running on SAP HANA platform which they claim it to be the biggest

innovation since SAP R/3. This was not the only announcement to complete the

parts in the SAPs digital strategy jigsaw, there were few other acquisitions

earlier helping to complete the puzzle. SuccessFactor, Ariba, Concur,Hybris,

Business Objects.

The million-dollar question here is, how are you going to shape up your strategy

and use all or some of those new technology products in your IT landscape

without disrupting your business.

S/4 HANA and New User Interface

SAP front-end has always been criticized by users as being very technical and

unfriendly. SAP S/4 HANA is changing the user interface using the Fiori UX

technology. It will take some time for SAP to complete the development for

commonly used scenarios, but it is a very good start. S/4 Simple Finance was

introduced to start of with and it looks good. It is not only including daily

business transactions but also instant insight in Finance. There is still a long way

to go for SAP for all other scenarios.

CIOs Guide for next generation SAP World

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For existing ERP 6.0 users, the biggest challenge would be to migrate to S/4

HANA, there may be a tremendous amount of work to integrate the existing

bespoke z developments. SAP is offering an integration platform on UI5 for

custom developments but it may take some time. Also before you start doing all,

you must have been upgraded to SAP HANA database if you are already on

anyDB. That may be something you need to check from the investment and

landscape point of view. SAP announced that the support and development for

the existing SAP Business Suite (ERP and others) will continue at least until

2025 but doing nothing until 2025 in this ever-changing technology

environment is a tough call. You may need to adapt yourself at some point

unless you choose to deploy another vendors portfolio.

I have been working with SAP since 1995 and been involved in many end-to-end

SAP projects. My experience is telling me that in order to make the most from a

business system, you need to refresh the whole system in every 5-7 years. I truly

mean a re-implementation with a fresh start. The reason behind is obvious. We

all know that the first year after the implementation is the cooling period and

people will start warming up with the system, after the cooling period, systems

start to get busy and busy with too many data and report and development. After

some time, those stuff become unmanageable and unnecessary in some cases. A

new projects is always a big chance for your business to redefine everything

based on the past lessons learned. Putting it into context, if you are considering

using S/4 HANA , rather than migrating your old legacy implementation, do

start from the scratch and start a new project as a greenfield SAP S/4 HANA

implementation. It may seem that it is more costly and difficult, but you will see

that it will be much better in the long run from the success of the

implementation point of view.

SAP S/4HANA is the next-generation business suite. It is a new product fully

built on the most advanced in-memory platform today SAP HANA and

modern design principles with the SAP Fiori user experience (UX). SAP

S/4HANA delivers massive simplifications (customer adoption, data model,

user experience, decision making, business processes, and models) and

innovations (Internet of Things, Big Data, business networks, and mobile-first)

to help businesses run simple in the digital economy.

SAP Cloud Solutions

SuccessFactoris already a proven success in the HCM area and I believe its

integration with new business suite products will be improved to support the

connected business going forward to excel. To me everything other than payroll

can easily be implemented using SF and I have seen many hassle-free

implementations around.

Hybris Marketing and e-commerce, personally I think this is a very

promising move for SAP to acquire Hybris. SAP CRM has never been good

enough in terms of usability and many customers had difficulty implementing


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SAP CRM.

Connected Business Scenarios- In my past SAP experience, I always

worked with big companies trying to integrate their business with other

businesses. Practically supply chain and finance integration has never

successfully been implemented. There were always some automation and

integration works between companies but it was limited to some extent. I believe

Ariba and Concur will find a wider ground to achieve sought-after integration.

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The following part is taken from one of the document that SAP

issued in August 2015 where you can find some answers for you

questions
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About the Author :

Grkan Altner is currently working as the CIO for Istanbul Sabiha Gken Airport, he has been working with SAP and

business systems for the past 20 years. He started his career as an SAP consultant and completed many end-to-end

SAP implementations at different top multinational organisations.

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