Is it time to upgrade your technology? Many organisations may be asking themselves this question in light of continual news about our disruptive age of technology.
It’s easy to ignore your underlying business infrastructure when everything is working fine, operations are running smoothly, and all your staff are confident in the use of your internal systems.
Companies choosing to upgrade from ECC to S/4HANA have often made the decision based on several factors such as leveraging new technology, moving to the cloud, modernising and simplifying processes, improving the end-user experience and ultimately reducing costs.
What is often less understood that the reasons for choosing to upgrade will also lead to ”how we upgrade”.
Your decision pathway
When contemplating a move to SAP S/4HANA from SAP ERP you must consider the desired outcomes that are influencing your decision.
- Is improved flexibility and agility to respond to a changing competitive or operating environment the driver of considering an upgrade?
- Or maybe it’s the need to optimise legacy processes, improve and simplify the way you do business?
- Or do you simply need to modernise your systems with minimal disruption and create a foundation to build upon?
DyFlex Solutions can guide you through your transition pathway with typically two approaches:
- A greenfield approach with a fresh instance of RISE with SAP S/4HANA cloud to which we migrate your data. This is an excellent option for a business that wants a new start, if innovation is required as well as a clean break from the constraints of legacy processes and data, or
- A brownfield or system conversion approach is an option for companies that wish to modernise their ERP platform quickly, minimise risk but retain legacy data and processes.
DyFlex are here to help you make the right choices for your business, assist you with your deployment options (Cloud, On Premise or hybrid) and deliver the best possible outcome with minimal risk and in minimal timeframe.
Considerations for determining your transition path
- Do your current business processes support your long-term strategy?
A strategic re-design of business processes suggests a new implementation or Greenfields’s approach.
- Can you adopt SAP Best Practices, or will you retain significant customizations?
A move to standardisation brings agility, suggesting a greenfield approach.
- Is your move to RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud driven by the business or IT?
IT sponsored projects are typically conversions to SAP S/4HANA, which lay the foundation of incremental innovation projects driven by the business.
- Can you convert from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA in a single step?
Single step conversion is possible for SAP ERP6.xsingle stack, Unicode systems.
- Do you require previous transactional data in the new system?
The requirement to retain all data in the system is a very strong indication for conversion. Alternatively, consider a new implementation if re-platforming your current ECC data on commodity hardware or leveraging data retention solutions.
- Is landscape consolidation and process harmonization a key value driver?
Consider a new implementation and consolidate the required configuration and data onto that new system.
- High or low number of interfaces to other systems (SAP and third-party)?
The higher the number of interfaces, the stronger is the case for conversion.
DyFlex, the SAP experts
As a leading SAP Gold Partner, DyFlex Solutions has helped many businesses leverage the latest SAP technology to enhance operations, embed intelligence into their core systems whilst improving user and customer experience.
DyFlex will guide you on your journey to RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and deliver real benefits to your business.
Contact us to make the change towards a digitally automated enterprise!
This article is sponsored by DyFlex Solutions
