Good Reasons To Migrate To The SAP S/4HANA

As SAP is withdrawing its support for the ECC and older versions by 2027, many organizations are or are preparing to migrate their SAP systems to the S/4HANA for good reasons. Five years is still plenty enough to keep running older SAP systems to meet daily priorities, but the expiration date isn’t really an ultimate reason for the SAP migration Malaysia.

On the surface, the S/4HANA is superior compared to, say, the ECC. But this fact is only the tip of the iceberg.

A very smooth process

Migrating to the SAP S/4HANA is actually easier than anyone may think despite the large size of the project. There is a self-service migration for SAP HANA cloud tool that the user can use. The two benefits of the tool are its automated key migration tasks and reduction of uncertainty. 

The first benefit reduces the migration costs and effort while the second identifies potential migration issues in advance, allowing users to plan in time.

Agility

Many of these companies are already on the move, some have completed the migration. They are already aware that in the modern age of technology, moving at lightning speed is a possibility and a norm, so developing projects in beefy, complex on-premise systems can no longer be viable. Companies expect to meet demands in a flash, all thanks to the innovation of cloud technology, especially the HANA cloud.

Cost

Staying on premise is getting more expensive as time goes on. The SAP HANA DB requires even more hardware than some other traditional DBs used in NetWeaver deployments. The headache of procuring supplies, especially during the COVID pandemic, exacerbates the problem.

With the HANA cloud, this is all abstracted away, and users can start with zero upfront cost.

Multi-tier storages

Also driving down the cost is the SAP HANA cloud’s tiering capabilities. The top tier, high speed in-memory storage grants instant access to the most important data. Though it is common knowledge for the SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry, the other tiers provide all-new features.

The second tier, native storage extension, allows swift data retrieval at a lower price. The HANA cloud also comes with a built-in lake to store massive amounts of data, providing users further flexibility for cost-effective data storage. 

Central connection to all data

Though the HANA cloud is, of course, cloud native, it is designed to seamlessly connect with on-premise databases too. It also comes with data virtualization capabilities, meaning that storing or duplicating existing data is now unnecessary. Instead, it virtualizes and analyzes them through connections to chosen data sources.

Digital transformation

The cloud HANA’s advanced analytics, real time applications and others render the SAP solution innovative. Why wouldn’t innovation be a good reason then? Because a problem with citing any advanced technical capabilities is that while they do improve productivity or efficiency, the gains may be incremental, which is not enough to deliver sufficient value needed to validate the disruption that is accompanied by the undergoing SAP S/4HANA migration in the first place.

Further, if the migration disrupts the typical experience of end users, it is a disappointment to both C-suite executives and the user base. 

Still, migration to the cloud is clean and the extended SAP solutions and further intelligent capabilities make good justification to move on to the cloud itself.