Accelerate your journey to S/4HANA
Approximately 1800 customers* are live on SAP® S/4HANA and 79% of Winshuttle customers surveyed are in the planning phase or are in an active project. So how do you prepare for such an undertaking? And how do you ensure you get the most out of your investment? Map your journey to S/4HANA with best practices, the right equipment and advice from other companies.
79%
surveyed are planning to move or are already moving to S/4HANA.
*June 2018
Before: Preparation
Don’t treat your move to S/4HANA as a simple technical migration
“
Ensure your transition to S/4HANA is not viewed as a technical migration; otherwise, you risk missing out on potential benefits and may underestimate the total
project effort required.
Best Practices in Planning for SAP S/4HANA
Simplify your system
of companies considering a move to S/4HANA identify migrating custom code as a key challenge.
IDC Survey
of custom code objects support critical processes.
SAP Solution Transition Assessment
Engage business leaders and key functional users
“
There is little point investing money in a real-time business platform until the business wants to move to real-time processes.
CIO perspective in a tactical
adopter organization
During: Transition
Choose the right
deployment route
40% of early implementations opted for Private Cloud option using SAP’s HANA Enterprise Cloud offering, according to IDC’s survey report.
Involve the business in facilitating and accelerating the data migration effort
50% of respondents identified business engagement as the most critical success factor according to the Bloor Research Data Migration Customer Survey.
Use flexible migration tools to push data migration efforts to the business
Scientific Drilling was able to migrate over 15 million records in 4 months using Winshuttle, including both master data and transactional data.
Watch the video
After: Peak Performance
Congratulations, you made it!
Once you make it to the S/4HANA summit, the work to maintain and maximize your S/4HANA investment is just beginning. Here’s a field guide to the benefits of choosing the right tools for your transition to S/4HANA.
Higher user adoption
40% of early adopters of S/4HANA identified “Need to train users on new systems” as the main challenge during the implementation. In contrast, only 20% of organizations at a “considering” stage, mentioned training as a potential challenge.
Main challenge:
Need to train users on new systems
Less business disruption
Using SAP-certified tools that can support the business during the migration process, but also for business as usual in the new architecture, helps reduce business disruption and enables teams to reap the benefits of the new system immediately.
Average time organizations save on maintaining Business Partners (BP transaction) in S/4HANA with Winshuttle.
Better data quality
To take advantage of HANA’s real-time analytics for better decision making, it’s essential that your data is entered into SAP right the first time.
“
With Winshuttle, we were able to significantly improve our data quality during the migration to S/4HANA and, thus, our productivity.
Stefan Berger
Corporate Accounting
Imperial Logistics International
Become an expert S/4HANA climber
Implementing the right combination of tools and best practices will help you accelerate your journey to S/4HANA and take full advantage of the benefits and capabilities when you get there.
Read the S/4HANA Best Practices white paperAccelerate your journey to S/4HANA
Approximately 1800 customers* are live on SAP® S/4HANA and 79% of Winshuttle customers surveyed are in the planning phase or are in an active project. So how do you prepare for such an undertaking? And how do you ensure you get the most out of your investment? Map your journey to S/4HANA with best practices, the right equipment and advice from other companies.
79%
surveyed are planning to move or are already moving to S/4HANA.
Before: Preparation
Don’t treat your move to S/4HANA as a simple technical migration
“
Ensure your transition to S/4HANA is not viewed as a technical migration; otherwise, you risk missing out on potential benefits and may underestimate the total
project effort required.
Best Practices in Planning for SAP S/4HANA
Simplify your system
of companies considering a move to S/4HANA identify migrating custom code as a key challenge.
IDC Survey
of custom code objects support critical processes.
SAP Solution Transition Assessment
Engage business leaders and key functional users
“
There is little point investing money in a real-time business platform until the business wants to move to real-time processes.
CIO perspective in a tactical
adopter organization
During: Transition
Choose the right
deployment route
40% of early implementations opted for Private Cloud option using SAP’s HANA Enterprise Cloud offering, according to IDC’s survey report.
Involve the business in facilitating and accelerating the data migration effort
50% of respondents identified business engagement as the most critical success factor according to the Bloor Research Data Migration Customer Survey.
Use flexible migration tools to push data migration efforts to the business
Scientific Drilling was able to migrate over 15 million records in 4 months using Winshuttle, including both master data and transactional data.
Watch the videoAfter: Peak Performance
Congratulations, you made it!
Once you make it to the S/4HANA summit, the work to maintain and maximize your S/4HANA investment is just beginning. Here’s a field guide to the benefits of choosing the right tools for your transition to S/4HANA.
Higher user adoption
40% of early adopters of S/4HANA identified “Need to train users on new systems” as the main challenge during the implementation. In contrast, only 20% of organizations at a “considering” stage, mentioned training as a potential challenge.
Main challenge:
Need to train users on new systems
Less business disruption
Using SAP-certified tools that can support the business during the migration process, but also for business as usual in the new architecture, helps reduce business disruption and enables teams to reap the benefits of the new system immediately.
Average time organizations save on maintaining Business Partners (BP transaction) in S/4HANA with Winshuttle.
Better data quality
To take advantage of HANA’s real-time analytics for better decision making, it’s essential that your data is entered into SAP right the first time.
“
With Winshuttle, we were able to significantly improve our data quality during the migration to S/4HANA and, thus, our productivity.
Stefan Berger
Corporate Accounting
Imperial Logistics International
Become an expert S/4HANA climber
Implementing the right combination of tools and best practices will help you accelerate your journey to S/4HANA and take full advantage of the benefits and capabilities when you get there.