A Technical Transition for your Digital Transformation

SoH versus S4H – A Big Decision

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Where is your SAP Foundation?

Cell Phone Evolution• Analog > Digital

• Buttons > Touch

• 2000% storage increase

• 12x battery life

• 3000% CPU increase

SAP Evolution• Batch > Real time

• 3000% DB speed

• 16 bit > 64 bitd

• Rigid > Flexible

• PC > Mobile

• Regional > Global

• Physical > Cloud

SAP S/4ECC 6.0x

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ARE

YOU

HERE?

SAP R3

2004 2018

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The hardest thing about getting started is getting started.Why do SAP S/4HANA® projects gets delayed?

BUSINESS IS FLAT

MASTER DATA CHANGE MANAGEMENT

TIMINGIoTRESOURCES

EXPECTATIONS

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How do you get to SAP S/4HANA®?

Mitigate risk over time. Take proper steps to upgrade

your technical platforms, your code base, your data, your

integrations, your business processes and user experience

to deliver value.

The “Traditional”

Approach

** Size of the stack represents size of data and storage footprints

Business Process

& Data Changes

Technical Platform

& Code Changes

Both Business &

Technical Changes

SAP ® Business

Suite

ECC 6.0SAP ® Business

Suite

ECC 6.0SAP S/4HANA ®

SAP S/4HANA®

SAP HANA® DBSAP HANA® DB

SAP HANA® DB

Traditional

RDBMS

SAP ® R/3

v. 4.6C

Traditional

RDBMS

With SAP

S/4HANA ®

SAP S/4HANA ® Cloud

Actual / Historical

Current

Legacy StateSuite on

Traditional DB

Suite on

SAP HANA®

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How do you get to SAP S/4 HANA®?

** Size of the stack represents size of data and storage footprints

Can you manage all the process changes & technical risks

all at once? Can you afford the dedication of technical and

business resources?Business Process

& Data Changes

Technical Platform

& Code Changes

Both Business &

Technical Changes

SAP S/4HANA®

SAP HANA® DB

SAP ® R/3

v. 4.6C

Traditional

RDBMS

With SAP

S/4HANA ®

SAP S/4HANA ® Cloud

Actual / Historical

One Giant Leap

for Mankind

Current

Legacy StateSuite on

Traditional DB

Suite on

SAP HANA®

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How do you get to SAP S/4 HANA®?

** Size of the stack represents size of data and storage footprints

The Technical

Texas 2-Step

Segregate IT & technical risks from the risk and complexity

of business change management. Can you take steps to

mitigate your risk and deliver incremental value?Business Process

& Data Changes

Technical Platform

& Code Changes

Both Business &

Technical Changes

SAP ® Business

Suite

ECC 6.0

SAP S/4HANA®

SAP HANA® DB

SAP HANA® DB

SAP ® R/3

v. 4.6C

Traditional

RDBMS

Current

Legacy StateSuite on

Traditional DB

Suite on

SAP HANA®

With SAP

S/4HANA ®

SAP S/4HANA ® Cloud

Actual / Historical

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Benefits from a Technical HANA upgrade (SoH)

• Predictable budget and timeline

of the upgrade

• Performance optimizations: We

delivered 1000+ optimizations just

for HANA DB

• Fiori apps and mobile device

support…smart business cockpits

• Real-time analytics: Virtual data

model (HANA Live – marketing

term) based operational reporting

capabilities

What it means in business terms…

incremental improvements

• Improved UI/UX for users, customers, partners…

customer experience employee engagement

• Consolidation of instances is possible due to the

performance improvement and database compression

• MRP runs 10x faster - means lower safety stock levels

for manufacturers, etc.

• Real time reaction to demand swings

• Leading to better insight for business users

and improve productivity

• Combined analytics and operational reporting

• Improved financial consolidations and closes

Suite on HANA is more or less a DB migration exercise with minor efforts to adapt custom code, implement new

Fiori and real-time operational reporting scenarios. It allows you time to get your IT house in order, get your staff

prepared, get your business prepared.

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Your path to SAP S/4HANA® Starts and Ends With Business Benefits

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Prepare and Explore

MIGRATE EXISTING SAP HANA®

Value Realization

IoT Deployment

+

Realize and Deploy

• System Landscape Transformation

• Empty Shell Data Blitz

• RICEF Lift & Shift

• Fixed Cost Code Conversion

SAP HANA® : Value Discovery

Tool

MIGRATIONOptions MenuTool Selection

Migration Planning

Test Planning

Value Planning

• HW & Infra Partner Selection

• SI and Migration Partner Selection

• Pre Migration Fixed-Price Tasks

New implementation

• NEW Customer

• Old Systems too customized-

New Install

NEW INSTALLATION

Business Benefit

Strategic Focus

SAP HANA®

Business Value Roadmap Work

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End-to-End SAP HANA® [1] Pre, [2] Migration and [3] Post Go-Live Support

The success of SAP HANA® lies in the impact it has on the company’s operations.

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New/Re Implementation (a.k.a. Greenfield)

• No SAP or no competitive

advantage in keeping

customized system

• Tool to retrieve business usage

transactions to BPML MAP• Develop/select applicable

business process

• New Install• Business process map based

configure template

• Migrate data

GLOBAL TEMPLATE

Functionality Fit

HANA Cloud

Private Cloud

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S/4HANA® Migration (Yellow not Brownfield) Field of Gold?

Need to keep existing customization

• Tool to retrieve business usage transactions to BPML MAP

• Automate ABAP code conversion from SAP ECC to S/4HANA®

• Full S/4 functionality

• Upgrade existing using tools to minimize risk

ECCSuite on HANA

S/4HANA®ECC S/4HANA®

High customization not available in S/4

• Automate code conversion to SoH

• Benefits of HANA DB

• Flexibility for Fiori and future upgrade

FULL MIGRATION PARTIAL MIGRATION

Use existing SAP to transformTechnical upgrade to get ready for

an S/4HANA® transformation

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Summary and Next Steps

Get ready for the technical upgrade• Pick a good set of partners…RFP or not

• Confirm team structure, sponsorship & governance (short & long term)

• Train your IT staff and your business SMEs

• Assess & profile your SAP environment

• Get your data in order

• Plan your work and work your plan

A technical upgrade lets you get ready for an S/4HANA® transformation• Focus on your business case & benefits

• Consider the people side of the equation. Business processes and UX/UI

• Train your IT staff and your business SMEs

• Get your data, reporting and analytics in order

• Re-think your integrations

• Pick a good set of partners…RFP or not

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