Fuel a New Digital Core with Complete and Accurate Data

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1 SAP Brief SAP Extensions SAP Advanced Data Migration by BackOffice Associates Objectives Fuel a New Digital Core with Complete and Accurate Data

2 Migrate affordably and come to value quickly Migrate affordably and come to value quickly The SAP Advanced Data Migration application by BackOffice Associates efficiently orchestrates the full process of data migration to the SAP HANA platform and the SAP S/4HANA suite. A central management console lets you manage migration, from design through execution, eliminating overruns and conversion failures and keeping data migrations on track, on time, and within budget. Job number one in a data migration project is protecting data quality and integrity, whether you re modernizing to SAP HANA, upgrading to the cloud, or underpinning a new corporate structure. And during the migration, you also want to centralize data, control costs, and enrich analytics. SAP Advanced Data Migration gives your cross-functional team a complete framework for collaborating to prepare, validate, and load all your migration data. Through a powerful project management console, you maintain full visibility through a single source of truth for all data migration decisions. Businesspeople can use intuitive data collection screens, mapping templates, and data design functions that take the headache out of complex data conversions. Confident of delivering harmonized, relevant business data to all systems, you can shrink project time and cost and improve the value of your data through reuse of data assets. And you help your organization move toward a rational information governance strategy. 2 / 7

3 Build a foundation for information governance Build a foundation for information governance Bridge the data divide between IT and business users Deploy smart, simplified Web interfaces for business users Most companies undergo multiple migrations during their lifetimes. Whether implementing mergers and acquisitions, business system carve-outs, or cross-system collaboration applications, you need to apply data migration practices that reuse content from earlier projects and lay the groundwork for comprehensive information governance. That s why SAP Advanced Data Migration uses a design-once-reuse-everywhere approach to transforming business data. The application uses predefined content and rules, proven best-practice methodology, and reusable content for ongoing data governance. You can follow a repeatable and predictable process to accelerate your data migration. User worklists show activities across geographies and projects, and reusable data standards transfer to multiple migration projects. You can discover, track, and fix data gaps and assess data for anomalies. To reduce the risk of data errors when going live, you can execute multiple mock loads, with validation in each testing cycle. As you execute, you increase institutional knowledge, so you can further streamline processes and increase user productivity. You gain the experience to scale up rapidly for larger-volume migrations or to move to innovative new backbones, such as SAP HANA and its support for in-memory technology, and deeply integrated software suites such as SAP S4/HANA. 3 / 7

4 Bridge the data divide between IT and business users Build a foundation for information governance Bridge the data divide between IT and business users Deploy smart, simplified Web interfaces for business users A successful migration takes both a dedicated IT staff and the active involvement of data owners. Individual business professionals best understand what your data means in context. Project managers use the console to assign data construction and map tasks to specific business users. A built-in data reference model for SAP software helps the business users understand how migrated data fits into the new software landscape. Migration teams can import Microsoft Project or Excel plans to track activities and use dashboards to manage roles and workflows. Expert services speed up data mapping through access to data reference models for more than 150 source systems. Your migration teams can create designs for target data and deliver them for reuse in downstream projects. Maintaining tight collaboration between IT and business teams and protecting end-to-end visibility over the data migration project helps ensure that you deliver production-ready data and ultimately analytical insight for virtually any SAP software implementation. Cross-functional process integration in SAP Advanced Data Migration helps ensure the quality of your data and increase its value to business users. 4 / 7

5 Deploy smart, simplified Web interfaces for business users Build a foundation for information governance Bridge the data divide between IT and business users Deploy smart, simplified Web interfaces for business users SAP Advanced Data Migration eliminates the need for manual updating and data sharing between IT and business users. Business users are fully engaged in the migration process through intuitive Web interfaces in which they complete specific data cleansing and construction tasks. User-friendly worklists and built-in templates for data design, mapping, and documentation enhance the system mapping functionality. The software automatically generates all documentation business users need, and they can quickly see what to map and how to map it. They also receive automatic notification of changes throughout the workflow, and dashboards in the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) deliver real-time insight into the progress of the migration. The mapping interface includes source-to-target schemas, cross-references, approval workflows, and audit logs for mapping decisions. Tracking functionality replaces manual spreadsheets with automated project execution management, including tasks, roles, and project detail for both business users and migration developers. During migration, the application automatically generates data construction Web interfaces to speed the collection of any additional data required for migration. And it automatically validates any information users enter. 5 / 7

6 Meet your data management challenges with improved agility Meet your data management challenges with improved agility In virtually every industry across the globe, companies deal with huge data volumes and complex legacy systems. SAP Advanced Data Migration can help you protect all your data as you simplify your landscape by building a digital core of the latest integrated enterprise systems. The migration application establishes a sustainable, long-term process for business data transformation that controls costs by reducing staff time, eliminating costs from failed or delayed migrations, and reusing existing rules and data design elements. You accelerate the project through best practices, expert implementation services, and use of built-in content. You improve visibility through project management consoles and role-based dashboards that provide continuous status updates detailing activities, error trends, and performance metrics. By strengthening data validation at each stage of the migration workflow, you reduce migration risk, and you deliver the right information to the right users at the right time to support smart decisions about the project and about overarching information governance. Bring SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA to value quickly and slash migration cost and risk with SAP Advanced Data Migration. 6 / 7

7 Objectives Summary The SAP Advanced Data Migration application by BackOffice Associates helps you affordably streamline data migrations (for example, to move to the SAP S/4HANA suite) while enhancing data quality and coming to value quickly. You can dramatically reduce the cost of switching from your legacy systems to integrated enterprise software while enhancing collaboration between IT and business users and increasing the business value of your data. Objectives Reduce the time to implement new SAP enterprise software Enhance visibility into the entire migration process to lower risk and cost Speed integration of newly acquired business units or systems Ensure consistent business information across the enterprise Built-in methodology with automated, integrated processes to streamline migration Project management console for visibility and collaboration Intuitive Web interfaces for fast, accurate, and reusable data design Segmented and targeted data to support business decisions Control costs by reducing manual effort and avoiding project overruns Speed migrations through automation, expert services, and use of built-in content Keep migration teams and executives informed with dashboard metrics Reduce risk through strong data and best-practice workflows Learn more Call your SAP representative, or visit us at -management/software/data-migration-svcs /index.html. 7 / 7 Studio SAP 29139enUS (16/02)

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