Are you waiting your SAP S/4HANA Transformation ?

Are you waiting your S/4HANA Transformation journey and you are so impatient to concretize just now what it means Clean Core for your organization ? or what it means Agile Hybrid SAP Architecture ? or other modern approaches typically part of the overall large transformation investments, planned for the future ?

Fine! Doesn't matter if you are still on SAP ECC release, or if you are still on-Premises. Yes, because the transformation can start today, approaching first of all the right mindset in solving business needs. And this is an approach having different immediate tangible results:

1. You can simplify and prepare the fields for the coming S/4HANA Transformation - may be RISE or RISE-like
2. You can reduce risks and costs starting pragmatically with technical debt reductions
3. You can impact your KPI on Sustainability

Some examples:

Clean Core: Why we are still applying the traditional approach solving daily business needs with ABAP stuffs into the SAP monolith, knowing that the polar start is the “Clean Core” ? Our businesses are asking just now to be more flexible, more agile, more innovative, more scalable because they are facing a numbers of key disruptors which have created an environment of uncertainty and volatility. Do you prefer to insist on adding complexity into the SAP packages ? Uhm… no! You can apply “Clean Core” mindset and approach just today on SAP ECC, working with SAP BTP & Hyperscalers natively integrated with SAP backbone, “respecting” the SAP Core, following the master rules and decision tree. When the S/4HANA transformation journey will start, your impacts on technical debt reduction and change management will be totally different.

Data: data footprint, data quality, S/4HANA CVI conversion, data aging and others are all topics and pre-projects we can start just now, having the right time to elaborate how to leverage on Cloud Data Lake approach, moving historical data into the right modern place, suggesting new data visualization solutions, cutting costs for the coming HANA needs in terms of sizing and, may be more relevant, in term of business downtime moving from ECC to S/4HANA, moving from on-Premises to Cloud. You know, more and more opportunities are there around data preparations.

Sustainability: approaching from “Green IT” perspective, typically SAP installed based is consuming infra components (application servers, database servers, networking, etc.) not in an efficient way. We have ABAP and Netweaver procedures where a simple scanning tool can highlight opportunities to optimize code executions, to suggest carve-out from the monolith to cloud (re-architecting with API, microservices, containers, …), to apply process automations and so on. All those optimization for sure will impact pragmatically your KPI on sustainability, waiting more relevant business process transformations – but we want to impact starting from today!

Innovations: common perception is that we can not innovate if we are on SAP ECC, or if we are still on-Premises. This is not totally true but, let me say, it depend on what it means for us the “Innovation” word. For sure the full cloud deployment option is the best playing field, but we can do our best approaching hybrid having edge and cloud.

Those are just few technical examples. We have a lot of other opportunities and potential pre-projects from different angles, from Business, Architecture, Integrations, Infrastructure, Security perspectives and so on.

We can contribute just now. Enjoy ??