RISE with SAP is designed to be a launchpad for innovation, offering organisations flexibility, agility, and modern infrastructure to succeed in the digital age. However, many businesses encounter turbulence mid-journey when they don’t prepare adequately for the complexities ahead. They may carry legacy baggage into their RISE with SAP journey, or migrate without a full understanding of regulatory impacts.RISE with SAP also brings opportunities to reduce, streamline and innovate at every step. Without proper guidance, businesses often underestimate the effort and resources needed for a successful migration.
RISE with SAP is designed to be a launchpad for innovation, offering organisations flexibility, agility, and modern infrastructure to succeed in the digital age. However, many businesses encounter turbulence mid-journey when they don’t adequately prepare for the complexities ahead. This can lead to unforeseen challenges, delays, and unexpected costs.
The problem: Lifting off with legacy baggage
Transitioning to the cloud should mean shedding outdated systems and inefficiencies. Yet organisations often carry legacy baggage into their RISE with SAP journey, including:
- incomplete or inconsistent data
- non-compliant systems and policies
- disjointed business processes
- unoptimised custom code
These hidden issues can impede progress, causing delays, security risks, and higher costs.
Compliance gaps: A risk you can’t afford
You may have noticed that news about cybercrimes is a daily occurrence. Data privacy and regulatory compliance can’t be an afterthought, especially in the cloud.
Organisations migrating without a full understanding of regulatory impacts face:
- data privacy violations due to non-compliant refresh processes
- exposure of sensitive data across development or testing environments
- gaps in understanding regional compliance requirements, as outlined in data privacy laws like the GDPR.
Ensuring compliance protects not only your data but also keeps your organisation’s reputation and legal standing intact.
Hidden costs: Time, money, and missed opportunities
Without proper guidance, businesses often underestimate the effort and resources needed for a successful migration. Extended testing cycles, last-minute fixes, and delayed go-lives can inflate costs and reduce ROI.
RISE with SAP isn’t just a technical migration; it’s a business transformation. Every step along the journey can have a significant impact. It is also an opportunity to prepare your systems for the future, and to consider what you need to keep, and what you can move into an archiving solution. There are opportunities to reduce, streamline and innovate at every step during this transformation project.
Solutions to support your RISE with SAP journey
Save costs by reducing your non-production environments
To help you navigate these mid-cloud challenges, EPI-USE Labs’ Data Sync Manager™ (DSM) Suite is a powerful solution for SAP test data management. In the cloud, you are paying by t-shirt size, and moving up a t-shirt size can have a large impact on your costs.
Paul Hammersley, Senior Vice-President of the ALM Products at EPI-USE Labs, explains this in more detail in his insightful blog: Reduce costs with leaner S/4HANA systems.
DSM empowers you to:
- rapidly create new non-production systems
- reduce your system footprint when refreshing test clients
- copy only selected data on demand
- integrate seamlessly with test automation solutions like Worksoft and Tricentis
- scramble sensitive data for security and compliance
Explore real-world success stories
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| Aker Solutions leveraged DSM to reduce their SAP system landscape and cut costs | Prysmian achieved efficiency and cost optimization in their SAP landscape management | Vodafone moved to a three-tier SAP landscape with benefits from DSM |
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Of course, DSM is just one piece of the bigger puzzle. To fully unlock the potential of RISE with SAP, organisations need to take a holistic approach by carefully evaluating their migration strategy, cloud readiness and supporting tools.
Want to see how much you can save by reducing your non-production landscape? See your savings in action with our ROI calculator.
Understand your SAP S/4HANA migration options
Choosing the right migration strategy is critical. Organisations typically consider:
- Greenfield: A completely new implementation to redesign systems and workflows from scratch. Ideal for those reimagining processes without carrying over legacy systems.
- Brownfield: Upgrading existing SAP systems to S/4HANA. Suitable for organisations that want to retain current configurations and customisations.
- Hybrid / Selective Data Transition (SDT): A combination of Greenfield and Brownfield, enabling selective migration while optimising processes. Migrating only necessary data to streamline the process.
For a detailed comparison of migration strategies and to determine which fits your organisation best, read our full guide: Greenfield, Brownfield, or Hybrid: What are your options?
Think with a cloud mindset
Migrating to SAP S/4HANA isn’t just a technical upgrade, it’s an opportunity to rethink how your organisation operates. Adopting a cloud-first approach means:
- standardising processes
- automating manual tasks
- encouraging continuous improvement and innovation
Organisations that embrace a cloud mindset are better positioned to unlock the full potential of SAP S/4HANA and drive long-term business value.
Accelerate your migration with PRISM for S/4HANA
While DSM simplifies test data management and ensures compliance throughout your RISE with SAP journey, PRISM for S/4HANA® accelerates the transformation itself by enabling faster and more efficient migrations. Together, they deliver a powerful approach to modernising your SAP landscape and driving long-term business value.
PRISM for S/4HANA is EPI-USE Labs’ Selective Data Transition solution that enables high-speed, low-risk transformations to modern SAP landscapes. Because it is selective, it provides a flexible, cost-effective approach giving you the choice to transform the data you need when you RISE with SAP. Find out how you can migrate to SAP S/4HANA the way you want to.
Ready for RISE assessment: Take the next step
Understanding the complexities of SAP migrations is crucial. Our Ready for RISE Assessment equips your organisation with:
- a clear inventory of what to bring and leave behind
- data and process clean-up strategies
- detailed compliance checks
- customised recommendations based on your current SAP landscape
Book your assessment today and embark on a smoother, more efficient journey to the cloud.