Migrate to SAP S/4HANA the way you want to
Get insights into your migration options and accelerate your Selective Data Transition (SDT) with PRISM for S/4HANA, a flexible approach to create a lean, secure SAP estate.
PRISM is our brand and approach for Selective Data Transition from any legacy ERP environment to any new world, cloud-based, composable, ERP environment. So it's essentially an extract, transform, load, an ETL software, and its approach of using that software to complete transformation projects more swiftly and effectively for our clients. Primarily, at the moment, this is for S/4HANA. It's where most of the industries are at: how do we get to an S/4HANA platform with only the data we require in a way that enables business transformation for what we need to do with S/4HANA? So this may be your S/4HANA core and could also be a payroll system in the cloud, maybe an SAP SaaS solution, like a SuccessFactors or Concur, or maybe a BW for HANA analytics system. These new environments all make up that sort of post-R3 S/4HANA world, and all require different ways of extract, transforming and loading data. So we have both PRISM for business, where we use our software to aid companies going through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, logical and physical separations, or even internal business transformations where they're altering their materials or unifying data in their system. PRISM for technology is about getting people to the latest ERP platforms from where they are today. So this is to aid any transformation project in making the data migration process selective, transformative, and more efficient.
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For a large enterprise, moving to SAP S/4HANA is unlike any other migration project you've done before. Not only is it a technical upgrade, it's also a functional shift and a new licensing discussion with SAP. Choosing a migration strategy comes with its own challenges as there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. It depends on your current system, how much you've customised it in the past, and how much you want to transform your business. The typical Greenfield or Brownfield approaches might feel too restrictive, especially if you're looking to restructure along the way. PRISM for S/4HANA is a turnkey Selective Data Transition solution to move your legacy SAP ERP to your new SAP Business Suite environment. Using our software-driven data transition approach means you can choose how much data and data transformation your business needs. Our automated PRISM solution enables you to consider more flexible data migration options. You can also reduce risks and avoid costs associated with a traditional S/4HANA conversion. Any legacy data can be securely stored in our Archive Central solution, maintaining full compliance and record-keeping integrity. This way you can keep a read-only copy of data you don't want to take to the cloud. How does PRISM for S/4HANA support these different approaches? Once you have created your new system, our PRISM solution selectively transforms data into the correct formats, ready for loading into the SAP Data Migration Cockpit. This gives you the benefit of new standardised processes, automates the migration, and enables in-flight transformation during the process. Second,ly, a technical SAP S/4HANA upgrade through a Brownfield conversion. Although Brownfield is normally seen as a full conversion, PRISM enables you to select and copy just a subset of the data you need, giving you a leaner, more cost-effective environment, built on a new SAP S/4HANA shell. This helps streamline your entire SAP landscape, minimise your data, reduce your overall footprint, and optimise your environment for ongoing business operations from day one. Third,ly, a hybrid approach for complex data transformations. If you need more flexibility when transforming your core systems and adopting the latest best practices, we offer our hybrid approach. This is for our clients looking for complex changes, perhaps requiring Company Code and system and customised data transformation. We create a new target system shell from your existing SAP source system, then configure it using a tailored mix of your existing data combined with new configurations. Whichever option you choose, we'll support your conversion approach and make sure you get the best solution for your business. So what are the benefits of working with EPI-USE Labs? With our deep knowledge and understanding of SAP, EPI-USE Labs is your ideal SAP data partner. We're here to support you in the technical part of your migration process. Apart from minimising data in Production, we'll build you a new lean and secure non-production environment with accurate data for testing and training purposes. We also work with SAP's Business Transformation Center. We have extensive experience of successful migrations using our PRISM solution. We work with all System Integrators and other consultancies on a daily basis to support S/4HANA migrations around the world. What are your next steps? Get started with a free system assessment. With our proprietary PRISM assessment, we analyse your systems through metadata from your current environments and give you the insights to make informed decisions.
Keep the parts of your on-premise system that work well, and discard the parts that are not supportive of your new goals.
Customize your SAP S/4HANA migration solution without re-building the entire system, while retaining options for historical data migration.
Change your landscapes (for example, split or consolidate existing systems) as part of your move to S/4HANA.
De-risk the migration process by minimizing business disruption when moving to SAP S/4HANA and related applications.
Take relevant historical data only, and retain a consistent process chain/document flows. Leave obsolete data behind.
Reduce and optimize technical downtime during go-live with proven software and methodologies.
Introduce new business processes and harmonize historical data during your journey to S/4HANA, while protecting good practices and previous investments like custom applications.
Get data minimization and anonymization as additional business value-adds, so your platform spend is reduced and you can focus on business process innovation.
Benefit from proven PRISM success with global clients, and from flexible, agile SAP S/4HANA-certified solutions used to perform the migration.
In 2023, SAP released the Business Transformation Center for their BTP platform, and this was their work done to try and help clients transition to S/4HANA more easily to give them selective options for moving data to S/4HANA. It's built on BTP in such a way that it's open to partner extensions so it can be extended and they recommend complementary partner solutions to enhance that technology and offer specialised services to execute it. BTP certainly makes it easier to take certain company codes and history to target S/4HANA platform. It's relatively new nascent technology so it's not very well proven or mature in some areas or for some selections of data, but it has an excellent blueprinting capability. So if you want to blueprint what data you'll take to S/4HANA, it's a particularly good platform for that. And we've been in the room in Walldorf coming over from the partner port where we're based since 2023 when they were first releasing it to talk about how to use it and how our solutions can enhance it as we already work in that state of data transition and transformation space for SAP clients. And now we're looking at how we integrate our growing suite of PRISM software solutions for transformation with BTC to give clients the best combination of technologies for their particular requirement. There are some things that BTC doesn't cover at all at the moment. Time slicing is new and hasn't yet been used by a client. Their shell copying solution isn't yet ready for productive usage and it won't do things like slicing industry specialist data or HR and Payroll data or time-slice non-core areas of SAP data as part of the transition. These are all things that our PRISM solutions do after decades of testing both in the test data and transformation space. But undoubtedly some aspects of BTC are very clever and they've integrated it with AI services on the BTP platform, which mean you can start to use AI to ask questions about your data selection and your reasons for doing the project. They've even started with a beta version of a data transition option selection technology on the BTP platform and this goes far beyond the scope of what Labs do. So we're looking at how to use the BTP and BTC platforms to help clients make decisions about their project, to blueprint a data transition design for a project, and then to use BTC for smaller scopes or company code slice selections, then to use our PRISM solutions which come at a bit of an extra cost to do more complex transformations or selections of data. You also need a partner solution for something more complicated like merging systems together or taking just master data and open items across the target landscape.
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