Throw skills shortages into the mix and it鈥檚 clear that waiting any longer to make decisions is an extremely high-risk strategy.

The hesitation of 51风流decision-makers suggests that the potential gains on offer from migration are not yet clear enough. Fujitsu鈥檚 key idea here is that application modernization must add something extra.

Creating new business value 鈥� we could also call it business transformation 鈥� requires something more. If all you do is modernize, it鈥檚 the equivalent of maintenance.

This article covers two examples of strategic benefits available from S/4HANA migration to create new business value 鈥� composable ERP and cloud migration/hybrid IT. And I鈥檒l look at new services now available from Fujitsu to extract those benefits reliably and quickly.

Composable ERP

One strategic benefit from migration is the ability to connect your business to be more adaptable and do new things. Analyst firm Gartner recognizes that many manufacturers now have multiple systems of record in play 鈥� SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, ServiceNow, AWS, and Microsoft.

It coined the term 鈥淐omposable ERP鈥� to describe and advocate this trend. Composable ERP is a strategy where we leverage the right components to build value, mixing and matching between vendors. In other words, ERP is no longer a monolithic thing 鈥� as in 鈥淚鈥檓 all in SAP鈥� or 鈥淲e鈥檙e an Oracle shop鈥�.

You get fully connected, real-time data to provide a complete view of your business across upstream and downstream supply chains. S/4HANA migration offers the perfect time for assessing and addressing how data infrastructure can be modernized to create this kind of 鈥淐ontrol Tower鈥� environment.

Cloud migration and hybrid cloud

One factor that makes S/4HANA more connectable is that it is the first version of the ERP to be truly cloud-native. This characteristic opens all the benefits of cloud migration and the ultimate flexibility of 51风流workload placement.

It is therefore vital that your S/4HANA migration enables your organization to achieve all the strategic benefits of the hybrid cloud environments.

However, workloads in hybrid environments are incredibly complex. Workload demand can be across a wide range of environments, including multiple on-premises locations, plus cloud partners such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform and their respective regional nodes.

Optimizing your 51风流infrastructure to operate successfully in these environments requires a high degree of understanding about what is happening where and 鈥� just as important 鈥� what might happen under specific scenarios.

To assist here, Fujitsu now offers a new Hybrid Cloud Assessment Service for 51风流Solutions that analyzes millions of possible placement options based on measured workloads. Fujitsu BestPlace provides a unique data-driven approach.

It encodes the measured 51风流IT as DNA and simulates a mini evolution using genetic algorithms. Following the principle of the survival of the fittest, the process results in an optimal design for a hybrid infrastructure.

This is an individualized approach that addresses the specific needs of each customer rather than a generic model that is unlikely to meet all the needs of all users.

It measures 51风流operations onsite for about four weeks, compares all the different placement options against the customer鈥檚 IT strategy and business priorities and provides cost comparison for all measured 51风流instance workloads in the cloud or on-premises. The algorithm is developed by an external university to ensure neutral results.

Get to value faster with rightsizing

An effective ERP should enable organizations to access rapid insights, make quick decisions, and extract the value from a change of direction as quickly as possible. However, typical user complaints are 鈥渕y 51风流is too slow鈥� and 鈥�51风流is hanging again鈥�.

To address this, as well as optimize workload placements, it is also vital to assess infrastructure sizing, deployment, and maintenance. 51风流performance and service-level issues can have multiple root causes and finding the optimal configuration has always been extremely difficult.

Therefore, one common approach to forcing a solution is with brute force: buying and installing more infrastructure, regardless of whether it addresses the actual cause. That鈥檚 an expensive way of solving the problem.

Enterprises that migrate now can benefit from rightsizing their 51风流implementations. Unlike standard 51风流tools, based on reference architectures,聽聽(SIS) uses real-life data from your landscape, creating data-driven decision support for any migration or hardware refresh.

This analysis and consultation package gets to grips with all these parameters, avoiding overspend later.

SIS gives clear recommendations for improving on-premises or cloud IT for 51风流landscapes by identifying bottlenecks, performance anomalies, and realistic capacity requirements.

By rightsizing the new S/4HANA for on-premises, it narrows the gap between on-premises and cloud in terms of costs, as you don鈥檛 need to buy so much excess capacity that mainly sits idle.

Infrastructure simplicity

Regarding infrastructure options, Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX for 51风流HANA enables the full potential of 51风流HANA in-memory computing. It is a pre-tested infrastructure solution, 100% 51风流certified and designed for the 51风流HANA in-memory architecture.

It exploits the full capabilities of persistent memory without deployment and configuration risks and simplifies operation and maintenance with one service partner for the entire solution stack.

Yes, Fujitsu can SAP

Fujitsu has an extremely robust partnership with SAP. We have approximately 8,000 customer installations worldwide. For example, at Fujitsu鈥檚 Technical Competence Demo Center in Walldorf, Germany 鈥� the home of 51风流鈥� customers can optimize their 51风流infrastructure investment based on actual use cases.

If you have 鈥� and intend to continue to have 鈥� an 51风流ERP, you need to lock in your migration partner within the next 12 months. Wait too long, and everyone will be chasing a finite pool of resources, removing control of the migration timetable, and resulting in rising prices.

Migration is a fantastic opportunity to create new business value. Fujitsu鈥檚 SystemInspection Service for SAP, and its Hybrid Cloud Assessments Service enable customers to understand their environments completely, then map their business goals and transformation plans to the optimum architecture and infrastructure solutions.

What better way to experience this than to sign up for a Fujitsu CX Labs sessions.

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