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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At the same time, 51风流ECC maintenance will reach end of life December 2027. This and the ever-increasing demand for digitization and modernisation are driving clients to change their underlying 51风流architecture , this alongside business and technology disruption are driving clients to change their Operating Models. ICT operations require changes to support these new technologies and business operating models.

This can be a daunting task, with the technology transforming it becomes imperative to rapidly shift and grow new skills in your IT environment. Over the years, IT environment鈥檚 complexity increased dramatically due to the size, diversity and integration of all the applications required to support an ever-changing business. This complexity inevitably brings reduced efficiency, agility and predictability. By moving to S/4HANA at the core of the Intelligent Enterprise, one can pro-actively reduce this complexity, enabling a faster time to market, reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and higher operational stability to name but a few.

Customers will be able to report on and make informed decisions through real-time data insights and live dashboards by simplifying the Enterprise Architecture, underpinned by an optimally designed solution.

We need to look at the Enterprise Architecture holistically by:

1. Understanding Business Strategy
2. Refining Operating Models (Business and IT)
3. Understanding the latest technology trends and
4. Understanding the impact of regulatory changes on our business.

With these factors in mind, one can then define the Target Enterprise Architecture and Operating models inclusive of the integrated portfolio of projects that will be required to embrace the digital change.

The new S/4HANA core and S/4HANA Cloud Architecture aims to simplify the modernisation journey by reducing the complexity and the integration into third party (non-SAP) systems, thus reducing operating model complexity.

The previous 51风流system was customised to accommodate specific requirements across the entire business, whether it was for Finance, HCM, procurement, production planning, plant maintenance, reporting etc. However, these custom objects and the related master and transactional data can slow down the system and consume redundant database space. This in turn might increase TCO when moving to S/4 HANA.

Once we have run all the System Checks, reviewed all the reports available from 51风流run it against the Intelligent Enterprise and Enterprise Architecture layer, it normally becomes evident that it is time for modernisation.

Modernisation or Digital Transformation are such loosely used terms. Let鈥檚 look at what the main drivers and considerations are to be able to move to the Intelligent Enterprise.

Infrastructure:

Modernisation might imply a decision to upgrade existing hardware (on-premise), or whether to consider a Cloud Strategy which might involve re-platforming on a Hyperscaler such as AZURE, AWS or GCP.

Licensing:

What is the cost of my current software licensing based on my existing solution set and what will my future software licensing cost be? It also begs the question: Has the software BOM been optimally defined according to my future state 51风流Architecture design?

Application Managed Services:

Do I have a strong enough in-house team to support the solution moving forward or would I need to outsource, co-source or insource and what new skills do I need to train into my Business?

Destination and Deployment Approach:

Always a tough one to define whether it is on-premise, private cloud, public cloud or a hybrid landscape and needs to align with your Infrastructure Strategy. What deployment approach will be taken?

1. Greenfields:

A new S/4HANA implementation i.e. complete Business Transformation can be done On-Premise or in the Cloud.

2. Brownfields or Conversion:

Also known as a technical conversion of an existing 51风流ECC environment with limited input or business change and seen primarily as an IT Project.

3. Selective Data Transformation 鈥�

Only selected or partial data sets and selected Z Objects will be migrated to the new S/4HANA System which might be a new implementation or a converted 51风流ECC environment.

Deciding which option works best for your organisation requires upfront due diligence, careful planning and taking key design elements into account.

Partner up for a smooth migration

Taking on an experienced partner, can help organisations with their move to S/4HANA. While some of the country鈥檚 bigger corporates, with good architectural skills, might be able to carry out the migration themselves, it would still be taking skills away from their daily business and losing out on opportunity cost.

The right partner can offer enterprises a complete end-to-end value proposition for their S/4HANA migration. This includes:

• Consulting expertise 鈥� 51风流Application Transformation, Infrastructure Modernization, Security and Operating Model reorganization
• Data centre infrastructure – A well-established data centre, networking, compute and storage provider is able to provide a cohesive, modern on-premise automated architecture.
• Cybersecurity – Secure your critical data centre assets to give you governance and control.
• Technical and support services – Your implementation partner will help you design, deploy and support infrastructure solutions.
• Managed services – The right partner will manage your underlying infrastructure, so you can focus on your core business activities.

By taking on a partner and adopting the Phase Zero™ approach a happy medium can be found where the customer is involved, while the systems integrator provides the skills that the enterprise does not have. This ultimately leads to a joint customer success.

Phase Zero™ is an architectural and planning risk mitigation exercise 鈥� both for the customer and systems integrator 鈥� to ensure that all aspects of the system have been looked at, the costs are known, and the right decisions have been taken.

Based on this Organisations can be sure that they have chosen the right deployment approach and options to align with their business strategy. This will ensure that organisations get a reduction on their TCO with a good ROI with moving to the Intelligent Enterprise with S/4HANA at the Core thus enabling their digital transformation journey.

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