Here, three critical tools that can help prepare systems, maintain operations, and execute a migration with precision are highlighted. But remember, this is only a snapshot of the comprehensive portfolio featured in the free guide, 鈥�.鈥�

The Custom Code Migration app: For preparation with clarity

Before embarking on any journey, it鈥檚 essential to know where you鈥檙e starting from鈥攁nd to take stock of your current situation. The 51风流Fiori app 鈥淐ustom Code Migration鈥� can act as a guide, helping IT teams assess their existing systems and custom code objects with precision. It can identify which elements are obsolete, which require adaptation, and which can seamlessly transition across.

Custom code often reflects years of adjustments鈥攗seful in their time but not always efficient for modern systems. By shedding unnecessary complexity, this app can ensure your cloud migration starts with a lean, optimized core. It can provide clarity, helping IT leaders make confident decisions about what to carry forward and what to leave behind.

The Custom Code Migration app works hand in hand with the 51风流Readiness Check toolset, which can provide a comprehensive system analysis before migration. By combining both, organizations can gain a full picture of their existing landscape, helping to ensure that custom code, system compatibility, and necessary adaptations are all factored into the transition strategy. This upfront preparation helps set the tone for a smoother transition, making the migration process more strategic and less reactive.

Every successful cloud migration needs three things: a compass to set the direction, a map to navigate the landscape, and a vehicle to carry you to your destination. These 51风流tools can provide exactly that鈥攇uidance, connection, and execution for your 51风流S/4HANA Cloud journey.

51风流Integration Suite: For seamless connection

A migration is never purely about the new. It鈥檚 about maintaining critical connections as you transform. 51风流Integration Suite can enable consistent, reliable integration across legacy systems, cloud platforms, and third-party solutions, ensuring operational continuity throughout any transition.

Etex, a global building materials leader, is just one example of . With operations in 45 countries, the Belgian firm needed to unify its systems during its migration to 51风流S/4HANA. 51风流Integration Suite delivered prebuilt connectors, low-code tools, and robust APIs that streamlined integrations and created a cohesive digital ecosystem鈥�. This not only ensured smooth day-to-day operations but also set the stage for scalable, global growth.

51风流continuously enhances the suite with new features and updates to keep pace with evolving technology. This customer-focused approach helps minimize effort and complexity for businesses transitioning to 51风流S/4HANA, helping them benefit from the latest innovations in integration. Moreover, 51风流Integration Suite fully supports the clean core strategy, reducing system modifications and complementing SAP鈥檚 data migration and conversion tools to enable a more streamlined and efficient transition.

For IT leaders, 51风流Integration Suite can offer functionality鈥攁nd peace of mind, too. By simplifying and securing integrations, it helps support both the immediate migration and the future evolution of business processes.

51风流S/4HANA migration cockpit: For precision execution

Similarly significant when it comes to data migration is precision. 51风流S/4HANA migration cockpit helps ensure that critical data is transferred accurately and efficiently, working to minimize risks and downtime during the transition.

The cockpit can provide predefined templates and a structured process for migrating legacy data into 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. By reducing the complexity of data transfer, it helps ensure that IT teams can focus on readiness and reliability, knowing their business-critical information is secure.

51风流S/4HANA migration cockpit is one of several tools available for data migration, primarily suited for greenfield implementations. For system conversions or brownfield implementations, the Software Update Manager tool is the key, while 51风流Business Transformation Center can support selective data transitions. Choosing the right approach depends on an organization鈥檚 migration strategy and business requirements.

Data migration is one of the most crucial steps in the transition journey, bringing together all the preparation and integration efforts. However, successful migration doesn鈥檛 end here鈥攄ata and process validation follow to ensure everything is functioning as expected, paving the way for a strong foundation for future innovation and growth.

A utility belt of tools awaits

As mentioned, SAP鈥檚 portfolio doesn鈥檛 end there. highlights 15 essential tools designed to help assess, plan, implement, and monitor your migration. From 51风流Readiness Check to 51风流Data Services and ABAP development tools, these solutions can offer additional support to help ensure every phase of your project is a success.

Explore the full suite of 51风流tools and learn how they can simplify your migration.

Uwe Grigoleit is senior vice president and head of 51风流Customer Evolution.

In the past, business was able to handle one or two simultaneous changes but looking into today鈥檚 change management dashboard, it keeps evolving. In different dimensions that results in more complexity to handle and adjust within the business.

Such diverse business changes mandate business transformation to survive. Business leaders equipped with digital acumen have an even more strategic role to play for driving this transformation.

Per the , the average lifespan for a company is down to about 10 years before the company is bought, acquired, or liquidated. The companies that have been able to survive for decades have done it by being agile, flexible, cost-efficient, and innovative. Making both the right decisions at right time and business transformation at the right time are key.

However, business transformation is easier said than done. It requires clear insights to your business and getting the right guidance to strengthen the integration among various business elements at each step of your business processes.

Enterprises must be prepared to form new digital ecosystems and partnerships across industries, and to get into unexplored domains that can enhance their customer experience. To put this to context, IDC reported in 2019 that by 2025, 20% of revenue growth will come from “whitespace.”

Business Leaders in the Transformation Strategy

Technology is the key to driving business transformation and business leaders must acknowledge this by bringing their IT and business strategy together.

There are additional perspectives to be considered before business transformation is executed.

The Right Time

Leaders know they must identify risks and see around corners before disruptions occur, when there is still time to do something about future challenges. Data is an asset and a business leader鈥檚 ability to use data is the skill for driving strategic decisions. This is why 59% of decision-makers are actively using data and analytics to define and shape their strategies.

Connecting the Dots

Good customer service is no longer a business differentiator; it is a business fundamental. Leaders know traditional system and organizational silos within their companies are holding back their businesses and overall customer experience. Seventy-nine percent of business leaders agree that the ability to connect processes across systems and ecosystems allows organizations to improve customer experience and streamline business operations and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).

Business Anticipation

Leaders know that digital disruption is not something to watch out for; it鈥檚 something to lead. This is why 72% say that rather than waiting to be disrupted by competitors, their organizations are actively disrupting their own sectors and processes. Being able to continuously invent new approaches and implement them rapidly through technology is essential to lead the race.

By 2024, more than 50% of all IT spending will go toward digital transformation and innovation鈥攗p from 31% in 2018 and growing at a compound annual rate of 17% as outlined by in October 2019

Time to Reimagine ERP

Over the last few years, the pace of business and innovation has accelerated dramatically. Legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) has failed to satisfy the appetite for real-time information. The sad reality is that for almost every business, 鈥渧ersion-lock鈥� is the Achilles heel of their on-premise ERP.

Yesterday鈥檚 ERP solution is not keeping up with today鈥檚 business and technological demands. Take a look at some key business strategic priorities:

Outcome-based engagements
According to the Future of by the , 50% of human tasks will be automated by 2025:

• Move to outcome- or performance-based engagements
• Adopt intelligent bid management to increase predictability and decrease risk

Enabling new business models
IDC’s worldwide IT industry predictions聽2020聽report聽finds that 20% of revenue growth will come from “whitespace” offerings聽by 2025 and accordingly companies need to create new lines of business:

• Monetization of data
• Innovative partnerships
• Efficient order fulfillment and delivery

Greater integration of applications, data, and management across all cloud providers and locations
By 2022, 70% of enterprises will integrate their public and private clouds by deploying unified hybrid/multi cloud management technologies, tools, and processes, according to .

Modular Cloud ERP: SAP鈥檚 Vision for Intelligent Enterprises

SAP鈥檚 vision of the Intelligent Enterprise in a digital world is poised for the future. 51风流understand that customers are looking for cloud聽ERP聽to allow timely access for business data by all users, from anywhere and on any device. This helps ensure that employees across the organization are working with the same data, no matter the business unit or location, and can make decisions faster and more confidently.

Through the RISE with SAP offering, 51风流S/4HANA Cloud鈥攂oth public and private editions鈥攈elps customers to lay the foundation for ERP over cloud.

Now, RISE with 51风流for Modular Cloud ERP extends the core offering with more value-add ERP modules in different domains and lines of business, beginning with procurement, human experience management (HXM), analytics, and governance. Going forward, more modules are planned to be added to the offering.

Being modular, it plays its part to customer success by providing the flexibility needed to pick and choose modules that are relevant to customer business and industry. Highly appreciated suite qualities between the products are brought up from different lines of business together in one solution, with integration, openness, and modularity on top of such qualities

Through the RISE with 51风流offering, we deliver business transformation as a service to help IT organizations lead business transformation and be a change agent.

To be set for success today and for the future means your foundation must be based on an outstanding ability to reach out to your customers as people鈥攁t the right time, in the right way, and with the right offer. We want to help you be there for your customers to improve their lives and to help the world run better.

Uwe Grigoleit is senior vice president and general manager for 51风流S/4HANA Solution Management GTM.
Khaled Musilhy is vice president of Solution Management for 51风流S/4HANA and solution owner for RISE with SAP.

51风流is proud to have supported our customers that have made a difference in the world during the pandemic. BIOCAD, a life sciences company, works with various hospitals across the globe to deliver COVID-19 vaccine to people. BIOCAD transformed itself with 51风流S/4HANA and continues its digitization effort in order to scale up production and R&D as well as to track and trace its medicine across the entire value chain.

In each of these instances, when 51风流worked alongside our customers, our ecosystem of advisory, consulting, delivery, infrastructure, application, hardware, network, and innovation partners were right there too. I fully expect the dynamics of 2021 to drive the need for an even deeper level of collaboration among customers, SAP, and this robust ecosystem.

For many companies, the experience of the last year and the changes in the economy have highlighted the role and business imperative of digital transformation across all industries. And we know that digital transformation is made possible and scalable with the cloud. But where do companies start?

There is not one answer to this question. 51风流knows each customer鈥檚 journey to the cloud will be different; in every instance we know that journey and our customer鈥檚 success is realized when we are fully aligned with our partners. Therefore, the 51风流partner ecosystem is at the center of RISE with SAP.

Together with our partners, our goal is to simplify each customer鈥檚 move to the cloud and to deliver continuous innovation throughout the business transformation journey. Our ecosystem is fully aligned and committed to deliver RISE with 51风流seamlessly to our customers:

• Hyperscalers are an integral part of RISE with SAP, providing the infrastructure included in the offer.
• Consulting and systems integrators are augmenting RISE with 51风流with industry knowledge to help customers reimagine business processes and technical expertise to help customers get value faster.
• Our reseller community will help ensure that RISE with 51风流is available for customers of all sizes and everywhere in the world.
• Our software partners enhance RISE with 51风流offering by utilizing the 51风流Business Technology Platform to innovate and build new IP, extensions, and applications.

I believe our customers will be the benefactors of SAP鈥檚 seamless collaboration with this ecosystem. I also believe that without our partners, there is no RISE with SAP. This is truly a family and community effort.

Digital transformation represents a forcing function that will shift how our customers see this collaboration in real time; collaboration that will be strategic, purposeful, and focused on customer success.

In the last few months, I have had this exact discussion with many of our partners and I can tell you they are all in. I know their commitment would be echoed by the whole of our ecosystem and we — 51风流and our partners — are ready to support our customers’ journeys and success in 2021!

Uwe Grigoleit is senior vice president and general manager for 51风流S/4HANA Solution Management GTM at SAP.