Change is the only constant in the fast-shifting realm of enterprise management applications. Companies must continuously update and upgrade their ERP stack to stay nimble and competitive in today’s Digital Economy. Nevertheless, crossover to a postmodern ERP system can be a complex decision.
Therefore, while SAP has already announced a support sunset date for the SAP ECC system by 2027, it is understandable if you are still a bit double-minded about the future of your ERP installation.
Are You Equipped for The Next?
As an enterprise customer, irrespective of your sector, we feel that you should be availing of reliable SAP S/4HANA Migration Services sooner rather than later. Why? Because as your industry peers increasingly embrace next generation ERP products, procrastination will likely push you further behind the curve, eroding your strategic advantage.
However, you need not stay in the slow lane of growth when you can experience an unmatched Digital Presence by migrating to SAP S4/HANA Services that most ERP packages available in the market today can barely guarantee. While the promises of SAP S4/HANA Services are diverse and outstanding, you can confidently expect:
A much easier shift in business models and practices: While your SAP ECC stack has performed optimally till now, the fact remains that it has been designed to meet the business realities of the yesteryears. However, as the global economic scenarios shift, influenced by multiple factors, including advancing technologies, evolving customer expectations, growing regulatory oversight, and extreme supply chain disruptions, your business models and practices must change to keep pace.
As a postmodern ERP, SAP S4/HANA Services is agile enough to accommodate unorthodox business models and practices, letting you meet such challenges head-on and reinvent the way you drive your organization. For instance, SAP S4/HANA Services supports a Two-Tier ERP approach, allowing you to maintain the traditional and more stable aspects of your business technology stack on-premises while deploying disruptive innovations and newly acquired assets in the cloud.
Optimized Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): SAP ECC has been designed as an on-premises solution, requiring substantial upfront capital commitments in infrastructure setup and maintenance. On the other hand, SAP S/4HANA is available for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments, allowing you to extract peak performance and service availability while strategically managing your TCO.
For instance, with the cloud-native SAP S4/HANA Services, you can consume advanced ERP capabilities at a predictable, per-user subscription, effectively bypassing the recurring cost of continuously upgrading the bare metal infrastructure on-premises, hiring an IT team to handle it, or undertaking periodic investments on application licenses, patches, and security.
Reduced time-to-insights: SAP ECC was built to run on various third-party databases like Oracle, IBM, and MaxDB. However, SAP S/4HANA Services has been conceived to operate exclusively on the proprietary SAP HANA in-memory database technology, unmatched in terms of speed and efficiency. It stores and processes warm or frequently used data in the memory, delivering performance miles ahead of the conventional, disk-based data systems, resulting into faster analytics.
In fact, SAP HANA is architected to converge OLTP and OLAP, supporting a wide range of advanced analytics use cases from predictive analytics, spatial data processing, and streaming analytics to graph data processing and includes ETL capabilities. Consequently, running on SAP HANA as a single source of truth, SAP S/4HANA Services equips your leaders with the insights to make confident business decisions in real-time.
Smoother adoption of intelligent technologies: SAP S/4HANA Services comes equipped with the latest advances in AI, Machine Learning, and Process Automation, enabling sharper situational awareness, improved operational control, and an ability to achieve more with finite resources. For instance, powered by AI and Machine Learning, SAP S/4HANA Services set us for advanced modeling, prediction, and forecasting capabilities.
The Universal Data Element Framework allows you to weave together historical transactional data, third-party factors, and other dependencies to accurately predict the magnitude of variables like demand, inventory size, and operational costs.
Also, with intelligent automation, SAP S/4HANA Services empowers you to accelerate repetitive tasks like account reconciliation, leading to faster period-end closures. With SAP S/4HANA Services, you can settle transactions in real-time and generate reports on-demand, gaining complete visibility into the financial positioning of your business.
Final Note
SAP S/4HANA Services indeed have much to offer for future-focussed businesses. However, much still depends upon a reliable SAP S/4HANA Migration Services partner that brings in the right industry experience and the technical acumen to minimize the gap between expectations and the delivery of an ERP migration project.
Comprehending this, at Percipere, as an SAP Gold Partner, we have differentiated our SAP S/4HANA Migration Services using industry-leading technical expertise and a rich trove of exposure to real-world use cases of our global clientele, including Fortune 500 organizations.
What have we learned, and how can we help your business? We invite you to connect and find out in a one-on-one discovery workshop with our certified SAP S/4HANA Services consultants.
Author: Percipere
