Through planning for S/4HANA with my customers, I've come across two key questions all SAP customers should take into account in preparing for their S/4 deployments:
Many customers thus far have opted for greenfield implementations, deploying "clean" S/4HANA 1511 environments alongside existing ECC environments. Greenfield deployments provide some distinct advantages over conversion:
On the other hand, there are also advantages to cutting the cord to ECC and going through an ECC conversion to S/4:
There is no right or wrong path to S/4 -- both greenfield and ECC conversion are viable options. Your decision should center on how much innovation your organization is ready to take on and your ability to support organizational change management around this innovation.
Of course, there are other starting points in the path to S/4 aside from ECC 6.0 on AnyDB. In the first few years since HANA's introduction to the marketplace, many customers have completed an OS/DB migration of ECC from AnyOS/AnyDB to Linux/HANA. If you are running ECC on HANA (ECCoH) and are considering an S/4 conversion, the key changes you will face are the new code base and functional changes inherent to S/4. Or, if you are running ECCoH with Simple Finance (i.e., S/4HANA 1503), converting to 1511 or any release that entails the S/4 core will primarily impact your logistics business.
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Laura Mikovsky, MBA, Ph.D.
SAP Client Partner and advocate of running simple with SAP Services and Support
twitter: (@lauramikovsky)
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