Prepare your business for SAP S/4HANA Espresso Webcast Recap
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This was a webcast SAP gave last week
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Data Cleansing
“Start preparing your data early for a smooth migration”
Prepare your system; it depends on your scenario – greenfield, etc.
Start thinking of data quality before the migration
SAP said “Challenges: Master Data is often fragmented in isolated data silos”
Different divisions; it is “essential to get transparency of data records before migration”
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Understand your current master data; example is moving to the business partner model
Standardize and improve; consolidate distributed master data
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Verify quality of master data, rules to apply to data, to get an assessment
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Data Services can enrich and cleanse the information
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“Consolidate” master data governance with MDG
Check for duplicate records across the system
What is the “golden record”
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SAP Data Quality Management checks your data, structure and cleansing of data elements
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Ensure only data domain users are creating master data
Data Archiving
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Challenge of preparing the database to move to S/4HANA
What you could prepare and 80% unstructured, most are documents, possible to cleanse database
Look at GOS attachments to see if in database
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Check to see if you have documents in database
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If you have 2TB and 1 million GOS attachments you can save 600GB, 114GB archiving GOS saving
1.2TB HANA in memory database, $434K
I ran out of time and didn’t cover process intelligence – fee free to watch the recording and review the presentation.
In case you want to watch some of the S/4HANA online SAP TechEd Replays from last week – start with this one:
SAP S/4HANA – The Next-Generation, Intelligent ERP in the Cloud
In this, here are some of the key points:
- Public cloud – quarterly updates
- Take customizations out of core
- Build customizations in SAP Cloud Platform via API’s
- Fiori on user experience
- Guided and self-service UI’s
- Cloud service is “pushed innovation”