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Make your SAP S/4HANA migration simple

Accelerate your journey to the Intelligent Enterprise and make your migration to SAP S/4HANA simple and straight-forward with our global program and automated software tool.

SOLUTION

SOA People has created a straight-forward and pragmatic approach which takes you from your current situation to a full SAP S/4HANA landscape in short, simplified steps.

Our global SAP S/4HANA program, Ready2 Smart Migrate, has been launched with the aim of giving our customers a full end-to-end life cycle for their conversion.

Business case assisted generation
S/4HANA Factory Approach with nowdedicated migration support team and toolkits
5-step pathway to go live and beyond
SAP Qualified Packaged Solutions for greenfield, brownfield and selective approaches
Accelerated SAP S/4HANA conversion with the MIGNOW automation tool

About Ready2 Smart Migrate

Technology migrations are often considered complex, costly and lengthy. Now you have Ready2 Smart Migrate to maximise your value, optimise costs and inspire business performance.

Your SAP S/4HANA conversion timeframe will be drastically reduced with less failures thanks to our step-by-step approach which will deliver your SAP investment quickly and efficiently. And to ensure your success, our dedicated and skilled S/4HANA Factory, recognised by United VARs too, is entirely focused on SAP S/4HANA migrations supported by decades of SAP experience, methodology and processes to guarantee standardisation.

Unique automated analysis of your entire SAP system

Full lifecycle of migration roadmap and journey

Proof of value and benefits realisation

Reduced project time scales thanks to automation

Capabilities

Ready2 Smart Migrate offers optional steps and processes to ensure you make the right technology decisions for your business. Our programme is designed to give you the freedom, flexibility and tools to choose how much support you’ll require for your conversion:

Digital Transformation Workshop

Understanding the vision of your business and what is possible is central to adopting new technologies and tools that will drive the organisation. This digital transformation workshop provides the methodology and guidance to create your digital journey based on new technologies and solutions together with a roadmap with desired outcomes and tips on how to gain executive sponsorship.

Brainstorm the bigger picture, industry direction, your competition and current SAP capabilities.
Plan your journey over the 3-4 years with a roadmap, desired outcomes and tips on how to gain executive sponsorship
Understand the high-level cost-impact analysis

Technology Assessment with Performer

Your SAP migration should drive your business performance. But understanding the business impacts and tangible benefits of a migration may be a challenge for key stakeholders. Performer for SAP is a fact-based platform with KPI dashboard that will help shape your SAP S/4HANA roadmap for digital transformation. It will objectively propose features that you should consider together with estimated costs and expected value.

Strategically prioritise investments in alignment with your company’s strategy
Drive value from your project portfolio and ensure business goals are achieved
Deliver continuous business performance management

5-step approach

Getting the right solutions and support in place for your SAP technology will reduce the total cost of ownership and optimise overall business performance. Our 5-step approach mean that we can support you wherever you are on your transformation journey, from orientation, to budgeting and planning through to transitioning. Choose from one or all of the steps:

Step 1: a one-day workshop that provides an introduction to SAP S/4HANA, its architecture, functionality and technology features together with a live demo.
Step 2: Technical and functional assessments. The technical assessment will drill down into the actual system required, including proposed size, scope, modules and add-ons. A functional assessment will involve talking with your process owners to gain understanding of what they are hoping to achieve in the new system.
Step 3: Value discovery workshop and proof of value.
Step 4: Transition to SAP S/4HANA.
Step 5: Optimisation and continuous value management improvements following system go live.

SAP-Qualified Packages

Whether you want to convert your current ERP to SAP S/4HANA, you have budget restrictions or want a phased approach towards the Intelligent Enterprise, we are certain we have the right package for you.

For all migrations, SOA People provides a suite of pre-configured industry packages and add-ons across a wide range of sectors. These pre-defined package solutions are available for public cloud, private cloud and on premise.

For conversion packages for Brownfield and Selective, SOA People offers standard or extended package options to convert to SAP S/4HANA across 3-tier landscapes.

Discover in this flyer what's the right package for your journey

With 3 Package Options available: Proof of Concept, Standard and Extended, let our experience team help you choose the right route for you.

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Automated conversion and updates

Dramatically speed up your SAP S/4HANA transformation project with our automated software tool and remove labour-intensive processes. The MIGNOW automated software tool quickly converts your SAP ECC system to SAP S/4HANA using the latest data-driven techniques with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. And throughout your subscription the automated annual S/4HANA updates ensure you always stay a step ahead.

Know more about MIGNOW, the migration automation tool

Take your SAP S/4HANA transformation to a new level of speed and automation to deliver considerable cost savings and minimising risk.Dramatically speed up your SAP S/4HANA transformation
Automate the steps of your conversion and reduce labour intensive processes
Remove complexity with automated yearly updates to guarantee continuity
95 to 98% of ABAP and Custom Code automatically converted

SAP S/4HANA Factory Approach

The SOA People Factory has been designed to give you a fast, easy and optimised way of delivering SAP S/4HANA into your organisation. We want to make the whole process straight forward for you with our team of professional and experienced SAP Consultants on hand, ready to guide you through the transformation withclear methodology processes and End-to-end migration support tool kit.

Dedicated and skilled team purely focused on SAP S/4HANA migrations
Methodology and processes for standard migration approach
End-to-end migration support toolkit

About RISE with SAP

Discover the benefits of RISE with SAP, SAP’s latest offering that delivers Business Transformation as a Service under one single contract.

Watch Tamas Szirtes, our Group Innovation Director describe what it is and what it means for you.

Read the blog article: How RISE with SAP is guiding your business transformation journey

Q&A

Why move to SAP S/4HANA?

There is always a perception with technology that if it isn’t broken why change it? Apart from SAP ERP named ECC6 reaching end of life on 2027, it is normally specific business reasons that drives the migration onto the SAP S/4HANA platform:

Give your users a mobile enabled experience – with many new functions and features from SAP Fiori to help them do their job faster and easier
Connects you to people, devices, business networks and big data in real time, to do things previously unimagined
Allows you to run all processes in real time, eliminating batch processing
Enables you to conduct powerful predictive analytics and simulations based on live real-time data, empowering immediate decision in your executive meetings
Speeds up deployment with on premise, managed cloud and public cloud editions combined

What approach is right to move to SAP S/4HANA?

We recommend firstly migrating to SAP S/4HANA from a technical and software perspective. Once achieved we can delve deeper into the more functional improvements that need to be made to get the most out of the system.

This gradual approach is popular and enables you to build your foundations, control the risk and manage your business processes. It also works well with global organisations that have different systems operating across multiple countries.

To support the business case for your move to SAP S/4HANA and the best scenario to apply we can run an assessment workshop delivered by proven experts to understand your SAP landscape and the impact on your business.

Know more about our workshop: Plan and Prepare your Migration now

Brownfield or Greenfield approach?

Some companies do decide on a Greenfield approach where they completely re-engineer their systems. Although this approach can bring many potential benefits such as faster time to innovation, it is a major undertaking and can present a number of change management challenges.

Taking a Brownfield approach enables you to convert to SAP S/4HANA by building on your existing SAP environment without re-implementation or disruption to your existing business processes.

Customer Stories

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Galler

Accelerated conversion to SAP S/4HANA means minimal disruption

SOA People help Galler carry out a brownfield technical conversion to SAP S/4HANA, deploying the MIGNOW automation software tool to make the conversion rapid and accurate to avoid disruption to its operations.

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MEGA Gruppe

How Mega Gruppe made the journey to SAP S/4HANA

Mega Gruppe asked SOA People to transform the business and start the journey to become an Intelligent Enterprise. Its migration to SAP S/4HANA will digitise processes, drive growth and has the best technology for the future.

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Professional Services

a.s.r Real Estate

a.s.r. Real Estate transforms its data warehousing with SAP HANA

SOA People recommends an SAP HANA migration to support a.s.r.’s data warehousing and reporting. a.s.r uses the SAP Business Objects dashboard to provide state-of-the-art real-time data enabling better decision making.

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Aliphos

SAP HANA delivers real-time data on business performance

SOA People carries out a complex, multistage migration to SAP HANA to help simplify Aliphos SAP systems across multiple countries and to improve management information for effective decision making.

Resources

Top 15 Lessons Learned from over 20 customer conversions to S/4HANA

A number of our customers are focusing on what value their SAP systems are delivering to help overcome these challenges and embrace new ways of working.