S/4HANA migration with Avantra

How to pull off the biggest SAP project of your career with confidence

December 31, 2027 – Every single person in the SAP ecosystem knows the date and it’s stuck in the back of their minds. SAP is drawing the line in the sand and stating all SAP environments need to be converted to S/4HANA. Of course there is always the consideration that SAP will push that date out, they’ve been known to do that in the past, but many people are skeptical that it will be pushed again.

So here we sit, watching the years dwindle by, knowing we need to take action. And we all know, an S/4HANA migration is not an overnight activity, but is probably going to take years to plan and execute.

It’s probably going to disrupt the business in some shape or form and it’s not going to be easy or cheap.

The planning stages of this process are deeply important. The organization will be considering if they’ll be doing a ‘greenfield’ installation, in other words standing up a net new environment; a ‘brownfield’ approach, migrating existing data; or a bluefield approach, pretty much a hybrid of the other two.

For some organizations the S/4HANA migration is the correct time to migrate their systems out of a datacenter and into a cloud, limiting the amount of business interruptions. Whether that is the case or not, the SAP engineering team is going to be busy properly architecting the final solution.

On top of all of this, there will be timelines to manage, training to complete across the business, mapping the new system to possible legacy environments, trial migrations – the list goes on and on.

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