Heidelberg, Germany | Singapore | Sydney, Australia, August 5, 2021 – Think180 Pty Ltd., a leading SAP Silver Partner headquartered in Australia, has signed a Silver Partnership deal with SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE (SNP SE), a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations, to license and distribute SNP software in the strategic and fastest growing Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

The alliance combines the business focused expertise of Think180’s SAP specialization with SNP’s software centric data transformation platform CrystalBridge® and selective data migration approach SNP BLUEFIELD, that flexibly combines the best of Greenfield (new implementation) and Brownfield (system conversion) approaches.

This will offer a repeatable factory tactic for accelerated SAP transformation in business-critical scenarios such as SAP S/4HANA, cloud migrations, mergers & acquisitions, carve-outs, interface discovery or operational transfer pricing amongst others. The packaged solution bundled with one-stop shop end-to-end software plus service aims to reduce enterprises’ total cost of ownership and offer a faster ROI on their projects in the region.

John Schultz, CEO, Think180, Australia, said, “We are excited to join forces with SNP’s automated software-based approach taking our SAP business enablement expertise to the next level in the Asia Pacific region. We have a long history of delivering our clients SAP solutions that transform business processes, drive new thinking, and utilize the latest technologies. Our partnership with SNP provides our valued clients with a new dimension of fast, secure and low-risk standardized SAP transformations, targeting the small and medium size enterprises segment apart from SAP’s general business and large enterprise segment in the region. With a full visualization of the entire SAP ERP system and flexible simulation of various SAP transformation scenarios through CrystalBridge®, we will be able to offer selective data and process optimizations and simultaneously combine multiple projects into a single go-live, thus ensuring faster ROI with minimal business disruption.”

In an official announcement, Gerald Faust, Managing Director & CEO, Asia Pacific and Middle East, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., added, “SNP’s strategic focus on the promising and fastest growing APAC region* in SAP transformations is reinforced with our partnership with Think180 Australia‘s proficiency in delivering clients’ business focused SAP solutions. Driven by our synergies for innovative software centric SAP transformations, our factory approach offers a simple, predictable, and reliable package designed to map diverse scenarios even with varying complexities. With our well-established successful competency in delivering several end-to-end SAP landscape transformation projects such as S/4HANA, Cloud migration, merger and carve-out in the APAC region with speed, agility, minimum downtime, reduced risk and costs, we are excited to work with Think180 for our clients on their journey to become an intelligent enterprise.”

Learn more in the whitepaper Remote Migration – Switch to SAP S/4HANA at any time

Source: *Asia-Pacific remains one of the fastest growing regions for wealth with 168,567 UHNWIs expected by 2025 (knightfrank.com.sg)

About Think180 Pty Ltd.

Think180 are SAP Asset, Work and Project Specialists, optimising your business through intelligent solutions and processes.

Using smart technology like machine learning, in conjunction with SAP technologies, Think180 uncovers intelligent solutions that drive indisputable process efficiencies. Our intelligent, 180-degree way of thinking allows us to solve all your challenges across work execution, asset management, project management, regulatory compliance, analytics, managed services and intelligent migrations and conversions.

We have been solving client challenges Australia wide for over twelve years. Our empathetic and highly-skilled team are totally understanding of your frustrations and will deliver an exceptional customer experience while solving the problem at hand.

For more information, visit: Think180 » SAP Silver Partner in Adelaide, South Australia

About SNP

SNP is a world-leading provider of software for managing complex digital transformation processes. Instead of traditional IT consulting in the ERP environment, SNP offers an automated approach using specially developed software: The Data Transformation Platform CrystalBridge^(R) and the SNP BLUEFIELD^TM approach allow companies to restructure and modernize their IT landscapes much more quickly and securely as well as migrate to new systems or cloud environments more securely. This gives customers clear qualitative advantages while at the same time reducing their time and costs.

The SNP Group has around 1,600 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 144 million in the 2020 fiscal year. It serves multinational companies in all industries. SNP was established in 1994, went public in 2000, and has been listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since August 2014 (ISIN DE0007203705). Since 2017, the company has been trading as a European company (Societas Europaea/SE).

More information is available at www.snpgroup.com

This article is sponsored by SNP

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Heidelberg, Germany | Singapore | Bangkok, Thailand, June 16, 2021 – Nexus, a leading SAP consulting partner and reseller in Southeast Asia, has signed a Silver Partnership deal with SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE (the SNP Group), a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations, to license and distribute SNP software in the fast-growing Indochina market in Asia. The alliance will focus on SAP^® S/4HANA and SAP move to cloud transformations, among others.

The partnership has also successfully launched a strategic SAP transformation project with HomePro, a large home improvement retailer in Thailand. Nexus and SNP’s automated software approach powered by CrystalBridge^® is the key driver in HomePro’s digital transformation strategy to move to SAP Suite on HANA with the near-zero downtime methodology in just a few months – achieving HomePro’s business goals as an innovative leader in the retail industry in the region. The SAP data and landscape transformation is projected to provide a stable and flexible foundation platform to support HomePro’s growth, delivering an upgrade with minimal impact to the business while empowering real-time data analytics and omni-channel capability.

Padoongkiat Apichaidejudom, Chief Executive Officer, Nexus System Resources Company Limited, Thailand, said, “We are excited that together with SNP’s automated software-based approach, we can deliver fast, secure and low-risk SAP projects to our customers. With a visualization of the entire SAP ERP system and flexible simulation of various SAP transformation scenarios through CrystalBridge^®, we are able to offer real-time analytics, selective data and process harmonization, and the ability to minimize the cloud and data footprint, thus ensuring faster ROI with minimal business disruption.”

In an official announcement, Gerald Faust, Managing Director & CEO, Asia Pacific and Middle East, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., added, “SNP’s strategic focus on Indochina is driven by Thailand’s 4.0 strategy and digital transformation (DX) master plan to promote and support innovation and higher technologies. We are pleased to formalize our existing go-to-market collaboration with Nexus, equipped with proven experience and a strong understanding of this market. We are enthused to offer our end-to-end software-driven solutions to enterprising organizations and digitally driven retail industries such as HomePro to address their challenges related to data transformation. Our CrystalBridge^® software with the near-zero downtime methodology simplifies complex projects such as the move to SAP S/4HANA or the cloud, mergers and carve-outs fully remotely and has stirred up keen interest in our engagements with the Indochina customers on their journey to become an intelligent enterprise.”

Learn more in the whitepaper Remote Migration – Switch to SAP S/4HANA at any time.
Register for the upcoming Transformation session.

About HomePro

The Company was established with objective to operate a retail business in home improvement segment by selling goods and providing complete range of services related to construction, addition, refurbishment, renovation, Home Makeover, improvement of buildings, houses and residential places through One Stop Shopping Home Center under the trade name of “HomePro” which is the Company’s trademark.

For more information visit: HomePro | No.1 Home Improvement Center in Thailand

About Nexus

Established since 1999, NEXUS is an enterprise business solutions company with a proven track record in helping our customers digitally transform their business by integrating processes, technologies and people in the most seamless and cost – effective manner.

As a reseller of SAP, BlueYonder and MuleSoft solutions, we provide end-to-end services including business consulting, solution architecture design, project management and implementation, solution enhancements, and support and maintenance services to organizations running enterprise solutions as their strategic IT platform.

For more information visit: www.nexus-sr.com

About SNP

SNP is a world-leading provider of software for managing complex digital transformation processes. Instead of traditional IT consulting in the ERP environment, SNP offers an automated approach using specially developed software: The Data Transformation Platform CrystalBridge^(R) and the SNP BLUEFIELD^TM approach allow companies to restructure and modernize their IT landscapes much more quickly and securely as well as migrate to new systems or cloud environments more securely. This gives customers clear qualitative advantages while at the same time reducing their time and costs.

The SNP Group has around 1,600 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 144 million in the 2020 fiscal year. It serves multinational companies in all industries. SNP was established in 1994, went public in 2000, and has been listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since August 2014 (ISIN DE0007203705). Since 2017, the company has been trading as a European company (Societas Europaea/SE).

More information is available at www.snpgroup.com

This article is sponsored by SNP

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However, current data architectures that exist in organizations today do not meet these customer requirements. A Forrester report showed that between 60 percent and 73 percent of all data within an enterprise goes unused for analytics. Fifty-two percent of SAP users as surveyed by SAPinsider – the largest SAP membership group worldwide – said that a top analytics pain point is data integration. And an Accenture survey revealed that only 32 percent of executives say they can create value from data!

If this is your situation, Qlik is here to help. To unlock the hidden insights in SAP data, Qlik is leading the industry in accelerating use of SAP data for actionable insights and decision making. We just launched the Qlik Order-to-Cash solution accelerators for SAP, the first in a series of SAP-focused data and analytics solution accelerators that speed the ROI of integrating SAP data with modern analytics projects.

Order-to-cash is a critical business process. It includes activities from booking and fulfilling an order to getting paid. Order fulfilment and billing affect customer experience and loyalty. Receivables management and payments affect working capital and cash. Given the times, what could be more important than taking care of your customers and taking care of cash so you can run your business smoothly?

However, order-to-cash also happens to be one of the more complex of business processes to optimize. It is highly fragmented across teams, as there are stakeholders in sales order management, in supply chain logistics and warehousing, and in finance billing, accounts receivables management, and financial accounting. In addition, the data is also fragmented across multiple systems. This is where Qlik’s data integration and data analytics platform shines.

The solution accelerators come with prebuilt components for SAP sales orders and accounts receivables data replication, data warehouse automation to a cloud platform of your choice (Azure Synapse, Microsoft SQL Server, Google BigQuery, Snowflake DW, AWS RedShift, etc.), as well as order-to-cash modern analytics.

The prebuilt data integration and transformation into order-to-cash analytics-ready data and KPIs can save months and thousands of hours of data effort. And, the prebuilt analytics components empower users of all levels of data skills with actionable insights via rich, interactive order-to-cash KPI dashboards, intelligent alerting and AI-enabled conversational analytics. Users don’t have to wait till next day for updates on sales bookings, billings, fulfilment or payments. If shipments are delayed, they can be notified in real-time and proactively contact fulfilment or the customer. If payments are predicted to be delayed, they can act fast and thus reduce days sales outstanding and optimize working capital.

With tremendous amount of order-to-cash and working capital performance management functionality already built-in, these accelerators can speed your SAP data modernization, enable more agility, and quickly deliver a business solution for order-to-cash analytics users.

To find out how your business can benefit from real-time modern analytics, join us for “How to Turn SAP Data into Critical Business Insights” on 20^th May 2021.

The session will cover:

• Learn how to build a strategy to modernize analytics to support core finance and order management functions such as order-to-cash.
• Provide real-time data from the various LoB applications and core ERP.
• See a live demo of how to actually transform raw SAP data into usable information and actionable insights for the business.
• Discover new ways to support order-to-cash visibility and important views into cash, liquidity, and working capital.

This article is sponsored by Qlik

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In this article, Matt shares findings, insights and perspectives from the online session and further explores the relevance of SAP data transformation projects in 2021 and beyond.

Without transforming core processes and entrenched mindsets augmented by the modernisation of incumbent and increasingly unwieldy applications, many of us will face continued friction delivering on our increasingly cloud-first, digitally driven data transformation strategies.

The last 12 months have provided a fantastic cultural opportunity to change mindsets around how we work and challenge static practices and investments from the past with all its challenges.

Technology and business leaders in ADAPT’s extensive ANZ research community remain under immense pressure balancing ongoing and unpredictable lockdowns, remote workforce productivity, and increased budgetary scrutiny. While we still face the need to improve operationally and completely rethink how we gather, manage and act on data in our quest to become data-driven organisations and businesses.

Data assets from core ERP, CRM and HR business applications holds a wealth of deep strategic insights that could better connect the organisation and enhance visibility to make critical business decisions and emerge from the current situation smarter and stronger.

This highlights the need to demonstrate how we are leveraging the value from existing investments, modernising core apps, enabling rapid innovation, and leveraging new cloud offerings and pricing models.

“If workplace transformation was the number one digital transformation initiative at the height of the pandemic, 2021 will increasingly be all about data transformation”.

Challenge and solution

ERP at the heart of legacy headaches – cloud makes its mark.

IT and business leaders have consistently told ADAPT they want to invest in technologies that improve business outcomes and operational effectiveness whilst reducing legacy reliance.

During the past two years across all its Edge events, ADAPT has been mapping the progression of cloud. Today we see 32{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of all workloads in the public cloud, increasing to 42{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} in 2022.

Many organisations are not as concerned as they used to be about moving mission-critical workloads, such as ERP into the cloud.

That said, when polling delegates at a recent ADAPT/Fujitsu/SNP webinar, 58{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of attendees were still at the planning stage to migrate SAP workloads to the cloud as illustrated below:

Pre-migration, critical considerations

• Gain a clear understanding of just what is deployed within the organisation.
• Create a risk profile of current assets and workloads.
• Understand what is holding us back from moving these mission-critical workloads to the cloud, and are they founded on fact or legacy mindsets?
• Be clear on where you stand to move forward with the changes required – what is your baseline appetite for change? If it’s too high, determine how it can be lowered.
• Identify the outcomes-based business pre-requisites first, then invest the time in the assessment phase to understand how we can align every decision and step to line up to those business outcomes.
• Look on SAP as a part of the overall application landscape, look for interdependencies and synergies. The assessment phase to meet business outcomes should encompass your entire application landscape and prioritise workloads cloud migration accordingly.
• Governance and compliance have taken on increased focus and attention in Australia since the Financial Services Royal Commission, which served as a wakeup call for all industry sectors. Assess and plan for each use case’s regulatory requirements individually and in their entirety.
• The business case or outcome should always be the driver; the forced migration to move off SAP by 2027 drives users to mistakenly make this another tech project. It should be a strategic, transformative initiative that enables the next phase of business growth in two very distinct phases: Migrate workloads to the cloud & Implement cloud-enabled migration to S/4 HANA.

Major data transformation project drivers in 2021

IT spending remains be conservative and under immense scrutiny, predicating the need to ensure typical investment justification questions are addressed, such as:

• How will it help drive business and employee resilience?
• How will it help improve operational efficiency and effectiveness?
• How will it enable our employees and enhance their overall employee experience?
• How will it help us differentiate our products and services?
• How will it help us optimise and ultimately help us save time, money, and resources?

Many of these areas are driving Australian and New Zealand organisations in their quest to become data-driven organisations. However, we are still hamstrung with disaggregated and unstructured data in ever-increasing volumes.

In a post-pandemic world, resilience, efficiency, employee retention and well-being, differentiated products and services are more critical than ever. So too is the data we need to make the right decisions to deliver on these areas.

No business is immune from this. However, there will be those clear leaders prepared for and willing to take the data transformation plunge and investment, particularly in an environment where mergers, acquisitions and demergers accelerate and act as drivers for these many complex SAP data transformation and rationalisation projects.

Balancing risk with benefits amidst ongoing pandemic fuelled uncertainty

Attracting and retaining the right talent in a post-pandemic world will be a critical challenge and focus for many organisations, particularly as it relates to data, analytics, and areas related to AI, machine learning and cloud migration initiatives.

It is clear; there are not enough people on the planet to meet the increasing demand associated with these areas and to simply “get these jobs done”.

As organisations prioritise investment and associated business outcomes that many of these data and cloud transformation projects relate to, the pressure to act and invest sooner rather than later will only increase.

De-risking transformation is key, ensuring business resilience during the transformation as well as post-implementation, is key. When a Telco in Malaysia, for example, is quoted seven days of downtime associated with an SAP cloud migration initiative, this is simply not good enough.

IT decision-makers need to expect but demand that the impact on their business during such an initiative is minimal. Leadership teams or boards will barely consider hours let alone days of downtime.

Partnering with third-party providers, particularly when we face continued limitations on resource availability due to corporate and government-mandated travel restrictions will be key to success.

Partners and vendors who have the strongest focus and capabilities related to automation are likely better placed to help organisations effectively execute these projects, in this remote and resource-constrained world.

If business downtime is one of the major challenges – how can we mitigate and reduce downtime?

It is standard practice for the cutover manager to come onboard in traditional projects, sometimes as much as halfway through the project.

Involve the business, the cutover manager and key stakeholder early, related to the benefits to be achieved, and potential disruption/change employees will face.

Typically, transformation projects involve, separating your data from the business logic. In other words, in most SAP data migration projects, all the data is loaded and then shifted across in one go.

A best practice approach is to not take the production system down at any stage. Instead, a copy or ‘Rapid Empty Shell’ is created.  The data is then brought across incrementally, pre-determined based on time – perhaps a months’ worth or weeks’ worth at a time. The final stage involves the last few hours, limiting potential downtime to a matter of hours at the most.

ADAPT Perspectives

Most organisations successfully transformed the workplace, the workforce, and their customers during the darkest days of the pandemic. By and large, this was done with existing technology and capabilities – albeit at a scale never imagined.

What we have seen is a willingness to accept change and challenge legacy mindsets and processes. We have a fantastic opportunity to innovate and rapidly transform many of our core, yet entrenched approaches.

In September 2020 over 200 ANZ IT and business leaders from many of the region’s largest organisations told ADAPT they would increase innovation.

As illustrated below, 59{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of organisations told ADAPT they expect increased rates of innovation and a significant increase in associated funding.

Particularly as it relates to products and services being transformed digitally to help them build data-driven organisations and improve operational efficiencies.

A second question posed to delegates during the webinar was designed to understand just which business scenarios were critical to their data transformation efforts in the coming months, as shown below.

The key to working towards success in these scenarios with partners is a common go-to-market approach focused on what the business is seeking to achieve – business first, technology second.

The four key points to consider when looking at any business scenario are:

1. Early engagement is crucial.
2. Having a clear vision – or destination postcard with exact steps to getting there identified.
3. Where do you stand today compared to where you want to get to and is the business on   board?
4. Make sure you have business buy-in and executive sponsorship.

“The pandemic has seen a drastic shift in our thinking related to traditional and long-term supply chains that were stressed and failed in many situations.”

There is increasing carve out and merger and acquisitions, associated with the moving around and re-prioritisation of supply chains.

The move to S4 has been forced on organisations; we all must make that shift; we must start implementing the changes and strategies for that move. Automation can accelerate that move and should be a key consideration as organisations embark on their migration strategy, potentially reducing the move to a matter of months.

While the polling percentages were different when it came to the business scenarios, 50{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} for S/4 HANA and 33{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} for the move to the cloud, they are not mutually exclusive. Most customers should look to move to cloud and S/4 HANA at the same time.

Modernise, rationalise and future proof mission-critical workloads

ERP was created to provide business leaders with a consolidated view of their organisation’s performance. These systems were built around a group of tightly integrated modules so transactions recorded in one part of the business would automatically flow through. For example, a front of house sale would automatically reduce stock in hand in the inventory system.

However, over time they have become inflexible and unwieldy, particularly as ever-increasing amounts of, often unstructured, data has been added to the mix.

If legacy modernisation is a goal for most organisations ADAPT speaks to, data transformation and the ability to change entrenched mindsets is key.

In this next normal of a “post-pandemic” world, flexibility is a non-negotiable across the business spectrum.

“Flexibility and agility are critical to enabling organisations to move quickly in such areas as mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and divesting business units and introducing new product lines.”

Mission-critical workloads that curtail flexibility and our ability to become truly data-driven businesses must be considered ripe for migration to the cloud. We must ensure that we modernise, rationalise, and emerge from the pandemic more agile, nimble, and no longer weighed down by the legacy headaches of yesterday.

This article was written by Matt Boon, Director of Strategic Research at ADAPT and is sponsored by SNP.

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Registration is open from October 14, 2020 to November 30, 2020; the competition will run until December 18, 2020.

Achieving “Data Martless” with SAP HANA Cloud

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about major changes not only in people’s lifestyles but also in businesses. Many companies have had to implement significant changes in their business modes and processes in response to the rapidly changing customer and employee needs.

In such a volatile environment, an increasing number of companies are taking this opportunity to transform work styles and business models by utilizing innovative technologies. Many companies need to utilize the data of all employees in order to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, improve sales and profits, and create new business opportunities. 

However, according to SAP Japan, from an IT perspective, conventional data warehouse systems hinder the optimum utilization of data within a company. In particular, SAP Japan reports that a common issue is the slowness caused by having to create, develop, and design a “data mart” for each report output. 

The “Data Martless Challenge” specifically aims to address this issue, particularly:

• the slowness of report output caused by large amounts of data
• the time and effort required to prepare and design a summary table for each output report, the so-called “data mart”

Through the “Data Martless Challenge” campaign, SAP Japan hopes to create a new system design method using SAP HANA Cloud services (SAP’s fully managed in-memory cloud database as a service/DBaaS) for aggregating large amounts of detailed data online and analyzing it in real-time without creating a “data mart”. 

SAP Japan aims to provide an opportunity to use this new system design and help businesses improve existing systems. 

Participants will get the following support from SAP Japan:

• Provision of SAP HANA Cloud services free trial environment (valid for 30 days and can be extended up to 90 days)
• Free hands-on workshop using SAP HANA Cloud environment on November 12-13, 2020 
• Provision of other technical information
• Connecting with partner companies familiar with SAP HANA Cloud services

Below is an overview of the application procedure:

• Registration period: October 14, 2020 to November 30, 2020
• Challenge implementation period: October 14, 2020 to December 18, 2020
• Eligibility: All companies (excluding SAP partner companies)
• Verification details will be posted on SAP Japan’s official blog (https://www.sapjp.com/blog/martless-challenge) and seminar events.
• Announcements of award winners will be posted on SAP Japan’s blog at the end of January 2021.

Interested companies may register through this LINK.

About SAP Japan

SAP Japan Co Ltd. is headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. It provides computer software and related services. The company produces business applications, database, technology, analytics, and cloud and mobile solutions.

SAP Japan markets to automotive, chemicals, engineering, high tech, retail, and a variety of other industries worldwide.

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Multiple M&A business scenarios driving ERP carve-out projects include:

• Legal entity or business assets sale
• Integration of an acquisition following company or asset acquisition
• Entity sale following an acquisition
• Corporate merger or split
• Selective carve-out of legal entities into a new SAP system
• Selective carve-out and merge into existing SAP system and chart of accounts

Why Data Transformation is the “Big Deal” in M&A and Carve-out deals?

Mergers or Carve-outs are incredibly complex projects by nature – that pose a particular challenge for the IT department. Often more than half the synergies available in a merger are related to IT. The key post-transaction reason M&A activities fail to deliver their expected value is a failure to properly integrate the technology. Besides standardising and restructuring IT systems, the focus is on data during system mergers or when a division is separated from an existing organisation. Which data must, can or may be migrated, and which historical data should be archived? There are many aspects to consider and many rules to follow. Data selection and migration at such a high level can become unnecessarily time-consuming if carried out incorrectly. 

Typical business and technical challenges involve: 

• Different architectures in the systems you want to merge
• Adapting applications, data and processes
• Visualising how the spin-off will affect your IT landscape
• Legal restrictions on data transfer, accurate data selection and deleting data in the source system
• Standardising organisational structures and designing a detailed project roadmap
• High data volumes
• Taking in-house developments into account and avoiding downtimes
• Different country-specific procedures in finance, controlling, materials management, sales and production
• Intra-transparent System Landscape comprising interfaces, organisational structures, functional usage

Thus, executing data migration, the centre piece of all transformations is often the most daunting aspect. The considerations are: how to make it simple, fast and secure with minimum business disruption in the remote-first world today. Organisations need support in every phase from due diligence, transitional agreement (TSA) support to audit trails with state-of-the-art software and services – for a successful outcome.

Yet the journey does not have to end in uncertainty if you plan it in advance and with the right partner. Complex projects such as mergers, carve-outs are now possible with minimum risk thanks to automated software approach – ensuring that you reach your goal securely. The software’s precise predictions allow you to plan transformation projects in detail along with accurate cost estimates. In addition, it can greatly reduce system downtime, an important cost factor, using the near-zero downtime method, therefore keeping your ongoing business operations largely uninterrupted. Unlike manual mergers, software automated mergers are much less error prone and consume fewer resources. Furthermore, the standardised process from planning to implementation has a positive effect on lead times and the project duration. All in all, rapid implementation ensures the agility of your company – an essential aspect for staying at the top in today’s increasingly competitive market environment.

Did you know that: 

• Data migration for even the toughest M&A scenarios and post-merger integrations can now be done in 24 hours or less? 
• You can successfully implement an SAP Carve-out project with complete system split in 3-4 months?

How? With automation. In 2015, SNP software was deployed to successfully split one of the world’s largest technology companies’ SAP Landscape and 50 TB database — five times that of the entire U.S. Library of Congress — into two separate, publicly-traded instances in 36 hours! SNP software merged two companies to form one of the world’s largest chemical companies. SNP has delivered some of the world’s largest and most complex SAP merger and carve-out projects. Our clients trust us to automate and accelerate their SAP transformations through SNP BLUEFIELD approach powered by CrystalBridge® – The Data Transformation Platform with Near-Zero Downtime. The essence of over 25 years of experience with 12,500 successful transformation projectsprovides a level of insight and control that can’t be achieved with traditional methodologies to “Keep the lights on”!

The one-stop shop end to end transformation solution supports customers and partners through 360 degree project preparation, system analysis, roadmap creation, running the transformation, going live and post-support like SAP Managed Services. The SAP ecosystem trusts BLUEFIELD approach to:

• Merge enterprises and systems: fast, secure and remotely – without business disruption.
• Reduce the usual time window for your M&A, Carve-out projects by up to 75{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22}.
• Ensure faster ROI and risk-free implementation 
• Save up to 70{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of the time, effort, and cost of your project, compared to traditional methods
• Achieve a carve-out with minimum risk and costs after the sale of a business unit
• Provide an efficient system within budget for the carved-out unit
• Secure, legally compliant data transfer to the buyer of the divested unit
• Adhere to due diligence issues
• Reduce the complexity of your SAP project through best of breed selective data migration scenarios
• Collapse multiple projects into one project with reduction of test cycles as well as downtime
• Offer flexibility to go-live on the day of your choice
• Move your operations to the SNP Cloud or partner clouds if desired

CLICK HERE to meet a BLUEFIELD Transformation Expert to “Keep the best Transform the rest”!

For more questions or a demo connect at SNP JAPAC Hotline +65 9820 9905 or email at marketing-asia@snpgroup.com

This article is sponsored by SNP group

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