“It’s no longer a question of whether to migrate but rather when to migrate to SAP S/4HANA”

-Frank Densborn, Senior Director for Cloud Transformation

Whether your change management process includes staying on-premise, moving to the cloud, or consolidating multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP), one thing is clear, transitioning to SAP S/4HANA is inevitable if you want your business to gain greater speed and agility, better drive innovation, scale quickly and thrive in an ever-changing digital environment.

Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA provides numerous benefits:

• efficiently manage current and future data transformation
• simplifying process and improving efficiencies by enabling the centralizing of hardware and network resources
• ability to harness a single view of your business’ analytical and transactional capabilities for a better decision-making process
• over-all improved performance and speed

It’s true though that migrating to S/4HANA is not a simple upgrade. Managing parallel SAP environments is crucial. Ensuring your organization runs without interruption during the S/4HANA migration and after go-live is front-and-center of organizations’ concerns.

This is where most organizations get stuck—the complexity of starting the SAP change management process. For most medium to large enterprises this process normally includes the following steps:

• Track 12 months’ worth of custom code and SAP standard code to see the extent of the transition effort required with SCMON/SUSG or UPL.
• Find out what code to keep and what to discard.
• Verify transitioning code for compatibility.
• Resolve incompatible custom code.
• Fine-tune compatible code performance.

However, relying on mostly manual processes to manage dual SAP environments can result in overblown budgets and project delays. The ability to successfully manage SAP change across your landscape is crucial. Automation and working with the right partner is therefore key for a successful and rapid S/4HANA migration.

How then do you select the right automated SAP change management tool and partner? Here are some factors to consider according to Rev-Trac:

First, keep in mind that SAP change processes have to be consistent and managed proactively. Find a partner that can align their development and configuration resources to your organization’s change control requirements.

Second, make sure that your selected partner has an automated record-keeping system to document all technical and functional changes to your SAP systems, and that critical compliance regulations are adhered to.

Third, the right partner must be able to incorporate functionalities specifically developed to ensure that SAP changes made in the primary landscape will be re-applied if relevant to the new landscape—working with a partner that can overcome the unique challenge of managing complex dual SAP environments is crucial.

Fourth, your SAP change management tool must be able to control and align SAP changes across multiple phased environments to avoid conflict and sequencing issues.

Finally, avoid sequencing and dependency errors by choosing a partner that can ensure your business’ requirements are consistently adhered to.

With SAP S/4HANA migration, automation is critical to ensuring your organization’s significant volumes of code are managed efficiently and that the change management process is streamlined and accelerated.

Several Rev-Trac customers have simplified and managed the process with the automated change management platform, Rev-Trac Platinum. Additionally SAP IT teams can quickly support business objectives while maintaining production system stability with the newly launched Rev-Trac ONE.

Find out more

Download this comprehensive whitepaper – Managing an S/4HANA migration with Rev-Trac – to discover:

• Why automating your SAP change management processes is crucial
• How Rev-Trac Platinum can help you to successfully manage dual SAP environments
• What key Rev-Trac Platinum features help to minimize unscheduled downtime

This article is sponsored by RSC Group

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SAP Silver Partner RSC has rebranded its flagship product Rev-Trac to Rev-Trac Platinum with the release of version 8.0 mid-2018. Taking into account the changing demands of the digital age, new features and enhancements were added to the software making it the most potent and effective way to automate SAP change control. The new software also expedites changes from development to production more than ever. 

The Australian innovation software company RSC develops automation technology that massively reduces the time, effort, and cost to deliver SAP change across an application’s lifecycle. Since it’s conception in 1997, the company has been helping organisations simplify SAP change management processes while increasing their agility to respond quickly to business demands and changes in the market.

Today, organisations running SAP are constantly searching for technology that would help them achieve DevOps goals, move to continuous delivery, and accelerate the transition to S/4HANA with lower risk. With the market demanding for a faster and safer solution, Rev-Trac Platinum was developed.

Rev-Trac Platinum combines a suite of features and capabilities that allows SAP IT teams to deliver rapid, continuous, and safe change. It is a user-friendly software that can automate and enforce all SAP change management processes for faster, safer, and more frequent releases that are always ready for production. When functionality is deployed as soon as it is ready, it cuts the time to deliver new SAP applications and unlocks business value resulting in faster ROI on SAP systems.

The fully integrated change management platform Rev-Trac Platinum enables organisations to effectively adopt SAP agile and DevOps to improve productivity and accelerate innovation. Aside from providing improved parallel development, the new RSC solution has safety features that fulfill SAP IT teams’ requirements to manage and control rapid deployments while avoiding massive disruption to the production system.

RSC recognises that a company’s ability to spur SAP change as well as maintain production system stability with minimal resources make them agile to keep pace with the speed of business.

For a fast and reliable transition to S/4HANA, automation is key. Aside from a faster journey to S/4HANA, eliminating manual SAP change management processes significantly reduces costs and interruptions to daily operations while orgnasinations’ build their new system.

To know more about how Rev-Trac can help you to migrate to S/4HANA without interruption to your business click here.

About RSC

David Drake who was among the leaders who first predicted the role automation would play in the future founded RSC. The software company developed the original version of Rev-Trac to cater to the growing need for an automation software that streamlines change development. Rev-Trac is a groundbreaking automation technology that has helped organisations eliminate error-prone manual tasks and enforced consistent, trackable processes at considerably lower costs.

Rev-Trac has continued to evolve and meet the challenges that come with delivering SAP applications quickly and reliably as SAP adoption increases globally. 

RSC is also known for its other solutions CodeSafe Solutions and BrilliantFIT.

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Download this comprehensive whitepaper – Managing an S/4HANA migration with Rev-Trac – to discover:

• Why automating your SAP change management processes is crucial
• How Rev-Trac Platinum can help you to successfully manage dual SAP environments
• What key Rev-Trac Platinum features help to minimize unscheduled downtime

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Summary of Rev-Trac 

A Revelation Software Concepts (RSC) technology that automates SAP change management processes to massively reduce the time, effort, and cost to deliver change. Automate SAP change management for faster, more frequent, and low-risk change and respond to business demands quickly. Rev-Trac Platinum eliminates error-prone manual SAP change processes and provides the control and governance to achieve agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery objectives.

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