Realistically, no one can afford disruptions and delays in operations in the competitive arena of today’s globalized world. However, with the growing complexity of technology landscapes among organizations, many face challenges that may affect and disrupt efficiency and compliance.
The most common pain points faced by businesses today include complex and costly legacy systems, struggling to migrate to SAP S/4HANA, data overload and inefficiency, lack in data quality, slow innovation and lack of agility, regulatory and compliance challenges and high total cost of ownership (TCO). Ensuring clean data – data that is accurate, complete and compliant – is critical to addressing these challenges and driving business success.
To tackle most of these challenges, SAP developed the concept of Clean Core, an approach to achieve a modern, flexible and cloud-compliant SAP S/4HANA Cloud. According to SAP, Clean Core is achieved by integrating and extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud in such a way that it is cloud-compliant, “with optimal master data quality and perfected business process governance.” Central to this is the emphasis on clean data as a cornerstone for effective migration and system efficiency.
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However, is SAP Clean Core enough to address these issues on its own? Thomas Failer, the CEO of Data Migration International, the inventor of the One Click Transformation approach based on the JiVS Information Management Platform for data migration and application retirement, shared that, while SAP Clean Core is a solid method for integrating SAP S/4HANA Cloud that allows you to minimize customizations, developments and move only relevant data, its process can be elevated even further.
According to Failer, it is possible by enhancing SAP Clean Core with a solution specifically designed for data migration. As an example, Failer explained that, while SAP Clean Core allows users to achieve easier upgrades and lean and scalable system architecture, DMI’s One Click Transformation can support the whole process by archiving historical data and managing it outside the core system, giving users the ability to retire legacy systems without losing access to critical historical data. Furthermore, the One Click Transformation enables the business to clean up and transform the relevant master data in a simple way.
Additionally, with SAP Clean Core ensuring that only relevant and high-quality data is migrated to S/4HANA, DMI’s One Click Transformation can separate operational data migrated to S/4 from historical data archived in JiVS, thus reducing data volume in new target systems by 90-95 percent and enabling more efficient migration. Furthermore, according to Failer, it can automate large portions of migration and reduce its costs and timeframe by 50 percent, therefore eliminating downtime challenges and providing a more focused and clean dataset for operational systems.
All these functions can also help improve business agility, according to DMI’s executive. Specifically, Failer said, “Our One Click Transformation approach complements SAP Clean Core by freeing up resources to focus on new projects and innovations and enabling businesses to adapt quickly to market changes, and bringing the data into optimal shape without the burden of legacy systems or poor-quality data.”
Enhanced data quality and focus on relevant, essential data lead to greater process excellence and significantly reduce the effort required for troubleshooting caused by inaccurate or inconsistent data.
Higher business agility also means a higher ability to ensure compliance and governance – and JiVS can help reinforce it by storing historical data securely while ensuring accessibility for audits and supporting data privacy regulations with tools for data retention and controlled access.
Finally, the joint effort between SAP Clean Core and One Click Transformation powered by JiVS IMP can help organizations reduce TCO and drive sustainability: as Failer shared, on top of SAP Clean Core’s elimination of unnecessary customizations, JiVS can “minimize data-related expenses for storage, processing and migration and simplify the decommissioning of legacy systems, supporting efficient system upgrades with a clean S/4HANA core.”
He added: “On top of that, with SAP Clean Core contributing to sustainability goals by reducing IT system complexity and optimizing resource usage, JiVS enhances sustainability by archiving legacy data to significantly reduce storage and energy consumption and supporting efficient data lifecycle management to minimize the IT carbon footprint.”
So, as can be concluded from the insight from DMI’s CEO, migration to SAP S/4HANA does not just have to be a necessity and complex process: with the help of the SAP Clean Core approach and solutions like JiVS, it can also be an opportunity to enhance your tech stack with processes that increase your agility, compliance, sustainability, and above all, data quality.
