Minimize risk and avoid change freezes while you move to S/4HANA
S/4HANA migrations come in all shapes and sizes. Greenfield, brownfield or hybrid? A gradual cutover, maybe by business unit, or all in one go? Whichever route you choose, the best case is a project lasting months; in many firms it will be years before S/4 is fully up and running. A change freeze will be out of the question for such a long period, so you’ll need to manage the problem of Dual Maintenance in order to keep delivering innovation in legacy systems while you build and migrate to S/4HANA landscapes.
Cross-system transport management is difficult at the best of times but to make things worse, S/4HANA isn’t even the same as ECC and other, older applications. Technical and business process differences add significant complexity to an already tough challenge. ActiveControl’s automation massively reduces the risk and effort involved in keeping two platforms in sync while you’re moving to S/4HANA, so that you can focus resources on other parts of your S/4 journey.
With Automated Dual Maintenance
You Can…
Keep Delivering Innovation
Supporting the business during S/4HANA migration means updating and fixing all systems for as long as they remain operational, whether that’s before or after S/4 go-live. Automated Dual Maintenance identifies, remediates and synchronizes changes with minimal user intervention, and even prevents them from being made in the wrong place if old and new systems are live at the same time.
Migrate to S/4 Faster
Managing change across SAP landscapes without automation requires a lot of effort. The differences between S/4HANA and legacy systems make it even more difficult. Automated Dual Maintenance removes the burden of transport management from the shoulders of SAP teams, taking care of most time-consuming technical tasks so S/4 migrations can move faster and landscapes automatically stay in sync.
Avoid Cutover Risk
Manual effort leads to human error. And as effort and complexity increase, so does the chance of mistakes. S/4HANA migration is full of complexity, often featuring thousands of transports moving between technically distinct platforms. Automated Dual Maintenance aligns landscapes with minimal user intervention to minimize the risk of business disruption at S/4 cutover, and beyond.
How Does it Work?
ActiveControl accelerates your move to the platform of tomorrow while the business of today keeps innovating. It simplifies and automates the complex task of keeping ECC and S/4HANA landscapes in sync through automated Dual Maintenance.
Key Features of Automated
S/4HANA Dual Maintenance
Identify and Manage Changes
You can’t assume every transport in a legacy system is applicable to S/4HANA, and vice versa. ActiveControl identifies those which need to be ‘dual maintained’, determines whether they can safely be synchronized across landscapes, and moves them automatically.
Automatic Code Remediation
An average ECC system has over 2.7 million lines of code, 60% of which may be redundant after the move to S/4HANA. ActiveControl integrates with smartRetrofit from smartShift Technologies to make automatic code remediation a standard part of the Dual Maintenance workflow.
Deployment Synchronization
ActiveControl removes the complexity from transport deployment. Time-consuming issues like sequencing and dependency management are handled automatically across multiple systems. Deployment timing can be synchronized across landscapes when Dev-to-Dev Dual Maintenance takes place.
Template Protection
If old and new systems are live during the S/4 transition process, different customization may be needed in different systems to avoid conflicts and support current business processes. ActiveControl lets you protect templates by limiting where certain changes can be made.
Continuous Retrofit
WIth ActiveControl’s continuous retrofit functionality, cross-system object locking is eliminated, and dynamic conflict detection combines with automated deployments for efficient parallel development. Many ActiveControl users merge changes across systems on a daily basis.
Efficient Upgrades
The power of Dual Maintenance and continuous retrofit also help with SAP upgrades – typically much more frequent on S/4. ActiveControl gives you the means to manage these months-long projects safely and transparently, even if your S/4HANA transition is not yet complete.
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