Ensure projects and production support are never out of sync
Multi-track, or N+n, SAP development landscapes are virtually unavoidable when you’re moving to S/4HANA. During the migration project – which will take months, if not years, to complete – there’s basically no choice. Then, after cutover, S/4HANA upgrades – which also take months to implement – will come thick and fast; potentially once per year. But the business simply won’t accept a block on fixes and improvements to legacy systems like ECC while your new S/4 systems are being built, or while you work to improve the new platform.
The automated continuous retrofit functionality provided by ActiveControl gives you the means to remove the effort, risk, and delay from a multi-track approach to your S/4HANA journey. It ensures that parallel SAP landscapes are always kept in sync, eliminating spreadsheet-based tracking, cross-system object locking, and manual deployments.
With Continuous Retrofit for
S/4HANA You Can…
Minimize Business Risk
Avoiding post-deployment issues is hard enough in one SAP development track. Separate teams working in different systems make solving this problem increasingly more difficult. Continuous retrofit allows you to minimize the risk of S/4HANA project cutovers by ensuring different landscapes are always aligned, despite technical and business process differences.
Accelerate S/4HANA Projects
Without automation, SAP teams have to use old-fashioned methods like spreadsheets to deal with the complexity of parallel S/4HANA development. Continuous retrofit dramatically reduces the time and effort required to align work across systems and teams, helping you to deliver S/4HANA migration and upgrade projects more quickly and cost-effectively.
Avoid Change Freezes
S/4HANA migration might take years. Upgrades take months, at least, and may happen every year. There’s simply no way IT teams can ask the business to accept a block on innovation for such long periods. Continuous retrofit allows you to forget about change freezes because you no longer have to worry about whether vital production support changes will be lost after cutover.
How Does it Work?
ActiveControl automatically merges changes between project tracks, and even across different SAP systems like ECC and S/4HANA, proactively flagging potential conflicts. The continuous retrofit workflow and frequency can be configured to suit the needs of your business.
S/4HANA Continuous Retrofit Key Features
Automatic Cross-system Deployment
Keep divergence between development tracks to a minimum by automatically merging SAP change across systems and even between ECC and S/4HANA. Many ActiveControl users merge changes across tracks on a daily basis, in some case executing more than 90% without user intervention.
No Object Locking
Forget the days when projects were delayed because of conflicting BAU development, or when business users had to wait for a piece of project work to be completed. Continuous retrofit means there’s no need for cross-system object locking in S/4HANA migration and upgrade projects.
Automatic Conflict Detection
Automatic conflict detection provides an insurance policy for occasions when code or configuration is changed in both development tracks. It dynamically monitors changes in all related systems and proactively highlights potential issues so that conflicts can be resolved in Dev.
Selectively Synchronize
Despite the power of continuous retrofit you may not want to move every change from ECC to S/4HANA, or from S/4HANA BAU to a project track. ActiveControl allows you to exclude certain types of changes from the process to avoid technical or process issues.
Powerful Analysis
ActiveControl’s continuous retrofit functionality combines with 70 automated analyzers to deliver complete control and governance in even the most complex N+n SAP development workflows, from deep dependency analysis to checks specific to your process.
Manage Dynamic Landscapes
Many S/4HANA landscapes will be hosted in the cloud, providing much more potential for flexible SAP workflows that leverage the power of elastic infrastructure. ActiveControl’s continuous retrofit capability supports this flexibility without maintenance overhead.
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