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SAP Solution Extensions | SAP Advanced Data Migration by Syniti

Drive Data Integrity for Your Move to SAP S/4HANA®

and the Intelligent Enterprise
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Enable smart and efficient data migration

Data migration projects support business-transforming goals such as moving to Enable smart and efficient data
migration
SAP S/4HANA® and upgrading to the cloud. With a comprehensive framework and
collaborative approach, intelligent enterprises can streamline migrations from
preparation to validation to loading, while enhancing process visibility and decision-
making with a single version of the truth.

In the digital economy, data-driven business For optimal, dependable migration projects, it’s
models power critical processes through artificial essential to protect data quality and integrity,
intelligence and machine learning, improve centralize data, and enrich your analytics capabilities
efficiency, and increase revenues. And data – while controlling costs and speeding time to
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migrations are essential to innovation and growth, value by reusing content from earlier efforts. By
whether for implementing new business models maintaining tight collaboration and end-to-end
or accommodating mergers and acquisitions. But visibility of the full data migration process, you
conversions and migrations can be complex and can deliver production-ready data for virtually any
time and resource intensive, requiring collaboration SAP® software implementation.
among IT staff and stakeholders, including the
business professionals who best understand the
data in context.

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Orchestrate the full data migration

process
The SAP Advanced Data Migration application design functions that simplify data conversions. Orchestrate the full data migration
by Syniti orchestrates the full process for data Project managers can assign data construction process
migrations, including to SAP S/4HANA. A central and map tasks to specific business users. A built-in
management console increases process transpar- data reference model for SAP software helps Build a foundation for ongoing
ency and lets you control migration from design business users understand how migrated data fits information governance
through execution, reducing overruns and conver- into the new software landscape. Migration teams
sion failures and supporting agile decision-making. can import Microsoft Project or Microsoft Excel Empower business users with
plans to track activities and use dashboards to engaging, intuitive interfaces
Cross-functional teams working on data mapping, manage roles and workflows. Expert services
design, and enrichment can prepare, validate, and speed up data mapping through access to data
load migration data. Businesspeople can use intuitive reference models for more than 150 source systems.
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data collection screens, mapping templates, and data

Facilitate your journey to SAP S/4HANA and

modernize your business practices with
emerging innovations.
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Build a foundation for ongoing

information governance
With its “design once, reuse everywhere” approach, User worklists display activities across geographies Orchestrate the full data migration
SAP Advanced Data Migration allows business and projects, and you can transfer reusable data process
users to collaborate through a Web interface. The standards to multiple migration projects. You can
application uses predefined content and rules, discover, track, and fix data gaps and assess data Build a foundation for ongoing
proven best-practice methodology, and reusable for anomalies. To reduce the risk of data errors information governance
content for ongoing data governance. You can follow when going live, you can execute multiple mock
a repeatable and predictable process to accelerate loads, with validation in each testing cycle. As Empower business users with
your data migration. And cross-functional process you execute the migration process, you increase engaging, intuitive interfaces
integration helps ensure the quality of your data institutional knowledge – so you can further
and increase its value to business users. streamline processes, increase user productivity,
and gain experience for future migrations.
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Create valuable migration assets such as

designs for target data – and reuse them in
downstream projects.

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Empower business users with engaging,

intuitive interfaces
SAP Advanced Data Migration eliminates the need The mapping interface includes source-to-target Orchestrate the full data migration
for manual updating and data sharing between IT schemas, cross-references, approval workflows, process
and business users. Business users are fully engaged and audit logs for mapping decisions. Tracking
in the migration process and can complete data functionality replaces manual spreadsheets Build a foundation for ongoing
cleansing and construction tasks through intuitive with automated project execution management, information governance
Web interfaces. User-friendly worklists and built-in including tasks, roles, and project detail for both
templates for data design, mapping, and documen- business users and migration developers. During Empower business users with
tation enhance the system mapping functionality. migration, the application automatically generates engaging, intuitive interfaces
data construction Web interfaces to speed the
The application automatically generates the collection of any additional data required for
documentation that business users need, and migration. And it automatically validates any
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they can quickly see what to map and how to map information users enter.
it. Automatic alerts provide notification of changes
throughout the workflow, and dashboards in the
SAP Fiori® user experience deliver real-time insight
into the progress of the migration.

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Perform migrations affordably and come

to value quickly
SAP Advanced Data Migration helps protect your The application accelerates migration projects Perform migrations affordably and
enterprise data – and accommodate the huge with best practices, implementation services, and come to value quickly
data volumes of the digital age – as you transform built-in content. You can improve visibility and
and integrate your IT landscape. With the application, control with project management consoles and
you can establish long-term migration processes role-based dashboards that provide continuous
and control expenses by reducing staff time and status updates detailing activities, error trends,
eliminating costs from failed or delayed migrations. and performance metrics. Eliminate overruns and
And you can reuse and make the most of assets conversion failures and keep data migrations on
such as rules and data design elements to support track, on time, and within budget. By strengthening
future undertakings. data validation and providing harmonized, relevant
business data to all systems, you can reduce risk
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and deliver the right information to the right people

at the right time.

Foster better decision-making for each migration

project – and support and enhance enterprise
information governance.
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Summary Solution
The SAP® Advanced Data Migration application •• Built-in methodology with automated, integrated
by Syniti streamlines migrations – for example, processes to streamline migration
to support your move to SAP S/4HANA® – while •• Project management console for visibility and
enhancing data quality. Best practices and built-in collaboration
content reduce cost, complexity, and risk. You can •• Intuitive Web interfaces for fast, accurate, and
dramatically reduce the cost of switching from your reusable data design
legacy systems to integrated enterprise software, •• Segmented and targeted data to support business
enhance collaboration between IT and business decisions
users, and increase the business value of your
data. Benefits
•• Control costs by reducing manual effort and
Objectives avoiding project overruns
•• Reduce time to implement SAP software •• Speed migrations through automation, expert
•• Enhance visibility of the entire migration process services, and use of built-in content
to lower risk and cost •• Keep migration teams and executives informed
•• Speed integration of newly acquired business with dashboard metrics
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units or systems •• Reduce risk through strong data and best-practice

•• Ensure consistent business information across workflows
the enterprise
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