SAP S/4HANA Migration: Everything You Need to Know

SAP’s announcement in 2017 mandated enterprises using SAP ECC to migrate to S/4HANA by 2025, a deadline that has been revised to 2027 due to slow adoption and limited SAP consultants. Currently, around 25,000 companies are either using or implementing SAP S/4HANA, yet approximately 22,000 are still on SAP ECC, making it a top discussion among CIOs, IT leaders, and CFOs. While SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration is inevitable for many due to end-of-life support on ECC, it’s crucial not to approach the migration blindly. 

The process of migrating systems, to S/4HANA presents numerous challenges and risks to business operations and value realization, even with SAP’s new offering SAP RISE. Additionally, SAP plans to end support for legacy ERP applications on SAP NetWeaver by 2027, promoting the adoption of SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA while discontinuing support for other databases.

Why Migrate to S/4HANA?

Before creating a business case for migrating to SAP S/4HANA, thorough research into the challenges of the current SAP ECC system is crucial for SAP Architects or enterprise architects. This step enables a comprehensive assessment of the benefits SAP S/4HANA can bring to the business, allowing them to effectively communicate the transformation’s advantages and return on investment to management. Some of these benefits include:

• Faster and More Powerful Database
• Better Integration
• Enables Business Transformation

Faster and More Powerful Database

This is primarily due to adopting SAP HANA. Its in-memory database accelerates queries and enables powerful analytics using massive external and internal data pools. The common thread through many of these advantages is the increased speed compared to traditional ERP systems based on conventional databases.

Better Integration

Another set of benefits derives from the multi-tenancy of SAP S/4HANA Cloud. It is a software-as-a-service (SaaS), enabling deep integration with various cloud-based technologies like SAP Business Network. Other S/4HANA cloud deployments can also access these services.

Enables Business Transformation

S/4HANA supports faster financial closings and real-time data analytics. It provides access to new technologies such as IoT, AI, and chatbots. It allows organizations to automate business processes, facilitating the creation of flexible business models, which are easier to update, and offers automatic quarterly updates.

Let’s have a look at each aspect of enabling business transformation by migrating to S/4HANA.

Real-time Analytics:

SAP S/4HANA Cloud supports real-time Big Data analytics. This enables organizations to process large volumes of data for data-driven decision-making. The built-in analytics capabilities of S/4HANA can process and analyze data in real-time to provide insights into business performance, enabling organizations to optimize operations, take informed decisions, and respond to dynamic market requirements effectively.

Faster Financial Closings:

SAP S/4HANA enhances the financial close process by automating repetitive tasks, significantly reducing time and errors. Its real-time data processing ensures financial data is always up to date, which enables timely and accurate reporting. With advanced analytics, organizations gain deeper insights into financial performance, empowering better decision-making.

Integration with AI and Automation Technologies:

The integration of AI into SAP S/4HANA transforms core business processes through automation and optimization. AI enhances functionalities across sales, logistics, finance, and customer service to drive greater process efficiency. SAP achieves this by using in-memory processing, which powers real-time data analysis and decision-making. This combination of AI and in-memory capabilities enables SAP S/4HANA to adapt swiftly to dynamic business needs.

Simplified Business Model Updates:

SAP S/4HANA allows organizations to automate business processes, facilitating the creation of flexible business models, which are easier to update, and offers automatic quarterly updates. It also has a simpler user interface than previous SAP ERP systems.

Strategic Alignment

SAP S/4HANA’s Clean Core strategy ensures that IT infrastructure aligns seamlessly with business processes to drive synergy between technology and organizational goals. It prioritizes standard configurations over heavy customizations so that businesses can maintain a system that is adaptable to evolving needs while reducing technical debt.

The Clean Core approach offers two main business benefits:

Competitive Advantage:

Clean Core fosters agility and efficiency, allowing businesses to adapt quickly to market changes, innovate faster, and maintain an edge over competitors.

Long-Term Business Goals:

By reducing complexity, Clean Core supports scalability and smooth upgrades, future-proofing systems to align with growth and long-term success.

When Should You Start the S/4HANA Migration Process?

SAP suggests that the migration to SAP S/4HANA system generally takes between a year and a year and a half. However, many organizations take much longer to transition to SAP S/4HANA fully. In some cases, complex migration steps can take as long as the expected timeframe for the whole migration project.

With the unpredictability of the migration journey, it is advisable to begin migrating to the appropriate ERP solution as soon as possible. Starting the migration process early helps ensure the organization has more time to implement the transition and save money. Some observers believe that SAP will increase S/4HANA implementation costs by the 2027 deadline, so completing the process earlier may allow businesses to avoid higher fees.

Common S4/HANA Migration Approaches

The suitability of S/4HANA migration strategies varies for each organization, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Some opt for a greenfield project, which basically means from scratch, while others prefer a brownfield project involving a complete system conversion to avoid disrupting existing business processes.

Additionally, the hybrid approach is suited for those seeking to consolidate their current system landscape into SAP S/4HANA, combining the strengths of both greenfield and brownfield implementations. This strategy proves most effective for large enterprises dealing with extensive data and complex systems. Here are three approaches for SAP ECC migrations to S/4HANA:

Greenfield Approach

The greenfield approach or re-implementation approach enables organizations to redesign undesirable processes according to the latest S/4HANA innovations. It is ideal for organizations that need a new implementation of SAP S/4HANA and can use their existing ECC system as a legacy.

However, the significant changes brought about by adopting the greenfield approach may be unsettling for some. The re-implementation process can be both arduous and time-consuming, particularly when managing change effectively. Therefore, it is essential to be fully prepared for a rigorous and comprehensive re-engineering process before embarking on the greenfield path.

Brownfield Approach

The brownfield approach, or upgrade approach, is a database migration and application conversion. It is ideal for organizations using legacy systems, such as SAP R/3 or ECC, and are satisfied with existing data management and business processes but require quicker adoption and innovation.

This approach enables migration from SAP ECC to S/4HANA by converting an existing SAP environment without reimplementing or disrupting current business processes. While a Brownfield project carries the risk of potential technical issues during and after the conversion, SAP offers dedicated conversion tools and guidelines designed to proactively address and minimize such problems from the outset.

Hybrid Approach or Selective Data Transition

Selective data transition is a technical migration performed at the table level. It involves using preconfigured transformation rules to extract specific master and transactional datasets.

This approach enables organizations to define new configuration settings to improve business processes. For example, applying selective data migration to S/4HANA by setting various organizational elements, such as legal entities. It also enables keeping historical data so organizations can convert and transform it as needed to fit a new S/4HANA configuration.

How to Prepare for S/4HANA Migration

There is no question that migrating to S/4HANA is a massive undertaking, especially when organizations have been using SAP ECC for years, if not decades. So, investing a significant amount of time and effort in preparation is recommended before making this transition. Here are four critical S/4 Hana migration preparation steps that can prepare your organization to take the leap:

Step 1: Understand S/4HANA Features

Before taking the leap, it’s always a good idea to know the landscape that lies ahead. Taking the time to learn about S/4HANA features is the first step toward ensuring a smooth transition. This involves knowing all the modules, how they function, and the various workflows that S/4HANA offers.

Deployment Options

Gaining a better understanding of S/4HANA enables SAP ECC customers to make decisions on the versions and deployment options available as follows:

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition
• SAP S/4HANA On-Premises Managed by SAP (HEC)
• SAP S/4HANA On-Premises

Let’s have a look at each of these deployment options.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition

The public edition of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, as the name suggests, is hosted in a public cloud environment. This type of deployment is ideal for businesses who are looking for scale and flexibility. The application and cloud infrastructure are managed and maintained by SAP but security could be a concern when apps are hosted on a public cloud.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition

The S/4HANA Cloud private edition is hosted on a private cloud. As a result, customers get greater control over the infrastructure. While the cloud is managed and maintained by SAP, customers get better security and options for customization.

SAP S/4HANA On-Premises Managed by SAP (HEC)

For customers looking for greater control over their applications, on-premise deployments are always a better option. However, it also comes with a significant operational burden. This is why SAP offers S/4HANA as an on-promise application with SAP managing the infrastructure.

SAP S/4HANA On-Premises

Lastly, SAP S/4HANA is also available for on-premise option deployment offering customers with maximum control over their application and the ability to customize as per their business needs. With this option, the customer bears the burden of managing the entire system.

Step 2: Data Analysis and Classification

Migration of data is a critical step when you are making the transition from SAP ECC to S/4HANA. Before migrating data, it’s a good practice to categorize the data based on how frequently it is being accessed. This enables you to decide the type and the quantity of data that needs to be transferred from your ECC database to S/4HANA. Here’s a simple way to categorize data:

Hot Data	Warm Data	Data
What: This includes data that is frequently used or data that is critical.	What: Warm data is data that is accessed less frequently but is still relevant.	What: This includes data that is infrequently accessed or historical data.
Where: It should be transferred and stored in the S/4HANA tenant database.	Where: It is best to store such data in the S/4HANA system database.	Where: Archiving this data as legacy data reduces the pressure on the live system.
Why: Improves the speed of access and enhances performance.	Why: Ensures balanced performance while maintaining storage efficiency.	Why: Enables optimization of system resources while maintaining compliance.

Why Classify Data?

Classifying data might seem like an arduous task but it offers several benefits in the long run. To begin with, there is a direct cost benefit since archiving cold data reduces the cost of data storage. Cutting down on the amount of data to be migrated also prevents unnecessary burden on resources. Lastly, it ensures better system performance by making essential data readily available for usage.

Step 3: Data Cleansing

Once data has been categorized, the next step is to “clean” this data. The purpose of this exercise is to refine and improve the quality of data to ensure that the data being migrated is accurate and reliable. Mentioned below are processes you can follow, and the tools offered by SAP to facilitate data cleansing.

Processes Involved in Data Cleansing

Data cleansing involves five processes as follows:

Processes	Objectives
Duplicate Removal	Detect and eliminate redundant records to ensure a streamlined and consistent dataset.
Standardization	Harmonize data formats, units, and values to maintain uniformity across the dataset.
Validation	Ensure data accuracy by checking it against established rules and criteria.
Enrichment	Enhance data quality by incorporating supplementary information for greater completeness and relevance.
Error Correction	Address and resolve inaccuracies to align data with defined quality standards.

How Data Cleansing Works

Data cleansing has three steps:

1. Data profiling
2. Automated cleansing
3. Manual review

Let’s look at each of these steps.

Steps	Description
Data Profiling	Data profiling involves examining the dataset to uncover its structure, relationships, and any underlying issues.
Automated Cleansing	Utilize automated tools to apply predefined rules and corrections for efficient data cleanup.
Manual Review	Manual review involves engaging data experts to review and validate critical or complex data points manually.

SAP Tools That Can Be Used for Data Cleansing

There are two tools that SAP offers for data cleansing:

SAP Data Services

Enables comprehensive data integration and cleansing of structured and unstructured data.

Learn more about SAP Data Services

SAP Information Steward

Helps users understand, analyze, and quantify the impact of data on business processes.

Lean more about SAP Information Steward

Step 4: Conduct a Readiness Check

SAP Readiness Check is a self-service tool that helps users check the readiness of their existing SAP ECC or earlier SAP S/4HANA version to prepare for an upgrade to SAP S/4HANA. It highlights the mandatory preparations and possible pre-projects required before you start migrating.

Purpose of SAP Readiness Check

A readiness check provides early insight so that SAP ECC customers can understand the implications of the project and build a detailed plan for upgrading to S/4HANA. Here’s a list of items that can prepare you for migration:

Run an SoD (Separation of Duties) Check:

Before we move to migration, run SoD checks to clean up as many risks as possible, run a UAR and Certification to make sure roles are appropriate and validate the business process roles that are in place PRIOR to beginning any of the migration activities.

System Analysis:

Compatibility would come next, when migrating ECC t-codes to S/4HANA t-codes, determine which roles need revision and assess the impact of the migration on licensing.

Simplification Items Identification:

Pinpoint simplification items specific to the S/4HANA version to assess their impact on existing processes.

Custom Code Analysis:

Analyze custom code to identify incompatibilities and recommend adjustments for S/4HANA compatibility.

Data Volume Management:

Review data volumes to optimize storage and enhance performance during migration.

Business Process Analytics:

Analyze current business processes to align them with S/4HANA best practices.

Steps in SAP Readiness Check

Following are the steps in SAP readiness check:

Initiation:

Launch the readiness check using SAP tools or cloud-based services.

Data Collection:

Gather system data, including configurations, custom code, and usage metrics.

Analysis:

Perform an in-depth evaluation of the collected data to generate a comprehensive report.

Dashboard and Recommendations:

Present findings through an intuitive dashboard with actionable recommendations for a smooth migration.

Top S/4HANA Migration Challenges

Organizations preparing for SAP S/4HANA migration should be aware of the following challenges:

• Complex Data Migration
• Customization Compatibility
• Technical Integration
• Cost and Resources Management
• Complex Business Processes
• Testing and Quality Assurance
• Downtime and Disruption
• Change Management

Let’s look at each of the following.

Complex Data Migration:

Transferring data from legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA requires careful planning and execution, especially when dealing with large volumes of data. Ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and completeness during the migration process is critical.

Customization Compatibility:

Organizations often have customized their existing systems to meet specific business needs. Adapting these customizations to work seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA may require significant effort, as the underlying architecture and data models differ.

Technical Integration:

Integrating SAP S/4HANA with other systems, applications, and processes within the organization can be technically challenging. Ensuring smooth interoperability is essential to avoid disruptions to existing workflows.

Cost and Resources Management:

The migration process can be costly, not only in terms of software licensing and implementation but also due to the need for skilled consultants, technical experts, and project resources. Adequate funding and resource allocation are essential for a successful migration.

Complex Business Processes:

SAP S/4HANA brings new functionalities and process changes, which may require organizations to re-evaluate and redesign their existing business processes. Adapting to these changes can be time-consuming and complex.

Testing and Quality Assurance:

Thorough testing is crucial to validate the accuracy and functionality of the migrated system. Organizations need to allocate sufficient time and resources for testing to avoid post-migration issues.

Downtime and Disruption:

The migration process may involve downtime, which can impact regular business operations. Minimizing disruption and ensuring a smooth transition is vital for business continuity.

Change Management:

Introducing a new ERP system like SAP S/4HANA requires effective change management. Employees need to be trained and prepared for the new system to ensure its successful adoption.

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S/4HANA Migration Considerations and Best Practices

Start Planning Early

Considering the scale of the project, early planning is critical for a successful migration to S/4HANA. Begin by creating a business case that aligns with your organization’s strategic objectives. Building this case lays the foundation for executive buy-in, allocation of adequate funds and resources, and ensuring project success.

When planning, it is critical to include measurable business outcomes in terms of increased performance, process efficiency, cost savings, and customer experience. To maximize benefits, organizations should define KPIs like operational improvements, reduced Total Cost of Ownership, and faster financial closing times to align the migration with business goals. During planning, identify impacted areas (e.g., finance, supply chain, HR) and engage stakeholders early to address their needs and ensure readiness for S/4HANA benefits.

Get Executive Buy-In

Employees and stakeholders are often reluctant to undertake a complex project like S/4HANA migration. IT leaders, CIOs, and CFOs might be wary of the costs, efforts, and risks. However, migration initiatives are sometimes necessary to meet changing business requirements.

Organizations should treat migration as a company-wide strategy rather than a tactical project. Everyone in the organization must understand the strategy to ensure adequate planning and implementation. Management should establish a roadmap that IT and business teams can understand and support.

Leverage Outsourced Expertise

Many challenges are involved in migrating to S/4HANA, with many organizations lacking the required in-house expertise to migrate. Many businesses choose to partner with external migration experts to support various aspects of the migration process, including workload assessments, planning, process mapping, implementation, and management.

Internal IT support is essential, but consulting with external specialists often provides more business value. However, it is also important to ensure the external and internal teams collaborate effectively.

Determine the Right Migration Strategy

Before initiating the SAP S/4HANA migration, the organization must make several key decisions about the overall migration strategy. Different approaches may better suit different S/4HANA systems (for example, on-premises vs cloud).

It is also useful to consider simply converting the data and settings from the existing ECC system. However, sometimes it makes more sense to establish an entirely new SAP ERP system to avoid future problems. A successful migration requires proper planning based on a clear strategy.

Archive Legacy Data

A crucial preparatory step for businesses transitioning to SAP S/4HANA is archiving legacy ERP custom code. Research indicates that a significant portion of ABAP code is customer-specific and often goes unused after creation. Performing this clean-up before migration presents an excellent opportunity to optimize the ERP system. By doing so, you can achieve a reduced migration volume, leading to lower financial and time costs.

Focus on Security

Considering the ever-evolving business application threat landscape and the increasing sophistication of threat actors, it has become imperative for organizations to integrate security from the outset of transformation projects and application development. Neglecting SAP security at the application level can lead to significant business impacts that cannot be overlooked.

Integrate Security from the Start

Ensure that you adopt a “shift left” approach, which involves incorporating security validation during code creation rather than deployment or testing, enterprises can proactively prevent potential risks from materializing during production or leaving the development environment altogether. This proactive stance enables businesses to identify and address security issues early on, mitigating the risk of security breaches and their detrimental consequences.

Automate Wherever Possible

While there are parts of the migration process that must be performed manually, don’t ignore looking at solutions that can automate tasks for you. Depending only on manual change management processes can lead to accidental shutdowns and increased project budgets. Automation mitigates these risks and significantly cuts down the time and effort involved in the process. Automation also allows you to run your legacy and SAP S/4HANA systems in parallel until the final transition is complete.

Use Tools for Testing, Data Migration, and Role Re-design

There are several tools available to help take on tasks like data migration, role design, and testing to ensure a smooth transition. These tools enable you to efficiently perform the transition processes, reduce time and costs, and decrease the probability of errors. Check the ‘Tools and Resources for Migration’ section below which lists tools provided by SAP to help customers transition to S/4HANA.

Deployment Strategy

In terms of deployment options, following are the options that are available to us:

1. Phase Deployment
2. Full-scale Deployment

Let’s look at each of the following.

Phased Deployment

This approach involves a gradual rollout of S/4HANA, starting with specific modules or business units. Think of it as a step-by-step approach, where you migrate different parts of your organization to the new system in stages. This allows for a more controlled transition, minimizing disruption to your operations. It also allows for learning and adjustments along the way, ensuring each phase builds upon the success of the previous one. Phased deployments are often favored by large organizations with complex landscapes or those seeking to minimize risk.

Full-Scale Deployment

This is a comprehensive and transformative approach where you migrate your entire organization to S/4HANA in a single, coordinated effort. It’s a bold move that signifies a complete embrace of digital transformation, enabling you to realize the full benefits of S/4HANA across all your business processes simultaneously. While this approach requires a significant investment of time and resources, both internal and external, it allows for a comprehensive business transformation. By migrating all functionalities at once, you can add to the complexities and potential delays associated with a phased approach, but you will have a system designed to optimize the benefits your users receive. This approach is often favored by organizations seeking a clean break from legacy systems and a swift move towards digital transformation.

Post-Migration Strategy

Post-migration strategy involves pre-dominantly two phases:

1. Hypercare Phase
2. Continuous Optimizations

Hypercare Phase

The hypercare phase is a critical period immediately following your S/4HANA go-live. It’s a time of heightened support and monitoring to ensure a smooth transition and address any initial problems that may arise. Close attention and support during this time will accelerate user adoption and ensure the stability and optimal performance of the system. Here’s what effective hypercare support should include:

Dedicated Support Team

A dedicated team of experts, including functional and technical consultants, should be available to provide immediate assistance to users and address any issues that may arise. This team acts as a first line of defense, ensuring prompt resolution of problems and minimizing user frustration and disruption to business operations.

Proactive Monitoring

Continuous monitoring of system performance, user activity, and error logs is crucial during hypercare. This allows you to identify and address potential issues before they escalate, ensuring system stability and user satisfaction.

Knowledge Transfer

Hypercare is also an opportunity to reinforce user training and knowledge transfer. Providing ongoing support and guidance helps users adapt to the new system and its functionalities, ensuring a smooth transition and maximizing user adoption.

Monitoring Performance and User Feedback

Monitoring performance and gathering user feedback are essential activities in the post-migration phase of your S/4HANA journey. They provide valuable insights into the health of your new system, user satisfaction, and areas for improvement.

Performance Monitoring

Keeping a close eye on system performance is crucial to ensure your S/4HANA system is operating optimally. This involves tracking key metrics such as system uptime, response times, and resource utilization. By monitoring these metrics, you can identify potential bottlenecks, address performance issues proactively, and ensure a smooth and efficient user experience. Performance monitoring helps you maintain system stability, prevent disruptions, and optimize your S/4HANA investment.

User Feedback

Gathering user feedback is equally important to understand how well your new system is meeting business needs and user expectations. Actively solicit feedback through surveys, interviews, and user groups. This provides valuable insights into user satisfaction, identifies pain points, and highlights areas for improvement. By combining performance monitoring with user feedback, you gain a holistic view of your S/4HANA implementation. This allows you to make data-driven decisions, optimize system performance, and ensure your S/4HANA system delivers on its promise of innovation, efficiency, and business growth.

Continuous Optimization

Continuous optimization is crucial to ensure your system remains aligned with evolving business needs and technological advancements. This involves a commitment to regular updates and feedback-driven improvements.

Regular Updates

SAP regularly releases updates and enhancements to S/4HANA, providing new functionalities, performance improvements, and security patches. Staying current with these updates ensures you leverage the latest innovations and maintain a secure and stable system. Regular updates are essential to maintain the security and compliance posture of your system.

Feedback-Driven Improvements

Continuous improvement relies on actively gathering and analyzing user feedback. Establish mechanisms to collect feedback on system performance, usability, and areas for enhancement. This feedback provides valuable insights to guide ongoing optimization efforts and ensure your S/4HANA system remains aligned with business needs and user expectations.

Future-Proofing with S/4HANA

Migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA is a strategic decision that enables organizations to use enhance operational efficiency, and future-proof their ERP systems. SAP S/4HANA also offers several advantages for organizations, including enhanced real-time analytics, quicker financial closings, access to cutting-edge technologies like AI and process automation, and more manageable business model updates. Lastly, the decision to move to SAP S/4HANA should align with the company’s strategic goals and provide a competitive edge.

Tools and Resources for Migration

SAP offers a variety to tools to help customers migrate data from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. These tools help simplify the migration process, predefine migration content, harmonize data, and automate manual tasks.

S/4HANA Migration Cockpit

The Migration Cockpit is a web-based tool designed to simplify the transfer of critical data files from legacy systems to S/4HANA. With each release, it is enhanced with new features and objects, ensuring improved performance and greater efficiency. Additionally, users can develop custom objects to better meet specific implementation needs.

SAP Rapid Data Migration

SAP Rapid Data Migration offers a seamless and efficient way to transfer data from legacy systems. It enables automated data cleansing, transformation into optimized formats, and loading into new SAP applications, all with minimal disruption. This streamlined process reduces errors and ensures a smooth transition to SAP-based solutions.

S/4HANA MOM (Migration Object Modeler)

While SAP Migration Cockpit is a great tool for SAP migrations, it lacks flexibility to be customized. However, SAP offers the SAP Migration Object Modeler (MOM), which allows you to modify field mappings, create new source structures, and apply rules for data transformation. SAP S/4HANA MOM includes global data, target and source structures, and structure mapping, along with a field mapping feature to support further customization.

SLT or SAP Landscape Transformation

SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool that helps migrate and align data within your current landscape. It supports business reorganization and facilitates Unicode and non-Unicode conversions during loading and replication, streamlining the conversion process. SLT also automates deployments, improving efficiency and reducing errors.

Secure Your SAP S/4HANA Migration with Pathlock

SAP S/4HANA migration can be a massive undertaking that requires careful planning and preparation. Far too often, companies forget to think about how their access control and security strategies will change until they are getting close to going live on a new platform. S4/HANA will often require a new approach to access control that can adapt to the new landscape and challenges.

With Pathlock, organizations using SAP S/4HANA can automate many of their SAP security processes to provide 360-degree protection across the SAP system landscape. The Pathlock platform can provide complete capabilities, including:

Automated Role Design

Pathlock automates the design of SAP roles by analyzing a user’s existing authorizations, their historical usage patterns, and their job function groupings, as well as segregation of duties (SOD) rules and sensitive access concerns. The solution ensures that roles adhere to defined naming conventions, are adequately reviewed, and are properly documented for a smooth migration to S/4HANA. Learn more

Vulnerability Management

Migrating to a new environment is never going to be perfect. It takes time to get your configurations and security right. Pathlock continuously scans your SAP applications to identify critical vulnerabilities. It dynamically visualizes your SAP landscape, shows you where your vulnerabilities are, automatically prioritizes them, and then shows you how to remove the weaknesses in your applications. Learn more

Threat Detection

The Threat Detection and Response module from Pathlock provides SAP security and application teams with focused visibility into threats facing critical business systems. It analyzes logs from over 60 data sources to identify critical events and combinations of non-critical/complex events to identify threats in your application environment. Learn more

Apart from the above modules, Pathlock offers many other solutions like License Optimization, Access Analysis, Provisioning, and more to help make your S/4HANA migration process more efficient.

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