Over the past year, our leading experts came together to address some of the hot topics in the SAP space. Here are Protiviti’s most popular SAP insights from 2023 as we kick off the new year. We anticipate these topics will remain important for your success in 2024.
#1. Lessons Learned: Shell Conversion to SAP BW Bridge for SAP Datasphere
By: Jacintha Anandaraj
In the modern digital era, data is the foundation of every firm. Enterprises constantly seek methods to improve data warehousing strategies to provide the business with faster, more accurate and newer insights. A new platform that has changed the way data is managed, stored and analyzed is the SAP Datasphere (formerly known as SAP Data Warehouse Cloud). Enterprises may create a modern, SAP-centric data warehouse with the SAP Datasphere that offers real-time insights for better decision-making using the power of cloud computing.
By: Marco Geisenberger, Steve Toshkoff and Julia Ostroushko
In a rapidly changing world, the user experience (UX) plays a vital role in determining the success of a product or application. A high-quality UX becomes crucial for capturing and retaining business user attention, satisfaction, and engagement. The internet and mobile apps have demonstrated that a user interface can be self-explanatory, without the need for a user guide to understand how to navigate and enter data on a new website or in a new app.
#3. Properly Prepping Data for SAP S/4HANA
By: Don Loden, Chris Hanson and Rohan Bhatia
During an organization’s SAP S/4HANA journey, the lack of attention paid to data can be an all-too-common pitfall, causing significant delays and cost overruns regardless of how well the system is constructed. We strongly recommend that companies lay the foundation for a strong data conversion strategy well in advance of the start of the implementation. If data preparation and data conversion are addressed and well planned prior to the start of the project, then one of the key risk areas for most projects will be largely mitigated before resource bandwidth is stretched thin. This approach is beneficial and will be a driving factor in the program’s success.
#4. Migrating SAP Workloads to AWS: Which Option to Choose?
By: Jonathan Haun
The phenomenon of cloud computing has slowly ingratiated us for many years now. Many customers have already moved entire workloads to the cloud and many vendors are now offering their products exclusively as a software as a service (SaaS) cloud platform. SAP customers still contemplating moving to the cloud will want to read this introduction to what is required when moving SAP workloads to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform.
#5. Risk Management Essentials for SAP S/4HANA Projects
By: Chris Hanson
An SAP S/4HANA transformation project has many risks that need to be managed and often, it is difficult for the project team operating day to day on detailed tasks to see the forest for the trees. Enter the Program Risk Management process.
