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SAP Extends ECC Support Through 2027
SAP recently announced that Business Suite 7 standard support services will be extended through 2027. Like most professionals tasked with managing SAP, you may be wondering what this announcement
Customer Question of the Month: What Are My Options Moving SAP to the Cloud?
Moving SAP to the cloud is not a single option, but a continuum. Customers can choose anything from a quick, as-is migration to cut hosting costs, to a full upgrade
The Making of a Top SAP Basis Administration Team
Administrators have never been the rockstars of the IT world. While your developers build exciting new products and features, your admins work quietly behind the scenes, keeping everything running
How SAP Transformation Navigator Affects Your Upgrade
SAP Transformation Navigator (TN) is a useful tool to help customers undergoing SAP upgrades and migrations. Released at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2017, Transformation Navigator was built in response to
SAP HANA Migration: 3 Steps to a Successful Transition
In infrastructure upgrades, the goals often shape the process. For example, if you’re repainting a building and your goal is to get it done as quickly as possible within budget,
How to Save 50% on Your SAP HANA Migration
Let’s face it: no one gets excited about migrating. However, much vendors tout the considerable benefits of SAP HANA, migration is still a costly and potentially disruptive (albeit necessary) process
ASAP Methodology vs. SAP Activate: Understanding the Differences
SAP Activate is a complete methodology, more comprehensive than any system SAP has built before. SAP customers have a vast range of landscapes, with an almost unlimited array of
The Role of SAP Migration Cockpit in S/4HANA Transformation
The SAP Migration Cockpit is what it sounds like: a central control repository used to execute SAP HANA upgrades and migrations from legacy solutions. The cockpit works with both SAP
Customer Question of the Month: How can I ensure success in complex enterprise transformations?
Complex transformations can have large project teams and extensive technological requirements that can be a challenge for your organization. Here’s how to make sure your enterprise digital transformation is
Customer Question of the Month: Boundary Systems and SAP Migration
Your SAP system isn’t an island — if it were, it would be no use to you. To power your business, it needs to serve as the hub of a
How HANA is Impacting SAP Hosting Services
From race cars to ERP landscapes, high performance always requires careful and regular maintenance. And as a system built from the ground up around performance, SAP HANA is no
SAP HANA Migration: Our LB Foster Success Story
The Protera team is pretty proud of what we’ve done with LB Foster. They came to us at the end of 2018 looking for a complete migration and transformation on
4 Essential ERP Migration Steps Changed by the Cloud
The cloud has profoundly changed the ERP migration process. There are more choices for destinations and powerful new features that help control cost and risk. Likewise, there are more choices
4 Creative Hybrid Cloud Solutions to Complex Problems
A hybrid cloud hosting model is often used as a compromise — or a stepping stone to a more permanent, exclusively cloud-based solution. When you move your SAP landscape to
4 Critical Elements of an SAP HANA Migration Project Plan
One of the biggest challenges of planning an SAP HANA migration is simply that most companies don’t know what to expect. The technologies and methodologies involved have changed so quickly
Customer Question of the Month: Custom Code and Fiori
If you’ve been on SAP for more than a few years, custom code can be a significant challenge to your digital transformation. It’s easy to forget how much has changed
5 Questions to Ask Your SAP Managed Services Provider in the Cloud Era
No one understand the needs of your company better than you. Unfortunately, translating those needs into a program for SAP transformation can be a daunting challenge. Many SAP managed
Functional vs. Technical: How Migration Automation Bridges the Gap
SAP functional and technical consultants complement each other, and both are indispensable for operating an SAP landscape. Without functional consultants, you wouldn’t be able to harness the flexibility, customizability and
How to Achieve a 100% Successful SAP HANA Migration to the Public Cloud
A HANA public cloud migration isn’t just a lateral move to new hosting — it’s a major change that should yield business, performance and budget benefits for your organization.
Suite on HANA Migration Guide
Suite on HANA isn’t just a step on the way to S/4HANA — it’s also an important journey in itself, and one that can provide excellent ROI with the
SAP HANA 2025 Deadline: Assessing Your Progress
We’re still years away from the SAP HANA 2025 deadline, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be working on it. Upgrading to S/4HANA is an involved, complicated process, requiring significant
4 Benefits of SAP Basis Managed Services
Your entire SAP landscape depends on the effectiveness of your SAP Basis team, but many companies struggle with internal SAP Basis administration. Here are four key ways SAP Basis
Greenlight Your SAP Migration Project Into The Public Cloud
Automation decreases the risk and costs of SAP migration, while accelerating the timetable. If you’ve been having difficulty going forward with your SAP cloud migration project, here’s how automation
Introduction to SAP Cloud Security
Protecting SAP is a lot like securing a building. You need to invest in certain infrastructure, such as locks, an alarm system, and cameras. Those systems have to be
An Executive Guide to SAP HANA 2.0
There’s a lot of uncertainty among customers about HANA 2.0. A recent survey found that nearly two thirds of SAP customers have not yet performed an SAP HANA migration,
