How does Selective Data Transition (SDT) address these challenges?

Companies want to know if they have the right strategy, an efficient design, and effective controls in place when managing the implementation.

Selective Data Transition, provided by Capgemini in partnership with cbs, can offer a better option than the traditional greenfield (new implementation) or brownfield (system conversion) approach. SDT enables enterprises to reap the benefits of transition and to minimize any downsides at the same time.

SDT is based on cbs’s Enterprise Transformer solution, enabling existing process and system landscapes to be transferred holistically and flexibly to the solution and data structures of SAP S/4HANA.

SDT is the only approach that keeps the required historical data while simultaneously achieving process optimization and landscape harmonization.

It’s an approach rooted in real-world practicality. Businesses can re-use relevant custom solutions, choose to migrate only the data that is relevant to their needs, and optimize selected processes.

Projects can be of short duration; execution is swift, using proven methods, automated tools with quality control, repeatable rules, monitoring, and complex on-the-fly data transformation.

When a company chooses this approach, it can adopt SAP S/4HANA-optimized business processes and focus efforts on reengineering the areas of the business that will add maximum value and competitive differentiation.

It’s smooth. It’s secure. And it’s specific to the needs of individual businesses.

Selective Data Transition powered by cbs Enterprise TransformerEnable business transformation through consolidation, divestiture, and reorganization to refine the move to SAP® S/4HANA

Business transformation needs to be viewed beyond the IT lens. From gaining agility to optimizing structures to becoming more competitive, companies need to establish clear goals to ensure a successful transition to a new digital platform.

Companies want flexibility when considering a move to the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP S/4HANA or preparing for a merger, acquisition, or divestiture. It is an opportunity to revamp processes and resolve current business pain points.

The transformation journey is a complex, multi-step program that needs to consider and answer a range of questions.

Solution overview

SAP S/4HANA adoption is not limited to a greenfield or brownfield approach. SDT offers a third option for companies that delivers:

• Software-driven data migration• Speed and flexibility• Audit compliance• Reduced business risk• Near-zero downtime• Minimized business disruptions• Full landscape transformation capabilities.

For greenfield implementations, SDT allows companies to select the historical and transactional data to bring over so they can merge and harmonize ECC data and processes into the new system.

With a brownfield approach, SDT harmonizes financial data, implements new GL functions, and restructures profitability analysis, charts of accounts, and profit centers.

SDT solutions and methods include:

• cbs ET for all transformation needs • cbs MDV for Master Data Validation and integration with

Master Data Governance• cbs Data Analyzer for master data, system comparison, and

custom code usage and quality• A mapping and filtering cockpit to build mappings for data

transformation • A validation cockpit with automated confirmation of data

after transformation or migration.

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• High business risk if business- critical processes are changed• More effort to include historical data• Can include high-process innovation• Highest cost option• Highest change management

With SDT addition

• Select what historical/trans- action data you bring over• Merge and harmonize data and processes into the new system

With SDT addition

• Harmonize financial data • Implement new GL functions• Restructure profitability analysis, charts of accounts, and profit centers

• Software-driven data migration• Fast and flexible• Audit compliant• Reduces project risk and minimizes business disruption• Near-zero downtime• Full SLO/landscape transformation capabilities

• Lower business risk• Includes 100% of historical data that exists in the ECC source system• Lowest process innovation during the actual migration• Big bang is the only possible approach

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Differentiators

Realize the business case for transformation.

• Reduced business risk: adopt SAP S/4HANA at the pace of the business

• Faster: project timeline can be reduced by more than 50 percent

• Cheaper: by up to 80 percent for brownfield with SDT when compared to a traditional greenfield approach

• Safer: Enterprise Transformer tool is audited and mature migration software

• Minimally disruptive: no typical cutover activities; downtime is usually optimized to less than 24 hours

• Analytics: detailed process, usage, data, and parameter analysis across different systems in the landscape

• Inclusive: selective historical data can be migrated. Data from non-SAP systems can also be migrated during the same cycle

• Flexibility: tailored to fit specific needs, no matter where a company is on the greenfield or brownfield spectrum

• Endorsed: recommended by SAP for large, complex ERP environments

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The information contained herein is provided for general informational purposes only and does not create a professional or advisory relationship. It is provided without warranty or assurance of any kind.

Why Capgemini

The Renewable Enterprise is a Capgemini trade-marked approach that enables customers to move towards an Intelligent Enterprise enabled by proven Capgemini tools and methodologies. The architecture is scalable, automated, and connected.

To make this journey simple and efficient, Capgemini and cbs have partnered to provide the SDT approach.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services. The Group is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. A responsible and multicultural company of 265,000 people in nearly 50 countries, Capgemini’s purpose is to unleash human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. With Altran, the Group reported 2019 combined global revenues of $20 billion.

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About cbscbs Corporate Business Solutions is a comprehensive, end-to-end SAP consulting service provider that combines technical & business process consulting with mature software technology to deliver complex projects. Since its founding in 1995, cbs has expanded to over 15 offices with over 600 consultants worldwide allowing us to deliver high-quality SAP consulting services for our global customer base. cbs is a founding member of the SAP S/4HANA Selective Data Transition Engagement group, formed in May 2019.

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