SAP Business Transformation Center

SAP Business Transformation Center, powered by SAP Cloud ALM, is a new, innovative cloud-based solution that enables organizations to effortlessly transform their data operations.

Leveraging the power of SAP Business Technology Platform, the solution provides a guided approach to digital transformation that simplifies the transition from data to the intelligent enterprise.

With a comprehensive end-to-end solution, SAP Business Transformation Center optimizes every phase of the data transformation process, ensuring a seamless transition to a more agile and innovative enterprise. 

Lean Selective Data transition

The SAP Business Transformation Center has recently  unveiled its latest feature enhancement, following the initial launch of the digital blueprint in March 2023.

Positioned as a SaaS cloud solution, this platform offers a comprehensive pathway for organizations seeking digital modernization, functioning as a focal point for all data transformation requirements.

Among the notable additions in this release is a standardized solution facilitating selective transition from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, as well as to SAP S/4HANA. The introduction of the Lean Selective Data Transition scenario presents users with a swift, efficient, and user-friendly methodology.

Furthermore, this new release ensures optimal support throughout each phase of the data transformation process. Users can seamlessly conduct system analysis, define scope, create migration cycles and execute data transformation based on designated company codes.

This latest version marks a significant milestone in the digital transformation journey for organizations. Looking ahead, ongoing enhancements are planned to further refine the Lean Selective Data Transition scenario, with the overarching goal of achieving an optimal balance of simplicity, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Lean Selective Data Transition overview video

Lean Selective Data Transition - Solution

Check out our One Pager for the SAP Business Transformation Center  solution. Our One Pager provides an overview of the capabilities, including data-driven guidance for the transition from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. The SAP Business Transformation Center provides actionable insights into business data, supports data scoping workshops and ultimately executes the transition.

It is included in SAP Cloud Service subscriptions and SAP Enterprise Support and RISE with SAP contracts, and can serve as a basis for migration. Stay tuned for more enhancements to the SAP Business Transformation Center coming soon.

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Digital Blueprint

The digital blueprint helps customers and partners define the migration and transformation scope for transitioning from SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) to SAP S/4HANA. It provides data-driven guidance and recommendations for decision-making roles, architects, and subject matter experts. The digital blueprint solution is included in SAP Cloud Service subscriptions and SAP Enterprise Support. Additionally, it offers actionable insights into business data and supports data scope workshops with solution architects or data lead roles at consulting partners. The result is a data specification documentation (”blueprint") that can serve as a basis for migration. Enhancements to the SAP Business Transformation Center will be delivered continuously after general availability and be provisioned according to SAP´s cloud deployment model.

Introducing the SAP Business Transformation Center - Digital Blueprint Demo Video

Digital Blueprint Solution

Check out our new One Pager for the SAP Business Transformation Center's digital blueprint solution. Our One Pager provides an overview of the digital blueprint's capabilities, including data-driven guidance for transitioning from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, actionable insights into business data, and support for data scope workshops. The digital blueprint is included in SAP Cloud Service SAP Service Cloud subscriptions and SAP Enterprise Support contracts, and can serve as a basis for migration. Stay tuned for more enhancements to the SAP Business Transformation Center coming soon.

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Value

Guided data migration and transformation

  • Streamlined and guided data migration and transformation experience
  • One solution – methodology, process, content
  • Provided by SAP support, available for RISE with SAP

Accelerate time-to-market
 

  • Speed up migration and transformation projects
  • Reduce planning and execution complexity
  • Improve quality by integrated testing
  • Ease traceability and governance

Improve competitiveness
 

  • Lower cost of implementation: time and scalability through qualified consultants
  • Higher reliability through solution provisioning by SAP
  • Included in SAP support offering

Additional Information

Questions & Answers

The SAP Readiness Check for usage data profiling (UDP) is a prerequisite for the use of SAP Business Transformation Center. To be able to execute the UDP and to generate a file suitable for SAP Business Transformation Center digital blueprint , the basis SAP Note 3112362 is required in your source system. On top of it, SAP Note 3275056 provides SAP Business Transformation Center mandatory enhancements for the UDP.

SAP Business Transformation Center aims to support customers in their transition from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA on premise and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. There is currently no plan to support a transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition. However, the SAP Business Transformation Center analysis capabilities of your current SAP ECC source system are independent of the target deployment option of SAP S/4HANA.

No, only an SAP ECC source system can be used as a source system leveraging the SAP Business Transformation Center capabilities.

The Digital Blueprint is the first solution increment of the SAP Business Transformation Center. It serves as a starting point in a transition from SAP ECC to S/4HANA by providing transparency about the SAP ECC system usage and data offering scoping capabilities. It is planned to use the results of the Digital Blueprint to execute a data migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA On Premise and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. It is specifically aiming a Selective Data Transition migration approach. The SAP Business Transformation Center does not aim to replace existing SAP tools for a system conversion from ECC to S/4HANA, like e.g. the Software Update Manager (SUM).   

No, there is no distinct recommendation which transition path shall be used. However, the provided analysis capabilities can be supportive while determining the favourable transition approach. In addition, SAP and its partners of the Selective Data Transition Engagement are offering consulting services to assist in this matter.

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