SAP Migration Services
Mergers & acquisitions, divestures, increasing globalization, receding organizational boundaries and emerging new technologies are transforming the way businesses are run today. Companies are adapting to the nonstop change in business environment with constant innovation, better flexibility and improved efficiency to realize sustainable profitable growth and increased competitiveness.
Business ChallengesIn this fluid environment, the future of Enterprise Applications is uncertain due to frequently changing industry trends and situations. All companies, whether big or small are facing challenges of:
- Un-clear road map for certain ERP products
- Unclear product strategy including application functionality enhancements
- Uncertainty about future upgrades, application support
- Non- availability of a clear migration road-map to a new ERP
- Perceived high maintenance costs for existing applications
- Reduced availability and rising costs of consultants
To combat these challenges, some customers opt to migrate from their current ERP platform to a different one. HCL’s SAP Migration Services, based on product agnostic ez.Migrate program, provide customized solutions after evaluating migration variables
| Applications-related variables | Other variables |
|---|---|
| Customization | Field and processing logic mapping |
| Integration and interfaces | Process configuration |
| Vertical-based solutions | Historical data migration |
| Country-based solutions | Availability of cross-skilled resources |
Business Solution
HCL helps customers by creating Productized Services - “Migrate from ERP-1 to ERP-2” with minimal interruption to business while reducing TCO including timeline, risks, effort and resources required, through the unique ez.Migrate program.
This program covers the entire spectrum of migration services including:- Consulting services like application road map assessment and building a business case
- Migration framework with accelerators—tools and templates
- Implementation methodology
- Migration Center of Excellence
- Trained resource pool: migration task force
- Budget Creation Services, which first generates savings by outsourcing application, support, and maintenance and then ploughs those savings back for the migrations
Value Delivered
With HCL's ez.Migrate, companies achieve greater efficiency and derive more value while migrating. Some of the business benefits that accrue to them include:
- Budget creation
- Reduction in the total cost of ownership
- Access to a comprehensive, well-defined migration methodology with up to 40 percent reduction in timelines, up to 50 percent reduction in costs, and reduced customer involvement other than for requirement planning, approvals and sign off, and testing and training activities
- Comprehensive change management
