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The price of SAP HANA has always been a topic of concern ever since its inception. Many Enterprises end up thinking if they can afford it In this blog we discuss on a myth about the cost associated with Sap HANA.
Many businesses take a stand instead of migration to SAP HANA they prefer to run on existing platform an update as per the need. Even after understanding the advantages it offers. This is main reason why companies refrain from this migration.
Businesses end up worrying about cost of implementation and acquisition. Cost attached to purchasing of new hardware, systems and licenses and so on. And end up zeroing on thought SAP HANA is costly as compared other platforms.

Reality: It can be way cheaper the imagined

Reality is if thought on short term cost, migration to SAP HANA generally involves higher costs than other database platforms. In-memory technology costly than conventional one yet requires disk drives or flash memory for backup.
But accepting fact that this is a better method of data storage and reduces data footprint, this usually will not immediately compensate for the additional expenses.

However, these high end cost can be avoided, businesses can transfer their SAP HANA systems to a cloud service provider. Some hardware upgradation still required for this method, but it does enable enterprises to start small and grow in line with actual demand.

Migration to cloud also eliminates resource requirement of admins, as the cloud provider administers the systems. With this option, there is no need to invest time and resources into additional training for SAP HANA.
In terms ROI, SAP HANA offers huge potential for saving on long run basis.

SAP HANA enables businesses to consolidate data in single system. This minimizes hardware and software costs and also increases efficiency.

SAP HANA – an investment to look at long-Term

While discussing all this, it pertinent to consider opportunities and solutions that SAP HANA offers.
For example,

• • SAP HANA helps to reduce expenses and increase valves with its real time functionalities.
  • Capabilities such as predictive maintenance, and innovative business models, help enterprises to generate additional revenue streams. I
  • Future application from SAP will always be based on the in-memory platform, putting the enterprises that use it in a better position to capitalize on new developments.

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With Mckinsey’s marking Robotic Process Automation(RPA) as the next big thing in the market with expected potential economic growth of nearly $6.7 trillion by 2025, Every enterprise is looking at it in very positive manner. Given the stats its very obvious that the growth of RPA is taking great shape with the potential to free up large numbers of FTEs to take more challenging and proactive management positions.

RPA technology also has the potential to revolutionize the way we work – particularly for professionals in areas such as payroll, O2C, P2P etc. Having said that, there are also great amount speculations connected to RPA and its future. To understand the same let’s look at its history and evaluation, where exactly we stand in present.

History

By bringing in many technologies in one roof – RPA is an umbrella toolkit to be used for tasks that can be automated or are repetitive in nature. Going back to history, this innovation came out from the term ‘Machine Learning’ coined in 1959 which aimed at creating Artificial Intelligence at that time. Further to this as development progressed to workflow automation and furthermore to RPA

Need for RPA
RPA was developed to its current status basically for two main reasons

A solution for BPO automation –BPOs need to consistently deliver annual saving to its customers and reduce costs, RPA served as boon to them and BPOs were 1st ones to implement the same

Web or Screen Scrapping – In the 90s data extraction was one of the most repetitive manual tasks and Screen Scraping Softwares (early stage of RPA) were created to extract data. Soon multiple sectors such as logistics, financial services, etc started using Screen scrapping widely.

Present Day of RPA

From its diverse beginning, today RPA continues to grow multifold in the large range of applications. RPA is emerging technology today but is already driving automation, globally.

It is best at automating repetitive tasks like matching, aggregating updating, capturing task which are rapidly shifting to RPA from humans. RPA is now spreading its boundaries and with proper integration, with ML and AI it can perform the intelligent and analytical tasks that were totally human dependent earlier.

Future of RPA

As more and more enterprises are becoming aware of RPA, its benefits, and moving on to implement it. RPA is no more multinational enterprise’s game. Many Mid or small businesses are also moving to RPA.

With variety business sectors and industries looking positively toward its implementation, RPA is set to play significant role in sectors like BFSI, Insurance, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas etc. While many organisations are exprimenting RPA will soon be seen being used in integration with many other workflow related to tools.

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Ever since SAP HANA was launched it has brought a lot of transformation in the complete business ecosystem for the Enterprises. Right from exceeding customer expectation to bringing in the consistency in a company’s growth policy. Resulting in unprecedented growth and dynamism of SAP HANA in the world of global business.
Yet, There many companies yet to leverage SAP HANA functionalities to its full power. Implementing SAP HANA into your business will boost better functioning, streamline the processes, in turn, streamline the quality of your business services.

Benefits to your Company

Although the SAP S/4 HANA brings a long list of benefits to Enterprises, in this blog, we will look at some of the key benefits you can rip post-implementation of SAP HANA

Sound strategy

Pulsating the basic principle of digital transformation SAP HANA helps organizations to streamline strategy to make perfect. HANA being an agile and futuristic technology it boosts progressive, innovative angles to the business.

Real-time data integration

HANA brings in path-breaking data and platform integration and plays a significant role in any organization to withstand dynamism in the changing customer needs today. Real-time data helps organizations plan, analyze strategy and take faster decision making.

Faster ROI

SAP HANA yields faster ROI. With the cloud solution interface in the shortest time span, SAP HANA lowers total cost ownership. A full automatic cloud ERP solution makes deployment, configuration, and maintenance much more effective, simpler and most importantly cost-effective.

Intelligent cloud ERP systems
HANA’s smart cloud-based ERP’s biggest advantage is the elimination of pattern-oriented tasks and the improvement of suggestions based on business patterns.

Crafsol’s SAP consultants and implementation experts provide the best of the SAP consulting services with practitioners approach with 360° purview.

Some of the major domains of expertise

• • End-to-end SAP HANA support
  • Migration Current SAP environment to SAP HANA
  • Post Migration support
  • Advisory services from feasibility study to a migration road map
  • Analytics with Predictive and real-time analytics

Benefits for You

• • Virtual development
  • Disaster recovery system
  • Faster decision making with accurate and appropriate data
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Increased saving and better productivity

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SAP customers have been very to arrive at the decision to implement it.
As the technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, businesses also want to leverage on the benefits provided by new technologies. Business leaders are realizing the power of accessing reliable real-time information, predictive analysis and want to keep up in terms of agility.

Migrating to SAP S/4 HANA, can bring about opportunities for introducing digital technology and process improvements into their organizations. The major benefit of SAP S/4 HANA is allowing customers to understand and witness the transformation that the next generation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) will be undergoing and most importantly,
However, despite the rapid rise in the number of implementations, there are still a massive majority of the SAP install base, that have yet to embark on their journey to SAP S/4HANA.
In order to help you get best out of SAP S/4 Hana we highlight key steps for successful implementation S4 HANA.

1. Align Your Business Goals to SAP S/4 HANA

While moving it is very important that business goals are defined well and aligned, so right road map can be created for SAP HANA transformation. It may be a complete change of process or small alterations it must be correctly documented at smallest or tiniest levels.
Professional expert’s involvement is the most important factor here, before identifying optimal method it is important setup and determines the extent what impact transformation can bring inn.
Lastly, identifying business benefits form this implementation. Consider what business benefits you are expecting to obtain from this initiative. Your investment into SAPS/4 HANA must be planned around your business to ensure it is delivering expected ROI. Having this clarity on your ultimate business goals will also ensure that all of the management is on the same page and is better informed to make intelligent decisions.

2. Preconfigured Models

SAP S/4 HANA comes millions of preconfigured solution models, this is biggest reason why SAP HANA implementation is very speedy. Using a right and suitable model can leverage the cost-effective and faster implementation of SAP S/4 HANA.

3. Agile methodology

Leveraging an agile methodology has brought about a drastic shift in the quality and approach of transformations. Although agile sounds easier than in actual, It has worked well with many companies Crafsol has worked with. To leverage this methodology having a great SAP implementation partner equipped with strong experienced team is absolutely critical to a successful implementation.

4. SAP activate

As path model business goals get defined, Business Leaders become keenly interested in faster implementation. Getting started with it is not as simple as it looks. The four-step method of SAP activate is simple and specifically defined to help companies migrate to SAP S/4 HANA as quickly and risk-free as possible.

Conclusion

Switch from traditional ERP solutions to SAP S/4HANA is bound to create innovative new processes, automate operations, effectively use AI and allow your business to become more agile.
Crafsol has strong knowledge expertise, we have enabled our customers to go-live on SAP S/4HANA within 8 weeks. If you are looking to get started, or you want to discuss strategy or an implementation roadmap or a migration/conversion roadmap that would work for your business, do get in touch with us.

Implementing a new technology can be a challenging task and many CEO, CIO or Decision Makers believe SAP HANA migration to be a complex task with potential for risks. In this blog we take look at the process and realities to clear up this misconception.

Does SAP HANA Migration Turns Businesses Upside Down?

Complex, Time-consuming, A total relearning and a disruptive upgrade, these are some common thoughts that come into the minds of people when they think of SAP HANA implementation.
Perhaps, this thought is not totally untrue due to the scale of the project, and often involves fundamental changes to the company’s IT architecture. Proper planning is required Testing has to be in place.
Processes will have to be altered or re-engineered and yes, users will need additional training to get the grip of new technology. Application migration requires systems to upgraded to withstand the change.
Moreover, if businesses want to reap the benefits of SAP S/4HANA, they will first have to undergo even more process changes. But is there a way to reduce this disruption?

The answer is Yes, It Involves Less Risk and Effort than You Think

With some of the advanced features that SAP SANA offers several options for assistance and looking at the technical side, SAP HANA migration is actually relatively easy.

SAP with its numerous partners offers various sets of best practices to help make SAP HANA implementation run smoothly. Alongside, there are standardized approaches make server migration easy.

Depending on the business models, in many cases, database migration and system upgrades can be implemented in a singular step. This simplifies migration and reduces downtime thereby implementation taking place with minimal reduced disruption.
While saying this, SAP Migration is a significant change to the business. A proper plan has to be prepared for smooth transit. SAP Intelligence has prepared a collection of standardized workshops to help businesses choose the best approach for migration and create a schedule for the project.
A strategic plan for SAP HANA migration goes a long way toward preventing disruption. IF an Organisation wants a smooth shift to SAP HANA than proper approaches are developed to implementation.

Crafsol – your switch support

SAP HANA migration is a major switch that involves a lot of commitment. But there are a variety of options that can help enterprises along the way. Crafsol has helped many companies migrate to SAP HANA or SAP S/4 SANA like Pharma, Chemical, Manufacturing and many more. Get in touch with our experts to know more.