Why should you be concerned with reducing your data footprint? Besides helping to lower your carbon footprint, how else can it benefit your business? In this blog, we shine the spotlight on a number of reasons why building data footprint reduction into your data migration strategy will deliver ongoing operational and cost efficiencies and lower risks.
Less Migration Effort
Every day, your company is generating more and more data. Over the years, you’ve probably accumulated many terabytes of data, possibly even across a fragmented system landscape comprising SAP and non-SAP applications. Migrating all of this data would incur huge costs and require a massive (and unrealistic) number of man hours. But by being selective about what data you choose to migrate, such as master data and open items, you can free yourself of masses of data ballast, radically reducing your migration efforts. Your historical data can then be archived securely in a hugely compressed format and made accessible on an external platform.
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
If you take all your data with you to SAP S/4HANA, or another target system environment, you’ll be faced with a large memory footprint from the outset, resulting in high infrastructure costs, regardless of whether you run your system on premise or in the cloud. Less data in SAP S/4HANA means less computing power, less memory, and less infrastructure. Ultimately, this translates into lower operational costs – both now and in the future. So by operating a leaner system environment, you can in fact reduce the total cost of ownership, and achieve even greater cost savings by switching off your legacy systems which are otherwise expensive to run and maintain.
Lower Risks in SAP S/4HANA
One of the pitfalls businesses face when migrating data to SAP S/4HANA is the transfer of legacy issues. If a company fails to clean up its data and eliminate erroneous data records before migrating to the new system, it’s setting itself up for problems further down the line. The same errors will simply be replicated, in turn causing even more issues. On the other hand, when data migration is managed intelligently, converting to SAP S/4HANA is like starting afresh. Through legacy application retirement, rightsizing, data cleansing, and the selective transfer of data, the inaccurate and poor-quality data is eliminated. So not only can companies significantly lower the risks in SAP S/4HANA, they can also respond with greater agility and speed, knowing that their information in the new environment is reliable and up to date.
The JiVS Information Management Platform delivers all of the above and more. JiVS and smart tools like the Turbo Loader are helping customers create greater business value in the conversion to their new SAP S/4HANA environment. Make data migration part of your data management strategy and turn the conversion into an opportunity to become leaner and faster with JiVS.
Author: Tom Pfister, Chief Marketing Officer