Data migration sits at the heart of every SAP customer’s project as they make the move to S/4HANA. If they fail to choose the right approach for data migration, they can be faced with business disruption, increased risk, a long implementation time, and high labor costs.
As the conventional approach generally involves writing the data directly to the new system, this requires lots of test cycles to make sure the database is not corrupt.
JiVS, on the other hand, offers an alternative data migration approach that saves costs and time, while increasing productivity and efficiency. In this blog, we share some real-world benefits from customers who have migrated to S/4HANA with the support of JiVS.
ENERGY TRANSFER: Huge Productivity Gains and Cost Savings
The US-based natural gas and propane pipeline transport company had its eye on S/4HANA but the cost of converting was overwhelmingly high. After a thorough analysis of the financial benefits of deploying JiVS to support data migration and application retirement, it was able to largely fund the conversion with the massive cost savings made by decommissioning its 100 or so legacy systems. With all its historical data consolidated on the JiVS platform and directly accessible from S/4HANA, the company has seen a huge increase in productivity across the entire organization.
HAWLE: S/4 Implementation Within 3 Months
JiVS is synonymous with a faster migration process for companies that move to S/4HANA, and Hawle – one of our Swiss customers – is an excellent example. Through the One-Click Transformation approach powered by JiVS, they were able to go live with S/4HANA in just three months. They did this by historizing their data on JiVS and only transferring the data that was needed to S/4HANA. To meet its three-month target, processes were optimized and automated, legacy systems were switched off, and data was validated and loaded using the SAP Migration Cockpit. As JiVS integrates seamlessly with the SAP Migration Cockpit, this was an important factor in enabling go-live within such a short period of time.
BÜHLER: 80% Reduction in Operating Costs
After an unsuccessful attempt to migrate its data using a migration tool from another provider, Swiss plant equipment manufacturer Bühler teamed up with DMI to migrate to S/4HANA and reduced its operating costs by a staggering 80%. All its historical data was transferred and stored centrally on JiVS, and by retiring its legacy systems it no longer had to pay for the expensive software licenses and hardware infrastructure that had kept these systems running for many years, not to mention the high energy bills. With JiVS taking care of all its historical information, Bühler now operates just one system with one license, which feeds directly into SAP S/4HANA.
RhB: Massive Improvement in Data Quality
Once all of its legacy information had been imported into JiVS, the process began to establish which data was needed in S/4. The next step involved harmonizing, cleansing, and enriching this valuable data, which meant that when the time came for S/4HANA to go live, it only contained data of the highest quality to support its future operations.
The many benefits of a JiVS implementation are reaped by each of our customers when upgrading to SAP S/4HANA. Do you want a faster, simpler, and more cost-effective conversion to S/4 too?
Then get in touch with our team today, and we’ll show you how!
Advisor Partnerships DMI / JiVS