How SAP's AI tools can help your ECC cloud migration to S/4HANA

"SAP is leveraging AI to solve one of the biggest ERP challenges: migrating your legacy ECC ERP system to the cloud. In an exclusive interview with Techzine TV, Jan Gilg, Chief Revenue Officer at SAP, reveals how AI-powered tools are making these traditionally complex and expensive transitions faster and more affordable. Many enterprises still rely on outdated SAP ECC systems and face significant hurdles when moving to S/4HANA cloud."

"Traditional migrations involve extensive manual labor, data entry work, and custom code redevelopment. These processes can span years and consume massive budgets. "There are many customers that are still sitting on old ECC systems on-premises, and they all subscribe to the fact that they want to move to the cloud," Gilg explains. "They want to move to the cloud with SAP, but they also ask for help to get there and cut the project time down, cut the cost down.""

"SAP's RISE program is frequently misunderstood as simply moving from ECC to S/4HANA. However, Gilg clarifies that RISE encompasses a comprehensive transformation approach including AI-infused tooling, methodology, and the clean core principles. "RISE does include the tooling that I mentioned before. It does include a methodology, it does include the way of moving a landscape to what we call clean core, getting rid of customizations," he notes."

Many enterprises still run legacy SAP ECC systems on-premises and face major obstacles when migrating to S/4HANA cloud. Traditional migrations require extensive manual labor, data entry, and custom code redevelopment, often spanning years and consuming massive budgets. SAP applies AI across migration phases to accelerate extracting, cleaning, and optimizing legacy data, ensuring clean data necessary for AI-driven ERP use. RISE with SAP represents a holistic transformation model that combines AI-infused tooling, methodology, and clean core principles to remove customizations, streamline landscapes, and reduce project time and cost for cloud migration.

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