Data Migration for SAP - SAP S/4HANA and Cloud Solutions

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Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2024 / 1

Pages 566

Authors Frank Finkbohner, Martina Höft, Michael Roth, Jonas Kinold, Wolfgang Kuchelmeister, Lukas Widera

Data Migration for SAP

Whether you’re moving to the cloud, migrating to SAP S/4HANA, or replacing a legacy system, get the data migration guidance you need in this comprehensive guide. Evaluate your landscape options and plan your strategy; then walk through the migration processes for SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, and SAP Business ByDesign. Master built-in tools and templates, IDoc and ALE distribution models, batch input, Cloud Integration from SAP Integration Suite, and more!

Plan and execute SAP data migration without programming
Learn to migrate data to SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, and SAP Business ByDesign
Explore migration tools including Cloud Integration, SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench, batch input, IDocs, and ALE

You'll learn about:

Data Migration Basics:
Review the technical fundamentals of data migration in an easy-to-understand way. Compare migration strategies and scenarios—including greenfield, brownfield, and hybrid implementations—and learn how to plan your migration project efficiently from start to finish.
SAP Solution Migration:
Follow step-by-step instructions to migrate data to SAP systems. See how the migration cockpit and the migration object modeler ease the transition to SAP S/4HANA, and get expert guidance for migrating to cloud-based solutions like SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, and SAP Business ByDesign.
Migration Approaches:
Learn to use classic migration methods, including IDoc and ALE distribution models, batch input, and database migration. Convert data types and data constellations without the need for programming. Use SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench and Cloud Integration to seamlessly transition data between different systems.

Key Highlights:

Planning
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP SuccesFactors
SAP Ariba
SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench
SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit
Cloud Integration
SAP S/4HANA migration object modeler
Batch input
IDoc and ALE distribution models

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Introduction
- Part I: Basic Principles
- Part II: Data Migration in SAP Solutions
- Part III: Alternative Methods
PART I Basic Principles
1 Basic Principles of Data Migration
- 1.1 Implementation Approaches
  - 1.1.1 Big Bang/Initial Load
  - 1.1.2 Moving Into an Existing System
  - 1.1.3 Phased Rollout
  - 1.1.4 System Optimization
- 1.2 Migration Strategies and Migration Scenarios
  - 1.2.1 Greenfield Migrations/New Implementations
  - 1.2.2 Brownfield Migrations/System Conversions
  - 1.2.3 Selective Data Transitions
  - 1.2.4 Comparison of the Strategies
- 1.3 A Digression on Historical Data
- 1.4 Summary
2 Planning Data Migration Projects
- 2.1 Phases of a Data Migration Project
  - 2.1.1 Data Analysis
  - 2.1.2 Data Cleansing
  - 2.1.3 Mapping
  - 2.1.4 Implementation
  - 2.1.5 Testing the Data Migration
  - 2.1.6 Validation
  - 2.1.7 Productive Load
- 2.2 Work Packages in Data Migration Packages
  - 2.2.1 Work Packages Related to Data Analysis
  - 2.2.2 Selecting Tools
  - 2.2.3 Data Cleansing
  - 2.2.4 Mapping
  - 2.2.5 Implementation
  - 2.2.6 Testing
  - 2.2.7 Productive Load
  - 2.2.8 Validation
- 2.3 Planning and Effort Estimation
  - 2.3.1 Determining Data Migration Objects
  - 2.3.2 Effort Estimation
- 2.4 Summary
PART II Data Migration in SAP Solutions
3 Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA
- 3.1 Overview of the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
  - 3.1.1 Overview of the Migration Approaches of the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
  - 3.1.2 Available Migration Objects
- 3.2 Migrating Data Using Staging Tables
  - 3.2.1 Technical Realization
  - 3.2.2 Assigning Roles for the Migration
  - 3.2.3 Initial Screen of the Migration Cockpit
  - 3.2.4 Data Migration Process
  - 3.2.5 Creating a Migration Project
  - 3.2.6 Editing a Migration Project
  - 3.2.7 Calling the Migration Project
  - 3.2.8 Monitoring the Activities
  - 3.2.9 Downloading Migration Templates
  - 3.2.10 Filling Migration Templates or Staging Tables Directly
  - 3.2.11 Loading a File to Staging Tables
  - 3.2.12 Using Migration Object Instances
  - 3.2.13 Prepare
  - 3.2.14 Maintenance of Mapping Values
  - 3.2.15 Job Management
  - 3.2.16 Simulating the Migration
  - 3.2.17 Migrating Data
  - 3.2.18 Migration Results
  - 3.2.19 Creating a Correction File
  - 3.2.20 Mass Processing via Free Selection on Instances
  - 3.2.21 Messages
- 3.3 Migrate Data Directly from SAP System (Direct Transfer)
  - 3.3.1 Differentiation and Areas of Use
  - 3.3.2 Technical Requirements and System Preparations
  - 3.3.3 Migration Objects for SAP ERP Systems and Other SAP Source Systems
  - 3.3.4 Assigning Roles for the Migration
  - 3.3.5 Running a Project with Direct Data Transfer
- 3.4 SAP S/4HANA Migration Object Modeler
  - 3.4.1 General Structure of the SAP S/4HANA Migration Object Modeler
  - 3.4.2 Selecting an Existing Migration Object
  - 3.4.3 Advanced Search (All Objects)
  - 3.4.4 The Migration APIs Used
- 3.5 Modeling for Data Migration with Staging Tables
  - 3.5.1 Displaying a Migration Object
  - 3.5.2 Transfer Rules
  - 3.5.3 Generating and Displaying the Runtime Object
  - 3.5.4 Updating the Migration Object
  - 3.5.5 Creating a Migration Object
  - 3.5.6 Extending Existing Migration Objects
  - 3.5.7 Creating Custom Rules and Translation Objects
  - 3.5.8 Simulating or Debugging Migration Objects
  - 3.5.9 Transferring Migration Projects from One System to Another
- 3.6 Modeling for Data Migration Using Staging Tables in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
- 3.7 Modeling for Directly Transferring Data from SAP Systems
  - 3.7.1 Basic Knowledge for Modeling
  - 3.7.2 Creating a Migration Object (Copy)
  - 3.7.3 Synchronizing Structures
  - 3.7.4 Creating Custom Rules
  - 3.7.5 Migrating Table Field Extensions (Z Fields)
  - 3.7.6 Simulating and Debugging Migration Objects
  - 3.7.7 Transporting Projects
- 3.8 Additional Useful Sources of Information
  - 3.8.1 Landing Pages of Data Migration
  - 3.8.2 SAP Communities
  - 3.8.3 Performance Aspects
  - 3.8.4 Aligning the Time of Migration with Maintenance Periods
- 3.9 Summary
4 Data Migration to SAP SuccessFactors
- 4.1 Basic Preliminary Considerations for Employee Central Data Migration
  - 4.1.1 Local Systems versus Global System
  - 4.1.2 Project Rollout Approach: Phased Rollout versus Big Bang Approach
  - 4.1.3 Data Migration Follows the Data Model
  - 4.1.4 Data History: Reasonable Scope
  - 4.1.5 Tension between Data Migration and Provision of Data in Integration
- 4.2 Basic Principles of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  - 4.2.1 Employee Central Structures/Objects
  - 4.2.2 Import Options in SAP SuccessFactors
- 4.3 Infoporter for SAP ERP HCM Data
  - 4.3.1 Comparison of Infoporter and Standard CSV Import Templates
  - 4.3.2 Infoporter Integration: Architecture Components
  - 4.3.3 Infoporter: Comparison of CSV and Web Service Options
  - 4.3.4 Steps Involved in Data Migration Using Infoporter
- 4.4 Migrating SAP Cost Centers to Employee Central
- 4.5 Importing Data into SAP SuccessFactors
  - 4.5.1 Procedure for Importing Employee Central Data
  - 4.5.2 Provisioning Import Templates
  - 4.5.3 Different Import Procedures
- 4.6 Tips and Tricks
  - 4.6.1 Relevant Environments in the Project Process
  - 4.6.2 Identifiers in Data Migration
  - 4.6.3 Key Date for the Cutover Date
  - 4.6.4 Cutover Method
- 4.7 Summary
5 Data Migration to SAP Ariba
- 5.1 Challenges and Areas of Complexity
- 5.2 Migrating Master Data
  - 5.2.1 Master Data Migration from SAP S/4HANA Cloud
  - 5.2.2 Migrating Data from SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP 6.0
  - 5.2.3 Master Data Migration From Non-SAP Systems
- 5.3 Migrating Supplier Data
  - 5.3.1 Migrating Supplier Data From SAP S/4HANA Cloud via the SAP Master Data Integration Service
  - 5.3.2 Migrating Supplier Data from SAP S/4HANA and SAP Master Data Governance, Supplier
  - 5.3.3 Supplier Management and Upload to SAP Business Network
- 5.4 Migrating Transaction Data
- 5.5 Migrating User Data
  - 5.5.1 Upload CSV File via the SAP Ariba User Interface
  - 5.5.2 Upload Using SAP Integration Suite, Managed Gateway for Spend Management, and SAP Business Network
  - 5.5.3 Upload and User Management with SAP BTP and SAP Cloud Identity Services for Identity Provisioning
- 5.6 Summary
6 Data Migration in SAP Business ByDesign
- 6.1 Migration Templates
  - 6.1.1 Structure and Elements of Migration Templates
  - 6.1.2 User Tips
  - 6.1.3 Field Formats
  - 6.1.4 Export Data from the Source System
  - 6.1.5 Filling Data into Migration Templates
  - 6.1.6 Alternative Options to Populate Migration Templates
  - 6.1.7 Data Cleansing
- 6.2 Migration Tool
  - 6.2.1 Navigation in SAP Business ByDesign
  - 6.2.2 Migration Tasks in the Implementation Project
  - 6.2.3 Prepare for Data Migration
  - 6.2.4 Migration Objects
  - 6.2.5 Migration Cockpit
  - 6.2.6 Upload CSV Files
  - 6.2.7 Migration Cockpit: More Features
  - 6.2.8 Integrated Data Editor
- 6.3 Migration Process Steps
  - 6.3.1 Validate File
  - 6.3.2 Convert Values (Value Mapping)
  - 6.3.3 Simulate Import
  - 6.3.4 Import Data
- 6.4 Migration of Transactional Accounting Data
  - 6.4.1 Preparation in SAP Business ByDesign
  - 6.4.2 Preparation in the Source System
  - 6.4.3 Migration Unit
  - 6.4.4 Migration Templates in Accounting
  - 6.4.5 Accounting Migration: Main Steps
  - 6.4.6 Simulation of Single Files
  - 6.4.7 Posting Preview
  - 6.4.8 Cross-Check of Balances
  - 6.4.9 Acceptance of Imported Data
  - 6.4.10 Postprocessing
- 6.5 Change Migration
  - 6.5.1 Add New Records
  - 6.5.2 Enhance Existing Records
  - 6.5.3 Repeat Migration for Objects with Mass Deletion
  - 6.5.4 Mass Data Maintenance
- 6.6 Migration as a Subproject
  - 6.6.1 Project Management
  - 6.6.2 Migration Tasks in Implementation Projects
  - 6.6.3 Test Strategy
- 6.7 Tips and Tricks
  - 6.7.1 Volume Performance by Parallelization
  - 6.7.2 Reconciliation of Migration Results
- 6.8 Summary
PART III Alternative Methods
7 Batch Input
- 7.1 What Is Batch Input?
- 7.2 How Does Batch Input Work?
  - 7.2.1 What Is a Batch Input Session?
  - 7.2.2 How Do You Process a Batch Input Session?
  - 7.2.3 How Can You Create a Batch Input Session?
  - 7.2.4 Batch Input Recording: General Procedure
- 7.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Batch Input Process
- 7.4 Summary
8 IDoc and ALE Distribution
- 8.1 Introduction to IDocs
  - 8.1.1 Why IDocs as an Interface?
  - 8.1.2 Using IDocs
  - 8.1.3 IDoc Customizing in the SAP System
  - 8.1.4 IDoc Performance Optimization
- 8.2 Master Data Distribution
  - 8.2.1 Setting Up an ALE Connection in the Sender
  - 8.2.2 Setting Up the Distribution Model in the Sender
  - 8.2.3 Setting Up an ALE Connection in the Recipient
  - 8.2.4 Distributing Characteristics
  - 8.2.5 Distributing Classes
  - 8.2.6 Monitoring the Distribution
  - 8.2.7 Replicating Product Data
- 8.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Method
- 8.4 Summary
9 SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench
- 9.1 Overview of SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench
- 9.2 Migrating Data Using SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench
  - 9.2.1 Getting Started with SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench
  - 9.2.2 User Guidance: Primary Steps in Data Migration
  - 9.2.3 Defining Object Attributes
  - 9.2.4 Defining Source Structures
  - 9.2.5 Defining Source Fields
  - 9.2.6 Defining Structure Relations
  - 9.2.7 Defining Field Mapping and Conversion Rules
  - 9.2.8 Defining Fixed Values, Translations, and User-Defined Routines
  - 9.2.9 Digression: Files
  - 9.2.10 Specifying Files
  - 9.2.11 Using Wildcards in File Names
  - 9.2.12 Assigning Files
  - 9.2.13 Importing Data
  - 9.2.14 Displaying Imported Data
  - 9.2.15 Converting Data
  - 9.2.16 Displaying Converted Data
  - 9.2.17 Importing Data
  - 9.2.18 Object Overview
- 9.3 Recordings
  - 9.3.1 Creating and Postprocessing a Recording
  - 9.3.2 Using Recordings
- 9.4 Transporting Projects
  - 9.4.1 Creating a Change Request
  - 9.4.2 Exporting a Project
  - 9.4.3 Importing a Project
- 9.5 Preparatory Measures for Using Inbound IDoc Processing
- 9.6 SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench Conversion Program
  - 9.6.1 Displaying Additional Menus
  - 9.6.2 Customizing the Display Variant
  - 9.6.3 Structure of the Conversion Program
- 9.7 Functions for Advanced Users
  - 9.7.1 Display Variant and Processing Times
  - 9.7.2 Global Variables
  - 9.7.3 Global Functions
  - 9.7.4 Naming for Reusable Rules
- 9.8 Application Examples for Advanced Users
  - 9.8.1 Determining the Transaction Code at Runtime
  - 9.8.2 Skipping a Record
  - 9.8.3 Skipping All Data Records of a Transaction
  - 9.8.4 Duplicating a Record
  - 9.8.5 Assigning Multiple Source Structures to a Target Structure
  - 9.8.6 Custom Selection Parameters in the Conversion Program
  - 9.8.7 Initializing IDoc Structures with Nodata Flags
  - 9.8.8 Assigning Multiple Source Structures to a Target Structure with Substructures
- 9.9 Long Texts
  - 9.9.1 Long Texts in the SAP System
  - 9.9.2 Target Structures and Field Assignment
  - 9.9.3 Importing Long Texts
- 9.10 Summary
10 Preparing Data Migration Using Cloud Integration
- 10.1 Cloud Integration in the Context of Data Migration
- 10.2 Choosing the File-to-File Approach
- 10.3 Preparation
  - 10.3.1 Configuring a Secure Connection to the SFTP Server
  - 10.3.2 Message Splitting or Data Merge
- 10.4 Implementing the Interface
  - 10.4.1 Building the Basic Structure
  - 10.4.2 Implementing Message Mapping
  - 10.4.3 Implementing a Data Merge
  - 10.4.4 Implementing Message Splitting
- 10.5 Options for Action for Key Users
  - 10.5.1 Distribution of Roles
  - 10.5.2 Using Monitoring
  - 10.5.3 Configuring Parameters
- 10.6 Summary
11 Methods to Avoid Programming
- 11.1 Critical Point: Data Conversion
- 11.2 Methods in the Context of Data Conversion
  - 11.2.1 Modifying Structures
  - 11.2.2 Modifying Field Contents
  - 11.2.3 Access Data of the SAP System
- 11.3 Summary
12 Related Areas
- 12.1 Database Migration
  - 12.1.1 Basic Principles
  - 12.1.2 Sample Database Migration
- 12.2 System Conversion
  - 12.2.1 Technical Conditions
  - 12.2.2 Phases of the System Conversion
- 12.3 Summary
Appendices
- A Glossary of Terms
- B The Authors
Index

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