SAP S/4HANA & migration
Expert articles from IOTEK’s practice and team of experts in this category. Click any card to read the full article.
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The test-data problem no one budgets for: why cutovers slip in the sandbox, not the boardroom
Steering committees interrogate timelines, budgets, and org-readiness for months. Almost nobody interrogates whether the mock cutover is testing anything real — and that gap is what actually delays…
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Fiori adoption is a change problem, not a UX one: getting users off SAP GUI before go-live
If your go-live plan ends at “train the users on Fiori,” you haven’t decided anything. You’ve deferred the decision to the users — and they’ll decide to keep…
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The cutover weekend is won in rehearsal: the S/4HANA workstream most programs underestimate
Programs that nail design still miss go-live dates — because cutover was treated as logistics for “the last weekend.” Cutover is an evidence discipline: the rehearsals and reconciliations…
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SAP GRC Access Control on S/4HANA: your SoD ruleset is only as valid as your role model
“Lift GRC to S/4HANA” is the wrong mental model. The Fiori role model changes what a role *is* — catalogs, spaces and pages, a UI/data split — which…
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From vendor master to Business Partner: what actually changes in S/4HANA procure-to-pay
The purchase-to-pay flow you know from ECC mostly survives the move to S/4HANA. The foundation under it does not. Business Partner and CVI, one inventory table instead of…
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SAP Activate in practice: what the six phases actually demand of your program team
Every SI deck shows you the six-box Activate diagram. Almost none tell you what each phase demands of your people, where programs predictably lose time, or how clean…
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Brownfield, greenfield, or selective: choosing the right S/4HANA transition path before the board asks
Most sponsors arrive at the board table with a transition path already picked — by a partner, or by habit — and cannot defend why it beats the…
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RISE with SAP: what the contract actually covers, what stays on your plate, and how to negotiate the scope
RISE with SAP puts ERP, infrastructure and managed services into one contract — and that single line item is exactly why CFOs misjudge it. Here is what SAP…
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The 2027 clock is real, the 2030 one is optional: reading the fine print on SAP’s deadline — and where agentic AI actually helps
SAP’s mainstream maintenance for Business Suite 7 runs to end-2027; extended maintenance to end-2030 comes at a premium. Here is what the fine print actually commits to —…