Understanding the Infosys Hybrid Conversion Approach
A high percentage of satisfied SAP ECC customers have curated their SAP ERP application over years with the fit-for-purpose differentiated customizations that reflect their current business. But new SAP ECC investments are unlikely to generate long-term returns while the cost of maintaining legacy technology will only rise.
SAP ECC customers fall into two categories:
- Those who keep their SAP application up to date with controlled technical debt and no significant pain points
- Those with technical debt, process issues, or legal entity structure problems due to past technical upgrades
Compared to the Greenfield approach that represents a complete ERP system reset Hybrid Conversion (aka Selective Data Transition) enables organizations to precisely choose the data sets the business requires and schedule the transition process for a specific date and timeline. Despite a longer timeline for the first SAP S/4 HANA release, it delivers optimal value at the initial go-live and involves fewer overall steps. It offers key advantages that include consolidating multiple releases, supporting phased rollouts, mitigating SUM issues, enabling data segmentation, and facilitating organizational restructuring. This method is useful for complex transformations.
Selective Conversion allows for targeted transformation (green spots) while preserving selected elements. This approach enables organizations to retain specific custom code, legacy data, software modules, and business processes as needed. It offers a balance between innovation and continuity, allowing companies to modernize strategically.
Why Choose Infosys for Hybrid Conversion?
Infosys has executed a conversion for every version of SAP S/4HANA right from first version v1511 till the recent version of v2023 using standard option as well as selective/hybrid and downtime optimized options including data-center migration (cloud/RISE or otherwise). Infosys too runs SAP for their enterprise processes, and we converted to SAP S/4HANA in 2016 and recently upgraded to v2023.
With Infosys you also get advantage of our vast experience from various deployments options of phased vs single go-live and implementation options of single release vs multi-release approach to achieve the end state architecture.
Infosys' clients typically categorize the value delivered by an SAP S/4HANA transition into four distinct buckets:
- Elevated user experiences and pioneering capabilities
- Streamlined and optimized business processes
- Future-ready systems
- Flexibility while transitioning
Selectively choose capabilities to transform
Infosys SAP S/4HANA Conversion tailored packages offer a range of additional services that can be seamlessly integrated into your chosen package. This includes:
- Enabling Clean Core with SAP BTP integrated with SAP ECC or S/4HANA
- Completing optional pre-projects on SAP ECC to simplify subsequent conversion project
- Enabling innovations on SAP S/4HANA during or post the conversion project e.g. SAP Fiori Activation, new GL features, SAP S/4HANA embedded capabilities like SAP EWM, SAP TM, GRC, ePPDS, Analytics etc.
- Adoption RISE with SAP along with conversion project
Transform Your ERP Landscape with Infosys Hybrid Conversion. Get Started Today for a Smoother, Faster SAP S/4HANA Transition.
