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Migration from Oracle Apps to Oracle Fusion – Why and How?

Posted on December 31, 2020February 15, 2023 by stridely

Rolling out updates for existing software isn’t a new thing. Irrespective of whether you are using a simple application such as Microsoft word or one as complicated as a CRM tool, updates are everywhere. Most of the time, companies simply offer an option to upgrade the existing software by clicking on the update now button. This is not only easy but also faster.

Recently, Oracle also rolled out a new version of its Oracle Apps software. Unlike others, there’s no update option. Meaning that to attune your system with the current version, you must lift and shift all of the data from Oracle Apps to Oracle Fusion. However, the process won’t be troublesome for you, and had multiple benefits.

In case you aren’t sure how to proceed with the migration process, this article would be of help.

What is Oracle EBS?

Released in 1987, Oracle EBS (E-business Suite) is a family of CRM and ERP solutions designed specifically for businesses that deal largely with data. The newer version namely, Oracle Fusion was released in September 2010. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Fusion is the better version of Oracle EBS.

However, due to the fact that organizations have been using EBS for more than two decades, they are more familiar with the infrastructure and find it best to stick to the same. In fact, this is one of the reasons why they have been holding back from migrating their EBS to Fusion. But as we say, everything has an end, the Oracle EBS will no longer receive support from the company and there’s nothing that an organization can do but migrate.

Why Should You Migrate to Oracle Fusion?

True that one of the strongest reasons for the migration of the Oracle apps to the fusion platform is Oracle rescinding support from the same. Yet that’s not it. There are many more reasons that opine the need for migration.

A few of the prominent ones include:

Service-Oriented Architecture
One of the major changes that Oracle has made in the Fusion platform is its service-oriented architecture (SOA). This accounts for a simpler, newer, and smoother approach. Oracle EBS, on the other hand, adopts a database-centric Oracle application architecture approach which makes it complicated when you need to share or transfer data.
An array of Products & Efficient Data Model
Oracle has acquired a series of products in the last few years. And so the all-new Oracle Fusion platform has and offers all of these products enhancing the end to end offering of the platform. The products include JD Edwards, Siebel, PeopleSoft in addition to the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). That is to say, the data model offered by Oracle Fusion is the holistic combination of Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and hence the name Fusion. Needless to mention that this combination is far more effective and performance-driven as compared to Oracle Apps.
Smoother Workflow & Reporting
As known, the Oracle EBS platform makes use of the PL/SQL procedural language. However, the updated version: Fusion utilizes the Business Process Execution Language. The difference here lies in the fact that the latter renders a swifter and effective workflow. One thing to note is that both the languages support reporting but the ones offered by BEPL are driven by Business intelligence, which further enhances the level of reporting.
Tons of Options in Financial Reporting
It is seen that Oracle EBS limits the extent of reporting using the Financial Statement Generator. Fusion, on the other hand, renders a vast scale of Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence and Hyperion Financials Reporting Studio. Each of these levels up the efficiency and productivity of the solution.
Futuristic Business Intelligence
As mentioned above, the Oracle fusion platform supports Business Intelligence analytics and reporting. The ones using the Oracle EBS Solution may not be aware but the Oracle Discoverer will no longer receive support or be compatible with other solutions.

Migration from Oracle Apps to Oracle Fusion

Having said the above, it is pretty much clear that Fusion is the better alternative. When it comes to migration, fusion provides seamless options, all of which are flexible, and properly defined. It offers tons of migration tools which further simplifies the migration process. Needless to mention that they also provide technical and functionality and migration approaches.

To begin with, every migration follows a set of 3 stages.

Pre-migration:
Run down the entire infrastructure to check and prepare the system for migration. A diagnostic report is generated that helps understand the readiness state of the system, helping assess whether or not, you can migrate the system.
Migration:
Once the readiness state has been obtained and it looks good to go, stage-wise migration is done to ensure everything is moved in the correct order.
Post-migration:
Finally, the infrastructure is rechecked to ensure and validate the migration process.

One thing to note here is that not all can be migrated to the Oracle Fusion platform. There are a few things that fail to be moved to the fusion platform. These include:

Non-controlled schema customizations,
Forms personalizations and customizations,
Workflow customizations,
Reports / analytical reports.

What can be migrated?

Set-up data can be mapped or migrated
All of the transactional data can be migrated
The controlled schema customizations can migrate- For instance, the Descriptive Flex Fields

Conclusion

Even though it might seem pretty simple, in reality, the case is different. It is important that everything is done with sheer dedication and precision. It is best to seek help from someone experienced in doing the same.

Stridely Solutions being the Oracle partner excels in offering consultation, integration, migration, and support solutions to organizations across the globe. We have equipped our staff with knowledge and expertise. We guarantee the best-in-industry services without fail. Want to know more about our services? Contact us and our team will get back to you at the earliest.

The Ways BREXIT will impact SAP

Posted on December 29, 2020February 8, 2023 by stridely

For businesses operating in the UK and EU, the implications of BREXIT have been a topic of debate for a long. Even though the change was to be manifested in the UK after 1st Jan 2021, business owners have been preparing for the same for months. Primarily because, BREXIT would change the face of everyday business operations, and only the organizations that would stand upright in the readiness scale, can sustain the pressure while mitigating the risks (if any)

In case you are new to this sector or, aren’t aware of what BREXIT is and how will this affect your business operations, this article will help you understand the same. Starting with what exactly do we mean by BREXIT to the impact laid ln SAP, Taxes and Custom procedures, we will cover all. Without further ado, let’s begin.

What is BREXIT?

Brexit stands for “British exit”. And this refers to the decision made by the UK government on the 23rd of June 2016 to leave the EU. Since then a lot has been said and done in the name of preparations for the exit. It was in 2019 that the final date of exit got public and is now due 31st December 2020.

As the day passes, we take time out to figure out the impending effect of BREXIT on business organizations.

Impact of BREXIT on an organization

This section talks about the area-wide impact of BREXIT.

Organizational SAP model:
Considering the fact that the UK will leave the European Union, organizations must assess and analyze their SAP database to adapt to the data. Presently, SAP systems have a country code GB referring to the countries within the European Union. Once the exit operation is complete, the above will change and so do the data stored in the database of SAP.
Tax determination:
As UK plans to exit the EU, SAP systems are on the verge of an overhaul. This is attributed to the fact that the ‘GB’ country code would now render ineffective for EU countries. Since tax codes are identified by the system automatically, BREXIT would call for a system-wide change, disrupting the operation on a global scale.
An important thing to note here is that Tax in SAP is one of the vital areas and would need further assessment concerning the changes. Keeping this as the core, as now dig deeper into possible SAP solutions and the impact of BREXIT on them:

Tax master data/ configuration

It is expected that Hard Brexit would cast an impact on the key master data configuration.
As stated, the tax codes for EU businesses given in the tax procedure of TAXGB would change and require further assessment. That is to say, a few codes need to be removed whereas new ones to be added.
Significant changes in the definition of country, followed by the deactivation of the EU-flag for the UK to be done in the required table.
Modifications and updates to be done in the registration numbers of VAT for the EU Member States. These are primarily stored in the “STCEG” field in the vendors’ and customers master data. Also, the GB registration will now be a different field.

Withholding tax

In accordance with the Parent Subsidiary Directive, the Interest and Royalties Directive will cease to exist. Meaning that they wouldn’t be applicable and few of the transactions would now be subject to withholding tax.
Organizations and enterprises would now need to verify their transactions with UK companies for situations where they are relevant for withholding tax.
You would need to configure withholding tax as and when required.

Indirect tax / VAT

BREXIT would have a serious impact on the Indirect tax reporting and organizations would require to create a new tax code, followed by the setup of tax procedures.
A few transactions might experience VAT changes. For instance, for items that have changed in the base amount, say there’s a discount applied. In such a case, they are liable for intra-stat reporting.

Legal reporting:
As soon as the legal specifications after the BREXIT come up and are clear, organizations might feel the need to change the conditions as required on government reports such as EC listings. This is probably why all the tax-related outputs would require assessment and analysis in an attempt to ensure their compliance.
Trade flows:
As the UK plans to leave the EU, it will also cut ties with the European single market. Now this will have serious repercussions on the current trade flows. It is expected that the above would lead to extended costs in terms of customs fees. In addition to the above, there would occur a significant ride in customs declarations leading to higher lead times. Altogether, this would affect the SAP system and must be taken care of.
Forms and documents:
Lastly, the details or the data entered in the documents, and the forms need to be updated. This might include the POs language, the terms and conditions, invoices, and other documentation, as a whole.

How Stridely Solutions Help?

Having said the above, it’s time that you made the move, inflicting changes to your SAP system and improving your standings on the BREXIT readiness scale.

In case you aren’t sure how to get started, we at Stridely Solutions are happy to help. Backed by a team of experts and skilled professionals, we help organizations modify their business operations and be BREXIT-ready.

We follow a three-step process to enhance and optimize business operations in a way they are all set to operate post BREXIT.

Assessment:
We begin by assessing the existing processes. Starting with the organizational model to taxes, trade flows, and others, we ascertain the potential impact of Brexit.
Consultation:
Once we are through, the next step is to have our SAP experts dig deeper into the current set-up of your SAP system. Depending upon the need, they would then suggest changes.
Drafting a roadmap:
Based on our extensive research and years of experience, we now move ahead to sketch a roadmap in an attempt to modify the SAP system.
In the end, we do all that’s needed to help your organization operate swiftly on and after 31st December.

Dynatrace for SAP Hybris – The Arrival of the Commerce Cloud Monitoring Age

Posted on December 23, 2020April 4, 2023 by stridely

Digital commerce solutions have captured the interest of entrepreneurs on a large scale. More and more organizations are actively adopting the same to reach out to the global market and enhance their business growth. In case you too have been thinking of making the move but failed to find an ideal solution, this article might be of help. Introducing SAP Hybris Commerce as a digital commerce solution, we will outline Dynatrace as the industry-best tool for managing and monitoring the same.

With that being said, let’s see what SAP Hybris Commerce Solution is.

What is SAP Hybris Commerce?

SAP Hybris Commerce or SAP Commerce Cloud, as we call it today is an omnichannel platform designed for the B2C, B2B, and B2B2C businesses. The platform helps organizations/businesses directly engage with their customers, allowing them to transact across digital as well as physical touchpoints.

The SAP Commerce Cloud comprises of SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Sales Cloud, and the SAP Customer Data Cloud solutions on a whole. The platform is considered important and the core for sales and marketing solutions followed by customer relationship management. Owing to the technological transformations, enforcing on-premise architecture to be shifted to the cloud, the platform was renamed as SAP Commerce Cloud.

The platform is versatile and offers tremendous opportunities in terms of improving and enhancing the end to end efficiency. From product bundling to customer engagement, payment processing, and social media integration, the platform encompasses all.

Offering such capabilities, there arises the need to effectively monitor and manage the cloud platform. This is where Dynatrace comes into play.

What is Dynatrace?

Having said the above, the first question that pops up is what is a Dynatrace.

By definition, Dynatrace is an application performance management tool that aims at collaborating or fusing together the cloud infrastructure, the performance of the application, and the digital workforce, uniting all of the above into an integrated solution. What’s important to note here is that the solution is backed by artificial intelligence which adds to the capabilities of the tool.

The tool helps drive the end to end application performance results. This is done by aiding organizations with a platform that can develop, operate, and collaborate with business teams without any hassle. There are several agents that work across-the-board at different nodes of the SAP Commerce Cloud platform. These are bestowed with the responsibility of tracking, managing, and monitoring the operations, providing in-depth insights on the database, the OS, and the services.

With Dynatrace, manage and monitor all of the SAP product portfolio installed across your organization.

Wondering how can the Dynatrace platform help to do the above?

Precisely, the AI-driven software intelligence platform of Dynatrace is equipped with the potential to track technologies and delivery models across enterprise applications. It provides a holistic view, rendering in-depth insights and allowing organizations to make the most out of the solutions.

Here are a few ways in which Dynatrace helps manage the cloud platform.

To manage, track analyze, and scale customer experience both on the SAP Cloud and the SAP C/4HANA Platform
Fortunately, the Dynatrace APM tool is compatible with both the SAP Commerce Cloud (C/4HANA) and for SAP Cloud Platform (SCP). As a matter of fact, this is the only tool that is available for both platforms in the SAP App Center. With the SAP Cloud Platform, you can easily observe, monitor, and manage performance on a global scale.
To obtain AI-centric answers related to the SAP infrastructure across Hybrid as well as cloud-native environments
Monitoring through the Dynatrace infrastructure happens for more than a dozen of SAP customers. From networks to the servers and the cloud platforms, it works for all.
To enhance and optimize end-to-end user experience across all of the SAP applications within the organization in an attempt to understand how digital experiences affect the business.
Dynatrace keeps tabs on the digital experience delivering performance management data to SAP Fiori UI users across multiple enterprises.
To optimize the performance of SAP ABAP from both the perspective of the ABAP application-platform and the infrastructure.
Leveraging the extension for SAP ABAP monitors, Dynatrace provides information about the overall user experience on S/4 HANA and the ECC platform.

Dynatrace should not be used for the following:

True a lot can be done used the Dynatrace application performance management tool. However, that’s not it. There are a few things that Dynatrace isn’t helpful for and you must have an alternative for the same.

The most important ones include:

To analyze logs of data – It is best to use Kibana for assessing and analyzing the data logs. In addition to the above, you can have alerts set up as it is part of the SAP Commerce Cloud Locally.
To study end-user analytics – When it comes to analyzing user experience and laying out predictions on the same, say what is the conversion rate for a website, you might have access to Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring solution. However, you can also refer to Google Analytics to do the job.
To have an understanding of Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics – In case you are planning to get SLA metrics, it is best to opt for the self-service availability reporting found in the Cloud Portal.
For synthetic testing – While the Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring solution is effective in rendering information, you can opt for others such as Pingdom, Uptime Robot, etc.

Conclusion

It is pretty evident that the Dynatrace application performance management tool is versatile and can be used for a variety of things, apart from performance and dashboard management. However, you must have the skillset to implement and use the tool to the best of its capabilities.

In case you lack in that regard, experts at Stridely Solutions are happy to help. Having both the knowledge and the experience of working on the APM tool, we help you integrate the same within your SAP Cloud Platform and utilize it for managing and monitoring the application performance swiftly.

How Artificial Intelligence Is Improving the Business Process Automation Thoroughly?

Posted on December 22, 2020February 15, 2023 by stridely

Business processes or day-to-day business operations are crucial for the survival of a business entity. Organizations employ thousands of workers (depending upon the requirements) to meet the demands and keep their business flowing steadily. This consumes a lot of time and tons of effort. From filing requests to creating contracts, logging data, or processing them, employees spend nearly half of their day doing mundane, unproductive tasks.

What if someone told you that you can automate all of these, relieving your employees and allowing them to focus on better tasks? As fictional as it may sound, process automation is now a reality and actively used by top organizations, streamlining their workflow and improving end-to-end productivity.

What’s more?

Implementation of AI in the BPA space has further accelerated the pace, taking automation to the next level. In case you are not sure what this is and how does AI affects the landscape of business process automation and the business as a whole, this article is all you need. Detailing on the core concepts of RPA and the means with which artificial intelligence has influenced the technology, we help you understand all that’s important.

Without further ado, let’s begin the rollercoaster ride of AI-led business process automation.

Also Read: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & AI Builder

What is RPA and why AI?

RPA stands for Robotic Process Automation which simply means automating the end-to-end business processes. Within an organization, there are multiple things that complete a task. Consider the task of software development. Even though the main purpose is to design and build the software, it follows documentation. Developers spend a considerable amount of time documenting the process. Similar is the case with law firms that need to process tons of paperwork, even after a case is closed.

With RPA coming into play, all of these not so important tasks can be automated whereby the employees can do something better and productive, given the same work hours.

Read more about: Robotic Process Automation

Now as much as this seems efficient, in order for RPA to be fully effective and to be able to emulate human behavior, it has to have a certain degree of intelligence and hence, AI.

How to implement AI in business operations?

AI or as we say, artificial intelligence is one way of augmenting intelligence into machines. The technology has been in the industry for a long and it is now that experts are trying to fuse one with the other to enhance the overall usability.

AI in business process automation is more like making machines smarter to carry out business tasks. From Amazon’s Alexa to Apple’s Siri, we are all well aware of what smart machine is all about. But that’s not it. In fact, it is the top of the iceberg and there’s a lot more to the technology than we see.

The common scenarios that implicate AI in process automation include:

Reading and processing documents:
We spend a lot of time reading documents. It could be from a text or an email or any business document. AI aims at equipping tools with the ability to read like humans, process data, and come up with relevant ones without requiring human intervention.
Analyzing Data:
To read and process data is one thing, to analyze it and be able to drive conclusions is something different and huge. With AI into process automation, you can expect machines to both read, process, and analyze data and also lay predictions. This helps organizations gain a holistic view of their enterprise data and make smarter decisions.
Act like humans:
Besides dealing or handling data, AI models can effectively be trained to act in a certain manner. Meaning that their application isn’t limited to data but extends beyond that. To be precise, a model can do all it has been trained for.

How AI affects RPA Bots?

Bots performing business operations have been an innovation of its kind. They were programmed to do a certain activity. The drawback here was the bots couldn’t learn from human behavior. In other words, the capabilities were largely restricted.

Artificial Intelligence tends to strengthen the ability of a bot. Owing to the fact that AI models have a self leaning feature, they can track human behavior and also learn from them, doing more than what they have been trained to do. An important thing to note here is that AI bots not only learn from their surrounding but also improve themselves while doing so.

A simple example here could be chess. The model is trained with the basic moves. With time, it learns more moves and becomes stronger day-by-day. Similar is the case with AI-driven RPA bots. They learn and mimic human behavior in an attempt to improve end-to-end efficiency while reducing the time and efforts spent to do a particular task.

Another key advantage of using AI in RPA bots is that they can process data in real-time which further accelerates the amount of data processed every second. Often organizations receive tons of requests at the same. For a human to process such a huge amount of data is tough. AI bots, on the other hand, can do it and pretty fast.

To put it this way, artificial intelligence has the potential to not just transform process automation but revolutionize it and for the good. For organizations who have RPA implemented within their lines of business operation, it’s time to level up and strive for intelligent bots.

And in case you are among the smaller lot who is still not sure if RPA is the need of the hour, it’s high time that you stopped pondering and started acting. RPA and AI together can fuel your business’s growth but only if done in the right way.

Looking for expert guidance related to the business process automation using the optimal technologies?

Get in touch with us at Stridely Solutions and allow us to take your business to great heights. Backed by a team of skilled engineers, we have helped thousands of organizations automate their business. Will you be the next?

JDE Worldsoft to JDE Enterprise One 9.2 – The Benefits of Migration and Step-by-Step Process to Migration

Posted on December 17, 2020December 29, 2022 by stridely

The JD Edwards landscape has been growing since its inception. Irrespective of the fact that every platform offers the ease to host business applications with ease, the latest ones are one step ahead of the existing one. Probably this is why organizations tend to migrate to the new ones at the earliest.

In case you have been using JDE Worldsoft, now is the time to re-engineer the infrastructure and migrate to the JDE Enterprise One 9.2. It is seen that as the application continues to grow beyond leaps and bounds with more and more organizations shifting their enterprise infrastructure to the cloud, it becomes important that you pay heed to your Infrastructure and level up the same to meet the changing dynamics of the world.

Prerequisites:

Now since you are the client of JD Edwards World, here are a few things you must consider and be sure of when enhancing your work ecosystem. To put it this way, in case you are planning to upscale your infrastructure, you have the following options:

Upgrade to World A9.4
Directly from Worldsoft to Oracle Cloud migration is not feasible. It has to be migrated to JDE E1 first then only it can be migrated to Oracle Cloud.
Migrate to EnterpriseOne 9.2

The most effective here is the mutation of the Oracle JDE Worldsoft to the Enterprise One 9.2. True that there are other choices as well, yet we recommend JD EnterpriseOne 9.2.

Wondering why this? This article will help you understand why and also highlight the process to initiate the migration process. Without further ado, let’s get started.

Benefits of Oracle JD EnterpriseOne 9.2

Increased Mobility
The first and most important advantage of migrating Oracle JDE Worldsoft to EnterpriseOne 9.2 is the improved mobility. Recent years have witnessed the growth of the mobile workforce all across the globe. The fact that it provides much-needed flexibility and is pretty simple when it comes to executing tasks, has captured the attention of all organizations.
Integration of mobile applications with JDE EnterpriseOne 9.2 empowers users with a combination of an interactive interface with a flexible solution. The due works in tandem to send alerts, and notifications to the business as and when needed. What’s best is that the information is sent in real-time.
Lesser need for Customization
Its intuitive personalization frameworks have enough functionality to let the analysts configure the dashboard as per their preference, resulting in better user experience as required. It reduces customization and maintenance cost for your venture.
Process Automation
For a long, organizations have been investing their time and efforts in executing tasks and processes. With Oracle JD EnterpriseOne, you can do the same. However, the difference lies in the fact that the software here would automate the process, simplifying the execution, and improving overall efficiency. It is known that entering data manually is both time-consuming and money-draining.
JD EnterpriseOne being an integrated platform excels in delivering real-time data to applications without any hassle. As a matter of fact, users have the ease to streamline operations, utilize resources effectively, and optimize all, ensuring that it maps the regulatory compliance. It wouldn’t be wrong to state that EnterpriseOne 9.2’s capabilities will help you tap on the potential, helping you emerge as the winner in the area of digital transformation.
Cloud Compatibility
Being a cloud-native solution, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.2 enables you to adapt and incorporate an agnostic approach towards the development, integration, and deployment of applications. To top this, you can operate on a level where the business complements your existing solution, irrespective of whether it follows a Hybrid, public, or private cloud solution.

Migrating to EnterpriseOne 9.2

Having said all of the above, we now move ahead to see how we can migrate from Oracle JD Edwards World to Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.2.

The detailed and step by step process is highlighted below:

Install JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.

To begin, you need to install the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne including all of its path codes.
Next, apply the recent planner update.
To create migration tables temporarily, run R98403 XJDE0039.
Now, run the Database Initializer.

JD Edwards World Environment Preparation.

The next step is to craft the environment for migration. Make sure you have installed the JDE World Software update within the JD Edwards World environment.
Here, you need to run the Migration Database Analyzer.
Assess and analyze the reports to perform a cleanup operation on the duplicate records.

JD Edwards World Conversions

Miscellaneous File Validation:
First, run the Miscellaneous File Validation program.
Next, perform a review operation on the files that need not be converted.
Fix them by removing unnecessary data and placing the important ones in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
Application-Specific Data Preparation and Conversions.
Execute and review Application-Specific conversion programs.
Data Dictionary Comparison
Begin with running the program of Data Dictionary Comparison program.
Once done, scan and analyze the Data Dictionary Comparison report.
In case you find any discrepancies, embed the changes necessary to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Data Dictionary manually.
Next Number Synchronization:
Here, you need to run the Next Number Synchronization program and review its report.
User-Defined Codes (UDC) Synchronization:
Execute the UDC Synchronization program.
Analyze the UDC Synchronization report.
Now make the necessary changes manually to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne User Defined Codes.
CCSID Conversion Tool:
Run the CCSID Conversion Tool.
Business Data Copy:
Perform the Copy File Conversion program.
iAssess and review the Copy File Conversion report.
iiAnalyze the duplicate records and Joblogs.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Conversions.

Start with the conversion of Application Specific Data and once you are done with them:
Run and execute the Application Specific conversion programs.
And, review the reports to ensure that everything is running fine.

Turn off JD Edwards World

Remove all of the unwanted libraries and related objects.

Conclusion

Having said that, we recommend consulting an expert when making the move. Stridely Solutions offers end to end IT consultancy services. Irrespective of whether you are looking for a fresh integration or a migration, we will help you with all.

Rehost, Replatform, and Refactor – Which Application Migration Strategy to Choose and When?

Posted on December 7, 2020April 4, 2023 by stridely

Planning to move your siloed infrastructure to the cloud might definitely be the right decision. But are you aware of what exactly cloud transformation means and what are the different ways you can move your system to the cloud? To rephrase, do you know which strategy is best for your business?

Not sure?

Don’t worry! This article has all you need to know about application migration, followed by the strategies that help in the same. We also highlight the reasons why one would be better than the other given a particular situation. Without much ado, let’s get started!

What is Application Migration?

In simple terms, Application Migration is the transfer of software applications from one infrastructure to the other. Or to put it this way, application migration is the process of moving all of the enterprise applications from the on-premise architecture to the cloud. What’s important to note here is that the destination environment could be anything from a private cloud, public cloud, or a hybrid environment.

Having said that, one thing that intrigues most of the leaders is whether they actually need such a thing? Considering that their business is working well with decent performance, why would one undergo the pain of transforming their infrastructure, moving to the cloud?

To answer the above, one must take into consideration the rising importance of remote access. With technological advancements increasing by leaps and bounds, organizations are compelled to not just keep an eye on them but also find one that would benefit their organization. One of these is cloud migration.

Where the traditional infrastructure seems good, it has its limitations which tend to disrupt the functioning and performance of the organization. For one, employees must be present within the office premises to access the system and work. Since every data is stored in the local storage, sharing and accessing them becomes a hassle. Not to forget the time and money spent on hosting an on-premise architecture.

Application Migration: Strategies that streamline the process

Rehost
The first strategy is rehosting. This basically means lifting your existing applications and shifting them to a different infrastructure (probably the cloud). To rephrase, rehosting is all about picking your applications (one or more) from the on-premise infrastructure and then shifting it to the cloud environment. It is pretty much obvious that this strategy doesn’t require any modifications to be made to the existing infrastructure. All you do is lift and shift.
However, if the application that is moved is done to new hardware, you might have to modify the host configuration. In case you are looking for an easy and simple way to migrate your applications, rehosting is the best bet. It is intuitive, doesn’t require any modifications, and beginner-friendly.
For large scale organizations that are looking for a quick fix or want to remold their infrastructure without causing harm to the ongoing projects, rehosting does the job swiftly. Rehosting can be done either in automation or manually by seeking help from domain experts.
Replatform
Next to rehosting is re-platforming. Like rehosting, application re-platforming is also referred to as lift, tinker, and shift. What this means is that the application is first lifted, tinkered, and then shifted to the appropriate platform. The additional term here is tinkering. This suggests that before moving the application to the cloud infrastructure, a significant amount of changes are embedded within the system.
Experts believe that modifying, optimizing, or tweaking the existing application helps increase the performance of the cloud infrastructure. For instance, if you are hosting all of your enterprise data on the local database, before moving this to the cloud, it is best to shift the database instances to Amazon’s RDBS. While doing redundant and unwanted data are removed. This reduces the time spent on moving application data to the AWS architecture.
For organizations that are willing to induce automation in the process, and are of the view that certain changes made would not cast a major impact on the workflow, the re-platforming method is the best way to migrate applications to the cloud.
Refactor
The third strategy used to migrate applications from the on-premise architecture to the cloud is re-factoring. As the name suggests, this method involves making changes on a huge scale before the same is migrated to the cloud environment. Often, it so happens that there are applications that use a lot of resources, and moving them to the cloud would only add to the monthly expenses.
It is best to restructure these in a way that keeps their functioning intact while reducing their end to end dependency. Engineers that work on redesigning the application take into consideration all of their dependencies ensuring that the redesigned application isn’t just the replica but the best and optimized for efficient performance. Note that you can always choose from a partial refactoring and a full factoring based on your overall requirements.
For organizations that are seeking the addition of new features and functionalities in their existing infrastructure and are ok with the fact that modifying the application would affect their current business operations, re-factoring is an excellent solution.

Conclusion

Not sure which of these would be best for your business? Get in touch with Stridely Solutions. We are a leader in the cloud migration space and have worked with multiple businesses helping them with the migration process. Whether you are a small venture or a huge enterprise, our experts provide business-driven and need-specific solutions to all.

SAP DWC: The Future of Data Warehousing

Posted on December 2, 2020February 10, 2023 by stridely

With Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC), SAP provides a cloud-based solution which integrates data from various sources and provide stand-alone data management solution for developing rich analytical applications. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud combines prevailing data management competences with the superior advanced analytics. It helps organizations to make secure and confident decisions with fast and agile implementation using standard business contents.

SAP DWC is an enterprise-ready data
warehouse that brings Business and IT together.

Features of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Flexible Integration:
SAP DWC can be easily integrated with existing solutions as well as third party analytics tools supporting both cloud and on-premise systems.
Scalable:
Pay-as-per-use service. Easily scale infrastructure up and down as per need and usage. Start with small infrastructure and scale big whenever you want.
Real Time:
SAP DWC leverages in memory functionality of SAP HANA to get instant access of data. Additionally, it helps to reduce processing time and get powerful analysis whenever you need.
Easy Collaboration:
Virtual Workspaces provide users a collaborative platform which brings data model and system connections in one secured place.
Open Environment:
Connect to any data analytics and visualization tools of your choice. Provides Graphical as well as SQL scripting functionally for Data Modeling.
Prebuilt Standard Templates:
Ready to use pre-installed industry specific business content and assets for accelerated analytics.
Improved Security and Governance:
SAP DWC Provides built in functions for data security, governance and auditing. It offers ready to use, role-based authorization check and encryption functionalities.
Simplified System Management:
Easy and quick system connection set up, simple configuration and graphical analytics for disc space utilization, CPU usage and memory usage.
Advanced Analytics:
SAP DWC closely linked with SAP Analytics Cloud which helps to create complex data models and visualize data to discover new insights.
Integrated Capabilities:
Machine learning and artificial intelligence built in functions help users to get deep and instant insights.

SAP BW4HANA vs SAP DWC

BW4HANA is a strategic solution of SAP for on-premise and cloud-based data warehousing solution while SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) is the strategic public cloud product offered as a data warehouse-as-a-service by SAP.

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud works synergistically with your existing on-premise solutions like SAP BW4HANA, SAP HANA or SAP S4HANA and provides a simple & cost-efficient way to use cloud computing. SAP DWC will not replace SAP SQL DW or SAP BW4HANA but you can extend your existing data warehouse solution to cloud and leverage the features of SAP DWC with advanced analytics.

SAP BW/4HANA can be the initial point for a gradual conversion from on-prem data warehouse to SAP DWC. Additionally, Hybrid scenario helps to leverage the functionality of both the worlds without compromising on existing investments. It will help to get broader insights by enhancing existing data from on-premise systems SAP BW4HANA or SAP SQL DW with cloud data.

(*Source – SAP)

Conclusion

SAP DWC will be more of a distributed analytical options or architectures in which SAP BW4HANA will remain as data warehousing solution and SAP DWC will be great addition to it. It will not replace any on-premise solution, but it will be the extension of SAP’s Analytical Portfolio.

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