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Critical success factors for SAP S/4HANA projects

A day doesn’t go by where I don’t hear the words ‘S/4HANA journey’. It seems many organisa...

Reduce costs with leaner S/4HANA systems

With S/4HANA, you have a data-hungry production system. And the sizing of hardware is not ...

SAP S/4HANA: The smart approach is selective and lean by des...

What's the smart approach for your S/4HANA transition? We’ve been talking about SAP® HANA®...

Greenfield, brownfield or hybrid: What are your options when...

S/4HANA is more than just a technical upgrade. An important consideration is to decide whi...

How to shrink your SAP decommissioning project

My previous blog outlines the details of a checklist for decommissioning SAP. In this blog...

Tips for decommissioning SAP (without EPI-USE Labs)

In this blog from SAP data management expert Paul Hammersley, he explains his detailed che...

Decommissioning SAP data: Motivations and challenges

In this blog, I examine the feedback we received in a recent webinar on decommissioning SA...

Navigating the fast track: Winning with SAP test data

If I told you that navigating SAP test data and world-renowned Formula 1 racing have somet...

The special requirements of decommissioning SAP HR data secu...

In the context of decommissioning employee data, a modern, sophisticated system, built by ...

Effective SAP test data management: feeding the lifecyle wit...

Your SAP® implementation is only as good as the data you feed it, and the SAP lifecycle is...

4 reasons data archiving and sunsetting legacy systems is cr...

From 2020 to 2022, enterprise data volumes grew by an average of 42% per year. The mass am...

Explore ebook: Hybrid copying and masking of SAP SuccessFact...

Somewhere between a canary and cannon fodder For the last few years, I’ve been very fortun...

Why I’m a Design Thinking convert

Recently, I was honoured to be invited to the SAP® AppHaus Pretoria launch in South Africa...

Insights into the world of Cloud and SAP S/4HANA DevOps

As SAP customers seek to stay ahead of the curve in a constantly changing market, testing ...

Launching our Ultimate guide: SAP S/4HANA data and landscape...

The never-ending story The first ever full steel bridge started construction in 1892, and ...

Lighten the cargo when RISEing with SAP

Considerations before check-in If you haven’t flown internationally since the pandemic, pr...

Creating SAP test systems: an alternative to SAP TDMS

Before changes in SAP® landscapes can be used in production, they must be tested in non-pr...

All change in Croatia: Prepare your SAP system for the euro ...

Croatia joined the European Union on 1 July 2013 but it is not expected to join the Eurozo...

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition (PCE)

The introduction of XXS/RISE with only two systems SAP® offers S/4HANA® Cloud, private edi...

Sunsetting SAP data: a new dawn with Archive Central

If you haven’t previously – and aren’t currently – dealing with ‘display only’ SAP systems...

Sunsetting SAP data: What are your options?

In this blog series, we’ll be looking at the end of the life cycle of data and, in some ca...

We need to talk about test data 'strategy'

For many organisations, test data 'best practices' start and end with compliance. This ref...

Landscape and Test Data Management requirements in an S/4HAN...

In a recent webinar and white paper, I looked at the changing role played by the non-produ...

‘Lean Secure SAP’ as a paradigm for business

Fundamentals of running a Lean Secure SAP landscape ‘Lean Secure SAP’ is a paradigm that I...

Why you need Data Sync Manager before your S/4 upgrade

S/4 is coming, sooner or later Many of our Data Sync Manager (DSM) clients chose to buy DS...

It's all about control!

The role of the controller With Data Sync Manager (DSM) 5, we introduced the Control Cente...

Having the right SAP BW test data at the right time

The world is changing at an ever-faster rate, with economies shrinking, adapting and growi...

Uncover invisible SAP test data to recover costs

Save costly space in SAP test systems by cleaning up technical tables To reduce the volume...

Using eCATT to automate loading records with specific keys

Cloning data with Object Sync? Leverage eCATT to set exact keys Ever needed to automate re...

Why a Sandbox first and what happens there?

S/4: First steps on the journey Following my previous blog about the misalignment of views...

Why the first steps on the S/4 journey can be hard

The last few weeks have been a steady stream of S/4 learning for me. TechEd in Barcelona w...

Do you want customised, flexible SAP expertise on speed dial...

Premium Support Services Many of our clients are already taking advantage of our Premium S...

DevOps for SAP environments: Where do you start?

Continuous delivery is an approach in which teams deliver new functionality in short cycle...

SAP IS-U International Conference take-aways

EPI-USE Labs recently attended the International SAP Conference for Utilities in Lisbon. W...

S/4HANA Migration Preparation Checklist

S/4HANA is the future for every business running SAP, whether this year or the next few ye...

Converting to SAP S/4HANA: technical options

What are your technical options as an existing SAP customer today running SAP ERP ECC 6.0 ...

SLO: beyond optimization, it's about responding to business ...

System Landscape Optimization. Three mouth-filling words. On the face of it, this moniker ...

SAP cloud deployment: your options (plus a no-cost HANA read...

In our previous post, we discussed practical steps to consider when planning a SAP cloud m...

5 New Year's resolutions for smart Basis teams

Tick-tock tick-tock. Holiday vacation has come and gone, and there never seems to be enoug...

Practical steps when planning a cloud migration project

In our previous post, we covered the first steps for migrating SAP, including why companie...

Journey to the cloud: your first steps for migrating SAP

Companies of all shapes and sizes are joining what has become a veritable stampede in migr...

Does your refresh schedule look like this?

The reliability of testing data Reliability of test data quality and quantity has become a...

Top 5 take-aways from SAP TechEd 2017

SAP TechEd...Boldly go where no enterprise has gone before. We had a full team from EPI-US...

5 Best Practices for SAP Data Testing

Let’s talk about SAP testing. Super fun huh? Oh, the trials and tribulations of SAP testin...

How to reduce project delays by 50%: A Case Study

I recently interviewed a great customer of ours from Siemens PLM Software to catch up with...

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