In the ever-evolving digital landscape, migrating to the cloud has become a critical step for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and innovation. At Syntax, we understand that this journey can be complex and challenging. That’s why we’ve developed Syntax Compass—for SAP S/4HANA, a comprehensive framework designed to navigate you through every step of a secured cloud transformation.
Our streamlined approach allows organization to discover, adopt and optimize their SAP S/4HANA cloud transformation journey. No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, whether you choose RISE with SAP, opt for selective data migration or continue with SAP S/4HANA, Syntax can help you at each step and at every transition path. Let’s explore what these phases encompass.
1.Discover:
Laying the Foundation with the ‘Power of Next’ workshops
The initial Discover phase is about understanding your starting point, identifying your business objectives, and defining the best path forward. An integral part of the Discover phase is our Power of Next advisory workshops, designed to help you envision and plan your cloud journey. These workshops include:
- Art of the Possible: Explore the innovative possibilities that cloud technologies can bring to your business. This assessment helps you understand the potential benefits and transformative impact of cloud adoption.
- Choose Your Path: Determine the best migration strategy for your organization with a thorough analysis of your existing IT infrastructure, SAP & ancillary applications, and business processes. Whether it’s a greenfield, brownfield, or selective data transition (SDT) approach, this assessment guides you in selecting the most suitable path for your cloud journey.
- Secure Your Move: Ensure your migration is secure and compliant. This assessment focuses on identifying security requirements for SAP and ancillary applications; Developing strategies to protect your data and applications throughout the migration and Integration process.
- Develop Roadmap: Develop a roadmap that aligns with your business and IT goals and clearly lays out what applications and functions will move to your RISE with SAP or other alternatives tenancy, as well as those that will need to be migrated but hosted elsewhere in the cloud.
2.Adopt:
Ensuring a seamless SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation and integration
This phase brings in the resources and technologies to ensure a seamless business transformation, integration and adoption of your SAP S/4HANA Cloud applications. In the adopt phase we align your business processes to improve agility while keeping the core clean (streamlining core ERP) with the flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements with modular innovation.
Whether you’re planning a greenfield, brownfield, or SDT implementation, we’ll get your business moved to SAP S/4HANA on the cloud of your choice swiftly, safely, and securely. We’ll leverage our SAP implementation accelerators, cloud connectivity tools and development expertise and our deep partner relationships with SAP and hyperscalers to integrate your entire SAP and ancillary applications—even in multi-cloud environments.
The adopt phase is where we materialize your business objectives by modernizing your IT infrastructure, ensuring secured connectivity between applications, ensuring secured cloud hosting & management, and complementing RISE with SAP to create your foundation for increased business cloud agility, scalability, and innovation. Our holistic approach is there to ensure the connectivity between your other critical SAP/ non-SAP applications with RISE with SAP and also manage and run with secured cloud hosting.
3.Optimize:
Driving Continuous Improvement and Innovation
The third phase of your cloud journey with Syntax Compass is to Optimize your SAP S/4HANA cloud environment. This phase focuses on driving continuous improvement and innovation to maximize the value of your cloud investment. During Optimize, we act as an extended team of your Center of Excellence (CoE) and provide the required talent, technology, process and governance elasticity in a flexible and personalized way to:
- Deliver on your business imperatives
- Increase SAP’s solution performance & adoption
- Ensure compliance & continuity
Working together , we share the objective to minimize applications run spend, to maximize value-added initiatives & innovation for growth.
- To minimize spend, we enable our client’s CoE’s with technology to reap the benefits of automation, artificial intelligence, analytics in a secured and adaptable way.
- We maximize value-added initiatives with the proactive identification of value-added enhancements and innovation for implementation.
- We also provide proactive monitoring and analysis of SAP and non-SAP mission-critical application to ensure availability, usage and adoption.
This includes the additional operations support to fill the gaps in RISE with SAP. For instance, we extend our support to manage critical ongoing basis and technical tasks not covered by the RISE with SAP support model. We also provide technical support and co-ordination with SAP service desk for issues and service requests which are usually out of RISE with SAP scope.
Why Choose Syntax Compass for SAP S/4HANA?
Syntax Compass provides a clear and structured approach to cloud migration, ensuring that every aspect of your journey is meticulously planned and executed. Our framework is designed to
- Cater cloud application implementation and management,
- Foster SAP business innovation, transformation and optimization
- Provide industry and technology expertise
which leads to:
- Reduced Complexity: Simplify the cloud migration process with a clear roadmap and expert guidance.
- Minimized Risk: Ensure a secure and compliant transition to the cloud with minimal disruption.
- Maximized Value: Optimize your cloud environment to achieve the best possible return on your investment.
Conclusion
Navigating your way to the cloud doesn’t have to be daunting. With Syntax Compass, you have a trusted partner to guide you through every stage of your cloud transformation. From discovering the best path forward to adopting a seamless migration strategy and optimizing for continuous improvement and innovation, Syntax Compass ensures your cloud journey is successful and aligned with your business goals.
Ready to embark on your cloud journey? Contact us today to learn more about how Syntax Compass can help you navigate your way to the cloud.