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Charting the Right Course: SAP S/4HANA Deployment Models, Scenarios & Strategy

Before diving into technical upgrades or executing on your migration plans, it’s essential to take a step back and evaluate the strategic decisions that shape your SAP S/4HANA journey.

Attend this session to:

• Explore key differences between SAP S/4HANA deployment models and understand how your choice impacts long-term scalability, integration, and total cost of ownership.
• Evaluate transition scenarios (Greenfield, Brownfield, Selective Migration) and the pros and cons of each based on system readiness, business priorities, and technical complexity.
• Identify key pre-migration questions, including custom code strategy, third-party compatibility, and data retention policies.
• Align your SAP S/4HANA strategy with business transformation goals.

Turning Strategy into Action: Executing Your S/4HANA Migration

Once you’ve selected your deployment approach and designed the architecture—now it’s time to execute. This session examines the step-by-step process of performing a system conversion, implementation, or selective migration to SAP S/4HANA.

Attendees will come away with actionable guidance to:

• Use SAP Readiness Check and simplification item analysis to prepare your system.

• Leverage SUM, CVI, the Migration Cockpit, and custom code tools.

• Manage dual landscapes during conversion and create execution runbooks for each environment.

• Plan your go-live with proven cutover and testing strategies.

• Navigate complexities such as custom code remediation, third-party add-on compatibility, and data migration validation.

Case Study: Security and Compliance for SAP S/4HANA Cloud with Bayer

Discover how Bayer has reimagined its approach to securing Cloud ERP systems while navigating complex regulatory requirements. This session highlights their transformative journey, showcasing critical milestones in strengthening cloud security, overcoming compliance challenges, and setting a course for future advancements.

Explore Bayer’s collaboration with SAP Enterprise Cloud Services, focusing on proactive risk management and innovative security solutions. Whether you’re already utilizing Cloud ERP or considering a transition, this session provides fresh perspectives and actionable strategies for maintaining security and regulatory excellence in a dynamic cloud landscape.

Attendees will:

• Learn how Bayer transformed cloud security for ERP systems while meeting complex regulatory standards.
• Discover key milestones in overcoming compliance challenges and implementing proactive risk management.
• Explore Bayer’s collaboration with SAP to drive innovative security solutions for future advancements.

Lessons Learned Over 50+ SAP BTP Projects

Learn lessons learned from projects to enhance your success with SAP BTP. Pieter-Jan has been actively engaged in over 50+ projects on SAP BTP over the past decade. Gain valuable knowledge and practical advice that can positively impact your endeavors with SAP BTP.

Attendees will:

• Learn the do's and don'ts of SAP BTP.

• Understand SAP BTP Governance.

• Hear SAP BTP Architecture advice.

Case Study: Technical Debt to Technical Health using SAP BTP at Polestar

In the evolving landscape of enterprise software, ensuring a "clean core" architecture is essential to maintaining system agility, scalability, and reduced maintenance overhead. However, achieving this comes with significant challenges, such as managing complex integrations, ensuring data consistency, and safeguarding against customization sprawl.

To address these, organizations must set clear guardrails to balance innovation with system integrity, ensuring the core remains adaptable to future upgrades and technological advancements. Simplification plays a key role in this process, helping reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and enhance user experience.

A vital enabler in this journey is SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP), which offers a range of benefits, including seamless cloud integration, advanced analytics, and enhanced development agility. By leveraging SAP BTP, enterprises can decouple innovations from the core, promote a Headless vision, streamline processes, and introduce new capabilities without compromising system stability.

The Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) facilitated by S4core with SAP BTP further enhances the ability to respond to real-time data events, fostering more adaptive and resilient business processes without being synchronous, object-centric, and data-driven.

In conclusion, this session explores the mindset of maintaining Technical Health by introducing preventive guardrails and leveraging SAP BTP, Clean Core, and EDA to avoid reactive firefighting — creating a proactive, simplified, and resilient architecture through principles of change management.

Attendees will:

• Gain insights around Clean Core, SAP BTP, Change Management, EDA, and Solution Architecture.

Designing the Backbone: SAP S/4HANA Architecture, Integration & Cloud Readiness

Once you’ve chosen your migration strategy, the next step is designing a technical architecture that supports performance, agility, and innovation.

Attendees will:

• Understand SAP S/4HANA architecture requirements, including differences based on cloud, hybrid, and on-premise deployments.

• Explore the role of SAP BTP, SAP SAC, and SAP Datasphere.

• Learn how to size your systems using Quick Sizer, memory estimations, and T-shirt sizing.

• Prepare for secure, scalable operation through SSO, role management, and data archiving strategies.

• Get expert guidance around extensibility, hyperscalers, and cloud provider selection.

• Explore options for leveraging Fiori and rapid content activation for a smooth user experience.