In the News: ERP Today on Absoft’s Cloud Migration Strategy

Adrian Bridgewater, ERP Today‘s Technology Editor, has recently approached Robert MacDonald, Absoft’s Innovation and Technology Manager to cover Absoft’s cloud migration strategies and recommendations.  

• Read the full ERP Today magazine article “Absoft’s hard-line strategy for SAP cloud migration”. 

Adrian begins with “There’s an awful lot of talk about cloud computing and the migration strategies, tactics and operational nuances required to evolve our pre-existing IT stacks and wider data estates to the new world of cloud. Pick any consultant, specialist cloud advocate or platform evangelist you like and they’ll all typically come forward with a ‘usual suspect’ selection pack of suggestions…” 

 

 

Granular details: financial & operations

“What we really need is for the industry to tell us more about how to handle migration mechanics, how to execute them comprehensively and what kinds of measure we should use to gauge our progress.

“Innovation and technology manager at SAP consultancy Absoft Robert MacDonald thinks he has seen enough of the real world guts, grease and granular gearing that goes on inside an SAP cloud migration to offer us some hard-line advice.

• Read Robert’s advice and examples from Absoft’s multiple migration projects here. 

“He argues that businesses can no longer afford to put off a cloud-migration strategy (SAP or otherwise) and says that for businesses, an ‘immediate’ migration to the cloud can quickly deliver tangible benefits, while also preparing for future digital transformation.

“However he warns, ensuring the right mix of technical and functional SAP skills as well as cloud expertise is absolutely vital to both immediate success and strategic direction.

MacDonald alludes to the post-pandemic prioritising that many firms will now be trying to work out and says that this year has thrown up an extraordinary array of operational challenges for most companies – exciting opportunities for some and disheartening realities for others. Either way, for the vast majority, technology and operational plans in 2022 look very different to the strategic direction outlined pre-2020.

 

An SAP change imperative

He points to the matter of SAP ECC going out-of-support in the next 5+ years and asks whether organisations know how to mitigate technology issues (retiring legacy equipment and so on) but also drive tangible value on the migration road to SAP S/4HANA….. 

• Read the full ERP Today magazine article “Absoft’s hard-line strategy for SAP cloud migration” for more.