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SAP on Azure Implementation Guide

You're reading from   SAP on Azure Implementation Guide Move your business data to the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838983987
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bartosz Jarkowski Bartosz Jarkowski
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Nick Morgan Nick Morgan
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Summary

While SAP migrations are potentially complex, any risks can be mitigated through detailed analysis and planning. You need to work closely with the business to agree the available downtime window and choose a date to perform the migration – you will normally want to avoid peak periods in your business due to the required downtime. In most cases the business will also need to be heavily involved in planning and executing the test plans used to validate the migration.

We cannot provide a definitive answer as to which migration option will be right for you, but we hope that this chapter gives you an idea of the options you have and the advantages of each of them. In many cases you will use more than one migration option, possibly using lift-and-shift for some SAP applications, and lift-and-migrate for others; for example, migrating from BW on AnyDB to BW on HANA. For many of the smaller systems, the downtime required will be fairly short and you may take a very simple...

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