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Some enterprises are vacillating about migrating from on-Premise SAP HCM to cloud-based SAP SuccessFactors. But in the future, they will be forced to switch, as the on-Premise legacy system is not designed to keep up with the pace of the upcoming consumer-driven market. Even SAP\u2019s own announcement about the year 2027 as the deadline for SAP ERP HCM support makes the migration inevitable.<\/p>\n
SAP SuccessFactors, the end-to-end suite of cloud HXM solutions, is built with Human Experience Management (HXM) in mind. This cloud-based solution helps employees feel connected, empowered, and supported.<\/p>\n
Switching to NextGen SAP SF is always a win-win situation for enterprises, as the cloud-based HXM comes with tons of benefits.<\/p>\n
So, the topic of SAP HCM migration to SAP SF<\/strong> has become a buzzword amongst enterprises. Many customers are in the middle of their SAP ERP to SAP SF journey, and some are beginning their journey from SAP to SAP SuccessFactors.<\/p>\n The important point to be noticed here is that the conversion to SAP SF is not the same as it was for the conversion to SAP ERP HCM.<\/p>\n The process of migration is not as simple as it sounds. It involves a lot of preparation and post-migration activities like planning, creating backups, quality testing, and validation of the results. It includes different processes, technologies, and purposes of the system to understand.<\/p>\n As per Gartner\u2019s forecast, organizations are increasingly using cloud-based solutions for supporting their transactional systems and core financial applications. According to the report, approximately 36% of enterprises will use the cloud to support more than 50% of their transactional systems.<\/p>\n Gartner’s report states that in the future, over 90 percent of enterprises will surely use cloud-based applications for their enterprise transactions. As per the report, the cloud-based application is still in the development stage, and right now it may not uniformly meet the requirements of all markets, companies, and verticals. However, over the next 3-4 years, the migration may occur in stages, with 44.6 percent of smaller enterprises, 37.7 percent of midsize enterprises, and 40.4 percent of larger firms planning to migrate to the cloud.<\/p>\n Reasons to move from SAP ERP HCM to SAP SF :<\/strong><\/p>\n The reasons for moving from SAP ERP HCM to SAP SF are as follows:<\/p>\n The migration process will speed up the shift of all the existing SAP HCM customers seamlessly to SAP SuccessFactors HXM. This cloud-based human resource solution even includes specific tools, assets, and services that help the migration journey be hassle-free and more comfortable.<\/p>\n Why Migrate Data? What can you Migrate?<\/strong><\/p>\n Enterprises planning to move their HR data and processes to Employee Central need to migrate the employee master to a new system, which is a non-negotiable activity. And it doesn\u2019t make sense if it is done manually in a new system when the same data already exists in the old system. The point to be noted here is that apart from employee data, the organizational objects that are the sources of employee data also need to be migrated.<\/p>\n The integration even extends its support to migrate any SAP ERP HCM data to Employee Central. And at the same time, this integration add-on support doesn\u2019t favor all the Foundation objects, Employee objects, Job Relationships. Moreover, it doesn\u2019t support the migration of transparent configuration tables in the delivered configuration. For example, the integration add\u2013on would not migrate company codes from SAP ERP HCM table T001 to legal entities in Employee Central.<\/p>\n Migration Methods:<\/strong><\/p>\n Selecting the right method is a key decision for any enterprise. There are 2 methods, which are stated below:<\/p>\n The following steps need to be considered while selecting the migration method.<\/p>\n Migration Tool \u2013 SAP InfoPorter:<\/strong><\/p>\n SAP Infoporter is a recommended technology for migrating data from SAP HCM to SAP SF Employee Central and replicating the changes back to HCM, and moreover, this SAP Infoporter is SAP\u2019s tool.<\/p>\n The Infoporter guides and converts information to be used in SuccessFactors Employee Central and sends out the information as Comma-separated Value (CSV) files or straightforwardly duplicates the information into SuccessFactors Employee Central. In some documentation, the arrangement is additionally called DMT (Data Migration Tool). It accelerates HR data migration for full cloud, cloud hybrid, and side-by-side implementations. It extracts data from SAP ERP HCM and loads it to Employee Central. The tool helps customers in:<\/p>\n SAP HCM TO SAP SF Migration Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n Below is a sample flow of the migration process from SAP HCM to SAP SF ECP.<\/p>\n SAP Cloud Migration Project Steps:<\/strong> The Key Benefits of Cloud Migration:<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of the key benefits of Cloud Migration include:<\/p>\n Conclusion:<\/strong> Most SAP ERP HCM Payroll clients, either giant or small, have already executed the migration process and their finance has even got balanced out over a period. Moving to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll permits clients to use their time, exertion, information, and wisdom on the current framework by taking on a relocation approach, as opposed to an exorbitant and tedious financial execution on another framework.<\/p>\n Cigniti\u2019s novel method to deal with the testing difficulties in the prophet combination cloud and underneath are the accepted procedures that we follow to meet the migration testing plan. We take care of different phases of migration tests, like Pre-migration, Migration process, and Post-migration.<\/p>\n Cigniti helps you with presenting a strong strategy to test the cloud, so you can easily address all the troubles and snares. We typically focus on functional testing of the application during cloud programming testing, but we also place a strong emphasis on cloud-specific and non-functional testing. We take this with our typical start-to-finish way and deal with the testing processes with guaranteed excellence across all parts of cloud execution. We additionally have insight into test-driving SaaS items and understand the related intricacies. We provide specific domain expertise in different verticals with proven experience in other non-functional testing services.<\/p>\n We at Cigniti provide the following testing for cloud applications.<\/p>\n We conclude that there has been a tremendous increase in data migration project to cloud target applications in recent years.<\/p>\n Following the outstanding steps for SAP SF Migration testing practices will help the customers with a smoother workflow. And picking up the right implementation practices and testing partners like Cigniti, also matters the most in the long run.<\/p>\n![\"Structured](\"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog2-1-582x438.png\")
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CPI is SAP middleware for transferring data from SAPSF to SAP ERP.<\/li>\n![\"flow](\"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog6-1-833x301.png\")
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\nThese\u202fmethods\u202fare generic enough to be\u202fsuccessfully\u202fapplied\u202fto any SAP cloud migration project. Additional steps may be needed if you combine a technical migration project with a functional upgrade like S\/4 HANA, and the sequence of steps will differ based on specific project requirements.<\/p>\n![\"SAP](\"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog7-581x438.png\")
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Above are steps for planning a cloud migration project.<\/p>\n\n
\nThe world of work was already changing – not just the places where we work, but even the methodology of our work. Now it\u2019s high time to move from traditional applications to a cloud-based solution like SAP SuccessFactors.<\/p>\n\n