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Applexus offers comprehensive S/4HANA advisory, migration and implementation services, including Brownfield, Greenfield and Selective migration to seamlessly transform organizations.
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With shifting consumer trends altering the marketplace, investing in the right technology has become more important than ever for organizations. This is where SAP’s latest ERP system S/4HANA has been instrumental in empowering organizations in their digital transformation journey. S/4HANA enables you to stay relevant in a competitive market by enabling you to reengineer your business processes and adapt to shifting business models.

Key benefits of S/4HANA migration

  • Streamline your business processes and IT landscape with S/4HANA as the digital core. 

  • Experience a highly intuitive and personalized user experience with Fiori 3 for your S/4HANA platform. 

  • Enable instant decision-making with near-to-real-time analytics, leveraging S/4HANA’s powerful in-memory database. 

  • Reduce the total cost of ownership with S/4HANA’s simplified technology landscape. 

  • Innovate by seamlessly integrating S/4HANA with advanced technologies such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. 

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Experience a streamlined S/4HANA migration with Applexus CeleRITE, an automation platform for accelerated S/4HANA migrations and landscape modernization.
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Start your SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration journey with our CeleRITE assessment, which gives you a business case, a roadmap, and an estimate of the project cost and timelines. We offer multiple assessments tailored to where you are on your S/4HANA journey – Early Exploration Assessment, CeleRITE Technical Assessment, and CeleRITE Full Assessment.
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Applexus offers end-to-end SAP S/4HANA implementation services leveraging CeleRITE for a faster, cost-effective, and low-risk implementation. Combined with our unique RunWay approach and RunningStart methodology, CeleRITE ensures a seamless migration to S/4HANA. Furthermore, CeleRITE empowers us to offer clients 7 distinct pathways to S/4HANA, encompassing Brownfield, Greenfield, and Selective Transition approaches, providing maximum flexibility to suit individual business needs.
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Our S/4HANA consulting services help transform business processes, guide you on the right technology & infrastructure strategy and roadmap, and identify, design, and deliver business value from your digital transformation initiatives. We help align your business strategy, value drivers and the governance structure needed to realize value.
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Accelerate and simplify your SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration with CeleRITE, our AI-driven platform. Save up to 40% on project costs and timeline by leveraging CeleRITE’s automation capabilities.
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AI-powered S/4HANA Migrations with CeleRITE
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CeleRITE is the only platform that can automate the migration of all elements of an ERP system - configuration, code, data, and access control. It can also selectively migrate config, code, data and access control based on any organizational unit. This allows us to offer 7 distinct pathways to S/4HANA including Brownfield, Greenfield and Selective Transitions.
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Expedite and streamline your S/4HANA transformation journey with our RunningStart Agile methodology and pre-built accelerators. Benefit from a wealth of resources, including over 1,000 test automation scripts, extensive pre-built project documentation, and a robust object repository with 1,500+ solutions. Leverage industry cloud solutions and 150+ pre-built packages for tailored industry needs.
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With extensive experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation services, we provide expert guidance from strategy to execution, ensuring a successful migration. Our team holds deep SAP knowledge and technical proficiency to guide your S/4HANA migration journey. We not only have the tools and processes but also the functional and technical expertise for a successful migration.
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Our Value Assurance Framework aligns business strategy, value drivers, and governance structures to assure measurable results throughout your transformation program. The framework spans the lifecycle of the program and aligns business strategy, value drivers, key capabilities and the governance structure needed to assure value realization.
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Navigating the complexities of an S/4HANA implementation demands a strategic approach, one that prioritizes efficiency and minimizes risk. At Applexus, we understand the challenges and offer a pragmatic solution – a methodology and tools designed to deliver a faster, less risky, and more cost-effective S/4HANA transformation. These accelerators leverage pre-built collateral such as test automation scripts, and pre-built project documentation including user stories, simplification lists, business process diagrams, and more. Our approach is grounded in practicality, leveraging pre-built components and industry best practices to optimize your implementation.
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Our comprehensive pre-built project documentation includes executive interview templates, user stories, simplification lists, BPDs, and process flow diagrams. These resources are meticulously crafted to accelerate project initiation and planning phases.
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The studio provides insights into your business processes and also facilitates their creation, validation, and standardization. With 150+ Prebuilt Process Mining Scripts for thorough analysis, along with Prebuilt KPIs and a process conformance check feature, it supports continuous improvement through real-time monitoring.
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The Test Automation Studio is a robust and user-friendly solution tailored to streamline testing for standard business procedures within the SAP S/4 system. Equipped with a versatile set of pre-defined yet highly customizable test scripts, this tool enables organizations to automate and refine their testing workflows, mitigating migration risks effectively.
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Our Object Repository provides seamless integration, robust analytics, smooth data migration, rapid app development, and industry-specific tools and configurations tailored to distinct needs. Streamline SAP customization and configuration tasks with our vast library of over 1500 pre-built reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms.
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Applexus Industry-Focused Solutions
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Applexus Industry-Focused Solutions provides preconfigured S/4HANA packages for Retail, Fashion, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, and Logistics, integrating industry-specific templates, best practices, and guided configurations. Benefit from industry best practices embedded within these solutions, accelerating your implementation, reducing risks, and enabling you to realize the value of S/4HANA faster.
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The Archive Data Visualization Studio revolutionizes data exploration with its user-friendly interface and high-performance capabilities for visualizing archived data. It seamlessly integrates with archive file structures, generates database structures automatically, retrieves data quickly, and provides insightful summary reports and transactions.
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What are the primary differences between SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC?
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SAP S/4HANA is built on the HANA in-memory database, which allows for real-time data processing and advanced analytics, unlike ECC, which relies on traditional relational databases with limited processing speed. S/4HANA features a simplified data model that reduces data footprint and enhances performance. It also introduces the modern SAP Fiori interface for an intuitive, user experience, as opposed to the SAP GUI interface in ECC. These advancements enable faster decision-making, automation, and improved user experience.
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What are the different options to migrate to S/4HANA supported by CeleRITE?
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CeleRITE supports 7 different migration approaches to S/4HANA which includes Greenfield or a fresh implementation, Brownfield - with automated custom code remediation and data migration, preserving current processes and customizations and Selective Migration - only specific processes, functions or business units can be migrated to S/4HANA.
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What are the licensing models for SAP S/4HANA?
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S/4HANA offers subscription-based licensing for cloud deployments and perpetual licensing (Upfront license fee and annual maintenance costs) for on-premises solutions, with options tailored to business needs.
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How does S/4HANA improve operational efficiency?
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S/4HANA improves operational efficiency through:

  • In-memory Database: The HANA database processes large volumes of data in real time, enabling faster analytics and reporting. 
  • Simplified Data Model: Reduces data redundancy and complexity, leading to improved system performance and reduced maintenance overhead. 
  • SAP Fiori Frontend: Provides a modern, intuitive user interface with role-based apps, streamlining user workflows and increasing productivity. 
  • Process Automation: S/4HANA automates repetitive tasks, optimizes workflows, and leverages embedded AI for predictive analytics, reducing inefficiencies and delays.
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What is the deadline for customers on ECC to migrate to S/4HANA?
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SAP’s mainstream maintenance for ECC ends on December 31, 2027, after which customers can opt for extended maintenance until 2030 at an additional 2% premium over the standard support costs. Beyond 2030, ECC will no longer receive updates or support, making it crucial for organizations to migrate to S/4HANA promptly to maintain business continuity, access innovations, and remain competitive.
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What is the difference between S/4HANA Public Cloud and Private Cloud?
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Public Cloud:

  • Multi-tenant environment with shared infrastructure.
  • Standardized processes with limited customization.
  • Ideal for organizations looking for cost efficiency and rapid deployment.
  • Upgrades are automatic and more frequent, ensuring access to the latest features.

Private Cloud:

  • Single-tenant environment with dedicated infrastructure.
  • Greater flexibility for customizations and integrations.
  • Suitable for businesses with complex processes or regulatory requirements.
  • Organizations have more control over the upgrade timeline.

Both options provide the benefits of S/4HANA but cater to different levels of control, customization, and scalability needs.

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How is CeleRITE unique and what differentiates it from other tools that automate S/4HANA migrations?
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CeleRITE is unique due to its end-to-end automation capabilities across all aspects of migration:

  • Comprehensive Migration: Automates migration of configuration, code, data, and access control to minimize manual effort.
  • Selective Migration: Provides flexibility to migrate specific elements, such as business units or processes, enabling phased or hybrid migrations.
  • Auto Custom Code Remediation: Detects and remediates code customizations automatically. CeleRITE also enables remediation at RICEFW level and not just at object level.
  • Clean Core Enablement: Provides actionable insights to modernize and refine custom code, highlighting opportunities for adopting fit-to-standard methodologies or migrating to SAP BTP and thereby enabling a clean core.

These capabilities ensure a faster, more reliable migration with reduced cost and effort compared to traditional tools.

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How does CeleRITE address the customizations in the ECC system?
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CeleRITE offers a structured approach to manage ECC customizations:

  • Automated Custom Code Analysis and Remediation: It identifies incompatible custom code and remediates it to align with S/4HANA standards.
  • Selective Custom code Migration: Can selectively move only required customizations to S/4HANA.
  • BTP Integration: Provides the option to transfer customizations to the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enabling clean core.

This ensures a lean and scalable S/4HANA system while preserving necessary business-specific customizations.

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How should customers get started on their S/4HANA journey?
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Start your S/4HANA journey with CeleRITE by leveraging its 4–8-week assessment to create a tailored migration strategy. CeleRITE analyzes key areas like process configuration, code, data readiness, access control, and integrations. It provides actionable insights, including a business case, cost-benefit analysis, and a migration roadmap.

Key focus areas include:

  • Process Optimization: Aligning workflows with S/4HANA.  
  • Custom Code Automation: Remediating up to 80% of custom code. 
  • Data Readiness: Profiling, cleansing, and preparing data for migration.  
  • Access Control & Integration: Modernizing roles and ensuring system compatibility.  

With CeleRITE’s automation, your migration is faster, cost-effective, and risk-free, ensuring a seamless transition to S/4HANA.

 

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How does CeleRITE reduce the implementation timeline for S/4HANA projects?
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Applexus leverages CeleRITE’s AI -powered automation capabilities to significantly shorten the deployment timeline. For instance, almost 70 – 80% of custom code remediation is automated through CeleRITE’s code transformation studio. Customers can save up to 40% on their migration timeline and costs.
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