8/20/2019 How To Use RPA To Accelerate SAP S/4HANA Migration | UiPath

3 May 2019

Accelerate Your SAP S/4HANA Migration with RPA

The current SAP application landscape serves the basic business process needs to run your day-to-day operational
activities. Over time, the data sources, as well as other systems associated with them, have grown in the effort to gain
greater insights. This has resulted in a complex and heavy infrastructure.

The latest S/4HANA business suite offers new and improved ways to digitize business processes, but migrations of this
size can be costly. A UiPath analysis projects that the typical process for this migration can cost $10 million and take
about eighteen months.

With SAP announcing the end of support by 2025 for the earlier versions of its enterprise resource planning (ERP)
applications, the migration to S/4HANA is not an option but a requirement.

Large migration projects involve a degree of uncertainty, but with Robotic Process Automation (RPA), you can automate
various steps of the migration. Rather than testing different pieces of code one at a time, for example, you can automate
the testing process and make migration faster, more reliable and large scale.

Many SAP customers develop code to customize SAP applications to their specific needs. This code can run into the
thousands of lines, but might not run smoothly after migration to SAP S/4HANA because of its different coding standards.

Rather than use your developers’ time to create test scripts, the UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform can automate testing
and validation. UiPath Robots can quickly identify custom code, analyze vulnerabilities, check for compatibility problems,
and remediate issues automatically.

UiPath automates different phases of the migration process, thus reducing the overall critical path and timelines of the
entire SAP S/4HANA migration.
migration. For information technology (IT) departments, the SAP S/4HANA migration brings several
challenges. The key concern areas being:

1. Custom code analysis and remediation

2. Manual testing and validation
3. Security compliance

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Without the need to develop custom script, you can save the time and effort of your developers for more valuable tasks,
and start taking advantage of the SAP S/4HANA suite faster.

How UiPath accelerates your SAP S/4HANA migration

Custom code identification, analysis, and remediation

The UiPath Platform can help automatically remediate and optimize custom code for your S/4HANA migration. UiPath
Robots can quickly:

Identify custom code

Analyze any vulnerabilities in the existing code
Check for compatibility. Robots can assess compliance with your coding standards and compare the existing custom code
with the new SAP S/4HANA code to ensure they are compatible.
Remediate the issues automatically to prevent manual errors

The benefits of RPA:

Rapid time to value

Reduce effort for custom code remediation
Decrease code migration effort
Reduce cost of assessment
Eliminate manual errors

RPA for S/4HANA migration testing and validation

UiPath automates the regression, security, and acceptance testing you'll need to do throughout the S/4HANA migration.
The UiPath Platform provides rapid large scale, end-to-end automated testing and validation coverage without much
disruption to your team, your day-to-day operations, and your customers. This includes:

Business process variant definition through process mining

Dynamic creation of test cases and test data sets
Continuous end-to-end test execution
Automated testing is supported through the SAP GUI, Fiori, and other SAP clients

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Power BI Dashboard to show test progress and the results

The benefits of RPA:

Decrease the business disruption for subject matter experts (SMEs), process owners, and end customers
Achieve large scale testing and validation (at a scale not possible for human employees)
Decrease testing time
Reduce costs via the replacement of manual efforts with intelligent RPA
Eliminate manual errors

RPA for S/4HANA migration security compliance

UiPath offers a trusted Platform for secure automation and simplified compliance with the regulations that matter to you.
The UiPath Platform's defense-grade security and auditing include role-based access control (RBAC), Encryption
Everywhere, and Veracode certified code. Our technology is trusted as secure by more than 50 government agencies.

The benefits of RPA:

Protection from security threats

Simplify compliance with required regulations

Beyond SAP S/4HANA migration: the path to digital transformation

Using RPA allows you to generate returns beyond the SAP S/4HANA migration process because you can reuse the
automations post-migration to improve day-to-day operational efficiency.

The automations you create for the S/4HANA migration can continue on as your digital workforce. Your Robots will stand
ready to automate many critical business processes, which will provide your enterprise with a competitive advantage.

Here are some additional uses for UiPath Robots after the migration has been completed:

Use the Robots and the test cases built during the migration phase for other planned regression or acceptance tests
Set dynamic triggers for process executions to be automatically triggered based on your needs; the Robots don't require
scheduling to run when needed

Automating various phases of the SAP S/4HANA migration process with UiPath not only provides your organization with
lasting value, but also puts you on the path to true digital transformation through automation.

If you missed my presentation at the conference, “Accelerate Your SAP S/4HANA Migration with UiPath RPA and
EY,” join me for our webinar “Automate your SAP S/4HANA Migration with RPA.”

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