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Enhanced Selective Data Transition Capabilities with Time-Slice
On top of the possibility to leave behind outdated company code data, the selective data transition scenario in SAP BTC now includes further capabilities to reduce the data scope. These enhancements allow for even more precise data selection, ensuring that only the most critical and relevant data is migrated. This not only optimizes the data transition process but also supports compliance with data retention policies and regulatory requirements.
What is Time-Slice?
Time-Slice is a powerful feature within SAP Business Transformation Center's Selective Data Transition scenario that allows organizations to selectively transition data from the legacy SAP ECC system based on a specific key date. This means you can choose to migrate only the most relevant and recent data, leaving behind outdated or unnecessary information of fiscal years from the past. By doing so, you not only reduce the volume of data being transferred but also enhance the efficiency and speed of your SAP S/4HANA data migration projects.
SAP Business Transformation Center allows organizations to reduce the amount of data moved from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA based on the dimensions company codes & fiscal years to reduce the data footprint as shown below:
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Benefits of Using Time-Slice
Reduce your Data Footprint by transitioning only the necessary data, you can significantly decrease the amount of data stored and managed, leading to cost savings and improved system performance.
Enhance your Data Quality by focusing on recent and relevant data ensures that your migrated data is accurate and up-to-date, reducing the risk of errors and inconsistencies. This can be verified using integrated Data Transition Validation (SAP DTV) tooling.
Migrate Faster with a smaller data set to transfer, the migration process becomes quicker and more efficient, minimizing downtime and disruption to your business operations.
Improve the Compliance with selective data transition adhering to data retention policies and regulatory requirements by ensuring that only the required data is retained and migrated.
How Time-Slice and Selective Data Transition Work
The Time-Slice feature in SAP BTC is designed to be user-friendly and easily customizable. Here’s a step-by-step overview of how it works:
1. System Analysis: Conduct a thorough analysis of your existing data to identify the relevant time periods and data sets for migration using SAP Readiness Check for Usage and Data Profiling.
In Manage Digital Blueprints app, in the solution pattern section for “Time-Slice”, data insights into the data usage across the different years are conducted. This provides an idea of the system age and data used in the previous years.
2. Define Scope: With the analysis file attached, use the Manage Digital Blueprints app to create a Digital Blueprint and to specify the time periods and company codes, that need to be transitioned. Furthermore, attach a system scan to include also additional tables such as custom tables into the migration scope). In the solution pattern section for time-slice in the Manage Digital Blueprints app, the user has the possibility to define the fiscal year where the data should be taken from:
3. Create a Transformation Model: Set up the Transformation Model based on your scoping exercise covered in the Digital Blueprint to create the technical foundation of your migration. The Transformation Model delivers pre-defined standard content for the selective data transition including filtering for company codes and time-slice.
4. Create a Transformation Model Version, based on your Transformation Model which is a frozen “ready-to-execute” technical foundation for your data migration.
5. Create Migration Cycles: Set up migration cycles based on the Transformation Model Version that contains the defined scope, which is ensuring a smooth selective data transition for only the selected company codes and fiscal years.
6. Set up Data Validation (optionally): Use the integrated data transition validation (DTV) tool to compare the data of the source system with the data in the target system after load.
7. Run the Data Migration: Walk through the execution steps in the Manage Cycles app to execute Data Transformation: Perform the Pre-validation, Preparation, Transformation Execution and the Post-Processing.
Real-World Success Stories
Many organizations have already noticed the benefits of using Time-Slice in SAP BTC. For instance, a leading manufacturing company can reduce its data footprint by 77% and cut down migration time by 50%, all while maintaining data integrity and compliance. Due to the intuitive and standardized guided data migration process, overall data migration planning, implementation and execution effort is very low compared to similar projects in the past.
Conclusion
The Time-Slice feature in SAP Business Transformation Center is a game-changer for businesses looking to optimize their data migration processes. By selectively transitioning data, you can reduce your data footprint, enhance data quality, and achieve faster, more efficient migrations. Embrace the power of Time-Slice and take your data management strategy to the next level with SAP Business Transformation Center's Selective Data Transition scenario.
Further information
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