IBM Migration Factory SAP Migration Services.indd
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Short Desciption:migration efforts, so who will provide. SAP-certified migration expertise? ... IBM knows that one SAP migration. design does not fit all, especially ...
Content Inside: SAP MIGRATION SERVICES © Copyright IBM Corporation 2006 CHALLENGE When SAP® customers think about migrating to other platforms, their number-one concern is risk and how those risks can be mitigated. Customers seldom undertake migration efforts, so who will provide SAP-certified migration expertise? SAP is often the mission-critical application that customers rely on 24x7 to power their business. How can this engine that keeps their business running be migrated? SAP migrations can give customers the opportunity to: • Design new architecture to help enable growth and operational efficiency, • Enable tested backup and restore solutions, which can drive higher availability and disaster recovery, • Automate testing procedures which may be manual today, and • Reorganize database(s), which can help reduce space fragmentation, improve performance and data availability. SERVICES The IBM Migration Factory has developed optimized migration services for SAP users that provide special handling for large databases. Database users can migrate from IBM Informix® to IBM DB2® or Oracle in an SAP environment. IBM’s hybrid migration techniques can help reduce run times for larger tables and IBM’s testing approach can help enable an acceptable outage during cutover. PLANNING FOR SUCCESS IBM knows that one SAP migration design does not fit all, especially with the ever-growing list of different mySAP eBusiness application components. That’s why every SAP operating system/database migration involves an SAP-Certified Migration Consultant to provide planning, leadership and execution. MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS Some considerations in SAP migrations include: • Which mySAP application and version? • What source and target operating system and database platform? • How large is the database (how much data) to be migrated? • How long is the migration window? • How much acceptance testing is needed and how long will it take? • How much effort, how long and ho ...
