How Does KTern.AI Support Assessments For SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud ?

How Does KTern.AI Support Assessments For SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud ?


KTern.AI - The 1st of its kind platform for SAP centric digital transformations offers the stream 'Digital Maps' to support customers towards assessing SAP ERP landscape and planning the cloud-centric business transformations.

KTern.AI Digital Maps performs data-driven SAP ERP assessments to help enterprises drive innovation with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, which is ready-to-run cloud ERP that delivers the latest industry best practices. The notable, unique advantages in KTern.AI assessment is mentioned below:

  1. The only platform in market that offers extensive SAP assessment coverage, with rapid system scan and report generation within 5 business days, once the connectivity prerequisites are in place.

  2. There would NOT be any requirement to install 3rd party addons/transports/plugins in SAP system/server, as the connectivity happens through standard RFC protocol.

  3. The data-driven assessment results can also be integrated seamlessly for project execution, process governance, testing and enables swift planning with digitalized wizards.

1. Assessment Areas

With SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud as the target landscape, the comprehensive assessment of KTern.AI covers below major areas:
  1. Process Assessment
    To understand process with materiality scoring and understand the complexity of SAP S/4HANA public cloud implementation in view of change management, testing, process step coverage, data footprint.

  2. Custom Objects Assessment
    To assess usage of customizations in current ERP landscape, that would help determine the change management measures in view of fit-to-standard approach for SAP S/4HANA public cloud and relative suggestions towards clean core approach with SAP BTP based side-by-side extensibility.

  3. Landscape Assessment 
    To understand the likely interfaces, addons in current ERP landscape, that would help determine the complexities towards adoption of standard functionalities in SAP S/4HANA public cloud.

  4. Timeline and Effort Assessment
    To determine implementation timeline, effort estimation including system integrator & customer resources, and customer-specific L2 project plan in line with SAP Activate methodology.

  5. Business Transformation Assessment
    To gain recommendations on standard process scope items with Fiori app recommendations, end users, business productivity insights for public cloud target landscape, that's suggested based on usage of existing processes.

2. Key Assessment Wizards

  1. Custom Code Profiling

    1. One of the important considerations of S/4HANA Cloud Public Cloud adoption is the change management involved in fit-to-standard, thereby mitigating the years of adoption of customizations.



    2. It's important to assess the extensiveness of custom object usage, including custom reports and transactions. This would help system integrators comprehend the change management programs and assess any critical processes that involve customizations.





    3. KTern.AI would assess usage and complexities involved in customizations, and thereby help system integrators to drive workshops for fit-to-standard approach. The assessment also helps with suggestions for clean core transition with SAP BTP extensions, based on the materiality of processes associated with customizations.

    4. For more information on SAP BTP extensibility with KTern.AI, refer to
      1. Article on Clean Core - Click here
      2. Live Platform Walkthrough on Clean Core - Click here

  2. Enterprise Structure Mining

    1. KTern.AI would assess the end-to-end processes like order-to-cash, procure-to-pay in view of organizational entities and transactional documents posted.

    2. This would help system integrators and customers understand the configurational and transactional data scoping in SAP S/4HANA public cloud implementation.

    3. This provides the high level statistics to plan the Prepare & Explore phase workshops with respective stakeholders.





  3.  Interfaces Review

    1. With an SAP ERP landscape in place, a key aspect of planning the implementation of SAP S/4HANA public cloud in future would also be the understanding of current interfaces that are in place.

    2. KTern.AI insights on likely interfaces, addons, would enable the stakeholders to drive strategic workshops and assess the critical interfaces used for critical operations.



  4. Process Model Insights

    1. After the assessment of as-is processes in SAP ERP system, KTern.AI would generate to-be process model suggestions with productivity and user experience improvement insights, thanks to Fiori apps.

    2. In line with SAP best practice scope items, KTern.AI presents recommendations towards fit-to-standard approach with standard process models, key end users, top Fiori apps for implementation.

    3. This provides significant value for customers and system integrators to build confidence towards to-be change management and plan their SAP S/4HANA public cloud implementation with data-driven insights.



  5. Timeline and Effort Estimate

    1. As the assessment is intended to help system integrators plan their SAP S/4HANA public cloud implementation, KTern.AI would also simulate and generate high level timeline based on process scan and assessment of risk variables.

    2. The timeline specific to customer, will be generated in line with the SAP Activate methodology. An indicative estimate of the effort required from both system integrators and customers will also be generated.



3. References

  1. The transition to SAP S/4HANA public cloud with clean core approach is simplified by KTern.AI automation. In SAP BTP Discovery Center, SAP has published AI-First Business Transformation with KTern.AI driven clean core - Click here to learn more

  2. KTern.AI Integration with SAP ERP systems for SAP S/4HANA cloud assessments has been featured by SAP in SAP Business Accelerator Hub - Click here to learn more

  3. Customer Success Stories of KTern.AI for RISE with SAP S/4HANA cloud has been featured by SAP in various publications, including the SAP Industry Cloud book - Click here to learn more

  4. KTern.AI Trust Center provides complete information on cloud performance, security, privacy, and compliance - Click here to learn more

  5. SAP has also recognized KTern.AI assessments for SAP S/4HANA public cloud, by validating the solution and listing it in SAP Store - Click here to learn more

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