This document discusses challenges with upgrading to SAP S/4HANA and how intelligent test automation can help accelerate the adoption process. Upgrading to S/4HANA is challenging due to issues like requiring the latest version of SAP, a complete database change, downtime during migration, and difficulty migrating custom processes. By using test automation to quickly capture existing processes, analyze impact of changes, and conduct automated regression testing, organizations can speed up the migration timeline to S/4HANA. The document advocates an outside-in testing approach and continuous testing enabled by test automation in the cloud.

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Accelerate Adoption of SAP S/4HANA with
Intelligent, Continuous Automation
Shoeb Javed
Chief Technology Officer
Manoj Narayanan
Chief Technology Officer

2. SAP driven Digital Evolution
TrendsDigital
Business
IT
SAP
Real time
Intelligent
Personal
Predictive
Unified
Collaborative
Multi-tier ERPSAASASSET lite
Resilient
Technology
Continuous
Improvement
S/4 HANA , Simple
Business by Design, SAP Anywhere
HEC, C4C, Ariba, Success Factors
SAP HANA Vora
SAP IoT
FIORI, UX5

3. Application Landscape
Fragmenting

4. Digital Business Processes
Complex

5. By 2020, 60% of digital businesses will
experience a major service failure because
of IT teams’ inability to “manage digital risk
in new technology and use cases.”
Gartner Projection

6. Challenges with upgrade to S/4HANA
• Requires upgrade to the latest version of SAP
• Complete database change
• Time / Budgetary issues
• Requires downtime as migration takes place in waves
• Custom processes are difficult to migrate
• New user interface (Fiori) requires learning curve
• SAP S/4HANA has frequent fix packs (every 6 weeks or so).
• Will only support “latest” version
• Can cause substantial delay in upgrade

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Migration Paths to S/4HANA are Non-Trivial
New (Greenfield)
New installation of ECC6 minimum EHP level with S-
Innovation package (e.g., SAP Simple Finance, on-premise
edition 1503)
SAP
Installed Base
(Brownfield)
SAP Business
Suite on any DB
SAP Business
Suite on HANA
1) Upgrade to ECC6 minimum EHP level
2) Migrate database to SAP HANA
3) Install S-Innovation package (i.e. SAP Simple Finance)
Install S-Innovation package (i.e. SAP Simple finance)
SAP
S/4HANA

8. The Outside-In Approach
Automate End-to-End Processes
 Ensure that test automation covers not just the entry application but also all back-end applications and their integrations
 Identify all business process variations and check them too
Focus on the End User
 Understand how end-users use the application
 Create business scenarios to reflect this usage
Test Continuously
 Having automation in place allows you to run it on-demand as well as on a daily basis
 Uncover problems by proactively ensuring your business processes work – find problems before your users do
Scale by Using the Cloud
 Distribute automated testing across multiple machines to achieve scale and full coverage
 Use a public cloud infrastructure to spin up machines on demand and spin down when automated testing is complete

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Automation Speeds Migration to S/4HANA
Design
and Size
Plan Procure
Detailed
Design
Deploy Test
Time
• Quickly capture existing processes including custom
process paths that pose the most risk during
migration (Worksoft Analyze)
• Analyze impact of transport updates prior to
deployment (Worksoft Impact)
• Conduct tests to ensure business process integrity
(Worksoft Certify)
• Automatically generate
documentation for
best-practice process
paths (Worksoft
Analyze)
• Take the captured processes
into Worksoft Certify for faster
testing with better coverage
• Identify what has changed
(Worksoft Impact)
• Conduct lights-out testing
(Worksoft Execution Manager)

10. Challenges with upgrade to S/4HANA: Fix Packs
Development Cycle Integration Test Release
Pain Points
• Fixpacks released ~ every 6 weeks
• If there are issues, client must upgrade to
latest fixpack for support
• Can cause substantial delay in upgrade
Automation Advantage
• Worksoft Certify® automates the testing portion,
and does not need to be rewritten after applying
a fixpack
• Worksoft Impact identifies what has changed
• Worksoft Execution Manager runs test overnight

11. Your Objectives
Requirement
Infra Lite
HANA
Enablement
Build
Test Execution
Test Data
Management
Release
Management
Run
Predictive
Analysis
What you are in need of?
Holistic View - Accelerate S/4 HANA Adoption
BUSINESS ASSURANCE
CUSTODIANS of Quality
Business Process Quality
Digital Quality
Predictive Quality
Automated Quality
Solution Levers
QUALITY INSIGHT
Applying Quality Intelligence
Continuous Insight
Our Vision
How to accelerate?
Intelligent Automation

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S/4 HANA PoC Enablement
S/4 HANA PoC Simulation in Cloud
S/4 HANA Impact Analysis
S/4 HANA Migration Validation
Business Process Digitization
Business Process Discovery
Business Process Model Digitization
Business Process Benchmarking
Accelerate S/4 HANA Adoption through
SAP Operational Intelligence
Code Quality Intelligence
Performance Intelligence
Security Impact Analysis

13. QUALITY INSIGHT
Upgrade Change Impact Simulation
Application Impact Simulation
Enterprise Release Intelligence
Biz Insight
Dev Insight
Test Insight
Ops Insight
Predictive Analysis
Continuous Automation
Lifecycle Automation
SolMan Continuous Integration
Infra Lite

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Shoeb Javed
Chief Technology Officer
Worksoft Inc.
sjaved@worksoft.com
Manoj Narayanan
Chief Technology Officer - QE&A
Cognizant Tech Solutions
Manoj.Narayanan@cognizant.com
Q&A
Brent George
Global EAS QE&A Head
Cognizant Tech Solutions
Brent.George@cognizant.com
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