Technology Hardware Company (representative) · Technology · United States · 5 months
A stalled S/4HANA migration rescued to a clean go-live in 5 months
A representative engagement. The migration was stuck mid-program because the data mapping had failed and custom code kept breaking. Our Data Rescue Pod owned the workstream that had been the blocker.
Challenge
A roughly 1,900-person technology hardware company on SAP ECC was mid-migration with a global system integrator and badly behind. The data mapping had failed twice and custom ABAP kept breaking against the S/4HANA simplified data model. Legacy customer, material, and finance data was too dirty to load, and the integrator's data resources were junior and stretched. Every month the program slipped, the cost climbed.
Outcome
The migration that had been slipping for months reached a clean go-live with no operational downtime. The relationship with the primary integrator was preserved, and the client finally had a digital core built on data they could trust.
Results
- 5 mo From rescue mobilization to clean go-live
- 2 to 1 Failed loads turned into one clean cutover
- Zero Operational downtime at go-live
- $500K+ Projected overrun and penalty exposure avoided
We were two failed conversions deep and losing faith. Thinklytics brought in senior people who had actually done this, owned the data and the broken code, and got us live. They were the difference between a rescue and a write-off.
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