10:30am-11:00am Don’t Get Caught Out in the Cold: How to Avoid Change Freezes Dur­ing SAP S/4HANA Migra­tion and Upgrades: Mov­ing to SAP S/4HANA might seem like a one-off project, but there’s much more involved when you con­sid­er the prepa­ra­tion nec­es­sary for a smooth tran­si­tion, as well as the open-end­ed chal­lenge of keep­ing your new sys­tems up to date.

SAP teams do every­thing they can to avoid dis­rup­tion dur­ing these projects, but some­times that’s not enough. And in today’s fast-mov­ing world, busi­ness­es sim­ply can’t afford to put a block on inno­va­tion. If you’re going to tran­si­tion to SAP S/4HANA as effi­cient­ly as pos­si­ble — and lever­age the lat­est inno­va­tions when you’re there — you need a way to avoid the old-fash­ioned idea of a change freeze.

Key Take­aways

DevOps and test automa­tion pro­vide a fast, low-risk way to exe­cute key steps in the SAP S/4HANA journey

SAP teams can keep SAP S/4HANA sys­tems updat­ed with­out ever impos­ing a pro­duc­tion change freeze

Glob­al com­pa­nies have adopt­ed automa­tion to sup­port suc­cess­ful SAP S/4HANA projects

11:05am-11:35am: Ask the Experts: Basis Tech­nolo­gies: This ses­sion will pro­vide the exper­tise SAP teams need to suc­cess­ful­ly migrate and upgrade S/4HANA with­out inter­rupt­ing busi­ness inno­va­tion. Learn about the crit­i­cal role SAP-spe­cif­ic automa­tion can play at every step in the S/4HANA journey.