With the announced end of maintenance for SAP HCM On-Premise, scheduled for the coming years, it is crucial for companies to start planning their migration to the Cloud with SAP SuccessFactors or S/4 HANA now. This transition is not just a matter of compliance but also an opportunity to optimize and modernize HR processes, adding the powerful of AI.
In other words, there is no escape: your SAP HCM suite as you know it today, will need some sort of upgrade in the coming years. So that's why probably you are facing those kinds of questions:
In fact, the transition from SAP HCM to the cloud can often feel overwhelming, with many misconceptions surrounding complexity, cost, and risk. However, with the SAP deadline for moving to the cloud quickly approaching, it’s critical that organizations have a clear plan to tackle this transition head-on.
At Arago, with Success2Cloud offer (S2C), we recognize that every organization is unique, so is their cloud journey. Not everyone is ready to rapidly transition from their familiar on-prem HR solution to cloud-based SAP SuccessFactors. That's why we support customers in both migration scenarios:
SAP has said that there is a migration path from SAP HCM to H4S4, but by definition, that is an intermediate step. The final step for SAP is still to move to SAP SuccessFactors. Simply put, this must happen, and it must happen as soon as possible. SAP’s message has been clear: SAP SuccessFactors is the future solution for HR and payroll.
Reviewing the available options for customers, the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite emerges as the most future-proof choice. Unlike other products available to customers, SAP SuccessFactors has no defined end-of-life or cessation in support, with an extended roadmap beyond 2040 and into the future. This underscores SAP’s long-term commitment to its cloud-based solutions, ensuring continuous updates, innovation and comprehensive support.
SAP SuccessFactors offers a complete suite of cloud-based HR solutions, enabling integrated and flexible management of talents, payroll, and HR processes. By migrating to this platform, companies can benefit from:
However, migrating from SAP HCM to SAP SuccessFactors can present some challenges that are important to anticipate:
Arago uses specific methodologies and tools to simplify, secure and accelerate this migration process.
To simplify this transition, Arago offers a packaged solution called Success2Cloud (S2C). This solution enables a secure, rapid, and cost-controlled migration from SAP HCM to the cloud.
Arago provides a complete data migration and integration toolkit with pre-configured solutions that allow you to easily and successfully migrate and integrate data from SAP to cloud HR solution.
We provide templates with pre-built, legislatively compliant and leading practice configurations that can be adapted to fit your organisation’s unique needs. These templates integrate preconfigured settings for managing Payments, Allowances, Deductions, and other country-specific features. As an experienced implementation specialist, Arago s can significantly simplify the migration process.
Here are the highlights of this offer:
A detailed feasibility analysis must be performed to determine which items can and must be migrated before moving these over to the Cloud.
That's why we provide you a deep evaluation of your current SAP HCM landscape, with two dimensions:
The S2C Readiness check will help you select the journey that best meets your unique needs. And, of course, we can help you implement any solution you’re choosing!
You start with your core or foundation with EC which is the ‘system of record’ for your Master Data for employees in the award-winning SAP SuccessFactors solution. Here you maintain all the starters/leavers/movers in your company, adding personal, contractual and payment information to build up a detailed HR record.
This is your new Payroll processing engine, hosted by SAP. It looks like ‘traditional’ SAP, so the end-user experience is pretty much the same, with arguably the most powerful payroll engine – SAP Payroll. The difference is you won’t be using them in the traditional manner, you’ll be working in the new SAP Payroll Control Centre (PCE). By migrating to ECP, companies can also:
Time Management is a complex process that often requires specialist solutions to meet a customer’s needs.
Time Management plays an important role in connecting business activities, workforce and payroll. It ensures that employees’ effort can be logged and attributed to the relevant project tasks or operational duties, that employees are correctly paid for their work by payroll, and that management has a clear overview of its labour costs.
Nowadays, organizations running SAP’s HCM solution make use of its well-established Time & Attendance module. Moving to the cloud and for businesses that require sophisticated and integrated Time management functionality, SAP proposes different 3 options:
Anticipating the end of SAP HCM maintenance soon, by migrating now to the cloud allows you not only to remain compliant but also to modernize and optimize your HR processes. With Arago's S2C offer, this transition can be carried out securely, quickly, and economically, thanks to our expertise and integrated approach.
The various deployment options (Greenfield, Brownfield, and Hybrid) provide tailored pathways for organizations based on their unique requirements and existing setups. But for those that haven’t, it’s important to acknowledge that with many SAP customers in a similar situation, delaying the inevitable migration may lead to a shortage of resources or increased prices as the transition deadline draws closer.
One thing is certain for all businesses, and that is that time is ticking, and companies must pick a migration strategy for their on-premise SAP HCM as soon as possible.
Different scenarios are then possible and we are here to support you and help you to find the right path, so don't hesitate to contact us! Let's talk!