This matters not just because of the hefty financial penalties that kick in if the selling organisation has to host the system and data longer than agreed; even more crucially, you want to make sure that you’ve carved out all the mission-critical data the new business needs to run.

And, if you’re the buyer and want to truly combine the strengths of two businesses while integrating reporting, business data and IT landscapes, you’re going to want to merge all of that good stuff into one SAP instance.

We’re mentioning all of this not to scare you, but just to say: when a huge chunk of the value of your deal resides in a business’s SAP data, your approach to migrating this data had better be robust. It needs:

• Transparency: A full assessment of what data is there, and the shape it’s in (quality, age, usage, etc)
• Expertise: A team that’s done this before and can handle gnarly data challenges, like quality, security, archiving, migration, etc
• Speed: the technology, resources and project management skills to deliver a high-quality project within a tight timeline (or else)

Find out how we can help with that:

• ‍Learn more about Data Discovery – and how it delivers transparency and project planning insight.
• ‍About Xmateria’s Divestment and M&A services
• ‍About our team and specialisms

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