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Seamlessly Manage SAP Code Carveouts and Consolidations
Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are massive ventures that create unique challenges for your SAP systems. Burdened by decades of legacy custom code, these projects are inherently time-consuming and complex — requiring unrealistic amounts of manual labor that leave room for costly errors. With the power of smartShift Intelligent Automation®, we can automatically disentangle years of custom code to accurately accelerate and de-risk your SAP custom code consolidation and carveout projects.
Expedited Solutions For Time-Sensitive Ventures
Our technology delivers an error-free result 75% faster than traditional methods.
- Decouple business operations from parent company
- Identify and resolve issues related to hard-coding, dependencies, and more
- Replace thousands of hours of manual developer labor
- Simulate scenarios and results prior to business execution
- Replace hard-coded business literals with a flexible framework
- Package, migrate, and remediate all relevant objects and dependencies
- Rename and refactor code references, naming conventions, and standards
- Harden custom development in the new system for added security
Don’t Let IT Issues Stall Your Business Strategy
The success of your merger, acquisition, or divestiture depends on timely and accurate IT reconciliation. Our AI-powered approach simplifies the complexities introduced by years of custom code to support business transformation and deliver error-free results with unprecedented speed. By automatically resolving code conflicts, renaming conflicting objects and dependencies, and merging user exits, DDIC enhancements, and workflows, our technology alleviates the burden on your developers, expediting and de-risking the entire process.
Our End-to-End SAP Carve-Out and Consolidation Process
The typical steps in a carve-out or consolidation project include identifying use cases, leveraging smartShift’s automated technology for comprehensive code analysis, and executing the necessary extraction and integration processes. Our automation technology enables accurate and efficient identification of dependencies, renaming, and repackaging of code, ensuring a seamless transition.
Use Case Identification
Carveout: smartShift’ automation technology is applicable in any scenario where selective carveout of code is required. Typically used in divestiture scenarios where a company needs to provide the acquirer with only the necessary SAP customizations.
Consolidation: Often required in mergers and acquisitions where a company integrates the acquired entity’s SAP customizations into its existing system, or when a company wishes to consolidate multiple regional systems into fewer global templates.
Intelligent Analysis
Carveout: Utilize smartShift Intelligent Automation to build a comprehensive model of the code and match it against a list of customer-provided “entry points” (e.g., transaction codes) to all required custom code and related data tables to accurately determine the scope of the carveout.
Consolidation: Utilize smartShift technology to compare the code repositories of two or more SAP systems, identifying all conflicts to build a model for consolidation.
Implementation
For carveouts, extract, rename, and repackage the necessary code into a consistent standalone system. For consolidations, harmonize customizations and merge the systems into a single optimized instance.
Benefits of smartShift Technology
- Undertake carveouts and consolidations that would be otherwise impossible to complete.
- Minimize disruptions to business operations, allowing key personnel to continue their high-value work with minimal interruption.
- Automate complex processes and significantly reduce (and in many cases practically eliminates) the need for manual developer labor, ensuring a more efficient and error-free process.
- Reduce the time required for carve-out and consolidation projects from potentially over a year to just a few weeks.
- Ensure a high-quality, error-free result by leveraging AI to understand and transform the code base holistically.
- Reduce the burden on subject matter experts and developers, preventing burnout and ensuring that resources are not diverted from strategic tasks.
Plan, simulate, and execute transformations with unprecedented speed and quality.
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