smartShift Partners with Syniti and Natuvion to Accelerate RISE with SAP for SAP S/4HANA® Adoption

Bundled implementation solution addresses the primary challenges of moving to SAP S/4HANA, including poor data quality, high cost of implementation, concerns with losing prior ECC customizations, and business disruption.

BOSTON – June 7, 2021 – Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, today announced its strategic partnership with smartShift and Natuvion. The three companies have joined forces to help enterprises maximize their RISE with SAP opportunity by accelerating and simplifying the move to SAP S/4HANA.® The solution combines the best-of-breed automation-led implementation capabilities of three leading SAP partners via a single source regardless of approach: Brownfield, Bluefield, Greenfield, Selective Greenfield or Central Finance.

According to an ISG Provider Lens report, enterprises have been slow to make the transition to SAP S/4HANA, citing cost, complexity and manageability as reasons for their delay, despite SAP ending support for its ECC ERP solution by 2027.

Powered by data migration and quality from Syniti, custom code migration from smartShift, and selective data transition from Natuvion, this bundle addresses the primary challenges of migrating to SAP S/4HANA, including poor data quality, high cost of implementation, concerns with losing prior ECC customizations, and business disruption.

“Enterprises embracing digital transformation need a more cost-effective and reliable path to SAP S/4HANA, which is the premise of our strategic partnership,” said Kevin Campbell, CEO of Syniti. “With the end of support looming for ECC, SAP customers realize value from their current investments, deliver faster time to value and superior business outcomes with three leading SAP partners through a single contract.”

Syniti’s offers the only certified solution for SAP S/4HANA migrations, Syniti Advanced Data Migration (ADM) to de-risk the path to SAP S/4HANA while achieving an average 303% ROI with an eight-month payback period.

smartShift’s unique Intelligent Automation Platform converts and modernizes existing SAP customizations or consolidates multiple systems quickly and reliably. It replaces tens of thousands of hours of manual labor with accuracy and precision. “Blending code and data automation is a powerful path to successful SAP transformations,” said Derek Oats, CEO at smartShift.

Natuvion’s Data Conversion Server™ (DCS) is a system transformation engine that offers a fast and pre-defined path to SAP S/4HANA. It delivers proven benefits, such as the ability to go live in months rather than years – often in a single weekend with near-zero downtime.

Availability
The new solution is available via a single contract through Syniti, including its Global Alliance Partner system integrators, for any new design and project governance.

About smartShift
smartShift provides a smarter way to transform legacy SAP systems. Leveraging smartShift’s Intelligent Automation Platform, smartShift clients complete SAP system transformations exponentially faster and with significantly less risk. They upgrade to S/4 HANA in a matter of months, minimize disruption to their business, while freeing up their limited IT resources for higher value, more strategic work. smartShift’s automation has been used to modernize over 1,000 SAP systems, analyze and convert 2B lines of code, while achieving an error rate of less than 0.1%. For more information, visit www.smartShift.com.

About Syniti
Syniti solves the world’s most complex data challenges by uniquely combining intelligent AI-driven software and vast data expertise to yield certain and superior business outcomes. For over 25 years, Syniti has partnered with the Fortune 2000 to unlock valuable insights that propel growth, reduce risk and increase their competitive edge. Its full end-to-end platform of capabilities span data conversion and data quality, data archival and replication, master data management, analytics, information governance, and data strategy. Syniti is a portfolio company of private equity firm Bridge Growth Partners LLC. Read more at www.syniti.com.

About Natuvion
Natuvion is a digital moving company. Natuvion‘s team does not transport tables, filing cabinets or chairs. Natuvion moves business-critical data and processes from one technology platform to another. Typical Natuvion „relocation services“ include data migration, data transformation, data quality, data integration, data privacy, data security and data governance. Natuvion’s data transformation experts are supported by Natuvion’s Data Conversion Server ™ (DCS), a powerful software solution developed in-house. Natuvion is a founding member of the new SAP S/4HANA Selective Data Transition Engagement Community. Featured in the Inc. 5000 and FT 1000 lists, the Natuvion Group is for the last three years one of the fastest growing software and IT consulting companies in Europe.

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Basis Technologies and smartShift Technologies announce partnership to accelerate SAP® S/4HANA migrations

London, UK; Boston, MA – Basis Technologies, creators of the most complete DevOps and test automation platform engineered specifically for SAP systems, and smartShift Technologies, pioneers of automated SAP system transformation, today announced a partnership initiative that will enable SAP users to massively accelerate and de-risk SAP transformation projects, in particular migration to SAP’s latest technology platform, S/4HANA.

Organizations that employ the combination of ActiveControl, Basis Technologies’ market-leading automated SAP DevOps technology, and smartRetrofit, part of the smartShift Technologies’ Intelligent Automation methodology and tools, will benefit from fully automated ‘dual maintenance’ of ECC and S/4HANA systems – a complex, resource-intensive scenario that may last for years. This integrated, best practice approach results in faster, more cost-effective S/4HANA transitions that involve less manual effort, reduce the risk of disruption and provide full visibility to the business.

ActiveControl automates almost every aspect of the SAP change and release process – commonly reaching up to ninety-five percent – and can automatically, safely and efficiently deploy every relevant ECC change to S/4HANA systems. smartRetrofit takes the key role of automatically updating custom code to meet the technical requirements of S/4HANA while it is merged into the new systems. More than ninety percent can be remediated in this way without any end user intervention – a significant benefit given the typical cross-release dual maintenance challenge customers face.

“I’m delighted that we’re announcing this partnership between Basis Technologies and smartShift Technologies. I look forward to working together to help companies realize greater value from their investment in SAP and get to S/4HANA more quickly,” said Duncan Williamson, Chief Revenue Officer of Basis Technologies. “We continue to expand our global network of expert partners, and I’m very pleased to welcome smartShift Technologies into that family so that they can help us bring the significant benefits of SAP automation to more SAP users around the world.”

“Basis Technologies and smartShift join a common vision of bringing a DevOps mindset and automation to Enterprise IT,” said smartShift CEO Seth Henry. “With Basis Technologies we are now able to provide intelligent and complete retrofit support, especially in complex S/4HANA scenarios. Another great addition to our smartS4 solution, a simpler, safer, sooner and smarter way to modernize legacy SAP systems and run them efficiently in the cloud.”

For more information on ActiveControl and other Basis Technologies products, such as Testimony, the only automated SAP regression testing technology that doesn’t require test scripts or test maintenance, visit www.basistechnologies.com/contact.

To learn more about smartShift Technologies and smartS4, visit https://smartShifttech.com.

About Basis Technologies

At Basis Technologies we believe every company should have the freedom to change, and to unlock the full potential of SAP. That’s why we create automation software that enables continuous delivery to thrive, giving businesses the agility needed to adapt to rapidly changing priorities and market demands. We provide the only fully automated DevOps and test platform specifically engineered for use in SAP, providing many of the world’s leading brands with the means to deliver SAP change with absolute confidence and virtually no risk so that they can accelerate time to market, simplify transformation, realize value fast and create amazing business outcomes.

About smartShift Technologies

smartShift Technologies provides a smarter way to transform legacy SAP systems and run them in the cloud. Leveraging smartShift’s Intelligent Automation Platform, smartShift clients complete SAP system transformations exponentially faster and with significantly less risk. They upgrade to S/4HANA in a matter of months, minimize disruption to their business, while freeing up their limited IT resources for higher value, more strategic work. smartShift’s automation has been used to modernize over 1,000 SAP systems, analyze and convert 2B lines of code, while achieving an error rate of less than 0.1%.

SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries.

For more information, contact:

Christie Lindstrom
Chief Marketing Officer, Basis Technologies
christie.lindstrom@basistechnologies.com

Vyom Gupta
Media Relations, smartShift Technologies
+1.765.714.9256
vgupta@smartShifttech.com

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