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.
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
Rename and refactor code references, naming conventions, and standards
Harden custom development in the new system for added security
Untether your developers from the burden of unused code
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plan, simulate, and execute transformations with unprecedented speed and quality.
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