Migrating Your SAP Data

Willinger, Michael

ISBN 10: 1592291708 / ISBN 13: 9781592291700

Published by SAP PRESS/GALILEO PRESS 4/1/2008, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migrating Your SAP Data
• Publisher: SAP PRESS/GALILEO PRESS 4/1/2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592291708
• ISBN 13: 9781592291700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition

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Synopsis

Drastically reduce the cost and duration of key data migration projects! This comprehensive reference is focused on helping you avoid the need for programming by using batch input, eCATT, CATT, and the Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW). You'll learn how to optimize these tools for data migration and where exactly manual customization might be needed. Compare and contrast the various individual methods in order to glean valuable insights on the technique that most closely matches up with your individual requirements. In addition, you ll benefit from a detailed introduction to the Accelerated Data Migration tool (ADM), which enables you to migrate large quantities of data faster than ever before.

* Get the basic principles of migration
* Learn how to prepare for a migration project
* Apply details on eCATT and SAP Accelerated Data Migration

Preparing for a Project
Learn how to select the project team, define the project schedule, and handle issues involving which data will be transferred and how it will be translated into the SAP terminology.

Batch Input
See how you can feed the input fields in the screen template using batch input processing.

Avoiding Programming
Use the eCATT, LSMW, and ADM to flexibly migrate data without needing programming skills.

* Planning a migration project
* Technical and managerial foundations for migrating data
* Data migration with batch input, eCATT, and LSMW
* Assessment of different methods
* Tips and tricks to avoid programming
* SAP Accelerated Data Migration
* Asset migration with Microsoft Excel

About the Author

Michael Willinger was born in 1971 in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied business administration at the University of Mannheim from 1990 to 1996, focusing on bank management, financing, auditing, fiduciary structures, and statistics. He first encountered SAP R/3 during his graduate studies in business data processing; it has had a major impact on his career path ever since. From 1998 to 2001, Michael Willinger worked as an SAP consultant (focus: Financial Accounting) at Bilfinger & Berger AG, a construction firm, before he moved to Tarkett Sommer Holding, an internationally active manufacturer of flooring. At present, he is the project manager for the global implementation of the R/3 Financial Accounting and Controlling modules.

Johann Gradl was born in 1961. He studied mathematics and computer science at the Technische Universität München (Munich Polytechnic University) from 1980 to 1986 and after a hiatus during which he performed his civil service duty he completed his doctorate in mathematics from 1988 to 1990. Johann Gradl joined SAP in 1993. He initially worked in the R/2 Services department, and then turned his attention to the area of data migration. He was a driving force behind the development o f the Legacy Sy stem Migration Workbench described in this book. He subsequently performed various tasks related to the development of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). In his current position of Vice President for Installed Base Maintenance & Support, he is responsible for the products CRM and BW, among others.