The 7 Deadly Data Sins
Data is the most underestimated workstream on every S/4HANA programme. By the time most teams realise that, it is already causing delays.
Data migration, quality and governance are not technical problems — they are programme management problems. In this webinar, we cover the seven mistakes that consistently derail S/4HANA data workstreams and exactly what to do about each one.
Every one of these is avoidable. Every one of them happens anyway.
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Starting too late — Data migration runs alongside the main programme from day one. Treating it as a late-stage activity is the single fastest way to push your go-live date.
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Migrating everything — "Everything" is not a data strategy. It is an expensive way to import legacy problems into a new system.
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Leaving cleansing to the technical team — Technical teams migrate data between fields. They do not validate whether the data makes business sense. That is a business responsibility, not an IT one.
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Underestimating volume and complexity — Master data is dispersed across multiple systems. Nobody fully appreciates how much there is until they try to move it.
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No defined ownership — Without clear data owners, nobody is accountable when cleansing stalls. It always stalls.
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Skipping the full dress rehearsal — At least one full migration run must happen before go-live. Not a subset. Not a sample. The full run, with timings captured.
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Ignoring upstream systems — Any legacy system feeding data into your new SAP environment needs the same cleansing rigour. If the data coming in is poor, the system going live will be too.
Don't know where you stand?
Take the Data Readiness Checker — a free diagnostic tool built by Limelight that scores your data workstream across migration, quality and governance. It takes five minutes and tells you exactly where to focus. Link is HERE
Worried your data workstream is already behind?
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