SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit Overview
The SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit is included in the licenses for all SAP S/4HANA deployment options and is accessed with the Migrate Your Data Fiori app on the launchpad. The Migration Cockpit is a ready-to-use data migration solution with a set of comprehensive template-based migration objects for transferring business data. It automatically maps source data to the SAP S/4HANA target values and generates the necessary migration programs, so there is no programming required. The Migrate Your Data app guides you through the migration process with a step-by-step workflow that has built-in validation checks to ensure data quality and consistency.
Standard migration objects are predelivered by SAP and the availability in a system depends on the deployment (i.e. public cloud, private cloud, or on premise), and the customer's activated scope items. This means if additional scope item(s) are activated, additional migration objects may become available in the Migrate Your Data app.
The SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit is designed for data transfer from customer legacy system(s) to SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud during implementation, not continuous replication. The tasks to extract, prepare, and execute data migration are all defined in the relevant implementation phases of the SAP Activate Methodology.
In the extensibility framework, certain migration objects support custom fields created in the Custom Fields and Logic app. If the migration cockpit detects a custom field in a target function module or CDS behavior definition for a migration object, it will automatically add it to the source structure of the migration object to allow data to be entered for the field. In addition, the Migration Object Modeler tool enables you to customize and create new migration objects.
- View the migration objects supported by the extensibility framework in the SAP Help Portal
- In some cases, custom fields cannot be automatically added and you must manually identify the source structure using the Migration Object Modeler.
- The Migration Object Modeler only supports certain objects for customization in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Learn more in SAP Note 2999428
- New migration objects cannot be created with the Migration Object Modeler in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Benefits of the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
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Migration Options in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
You access the Migrate Your Data - Migration Cockpit app from the launchpad in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. In an SAP S/4HANA Cloud system, the migration approach is: migrate data using staging tables. A staging table is a database table that contains business data. Essentially, you are migrating data directly to the database tables in the SAP HANA database through the Migrate Your Data app.
This approach has two methods:
- Transfer data using template files (Local SAP S/4HANA Database Schema connection)
- With this method, consultants create migration projects in the Migrate Your Data app in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and map relevant migration object(s) to the projects. For each migration object, you download the corresponding template from SAP S/4HANA Cloud, open and populate the template in Microsoft Excel, then upload the template and follow the guided migration steps to map and import the data.
- Transfer data using separate HANA staging database (Remote SAP HANA Database Schema connection)
- With this method, you integrate your SAP S/4HANA Cloud system with a separate SAP HANA database. The customer is responsible for identifying internal expert(s) with access to their legacy database(s) and knowledge of Extract, Transform, and Load tools to design a process to connect their legacy database(s) to the separate SAP HANA database. Consultants create migration projects using the Migrate Your Data app in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and map relevant migration object(s) to the projects. Through the integration with the separate SAP HANA staging database, the migration object data is populated in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Note
For the transfer of data using separate SAP HANA staging database (Remote SAP HANA Database Schema connection)​:
- You must first activate the scope item Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA from Staging (2Q2) and set up the integration between SAP S/4HANA and the staging database.
- The SAP HANA express edition trial can be deployed as the secondary database and is free for development and productive use for up to 32 GB of RAM. Learn more here
- With this method, you integrate your SAP S/4HANA Cloud system with a separate SAP HANA database. The customer is responsible for identifying internal expert(s) with access to their legacy database(s) and knowledge of Extract, Transform, and Load tools to design a process to connect their legacy database(s) to the separate SAP HANA database. Consultants create migration projects using the Migrate Your Data app in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and map relevant migration object(s) to the projects. Through the integration with the separate SAP HANA staging database, the migration object data is populated in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.