Involved Roles

Project Step Process Customer / Partner

Project Preparation Evaluation Data Migration
Functional Consultant

Delta Requirements (optional) Data Migration

Functional Consultant

General PM Project Manager

Legacy Data Preparation Data Migration workshops Data Migration
(Project Blueprint) Functional Consultant

Analyzing Requirements and defining Data Migration

Data Migration scope Functional Consultant

Identifying objects from Legacy Data Data Migration

needed for Migration not covered by Functional Consultant
Best Practices
Identifying Legacy Data relevancy (fields Customer Subject
and structures) Matter Expert, Data
Migration Functional
Consultant

Extracting Legacy Data for profiling and DS Technical

analysis exercise Consultant
Profiling and analysis of legacy system DS Technical
data to meet data migration Consultant, Customer
requirements Subject Matter Expert

Project team training DS Technical

Consultant
System Environment preparation and DS Technical
hardware installation Consultant, SAP BASIS
Consultant
Infrastructure Setup. Execute Lookup DS Technical
Population Jobs Consultant

General PM Project Manager

Data objects enrichment
(Realization)
Data extracting and mapping
(Realization)
Data load mock-ups (Final
Preparation)
Extending standard data objects DS Technical
(optional) Consultant, SAP ABAP
Consultant (only
required if modifying
IDocs)
Refining data migration scope Data Migration
Functional Consultant
Extracting Legacy Data for full migration DS Technical
Consultant
Transforming extracted data into SAP DS Technical
format Consultant, Data
Migration Functional
Consultant
Data cleansing (optional) DS Technical
Consultant
Data mapping DS Technical
Consultant, Data
Migration Functional
Consultant
Execute Lookup Delta Population Jobs DS Technical
Consultant
Project team training DS Technical
Consultant
General PM Project Manager
Planning cutover to Production system Data Migration
Functional Consultant,
Project Manager
Running data load mock-ups in the Data Migration
production environment Functional Consultant,
DS Technical
Consultant
Validating data and fixing mapping Data Migration
errors Functional Consultant,
DS Technical
Consultant, Customer
Subject Matter Expert
 Start of data loading to ERP server DS Technical
(production environment) Consultant
Project team training DS Technical
Consultant
General PM Project Manager
Data load (Go-Live and support) Go-Live readiness check Data Migration
Functional Consultant,
Project Manager

Data loading to ERP server (production DS Technical

environment) Consultant
Duration Outcome
1 week Project Evaluation completed

Ongoing
1 week Workshop agenda prepared and sent to
participants. Data migration approach,
use and modification of DM explained
to the customer team

2 - 4 weeks Data Migration scope defined. Data

load objects selected

2 - 3 days legacy data objects identified that

aren't covered by SAP Best Practices

1 - 2 weeks legacy data objects matched

corresponding SAP objects

2 - 4 days Legacy data extracted

1 - 2 weeks profiling of legacy systems to assess the

quality of the data to support the data
migration effort, depending on source
system complexity this number could
increase

Ongoing Project team trained in all aspects of

DM development
1 - 2 weeks Best Practices from SAP ordered.
System hardware installed

3 - 5 days DM Solution installed and its

connection with Legacy System
completed. Lookup jobs configured and
executed

Ongoing
1 - 5 days / DI objects extended based on the
object legacy data specifics, development time
dependent on complexity of proposed
changes

1 - 2 days Data migration scope finalized

1 - 2 days / Legacy data extracted

object
0.5 days / Data transformed into loadable format
object

1 - 5 day / Data cleansed and ready for mapping.

object Data cleansing timings will depend on
complexity of source system
architecture and type of cleansing
required

0.5 days / Data is mapped into SAP IDOC

object structures

1 day Lookup jobs configured and executed

Ongoing Project team trained in all aspects of

DM development
Ongoing
2 - 5 days Cutover planning completed

2 - 5 days Data conversion mock-up completed

1 - 4 days Mock-up data validated, and server is

ready for the data load
1 - 10 days Data migration started.

Ongoing Project team trained in data upload

Ongoing
0.5 - 1 days Go-Live readiness check completed

1 - 10 days Data migration completed. Start of

Production