2025 WEBINAR Series: Session Seven
January 21, 2025, 9AM PST | 12 EST | 5PM GMT | 6PM CET
Post S/4HANA Go-Live: Legacy Data Access Use Cases
While considered an afterthought for most companies during your S/4HANA implementation, it is critical to plan and understand how you will get access to your legacy ERP data after an S/4 Go-Live.
Post S/4HANA Go-Live: Data Access Use Cases after Decommissioning
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are modernizing ERP and HR environments through initiatives such as SAP S/4HANA and RISE migrations, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and HCM transitions to SAP SuccessFactors. While these transformations drive innovation, agility, and efficiency, they often leave behind a critical challenge: managing legacy systems once the new environment goes live.
Maintaining legacy systems is costly, unsustainable, and risky. Ongoing licensing, infrastructure, maintenance, and security expenses persist long after business value declines, while outdated platforms increase cybersecurity and compliance exposure—creating technical debt that undermines transformation goals.
To fully realize the benefits of modernization, organizations must pair transformation initiatives with a deliberate legacy system decommissioning strategy. Digital transformation does not end at go-live; it succeeds when systems and data left behind are effectively managed with TJC's Enterprise Legacy System Application (ELSA).
What will we discuss?
- Legacy Data Access is under estimated in organizations transformations planning.
- TJC ELSA - your modern historical data hub.
- Typical use cases for TJC ELSA during/after an S/4 transformation
- Other use cases like M&A or divestitures and HCM transformations
Kristin Gerling
Kristin A. Gerling brings 29 years of experience delivering complex ERP and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions across international corporate environments. She combines deep technical expertise with a strong client-centric approach, shaped by extensive international consulting and business development engagements.
Kristin is an expert in process analysis, system design, and global project leadership, SAP and ECM.
Within TJC Americas she is responsible for Sales and Business Development.
TJC Americas
Experts in Data Volume Management, TJC Group can help you implement proven solutions for data and document archiving, data extraction for audit purposes, plus legacy archiving and decommissioning of SAP and non-SAP systems.
Our solutions are SAP-certified and comply with the local legal and tax regulatory rules in every country.
Learn from IT experts
Join our panelists for a discussion about system decommissioning
and ask any questions during Q&A.
Kristin Gerling
Sales and Business Development
TJC Americas
Jochen Hager
Business Development and Client Services
TJC Americas
Resources at your fingertips
Here's a selection of some insightful resources to check before the webinar to get the engine started.
Legacy System Decommissioning for a
Leading Manufacturer
Two years after successfully implementing SAP S/4HANA, the manufacturer recognised the need to decommission its legacy SAP ERP system, aiming to streamline its complex SAP landscape. A key challenge was the need to preserve critical legacy data, including data from divested companies still under audit and HR data for retired pensioners, for long-term access.
Driving GenAI Innovation in S/4HANA Transformation
with Decommissioning
Ever wondered how to modernise systems without sacrificing years of valuable legacy data? Can organisations really upgrade and adapt modern solutions without the fear of losing historical data? Well, this is often the most asked question, or rather a challenge, during the S/4HANA migration. However, what if there is a way to ensure that important legacy data remains unchanged?
Video: Enterprise Legacy System Application (ELSA)
ELSA is a system decommission cloud application to store and access legacy data at any time, from any source, through one single platform. Built on SAP BTP, ELSA allows users to visualise all systems that have been decommissioned (SAP and non-SAP) through the application legacy systems directory.
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