Upgrade Service

SAP upgrades are a huge cost consuming exercise, requiring a good deal of planning and major capital investments by way of technical and functional resources, and additional infrastructure.

If you have made the decision to upgrade your SAP landscape, choosing the right partner to help ensure the success of the project to deliver the business case is fundamentally important.

Our structured three-phase upgrade methodology accelerates assessment, impact analysis, and migration/upgrade execution with a proven record of faster upgrades and minimized business disruption during production cutovers. The methodology combines robust planning with deep technical expertise, enabling easier migration of all domain components including customizations and enhancements.

Terrenos delivers end-to-end SAP upgrade and migration programs covering assessment, remediation, technical execution, testing, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization. Our scope includes upgrades from older SAP ERP releases to SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, as well as private, public, or hyperscaler-based cloud migrations.

01 Landscape Discovery & Assessment
02 Technical Execution (SUM/DMO)
03 Database Migration (SAP HANA)
04 Cloud & Hyperscaler Migration
05 Instance Consolidation & Sizing
06 Data Archiving & Optimization
Capabilities

SAP Upgrade, Migration & Cloud Transformation

Terrenos helps enterprises modernize SAP landscapes and move them to advanced infrastructure with a strict focus on performance, resilience, security, and operational efficiency.

Technical Scope

Technical Execution Suite

Comprehensive framework baseline checks, seamless system transitions, and core architecture modernization.

Key Core focus areas
  • Landscape & Impact Analysis: Discovery mapping, sizing validation, and interface inventory checks.
  • Technical Execution: Dual-stack split/retirement, SUM/DMO executions, and Unicode upgrades.
  • Database Migration: AnyDB to SAP HANA migration, revision planning, and performance validation.
  • Downtime Optimization: Near-zero downtime strategies, shadow systems, and cutover automation.
  • Security & Compliance: RFC communication hardening, TLS validation, and audit readiness support.
Functional Scope

Functional Business Continuity

End-to-end management of custom application landscapes, business process integrity, and system health alignment.

Functional capabilities
  • Process Impact Assessment: Fit-gap evaluations across Finance, Logistics, Sales, PM, and HR modules.
  • Custom Enhancements Review: Strategic analysis and code remediation of Z-programs, BADIs, and workflows.
  • Test Strategy & Quality Assurance: Structural regression testing, critical path validation, and sign-offs.
  • Data Housekeeping: Active data archiving, log/spool reductions, and database lifecycle strategies.
  • Change Management: Role-based enablement courses, release briefings, and structured transition desks.

Typical Program Deliverables

1
Landscape Discovery Report: System inventories, cross-dependencies, and sizing baselines.
2
Upgrade/Migration Roadmap: Deep analytics on resource effort, timeline risks, and downtime estimation.
3
Remediation Blueprints: Targeted custom code worklists along with SPAU/SPDD scope analysis.
4
Testing & Cutover Architecture: Functional regression frameworks, rehearsed cutover procedures, and sign-offs.
5
Cloud Blueprint Pack: Target enterprise landing zones, cloud runbooks, and storage tier structures.
6
Operational Handover Docs: HA/DR cluster validations, monitoring setups, and full hypercare metrics.

Executive Summary: Terrenos delivers SAP upgrade, migration, and cloud transformation programs covering assessment, remediation, technical execution, testing, cutover, and hypercare. We support SAP ERP/ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA migrations, OS/DB migrations, Unicode conversion, instance consolidation, and cloud deployments across private, public, and hyperscaler environments. Our methodology focuses on risk reduction, downtime optimization, custom code compatibility, and operational readiness to help clients modernize SAP landscapes with confidence.