Tenant Migration
Package
Why tenant migration
The reasons for tenant migration vary. Most of the time, customers choose to migrate their tenants for ease of management, internal policy, better life cycle experience or because of SAP’s strategic direction.
Tenant Migration Scenarios
Neo to Cloud
Foundry Migration
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SAP plans to close all its NEO data centers. SAC customers must move to Cloud Foundry (CF) Data Center
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Some SAC current/future features are only available on Cloud Foundry:
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Smart Predict
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Copen Connector
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Schedule and Publish
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SAP Analytics Cloud, Add-in for Microsoft
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Predictive Planning
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Certain integrations are only available on CF:
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Data Warehouse Cloud
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HANA Cloud
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Some SAC commercial offerings are only available on CF
Cloud Infrastructure
Provider Change
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SAC is available with different cloud infrastructure providers. Customers may want to switch platforms as new providers become available or the change of their internal guidance:
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Amazon AWS
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Microsoft Azure
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Google Cloud Platform (Future)
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Alibaba Cloud (Mainland China only)
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Data Center
Relocation
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Customers would like to relocated their SAC tenant from one data center to another
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To be closer to majority of user counts for better performance and maintenance experience
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A new data center becomes available in their local market or closer to their local market
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Required to move due to security and compliance restriction
Tenant Upgrade or
Add On
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Customer would like to upgrade their tenant from public tenant to private tenant.
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Customer would like to purchase additional tenants (i.e. new test tenant)