Cognizant SmartMove powered by Cognizant Brownfield Conversion Express

Accelerate SAP S/4HANA migration with Cognizant

With SAP S/4HANA at their core, intelligent enterprises react in real time to critical insights and drive improved customer experiences.

According to one major analyst, companies that moved from SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) to S/4HANA have noted:

Improved customer satisfaction
Created cross-sell and upsell opportunities
Lifted revenues
Created new revenue streams
Cut customer turnover
Boosted IT productivity

While the conversion benefits are clear, the path to accomplishing it is not. Wherever you are in your digital transformation journey, we can help you make your wisest move.

Cognizant SmartMove powered by Brownfield Conversion Express

SAP-qualified Cognizant SmartMove, powered by Brownfield Conversion Express, is an automated solution to speedily transform your current SAP landscape into a scalable, intelligent enterprise-ready environment in a low-risk, low-cost manner. Gen-AI based Brownfield Conversion Express automates business data validation, reconciliation and code remediation.

Shared services

Variable capacity
Optimal usage of resources
10%–20% cost saving

Process automation

30% downtime reduction
10%–15% cost reduction
50%–60% increased overall productivity

Standardized processes

Standard templates
Repeatability for quality
Error elimination

Quality gates

Risk-reduction checkpoints
50% improved quality

Why Cognizant

Providing end-to-end solutions for core modernization

Expertise: Cognizant has been helping businesses strategize and migrate to SAP S/4HANA since the product launched in 2015.

Trusted: We deliver our focused, industry-best practice-led programs on time and as planned, enhancing customer satisfaction. Our clients rate us highly on satisfaction, thought leadership, testing methodologies, agile/DevOps capabilities, functional skills and innovation.

Recommended: We’re recognized for S/4HANA-driven transformations by leading global analysts, including ISG, Nelson-Hall and Everest Group.

Partnership: We’re an SAP Global Strategic Services Partner, with strong partnerships across the SAP ecosystem.

Qualified: We have best-in-class processes, tools, accelerators and frameworks built into the solution, qualified and validated by SAP.

Cognizant recognized as a leader in the 2024 ISG Provider Lens SAP Ecosystem Study

ISG named Cognizant a global leader for Rise with SAP Implementation Partners, and Cloud Economics and FinOps Services for SAP. Cognizant was also named a leader in the US for SAP S/4HANA Transformation for Large Accounts, SAP Managed Application Services and SAP Managed Cloud Services.

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Service offerings

Assess

Functional and technical impact analysis, custom code analysis, conversion roadmap, cost estimation and project plan.

Test drive

Risk mitigated proof of concept conversion prior to the actual conversion, including functional and representative code remediation.

Migrate

Move to S/4HANA with our agile factory, powered by RPA tools and quality gates.

Innovate

Cognizant’s Intelligent Enterprise platform leverages AI/ML, built-in industry solutions, best practices, analytics and key performance indicators to enable quick wins to improve the business impact.

Cognizant SmartMove – Multiple conversion packages

Tailor-made basis numbers, including users (up to 1,500), database size (up to 2TB) and customer objects (up to 1,000), across multiple package options, to support unique requirement and scale for each of our clients.

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Value-added services ensure best-in-class processes

Define business case and roadmap to S/4HANA journey using our proprietary consulting and value extraction frameworks
Leverage managed services to reduce hosting costs
Achieve cloud migration from the current landscape to AWS, Azure, HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) or GCP with a tested, proven methodology
Move to RISE with SAP (private cloud)/GROW with SAP (public cloud)

“Thank you for helping us try this gen AI-automation tool for code remediation. I am absolutely amazed by the commitment and passion displayed by you and team. I thoroughly enjoyed all the discussions and debates we had. Special thanks to team for quickly adapting to our environment and understanding the importance of the project timelines and bringing up this tool with additional features in limited timeframe.”

– IT Senior Manager, British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company, HQ in UK & Netherlands

“I was delighted to be able to thank the German-based team personally for the success that they brought in our recent SAP S/4HANA deployment. There was a high degree of complexity but the project was delivered on time, on quality, and on budget. Throughout the project, they acted as ‘one-team’, along with our Global Business Process Architects and the local Chinese Key Users. With the successful first month-end-close on Friday, it would be hard to find a smoother go-live in our ERP deployment history.”

– Director Global ERP Projects, multinational pharmaceutical company, HQ in Germany

“This is a significant milestone in the ATLAS journey to creating our long-term goals of delivering reliable timely financial data. It is often forgotten that our IT infrastructure plays a key role in the successful delivery of that goal. I am extremely proud of what we have achieved with the migration to Azure.”

– Head Finance-IT, leading reinsurance and insurance provider

“Cognizant was completely committed to the overall project success: Deploying high quality, global processes. Above all, they acted together with us as "one team", doing what was needed to be done to achieve success, as a true partner. With complexity and size of this S/4 HANA deployment, inevitably, there are challenges, but Cognizant responded well and consistently met all project milestones throughout the project. The preparation and hard work meant that the go-live was the smoothest in our ERP history.”

– Head of IT, global life sciences company

“Well, it was a quite long happy experience with Cognizant from the time we started the overall evaluation of our systems during the assessment until we successfully completed the whole conversion to S/4HANA rel 1809. We are so happy with what we've done so far.”

– IT head, leading medical solution provider in Middle East

Our results tell the story

Modernizing core for medical equipment manufacturer

A Middle East client achieved 25% productivity boost in order processing, 80% faster turnaround of reports and 30% reduction in total cost of ownership

A medical equipment with digital readout

Nordics pump manufacturer saves $1M with S/4HANA conversion

The client achieved a future-ready ERP platform, analyzed 10M records through automation, removed 1.2K obsolete objects and archived six years of data