Product Description
A practical companion for any migration activity, this comprehensive book walks you through the intricacies of data migration in SAP, and provides important preparation guidelines. Expert insights help you to migrate your data economically, quickly, and without programming, using the built-in capabilities of your SAP system. Discover the finer points of Batch-Input, LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench), and CATT (Computer Aided Test Tool). You'll learn best practices for executing migration tasks and find out when manual adjustments should be performed. Various procedures are compared and contrasted, affording you invaluable guidance on which technique should be employed and when. Learn the ins and outs of data migration, and key details on preliminary data processing, plus tips to make the migration of fixed asset data more economical using MS Excel -- all without programming. Administrators and technical managers alike will find this book especially useful, and all IT professionals and power users will be much better equipped to contribute to migration projects after reading it. Highlights include: Planning a migration project Basic principles of migration Migration with Batch-Input, CATT, and LSMW Assessment of migration techniques Tips and tricks to avoid programming Special case example: Fixed asset migration with MS Excel Forecast: extended CATT (eCATT), Data Transfer Workbench (DX Workbench), and data extraction from live R/3 systems |
