With existing SAP deployments now given an official end-of-life date of 2025 (only 5% have migrated to date), it’s not a question of if you upgrade but when you upgrade. Crucially, that means how you approach robotization before this point will dictate how much work needs to be done to unlock the value of S/4 HANA.

S/4 HANA’s simpler approach brings with it a totally new user interface, built using SAP’s Fiori technology. For humans, that’s great. For desktop RPA systems, it’s a huge problem that requires reprogramming of every task that touches SAP S/4 HANA. With a brand new UI, ‘desktop’ automation needs to start over.

It’s a massive reprogramming effort that requires significant technical expertise across redesign, and extensive testing phases to ensure that there aren’t unintended consequences as a result of the changes being made.

Every dollar that’s invested in desktop automation that mimics human activity between now and 2025 will need to be reinvested for the change to S/4 HANA. Ultimately, traditional robotic process automation (RPA) is an investment in robotics that will lock you into legacy systems that are difficult and expensive to maintain.

A NEW LOOK BRINGS NEW CHALLENGES

The one constant in technology is change. And while change can bring new features, benefits and efficiencies, it can also cause a cascade of complex — and undesirable — knock-on effects within large organizations. Making the switch to S/4 HANA is one of these changes.

The latest generation of SAP S/4 HANA brings a simpler overall approach, whether hosted on-premises or in the cloud, but it’s not an upgrade that’s necessarily more efficient straight ‘out of the box.’

Redwood Robotics software for S/4 HANA can supercharge SAP’s new standardized platforms and deliver up to 100% automation of critical business processes.

REDWOOD ROBOTICS™ SOFTWARE FOR SAP© S/4 HANA

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With over 25 years of developing automation solutions, Redwood knows SAP S/4 HANA inside out. All aspects of Redwood Robotics software for SAP S/4 HANA are designed to integrate at the API level, meaning UI changes have no impact on our solution at all. When processes need to scale, it’s simple to deploy new robots or repurpose existing ones.

Redwood’s solution is the only RPA platform designed from the ground up to support ERP and specifically SAP. It delivers the highest possible performance, with the fewest possible errors, across every single process and sub-process for every department in your organization. Whenever possible, the most efficient software-to-software interfaces are used, with the UI only being used as a last resort.

The result of using machine-to-machine API integration is up to 100% automation, ensured by eliminating or robotizing each step — both human and machine — during the design and project scope phase.

Unlike other tools, we support standard enterprise deployment approaches through development, test and QA into production, without requiring extensive rework as solutions are promoted into production. With desktop RPA, customers are often forced to develop test and deploy directly in a production environment with catastrophic risk.

Redwood delivers the only process-centric RPA tool – ERP takes a process view within its deployment It is fundamentally process-centric. Whereas traditionally RPA is task-centric. Redwood is the only RPA platform that orchestrates processes end-to-end rather than aggregate multiple individual tasks.

Redwood Robotics solution uniquely provides entire pre-built processes and standard plug-and-play robots that execute ERP related process tasks out of the box, with no scripting and no hard coding needed to a specific UI. As a result processes can be deployed by business experts in the industry’s shortest possible time and a value unimaginable with other tools. Also the inherent fragility of UI based automation approaches is all but eliminated, delivering the lowest possible TCO and enterprise grade reliability and sustainability, Redwood customers have already migrated from legacy SAP implementations to the latest S/4 HANA with zero rework of their robotized processes.

The real magic of the Redwood Robotics platform is the oversight, control and full process orchestration it brings. Where traditional RPA has robots running on virtualized desktops, there’s no centralized dashboard to provide an overview of the all the elements of the processes, which can lead to unexpected errors if all the elements don’t work as intended. Not only do Redwood robots ensure the full efficiency gains of S/4 HANA’s changes, but they’re future-proofed for the next generation of systems.

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