Smart SAP BW MigrationCut Cloud Costs & Preserve Business Logic
Why migrate what you don’t need.Get complete visibility before you move and cut unnecessary ongoing cloud costs.Find out how much you could save before you migrate.
The real challenge?The Hidden Cost Trap of Lift-and-Shift Migration
Your SAP BW 7.5 maintenance deadline is approaching: standard maintenance ends on December 31, 2027, with extended maintenance available at a premium until 2030. For many organizations, this is prompting a closer look at their long-term BW and data-platform strategy.
The temptation?
Lift-and-shift everything to the cloud and call it done.
But here is the problem:
Cloud platforms come with ongoing storage and compute costs. If your SAP BW environment contains unused reports, redundant transformations, obsolete data objects or duplicated data flows, migrating everything can mean carrying unnecessary costs into your new environment.
A migration should not simply reproduce your existing BW landscape somewhere else.
It should give you the opportunity to decide what is still worth keeping.
The Real Migration Challenges:
- Decades of accumulated data with limited visibility into what’s actually being used
- Hidden duplicates and redundant logic that increase processing, maintenance and storage requirements
- ABAP code and custom logic that is difficult to understand, validate and transform manually
- Cross-system dependencies that can create migration risks when they are not identified upfront
- Complex data flows and transformation that have evolved over years of business requirements
- No clear distinction between business-critical and obsolete assets
- Uncertainty about what to migrate, consolidate, modernize or retire
The result? Migration projects can become unnecessarily large, and the cloud environment can inherit the same complexity that made the legacy system difficult and expensive to manage.
The X-Ray Your Migration Desperately Needs
What if you could see your entire SAP BW environment before migrating a single byte?
One Data’s BW X-Ray Assessment provides transparency into your SAP BW landscape before you define your migration scope. Using automated metadata analysis and Data Map, One Data analyzes your BW environment and helps you understand what data exists, what is being used, how assets are connected and where unnecessary complexity exists.
- Which data objects are being used – and which haven’t been touched in years
- Where duplicates and redundant data flows exist, helping identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary migration scope
- How reports, queries, transformations and data objects are connected through complex dependencies
- Usage intensity across reports and assets, helping you prioritize what matters to the business
- Where critical business logic is embedded, including custom transformations and ABAP routines
- Which assets could potentially be migrated, consolidated, modernized or retired
- Where migration scope can potentially be reduced before significant transformation work begins
Like a medical X-ray before surgery – you wouldn’t operate without imaging.
So why migrate without it?
Why Smart Companies Choose Transparency First
80%
Scope Reduction
Pre-migration analysis identifies opportunities to reduce scope by uncovering unused, redundant and obsolete BW assets.
80%
Faster Migration
AI-assisted ABAP-to-SQL, Python or PySpark conversion reduces manual reverse-engineering and accelerates transformation.
24/7
Cost Savings
A leaner migration scope reduces the data and processing that needs to be stored, operated and maintained in the target environment.
100%
Logic Preserved
Translate existing business logic into target technologies while maintaining source visibility and supporting validation throughout.(Actual results depend on the size, complexity, usage and architecture of each SAP BW environment.)
The One Data Methodology:Three Phases to Migration Success
Phase 1:Transparency Before Migration
Don't migrate blindly. Our BW X-Ray Assessment maps your SAP BW landscape, identifies obsolete elements, reveals hidden dependencies, and analyzes usage patterns across your environment. Instead of assuming everything needs to move, you can determine what should be:
Migrated. Consolidated. Modernized. Retired.
You'll have a clearer picture of your actual migration scope before investing significant time and budget into transformation.
The goal: Reduce unnecessary scope before it becomes future cloud cost.
Phase 2:Automation During Migration
Once you know what needs to move, the next challenge is transforming years of accumulated business logic. One Data's AI-assisted conversion capabilities help translate SAP BW and ABAP logic into SQL, Python, PySpark or other target technologies, while supporting validation and documentation.
Instead of manually reverse-engineering every piece of custom logic, teams can use automation to accelerate the transformation process and focus their expertise where it matters most.
The goal: Transform relevant business logic faster without losing the context behind it.
Phase 3:Governance After Migration
Migration isn't the finish line – it's the starting point. Moving your existing BW environment to a new platform without addressing its underlying complexity can simply recreate the same problems somewhere else. One Data's Data Product approach helps transform relevant migrated assets into reusable, documented and quality-assured data products. With context, lineage, requirements and governance built into the process, your new data environment becomes easier to understand, manage and reuse.
The goal: Don't rebuild yesterday's data chaos in tomorrow's cloud environment.
See it in Action!
Watch our exclusive Webinar on demand:Smart SAP BW Migration: Cut Cloud Costs & Preserve Business Logic
Join Christian Stadlmann (Chief Revenue Officer) and Max Rahn (Principal Value Engineer), as they demonstrate how transparency and automation can change the way organizations approach SAP BW migration.
In the webinar, you’ll see:
- A live demonstration of the Data Map –visualizing your entire SAP BW landscape
- How to identify unused, redundant and obsolete assets before migration
- Real examples of AI-assisted ABAP-to-SQL conversion
Start With Complete Visibility:The BW X-Ray Package
Before committing to a multi-million euro migration project, see exactly what you’re dealing with.
Our BW X-Ray Package includes:
- Automated analysis of your SAP BW system
- Visual Data Map of all assets, dependencies, and usage patterns
- Identification of duplicates, redundancies, and potentially obsolete objects
- Migration scope analysis to identify opportunities for cost savings and a leaner migration
- A free one-day assessment session with our SAP BW migration experts
- A personalized assessment report with concrete recommendations
What you get:
A clear understanding of:
- What you should migrate
- What you could consolidate
- What you can modernize
- What you may no longer need
No commitment required. Just clarity.
Stop Operating In The Dark.Step Into Clarity.
Your SAP BW environment contains years of accumulated data, dependencies and business logic. Don't let all of it become part of your next cloud bill.
In just one conversation, we can show you:
- How much scope reduction is realistic for your specific environment
- What your potential cloud cost savings look like
- How our AI-powered conversion accelerates your timeline
- A clear path from where you are to where you need to be
The 2027 maintenance milestone is approaching.
But a deadline shouldn’t determine what you migrate.
Understand your landscape first. Then decide what comes next.
Talk to an SAP BW Migration Expert
No sales pitch. Just honest answers.
Why One Data forYour SAP BW Migration
- German software company with ~100 employees across Munich, Passau, and Frankfurt
- 10+ years pioneering data products and data management
- Deep expertise in SAP BW analysis
- Purpose-built for SAP BW migrations – not generic migration tooling
- Platform agnostic: Snowflake, Databricks, SAP BDC/Datasphere, and more