SAP Divestiture: Controls, Validation, and Recovery

Decision context

SAP divestiture involves separating business units and their SAP landscapes to form independent entities or prepare for sale. This process requires precise management of SAP code, data, and process dependencies to ensure operational continuity and compliance.

Adranum addresses the technical challenges of SAP divestiture by ingesting diverse evidence sources such as SAP readiness checks, ABAP code and dictionary analyses, process-event logs, and data quality reports. It maps dependencies and highlights unsupported inputs to inform keep, replace, remediate, or retire decisions.

By generating reviewable code and data proposals along with implementation packages and impacted test sets, Adranum enables structured cutover, reconciliation, and exact-state recovery. Customer operators retain control over raw data and credentials, ensuring security and compliance throughout the divestiture lifecycle.

Understanding SAP Divestiture Challenges

Divestiture projects must handle complex SAP landscapes with intertwined custom code, shared master data, and integrated business processes. Identifying which components to carve out versus retain or retire is critical to avoid operational disruption.

Dependencies between ABAP programs, data dictionary objects, and process variants often span multiple modules and require detailed mapping. Unsupported or missing inputs can cause runtime failures if not addressed before cutover.

Additionally, coordinating cutover activities, reconciliation of data states, and ensuring continuity of business processes demand robust tooling to track approvals, evidence, and recovery options.

• Complex dependency mapping across SAP modules and custom code
• Handling unsupported inputs and missing evidence proactively
• Coordinating cutover, reconciliation, and continuity workflows

Adranum’s Evidence-Driven Approach

Adranum ingests authorized SAP readiness checks, ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) results, abapGit repositories, process-event logs, and data quality metrics to build a comprehensive evidence base.

This evidence enables the system to report coverage gaps and unsupported inputs, providing transparency into risks and remediation needs.

By correlating observed and inferred dependencies, Adranum supports informed decisions on which SAP elements to keep, replace, remediate, or retire during divestiture.

• Integration of SAP readiness, ATC, ABAP, DDIC, and process-event evidence
• Automated detection of unsupported or missing inputs
• Dependency mapping to inform carve-out decisions

Generating Reviewable Proposals and Packages

Adranum produces reviewable proposals for code and data changes, enabling stakeholders to assess the impact and approve modifications before implementation.

It creates content-addressed implementation packages that encapsulate code, data, and test artifacts for controlled deployment.

Impacted test cases are identified and bundled to validate the carved-out SAP components, ensuring quality and reducing post-cutover issues.

• Reviewable code and data change proposals
• Content-addressed implementation packages
• Bundled impacted test cases for validation

Cutover Coordination and Recovery

The platform records human approvals and orchestrates cutover steps, including reconciliation and continuity activities.

Exact-state recovery capabilities allow rollback to known good states if issues arise post-divestiture.

Customer operators maintain raw data, source code, and credentials within their infrastructure, limiting exposure while enabling bounded command execution and evidence collection.

• Human approval tracking for governance
• Coordinated cutover and reconciliation workflows
• Exact-state recovery for operational resilience

Limitations and Considerations

Adranum does not replace SAP licensing or Basis administration responsibilities, which remain with the customer.

Generated code proposals require customer-controlled compilation and runtime validation before production deployment.

The solution does not guarantee SAP certification or compliance standards such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

Specialist testing tools may still be necessary for comprehensive quality assurance beyond Adranum’s scope.

• No replacement for SAP licensing or Basis administration
• Code proposals require customer validation
• No official SAP or security certifications
• Complementary testing tools may be needed

What the workflow must cover

• Evidence Integration. Adranum consolidates multiple SAP evidence types including readiness checks, ABAP code analysis, and process-event logs to build a unified view of the SAP landscape for divestiture.
• Dependency Mapping. It automatically maps observed and inferred dependencies among SAP objects, enabling precise carve-out boundary definitions and impact analysis.
• Change Proposal Generation. The software generates reviewable proposals for code and data changes, facilitating stakeholder review and approval workflows prior to implementation.
• Implementation Packaging. Adranum creates content-addressed packages containing code, data, and test artifacts that support controlled deployment and traceability.
• Cutover Orchestration. It coordinates cutover activities, including human approvals, reconciliation, and continuity steps to ensure a smooth divestiture transition.
• Recovery and Continuity. Exact-state recovery features allow rollback to a prior known state, supporting operational resilience in case of post-divestiture issues.

Implementation workflow

Start with a bounded customer scenario and explicit acceptance criteria. Preserve native SAP permissions and accountable review while the software creates a repeatable evidence chain.

1. Ingest authorized SAP evidence sources including readiness checks, ATC results, and abapGit repositories.
2. Analyze and map dependencies among ABAP code, DDIC objects, and process-event variants.
3. Identify unsupported inputs and coverage gaps to highlight remediation needs.
4. Generate reviewable code and data change proposals for stakeholder assessment.
5. Package approved changes into content-addressed implementation bundles with impacted tests.
6. Coordinate cutover steps including approvals, reconciliation, and continuity workflows.
7. Execute exact-state recovery procedures if post-cutover issues occur.

Evidence to require

A transformation claim should resolve to observable artifacts, decisions, and execution receipts. Ask for the following evidence in a representative evaluation:

• SAP readiness check reports
• ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) results
• ABAP source code and abapGit repositories
• Data dictionary (DDIC) object metadata
• Process-event logs and variant analyses
• Data quality assessment reports
• Change proposal documents
• Implementation package manifests
• Test case impact reports
• Cutover approval records

Boundaries and non-claims

Adranum separates analysis, proposal, human review, package creation, customer-local validation, and production execution. A later state never rewrites the evidence that supported an earlier decision.

• Adranum does not replace SAP licensing or Basis administration duties.
• Generated code proposals are not production-ready until customer compilation and runtime validation succeed.
• The solution does not hold official SAP certification or security compliance guarantees.
• Specialist testing products may be required for comprehensive quality assurance beyond Adranum’s scope.

Public comparison sources

Competitor statements are limited to current public materials. Verify them during procurement because products and packaging change.

• Divestiture best practices for SAP systems
• Preparation for Divestiture
• Practical Advice for SAP Divestitures | Qlik Blog
• What is an SAP carve-out? - Carve-Out Series (Part I)
• Using migration tools to implement divestitures and carve- ...

Buyer checklist

• How does Adranum ingest and validate SAP readiness and ATC evidence?
• What mechanisms exist for mapping dependencies across ABAP and DDIC objects?
• How are unsupported inputs identified and reported?
• What governance controls support human approvals and change review?
• Can implementation packages be integrated with existing transport management systems?
• How does Adranum coordinate cutover and reconciliation workflows?
• What recovery options are available if post-divestiture issues arise?
• What infrastructure requirements exist to retain raw data and credentials securely?