SAP System Conversion: Controls, Validation, and Recovery

Decision context

SAP system conversion to SAP S/4HANA is a complex, high-stakes modernization effort requiring rigorous governance and comprehensive evidence management. Adranum supports this process by ingesting authorized SAP readiness checks, ABAP code quality reports, and data quality evidence to provide a holistic view of the conversion scope and risks.

The conversion process involves analyzing custom code, data dictionary objects, and process variants to identify dependencies and unsupported elements. Adranum maps these dependencies and supports decision-making on whether to keep, replace, remediate, or retire components, producing reviewable proposals for customer-controlled compilation and runtime validation.

Adranum also coordinates critical cutover activities including reconciliation, continuity checks, and exact-state recovery. It captures human approvals and maintains detailed evidence trails, enabling controlled execution while keeping sensitive raw data and credentials within the customer’s infrastructure for security compliance.

Comprehensive Evidence Ingestion and Analysis

Adranum integrates multiple SAP evidence sources such as SAP Readiness Check, ATC (ABAP Test Cockpit), DDIC (Data Dictionary) reports, abapGit repositories, and process-event logs. This multi-dimensional ingestion allows for a detailed assessment of code quality, data integrity, and process variants relevant to the system conversion.

By consolidating these inputs, Adranum identifies unsupported or risky elements early, enabling targeted remediation planning. It also highlights coverage gaps where evidence is missing, ensuring transparency in the conversion readiness status.

• Supports SAP Readiness Check and ATC results ingestion
• Analyzes ABAP custom code and DDIC objects for compatibility
• Incorporates process-event and requirement evidence for variant detection

Dependency Mapping and Decision Support

Adranum automatically maps observed and inferred dependencies between ABAP objects, data elements, and processes, providing a clear impact analysis for conversion decisions.

It supports keep, replace, remediate, or retire decisions on each component, generating detailed proposals for code and data changes. These proposals remain editable and require customer compilation and runtime validation before acceptance.

• Visualizes cross-object dependencies and impact chains
• Facilitates decision tracking with human approvals
• Generates reviewable change proposals for customer validation

Implementation Packaging and Test Impact Analysis

The platform creates content-addressed implementation packages that bundle code changes, data adjustments, and impacted test cases. This packaging ensures traceability and repeatability in deployment phases.

Adranum identifies tests affected by proposed changes, enabling focused regression testing and reducing risk during cutover.

• Generates immutable implementation packages with cryptographic hashes
• Maps impacted functional and regression tests
• Supports audit trails for change and test approvals

Cutover Coordination and Exact-State Recovery

Adranum orchestrates cutover activities including data reconciliation, continuity verification, and exact-state recovery to minimize downtime and data loss risk.

It records detailed execution receipts and reconciliation evidence to support post-migration audits and compliance requirements.

• Coordinates cutover steps with operator approvals
• Captures reconciliation and continuity evidence
• Enables rollback and exact-state recovery scenarios

Customer Data Sovereignty and Security

Raw service data, source code, and credentials remain within the customer’s infrastructure, reducing exposure risk.

Only bounded commands, hashes, aggregate outcomes, and evidence summaries are transmitted externally, aligning with strict security policies and compliance frameworks.

• Keeps sensitive data on-premises or in customer cloud
• Returns only cryptographically verifiable command results
• Supports compliance with internal security mandates

What the workflow must cover

• Multi-Source Evidence Integration. Adranum ingests and correlates SAP readiness, ABAP quality, data dictionary, and process evidence to provide a unified conversion readiness view.
• Dependency Visualization and Impact Analysis. Automatically maps dependencies across ABAP objects and data elements to clarify conversion impacts and support remediation decisions.
• Change Proposal Generation. Produces detailed, reviewable code and data change proposals that require customer compilation and runtime validation before acceptance.
• Implementation Package Creation. Generates content-addressed, immutable packages bundling code, data changes, and impacted tests for controlled deployment.
• Cutover Orchestration and Evidence Capture. Coordinates cutover activities with human approvals and records detailed reconciliation and continuity evidence for auditability.
• Data Sovereignty Enforcement. Ensures all raw data and credentials remain within customer infrastructure, transmitting only bounded commands and evidence summaries externally.

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. Collect SAP readiness check, ATC, DDIC, abapGit, and process-event evidence from SAP landscape.
2. Ingest and correlate evidence within Adranum to identify unsupported elements and coverage gaps.
3. Map dependencies between ABAP objects, data dictionary elements, and process variants.
4. Make keep/replace/remediate/retire decisions on each impacted component with stakeholder approvals.
5. Generate reviewable code and data change proposals for customer compilation and runtime validation.
6. Create content-addressed implementation packages including impacted tests for deployment.
7. Coordinate cutover activities with approvals, execute reconciliation, and capture exact-state recovery evidence.

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
• Data Dictionary (DDIC) object inventories
• abapGit source repositories
• Process-event and requirement logs
• Change proposal documents
• Implementation package hashes and receipts
• Test impact analysis reports
• Cutover reconciliation evidence
• Human 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 responsibilities.
• Generated change proposals require customer compilation and runtime validation before acceptance.
• Adranum does not provide official SAP certification or clean-core certification.
• Specialist testing tools may still be required for comprehensive test coverage beyond Adranum’s scope.

Public comparison sources

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

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Buyer checklist

• How does Adranum integrate SAP readiness and code quality evidence?
• Can Adranum map dependencies across custom ABAP and DDIC objects?
• What controls exist for approving change proposals before deployment?
• How does Adranum support cutover coordination and rollback?
• Is customer data and credential sovereignty maintained during the process?
• What types of evidence does Adranum capture for audit and compliance?
• Are impacted tests identified and linked to proposed changes?
• Does Adranum replace the need for SAP Basis or licensing management?