From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: How Tricentis and TTC Global Accelerate and De-risk S/4HANA Migrations
Published: 5 September 2025
As SAP winds down support for ECC systems, organisations face significant risk from delays, disruptions, or misalignment. Even well-prepared teams might encounter data inconsistencies or missing code that require costly fixes in production. In our joint eBook with Tricentis, we address the common bottlenecks that turn migrations into crises, and what a structured quality engineering approach produces in practice.
What you'll learn
- The six recurring bottlenecks that must be addressed in your migration strategy
- How TTC Global’s assess, accelerate, transform method and Tricentis’ testing platform catch issues before they reach go-live
- Real-world results from a global energy company's migration: 90% code coverage across three S/4HANA systems, live in 18 months
Key Insights Inside
The Most Common Causes of SAP Go-live Failure
The same set of problems recurs across organisations regardless of size or industry. Understanding them in advance allows teams to plan around them rather than discover them under pressure:
- Complexity and scoping challenges: Poor scope definition, overlooked interface dependencies, and assumptions that existing workflows will transfer unchanged lead to rework and delays.
- Business process validation gaps: Treating validation as a final-phase activity means that cross-module and cross-system failures surface too late to resolve without disruption.
- Performance risks and regression testing: Functional readiness does not equal performance readiness. Without realistic load testing and targeted regression strategies, minor issues become major slowdowns post go-live.
- Post-migration realities: Inadequate change management, missing regression suites, and insufficient post-migration validation leave organisations exposed long after Day 1.
- Custom code and data migration: Legacy ABAP customisations require impact analysis and re-engineering. Failure to identify redundant or non-compliant code creates functionality gaps that only appear in production.
- Resource constraints: SAP-proficient talent with both technical and domain knowledge is scarce. Without delivery support, timelines slip and test quality deteriorates.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this eBook for?
The buyer tier, including CIOs, CTOs, Chief Digital Officers, and VPs of IT, who weigh the board-level risk and ROI case for an S/4HANA migration. SAP Programme Directors evaluating whether their current testing partner and tooling can support the transition will also find it relevant. The eBook can be helpful for pre-migration planning as well as environments where an organization is already live and managing ongoing release challenges.
How does quality engineering reduce SAP go-live risk?
Quality engineering applied from the start of a programme, rather than at the end, catches issues during planning and design instead of production. TTC Global pairs shift-left testing with risk-based prioritisation and an integrated toolchain covering regression, performance, data integrity and change impact analysis, so effort concentrates on the highest-risk areas rather than the system as a whole.
What is the financial cost of a failed or delayed SAP go-live?
Delayed or poorly executed migrations carry costs well beyond the project budget: unsupported systems, rising maintenance spend, unplanned outages that hit revenue, and in some cases business-critical processes frozen for days during a failed cutover. The exposure compounds the longer testing gaps go unaddressed.
What is the ROI of SAP test automation?
Organisations using Tricentis testing solutions report a 576% average ROI over three years and $5.3 million in annual business value, according to independent IDC research. That return comes from faster testing cycles, more efficient test teams, and faster defect resolution: it is a function of testing the right things with less manual overhead, not testing less.
How do you build a business case for enterprise quality engineering investment?
A credible business case connects testing investment to measurable outcomes: reduced regression cycle time, fewer production defects, and faster time-to-value, backed by independent benchmarks rather than vendor claims alone. IDC’s analysis of Tricentis testing solutions gives CIOs and CFOs a third-party reference point for that case.