A Comprehensive Guide to HANA Migration: Plan, Execute, and Optimize with Confidence
SAP HANA represents one of the most significant technology shifts in SAP’s history – unlocking real-time analytics, faster processing, and improved business insight. But realizing these benefits depends entirely on how well the migration is planned, executed, and governed.
In the Whitepaper, “Comprehensive Guide to HANA Migration,” we outline a structured, end-to-end approach to migrating to SAP HANA – helping organizations reduce risk, optimize performance, and achieve measurable ROI from day one.
Key Learnings and Challenges Explored
The Whitepaper breaks down the five critical stages of a successful HANA migration – highlighting where organizations commonly struggle and what must be addressed to avoid costly setbacks:
Incorrect landscape sizing: Over- or under-sizing HANA environments leads to unnecessary infrastructure costs, performance bottlenecks, or unplanned rework.
Migration strategy complexity: Choosing between on-site, cloud, classical migration, DMO of SUM, or greenfield approaches requires deep technical and business alignment.
Lack of meaningful benchmarks: Without accurate pre-migration benchmarks, organizations struggle to validate performance gains and ROI after go-live.
Poor data quality: Migrating outdated, redundant, or low-quality data increases downtime, infrastructure costs, and limits HANA performance potential.
Operational risk during cutover: Insufficient preparation of source and target systems introduces security, compliance, and performance risks at go-live.
Post-migration uncertainty: Even well-tested migrations can expose performance issues once the full business load is applied, requiring strong monitoring and hypercare.
These challenges make HANA migration far more than a database upgrade – it is a transformation that demands discipline, visibility, and continuous validation.
Key Solutions and Strategic Insights
Our Whitepaper outlines a proven framework for executing a successful HANA migration while maintaining operational stability before, during, and after go-live. With Avantra, organizations gain:
Accurate landscape sizing guidance, helping teams right-size memory, CPU, and disk requirements to balance performance and total cost of ownership.
Support for multiple migration paths, including classical migration, DMO of SUM, cloud, on-site, and greenfield approaches—aligned to business needs.
Real-world benchmarking, measuring not just speed, but business value, decision-making impact, and long-term ROI.
Automated data quality and monitoring standards, reducing migration downtime and ensuring optimal HANA performance.
Pre- and post-migration observability, enabling teams to validate performance improvements against baseline benchmarks.
Reduced risk during cutover and hypercare, with continuous monitoring, automated checks, and early detection of performance or compliance issues.
By combining structured migration discipline with intelligent monitoring and automation, Avantra enables organizations to move to HANA with confidence – and to sustain performance long after go-live.
Take control of your HANA migration journey – now you’re really running.
