Leading West Coast Utility Company
Role: SAP IS-U Conversion Analyst
Project Overview
A leading utility company initiated an SAP S/4HANA IS-U transformation to migrate customer, billing, financial, and operational data from legacy systems. The project focused on improving data quality, ensuring business continuity, and increasing migration readiness before production deployment.
Legal Systems → Conversions → SAP S/4 HANA → Validation → Data Remediation → Go Live
Project Goals
- Migrate legacy utility data to SAP S/4HANA IS-U
- Validate converted data for accuracy and completeness
- Identify and resolve migration issues before Go-Live
- Support multiple Dress Rehearsal (DR) cycles
Improve overall migration readiness
Our Role & Contributions
Conversion & Validation
- Validated migrated data using SAP HANA SQL queries.
- Analyzed load failures and data mismatches between legacy systems and SAP.
- Investigated conversion issues and supported remediation activities.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Collaborated with Device Management, Customer Service, Billing, and FICA teams.
- Coordinated with offshore conversion teams and onshore functional teams.
- Tracked remediation progress and documented resolution steps in SharePoint
Dress Rehearsal Support
- Supported DR1, DR2, and DR3 execution.
- Generated validation reports and monitored remediation progress.
- Helped improve migration readiness before Go-Live.
Business Impact
Project Value
By combining data validation, cross-functional collaboration, and structured remediation tracking, the team helped reduce migration risk and improve overall readiness for the SAP S/4HANA IS-U implementation
Key Outcomes
Supported successful execution of multiple Dress Rehearsal (DR) cycles.
Improved data quality and migration readiness before Go-Live.
Increased visibility into migration issues through validation reporting and remediation tracking.
Strengthened collaboration between offshore conversion teams and functional business teams.
Delivered documented remediation procedures to support future migration activities.
Key Skills Demonstrated
- Data Validation
- SAP HANA SQL
- Data Remediation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Documentation
- Migration Readiness
Lessons Learned & Best Practices
- Early data validation reduces downstream migration issues.
- Close collaboration between conversion and functional teams accelerates issue resolution.
- Consistent documentation improves knowledge sharing and Go-Live readiness.
- Regular reporting and progress tracking provide better visibility into migration status.
- Dress Rehearsal cycles help identify and resolve critical issues before production deployment
Recommendations
- Continue validating conversion results throughout each DR cycle.
- Maintain standardized remediation documentation.
- Strengthen communication between offshore and onshore teams.
- Prioritize high-impact migration issues before Go-Live.
Successful SAP transformations require accurate data validation, effective cross-functional collaboration, and continuous remediation throughout the migration lifecycle
