Migration Architect Labs
Lab 1 — BW portfolio assessment
Take a BW estate containing finance, procurement, sales, and operational reporting. Classify workloads into:
- retain
- BW bridge
- native Datasphere rebuild
- integrate with BDC
- retire
Document evidence for each decision.
Lab 2 — Parallel reconciliation
Design a reconciliation framework for a financial dataset. Include structural, record-level, aggregate, semantic, and business validation.
Define thresholds and escalation rules.
Lab 3 — Cutover simulation
Design a weekend cutover with:
- final delta
- freeze
- reconciliation
- consumer switch
- smoke tests
- rollback trigger
- hypercare
Then identify the point of no return.
Lab 4 — Non-SAP modernization
Choose a cloud warehouse plus an API source. Design federation/replication decisions, schema-change handling, monitoring, and security.
Architect challenge
Produce a one-page target architecture and a migration wave plan. Defend:
- Why this target?
- Why this migration order?
- What stays unchanged?
- What is redesigned?
- What is the rollback strategy?
- What proves the legacy platform can be retired?