
A certification is recommended, but is not required for consultants using DMO.As of SUM 1.0 SP 13, the benchmarking tool has been added for use as a technique to tune the migration and reduce the technical downtime.The tool is easy to work with, as it’s just SUM with an improved UI (User Interface).Original database is kept and can be reactivated as a fallback.Low impact on system landscape, as only the database server is new.In place migration keeps the application server and System-ID stable.A combined procedure only needs one maintenance phase (not two).If your systems weren’t already Unicode, a Unicode conversion can be included (for single-code-page systems).DMO simplifies the migration with one tool (SUM with DMO) that will run the system update, Unicode conversion, and database migration combined into one tool.
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Before DMO (Database Migration Option), you needed to update the SAP software with SUM (Software Update Manager), and then migrate it to a new database with SWPM (Software Provisioning Manager).Here’s a quick overview of the many benefits of DMO. This blog post is a technical overview on all you need to know about DMO.ĭMO provides many benefits over other upgrade/migration options by combining ease of use, shortened number of steps, and additional tools for reducing downtime. DMO allows SAP users to update an existing SAP system to a higher release version and/or can migrate to SAP HANA database. The SAP DMO (Database Migration Option) toolset simplifies and dramatically streamlines the entire SAP migration with one process, one tool, one downtime.
