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Apr 22, 2009 at 08:13 PM

Recommended approach for Business Partner migration

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I'm trying to find a best approach for legacy-to-SAP CRM BP upload, but I'm finding it difficult to get a consensus, probably because it depends on the scenario.

Our situation here is:

- CRM 2007, ECC 6.0, and IS-Banking Solutions for Financial Services 5.0

- CRM replicating BPs out to ECC and IS-Banking

- relatively small data-set for one-time BP migration

- 90% of transformations to be completed in legacy system

So far I've identified the following methods:

1 - External Data Transfer (EDT) with transfer category 013 for financial services (as opposed to 015 for general BP?). Within this process, Direct Input is used with BAPIs and/or IDocs therein. There are a few limitations with EDT as documented in the IMG.

2 - LSMW with BAPIs from Business Object BusinessPartnerFS (or general BP Bus. obj. BusinessPartner?)

3 - LSMW with XIF-related IDocs such as CRMXIF_PARTNER_SAVE

4 - ABAP development with BAPIs identified earlier

Which approach is the generally accepted practice for one-time system migrations? Any major disadvantages/advantages related to your recommendation?

Related - What is the Business Data Toolset and is it relevant for this situation?

Thanks,

Chris