Overview—Preparing for Cutover

The big day of Go-Live is finally close at hand. Go-Live is simply a point in time, however, or the milestone of greatest importance in your implementation or upgrade project. But it’s the process of transitioning from one system to a new one that is the final challenge related to going live on a new system. This process is often referred to as cutover, and is the focus of this final chapter.

Critical cutover-related tasks occur well before the big day of Go-Live, and the planning and preparation associated with these activities occurs even further back. Project milestones related to locking down the system from a technical change management perspective, or preparing the SAP Technical Support Organization for its ...

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