Complex migration can be easy by the use of a hybrid cloud management system. For example if you have recently acquired a new database from a 3rd party which needs to be integrated into your company’s cloud system, in that case it may take several phases to merge and consolidate the two landscapes into a public cloud.

However, the solution is hybrid clouds, where you don't need any high tech hardware infrastructure investments and the data migration and transition will happen gradually and smoothly as appetite of risk is less. Making the system ready to be transferred when your company is ready consecutive action will be to phase out the old environment for better control.

If you have data which you are not regularly using and at the same time it is old, then migrating it to the cloud system will be more trouble than it is worth the time - at least this will be a task for short term purpose.

Consolidating, Auditing, and sanitizing old data can be a complex process for management, which will require your data team to track inconsistent and missing data and fix inconsistent and antiquated data formatting. It is recommended that to leave the old silo data as low priority and focus on current upgrades.

Cloud will make data movement very fast and secure however, location of the physical server plays a vital role in certain applications like human machine interface and industrial control systems. Hybrid cloud systems will have benefits of on premise hardware for supporting latency critical applications at the same time taking care of cost effectiveness and scalability of the public cloud for critical applications.

Business applications which work with heavy / large files will have a clear benefit of using hybrid systems provided by SAP when compared to a public server. A hybrid cloud file management system will allow quick and easy large file management.