Move to S/4HANA or not?
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Bob Bucy
Expert since 2022
Key Takeaways
⇨ As of mid-2022, only 29 percent of SAP customers have moved to S/4 HANA.
⇨ SAP customers must balance many internal and external constraints when considering significant projects such as a move to S/4.
⇨ Instead of focusing on looming deadlines, successful S/4 business cases will highlight tangible benefits that address current business challenges while giving due consideration to less tangible human factors.
Many have talked about S/4 HANA adoption by SAP customers that are still running on ECC6. SAP, consultancies, and IT service providers’ messaging has been focused on moving to S/4 and its benefits, and building the business case for it. But looming deadlines or ominous warnings are not resonating with the SAP customer base. This is echoed by SAPinsider’s Benchmark Report which identified several factors leading to customer resistance like complexity of change and cost. The latter is not surprising as large enterprise projects are always a tough sell financially especially with the talk of recession in the air. Beyond these quantifiable survey results, the article discusses a few examples of factors within organizations that further complicate the decision to move to S/4 HANA.
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