Accelerating Digital Transformations with the SAP Customer Evolution Kit
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Over 53% of businesses reported that SAP S/4HANA improved integrations with other SAP products, enhanced performance, and increased user satisfaction, indicating a strong business value from the migration.
⇨ The SAP Customer Evolution Kit provides valuable resources, including one-to-one sessions with digital transformation experts, to help ECC users navigate their transition to the cloud efficiently and effectively.
⇨ Leveraging AI is a significant benefit of SAP S/4HANA, and organizations are encouraged to utilize the AI Roadmap builder to identify relevant AI use cases and prepare their systems for an AI-driven future.
As companies plan to make the move to SAP S/4HANA, they have a wide array of new and expanded capabilities that they will be able to access. These offerings are essential to driving business value, so it is of the utmost importance that organizations make the move quickly and efficiently.
SAPinsider’s recent SAP S/4HANA Migration 2025 benchmark research report found that over half (53%) of businesses said that SAP S/4HANA helped improve integrations with other SAP products and innovations and LoB tools. Other common benefits also include improved performance compared to past systems, as well as improved satisfaction from end users and businesses.
Making the Move to the Cloud
In spite of the benefits it holds, some organizations have still not made the move to the cloud. There are a variety of issues that may stand in the way of this digital transformation, but SAP is offering solutions to help overcome any obstacles or trepidation through its Customer Evolution Kit for SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
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This free offering aims to help ECC users accelerate their digital transformations, navigating the move to the cloud. So far, SAP has provided this service to over 200 companies all around the world, offering one-to-one remote sessions with SAP’s dedicated teams of digital transformation experts. SAP customers can use this time to find answers to their most pressing questions, hone in on targeted benefits for their solution area, and unlock the power of Business AI.
This engagement helps users to develop their own transformation plan, tailored specifically to their own unique needs and obstacles. Over the course of a week, SAP will help companies uncover actionable insights that will help accelerate the move to SAP S/4HANA and unlock the value of the cloud once the move is made.
Sessions
The SAP Customer Evolution Kit offers the following sessions for customers:
- Experience the SAP S/4HANA system hands-on, the new SAP Fiori interface and real-time analytics with the ERPSim game
- Optimize with the SAP Signavio Process Insights & AI Capabilities – Identify the potential of improvement for your company based on your process performance indicators and identify SAP Business AI capabilities for your organization.
- Use SAP LeanIX to Sketch Your Future Architecture with SAP BTP – Develop a first draft of your future SAP landscape based on your current usage of the system and applicable transition scenarios, all of this powered by SAP LeanIX.
- Prepare the Move with SAP Readiness Check and SAP Cloud ALM – Review the readiness of your system to make the move, including simplification items, compatibility assessment, customer vendor integration, custom code and more.
- Evaluate Transition Strategy Scenarios – Understand the different transition approaches that exist to move to SAP S/4HANA and get a high-level analysis for your company situation.
- Additional Line of Business in Scope – Depending on the selection of the additional Line of Business, get insights on the most relevant tools and content to more complete digital transformation of your business.
- Closing Session – Executive Summary and next steps.
Building a Roadmap to AI
One of the most exciting opportunities that comes with SAP S/4HANA is the ability to leverage AI. The SAP Customer Evolution Kit features the AI Roadmap builder, which helps us do the following customers identify relevant AI use cases, assess the value for those use cases and lay out a roadmap to develop and implement them.
What This Means for SAPinsiders
If you want to go farther, go together. As organizations make the move to SAP S/4HANA, relying on the experience of trusted experts helps companies to make the digital transformation more smoothly and ensure that they are able to leverage the new offerings they now have access to.
Prepare for an AI-driven future. One of the biggest benefits of SAP S/4HANA is its ability to infuse AI into essential business processes. However, this does require some planning and effort. Companies should take advantage of the AI roadmap offering to ensure that their systems and data are AI ready and they know the best use cases to deploy this advanced technology.
The best SAP S/4HANA deployments merge people and technologies. A new SAP S/4HANA deployment is best-leveraged when companies train users to optimize their new capabilities. The SAP Customer Evolution Kit offers key users the ability to learn from SAP experts and understand what their new deployment is capable of.
