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What is an SAP Enterprise Architect?
Enterprise Architects are responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of an organization’s IT networks and services. This includes overseeing, improving, and upgrading enterprise services, software, and hardware, but one of the key parts of the role is in mapping how business processes correspond with infrastructure and software that the business uses. But there is also a need to understand the problems that a business faces, collect data on it, and then use that knowledge to identify solutions and communicate that clearly across the organization.
What is an SAP Enterprise Architect?
Enterprise Architects are responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of an organization’s IT networks and services. This includes overseeing, improving, and upgrading enterprise services, software, and hardware, but one of the key parts of the role is in mapping how business processes correspond with infrastructure and software that the business uses. But there is also a need to understand the problems that a business faces, collect data on it, and then use that knowledge to identify solutions and communicate that clearly across the organization.
An SAP Enterprise Architect is an expert in SAP solutions who sets and manages the organization’s SAP landscape based on required business processes. SAP Enterprise Architects have a specialized knowledge of SAP technology and solutions, and so are able to create an SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework basked on their organization’s need and specific structure. They are responsible for envisioning, communicating, and evolving the IT landscape for both SAP solutions and those that they are interconnected with across the organization.
An SAP Enterprise Architect will leverage different capabilities as they perform their role within the organization. This includes:
- Creating a enterprise architecture using the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework.
- Using SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer to visualize the architecture framework and map the business and process flows across the enterprise.
- Leveraging other SAP Enterprise Architecture Tools to map dependencies and relationships across models, capabilities, people, processes, data, information, and applications.
- Working closely with other architects to bring together the SAP Enterprise Architecture and technology architectures in a comprehensive SAP Platform Architecture.
To better allow SAP Enterprise Architects to perform their roles, SAP has created several openSAP courses to put their technology into a business context. An example of these are Enterprise Architecture in the Era of the Intelligent Enterprise and An Enterprise Architect’s View on SAP Business Technology Platform.
SAPinsider has run events specifically for the SAP Enterprise Architect such as the SAP Enterprise Architect Virtual Global Summit. These provide technology and business-focused sessions designed to specifically help architects understand how new and changing SAP solutions will impact their organizations in the future.
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Research Webinar: Cloud Architecture for SAPDec 18, 2025 — SAPinsiders have been moving to the cloud for over a decade but the transformation process is far from complete. In addition, most organizations take a unique path to the cloud. Some started with a lift and shift of older on-premise systems to infrastructure-as-a-service environments, while others may have directly moved to SAP S/4HANA or even RISE with SAP/SAP Cloud ERP Private. Some started their remediation processes for data and code early, while others have done it following the move to SAP S/4HANA, or even after the move to RISE with SAP. What this has made clear is that, while establishing and maintaining cloud architecture for SAP is on nearly everyone’s roadmap, most organizations are still in the middle of that transition.
What is clear from this data is that leaders have generally made more progress in their adoption of cloud technologies than either cloud beginners or the hybrid majority. However, that is not true in every instance. For example, more than two thirds (69%) of leaders are already using SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), but this is only slightly more than the hybrid majority (60%) or cloud beginners (57%). This difference is more marked with the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud which is being used by 62% of leaders, 51% of the hybrid majority, and only 23% of cloud beginners.
This year's research also explored the cloud or hybrid cloud platforms actively in use in SAP environments, the top priorities for evolving SAP architecture over the next 12-24 months, the impact of adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture in transforming SAP workloads, and the challenges encountered when adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architectures for SAP workloads.
The findings indicate that SAPinsiders will not be able to continue to run legacy applications forever. And with the end of 2027 just over two years away, that change will likely come first with the need to move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud through the auspices of a RISE with SAP/SAP Cloud ERP Private contract. SAPinsiders must be prepared for this change, and should follow the guidance of cloud leaders in making this possible.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand the benefits experienced from adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture for SAP or SAP-adjacent systems.
- Explore the impact of adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture in transforming SAP landscapes.
- Learn about the factors impacting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture strategy for SAP workloads.
- See what SAPinsiders need to do to be successful in their cloud transformations.
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Cloud Architecture for SAPOct 31, 2025 — SAPinsiders have been moving to the cloud for over a decade but the transformation process is far from complete. In addition, most organizations take a unique path to the cloud. Some started with a lift and shift of older on-premise systems to infrastructure-as-a-service environments, while others may have directly moved to SAP S/4HANA or even RISE with SAP/SAP Cloud ERP Private. Some started their remediation processes for data and code early, while others have done it following the move to SAP S/4HANA, or even after the move to RISE with SAP. What this has made clear is that, while establishing and maintaining cloud architecture for SAP is on nearly everyone’s roadmap, most organizations are still in the middle of that transition.
What is clear from this data is that leaders have generally made more progress in their adoption of cloud technologies than either cloud beginners or the hybrid majority. However, that is not true in every instance. For example, more than two thirds (69%) of leaders are already using SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), but this is only slightly more than the hybrid majority (60%) or cloud beginners (57%). This difference is more marked with the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud which is being used by 62% of leaders, 51% of the hybrid majority, and only 23% of cloud beginners.
This year's research also explored the cloud or hybrid cloud platforms actively in use in SAP environments, the top priorities for evolving SAP architecture over the next 12-24 months, the impact of adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture in transforming SAP workloads, and the challenges encountered when adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architectures for SAP workloads.
The findings indicate that SAPinsiders will not be able to continue to run legacy applications forever. And with the end of 2027 just over two years away, that change will likely come first with the need to move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud through the auspices of a RISE with SAP/SAP Cloud ERP Private contract. SAPinsiders must be prepared for this change, and should follow the guidance of cloud leaders in making this possible.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand the benefits experienced from adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture for SAP or SAP-adjacent systems.
- Explore the impact of adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture in transforming SAP landscapes.
- Learn about the factors impacting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture strategy for SAP workloads.
- See what SAPinsiders need to do to be successful in their cloud transformations.
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Research Webinar: Enterprise Integration for SAP 2025Nov 25, 2025 — Enterprise integration is essential in the digital business era. Expectations around digital and self-service experiences are driving the need for seamless, enterprise-wide integration across multiple systems, whether they are SAP or non-SAP. Access to the data that moves through critical applications and platforms is key to building data-driven strategies and collaborative workspaces. In this webinar, […]
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Enterprise Integration for SAP 2025Sep 30, 2025 — Enterprise integration is essential in the digital business era. Expectations around digital and self-service experiences are driving the need for seamless, enterprise-wide integration across multiple systems, whether they are SAP or non-SAP. Access to the data that moves through critical applications and platforms is key to building data-driven strategies and collaborative workspaces.
To identify the key factors, strategies, expectations, challenges, and technologies driving enterprise integration strategies, SAPinsider conducted a survey of community members across multiple industries, locations, and roles from May to August 2025. Respondents revealed that while many organizations are on the path to integrating their systems in a cohesive and automated manner, only a select few have achieved integration at a level where all systems are fully integrated with real-time data flow.
This research also explored the integration maturity of respondents' organizations, and identified key traits across maturity segments as they journey towards enterprise-wide integration and governance. Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand the how SAPinsiders are integrating their systems and the strategies they use.
- Explore the factors that are having the biggest impact on enterprise integration.
- Learn about the technologies that are in use to build connections between critical systems.
- Discover how SAP S/4HANA impacts integration strategies
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Serco Group plc Increases Efficiencies and Reduces Enterprise Risk by Automating Financial Processes with Cadency® by TrintechApr 23, 2025 — See how after reviewing several technology providers, Serco decided to partner with Trintech and implement their Record to Report platform, Cadency.
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SAPinsider EMEA 2026Feb 12, 2025 — Join SAP end users, experts, partners, and SAP leaders for 3 days of connecting, learning, and collaborating. A curated educational experience delivering the lessons, customer stories, tools, and resources you need to improve your SAP skills, tackle your toughest projects, and transform professionally and personally.
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SAP Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (EPPM) BTP WorkbenchJan 15, 2025 — During the customer EPPM SAP Value engineering process, customers ask Platinum DB and SAP questions like “how do I justify my investment in SAP EPPM? Our answer, the EPPM Workbench. The EPPM Workbench is the central cockpit for driving key financial processes. The finance team can perform mass update events such as month-end, forecasting, forecasting […]
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