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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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Global E-Invoicing Management in SAP S/4HANA MigrationsSep 30, 2025 — This report explores how leading enterprises are addressing the challenge of global E-Invoicing management in SAP S/4HANA migrations. It highlights that enterprises tackling global E-Invoicing management during SAP S/4HANA migrations face complexities influenced by various factors. A significant number of organizations are rapidly progressing in their migrations while emphasizing the importance of integrating E-Invoicing strategies to prevent future compliance and reporting issues.
Large numbers of customers (63%) are well down the path of their SAP S/4HANA migrations, having completed the move, currently moving, or planning to move within 12 months. Deployment approaches are undetermined (24%), with third-party solutions (20%) and SAP DRC (17%) leading in preference ahead of other approaches that vary widely. Across the board, organizations are realizing value in aligning E-Invoicing projects with SAP S/4HANA migrations resulting in improved end-to-end process integration (60%), accelerated compliance with new regulations (46%), and better scalability for new countries and requirements.
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Deployment Approaches to SAP S/4HANA 2025Jul 31, 2025 — The first productive release of SAP S/4HANA, version 1511, is just a few months shy of being 10 years old. In that time the market has changed significantly, although that change has been accelerating over the last 12-18 months as against changing steadily over time. Despite the launch of RISE with SAP in 2021, and SAP's push towards cloud ERP in general, most SAPinsiders have followed a more traditional approach in terms of both licensing and deployment. This has largely involved perpetual software licenses installed in on-premise infrastructure, although there has been a shift towards more of these deployments being in infrastructure-as-a-service environments in the private or public cloud. Despite not being new, it was originally launched not long after SAP S/4HANA itself, SAP S/4HANA Cloud has seen an increase in adoption over the years particularly due to the connection with RISE with SAP. However, that SAP S/4HANA Cloud adoption only represented a relatively small proportion of the SAP S/4HANA customer base.
This year that has changed. For the first time there is significant movement in the SAP S/4HANA market and the upcoming end of mainstream maintenance is driving that change. A majority of SAPinsiders are now focused on moving to SAP S/4HANA as quickly as possible. More than a third plan on deploying SAP S/4HANA Cloud through either RISE with SAP or GROW with SAP. And nearly a quarter of SAPinsiders now report that they will not complete a transition to SAP S/4HANA until after 2027. The combination of these factors, along with other data from the research, shows a market that has changed rapidly over the last year.
This year's research also explored the deployment model that SAPinsiders plan to use. The emphasis on getting to SAP S/4HANA quickly means that more organizations than in the last few years are considering a system conversion, or brownfield, deployment. However, SAPinsiders must weigh this approach against the work that they will have to do after deployment to achieve a cleaner core.
The findings indicate that the race to deploy SAP S/4HANA before 2027 has become more serious, and that many SAPinsiders have realized that this goal is not readily achievable. However, for those that have been properly preparing, there is still time.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand the how SAPinsiders are deploying SAP S/4HANA and the environments they will use.
- Explore the factors that are having the biggest impact on deployment timeline.
- Learn about the infrastructure that is planned for those SAP S/4HANA deployments.
- See what role SAP Cloud ERP is playing moving forward.
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2025 Global Tax ManagementJun 30, 2025 — Global tax management is a strategic imperative. As companies navigate digital transformation, tax leaders are under increasing pressure to modernize their approaches. In this year’s SAPinsider research report what we learned is that the most influential drivers reshaping tax strategies include:
- Growing complexity in compliance and governance (40%)
- Digital transformation of tax and finance functions (35%)
- Rising demands from global tax authorities (25%)
These forces, combined with talent shortages and the need for advanced e-invoicing and analytics, are compelling organizations to rethink how they manage tax across jurisdictions. This report explores the technologies and strategies enabling smarter, more agile global tax operations.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand the biggest pain points impacting global tax leaders.
- Explore how organizations of differing maturity are managing their global tax priorities
- Learn about the most important metrics for global tax leaders.
- See how global tax management solutions are transitioning to the cloud.
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The Technology Leader’s 2025 Agenda for SAPMay 31, 2025 — Technology Leaders at SAP customer organizations are facing much change in 2025 and beyond. The end of mainstream maintenance for SAP ECC looms, compelling companies to transition to SAP S/4HANA. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence (AI) is rising in the enterprise technology world, with vendors like SAP building AI tools, embedding AI into their systems, and creating platforms for custom AI innovation. The emergence of AI has brought it to the forefront of technology leaders’ minds as they plan their investments and staffing.
For this report, SAPinsider surveyed technology leaders across various industries and regions about their agendas for SAP and SAP-adjacent technologies. This included their top challenges, priorities, and planned investments for 2025, as well as their strategies for SAP S/4HANA and AI.
Throughout their responses, SAP S/4HANA, along with AI strategy and AI technologies, consistently emerged as core focus areas. Respondents discussed how AI and SAP S/4HANA impact their budgets and the size of their staffing teams.
Spoiler Alert: SAP S/4HANA migrations require more resources, while AI innovation presents many challenges. Still, many technology leaders are pushing ahead with this crucial projects, driven by the desire to create more efficient and visible processes, to become more data-driven, and in the case of SAP S/4HANA, migrate before the end of mainstream maintenance for SAP ECC in 2027.
Download this benchmark report to read the full data analysis from technology leaders in the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
Discover where your peers are along their AI journeys.
Understand the priorities that are driving technology leaders' strategy and investment.
Explore the most sought after technologies and associated skillsets at SAPinsider organizations.
See how SAP-related budgets and SAP-related staffs are expected to change in 2025.
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Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges to SAP Systems 2025May 30, 2025 — Over the past year the number of cyber threats impacting enterprise landscapes, and the SAP systems that reside in them, continued to increase. Reflecting this increase in cyber threats, 23% of respondents reported that they experienced a credential compromise or social engineering attack, a malware or ransomware attack, or a cybersecurity attack that has impacted their SAP environment during the past year. This makes it vital that organizations are prepared for the cyber threats that their organization is facing, and for the change in the nature and impact of attacks against their systems.
Which cybersecurity threats are the most important to SAPinsiders varies from year to year based on what is being most actively exploited by threat actors. However, for the last few years ransomware attacks has been towards the top of the list along with unpatched systems. This year, perhaps reflecting the fact that as more organizations complete transformation projects that bring together SAP and non-SAP data from across the enterprise, there are greater concerns about data exfiltration attacks and connections to other systems or applications. With more systems running in the cloud, the exposure points between these systems and those still running locally in data centers or in other cloud environments can significantly expand the attack surface.
This year's research also explored the the challenges faced in securing SAP systems. Despite the fact that organizations have needed to patch SAP systems for years, keeping up with SAP security notes, patches, and updates remained the biggest challenge respondents faced in securing their SAP systems. This is something that must be addressed by SAPinsiders if they are to ensure that their systems are secure.
In addition, this year's report explores how the cybersecurity maturity posture of organizations is impacting what they are prioritizing from a cybersecurity perspective and what SAPinsiders should be focusing on as their cybersecurity strategy matures.
The findings indicate that those with a greater cybersecurity maturity are more concerned about topics like supply chain attacks, credentials compromise, and ransomware attacks than those that are lagging from a cybersecurity maturity perspective. This indicates that these organizations may have addressed some of these challenges and are moving forward with bigger threats.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand the biggest factors impacting cybersecurity strategy.
- Explore the challenges that SAPinsiders face with securing their SAP systems.
- Learn about where SAPinsiders are planning on making cybersecurity investments..
- See what role application development will play in the future.
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Planning and Consolidation After SAP BPCMay 9, 2025 — Mainstream maintenance is ending for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) in 2027 which is forcing customers of the product into a transitory period where they are compelled to search for new planning and consolidation tools and potentially adopt new processes associated with that replacement software. Replacing software is always going to have an impact, and SAP BPC customers will be looking for upgraded capabilities as they bring on a new financial planning and consolidation tool.
Financial planning and consolidation solutions are the foundation of a modern enterprise performance management (EPM) framework, delivering critical capabilities that help organizations align financial operations with strategic goals. These tools enable more accurate forecasting, streamlined budgeting, and timely consolidation of financial data across business units, providing a single source of truth for performance tracking. SAP BPC, offering both planning and consolidation capabilities, has provided organizations the agility to respond to market shifts, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive accountability across the organization. With the upcoming end of maintenance, and with no direct replacement from SAP, organizations now need to determine how they will manage planning and consolidation moving forward.
This research explores organizations preparedness for replacing their business planning and consolidation solutions, the factors most impacting the choice of a new planning and consolidation solution, and the concerns that organizations have about moving away from SAP BPC.
The findings indicate that less than two thirds of respondents were aware of the upcoming end of mainstream maintenance resulting in many organizations not being prepared to transition to a new planning or consolidation solution. And with more than a third of respondents expecting a significant or major impact on day-to-day finance operations, it is clear that organizations need to do more to be prepared for the future.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 109 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand the impact of the upcoming end of maintenance for SAP BPC.
- Explore how SAPinsiders are approaching selecting a replacement planning and consolidation solution.
- Learn about the factors impacting the choice of that replacement.
- See what concerns SAPinsiders have about moving away from SAP BPC.
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SAP BTP Data, Integration, and Application DevelopmentMar 31, 2025 — Enterprise workloads continue to move to the cloud. As this progress continues, enterprise platforms are performing an increasingly important part of that process as they provide an integrated set of solutions and services that streamline the movement and protection of data across landscapes.With enterprise platforms offering additional capabilities such as application development, analytics and data intelligence, database and data management, and artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, choosing the right platform is now a critical component of a comprehensive data and integration strategy.
Implementing enterprise platforms like SAP BTP enable organizations to digitize and automate routine tasks which frees up employees to focus on higher value activities. Workflow automation and intelligent process integration in these platforms helps ensure accurate, real-time data flow between modules — like from procurement to finance for example. This reduces the need for manual intervention, helps minimize errors, and eliminates duplication. This not only accelerates decision-making with up-to-date analytics and embedded insights but increases compliance through capabilities such as standardized processes and audit trails. Given the improved productivity and agility that these capabilities bring, it is no surprise that organizations are prioritizing investments in enterprise platforms to help achieve these goals.
This year's research also explored the increased complexity of organizations today. Few are using predominately SAP solutions with most using a combination of SAP solutions at the core along with some best-of-breed solutions. But a growing number of organizations are taking an entirely agnostic approach to application selection. This makes addressing data and integration challenges more important than ever, something that enterprise platforms can make possible.
To understand and explore the strategies for data, integration, application development and enterprise platforms, this SAPinsider report examines SAP BTP usage, the types of integration scenarios being supported by organizations, the makeup of the landscape, challenges that are being encountered, and the SAP BTP services that are being used.
The findings indicate that integration is one of the most important challenges for organizations today, with eight in ten respondents reporting that that is the primary service they are using in SAP BTP. The mixture of systems from different providers with a combination of cloud and on-premise environments has made integration the primary focus for respondents, although application development and data and analytics services also see significant usage. In addition, while AI is not currently the primary use case in SAP BTP, two thirds (65%) of respondents report that it is important or very important to their organization that application development tools include AI capabilities. This demonstrates the value seen by respondents in the AI assistance that SAP is adding to tools like SAP Build.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 151 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand how organizations are using SAP BTP.
- Explore the factors influencing the adoption of enterprise platforms.
- Learn about how other SAPinsiders are making plans for integration.
- See what role application development will play in the future.
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SAP S/4HANA Migration 2025Feb 28, 2025 — With the 2027 SAP maintenance deadline approaching, SAP customers are under increasing pressure to move to SAP S/4HANA, especially within the context of RISE with SAP. However, recognizing the varying levels of preparedness in the SAP ERP customer base, SAP has introduced a phased maintenance approach beyond 2027. Starting in 2028, organizations can opt for extended maintenance—available until 2030 at a two percent premium—to ensure continued support while organizations complete the transition. Those who forgo this option or reach the end of their extended maintenance period will transition to customer-specific maintenance, which provides essential support but without full enhancements.
This structured approach reinforces SAP’s commitment to facilitating SAP S/4HANA adoption while offering businesses the flexibility to transition at their own pace. However, a critical question remains: What is the true state of SAP S/4HANA migration across industries today?
This year's research also explored whether organizations are planning on switching their existing SAP S/4HANA deployments to RISE with SAP as well as the overall impact of RISE with SAP on organizations that are moving to SAP S/4HANA. Deeper analysis of these topics is available in the executive summary for the report, and data from all the survey questions is available in the detailed findings.
To understand and explore the SAP S/4HANA migration strategies, this SAPinsider report examines the adoption trends for SAP S/4HANA, the version of the solution that organizations are deploying, the challenges that they are encountering with the move, and the benefits that those that have already moved to SAP S/4HANA have received.
The findings indicate a dynamic landscape where organizations are progressing at different paces based on their strategic priorities, business needs, and technical preparedness. Currently, 32% of respondents reported that their organization has already transitioned to SAP S/4HANA, a 10% jump compared to 2024 but more in line with data from 2022 (29%). Meanwhile, 27% of organizations are in the implementation stage, actively working to integrate SAP S/4HANA into their IT landscape, a number that has risen from 20% from last year. However, despite this momentum, 21% of organizations remain in the evaluation phase, a drop of 5% from 2024 and 9% from 2023, still assessing their business case for SAP S/4HANA migration, reflecting the complexities and challenges that come with such a transformational shift.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 170 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand how organizations are moving to SAP S/4HANA.
- Explore the factors influencing their ERP and SAP S/4HANA planning.
- Learn about the impact of RISE with SAP on that move.
- See where organizations are facing barriers to adopting SAP S/4HANA.
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Automating the Record to Report and Financial Close ProcessJan 31, 2025 — Read this report to learn how financial close and record-to-report processes are hindered by outdated manual methods, while highlighting the potential of AI and automation to enhance efficiency and reduce errors, as reflected in a survey of SAP finance professionals regarding current transformation strategies.
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