SAP's 2025 Deadline: What To Do?
Eric Kimberling
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Eric Kimberling
Technology-Agnostic Digital Transformation Expert | ERP, Human Capital, Business Intelligence, and Supply Chain | Change Management | Expert Witness | Speaker | Author | Tech Influencer | S/4HANA | D365 | Oracle ERP
SAP recently announced that its customers have until 2025 to migrate from ECC, R/3, and Business One to S/4HANA. This is largely a marketing and sales tactic meant to create a false sense of urgency. This independent video outlines the five things you should do to navigate this situation.
What are your thoughts?
SAP & Clouds Solutions Architect
5 年It’s good time to consider migration to Cloud. Managers should spent some time to calculate how much cost is own datacenter, how systems is growing up, when old/new hardware have to be replaced and analyze their infrastructure : if all sap systems are required as design. I did many SAP infra discovers and in most cases 20% systems wasn’t required or would be reredesign for cost optimizing.
Making things happen at SNP, passionate visionary, firm believer in "people 1st, all else 2nd"
5 年I agree with the “false sense of urgency“. It’s time for every SAP customer to get smart and define some roadmap. However, fast actions and panic to move as fast as possible to S/4 is definitely the wrong strategy.
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5 年Thanks!? Eventually customers staying with SAP must migrate to S/4HANA. I agree that they should take their own pace, however there are some pros and cons I would like to add. You mentioned that moving sooner means risk that SAP still did not close the gaps. Moving sooner or at least starting with preparation phase such as Readiness Check, FitnessTest and migration may be beneficial in two aspects: Higher attention and support from SAP, easier search for implementation partner doing the migration. Imagine 75% of customers moving to S/4 in 2025. I do recommend to start, plan and decide on the migration strategy (greenfield, brownfield, colorful) already now.
Chief Consultant - Enterprise Automation at Experis - Finance process excellence in Cloud and on-premise ERP systems.
5 年Good advice!
Experienced ERP, SCM, and Manufacturing practitioner
5 年Great advice Eric. I completely agree with everything you’ve said here. I think that SAP are playing a risky game here. It could very easily backfire on them. Unless they can come up with some very slick ECC/R3 to S4 conversion tools and methodologies, and quickly address S4 functionality gaps, they actually run the risk of people questioning whether they stay with SAP. And I’ve heard “rumblings” about HANA as platform.