SAP's vision underplays complexity of S/4HANA cloud migration, says Gartner

SAP’s plans for moving customers to S/4HANA in the cloud – the assumed destination for the majority of SAP's ERP users – belies the complexity of decision in terms of software licensing, infrastructure and business processes, according to Gartner. In the latest research to address the pitfalls of SAP's efforts to get thousands …

[Anonymous Coward]

Caveat Emptor

SAP touts RISE as a business transformation service to get existing ECC customers to the cloud and S4HANA. What you really get is a lift and shift of your current environment , a Signavio report( this is the business transformation )some BTP credits and an artificial timeline before you start paying for the S4 environment. What is left out is that you have to do the same type of implementation work you did for your original R3/ECC systems which may have taken years to do. Also, if you are unhappy with the service you get from SAP around administering your cloud, you have no recourse. You can’t take back the systems under you own management since you do not own the SAP software any longer.