NTT will take those SAP licenses off your hands if it helps ease cloud migration

NTT Data Business Solutions, a global consultancy and systems integrator, has committed to buy back legacy and on-prem SAP ERP licenses from customers to ease the cloud migrations many find difficult to justify financially. The scheme promises to buy back existing perpetual licenses for the legacy ECC platform – support for …

[FirstTangoInParis]

Really?

“A modern ERP platform inevitably has to be cloud-based.”

Stop.right.there. Why? Only because someone at SAP C suite said it did. There is no logical technical reason, unless I’m missing something. Just think of all your users trying to fill in their timesheet at the end of the month, for one.

[alain williams]

Re: Really?

Why ?

Because SAP makes more money that way. Just as do all the other vendors who now have cloud only products.

There is also the suspicion about what they are doing with all your lovely data that they did not have access to previously.

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: Really?

And because migration out will be even harder.

[JimboSmith]

Re: Really?

Because SAP makes more money that way. Just as do all the other vendors who now have cloud only products.

There is also the suspicion about what they are doing with all your lovely data that they did not have access to previously.

And GDPR concerns, large GDPR concerns.

[Missing Semicolon]

Finally management spot something

"Some organizations are struggling to get started on cloud migration projects with ERP because senior management only sees the costs". Well there are few actual benefits, beyond SAP not supporting the software you paid for.