SAP legacy ERP users wise to ignore offer of single leap to the cloud

According to the chair of the SAP UK and Ireland user group, users of its legacy on-prem ERP systems are set to upgrade their software before they move to the cloud, eschewing the vendor's preferred method as a first step. Speaking to The Register, Conor Riordan said users were cautious about migrating legacy ERP systems – …

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Sounds like the whole RISE premise of being able to dodge an upgrade until after the Cloud Migration is a bit of a bodge.

Get ‘em to the Cloud/SaaS, ensure they start paying through the nose at renewal and obscure that with a free large side of AI (bollocks).

Sounds like the SIG’s need to have some confidential closed doors discussions about cost…. though if you think RISE with SAP is troublesome/expensive … ‘Divorce from SAP’ will be a whole world of pain.

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For SAP, RISE = Cloud, even if it is hosted on-premise

SAP's interests are in selling subscription licensing which helps SAP's stock price. For SAP, "cloud" is synonymous with subscription.

S/4HANA outside of RISE/GROW in a public cloud datacenter is considered "on-premise" by SAP. Conversely, RISE in a customer's on-premise datacenter is considered "cloud" by SAP.

The same RISE for SAP software can be hosted on-premise (and be considered "cloud" by SAP) without ever moving datacenters at all. The datacenter move doesn't mean anything to SAP.

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Fear of Change

Moving from ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA is a Migration not an Upgrade and the Big opportunity for simplification and Fit To Standard, the best practice approach to package implementation.

The Clean Core and Side by Side enhancement keeps the lower cost promise of package implementation and the Platform as a Service for justified enhancements. No longer mixed together like ECC.

The move from on premise hardware to an outsourced data centre is small change since virtualisation enables lift and shift when you need to do that, every 4-6 years. Obviously outsourcing will be a new supplier relationship so that's where RISE simplifies that change to SAP as the single point of contact.

Doing both at once enables the reuse of SAP reference architecture and proven Application Lifecycle Management tools, so lowers risk and cost.

Multiple steps are more cost, more change, and more risk. The hard part is always the Business Transformation and people becoming comfortable with the rationale and process for change. Get good help and do it right first time for the right reasons..