Posts by ERP Janitor

S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds

SAP Sapphire Theme- Futureproof SAP.....For Who?

At this years Sapphire Convention, one of SAP's main themes was that by using their software you are future proofing your investment. With 3 separate S4HANA product lines-Private Cloud, Public Cloud, and On-Prem; it seems that the only thing they are future proofing is that regardless of what path you go, in 10 years or so your are going to have to do a similar migration to the current ECC to S4HANA one most customers are going through today. So once again, you are going to have to spend a ton of money and time for an ERP upgrade that has limited business value.

SAP's home crowd fails to RISE to the bait with lift-and-shift-to-the-cloud offer

Rise is a joke

IMO Rise offers little to no business benefits. Marketing jargon is transformation as a service......They provide a signavio report highlighting some potential confugurations that could be used. For any company that has spent years implementing and incrementally improving their SAP landscapes, this comes off as pure marketing fluff. All Rise does is offer a commercial mechanism for SAP to transfer you to subscription software model and lock you in since you no longer own the software. If you ever want to move from SAP's managed services, you will have to REPURCHASE on prem licenses and MIGRATE your landscapes since they will not transfer a hyperscaler account or VPC over to you.