The German SAP user group, DSAG morning emailed this morning the results of its 2016 investment survey. I also read a ComputerWorld article about migrating custom code as SAP rolls out S/4HANA.
The DSAG report says
“DSAG asked for assurance that all applications currently available in Business Suite – including industry-specific solutions – can be operated in S/4HANA in future, without any loss of functionality.”
and
“We also think it’s important to ensure that S/4HANA can be operated on alternative databases soon. Companies must also be able to implement S/4HANA without additional expenses for things like licenses, migration, functionality, and investment protection,”
The Computerworld article says
“On average, SAP users have close to 30,000 objects that will need updating, Strand added; for some companies, the process can take as long as a year.”
Reading both reports, I felt a sense of déjà vu back to when I started to write SAP Nation 2.0 soon after S/4HANA was announced a year ago. While the book has much more details, I had scored S/4HANA as follows, and now other industry observers are starting to come up with their own scores as the product reaches its first brithday
