What Is SAP Fit-to-Standard and Why 73% of Successful S/4HANA Projects Use It
These initiatives can make for high stakes, enterprise SAP transformation. CIOs, IT leaders, and owners of SAP transformation processes are tasked with finding the right line between innovation, efficiency, and risk – while staying on time and within budget. One such strategy has come to the forefront as a major success enabler on SAP S/4HANA engagements. Research […]
SAP Conversion Project Guide: Choosing Between Greenfield, Brownfield, and Selective Transition
When your business is in the planning stages of an SAP conversion or implementation project, the choices you make right now will define how your business will run, the cost to do so, and your competitive position moving forward for years into the future. SAP transformation is more than just a technical upgrade; Meanwhile it’s […]
How to Rank SAP Business Processes by Criticality and Maturity
SAP business processes are not all equal. However, that’s how many organizations act. In SAP transformations, regardless of whether the business is transitioning to S/4HANA, optimizing processes or moving to the cloud, enterprise groups usually strive to adopt all modern features simultaneously. The consequences are all too predictable: Focus gets diluted, competing priorities sabotage execution, […]
How to Assess SAP Customization Risk Using SAP WRICEF Risk Scoring Before S/4HANA Migration
For most companies, the biggest gamble in an S/4HANA migration isn’t infrastructure, licensing or even data.It’s custom code. Over the years, not infrequently, decades—SAP systems have thousands of custom objects that were developed to “solve” local problems. What used to bring flexibility now means complexity, fragility and risk. But as more and more of the […]
How to Measure SAP Maturity KPIs Across the 8 FLASH Dimensions
Most organisations track SAP performance. Very few of them are measurements of actual SAP maturity. For CIOs and transformation leaders, however, it’s common to fall back on operational KPIs such as system availability, ticket volume or time to close each month as measures of SAP success. But those metrics alone don’t address a much more […]
How to Run a SAP BTP Maturity Assessment Before Your Cloud Migration
Cloud migration is not an if anymore; it’s a matter of how well prepared you are when you start. A lot of companies go into SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) with a dream that this is the magic solution to modernise your SAP landscape at once and be innovative and future-proof. Because of this, […]
Understanding SAP Maturity Models: The 5 Levels of Digital Transformation Readiness
It’s not because of the technology that most SAP transformations fail. They fail because businesses don’t understand how mature they truly are. CIOs and transformation leaders tend to greenlight aggressive SAP roadmaps, S/4HANA, SAP BTP, analytics, automation – but when all is said and done aren’t sure if their processes, data, governance, or operating model can bend to […]
What Is SAP Maturity Assessment and Why It Predicts S/4HANA Success
What is SAP Maturity Assessment, and Why Does it Predict S/4HANA Success? The move to SAP S/4HANA is now so much more than simply a technical upgrade – it’s nothing short of a business transformation. But many of these organisations are diving headfirst into the journey with no idea if their processes, systems, data, and people are […]
SAP BTP Governance Model and Guidance Framework for Cloud Architecture Strategy
As businesses advance in their journey to the cloud with SAP landscapes, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) has evolved as the platform for innovation, integration, and extensibility. However, a missing SAP BTP governance model can easily cause cloud opportunities to turn into fragmented architectures, growing overheads, security exposures, and unmanageable developments. This guide describes what an […]
Enterprise Architecture Maturity Model for SAP: From Assessment to Implementation
Why Technology Alone Won’t Power Your SAP TransformationThe narrow vision of SAP transformations is how enterprise decision-makers usually go about in their attempts to modernize: But months down the track, organisations are frequently floundering in slow uptake, disaggregated reporting, mounting costs, and a sub-optimal strategic result. The missing piece? Enterprise architecture maturity.A SCM model for SAP takes the […]