Again in 2020, SAP mentioned it can assist S/4HANA by a minimum of 2040, however will solely assist its legacy ECC6 and Enterprise Suite 7 purposes till the tip of 2027. However three years on, solely 12% of SAP prospects have accomplished their transition to S/4HANA, in keeping with a current survey of worldwide enterprises performed by LeanIX. That leaves a variety of work for SAP, its prospects, and their methods integrators to do within the 4 years earlier than it turns off mainstream assist for the outdated software program.

SAP has made quite a lot of strikes since then to assist enterprises make the transfer. In January 2021, it acquired course of mining firm Signavio to assist enterprises determine their present processes and advocate enhancements to assist with their S/4HANA migration. And in February 2021 it launched Rise with SAP, an all-in-one providing combining licensing, upkeep and cloud internet hosting of SAP’s core ERP purposes that CEO Christian Klein described as digital transformation as a service.

Simply months after the Signavio acquisition, Gartner analyst Paul Sanders informed CIO.com that SAP “ought to have had this 5 years in the past, after they launched S/4HANA, as a result of that is the toughest factor for firms to grasp and alter.”

Demand for the method mining software program continues to be robust in 2023. “Signavio is one in every of our key progress areas,” SAP’s chief technique officer Sebastian Steinhaeuser mentioned in the identical convention name. “LeanIX has been a companion to SAP Signavio for fairly a while. SAP and LeanIX have greater than 500 joint prospects, together with some very massive family names.”

Whereas possession of LeanIX will give SAP extra management over the software program’s capabilities, the corporate gained’t be abandoning its non-SAP prospects when the deal closes later this 12 months, Christ mentioned.

Rouven Morato, GM at SAP Signavio, jumped in to level out that when SAP acquired it, solely 25% of Signavio prospects used SAP. “It’s essential for us to proceed to assist non-SAP landscapes, as a result of we wish to present prospects a holistic view of the enterprise structure,” he mentioned.