Two years later, SAP's making ‘progress’ on clearing up S/4HANA ball of confusion SAP is “getting there” with its efforts to address concerns around deployment of the latest version of its ERP business suite, according to S/4HANA COO Sal Laher. S/4HANA was plagued by confusion over pricing, licensing, migration and deployment when it was first launched in 2015, and this has had an impact on both awareness …
If you're holding a £1 coin and discover a £5 note down the back of the sofa then that's 600% growth!! It doesn't suddenly transform your overall financial status though.
Superficially impressive growth rates are usually indicative of catastrophic prior performance creating a baseline it would be next to impossible to fail against. That's why the leading countries for GDP growth in any given year are usually recovering from wars or other disasters (I think Libya is the leader right now in about 50% - Iraq is around 10% - Syria will doubtless exceed both in a year or two).
Looks like SAP are following Oracle into their strange world of unpleasant irrelevance.
I'd hope so, but I doubt it.
Once a company has made the awful mistake of deciding that its IT isn't a "core activity" and thrown itself on the mercy of the ERP vendors, there's almost no way back. And that's what will drive S4/HANA sales, because the existing SAP products will have support withdrawn, and the customers will have only two options: Migrate to the next SAP product, or an even riskier Oracle migration.
I worked on an IT review a year ago, and it was very clear that we had no option, our existing SAP platform was losing support in 2023, which sounds a long way off, but for big, complex implementations that is tomorrow.
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