Author: Lorenz Müller, HiSolutions

SAP is continuing its massive restructuring: the successor to SAP Business Suite, S/4 Hana, has long since arrived. The end of mainstream support is also fast approaching, making a migration an inevitable next step. Furthermore, SAP is repositioning itself in the market with a focus on cloud solutions.

Seven years of S/4 Hana - actually a reason to celebrate. But not for customers who have not yet taken the long and expensive step there. 

"Rock-solid engineering. Bold creativity." That's how SAP advertises Fioneer on its own homepage, but will customers now have to pay for Fioneer's expensive deal between SAP and third parties? There's a lot of anger.

Seven years of S/4 Hana, actually a reason to celebrate. But while existing SAP customers were initially able to use the S/4 data model free of charge, they later had to pay a list price of 9,000 euros. Now this option is also no longer available.

50 years of SAP - actually a reason to celebrate. Not so for SAP user companies: Problems with licenses and contracts are clouding the mood, demanding a lot of attention and money - and tying up capacities.