Orientation, knowledge and cognition

We want to find out a lot because the future of the SAP community is at stake. This survey by the PAC analysts is an important and sustainable assessment of the current situation, in which every SAP community member should please participate.

Important?

SAP's existing customers, partners and SAP itself need to take stock of where they stand. In the coming months, important decisions will have to be made regarding the ERP roadmap, AnyDB versus Hana, and the digital transformation. Without orientation, the next step is risky.

IT and the SAP offering offer endless possibilities, and a successful decision can only be made based on sound knowledge. Ultimately, the survey by PAC and E-3 Magazine is about knowledge. We want to orient ourselves, know where we stand, and derive recommendations for action and insights for our own success.

Sustainable?

The SAP community is changing. IT is changing. Demand and supply are changing. New challenges arise from our decisions. Thus, it is justified to speak of sustainability because each step means new orientation and new opportunities.

The S/4 Hana roadmap is not clearly defined. Hybrid scenarios enable numerous solutions. The SAP community should set the next steps very carefully; orientation, knowledge and insights are necessary for this. Together with the PAC analysts, we are launching this comprehensive survey in order to be able to act sustainably and with foresight.

Starting Monday, April 26, the largest scientifically based survey of the SAP community to date will take place at this Web address. It is about our future, about answering the question of what our ERP systems should look like in ten years. It's about an SAP Agenda 2030. That's why your participation is very important and a valuable building block for the success of the SAP community. Every vote counts!

The number of questions has not diminished in recent months, one example: At the beginning of 2020, I asked SAP Executive Board member Jürgen Müller about an AnyDB strategy. At that time, SAP announced the maintenance extension for ERP/ECC 6.0 on AnyDB until 2027/2030.

A roadmap was also published for the Java stack and NetWeaver. The question of an AnyDB transformation remained open. Should an existing SAP customer now not only want to switch to S/4, but also use cloud computing for this, the path to Hana on Intel Xeon is almost mandatory.

Here, the existing customer has to overcome two hurdles at once: firstly, the transformation from Oracle, IBM DB2 or SQL Server to Hana, and secondly, relatively weak Hana performance with a lot of and expensive memory on Intel Xeon processors.

If Hana, then please with IBM Power, is a realization of the past few months. And SAP still has no cloud exit strategy to show for it. (see page 15). So what is to be done? Answers provides www.pac-survey.com