SAP as a challenge

The increasing heterogeneity of the IT landscape is giving companies a hard time. For more than half (59 percent) of the companies, the reason for this is the large number of integrations of SAP and non-SAP systems; in addition, hybrid cloud systems further complicate management.

For 88 percent of companies, the SAP landscape in particular is too complex, according to a recent survey conducted by Avantra with the American SAP user group ASUG. The IT landscape in companies around the world is becoming increasingly complex as different systems from different vendors are used. This is primarily due to the large number of different systems that are not integrated.

For 59 percent of companies, this is the main pain point. Furthermore, complexity is further driven by multiple locations (46 percent), a global presence (44 percent), company size (44 percent) or the age of the company (39 percent). For example, 88 percent of the companies surveyed say the SAP landscape is complex; 11 percent even say it is extremely complex. Internal knowledge and experience with SAP are lacking in many places.