The technical release change

In the past, however, the release upgrade often provided the impetus for developing new business processes. For some years now, it has no longer been called business process reengineering, but digital transformation. Ultimately, it's about better orchestration, synchronization and efficiency of the ERP. For SAP's existing customers, it's an arduous journey - but SAP earns very well from it. Many SAP legacy customers are leaving the ECC path at this time, even though the SAP user association DSAG established many years ago that a digital transformation can also succeed well with SAP Business Suite 7. The path has been secured by SAP until 2040.

The old system ERP/ECC 6.0 falls out of maintenance and the new system becomes necessary in order not to lose the connection to cloud computing. Against their better judgment, users embark on the S/4 path - just as the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei once recanted when he saw the torture instruments of the Inquisition. He renounced the heliocentric worldview, also known as the Copernican worldview, and accepted the doctrine prescribed by the Catholic Church, the geocentric worldview. Courageous existing customers are already beginning to look for alternatives.

Galileo Galilei also continued to believe in the heliocentric view of the world and later quietly said, "And yet it moves" - meaning the earth orbiting the sun. SAP probably belongs to a dying IT age, and in many years the SAP community will also realize that the geocentric world view, with SAP at the center, is not necessarily correct.