What is contemporary?

Here now is a brief summary of the various opinions: In business terms, every SAP system from R/3 to S/4 is still the measure of all things in the ERP world. Many business processes from ERP/ECC 6.0 and S/4 have become standard. Anyone who wants to map their organizational structure and process organization using IT is on the safe side with ECC and AnyDB as well as S/4 and Hana. There are concerns and criticism regarding the information technology used in the cloud and on-prem.

Only a few want to grant SAP technological leadership, especially in the area of cloud computing. The discussion about the current user interface is similar. This SAP dilemma is well summarized as follows: A presentation of a current S/4 system is often less successful when competitors such as UiPath, Salesforce, ServiceNow or Workday are involved. Most competitors have the more appealing interface. In contrast, SAP almost always wins when it comes to back-office capabilities, compliance, business process scope, business operations, and governance.

Forty years of experience in ERP and business management is still unique. Only SAP has forgotten to talk about the good from organization, BPM and ERP as well - the ERP world market leader wants to be contemporary, which does not seem mandatory due to the potential.