Is SAP® solutions shifting from a cloud-first to a cloud-only mentality?

Aubergine2023-12-05T15:26:52+00:00

SuccessFactors is only available as a cloud-based application and SAP HCM® on premise will stop being supported in 2025. At that point, S/4 HANA® will not include HCM and the only way to get HR functionality from SAP® solutions will be via SuccessFactors in the cloud. This is in line with many other software companies around the world, and Gartner predicted that “by 2019, more than 30 percent of the 100 largest vendors’ new software investments will have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only.” Changes are taking place in the hardware and data centre world too. According to a study by Cisco, by 2018 “more than four-fifths of all data centre traffic, 83 percent, will be based in the cloud.” In September 2016, Forrester increased their 2015 [...]

18 questions to ask cloud service providers

2023-12-05T15:26:52+00:00

Gartner estimates that less than one in three enterprises has a documented cloud strategy, yet in a Gartner post from mid 2016, they stated that “by 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today”. We are seeing an increasing number of CIOs who are seriously looking at migrating their SAP® solutions on premise applications to the cloud and are reviewing which partners can help them make that move successfully. We’ve been approached to assist with their integration strategy as part of the overall plan to move SAP® solutions to the cloud, and got involved in discussions about all areas of SAP® solutions cloud migration along the way. We’d like to share with you some of the things we think you should [...]