SAP ECC to S/4 upgrade.  2030 is fast approaching.  For companies over $1b that have been on SAP for > 10 years. Still a lot of us out there. Where are you?

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We are done! (Please add comment on success factors or mistakes)8%

We have plan in place and executing. (Please add comments on progress and any pitfalls)49%

Dabbling. We have some S/4 but not tackled ECC. (Please add where you dabbled in comments) 37%

We (IT) really wants to move, but struggling to find a business case.32%

Waiting to see if SAP caves and extends support beyond 2030. 8%

Other? 1%

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Director of IT5 months ago

We just completed a brownfield migration.  Key watch out is the SAP integrations to cloud products - don't assume they will work out of the box! We spent a lot of time on our 3rd party integrations assuming SAP to SAP would be relatively easy and ended up spending more time on those than the rest!

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