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My take on DSAG annual conference 2024. Three fully packed with lots of information about SAP and its ecosystem. 🎓 🔥 #dsagjk2024 #risewithsap

DSAG 2024 - Navigating the Current State of SAP: Insights and Reflections

DSAG 2024 - Navigating the Current State of SAP: Insights and Reflections

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Lothar Leonhard

Du hast Fragen zu SAP? Ich kenne mich etwas aus damit und helfe dir gerne | Senior Berater für SAP-Systemarchitektur und Betriebsführung @exxonit

1mo

Many thanks for the helpful summary. 👏 Many of the statements coincide with my personal experience: ◾ SAP's contracts are far-reaching. It is urgently advisable to seek specialized advice in order to understand the effects holistically, both commercially and operationally. ◾ Responsibilities in operations are shifting and the workload on the customer side is not decreasing. Service provider management for SAP, requires a great deal of detailed knowledge in order to implement customer requirements in a timely and commercially sound manner. ◾ I see the commercial side of using SAP BTP as a challenge. Even at the contract design stage, when ordering the various components, it is necessary to estimate precisely how much of which SAP BTP service you need. You can choose between different billing methods. An unfavorable estimate can have expensive consequences. The price structure is transparent and there are some tools to estimate the costs. Nevertheless, many customers find it difficult to estimate their budgeting requirements in advance because there is often a lack of data - especially when it comes to the amount of data to be processed. 🏷 I therefore recommend providing a buffer for higher BTP expenses for internal budgeting. 

Declan McArdle

Certified SAP on AWS Technical Architect and SAP Basis and HANA expert.

1mo

"Moreover, 61% of existing clients had no plans to adopt RISE". It would be great to hear from customers who decided to move to "proper" cloud themselves. I.e. IaaS, DevOps* & IaC...(drops mic, lights fuse, walks away...) (*Git, CICD Pipelines, automatic installations of HDB/PAS & AAS instances, playbooks for kernel updates, tenant copy, automated backup and restore for quarterly Backup/DR testing etc. etc.) Try find those things in the R&R spreadsheets!

Darryl Griffiths MBCS

SAP on Cloud Starchitect 🌟😇 - doer of doers, hands-on & heads-on, chief washer-upperer

1mo

Great summary Frank for those that didn't make it to the event 👏 I wonder whether there will be a future theme on the subject of "how much the price has increased this year"...

John O'Brien

SAP Technical Architect

3w

Nice review Frank, I am interested to understand how customers would proceed if they did not agree with their “Roles and Responsibilities” in the contract, I struggle to see how a customer could affect a change apart from the cost?? (Have you ever read a RISE contract?)

Dr. Thorben Bonarius

Consultant - Coach - Speaker - Regulatory - Organisational Development - Pharmaceuticals, Veterinary Medicine, Plant Protection, Biocides, MPR, NVR, PPP

1mo

Frank Albrecht forgive me — I am not an expert by far, I am just start wondering if the Swiss Army knows more and what their reasons were to move away from SAP.

Warren E.

VMG Labs | IP Development

1mo

Thank you! Your comment relating SAP Basis for RISE stood out: "more staffing may be needed to manage these complexities" 😱

Paul Byrne Dragon ERP

SAP Programme Director Solution Architect @ Dragon ERP | M&A Due Diligence, Business Project Management

1mo

An excellent Summary Frank Albrecht great insights worth reading Alisdair Bach Paul Coetser Robert Cummings Carsten Leschke Marcus Harris You won’t be retiring any time soon

Judith O.

Phase 0 Expert; enabling conscious, informed decisions for clients navigating ERP landscape

1mo

A great summary packed with insights. #thankyou

Rick Porter

SAP IT automation software specialist; Helping SAP teams serve business better through automation

1mo

Some excellent insights - my read on your insights Frank Albrecht - "The road ahead is long; there are pot holes, get independent advice, plan well, and approach with caution"

Miguel Antunes

SAP Solutions Manager EMEA at Qlik - All things SAP

1mo

Great and useful , report , thank you

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