Do You Really Have to Wait for S/4HANA to Start Innovating?
Why Leading SAP Organizations Are Innovating Now, Not Later
A Neptune Talks episode on SAP modernization, clean core strategy, and why the path to S/4HANA does not have to mean putting innovation on hold.
In this episode of Neptune Talks, we explore how organizations can simplify their SAP environments and start delivering value today, while building toward a future-ready architecture.
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The Real Cost of Waiting
Across industries like automotive and manufacturing, SAP-driven organizations face a familiar dilemma: the pressure to innovate is constant, but transformation programs take years. Meanwhile, historically grown SAP landscapes become more fragmented with every workaround, disconnected tool, and manual process layered on top.
Extensions built outside the SAP core can account for up to 60% of ongoing IT costs. The result is complexity that slows operations, limits agility, and makes modernization feel even further out of reach.
What You Will Hear
- Why waiting for S/4HANA is not the only path to SAP innovation
- How manual, Excel-based processes can become SAP-integrated business applications
- Why traditional enterprise app development is often too slow and no-code tools too limited
- How a balanced low-code approach enables both speed and flexibility
- What a clean core SAP strategy looks like in practice
- Why side-by-side extensibility protects system integrity while enabling innovation
- How to prepare users and processes ahead of an S/4HANA migration
- Real-world examples from Saint-Gobain and Vodafone
