What 20 SAP Leaders Are Actually Doing Before 2027

ECC mainstream maintenance ends in 2027, and 20,000+ organizations are still sitting on it. The difference between a migration you design and one you react to is being decided right now. We asked the leaders already running AI inside their SAP programs what's actually working.

Key findings

60%

of S/4HANA migrations miss their budget, schedule, or quality targets

76%

of companies still have no defined migration roadmap with less than 18 months of runway left

50%

of organizations will underestimate the timeline impact of custom code remediation by at least 30% (Gartner)

A complete playbook for getting to S/4HANA on time

The new success metric: how top SAP teams measure AI impact (and why it isn't go-live date alone anymore)

Building the investment case for AI when the board has already seen — and anchored on — a number that's too low

Why 30-day POCs beat 12-month RFPs

How the SAP team becomes a platform for the business post-migration, instead of starting the next decade of technical debt on day one

The emergence of the Transformation Engineer: what this role is, and why it matters when certified capacity is the binding constraint