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These factors make it imperative for SAP ERP customers to prepare for a cloud ERP future. The adoption of cloud ERP will continue to accelerate with many organizations already running solutions that make up the SAP Cloud ERP Private (formerly RISE with SAP) package, the support available from SAP in completing a transition, the credits and offers available from SAP to facilitate the move, and the need to access functionality available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud that is not available in existing offerings. Data and Analytics While SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) was announced early in 2025, the real push for adoption will come during 2026. This is for several reasons. First is that many of the features, such as natively accessing SAP Datasphere within SAP BDC, were not available until late in the year. SAP has also recently announced partnerships and support for Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric through SAP BDC Connect which will help accelerate adoption. Moreover data is playing a foundational role in the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Capabilities like bi- directional data sharing with SAP HANA Cloud will also provide additional support for organizations that want to maximize the value of their data between SAP Datasphere, solution extensions like SAP Databricks and SAP Snowflake, and SAP
shown that the approaching end of 2027 is creating anxiety in the SAP space. Those that are not already underway with a transition to SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud are looking to accelerate their deployments and move as quickly as possible even if that means ignoring plans for broader transformation. Accelerated Adoption of Cloud ERP Adoption of RISE with SAP was relatively slow for the first three years following its announcement. While small- to medium-sized SAPinsider research has shown that the approaching end of 2027 is creating anxiety in the SAP space.
organizations and new customers often chose GROW with SAP, overall adoption of cloud ERP has been relatively low—just between 10% and 15% of customers surveyed by SAPinsider. However, 2025 saw that adoption accelerate with 43% of respondents to SAPinsider research reporting that they were using, implementing, or actively preparing for an implementation of cloud ERP. This trend is set to continue in 2026. Not only will those that already deployed SAP S/4HANA move to SAP Cloud ERP Private in increasing numbers, more of those that are transitioning from older ERP systems make the move to cloud ERP. This is only emphasized by the strong push that SAP account teams are making around adoption.
platform itself. For those that are running these solutions, plans should already be in place to either transition to a newer version or replacement offering, especially since the end of 2027 is now less than two years away. However, additional planning is required for solutions like SAP Solution Manager that do not have a like-to- like replacement available. Although SAP Cloud ALM has been positioned as the strategic successor to SAP SolMan, it is a cloud- native offering and may not support legacy Change Request Management and ITSM, highlighting a need to combine with offerings such as SAP Focused Run or even adopting third-party solutions in some areas. From an ERP standpoint, SAPinsider research has
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