AI saves the year 2025

By 2025, all AnyDB must be converted to Hana. Anyone still managing their ERP data with Microsoft SQL, Oracle or IBM DB2 will either have an "old" ERP/ECC 6.0 or will not be able to migrate to S/4.

In addition to the search for a suitable roadmap, however, the much more exciting question is: How can the SAP community escape this transformation horror? What can be done about the impending chaos?

Because time and resources are not available at will! A medium-sized existing SAP customer must launch its operational Hana and S/4 by the beginning of 2023 at the latest in order to have enough time for training, troubleshooting and testing, testing, testing.

Provided they have sufficient Hana and S/4 knowledge in-house or a reliable and available SAP partner. By the end of 2018, it was already clear that the major global consulting firms would be fully booked until 2025.

Existing international SAP customers have bought up almost all resources and man-days. The only thing that will help here is a severe economic crisis, so that the SAP consulting market will change from a supply market (in a supply market, supply is lower than demand. The price rises. There is a supply deficit) to a demand market (In a demand market, also known as a buyer's market, demand determines supply. In this market situation, the price falls).

Falling consultant prices are to be wished for every existing SAP customer. One exit could be artificial intelligence: rule-based expert systems that do the transformation, evaluation and testing, testing, testing for the user.

And there are already SAP partners who can cushion the pain of a Hana and S/4 release change with AI tools and perhaps even avoid it. AI saves the S/4 roadmap 2025, right?