How SAP’s digital access licence influences your ERP strategy
Summary
By submitting your personal information, you agree that TechTarget and its partners may contact you regarding relevant content, products and special offers.Its strategy is to position what SAP now calls the “digital core” as the primary system of record, as businesses look to derive value beyond the process automation built into the core enterprise resource planning (ERP), taking advantage of the internet of things (IoT) and emerging technology trends – such as customer experience and robotic process automation.Commenting on the changes, Forrester principal analyst Duncan Jones says: “Users didn’t feel they were getting a sensible answer from SAP in the past with indirect access.According to Paulini, in the past businesses may have avoided extra indirect access fees by making a committment to S/4Hana, the company’s next-generation, in-memory ERP platform.Now that there is some clarity on indirect access, businesses will need to spend time assessing which of SAP’s options best fits in with their long-term plans.