In the film Point Break, Keanu Revves and Patrick Swayze search to ride the mythical 50 year storm wave, with point break being the moment the wave hits land.

A consistent rule within the SAP universe is that every 4 to 5 years a customer will have to expend time and budget performing some type of SAP Upgrade. CIO’s will remember that when they moved to SAP ECC they were told they would never have to upgrade again !

The reality is that SAP tech is constantly evolving and you simply can’t second guess the next major jump in must have innovation driving business value, necessitating some form of major intervention over a four year term.

10th November 2023, Dublin, London. Paul Byrne co-founder of Dragon ERP confirmed that SAP partner status has been attained, a key step in Dragon ERP becoming the alternative to the large consulting SAP SIs.

31st December 2025 is fast approaching……

At a time of global economic uncertainty and the impact of maturing AI technology, many SAP customers are hesitant to moving to SAP S/4HANA for myriad of reasons. Many existing SAP customers who have decided to stick with SAP ECC are now faced with the fast approaching 31st December 2025 maintenance deadline, whereby they will need to either migrate to SAP S/4HANA or Upgrade to SAP ECC Enhancement pack 6+.

Grow with SAP - The value of SAP AI extends way past just ERP for the mid-tier.

This blog was triggered by the #Netsuit GenAI announcement, that the mid tier erp SaaS solution would now come with GenAI fully embedded, which sounds great and will add value.

Dragon ERP Co-Founder Alisdair Bach was interviewed by EuroSAP’s Ask the Expert. A monthly publication aimed at providing SAP customers and the wider SAP eco-system with insightful content from the subject matter experts shaping and influencing how customers can maximise their investment in SAP.

SAPs composable PaaS is about to revolutionise Analytics

SAP BTP is the real jewel in SAPs crown, its the engine room that enables process innovation and tangible benefit realisation across SAPs compsable cloud ERP architecture.

SAP BTP is now a highly mature composable PaaS product, having entered the market back in 2011. Its our view that SCP was SAPs most important product innovation since SAP R/3.

As well as containing the usual PaaS services you would expect;

Develop

Integrate

Automation

Data and Analytics

AI

Europe’s fastest growing SAP Boutique comes to London Tech City.

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition 2308 ERP is as good as it gets.

Find out more about SAPs read to go intelligent and autonomous Industry 4.0 ready business target operating model.

Its's a first; Dragon ERP offer's existing SAP ECC6 customers a selective migration path to S/4HANA Public Cloud

So SAP are really pressing all the wrong buttons with a key part of the SAP ecosystem, in their drive to hit its SAP Cloud ☁️ Revenue targets.

Strike One:

In the space of a week SAP have announced all new product enhancements will only be made available to SAP RISE Cloud customers and no longer to the traditional on-premise install customer base. Ouch imagine being a loyal customer for 40+ years and then being told your not going to benefit, its clear ageism !

Strike two:

Then no sooner had the first message landed that SAP announced an increase to on-premise customer maintenance, where has the love gone ?

May the 4th be with you

From the Dragon SAP Jedis