Dragons, Alisdair Bach & Paul Byrne are joined by expert Michael Mkpadi to discuss all things FP&A.
The participants shared their experiences and opinions on different SAP FP&A solutions, highlighting the strengths and limitations of various SAP products and competing plug-and-play options. The conversation also touched on broader industry trends, the importance of engaging with CFOs, and the potential of data fabric tools to consolidate information from multiple sources.
In an unpredictable world business leaders need certainty that their intelligent SAP investment is on track and delivering
In Just 10 Days
We Assure and Remediate Inflight SAP programmes
and
Misfiring Live SAP Solutions
Avoiding business disruption and reputational damage
🚀 Digital Transformation in 2025 & the Future of ERP Applications
🚀In this episode, Alisdair Bach, explores the future of ERP applications and the shift towards intelligent, AI-enabled systems.
💡 What does this mean for digital transformation in SAP S/4HANA and ECC?
💡Why is 2025 the year of continuous improvement—maximizing value from your business suite?
Summary
SAP are moving in the right direction; it adds necessary polish to the revamped overarching Business Suite concept.
Data fabric has always been the holy grail in terms of driving value from data, but its early days and the offering and solution will change significantly.
️In this episode of The Never-Ending Climb, we welcome ERP experts Alisdair Bach and Paul Byrne, affectionately known as "The Dragons of ERP." Together, we discuss the complexities of implementing SAP systems
️ECC6 2025 is still fit for purpose and why!
️And finally why once on RISE those ECC customers will never migrate to S/4! We look at what’s coming after S/4HANA
We help organisations thrive in a world of
complexity and change, by advocating low risk
SAP adoption strategies that maximises the Customers total investment.
Using AI, we are able to establish a plug and play cloud based data fabric that will identify, cleanse and aggregate the data that will driver revenue growth, process optimisation and product / service innovation.
Helping organisations shape their Future SAP, AI, Data and hybrid cloud strategies. Dragon ERP has defined an alternate SAP innovation doctrine based upon digital upcycling which enables faster benefit realisation and return on investment.
A National Rail Operator, moving 20 operating companies to a new SAP S/4HANA RISE target operating model encompassing finance and plant maintenance was struggling to maintain momentum and hit key delivery milestones.
Dragon carried out a rapid SAP delivery and solution and assurance review and within 3 weeks was able to identify the necessary areas of improvement to re-calibrate the programme and deliver their expected outcomes.
Dragon subsequently went on to provide delivery and design leadership, restructure the programme and successfully deliver a low risk cutover and transition into BAU.
We were asked by the CIO of a global pharmaceutical to assure his £50m+ SAP S/4HANA transformation programme. We carried out a full assurance review, prepared a fully costed delivery approach for 5 waves including a detailed cost to complete. We fully restructured all elements of the programme and provide ongoing delivery assurance and shadow leadership.
A recently formed Private Equity owner Global Defence Manufacturer was struggling to close its period end accounts, with year end forming Dragon was asked to validate the SAP solution design and identify the process and data issues blighting the period end close.
We helped a rapidly growing Fintech organisation move to SAP S/4HANA public cloud post private equity acquisition.
We helped an FMCG private equity carveout stabilise its mission critical SAP integrated business planning operating model and solution.
We helped a global tech giant identify the failure points on its £26m global SAP S/4HANA transformation programme. A rapid assurance review of the programme, solution and system integrator enabled Dragon to rapidly identify and stabilise the failure points troubling the programme.
We recently helped a major UK public sector local authority re-define and stabilise its SAP ECC migration strategy.
We recently helped a large public sector organisation assure and stabilise its failing cloud ERP transformation programme.
Impacting all mission critical services including adult and youth care, and burning the councils reserve fund, we were able to provide a fully costed recovery plan and delivery model with ongoing assurance provided at key points in the programme.
We were asked to assure a complex public sector cloud migration number over 200 applications including two ERPs to the Azure Cloud.
Once assured we developed a comprehensive turn around plan and provided ongoing assurance at key points of the programme.
Upgrading your SAP S/4HANA solution should be as easy as flipping a burger, but its not….
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If you need help defining your upgrade strategy we can help.
Our service includes:
We can help deliver the entire undertaking including:
✅ Functional Impact assessment including combability pack replacement
✅ Identifying business obligations
✅ Technical and Functional Upgrade
✅ Fix on fail SIT / UAT and regression Testing
✅ Organisational Change management
✅ Delta Service Design
✅ SAP PO migration to SAP Cloud intergration
💖 Using the upgrade to deliver additional kaizen.
We can also manage your hosting migration to RISE if required.
⚠️ Most importantly, we focus on risk mitigation ensuring zero disruption to business operations.
Want to know more, then speak to a Dragon.
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The #ERPGuru himself, Paul Byrne joins the Doctors to talk about SAP's 2027 ECC support deadline, the RISE program, the oft-ignored human side of ERP implementation.
Sam and Dan discuss the latest in ERP news, including Capgemini's latest acquistion, ServiceNow and NVIDIA's telco GenAI collaboration, Constellation's Product-Centric Cloud ERP ShortList, and more.