As we discussed recently, getting to grips with SAP’s overall cloud strategy is surprisingly complex (https://www.sapture.com.au/news/sap-s-cloud-strategy-qanda-with-dr-derek-prior/47793/ ). Expect increased adoption of SAP’s acquired SaaS offerings in 2020, but not S/4HANA Cloud edition.

You can also expect an even faster uptake of what I call “technical cloud”, i.e. SAP applications running on IaaS, which started on private cloud. There is an increasing global trend now to run SAP production systems on public cloud IaaS. This year SAP announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure. But the “hyperscaler” to watch out for is Amazon Web Services (AWS), who appear to be surprisingly customer-centric, which is welcome news in my opinion for all SAP customers out there.

Next week I’ll be revealing the third SAP Trend that I think you can expect in 2020. In the meantime if you are need advice on local skills availability in ANZ, then Sapture can help.

Dr Derek Prior spent 19 years as an analyst specializing in SAP at Gartner and AMR Research, advising organizations all around the world on SAP strategy and best practices.