The paths to success with SAP depend greatly on specific circumstances and market dynamics of an enterprise. This is causing organizations to develop agile, future-proof SAP strategies. A recent IDC survey revealed 96% of organizations that had already embarked on application modernization initiatives — or plan to do so in the next 18 months — expect their long-term IT strategy to be affected by the events of 2020, with cloud playing a more pivotal role in the future of their deployments.

Enterprise resource planning software remains one of the most critical business applications of large organizations. Failure to properly incorporate core packages -- like SAP -- into business transformation initiatives can derail the achievement of mission-critical future-state objectives.