Every year Gartner publishes a series of Magic Quadrants in which products are placed that are extensively compared and positioned relative to each other. So again this year, and the good news for SAP users is that S/4HANA has been positioned in the Leader quadrant for "Cloud ERP for Product Centric Enterprises
Summary
The leaders in the Cloud ERP playing field are firmly committed to process automation and standardization. With Grow with SAP, SAP provides a solid foundation thanks, among other things, to the well-known Best Practices, with which, after a quick implementation, an organization has the basis to automate tasks and collect the data to be able to act quickly in a constantly changing world.
Every year Gartner publishes a series of Magic Quadrants in which products are placed that are extensively compared and positioned relative to each other. So again this year, and the good news for SAP users is that S/4HANA has been positioned in the Leader quadrant for "Cloud ERP for Product Centric Enterprises."
What is a Gartner Magic Quadrant?
The Gartner Magic Quadrants show a lot of information in a clear graph that helps Tech leaders quickly form a picture of Cloud ERP offerings.
S/4HANA Cloud had previously been placed in the Leader Quadrant for service-oriented enterprises, but as of 2024 also for product-oriented enterprises, this is good news for the manufacturing industry.
Trends within the Gartner Magic Quadrant Leaders
What the Quadrant Leaders share are the following industry-wide trends:
- Process automation
- Process standardization
- ESG reporting
- Agility
- Composable architecture
In addition, according to Gartner, it is a given that you can perform the most common business processes with all cloud ERP solutions:
- Supply and demand planning
- Supply Chain and Procurement
- Commodity production
- Delivery and product logistics
- Finance
SAP Cloud ERP
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is the solution we'll look at in a bit more detail.
According to Gartner, the strength of SAP S/4HANA Cloud lies primarily in three aspects:
- End-to-end process support
- BTP Business Technology Platform for process automation, integration and extension
- Implementation methodology: The Digital Discovery Assessment (DDA) makes it easier to configure the right processes, this is a relatively new feature.
What to watch out for with SAP, Gartner said, is that not all functionality is in both the Public and Private editions at this time and that migrating from a heavily customized ERP environment to a fairly standard cloud ERP environment can be a complicated and costly affair. For as much business continuity as possible, the Public Cloud version is recommended.
