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Yesterday, while presenting SAP’s financial results for FY2024, our CEO Christian Klein explained that we exceeded our cloud goals, accelerating cloud revenue and current cloud backlog growth against a much larger base. He also mentioned that half of our cloud order entry are now including AI. Clearly, our aim is to provide our customers with a suite of cloud-based applications that provides the most valuable data in business and powers unique AI capabilities. In this blog post, I would like to present how SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite – both running on SAP Business Technology Platform – are at the heart of SAP’s strategy and support our customers in their journey from legacy ERPs to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
We know that for many SAP customers, the transition to SAP S/4HANA can be challenging, because someone in the organization has added a lot of custom code to your ERP 😉. That’s why SAP has created RISE with SAP, a packaged offering that helps you transform on-premise SAP ERP systems, modernize business processes, and become more agile in the cloud. And in RISE with SAP, you will find anything you need to fulfill your needs.
Let me be a bit more specific: every company in the world uses software to run their operations. We all know the most efficient and effective way is to use standard software like our SAP S/4HANA ERP. At the same time, we are fully aware that every organization in the world is unique and gains competitive advantage through their very specific processes. This might be the way they run processes for their customers because they offer unique experiences, or the way they engage with their suppliers because they may be faster in the supply chain processes, or it might be their HR processes which allows them to retain the best talent in the market… whatever it is, that makes your company unique, it should be reflected in your software because no one likes manual processes in 2025. In the context of migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, following the Clean Core strategy is a powerful opportunity: by eliminating custom code, technical debt, and standardizing the processes and data that underpin ERP operations, your business will benefit from more best practices while being able to customize what it needs to differentiate itself. And when it comes to standardization to achieve clean core with proper extensions and integrations, SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite on SAP BTP enter the game!
SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite add great value to your Cloud ERP
SAP Build allows you to extend and personalize SAP S/4HANA to meet your needs. It accelerates development and automation of extensions with low-code, pro-code, and generative AI tools. It enables stable, secure, and scalable ERP extensions that adhere to a prescribed extensibility model, with compliance to code quality standards and best practices. Tailored for every SAP customer, any size, any landscape, any industry, SAP Build is the best of suite tools for developers and key users collaborating in AI-powered ERP extension development.
Let me say it simply: SAP Build adds great value to your Cloud ERP. You will get more out of your cloud ERP investment with SAP Build. Just because it lets you easily customize, extend, integrate and automate business processes in your SAP S/4HANA Cloud solution to meet specific requirements while keeping the core clean. Watch our webinar “Extend SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Build: your Free Toolkit”: in an hour, you will discover how you can leverage SAP Build’s low-code, pro-code, and generative AI development tools to drive innovation, automate processes, and supercharge your S/4HANA Cloud experience.
SAP Integration Suite is an iPaaS that helps you quickly integrate on-premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications, events, and data. For sure, it also adds value to your ERP: it connects business processes with proven pre-built integrations, APIs, connectors, and best practices. It provides upgrade-stable interfaces, proper monitoring and error resolution capabilities, and actively used and well-documented connectors.
For What Use Cases?
Let me give you very concrete examples where SAP Build is very helpful to address specific challenges in your Lead to Cash processes:
- Digitize in-store cash sales processing
- Automate the creation of sales orders from Excel files
- Automate mass maintenance of billing blocks
- Automate the approvals of return requests
- Automate the creation of sales orders from unstructured data in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Automate managing credit blocks on sales orders
and more…
I can also share many use cases that could improve your Source to Pay processes:
- Centralize and streamline supplier communications with dedicated business sites
- Mass maintenance of purchase contracts
- Automate the creation of purchase requisitions from structured data in SAP S/4HANA
- Automate the processing of paper-based invoices
- Automatically populate missing material codes in purchase requisitions
- Track sustainability data across your supply chain
and more…
You will find complementary use cases on our SAP Build web page.
And there is more: on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub, you can browse 500+ pre-built content packages for SAP Build and 600+ pre-built content packages for SAP Integration Suite. If you have developed custom code in your on-premises ERP in the past to address such use cases or specific needs, you can explore this vast catalog to see if some of these packages might be a good fit for your cloud ERP migration process. Indeed it is very important to know that SAP Build comes with pre-built content for ECC: you can use these SAP Build packages on ECC already to standardize some extensions, and then all the extensions developed on ECC with SAP Build will taken to S/4HANA during the migration.
Insights from Customers
What I presented above is not only theoretical: customers who have been through this SAP S/4HANA journey share valuable insights that can really help you. I have selected two few interesting stories, in different industries.
Sony Pictures
Let me start with Sony Pictures Networks: relying on the legacy system, SAP ECC, their highly customized and siloed infrastructure struggled to align with the company's integrated business processes. And decentralized data presented SAP challenges in consolidating business reports until the end.
Sony decided to remaster their operations for the future through next-generation ERP, with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and Enterprise Automation, combining SAP Signavio, SAP Build And SAP Integration Suite. Indeed, SAP Signavio radically accelerates business process transformation, and I engage you to read this blog post explaining how customers on SAP ECC systems can prepare for an SAP S/4HANA transformation with SAP Signavio.
“By migrating to SAP S/4HANA and adopting SAP Business Technology Platform, we can keep the core clean. This strategy allows for faster development of any new technologies or any new process rollouts and enables us to take advantage of generative AI as part of our way forward” explains Mahesh Patil, SVP and Head of IT – Infrastructure, Integration, and Data Lake, Sony Pictures Networks India. And the results are excellent:
- 100% automated process mining, reducing effort from weeks to days
- 50% of interfaces managed through SAP Integration Suite
- ~85% faster mobile app creation, reducing effort from four weeks to three days
Hitachi
Would you like another good example? Let’s take Hitachi High-Tech Corporation: they replaced their highly customized multinational business landscape by investing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud in a two-tier public and private cloud model. With a fit-to-standard ethos, the company can now focus on supporting business innovation across its subsidiaries using a side-by-side approach on SAP Business Technology Platform.
“Our new policy is to fit our business processes to standard as much as possible, reducing our need for customizations” says Yuri Yasuda, Manager Corporate DX Department, Digital Transformation Business Group, Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, who shares impressive KPIs:
- 94% reduction in customization footprint
- 18x faster handling of solution updates
- 100% of on-site maintenance requirements eliminated
You can also find inspiration in the S/4HANA projects that Mahindra Group, PX Energy, LEOCH, Farys, Delta Light or Prestige have successfully implemented.
Start your S/4HANA journey with the support of SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite!
I hope that you’re now convinced that SAP BTP in general and SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite in particular are very powerful to ease your migration to SAP S/4HANA. To start this journey, watch our short video and request a customized demo: together, let’s make your business unstoppable!
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