SAP status: “it’s complicated”
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:52 am
There are two types of companies that solve the issue of IT system integration differently. Sometimes management instructs employees to manually transfer data between applications. Here, both employees and the company have problems.
The second type of companies recognizes the greece mobile database integration problem and it is more acute because:
some have created a “menagerie” of various software. Often, some programs are no longer supported, but are still used in work;
others have had multiple CIOs with different views on software architecture;
thirdly, foreign software is being replaced by Russian analogues;
fourthly, the business is growing and it is necessary to automate what was previously outsourced.
The list can be continued, but it is better to show how we integrated imported SAP with our own development - an internal marketplace, for a company that wanted to put its procurement in order. Thanks to our solution, it was able to automate the process of collecting requests for inventory items (I&M) and save on purchasing a module of the corresponding functionality from a German developer.
The history of SAP began in 1972, the Russian office was opened 20 years later. For the last 10-12 years, the company has been the leader in the ERP systems market in Russia with a share of 40 to 60%. Large companies such as Rosatom, Gazprom, Lukoil, Russian Railways, Aeroflot, Tele2, as well as representatives of medium-sized businesses used SAP services.
In 2021, SAP's revenue amounted to a record 38.5 billion rubles, but the following year it fell more than 2 times, as the company decided to gradually wind down its business in Russia. For companies that had invested in supporting, refining and localizing SAP for years, the departure of the German brand was very painful.
For owners of current contracts and Russian companies with international roots, a temporary closed portal was created that allows downloading updates. But those organizations whose contracts have expired are left without technical support and updates for products deployed in the corporate perimeter. And these are not only accounting systems, but also resource management (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), production (ERP Production Planning, MES, EAM, CAD).
Today, the advantages of working with SAP are no longer so obvious. The lack of support poses two problems for its Russian users:
Changes regularly occur in organizations that are transmitted to the accounting and management systems, requiring changes to the software and its updating. The issue now falls entirely on local integrators. If a company wants to change its contractor, it needs to seriously consider documenting the modifications made;
the accounting system will not be able to work for a long time without updates concerning changes in legislation. In Russia, the legal field is quite flexible, changes are frequent, and after the introduction of sanctions, there have been especially many of them. The market for SAP modifications has significantly decreased and become more expensive. And against the background of the vague prospects for the vendor's return to Russia and the general trend towards import substitution, the cost of support will grow.
The second type of companies recognizes the greece mobile database integration problem and it is more acute because:
some have created a “menagerie” of various software. Often, some programs are no longer supported, but are still used in work;
others have had multiple CIOs with different views on software architecture;
thirdly, foreign software is being replaced by Russian analogues;
fourthly, the business is growing and it is necessary to automate what was previously outsourced.
The list can be continued, but it is better to show how we integrated imported SAP with our own development - an internal marketplace, for a company that wanted to put its procurement in order. Thanks to our solution, it was able to automate the process of collecting requests for inventory items (I&M) and save on purchasing a module of the corresponding functionality from a German developer.
The history of SAP began in 1972, the Russian office was opened 20 years later. For the last 10-12 years, the company has been the leader in the ERP systems market in Russia with a share of 40 to 60%. Large companies such as Rosatom, Gazprom, Lukoil, Russian Railways, Aeroflot, Tele2, as well as representatives of medium-sized businesses used SAP services.
In 2021, SAP's revenue amounted to a record 38.5 billion rubles, but the following year it fell more than 2 times, as the company decided to gradually wind down its business in Russia. For companies that had invested in supporting, refining and localizing SAP for years, the departure of the German brand was very painful.
For owners of current contracts and Russian companies with international roots, a temporary closed portal was created that allows downloading updates. But those organizations whose contracts have expired are left without technical support and updates for products deployed in the corporate perimeter. And these are not only accounting systems, but also resource management (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), production (ERP Production Planning, MES, EAM, CAD).
Today, the advantages of working with SAP are no longer so obvious. The lack of support poses two problems for its Russian users:
Changes regularly occur in organizations that are transmitted to the accounting and management systems, requiring changes to the software and its updating. The issue now falls entirely on local integrators. If a company wants to change its contractor, it needs to seriously consider documenting the modifications made;
the accounting system will not be able to work for a long time without updates concerning changes in legislation. In Russia, the legal field is quite flexible, changes are frequent, and after the introduction of sanctions, there have been especially many of them. The market for SAP modifications has significantly decreased and become more expensive. And against the background of the vague prospects for the vendor's return to Russia and the general trend towards import substitution, the cost of support will grow.