German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration
'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'
Zeiss Group, the German optics giant, has abandoned plans for a greenfield ERP migration to the latest S/4HANA platform from SAP. The company, with revenue of around €11.896 billion, opted for a brownfield migration instead. Zeiss had been struggling to move away from its aging R/3 system, which was introduced in 1992. The company spent an estimated €200 billion on the project, which began around 2020.
SAP had previously recommended that customers migrate to S/4HANA, a completely re-engineered version of its popular ERP system. However, the process can be challenging, costly, and time-consuming. The company spokesperson stated that the decision to shift to a brownfield migration was made to accelerate progress in the transformation and better meet the diverse requirements of the ZEISS segments.
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