{
  "id": 6572112,
  "title": "German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/german-optics-giant-ditches-greenfield-sap-migration",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-10T09:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register Science",
    "slug": "the-register-science",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/10/german-optics-giant-ditches-greenfield-sap-migration/5295251"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'",
  "key_points": [],
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      {
        "outlet": "The Register Software",
        "title": "German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/german-optics-giant-ditches-greenfield-sap-migration-6572764",
        "published": "2026-09-10T09:45:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}