IBM’s massive SAP S/4HANA migration pays off

But Funai’s primary focus is achieving greater efficiencies in house. Standardizing on SAP from its mixed ERP past has also eased the process of merger and acquisitions of large enterprises, of which IBM has completed 191 in recent years, including Red Hat, Apptio, DataStax, Hakkoda, HashiCorp, and a number of Oracle consulting firms.

“Having that single ERP system when you’re ingesting another global corporation is a streamline to the merger and acquisition process,” she says.

SAP continues to make headway on enlisting customers to cloud transformation. According to Gartner, by the end of 2024, approximately 39% of worldwide ECC customers — about 35,000 organizations — had bought or subscribed to licenses to start their transition to SAP S/4HANA. As of that time, S/4HANA had close to 26,900 customers, with approximately 62% of those added late last year being net-new ones.