Avasant SAP S/4HANA Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™

December, 2024

This report identifies key demand-side trends in the SAP S/4HANA services space, helping enterprises define SAP S/4HANA adoption strategy. It provides an overview of the key factors and use cases driving enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA and the major challenges hindering this implementation journey, based on Avasant’s assessment. 

Why read this Market Insights? 

ERP transformation is essential for organizations aiming to standardize business processes and consolidate data to enhance operational efficiency and accuracy. Enterprises are increasingly exploring the integration of generative AI (Gen AI) with SAP S/4HANA, leveraging its potential to enhance efficiency and user experience across critical ERP functions such as procurement, finance, supply chain management, and asset maintenance. Amid cost pressures, organizations are going for a phased implementation approach, validating and ascertaining business outcomes through POCs, and leveraging service providers’ proprietary assets to ensure efficient project execution and address industry-specific use cases.  

The SAP S/4HANA Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™ aids enterprises in identifying important market trends and challenges for any SAP S/4HANA migration journey that they take part in.  

Methodology 

The industry insights presented in this report are based on our ongoing interactions with enterprise CXOs and other key executives, targeted discussions with service providers, subject matter experts, and Avasant fellows, analyst insights from primary and secondary research, and lessons learned from consulting engagements. 

Table of contents 

About the report (Page 3) 

Executive summary (Pages 4–7) 

  • Defining SAP S/4HANA services 
  • Key enterprise SAP S/4HANA services trends shaping the market 
  • Avasant recognizes 24 top-tier providers supporting the enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA  

Demand-side trends (Pages 8–12) 

  • Process standardization and technical simplification remain the top considerations for enterprises for SAP S/4HANA adoption. 
  • Organizations can accelerate SAP S/4HANA adoption through pilot projects to realize value and conduct phased migration. 
  • Manufacturing, retail, and utilities contribute to more than half of the SAP S/4HANA services demand. 
  • SAP S/4HANA clients show an inclination toward incorporating generative AI use cases across multiple business functions. 

Key contacts (Page 13)


Read the Research Byte based on this report. 

Please refer to Avasant’s SAP S/4HANA Services 2024–2025 RadarView™ for detailed insights on the service providers and supply-side trends. 

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