
The market for ERP and enterprise applications in general is undergoing seismic shifts, thanks to the cloud. That leaves IT leaders scrambling to update their technology roadmaps – and avoid detouring down dark alleys. SAP has published a great deal of information about the cloud and how it relates to S/4HANA, but there are still gaps between the vision and what SAP has delivered so far. In this paper, we examine SAP’s cloud strategy versus SAP’s cloud reality.