SAP HANA - Small step of IT but a giant leap for the organizational transformation

Based on my exposure and experience with SAP HANA since 2016, would like to share the following personal perspective 1) Most of the organization have spent substantial budgets in rolling out an ERP solution and there after maintaining it 2)Many a time the solution implemented are heavily customized 3) Organizations are really scared to implement a change, especially if it forms the backbone of their operations and is spread across multiple user groups, geographies and business With the above points in mind, the best use cases I have seen are (as in sequence) propelling 1) Hardware refresh 2) If the implementation is more than 4-5 years old and the business operations have significantly grown since implementation. This would require a reimplementation 3) If the business is on expansion mode (across geos and products/services etc) and need an interconnected /(near)real time operational reporting 4)Demergers 5)wanting to kickstart a cloud journey for organization 6) Superb sales pitch complemented by an underutilized budget and an overzealous IT team (with hidden agenda of increasing their longevity in the organization