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For years, SAP leaders have been told a familiar story: Scale carefully. Don’t outgrow your infrastructure. Hope your next acquisition fits inside your existing SAP footprint. Behind the scenes, many SAP teams have been managing risk not by innovating, but by working around the limits of their storage platforms. CIOs, for example, are increasingly prioritizing platform consolidation, with 75% of organizations pursuing vendor consolidation as fragmented, aging architectures become harder to manage.

Software testing has a bad rap for bottlenecks — and nowhere is that truer than in the SAP world. An overwhelming majority of SAP orgs continue to rely on manual testing practices that can consume up to 30% of implementation budgets, making QA out to be a persistent roadblock to transformation. To be fair to SAP QA teams, the issue is not as much about inefficiency as complexity.

Modern SAP customers often face competing demands. While navigating the routine complexities of an SAP system, they must also prepare for faster releases and looming S/4HANA deadlines, juggling the day-to-day with long-term innovation. Intelligent quality assurance helps SAP users balance these priorities.

If you’re an SAP customer, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: just wait a little longer. Your migration to S/4HANA will unlock the agility you need. Your SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) investments will catch up soon. Your workflows will get faster. Your data will become more accessible. Just a little more time. But what if you can’t wait? What if your supply chain teams are buried under manual work?

As 2025 comes to a close, now is the perfect time to reflect on the past year and look ahead to what’s next for SAP. There’s no denying that the past year has been rocked by market uncertainty, new tariffs impacting shipments to the United States, and rapid changes to finance technology. Not only has this forced SAP finance and operations teams to quickly change course, but it also muddied the view of the future. How can SAP finance teams prepare for the year ahead?

In late 2024, Tricentis embarked on its own SAP transformation — migrating from NetSuite to a greenfield implementation of SAP S/4HANA Finance. This blog kicks off a series that will follow Tricentis’ migration journey, from planning and implementation through to outcomes and impact.

SmartBear participated in and won first prize at the ALMathon, the annual hackathon for SAP Partners. The challenge: Create innovative use cases to extend SAP Cloud ALM. So, we integrated Reflect, our AI-powered test automation product, into SAP Cloud ALM to enable users to automate their manual testing process.

If you manage SAP data, you recognize this pattern: Business users need to update records daily (pricing changes, purchase orders, customer information), but they lack SAP expertise. And IT teams are overwhelmed with data entry requests. If you stick with manual processes, you face errors and delays. You need an SAP automation tool that meets you where you are without a huge learning curve.

Tricentis SeaLights now supports SAP ABAP — expanding our SAP Change Impact Analysis solution by bringing SAP testing to the cloud. This new capability enables SAP teams to improve testing efficiency, reduce quality risks, and accelerate releases in modern cloud and hybrid environments. By delivering precise, actionable insights into what needs to be tested and where coverage gaps remain, SeaLights empowers teams to focus their efforts where it matters most.