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German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration

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'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'

Zeiss Group has ditched plans for a greenfield ERP migration to latest S/4HANA platform from SAP following years of struggle trying to move off an ageing R/3 system.

The industrial optics company with revenue of around €11.896 billion said it was seeking to “realign” its ERP migration plans by moving its existing landscape to the new platform, a so-called "brownfield” migration.

SAP has long recommended that customers move to S/4HANA — a completely re-engineered version of its popular ERP system — with a clean-core approach, abandoning old customizations and adopting new processes at the same time. It can prove a challenging, costly, and time-consuming journey for many customers as they grapple with business process and technology change in one project.

Reportssuggest that Zeiss has sunk €200 billion into the project to move from R/3...

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