SAP Advisory
Implementation partner selection, organizational change management and strategy realization support for SAP investments.
Most SAP migrations fail on paper long before they fail in production.
Optimize Your Investments in SAP
SAP aims to be a standardized business software that integrates all business processes and enables data processing in real time. To do so, SAP has built out a business app portfolio alongside a technology platform to address the information processing needs of enterprises today. Most recently, it has woven in agentic and generative AI capabilities into its offerings, as well as supporting data-related capabilities.It’s critical for many enterprises to use SAP effectively; our research team has assessed and rated SAP’s performance across dozens of software categories including ERP, CRM, Supply Chain, AI and platforms. However, the challenges and complexity of bringing together so many business processes are also heightened. ISG brings our independent advisory services, implementation support and research to help you navigate SAP adoption, migration, optimization and value realization.
Benefits of working with ISG
Our SAP Support Services
Systems Integrator Selection & Contracting
For selecting and contracting with a service provider and/or systems integrator to support the implementation, migration or adoption of SAP, we help you meet your sourcing goals.
Support Model Selection & Contracting
Choose and contract with the right application maintenance services (AMS) provider to support ongoing operations and design the related operating model for your SAP transformation.
Software Selection & Negotiations
Ensure the right portfolio of software of SAP and third-party providers are selected with the right license models and bill of materials to ensure the best investment value.
Implementation, Transformation & Upgrades
Move to SAP or upgrade your SAP offerings with a structured and holistic approach, from process changes through change management to value realization and governance.
Audit Defense, Research and Strategy
Be proactive about cost savings by preparing for software audits and understanding the latest best practices for SAP. Plan for when and how to adopt the latest capabilities.
Organizational Change Management & Training
Address the people side of SAP change – from transaction and transition through steady state. Your team’s adoption of SAP generates 73% of the expected project value.
Bill of Materials & Optimization
Don’t pay for more than you’re using – optimize your bill of materials to match your team’s needs and empower best-practice usage of SAP, including agentic AI adoption.
Process Management
ISG identifies process improvement opportunities as part of your SAP transformation. We know the best practice processes for SAP, and we can audit your processes and then help you bridge the gap.
Strategy Realization Office
A structured approach to ensure risk mitigation, governance and business value realization with an integrated set of key outcomes and executive-level reporting.
Featured Insights
Client Stories
Meet Our Team
Randy Geoghagan
Partner
Randy Geoghagan
ISG partner and global OCM leader Randy Geoghagan has more than 25 years of consistent success in building and deploying OCM programs worldwide. He founded TracePoint Consulting in 2009, after spending much of his career as a program manager running large-scale IT-system implementations for big companies, where he saw a clear marketplace need for people who understood the process of change and how to facilitate it well, with a strong focus on the employee experience. He grew TracePoint to appear on the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest-growing companies, before ISG acquired the firm. Randy continues to take an active role guiding clients through large-scale initiatives with complex business, process and technology changes. He has a bachelor’s in management information systems from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Emory University.
Stacey Cadigan
Partner
Stacey Cadigan
Stacey Cadigan is an HR thought leader who is passionate about HR and talent management. With more than 20 years in HR, she has leveraged her deep experience and expertise to help clients achieve their strategic, operational, and financial objectives. Through her diverse experience in HR strategy, HRO operations, RPO, HR technology, and transitions, she has developed unique insight and the ability to ask the right questions in assisting organizations with finding solutions to effectively align their HR initiatives with their vision. Stacey was named “HR Thought Leader of the Year” in 2016 and “HRO Superstar” by HRO Today Services and Technology Association for 2016–2024.
Matteo Gallina
Digital Engineering Solutions Lead Americas
Matteo Gallina
As ISG’s Digital Engineering Solutions Lead Americas Matteo brings his 20+ years of experience in leading engagements both in the technical, business and financial areas. Thanks to his extensive experience both as Consultant and as a former Client, he offers ISG clients a comprehensive view of the challenges clients are facing and best way to address them.
Chase Hawkins
Partner
Chase Hawkins
Chase Hawkins is a partner at ISG with deep experience in training, business transformation and organizational change management (OCM) across more than 250 projects. His specializations include OCM, alignment optimization, communications, client/provider relationship management and customer experience, and end-user training (EUT), plus training as a service (TaaS) strategy and execution, with success in both sales and delivery. He currently runs ISG OCM direct sales, as well as ISG’s global OCM partnerships with other providers, systems integrators and software companies. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Georgia and has won numerous professional awards.
Robert Kugel
Executive Director
Robert Kugel
Rob leads and manages the business software research and advisory team focusing on the intersection of information technology and applications across the front- and back-office areas of enterprises. Rob leads the Office of Finance practice and the AI for Business efforts and is a book author and thought leader on integrated business planning (IBP). Prior to ISG and two decades at Ventana Research, he was an equity research analyst at several firms including Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and Drexel Burnham, and a consultant with McKinsey and Company. Rob was an Institutional Investor All-American Team member and on the Wall Street Journal All-Star list. Rob earned his BA in Economics/Finance at Hampshire College, an MBA in Finance/Accounting at Columbia University and is a CFA charter holder.
Tyrone Magby
Partner
Tyrone Magby
As ISG's Partner and Global Service Line Lead of Software Advisory, Tyrone brings over 20 years of software transaction experience across significant enterprise software providers. Tyrone leads a global team focused on solving his clients' most complicated software sourcing challenges. Such services include BOM Optimization, Software Strategy, Value Realization, Audit Defense, Spend Waste elimination, and more.
David Menninger
Executive Director, Software Research and Distinguished Analyst
David Menninger
David manages the software research and advisory for IT and leads the expertise in AI. He oversees the team and expertise areas for software used by IT and for what is used by business. David leads the software research efforts in AI for IT and AI-infused software building on over three decades of experience in data and analytics. For decades, he has brought to market leading-edge analytics and data products in marketing and product leadership positions at Pivotal (a division of EMC), Vertica Systems, Oracle, Applix, InforSense, and IRI Software. David earned his MS in Business from Bentley University and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mary Rivard
Partner
Mary Rivard
Mary Rivard, Partner, with Information Services Group (ISG) is a seasoned executive with deep expertise in global sourcing management, strategic relations management, IT global program management, IT application development and finance. Mary’s expertise in driving innovation and operational transformation is a critical component of her extensive work with ISG clients across multiple geographies and industries. At ISG, Mary works as a trusted advisor to her clients and brings deep subject matter expertise and experience as a change agent to her current role, leading the consulting specialty ‘Strategy Realization”. This role includes the design and governance of client transformation programs as well as the quality and delivery assurance component of our consulting services.
Sandip Tarafdar
Director
Sandip Tarafdar
Sandip utilizes his extensive experience implementing SAP and other ERP solutions for large organizations by providing practical advisory solutions for his clients that are based on his hands-on deployment expertise. His primary focus is helping clients build their ERP strategy and guiding them through the process of acquiring ERP solutions and systems integration services.