State of SAP Migrations
Why early choices matter more than technology.
Learn which early decisions have the greatest impact on risk, cost stability, and outcomes—and how to invest in the right governance and capabilities from the start.
Most SAP migrations fail on paper long before they fail in production.
Understand the risks that push nearly 60% of SAP migrations over budget and behind schedule.
Let’s Dive In
What’s driving risk, cost overruns, and missed value in today’s migrations? Where do programs go off track early -and why do those decisions matter more than deployment models or platforms? What does it really take to preserve future automation and AI potential after go-live?
This data- and insight-packed report is designed to help you see what’s actually happening across SAP migrations and help you make smarter governance, sequencing and investment decisions in the months ahead.
Meet Our Team
Stanton Jones
Distinguished Analyst
Stanton Jones
Stanton helps enterprise technology leaders, IT service providers and buy- and sell-side professionals make sense of the global IT services sector. Stanton's weekly briefing - the Index Insider - is read by thousands of industry stakeholders each week.
Michael Dornan
Principal Analyst
Michael Dornan
Michael Dornan is a Principal Analyst in Provider Services based in the UK. He is responsible for ISG’s Buyer Behavior research program, helping providers navigate changing market dynamics, identify unmet enterprise demand, and position services and solutions that align to client needs.
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.
Tarun Nathooram Vaid
Lead Analyst, ISG Provider Lens®
Tarun Nathooram Vaid
As ISG’s Manager and Principal Analyst Tarun brings his 13+ years of experience in leading various research engagements both in the IT services and software. He offers ISG clients comprehensive insights on latest market trends, provider landscape, in-depth capabilities and market presence analysis of service providers and brings in extensive knowledge of the outsourcing industry. Tarun is also responsible for defining quadrants, formulating key parameters for benchmarking providers, and designing questionnaires.
Ed Armstrong
Director
Ed Armstrong
Ed Armstrong is a Six-Sigma trained supply-chain and sourcing professional with over 17 years of IT, telecom, indirect strategic sourcing, category management, procurement operations, contract management, supplier management, finance and business process improvement experience. As a Principal Consultant in ISG’s Network & Software Advisory Practice, Ed is focused on helping clients identify and capture cost and value optimization opportunities in their enterprise, ERP, application and subscription based software and IT hardware spend verticals.
Suresh Payapulli
Director
Suresh Payapulli
As a Director and Chairman’s Club Award winner at ISG, Suresh Payapulli leads our Sourcing Solutions practice for the region. He champions ISG’s FutureSource™ methodology leading high performance advisory teams in developing and implementing strategies that deliver major transformation to operating models. Having advised on ITO sourcing transactions of £250m TCV and above, he has led many large-scale IT transformation programmes through strategic sourcing. He combines this experience with real industry insight to bring thought leadership to his client engagements.
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.
