Report 25 Mar 2026

SAP - Vendor Profile - Netherlands

Explore the 2025–2026 SAP Netherlands strategy as Dutch organizations weigh the costs, risks, and urgency of migrating from ECC to S/4HANA.

The SAP Netherlands strategy focuses on migration first, innovation next with emphasis on RISE/GROW, keeping the core clean, and partner-led delivery, with AI (Joule, BTP, Datasphere/Business Data Cloud) positioned as value drivers.

Key developments:

  • Dynamic verticals: manufacturing (CPG, agriculture, chemicals), retail, and public sector/education
  • Market exit: Healthcare (SAP IS-H to be discontinued in 2030). ChipSoft and Epic dominance.
  • Key risks: rushed transformations, weak change management, migration avoidance with AI around the core, creating integration fragility. and limiting end-to-end process change.

 

Recommended advisory: PAC Leadership Session – SAP Services Beyond 2030