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SAP just launched the Business Suite - what does this mean for Finance?

KatharinaR
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Product and Topic Expert
‎2025 Feb 13 4:20 PM
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Feb 13, 2025 is “Business Unleashed Day” for the SAP Community, with announcements on SAP Business Suite and SAP Business Data Cloud - and how AI, data, and applications are combined like never before to help you unleash your full potential and make you unstoppable.

Whether your company has been running an SAP ERP solution for many years, or whether you’re just at the beginning of the evaluation of a Cloud ERP solution, you might be wondering what impact these announcements – especially the announcements of the SAP Business Suite - will have on your landscape planning.

Evolution from monolithic to composable

Just as technology has completely changed since ERP was first defined for 1970s mainframes, SAP’s approach to ERP has evolved to keep up you keep us with the needs of your business:

  • Modular capabilities that can be adopted quickly as new needs arise
  • Always up-to-date software-as-a-service solutions that give you non-disruptive access to innovations
  • Clear interoperability and data semantics so that you will be in the best position to realize the benefits of AI

The 2025 Gartner® ERP Primer for 2025 states that “in Gartner’s 2023 ERP, Procurement, HCM and Finance Apps Survey of those manager level and above who are responsible for ERP decision making, 71% reported their organizations were either in process or have plans to adopt a flexible and agile ERP architecture within two years.”

So, chances are, you’re already thinking about the importance of having the flexibility to choose business technology more flexibly to support your growth initiatives.

 

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Gartner: ERP Primer for 2025, by Denis Torii, Dixie John. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

 

The SAP Business Suite is SAP’s answer to Composable ERP

You know SAP as a leader in Cloud ERP for years, but the “ERP and Finance” focus of finance teams may overlook the additional, incremental value SAP can provide with our broader family of solutions – solutions that address business needs and can be adopted incrementally, like Fieldglass, Ariba, SuccessFactors, Concur, and CX.

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Since the interoperability and data semantics among the applications is curated by SAP, the insights that can be achieved with SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Business AI are limitless.

 

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RISE with SAP is a transformation journey aimed at helping SAP ERP customers transition to the SAP Business Suite - so they can stay ahead of the competition by continuously innovating – across their whole enterprise landscape – not just in “ERP”.

What this means is that Finance teams should be thinking of the value that SAP solutions can create in your IT landscape. For example, adopting updated, world-class procurement processes have benefits specifically for the CFO in terms of cash visibility, risk mitigation and more. You can read a great blog on the topic here.

The SAP Business Suite approach encourages companies to think beyond their administrative ERP footprint: how can we adopt the best solutions to solve all types of business problems – for the Chief Revenue Officer, or for the Chief Human Resources Officer?

Cloud software and software-as-a-service promised that business teams would be able to pick-and-choose the services that meet their business requirements. However, often IT does have to be involved to manage integrations and ensure data interoperability. The SAP Business Suite aims to make that modularity - and business user choice - promise a reality.  

And modularity is not just part of the North Star architecture at the line of business level. SAP Business Suite is a reminder that within the line of business solutions, there are software-as-a-service solutions that can be adopted to solve specific business problems – even if your current core architecture might be more monolithic than you’d like.

Composability within Financial Management

Even within the areas that are traditionally considered to be “ERP”, SAP is offering more flexibility and modularity than ever before. Based on your business needs, these SaaS solutions – with their out-of-the-box best practices and constant access to innovation - are available as extensions to SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud:

These solutions – that solve specific business problems- are integrated with our standard financial management processes in Cloud ERP.

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So, if you’re part of the 70% of ERP leaders thinking about flexibility in ERP, you should consider what the SAP Business Suite can do for your organization. Making the most of the SAP Business Suite will help you

  • Manage uncertainty through effective steering and agile planning
  • Navigate transformation supported by efficient processes to balance growth and profitability
  • Enable compliance and sustainability in an ever-evolving regulatory and risk environment

Learn more about Finance solutions here.