HPE Greenlake Paves A Path To A Hybrid SAP ERP Future
HPE, June 26,2025
The HPE Greenlake team and SAP team joined together at Cloud Field Day 23 to kick off proceedings on June 5, and the topic was SAP ERP. SAP HANA, first delivered in 2010, provides enterprises an in-memory database that fuels the S/4 HANA ERP solution.
S/4 has had mixed results in the market, driving SAP to introduce SAP Cloud ERP, a platform as a service offering, as an alternative to on-prem packaged deployment.
The HPE team delivered a message that SAP's evolution of this solution in this marketplace has challenged customers, requiring too much change and too rigid of solutions to get traction with the solution in market. Yet, early adopter key learnings represent a new approach to the market enabled by Greenlake. This will enable enterprises to run this solution in their own data centers (managed by HPE) and navigate end of life of the traditional ERP solution coming in 2027. The solution also provides a path to multi-tenancy and public cloud adoption.