Most SAP customers are moving ahead with plans for upgrading
their SAP systems to SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) 6.0,
despite the economic downturn.
Panaya, which sells planning software to help customers with
their SAP upgrades, questioned 152 European and North American SAP
customers and system integrators.
According to the
survey,
nearly three out of every four projects remain on schedule, and
only 11% are delayed beyond 2009. At the same time, 28% of the
companies that are not delaying the upgrade are looking to complete
the project with a lower budget.
The most cited
reason for upgrading was the "end of maintenance" for the
current version used by the organisation.
According to survey respondents, the greatest challenges were in
the planning phase of the project.
The top challenge cited was estimating the upgrade project
cost/effort (cited by 40% of the respondents), followed by
justifying the project budget (36%) and assessing the impact on
existing solutions (31%).
