If SAP does not resume operations in Russia,

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According to experts from JSC Infosystems Jet, more than half of large companies in Russia still use SAP systems in the IT landscape. In sectors of the economy where there are no strict regulatory requirements for the transition to Russian solutions, businesses face the problem of supporting the IT infrastructure.

Mikhail Skovorodin, CEO of Expert RP, presented the results of a study on the domestic SAP support market at the IX Federal Forum on IT and Digital Technologies of the Oil thailand whatsapp resource and Gas Industry of Russia Smart Oil & Gas: "Loyalty to the vendor has fallen sharply in 2022, but not loyalty to the product. There remains a significant number of companies that work on an ERP system from SAP. In terms of ERP system support, only 13% of companies rely on their own strengths, while the rest plan to work with partners."

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the market will begin to stagnate. However, only 12% of Russian companies believe that SAP will return to Russia.

According to a survey conducted by the SAPLAND.RU service in the fall of 2023, 46% of respondents use SAP systems in full and another 28% partially retain them in the IT landscape. When retaining the SAP landscape, companies justify their choice with three reasons: "SAP has no worthy alternative" (30% of respondents), "High cost and time costs" (29%) and "Lack of economic effect from replacing systems" (27%).

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46% of users indicated that they would continue to use SAP systems and 28% would partially retain the current landscape, replacing some of the SAP systems. 12% decided to completely abandon SAP systems and replace them with Russian software products.

At the same time, projects to migrate from SAP to domestic products are long and expensive. "On average, for a company with 2,000 employees, implementing 1C will cost 100 million, while the same 25-30 million per year will go to supporting current systems on SAP," said Vasily Sautin, head of the IBS sales department.

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Vasily
Sautin
Head of Sales Department IBS
SAP or 1C: what to do next
After SAP left Russia and the vendor stopped supporting them, many companies faced the need to look for an alternative and decide what to do next: continue working on Western software, come what may, or urgently switch to alternative solutions, such as 1C. Vasily Sautin, head of the IBS sales department, discusses which path is optimal.

"After the introduction of sanctions, Russian subsidiaries of Western companies, due to the threat of disconnecting SAP systems, completed migration projects to 1C with reduced functionality super-fast (from six months). But they had no choice, since SAP and all the data were in the cloud under the control of parent companies. Large Russian production holdings working in mining and metallurgy, manufacturing, chemistry, oil refining, where there was and is no risk of disconnection, since SAP is installed in the enterprise circuit, understand that a full migration will take from two to five years. All this time, the current versions of SAP must work stably, data and operations are available to businesses 24x7," - this is the assessment of the timing of migration projects from SAP given by the director of the business applications department of the Reksoft group Evgeny Zavyalov.