German software giant SAP has announced a strategy to consign the era of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) application to history ... including a version of R/3, which companies can install ...

Even 2027 will be too soon for some, says EAC’s Greenbaum, noting that there are companies still running instances of R/2, a version of SAP’s ERP system that was superseded in the early 1990s.

Eric van Rossum, SAP’s chief marketing officer for cloud ERP, said it has become clear that every enterprise needs to adopt a cloud-first business strategy. “It’s more important than ever ...