Most companies treat S/4HANA upgrades as one-off events — but the truth is different:
Your future upgrade speed depends on the decisions you make right now.
Every custom enhancement, undocumented process, manual integration, and unaligned requirement adds weight to the next upgrade cycle.
Organizations that keep requirements synchronized across SAP Cloud ALM, Jira, or Azure DevOps avoid this “upgrade debt.”
Automated traceability ensures every change remains connected to a real business requirement.
This reduces technical debt, minimizes regression testing, and keeps the SAP landscape ready for continuous innovation.
S/4 upgrades don’t have to be painful.
When governance stays clean, upgrades stay simple.
Read the full article: Blueprint for SAP 2026: How to Prepare for the Next S4 Upgrade
