Our top takeaways from SAP Sapphire Orlando 2025

At the top of many IT folks’ minds lies the looming 2027 deadline for SAP’s end-of-life for SAP ECC – and the subsequent migration to S/4HANA. Often a complex and lengthy migration process, the shift to S/4 requires careful planning and resource allocation. The conversation around how to best prepare and execute a successful S/4 transformation is not new, but SAP’s recently recommended toolchain and an increase in customers leveraging RISE to migrate to S/4HANA in the cloud dominated talks at Sapphire this year.

RISE with SAP and a rapidly approaching S/4HANA migration deadline

S/4HANA migrations are among the most consequential moves an SAP customer will undertake — and the path is riddled with complexity. To prepare, leading organizations begin by assessing their custom code, impacted integrations, and user roles to avoid unexpected disruptions post-migration. Migrating to S/4HANA isn’t just a technical upgrade – it’s a transformation that demands intelligent automation, actionable risk insights, and high-quality data. At Sapphire this year, it was clear that RISE, and the integrated SAP toolchain, have become critical enablers of a successful move before the 2027 deadline.

SAP’s recommended toolchain for migration to S/4HANA in the cloud

During a headline keynote at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, SAP’s Thomas Saueressig highlighted the company’s new integrated toolchain for RISE with SAP. Setting a new benchmark for business transformation, this strategic combination of best-in-class SAP tools and trusted Solution Extension partners is designed to drive transformation without disruption at every phase, from design to implementation to long-term growth.

Tricentis is SAP’s recommended testing partner and a core part of this toolchain, alongside SAP Signavio for process intelligence and Syniti for data transformation. Together, they create a connected quality and change management fabric: Signavio maps and monitors your business processes; Syniti ensures clean, migrated data, and Tricentis tests and validates every change functionally, performantly, and at scale.

Tricentis Tosca brings low-code/no-code test automation across SAP and non-SAP systems for even your most complex end-to-end test cases, while Tricentis LiveCompare pinpoints the exact risks to test before each release. Tricentis NeoLoad simulates performance under real-world loads, and Tricentis Data Integrity ensures your data remains trustworthy through every system shift.

In the modern SAP toolchain, Tricentis bridges process, data, and quality – lending IT teams the confidence to deliver secure, reliable innovation at enterprise speed. In the Tricentis Sapphire booth this year, SAP customers were most interested in how Tricentis’ suite of test automation tools can complement other technologies in SAP’s integrated toolchain, particularly where Tricentis integrates with Signavio and OpenText for optimal data validation, testing, and documentation.

The benefits of moving to Tosca Cloud

Tricentis continues to evolve its role in helping customers transition from legacy on-premises solutions to SAP Cloud ERP solutions faster, safer, and more cost-effective. Chief among our offerings is Tosca cloud, a strategic shift our customers are making to scalable, continuous quality. Built for hybrid and cloud-native SAP landscapes, Tosca’s cloud version allows teams to standardize, reuse, and scale test automation in a fully managed SaaS environment. For SAP customers who stopped by the Tricentis booth, it was clear Tosca cloud is rapidly becoming their future-proof foundation for both migration and for delivering smarter, faster releases in the cloud.

At SAP Sapphire Orlando 2025, the overall message detailed how many organizations are building their quality engineering strategy not just for 2025, but for the next five or even ten years. Executing a clean, on-schedule S/4HANA migration is the first and most critical step but ensuring smooth releases within their ERP post-migration is vitally important, too. A foundational piece in maintaining high ERP performance lies in a future-facing approach to quality.

Operationalizing AI at enterprise scale

AI dominated conversations and presentations at SAP Sapphire this year. SAP showcased its advancements in business AI, highlighting a new “flywheel” model where data, AI, and applications work together to enhance productivity. A key focus was Joule, SAP’s AI assistant, which is being expanded into a pervasive interface across SAP and non-SAP systems. Joule is now empowered with “Joule Agents” that can launch autonomous actions across various domains like finance and supply chain.

Tricentis’ AI strategy complements SAP’s goal to help its customers operationalize AI at enterprise scale. Our AI capabilities enhance SAP testing before, during, and after migration projects – by automating and streamlining the process, accelerating business transformations, and improving quality assurance. With Tricentis, customers can use generative AI to automate the creation of test cases for all of their SAP applications. You can learn more about Tricentis’ AI solution here.