Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is aiming to consolidate its legacy ERP systems on SAP’s S/4HANA in under three years, a task that Senior Vice President and CIO Archana Deskus reckons would take another company four or five.
Of course, it helps that HPE is an IT services business and sells high-powered servers optimized to run S/4HANA, but there’s more to it than that, says Deskus: Moving so fast also requires learning to make the right compromises, and getting buy-in for the project from the very top.