Insights from SAP Spend Connect: Can SAP evolve beyond S2P apps and networks to business platforms and ecosystems?

Earlier this year, I traveled with a small Spend Matters team to Dallas to attend the SAP Spend Connect conference, the SAP version of the venerable Ariba Live event that met annually for the two decades prior to the pandemic. Like other post-pandemic in-person events, it was a welcome forum for human reconnection of the SAP ISBN (Intelligent Spend Business and Business Network) ecosystem and also the various solution groups (SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Concur, SAP S4/HANA and the SAP Business Network) being run under a new integrated management team.

In this Spend Matters PRO analysis, we summarize some of our takeaways from the event and the discussions we had with ISBN leadership, customers and partners.