The Russian billionaire says the change in the SAP program is expensive, but it is important

Moscow (Reuters) -Rusian steel billionaire Alexey Mordashov said that Germany will need more time and money than expected to develop an alternative to the extensive work program in SAP, but is a matter of survival.

This year, with market capitalization, SAP, which is the largest company in Europe, is a software that helps to manage the businesses and procurement functions from marketing and human resources.

The SAP program has sent a program to Russia’s largest companies, including aeroflot and Russian railways, but in 2022 in March 2022 and in March 2024.

Peterashov and petrochemical firm belonging to Sibur belonging to Sibur Sibur wanted to develop joint SAP software.

“In the last year, we have done a lot to study this issue, but everything is more expensive and complex, requires more terrible elegance,” he said. At a technology conference.

“We understand the importance of this task … because we must survive,” he said.

SAP, before the confrontation of Ukraine, was organized to 60% of the Russian market, and the rest were divided between Microsoft and Oracle.

Currently, many Russian companies still use the pre-installed SAP program, but do not have access to updates and support from the German company, making it sensitive to failure.

Mordashov’s statement stressed the challenges of Russian companies because they stressed as they tried to develop alternatives of the Western program in Western sanctions.

First, Severstal and Sibur, who came together with a local software manufacturer, was only since his partnership. Severstal now looks at the solutions provided by the developer business technologies.

As Russian Railways and Oil Company, other Russian companies have chosen to cooperate with Gazpromneft 1C and plan a local alternative to the SAP program in 2027.

(Notified by Anastasia Lyrchikova, additional reports by Oksana Kobzeva, written by Gleb Bryanski, edit by Alexandra Hudson)