If your business is using SAP, chances are you’re already modernising core functions. Finance is working to close faster. HR is standardising core processes. Procurement is getting better control of spend. In short, SAP keeps evolving and the way you run the enterprise is evolving with it.

However, real estate and facilities often don’t. They’re still stuck in spreadsheets, side applications, and legacy tools that sit outside the SAP core. That might feel workable until you look at the numbers. Real estate and facilities sit among your biggest cost centres. They also shape compliance, workplace performance, and sustainability outcomes every day. When these areas stay disconnected, the impact spreads quickly.

The Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) notes its members are seeing the same pattern: you can’t modernise SAP end-to-end while real estate and facilities still run outside it. The gaps show up in slow transformation programs, reporting you can’t fully trust, lease data that needs constant reconciliation, and integrations that get harder to maintain with each SAP release. Real estate teams end up working with partial visibility, and IT inherits technical complexity it didn’t plan for.

The value is in the outcome: fewer handoffs, more reliable reporting, smoother modernisation, and portfolio decisions you can stand behind.

If you’re responsible for SAP modernisation, lease and asset reporting, portfolio cost control, workplace performance, or ESG results, this is a gap you don’t want to carry into the next phase of your roadmap.

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