\u201cNo money for digitalization! SAP customers postpone IT projects.\u201d This was the headline in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung at the end of last year. The software industry and consulting firms are currently contending with shrinking budgets of their industry customers. While companies do see the need for further digitalization, in the wake of the corona crisis many simply lack the funds to modernize their often complex software platforms. These are the findings of the annual survey conducted by the German-speaking SAP user group DSAG, which represents more than 3,700 companies in the DACH region.<\/span><\/p>\n As SAP customer sales have declined, almost every second company has considered postponing their transition to the new and improved S\/4HANA software version or putting it on a back burner. However, not only has the Covid crisis made customers more cautious, their priorities have also changed. While areas such as supply chain management, IoT, or artificial intelligence still remain high on the agenda, keeping businesses up and running is the number one priority. This is also reflected in the DSAG survey. According to this survey, companies are focusing more on software to increase the efficiency of existing processes. Only about one-third of respondents considered the development of new digital business models their most important task.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n