When Gartner creates an entirely new Magic Quadrant category and SAP immediately lands a Leader position, that tells us something about where enterprise investment is heading. Process intelligence is no longer a niche concern buried inside operations teams. It’s becoming central to how organisations understand and improve their business workflows.
We’ve already seen this shift in our SAP mandates. Over the past year, conversations with hiring managers have moved from ‘we need someone who can implement S/4HANA’ to ‘we need someone who understands how our processes actually run and where they break down.’ Signavio expertise is increasingly appearing as a requirement rather than a nice-to-have, particularly in manufacturing and financial services clients across the DACH region.
The talent pool is thin. Most experienced SAP consultants built their careers on ERP implementation and configuration. Process mining requires a different mindset: analytical, data-driven, comfortable working across business functions rather than within a single module. Professionals who combine deep SAP knowledge with genuine process intelligence capability are rare. Those who have it know their value.
For candidates, this is worth paying attention to. If you’re an SAP consultant looking to differentiate yourself, Signavio skills will give you options that pure S/4HANA experience alone won’t. For hiring managers, the window to secure this talent at reasonable rates is narrowing. When a technology moves from emerging category to Gartner Leader status, compensation expectations follow within 12 to 18 months.
We expect client briefs to reflect this shift through the rest of the year. The organisations moving early will have the pick of a small but growing talent pool.
Prompted by reporting from SAP News Centre.