If you run Basware alongside SAP Cloud ERP, or you are planning your migration, you may have already seen the news. Basware Invoice Lifecycle Management is now available on SAP Store, the official online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings.
It is a useful milestone, and one worth a quick conversation internally. Here is what the listing means for you in practice, and a few things worth raising with your Customer Success Manager.
If your IT colleagues have ever asked how Basware actually fits into the SAP architecture, the SAP Store listing gives you a much cleaner answer. The platform is designed to align with SAP’s clean core strategy and connects to SAP Cloud ERP environments through a native SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) connector, with no custom middleware required.
That backs up what you have likely been telling internal stakeholders about Basware's place in your SAP estate, and it lowers the friction in conversations with your CIO, your SAP program team, and anyone questioning the role of a specialist AP layer alongside SAP Cloud ERP. Worth sharing with the relevant people in your IT or SAP program team.
Volumes do not pause for an ERP migration, and neither do compliance requirements. The teams running AP day-to-day still need the platform to perform while everything else is changing around them.
The good news is that Basware can be deployed ahead of SAP Cloud ERP go-live, so AP keeps performing throughout the migration and continues to deliver working capital and compliance benefits while your ERP project runs. Your Customer Success Manager can help you map the sequencing and align the timeline with your wider SAP program. If a migration is on the cards, even a long way out, it is worth a conversation now rather than later.
Heineken, Danone, Engie, Cummins, and many more SAP customers are running Basware alongside their SAP estates. Whatever you are working on right now, whether that is pushing for higher touchless processing, navigating an upcoming e-invoicing mandate, or harmonizing AP across multiple ERPs, there is a good chance someone in the community has tackled it already.
Ask your CSM about peer connections, customer roundtables, and upcoming events where you can swap notes with other SAP customers running Basware. The Spotlight Plus SAP Partner status also means closer alignment with SAP itself, and tighter relationships with global system integrators like Accenture and Deloitte, both of whom run dedicated Basware practices. If you are working with one of them on your SAP program, that is worth a flag to your CSM too.
Some of the most useful insights come from the room next door, not the product roadmap. If you would like to walk through any of this in more detail, reach out to your Customer Success Manager.