{"id":144277,"date":"2026-10-29T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/releases\/releases-geral\/total-economic-impact-study-finds-smartshift-sap-custom-code-transformation-delivered-254-roi\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:12:00","slug":"total-economic-impact-study-finds-smartshift-sap-custom-code-transformation-delivered-254-roi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/releases\/releases-geral\/total-economic-impact-study-finds-smartshift-sap-custom-code-transformation-delivered-254-roi\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Economic Impact Study Finds smartShift SAP Custom Code Transformation Delivered 254% ROI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA, Oct.  29, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; smartShift today announced the results of a 2026 commissioned Total Economic Impact study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study found that a composite organization using smartShift for SAP custom code transformation achieved a 254% ROI and $10.5 million in net present value over three years.<\/p>\n<p>With SAP ECC mainstream support ending in 2027, many companies must move to SAP S\/4HANA and fix large amounts of custom code along the way. Done manually, that work can take thousands of developer hours.<\/p>\n<p>Forrester interviewed five smartShift customers and modeled their results as a composite organization with $60 billion in revenue and 150,000 custom ABAP objects. Over three years, that organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Avoided up to 99,840 manual developer hours<\/strong> of custom code remediation, worth $8.3 million<\/li>\n<li><strong>Retired 25% of its custom code<\/strong> as unused or redundant, saving $3.5 million in maintenance and support<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cut dual maintenance costs by 30%<\/strong> through automation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finished its S\/4HANA migration six months sooner,<\/strong> saving $1.1 million in legacy infrastructure costs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduced the likelihood of business disruption by 5%<\/strong> with more consistent, higher-quality custom code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Our customers shouldnt have to commit large teams to years of manual custom code remediation to move to S\/4HANA,&#8221; said Vyom Gupta, President &amp; COO at smartShift. &#8220;Forresters findings show the business value of automation: faster migration, lower costs and reduced risk, freeing customers teams to focus on innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Key quotes from customers in the study:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something that would have taken us probably two years of remediation with an army of people and still having issues was done in six weeks.&#8221;  DevOps manager, retail organization<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;smartShift delivered quality. It yielded much better-quality results than if we did this work manually.&#8221;  SAP delivery lead, grocery organization<\/p>\n<p>The full study is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=8jZhWcTpMEGVi8V-7R1XXtXUxnCxQM3Sn0LSSE0nkMXwkCeM474Nb6ufwYLt3aBaPuumdg7XBZUkXrtCgVeoK66Qq7NmI3QTV_z-A56XySsrnwZoCuo9ZqXl7fJf2NrSgitxI6QBBiJJghkKOPjastvPQDM1pR6F8XhQShZlf2Q=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/smartshift.com\/forrester-tei-study-2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About smartShift<br \/>smartShift is a global leader in SAP custom code transformation for SAP S\/4HANA and Clean Core. They empower businesses to modernize their SAP landscapes, eliminate technical debt, and embrace future-ready development. Their automated and patented AI-powered solutions deliver secure, stable, and optimized code addressing all custom code issues, not just those prioritized for manual remediation, with a fixed-price, fixed-timeline, and 100% quality guarantee. Trusted by SAP&#8217;s largest customers, smartShift has a proven track record of modernizing over 3,300 SAP systems and converting more than 4 billion lines of custom code.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=sbanrflJM41CS_ddOJYyqkm_EdgxuMDzkkUW2BXEuHEh0z2cl4Yl6Z9J9P9Jz9CWjkxpUavwumYoiXFYYmqiobIgbn3OlhReMFo9-fKHNeo=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more at smartshift.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"__GNW8366DE3E__IMG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/newsroom\/ti?nf=OTg1NjMwNSM3OTI0NzU2IzUwMDEzNTIzOQ==\" \/> <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/media\/NDcxOTgxMzktYTQ4MC00OWU2LTg3ODctNGJkZDA2NDk4MGI4LTUwMDEzNTIzOS0yMDI2LTEwLTI5LWVu\/tiny\/smartShift.png\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Michelle Bissonnette\nsmartShift\nmbissonnette@smartshift.com\n<\/pre>\n<p>A <b>OESP<\/b> nao e(sao) responsavel(is) por erros, incorrecoes, atrasos ou quaisquer decisoes tomadas por seus clientes com base nos Conteudos ora disponibilizados, bem como tais Conteudos nao representam a opiniao da <b>OESP<\/b> e sao de inteira responsabilidade da <b>GlobeNewswire<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston, MA, Oct.  29, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; smartShift today announced the results of a 2026 commissioned Total Economic Impact study conducted by Forrester Consulting.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases-geral"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluestudio.estadao.com.br\/agencia-de-comunicacao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}