[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Hero” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0vw||80px||false|false” locked=”off” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”5138c454-be54-4233-bd3b-f8e6a8747976″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”73121f80-a3ef-4484-8763-c3f18e3c56d2″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”SAP Commerce” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”f0c675ea-2574-4d0e-b725-30f8550a8550″ title_level=”h4″ title_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight||on|||||” title_text_color=”#1d3557″ title_font_size=”14px” title_letter_spacing=”1px” title_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{%22#1d3557%22:%91%22title_text_color%22%93}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_heading title=”The Real Reason SAP Commerce Migrations Fail (Hint: It’s Not Technology)” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”ddeb8c09-9078-4424-bc15-2efb6572e28e” title_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_post_title title=”off” meta=”off” featured_image=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#457b9d” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac” text_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_font=”|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_text_color=”#1d3557″ quote_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_2_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_3_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_4_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_5_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_6_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n
There is a pattern we have seen play out across more than a decade of SAP Commerce work. A company decides to migrate their Hybris platform. They hire a team. They set a deadline. Twelve months later, the project is over budget, behind schedule, and the delivered platform does not do what the business needs. Leadership is frustrated, the team is demoralized, and someone starts quietly researching whether they should scrap everything and replatform entirely.<\/p>\n
The post-mortem always focuses on the same things: the technology was harder than expected, the scope grew, the vendor underestimated the effort. And while those things are usually true, they are symptoms, not causes.<\/p>\n
The real reasons SAP Commerce migrations fail are almost always organizational. They are decisions made (or not made) in the first weeks of the project that ripple outward until the whole thing collapses under its own weight.<\/p>\n
This article is not a gentle overview. It is a direct, opinionated assessment based on patterns we have observed firsthand, including on projects we were brought in to rescue. If you are about to start a migration, reading this might save you a significant amount of money and frustration.<\/p>\n
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This is the most common and most damaging mistake. The thinking goes: “We have a working Hybris platform. We just need to move it to SAP Commerce Cloud (or another platform). How hard can it be?”<\/p>\n
Very hard, as it turns out. But not for the reasons people expect.<\/p>\n
A lift-and-shift approach assumes that the current platform’s architecture, code, and patterns are appropriate for the target environment. They are not. SAP Commerce Cloud has a different deployment model, different infrastructure assumptions, different scaling patterns, and different operational tools. Code that worked fine on-premise may perform poorly, fail to deploy, or violate cloud platform constraints.<\/p>\n
But the technical mismatch is only part of the problem. The deeper issue is what a lift-and-shift mentality signals about the organization’s relationship with the project. It says: “We do not want to think deeply about this. We just want it done.”<\/p>\n
That mindset leads to:<\/p>\n
The result is a cloud-hosted copy of your legacy problems, running on more expensive infrastructure, with all the accumulated technical debt intact.<\/p>\n
Treat the migration as a re-implementation guided by existing business logic. Start from business requirements, not from code. For each piece of functionality, ask: “Do we still need this? Is this the best way to do it? Has the platform evolved to handle this natively?”<\/p>\n
This approach takes more time upfront. It saves significantly more time downstream.<\/p>\n
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A mature Hybris instance is a geological record of business decisions, developer preferences, and accumulated workarounds. Some of those customizations are genuine business differentiators. Many are not.<\/p>\n
In our experience auditing Hybris platforms across telecom, automotive, and manufacturing sectors, we consistently find that a significant portion of custom extensions fall into one of these categories:<\/p>\n
Workarounds for old platform bugs.<\/strong> The bug was fixed three versions ago, but nobody removed the workaround because nobody remembered why it was there. It just… stayed.<\/p>\n Features nobody uses.<\/strong> Built for a campaign that ended, a market that was exited, a business model that was abandoned. The code remains because removing code feels risky and nobody is asking for it to be removed.<\/p>\n Reimplementations of platform features.<\/strong> When the custom code was written, the platform did not support the requirement natively. SAP added the capability later, but the team kept using the custom version because it worked and switching had no business sponsor.<\/p>\n Developer preferences.<\/strong> Custom utility libraries, alternative patterns for things the platform handles differently, or “better” ways of doing things that exist because a developer preferred their approach. These are not business value – they are maintenance burden.<\/p>\n Migrating all of this to a new platform is not just wasteful. It is actively harmful. Every piece of code you carry forward is code you must test, maintain, debug, and eventually upgrade again. It increases the surface area for bugs, slows down deployments, and makes the platform harder for new team members to understand.<\/p>\n Before writing a single line of migration code, conduct a customization audit. Classify every custom extension as:<\/p>\n Be aggressive about the “Remove” category. If nobody has modified or complained about a piece of code in two years, it is a strong candidate for removal. We have helped organizations reduce their custom code footprint by 30-40% during migration, resulting in faster delivery, simpler testing, and lower ongoing maintenance costs.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”Reason 3: Underestimating the Operating Model Change” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#457b9d” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac” text_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_font=”|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_text_color=”#1d3557″ quote_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_2_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_3_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_4_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_5_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_6_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n This one is subtle and often only surfaces after go-live, when it is expensive to address.<\/p>\n On-premise Hybris gives you direct control over your infrastructure. Your team manages servers, configures load balancers, tunes JVM parameters, manages database backups, handles SSL certificates, and controls deployment timing down to the minute. For organizations that have operated this way for years, it is deeply embedded in processes, skills, and organizational structure.<\/p>\n SAP Commerce Cloud changes all of this. Infrastructure is managed by SAP. Deployments go through the Commerce Cloud Portal. Scaling is handled differently. Monitoring uses SAP’s tools (Dynatrace). Direct server access is limited. Your operations team’s daily routine changes fundamentally.<\/p>\n This is not a technical problem. It is an organizational change management problem. And most migration plans either ignore it entirely or address it with a two-hour training session three days before go-live.<\/p>\n The consequences show up as:<\/p>\n Start the operating model transition months before go-live:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”Reason 4: No Clear Ownership Between Business and IT” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#457b9d” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac” text_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_font=”|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_text_color=”#1d3557″ quote_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_2_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_3_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_4_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_5_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_6_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Enterprise e-commerce platforms sit at the intersection of business and technology in a way that few other systems do. The product catalog is a business concern. The checkout flow is a business concern. The promotional engine is a business concern. But all of them are implemented in code, configured in backoffice tools, and constrained by technical architecture.<\/p>\n Failed migrations almost always have a common characteristic: unclear ownership of decisions. When a question comes up (and hundreds of questions come up during a migration), who decides?<\/p>\n In dysfunctional projects, these questions bounce between business stakeholders and technical teams without resolution. Business says “ask IT.” IT says “the business needs to decide.” Weeks pass. The development team builds something based on assumptions. The assumptions turn out to be wrong. Rework follows.<\/p>\n Establish a clear decision-making structure before the project starts:<\/p>\n The product owner and technical lead should meet daily during active development phases. Not a 30-minute standup with 15 people – a focused 15-minute sync between two decision-makers who can resolve questions in real-time.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”Reason 5: Choosing the Wrong Consulting Partner” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#457b9d” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac” text_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_font=”|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_text_color=”#1d3557″ quote_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_2_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_3_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_4_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_5_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_6_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n This is where I am going to be blunt, because this is an area where we have strong opinions based on direct observation.<\/p>\n The SAP Commerce consulting market has a structural problem. The largest system integrators (you know who they are) operate on a model that is optimized for billing hours, not delivering outcomes. A typical engagement looks like this:<\/p>\n This is not universal – there are excellent people at large SIs, and some engagements work well. But the incentive structure of the body shop model is fundamentally misaligned with migration project success.<\/p>\n When selecting a migration partner, evaluate on these criteria:<\/p>\n Architecture leadership, not just staffing.<\/strong> Your partner should be able to explain, in detail, how they would approach your specific migration. Not a generic methodology deck – a specific technical approach that addresses your customizations, your integrations, and your constraints. If they cannot do this before you sign a contract, they will not be able to do it after.<\/p>\n Team continuity.<\/strong> Will the people who do the assessment be the people who do the implementation? If not, you are paying for knowledge transfer within their organization, and some of that knowledge will be lost.<\/p>\n Reference quality over quantity.<\/strong> A partner who has completed three SAP Commerce Cloud migrations successfully is more valuable than one who has done thirty generic Hybris projects. Ask for references from migrations specifically, and talk to the technical leads on those projects, not just the project sponsors.<\/p>\n Skin in the game.<\/strong> Partners who offer fixed-price or outcome-based pricing models are telling you something about their confidence in their estimates. Time-and-materials is appropriate for genuinely uncertain scope, but for a migration where the source and target platforms are both known, there should be a meaningful degree of predictability.<\/p>\n At Commerce Consulting Services<\/a>, we operate as a boutique consultancy specifically because we believe the architecture-led, senior-people-only model produces better outcomes for this type of work. We would rather deliver a project with three experienced architects than with fifteen junior developers.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”What Successful Migrations Look Like” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#457b9d” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac” text_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_font=”|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_text_color=”#1d3557″ quote_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_2_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_3_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_4_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_5_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_6_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Having described five failure modes, let me describe what success looks like. The successful migrations we have been involved with share common characteristics:<\/p>\n Clear scope with intentional trade-offs.<\/strong> The team knew what they were building and, equally important, what they were not building. Trade-offs were made explicitly and documented, not discovered accidentally.<\/p>\n Small, senior teams.<\/strong> Fewer people with deeper expertise, making decisions quickly and writing code that does not need to be rewritten. The ratio of thinking to typing was high.<\/p>\n Business engagement throughout.<\/strong> Not just at the beginning (requirements) and end (UAT), but continuously. Business stakeholders saw working software regularly and provided feedback early enough to be actionable.<\/p>\n Ruthless prioritization.<\/strong> When scope pressure emerged (and it always does), the team cut scope rather than extending timelines or adding people. The MVP was genuinely minimal, with a clear roadmap for post-launch enhancements.<\/p>\n Realistic timelines with buffers.<\/strong> The plan accounted for the unexpected, because the unexpected always happens. Integration issues, data quality problems, performance tuning, vendor delays – successful projects budget for these rather than assuming everything will go smoothly.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”Migration Readiness Checklist” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#457b9d” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac” text_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_font=”|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_text_color=”#1d3557″ quote_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_2_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_3_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_4_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_5_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_6_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Before you start your SAP Commerce migration, confirm that each of these items is addressed:<\/p>\n If more than two of these items are unresolved when development begins, you are accumulating risk that will materialize later in the project, when it is most expensive to address.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”Closing Thoughts” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#457b9d” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac” text_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_font=”|IBM Plex Sans_weight|||||||” link_text_color=”#1d3557″ quote_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_2_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_3_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_4_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_5_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” header_6_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight|||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n SAP Commerce migrations fail for the same reasons most large enterprise software projects fail: unclear ownership, insufficient planning, wrong incentives, and a reluctance to make difficult decisions early.<\/p>\n The technology is not the hard part. SAP Commerce Cloud is a capable platform. The migration path is well-documented. The tooling exists. What makes or breaks these projects is the human layer: the decisions, the organizational dynamics, the willingness to be honest about complexity, and the discipline to stay focused on outcomes rather than activity.<\/p>\n If your organization is planning a migration and you want an honest assessment of your readiness, we are happy to have that conversation. You can learn more about our approach on our SAP Commerce consulting services<\/a> page or review our portfolio<\/a> to see the types of SAP Commerce challenges we have tackled.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Hero” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0vw||80px||false|false” locked=”off” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”5138c454-be54-4233-bd3b-f8e6a8747976″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”73121f80-a3ef-4484-8763-c3f18e3c56d2″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”SAP Commerce” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”f0c675ea-2574-4d0e-b725-30f8550a8550″ title_level=”h4″ title_font=”IBM Plex Sans|IBM Plex Sans Condensed_weight||on|||||” title_text_color=”#1d3557″ title_font_size=”14px” title_letter_spacing=”1px” title_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{%22#1d3557%22:%91%22title_text_color%22%93}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_heading title=”The Real Reason SAP Commerce Migrations Fail (Hint: It’s Not Technology)” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”ddeb8c09-9078-4424-bc15-2efb6572e28e” title_font=”IBM Plex Sans Condensed|IBM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sap-commerce"],"acf":{"cta_title":"Need SAP Commerce expertise?","cta_description":"12+ years of enterprise e-commerce consulting. 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