SAP Extends its commitment for SAP S/4HANA, Provides Clarity and Choice on SAP Business Suite 7

SAP announced a preservation commitment for SAP S/4HANA until the end of 2040. At the same time, SAP will implement mainstream maintenance for existing core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 software till the completion of 2027 accompanied by unrestricted elongated maintenance until the end of 2030.

“Going through the current trends SAP customers show up that SAP S/4HANA is their future course and that they demand a long-term commitment from SAP to this platform. SAP customers have deep business transmutations initiated using the unprecedented inclinations of the solution. SAP user groups authenticate this. A recent poll from the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group did not dispense a single customer not intending to migrate to SAP S/4HANA. In addition, the German-Speaking User Group shows in their lately issued survey that customer investments in SAP S/4HANA are progressing significantly. In response to this and to SAP customers’ request for choice, SAP will implement added flexibility to fully embrace the groundbreaking possibilities of SAP S/4HANA that exhibits the individual speed and complexity of SAP customers’ projects.”

SAP is committed to its customers’ achievements and decisions. Allowing these maintenance sessions is further presenting on transparency and trust. The significant increase in 2019 confirms SAP S/4HANA strategy and demand.”

Strong Impulse and Flexibility
SAP S/4HANA is the next-generation intelligent suite, facilitating the move to a digital imaginative enterprise based on next-generation best practices and artificial intelligence-enabled mechanization. At the same time, it is flagging the way to the cloud and hybrid architectures, making a strong level of landscape simplification and TCO decrease. Over 13,800 customers have already adopted SAP S/4HANA, and thousands are actively extending the solution to reshape their businesses and convert their business into intelligent enterprises. Recent surveys from both Group (ASUG) and the Group (DSAG) shows a notable increase in investments from customers in SAP S/4HANA. DSAG reports that over 49 percent of clients are planning to migrate to SAP S/4HANA within the next three years from now while the ASUG report indicates that the number of customers who have no plans to migrate to SAP S/4HANA has dropped to zero.

SAP encourages this move with a full program of suggestions, assistance and tools along with an enormous ecosystem of IT service providers who steward over four decades of endless success, innovation, and growth in introducing SAP solutions.

SAP as a result of collaboration with all its customers, user groups, and partners, as well as with other industry stakeholders, SAP offers a commitment to SAP S/4HANA until 2040 consolidated with longer maintenance and support for SAP Business Suite 7. This decision will help SAP customers unhitch the potential for innovation so that they can transform business processes with optimal adaptability and flexibility while protecting their existing investments and an overall reduce on TCO.

Customers securing the commitment to SAP S/4HANA for their digital transmutations need a companion that is equally devoted to supporting innovation beyond their businesses and processes. Administering maintenance for SAP S/4HANA until 2040 portrays a commitment to SAP clients that should provide them the confidence to plan for their future projects and Company’s growth and establishment. These customers also require the adaptability to design their alterations precisely and with a minimum of disturbance to their ongoing and existing business processes. The extra maintenance timeframe for SAP Business Suite 7 is an extraordinary appreciation from SAP that the velocity of change will vary from customer to customer and that already existing supporting SAP Business Suite software methods in sync with customers’ business conversion are important for customer success.

Choice and Investment Protection

SAP gives concluding transparency on maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7. SAP will also provide two more years of mainstream subsistence for core applications of SAP Business Suite 7. Throughout this off boarding period, SAP will proceed to deliver the powerful mainstream preservation features that customers require. There will be no contractual change nor will any supplementary fees will apply.

• Clients requiring support for their applications in more extended conversion phases to SAP S/4HANA can leverage the established elongated maintenance offering. This comes with a bonus of two percentage points on the existing maintenance for core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 for all support contributions. It will be open for three extra years beginning at the start of 2028 and ending at the close of 2030.

At ASUG, they have maintained all onward that if you’re an SAP customer who needs to grow and expedite your business, exclude incompetence, overcome technical debt and take advantage of the most advanced capabilities of SAP software, then you need to move to SAP S/4HANA Administration. It should be about how strong to prepare a company’s business for the future. This announcement is not a signal to slow down. This is now the time to initiate plans and move ahead so that SAP customers can secure business value from what is the most significant technology change in SAP’s recent history.

SAP is determined to make there clients successful. The extended commitment to SAP Business Suite 7 and the long-lasting support for SAP S/4HANA Administration is providing their customers the much needed flexibility in planning for the right successful path to the future.