SAP S/4 HANA

SAP support of SAP ERP 6.0 – also know as SAP ECC – will end in 2025 (for enhancement package EHP 5 and below) respectively in 2027 (for enhancement package EHP 6 and above) with optional extended support until 2030.

It’s time to start planning your switch to SAP S/4 HANA.

Find out which SAP version you have with our guide.

A functioning SAP system has 3 layers: a database layer, an application layer and a presentation layer. The S/4 HANA conversion will affect all three.

DATABASE:

SAP ERP 6.0 had various database options (like: Oracle, DB2). As of S/4 HANA only the HANA database is available.

Several customers prefer to split up the S/4 HANA conversion to smaller projects, starting with the technical migration from their previous database to the HANA database. This can be done early, with only IT involvement, as the business will not notice any change.

HOSTING:

An S/4 HANA conversion is the perfect opportunity to re-consider your server strategy. Instead of on-premise solutions more and more clients choose cloud hosting either at SAP or at Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud Platform (GPC) so that they don’t need to maintain the servers themselves anymore.