If you’re running SAP ECC 6, your support clock is ticking—perhaps faster than you realize. Not to worry, you’ve got options and we can help.
By now, just about every SAP customer knows that 2027 is the end date for ECC 6 mainstream maintenance support. But that’s only half the story. That’s because for half of ECC 6 customers, the end date arrives much earlier, in 2025.
To qualify for extended support through 2027, you must be on enhancement pack 6 (EHP 6) or later. If you’re on EHP 5 or earlier—and that’s half of ECC customers—mainstream support will time out December 31, 2025. That’s something The Register dubbed an “ERPocalypse” especially as 40% of those impacted don’t know about it.
Additionally, there are likely thousands more S/4HANA clients on releases for which mainstream maintenance also expires in 2025, many of whom have no idea their support clock is ticking.
How to read the SAP support clock
Let’s take a closer look at the maintenance timelines for SAP ERP 6.0:
- ECC 6 customers with EHP versions 0 through 5 will see the end of mainstream support in 2025 with no Extended Maintenance offered.
- ECC 6 customers with EHP versions 6, 7, and 8, will face the end of mainstream support in 2027. Extended Maintenance is offered—but at an estimated additional cost of two percentage points—through 2030.
- With S/4HANA version 2020, mainstream support ends 2025. Extended support will cost you an additional four percentage points on estimate.
- For S/4HANA version 2021 the end comes in 2026; and for version 2022, it’s 2027. Again, it’s either migrate or pay more for extended maintenance if you stick with SAP support.
So where does this leave SAP customers who might not want to reimplement to the cloud, and who also need support beyond SAP’s deadlines? If your SAP support clock is ticking, know that you have options, and we can help.
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