It
was well known fact for some years now that SAP NetWeaver will be
at some point reaching end of support. It is true for every software – at some
point it is being replaced some something new and not being enhanced/maintained
anymore. In the year 2017 the NetWeaver celebrated 20
years. However, SAP announced already earlier that end of mainstream maintenance
will be on 31.12.2024 for version SAP NetWeaver 7.5.
Similarly, for SAP
NetWeaver 7.4 the date is set to 31.12.2020.
However,
on 4.2.2020
SAP announced (via official update of maintenance roadmap) that they
extended it to end of December 2027. In particular, for SAP NetWeaver 7.5
mainstream maintenance will be offered through 31.12.2027 and extended
maintenance will be offered until end of 2030. Considering that by the year 2030
the NetWeaver will be death – it will be 33
years old if I count it correctly.
Concerning
SAP Business Suite 7
– it will be also offered by mainstream maintenance until 31.12.2027 and extended
maintenance until 31.12.2020. Nevertheless, there is a “but” like there always
is. Mainstream maintenance will be provided for the latest three EhPs only
after 1.1.2026. Another the “but” is that the extended maintenance comes with
additional 2% fee on top of the respective support fee (20%). The 3rd
“but” is that SAP customer needs to buy SAP
S/4HANA license already to show that they are in process of transition to S/4HANA.
In
October of 2014 SAP extended support from 2020 until 2025 for the ECC/Business
Suite 7. At the end the most pressing question of all SAP customers – “Is there
any chance that SAP will extend their 2025 deadline ECC/Business Suite 7“ has
an answer,
For
both NW and BS - after 1.1.2031 only customer-specific maintenance will be
offered.
Finally,
concerning S/4HANA
current SAP’s commitment is until 2040.
More information:
1648480 -
Maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 Software including SAP NetWeaver
2741041 -
Maintenance for SAP NetWeaver 7.X Business Warehouse
2881788 - End of
SAP Business Suite 7 mainstream maintenance
SAP
Release Brochure - SAP release and maintenance strategy
Extended
Innovation Commitment for SAP S/4HANA Clarity and Choice on SAP Business Suite
7
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