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The 2027 SAP ECC end-of-support deadline is forcing organizations to accelerate S/4HANA transformation timelines, but rushing migration without assessing legacy custom code and configurations risks carrying existing security and compliance problems directly into the new environment.
Security must be built into the transformation from day one — not treated as a final checklist item — with a shift-left approach to code scanning, transport analysis, and vulnerability assessment at every stage of the project lifecycle.
Organizations that rely on system integrators or third-party developers during transformation cannot assume their work is secure — automated validation of custom code, configurations, and transports is essential to maintaining quality and compliance standards without creating unsustainable manual review burdens.
What is SAP HANA?
First released in 2015, SAP HANA is the next-generation, in-memory relational database technology for SAP, essentially the backend of the SAP system. The benefits of HANA include superior performance, efficiency, optimum data management, simplification, and innovation.
What is SAP S/4HANA?
SAP S/4HANA is the latest version of SAP’s ERP software, built to run exclusively on the SAP HANA database. Benefits to SAP S/4HANA include an improved interface that leverages the SAP Fiori design language and increased performance thanks to the SAP HANA in-memory database.
What is Digital Transformation with SAP S/4HANA?
Digital transformation refers to an organization identifying an opportunity to deliver value to customers with technology. SAP S/4HANA is a digital transformation engine that improves business processes and enhances productivity.
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Many organizations are currently either planning or executing a transformation to SAP’s next generation ERP, S/4HANA. Organizations must upgrade to SAP S/4HANA before the 2027 deadline to avoid the risk of their most business-critical operations running on outdated and unpatched software. Moving the business to the cloud can be a long and tedious process, prompting SAP to introduce the SAP RISE Business Transformation Program. This program transforms every element of an organization and eliminates complexity.
Organizations that run their business on SAP systems utilize SAP developers to write code and develop custom applications suited to their needs. To ensure confidence in running applications in the cloud, organizations need to check their custom code and remediate these issues before bringing them into the new environment. Including security at the beginning of a code development process, also known as shifting left, brings in security validation at the moment when code is created instead of at the moment when code is deployed or tested. This allows enterprises to identify risks and prevent risks from leaving the development environment, so issues aren’t created in the cloud environment.
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