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What is SAP ECC Migration?
Following the release of SAP S/4HANA in 2015, SAP initially announced that mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 and core applications, such as SAP ECC, would end in 2025. In February of 2020 this was extended to 2027. Organizations will have the option to purchase extended maintenance until the end of 2030. This means that organizations running these solutions will need to move to SAP S/4HANA from their existing SAP ERP systems.
What is SAP ECC Migration?
Following the release of SAP S/4HANA in 2015, SAP initially announced that mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 and core applications, such as SAP ECC, would end in 2025. In February of 2020 this was extended to 2027. Organizations will have the option to purchase extended maintenance until the end of 2030. This means that organizations running these solutions will need to move to SAP S/4HANA from their existing SAP ERP systems.
SAP ECC migration involves evaluating an organization’s existing systems to see whether they are ready for the move to a new system, acquiring licenses for new software, converting data to the requirements for the new system, determining a deployment model, sourcing infrastructure, and determining whether you will make the move yourself or whether external resources are required. These all represent decisions that need to be made before any SAP ECC migration occurs.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:
- An ECC migration can be challenging, so what do you need to do to make the move successful? In talking with SAP Mentor Tammy Powlas, SAPinsider received some recommendations that can make any migration successful. Testing is an integral part of the migration. Prepare and cleanse your data before you move using the checklists that SAP provides in order to make sense. Make sure your third-party tools are SAP S/4HANA compliant. Perform at least a couple of dry runs or sandbox systems to work out kinks before the final go live. You can see the full interview here.
- Listen to what other customers have to say about their SAP ECC migration, and what they were and were not prepared for. SAPinsider has talked to many customers about their move from SAP ECC, and this conversation with Fairfax Water, Newport News Shipyard, and Dow Jones covered several different topics around their environments, the deployment models they used, testing approaches, security challenges, and plans for future upgrades. All these and more are topics that need to be considered for the migration.
- Evaluating and preparing your customized code for migration can be a significant step, but there are ways of making sure you’re ready. Most SAP ECC systems contain customized ABAP code. To perform an SAP ECC migration involves evaluating and determining what part of that code is still needed, and whether it is even still applicable given the underlying data structure changes in SAP S/4HANA. This presentation walks though migrating legacy ABAP code into a new system and highlights challenges along the way, tools that are available to help make the transition easier, and how you can get your development team up to speed for the future.
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8 Critical Capabilities to Look for When Extending SAP ProcessesFeb 28 — Extending SAP now focuses on enhancing process efficiency and reducing risks rather than merely adding transactions, with eight essential capabilities—such as native SAP compatibility, unified development models, and integrated AI—that organizations must consider to create a strategic execution layer above the SAP core.
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RISE with SAP Security: Execution Within the Shared Responsibility Model Defines RiskFeb 23 — As RISE with SAP migration accelerates, security accountability remains with the customer. Execution within the shared responsibility model—not documentation alone—defines governance risk in SAP S/4HANA Cloud environments.
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How Saviynt Supports SAP S/4HANA Identity Modernization Ahead of 2027Feb 20 — As SAP Identity Management approaches end-of-life in 2027, SAP S/4HANA modernization programs must reassess identity governance, cross-system segregation-of-duties risk, and third-party access control across distributed cloud environments.
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AI, SAP, and 2027: Why Identity Architecture Is Now a Program-Level DecisionFeb 18 — AI agents are already operating inside SAP systems, yet most organizations lack visibility and effective control over their privileges. As S/4HANA migration and SAP Identity Management retirement approach, identity architecture is no longer an operational afterthought. It is becoming a structural decision that shapes automation risk, segregation-of-duties integrity, and audit resilience.
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Taming S/4HANA Migration Complexity with End-to-End Process OrchestrationFeb 13 — Camunda's process orchestration facilitates a low-disruption, incremental migration to S/4HANA, enabling organizations to manage complex transformations by gradually modernizing workflows and reducing testing efforts while ensuring integration with legacy SAP ECC systems and modern applications.
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Q&A: Demystifying SAP Business Suite and Cloud ERP with SAP Transformation Leader Anurag BaruaFeb 5 — Anurag Barua, a seasoned Transformation Leader at SAP, guides organizations through the complexities of modernizing their SAP systems amidst looming deadlines, emphasizing the importance of disciplined planning, a structured approach to SAP Cloud ERP, and understanding the distinctions between RISE and GROW with SAP, all while preparing for his insightful sessions at SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026.
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IBM Advances AI-Driven SAP Application Management with ICAMSDec 19, 2025 — IBM's ICAMS offers an AI-driven solution for SAP customers to manage the complexities of S/4HANA transformations and ongoing application management, aiming to reduce risks and enhance innovation in environments still supporting SAP ECC and those adopting RISE with SAP.
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