Organizations facing SAP ECC's 2027 end-of-support deadline can reduce migration risk and accelerate business value by combining S/4HANA, Microsoft Azure, and unified observability platforms such as Splunk.
Comprehensive observability enables continuous validation of performance, security, integrations, and business processes throughout the entire SAP migration lifecycle, from planning through post-production optimization.
Unified visibility across SAP applications, infrastructure, and cloud services helps organizations proactively address security risks, performance bottlenecks, cost overruns, and operational complexity during S/4HANA migrations.
SAP’s 2027 support deadline for ECC creates both urgency and opportunity. While migration to S/4HANA is inevitable, organizations can use this transition to achieve business results that were previously limited by technical constraints: transforming overnight batch reports into real-time operational decisions, lowering IT maintenance costs through simplified architectures, speeding up time to market with modern integration capabilities, and enabling data-driven innovation via embedded analytics and machine learning.
Successful migrations require three integrated components: a modern business platform, enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure with SAP certification, and comprehensive observability. This analysis explores how combining S/4HANA, Microsoft Azure’s SAP-certified infrastructure, and Splunk’s unified observability platform forms a solution that addresses the main cloud migration challenges identified by Enterprise Strategy Group research, including security concerns (38%), cost management (35%), system complexity (26%), and performance issues (21%).