SAP Solution: SAP Business Suite 7

Many companies that are currently operating a more or less functional SAP R/3 system know that maintenance and support for ERP/ECC 6.0 and SAP Business Suite 7 will end in 2025. However, many companies are not really doing anything about it. Why is that?

At regular intervals, we critically and constructively scrutinize our paper's line. With our numerous comments from members of the SAP scene, we are clearly number one: We are the opinion of the SAP community!

Is it fear of an impending danger, does Hasso Plattner know something we don't know yet? Or is it fear of an uncertain, indefinable ERP future?

There are always two sides. When two argue, there are sometimes three opinions. So is SAP Business Suite 7 a legacy, a mature product, or a wealth of experience?

Let's forget all the marketing and the fine words of the Sapphire keynotes: S/4 Finance and S/4 Logistics are add-ons - similar to the well-known Enhancement Packages (EhP) - for SAP Business Suite 7 on Hana (SoH). You can get started quickly with them, but you can't live with them sustainably.

Purchased software is an ugly word - "on premise" and "licenses" sound much more intellectual. In the end, however, only "purchased software" will save us from ruin. And some fellow humans are also stocking up on gold again.

At 9,000 euros, the existing SAP customer is on board when the time comes to start the S/4 release change. What awaits users, however, is unfortunately completely uncertain. Because S/4 Hana is not an R/3 successor!

Things went very badly for SAP in 2015, and Supervisory Board Chairman Professor Hasso Plattner still had to justify his S/4 and Hana in the last days of the old year.

The SAP community is asking itself whether SAP has found the happy medium with the in-memory computing database Hana or is stuck between all chairs with Hana. Hana is a huge challenge if you want more than just a fast SQL database.