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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

The bad news is that many of them are net-new, meaning that the mass of customers still using its legacy ECC system, or running its modern S/4HANA system on-premises, are not migrating as quickly as the company would like to cloud offerings such as Rise with SAP , its subscription package of licensing, hosting, and application management.

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Dear SAP Support – We’ve Grown Apart

CIO Business Intelligence

Then there was the 2027 ultimatum. You told the whole world that after December 31, 2027, you would charge an additional 2 percentage points for sustaining support. Not only do you want me to migrate to HANA and S/4HANA, but you also want me to give up my perpetual licenses and replace them with subscriptions. An ultimatum?

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SAP raises price of on-site support for existing customers

CIO Business Intelligence

The German-speaking SAP Users Group, DSAG, is unimpressed with the company’s plans: “It is trying to establish mechanisms here that increase the costs for cloud services far above inflation,” Thomas Henzler, DSAG board member for licenses, service, and support, told CIO.com.” This is absolutely unacceptable and also incomprehensible.”

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IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. through 2027. through 2027. Software sales grew 9.8% It expects that growth rate to dip to 8.5%

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

That ability to view and transform business processes is also becoming more central to SAP’s strategy as it pushes its customers to move their ERP systems to S/4HANA in the cloud.

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SAP user groups see pick-up in migration to S/4HANA

CIO Business Intelligence

The biggest driver for the move to S/4HANA, cited by 70% of survey respondents, is SAP’s plan to end maintenance support for its ECC 6 and Business Suite 7 software in December 2027. Awareness and adoption of the Rise with SAP all-in-one package of licensing, hosting and application management is also on the up.

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Microsoft adopts RISE with SAP for internal migration to S/4HANA

CIO Business Intelligence

In choosing RISE, Microsoft is making SAP responsible for the licensing, technical management, hosting and support of its SAP applications under a single SLA — although ultimately Microsoft will host its S/4HANA instances in its own Azure cloud, and some of the migration work will be performed by third parties.

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