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Preparing your SAP Landscape for 202x
Tony de ThomasisSAPWorks
SAP Maintenance StrategyOn February 4, 2020 SAP Announced the following maintenance commitments
1. S/4HANA supported until 2040
2. Mainstream Maintenance offered until end of 2027 for the following core applications:-
– SAP ERP 6
– SAP CRM 7
– SAP SCM 7
– SAP SRM 7
– SAP Business Suite on HANA
– SAP Solution Manager
3. Extended Maintenance until 2030 (if converting to S/4HANA +2% maintenance tax as an optional offer)
4. Customer Specific Maintenance beyond 2030
SAP Maintenance PhasesMainstream Maintenance
o Support according to your support agreement with SAP
Extended Maintenance
o Three-year extended maintenance phase at an additional 2% fee (similar scope to Mainstream Maintenance)
o Customers to request quotation through SAP Account Executive
Customer Specific Maintenance
o Standard Support Charges still apply
o No delivery of further legal patches, Support Packages, Kernel revisions, Java patches or Front-end patches
o Customer pays for the expense of solving complex problems
o Service level agreement for incident response time not delivered
o Remote support not provided
o SAP Product Document may no longer be available
SAP Maintenance Strategy
SAP Maintenance Strategy
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MainstreamExtended
Customer Specific
2020
SAP ECC (EHP6-8)
Mainstream Customer Specific
SAP ERP 2004SAP R/3
Customer Specific
SAP ECC (EHP0-5)
MainstreamSAP PO 7.50SAP EP 7.50SAP BW 7.50
Extended
NetWeaver Maintenance Strategy
Mainstream ExtendedSOLUTION MANAGER
Oracle Maintenance Strategy
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11.2.0.4
2020
12.2.0.1
20c/21c - TBD
12.1.0.2
18.5 (12.2.0.3)
19.5 (12.2.0.4)
Oracle Maintenance Strategy
Solaris 10
Solaris 11
LEC
DB2 Maintenance Strategy
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9.7 (FP11 SAP4)
2020
10.5 (FP11 SAP)
10.1 (FP6 SAP5)
11.1 (MP4 FP5 SAP2)
11.5 (MP4 FP0 SAP)
DB2 Maintenance Strategy
12 (PL 2005)
Microsoft Maintenance Strategy
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SQL 2012 (11)
2020
SQL 2016 (13)
SQL 2014 (12)
SQL 2017 (14)
SQL 2019 (15)
MS SQL Maintenance Strategy
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2020 (TBA)
SAP HANA DB Maintenance Strategy
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HANA1 SPS12
2020
HANA2 SPS4
HANA2 SPS3
HANA2 SP5
HANA2 SP6 - TBA
HANA DB Maintenance Strategy
SLES 11 (INTEL)
SLES 12 (INTEL)
SLES 15 (INTEL)
RHEL 8 (INTEL)
Key Takeaways
My organisations needs to make some decisions
• Now I know how long we can survive on ECC6
• Does a 2-Tier DEV/PRD scenario make sense?
• Should I consider third party maintenance ?
• Should I look into S/4HANA?
• Should I propose a “Cloud First” principle?
