An offering for SAP ERP maintenance post 2030

In the second quarter of 2025, SAP will announce an offering called “SAP ERP, private edition, transition option.”

This cloud subscription service is designed to help large customers with complex installations on a RISE with the SAP journey from SAP ERP systems to SAP cloud ERP.

A brief preview on what this offering will be about and how customers will benefit from it.

For most SAP customers, it is not a matter of whether they are going to move from their legacy systems, but a question of how quickly they can do this in the overall context of their business and IT transformation.

As time approaches 2030 and the end of extended maintenance for on-premise SAP ERP systems, this transformation becomes even more important. Continuing to use these systems beyond 2030 will become increasingly challenging and risk prone, as, for example, third-party products like older Java versions will no longer be supported from the respective vendors.

On the other hand, SAP know that SAP customers with very large and complex on-premise IT landscapes — including a large number of SAP ERP systems, some in the hundreds — require flexibility to move each part of their landscape to the cloud with the pace and agility needed to support evolving business requirements.

Read the Blog post by Stefan Steinle from February 4, 2025 here

The new offering, SAP ERP, private edition, transition option, will come at an expanded fee in 2031-2033 compared to a comparable ERP cloud subscription before 2031. Naturally, due to the complexity in offering such a service, this is targeted to larger and complex systems.

More details will be shared with the broader launch in Q2 2025 and once we move closer to the contractual availability of the offering in 2028.

Read the Blog post by Stefan Steinle from February 4, 2025 here

 Posted by EM based on input from the Global User Group Organisation in SAP.