NetWeaver 2027/2030
As a result of cooperation with existing customers, user groups and partners as well as other industry representatives, SAP is offering maintenance for S/4 until 2040 as well as longer support for Business Suite 7.
Customers are thus able to use innovations to fundamentally change their business processes while protecting their existing investments.
Michael Kleinemeier, member of the Executive Board of SAP and responsible for SAP Digital Business Services, emphasized:
"We are resolutely committed to the success of our customers.
With extended maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 and long-term support for SAP S/4 Hana, we are underpinning this and offering our customers freedom of choice and flexibility as they move into the future.
We would like to thank our customers and, above all, our user groups for their close cooperation in making this possible."
This means that maintenance for the core applications of the Business Suite will be extended by a further five years to the end of 2030, during which time customers can continue to receive the mainstream maintenance functions.
Until 2027, the tried-and-tested maintenance will continue unchanged without additional fees. From 2028, the familiar Customer Specific Maintenance model will run at unchanged fees.
Alternatively, those who require a longer, more comprehensive conversion phase to S/4 Hana can take advantage of the tried-and-tested Extended Maintenance offer for Business Suite 7, which is subject to an additional charge and runs for a further three years from the beginning of 2028 to the end of 2030.
Suite 7 substructure
SAP has not yet made any official statements about the necessary substructure of the Business Suite. In an interview, SAP CTO and Executive Board member Jürgen Müller told E-3 Magazine that further releases are planned for the "maintenance extension" of NetWeaver and AnyDB.
On the subject of AnyDB, the database options from IBM, Oracle and Microsoft for Suite 7, E-3 Magazine has received commitments from Microsoft and IBM. Oracle does not intend to make a statement on a possible
"maintenance extension" beyond 2025. Originally, there was a view in the SAP community that SAP had terminated all database contracts with IBM, Oracle and Microsoft.
However, SAP Business Suite 7 will still need the NetWeaver stack after 2025, particularly the Abap and Java application servers. SAP has not yet made a public statement on this either.
However, existing SAP customers will find a sufficient AS-Abap and AS-Java roadmap in Service Note 1648480. The availability table from this SAP Note is printed here.
AS Abap or AS Java
The different runtimes of the NetWeaver versions also result from the availability of Abap and Java. SAP has been pointing out for many years that the dual Abap/Java stack once offered should be discontinued in order to gain more design freedom when using the NetWeaver stack.
Anyone who wants to use the Java application server (version 8) with Business Suite 7 until 2030 is therefore dependent on NetWeaver version 7.5. (pmf)
