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SAP Solution: NetWeaver

SAP ECC demands the highest performance—Oracle Exadata delivers it. As a platform fully certified for SAP NetWeaver, Exadata offers extreme speed, reliability, and easy scalability—whether on-prem, in the cloud, or hybrid.
Many SAP customers are faced with the challenge of operating their NetWeaver-based applications efficiently and securely. This requires an optimized infrastructure that helps ensure performance, scalability, and security on-prem as well as in cloud or hybrid environments.
The maintenance end of SAP Solution Manager is approaching, the non-successor SAP Cloud ALM does not meet your requirements? ESM Suite can either directly form the core of your ALM tool chain or integrate seamlessly with your already established tools.
SAP can't stop tricking. Christian Klein believes he knows 100 Rise customers. This hubris could yet turn out to be a nasty surprise - SurpRISE with SAP would not be the first time.
The SAP community is in a critical state because important players can no longer or no longer want to play along. Cause and effect are difficult to separate. The bottom line is catastrophic.
There are many concepts in the digital transformation. SAP's existing customers have years of experience in operations and need not so much visions, but concrete answers for a future IT architecture. Nutanix delivers the necessary concepts for the SAP community, report Peter Goldbrunner and Markus Pleier.
You could accuse me of naivety in calling for security, planning reliability and dependability in the current situation. But I think planning security is more important now than ever, don't you? SAP owes answers.
SAP will provide maintenance for the core applications of Business Suite 7 (ERP/ECC 6.0) until the end of 2027 and then offer optional Extended Maintenance until the end of 2030. There are no official statements on AnyDB, NetWeaver and the Compatibility Packs.
SAP manager Christian Mehrtens explained at an SAP partner event in Frankfurt/M that one of the reasons for the extended availability of ERP/ECC 6.0 until 2027/2030 is the expected shortage of consultants.
The good news is that there is an SAP maintenance extension for ERP/ECC 6.0, Customer Relationship Management 7.0, Supply Chain Management 7.0, and Supplier Relationship Management 7.0 and Business Suite powered by Hana (SoH) through the end of 2027, followed by paid Extended Maintenance through the end of 2030.
SAP has publicly announced Business Suite 7 will remain in maintenance beyond 2025 - the deadline has been pushed back.
SAP has extended the maintenance of Business Suite 7 until 2030. At the same time, SAP published an update of service note 1648480, version 21 on February 4, 2020.

Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-66-24355460

Event date

Wednesday, June 10, and
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Early Bird Ticket

Regular ticket

EUR 390 excl. VAT
available until 1.10.2025
EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Subscribers to the E3 magazine
reduced with promocode STAbo26
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Students*
reduced with promocode STStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
EUR 290 excl. VAT
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.