today announces an upcoming change in its release and maintenance strategy for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, offering customers greater opportunities for continuous innovation and a flexible path to cloud readiness.
The commercial, competitive, and operational demands on companies are intense. They are facing an unprecedented speed of change — digitalization strategies have to adapt rapidly and profoundly. Customers must continually innovate, while at the same time adapting their business processes and reinventing their business models. Cloud technology has become pivotal to keep up with the change.
The release 2023 of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, available in October of 2023, represents a go-to release for next-generation technology and compatibility with legacy software. From this release, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA will change to a two-year release cycle, a longer seven years of mainstream maintenance per release, and more easily adoptable feature packs.
In support of this major milestone, 麻豆原创 will offer customers on releases 1709, 1809, and 1909 of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA an extended maintenance option, which will enable customers to directly upgrade to the 2023 version.
厂础笔鈥檚 announcement that until 2040, there will always be at least one release of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA in maintenance remains unchanged.
The 2023 version of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA represents an evolutionary step in product maturity and supports our ability to offer a growing range of services, best practices, and business process optimization to help existing and new customers realize their full potential.
The flexibility to drive innovation at their own pace is important to customers. That is why 麻豆原创 responds to their needs by offering the extended maintenance option as a path to the cloud from wherever they are in their cloud ERP journey — even if that path has yet to be charted. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA is at the center of this transformation.
Innovation at the Core, with No Customer Left Behind
Since 2015, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA has delivered innovative solutions to customers and encourages them to upgrade their installation frequently, including the upcoming 麻豆原创 S/4HANA 2022 release. Next year鈥檚 2023 release of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA will mark a new chapter for customers,with next-generation technology and many alternative 麻豆原创 S/4HANA capabilities for legacy compatibility scope items for 厂础笔鈥檚 legacy software.
By adopting the 2023 version of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, customers may find it easier to bring their 麻豆原创 environment up to date and keep it current. This upgraded environment offers greater opportunity for continuous innovation without disruption and helps organizations becoming cloud-ready if and when they need to be.
To make it easier to stay up to date, 麻豆原创 is taking steps to reduce the number of upgrades for customers and deliver even greater value:
- The product will move to a two-year release cycle starting with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA 2023.
- 麻豆原创 will deliver more application innovation to meet customer needs via minimally disruptive. Easy-to-adopt feature packs are currently planned to be delivered every six months in the first two years of a release. The combination of two-year release cycles and more feature packs should offer more opportunities for co-innovation with customers without the need to upgrade the product, easing adoption and reducing total implementation costs.
- Beginning with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA 2023, each release will stay in mainstream maintenance for seven years per release, up from five years in previous releases.
- Early adopters of 厂础笔鈥檚 new releases will have a longer productive use time frame of the product, increasing their return on investment.
- 麻豆原创 S/4HANA 2023 retains the zero-downtime capabilities of its predecessors.
More Flexibility for When and How to Upgrade
To make it more convenient for customers on lower release tiers to upgrade to the 2023 version of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, 麻豆原创 is offering an optional extended maintenance option for legacy versions of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA that will be reaching the end of their five-year mainstream maintenance soon. The option will be available for the time of 2023 to 2025 and can be renewed quarterly within this specific time frame.
Customers on versions 1709, 1809, and 1909 of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, on-premise and subscription models, will be able to benefit from extended maintenance in one of two ways:
- Customers having subscribed to RISE with 麻豆原创 or legacy subscription models, for example, subscription for 麻豆原创 HANA Enterprise Cloud, take advantage of the option where extended maintenance is included at no additional fee. It is also the recommended transition for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA customers from on premise to RISE with 麻豆原创. This will then require only a change in infrastructure and allows customers the same flexibility they are used to with their on-premise version.
- For customers running one of those 麻豆原创 S/4HANA legacy versions in an on-premise environment and that wish to remain there, extended maintenance is an option and will require an additional fee of four percent of their respective core 麻豆原创 S/4HANA maintenance base.
麻豆原创 respects and understands that there are important factors to consider when customers choose to become an intelligent and sustainable enterprise. 麻豆原创 embraces and recognizes these factors by offering a solution that adapts to any organization鈥檚 unique needs.
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Eric van Rossum is chief marketing and solutions officer for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.
