FREE SAP Extended Maintenance

Did you know…

SAP S/4HANA On-Premise customers on legacy versions get free extended maintenance when they move to a RISE with SAP subscription.

That’s correct “legacy SAP S/4HANA“, we’re already at that point where S/4HANA is starting to lose versions.
We are talking specifically about customers on S/4HANA versions 1709, 1809, and 1909.

“Customers having subscribed to RISE with SAP or legacy subscription models, for example, subscription for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, take advantage of the option where extended maintenance is included at no additional fee.“

Here are the significant dates for those mentioned On-Premise releases:

Release	End of Mainstream Maint	End of Extended Maint
1709	31.12.2022	31.12.2025
1809	31.12.2023	31.12.2025
1909	31.12.2024	31.12.2025
2020	31.12.2025	?
2021	31.12.2026	?
2022	31.12.2027	?
2023	?

Wow, 2025 is going to be a busy year for SAP. Have a guess what release those customers will be moving to (assuming they choose S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition) if they have not already started? See my previous post here for my thinking on that one.

Reference link: https://news.sap.com/2022/09/new-sap-s4hana-release-maintenance-strategy/