All SAP software licensees can now easily extend the useful life and maximize the full value of their current, proven and stable mission-critical systems and enjoy total maintenance savings of up to 90% without the requirement of a costly and risky migration to S/4HANA on RISE.

Rimini Street, a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, management and innovation solutions, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, announced it has extended full support coverage for all SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA releases through 2040, without any need to complete a migration to S/4HANA on RISE as required by SAP for clients who want to remain on SAP’s Annual Support and receive full support.

“The SAP ECC 6.0 and older S/4HANA releases can deliver excellent and stable operations for 15 or more years with Rimini Street’s proven, ultra-responsive support for SAP.” – Seth Ravin, CEO, Rimini Street

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Current Rimini Support™ for SAP clients are not impacted by SAP’s end-of-maintenance dates. With unmatched support, service and guidance from Rimini Street as a single, trusted partner – clients can keep systems running smoothly, stay in full tax and legal compliance and re-allocate IT budget savings to self-fund innovation.

Rimini Street launched Rimini Support for SAP over fifteen years ago and currently supports hundreds of SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA clients. This announcement extending SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA support for another fifteen years applies to both current and new clients who are seeking to drive maximum ROI out of their SAP software investment and enjoy total annual maintenance savings of up to 90% and avoid the cost and risks of a low-value migration to S/4HANA on RISE.

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“Rimini Street’s announcement that it will support all SAP releases until 2040 is most welcome news to SAP ECC customers such as ourselves,” said Nobuo Norisue, president of AUTOBACS Digital Initiative Co., the group IT infrastructure of AUTOBACS, Japanese retailer of automotive parts and accessories. “As a very satisfied client of Rimini Support™ for SAP since 2016, having the option to stay on our ECC system until 2040 with the support of Rimini Street opens up many new doors for us, especially at a time when we are designing our next-generation IT foundation and architecture while balancing budgets and delivery timeline. Rimini Street’s continued support provides us with more time, funds and options for a smart path forward.”

“According to industry analysts, an estimated 20,000 SAP ECC licensees have not even licensed S/4HANA, and many of those who have licensed S/4HANA still have not completed an S/4HANA or S/4HANA on RISE migration,” said Seth Ravin, CEO of Rimini Street. “The SAP ECC 6.0 and older S/4HANA releases can deliver excellent and stable operations for 15 or more years with Rimini Street’s proven, ultra-responsive support for SAP. There is no need for SAP licensees to undergo major costs, risks and disruption to their operations for a software migration that many believe is unnecessary and low value, compared to the value of investing in new technologies like enterprise AI, workflow and task automation – that can bring immediate value to the organization.”

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Rimini Street Extends the Useful Life of All SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA Releases

SAP’s Mainstream Maintenance for ECC 6.0 is scheduled to end by 2027, but for those on enhancement packs 0-5, the end date is December 31, 2025. Similarly, SAP S/4HANA has several releases where Mainstream Maintenance has already ended or will end in 2025, 2026, or 2027, depending on the version. SAP’s Extended Maintenance is available for some versions of ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA, but not all, and at a significant cost increase. The full list of maintenance end dates can be found here.

Rimini Street clients can avoid the endless cycles and risks of vendor-mandated upgrades, migrations and replatforming, benefitting from:

• Immediate savings of up to 50% off SAP annual support fees, with savings of up to 90% on total support costs
• A named, dedicated Primary Support Engineer (PSE), backed by a deep bench of SAP experts across the globe, and Rimini Street’s patented and proprietary AI tools and processes for fast, accurate issue resolution
• Comprehensive support that covers customizations at no additional charge, helping to lower daily IT operating costs and preserve processes of competitive differentiation
• Guaranteed SLAs of ten-minute response time for critical cases, averaging less than two-minute response times for both Priority 1 and 2 cases in 2024

“We predict the future of ERP will forever be changed in the next five to ten years, with ERP software replaced by new, faster and more flexible agentic ERP processes that we are already deploying for clients,” said Ravin. “Already, Rimini Street clients have saved $9 billion dollars in IT operating costs and are self-funding innovation to propel them forward without being slowed down with unnecessary, costly and risky upgrades, migrations and replatforming. Rimini Street clients are disruptors, not the disrupted.”