As SAP’s 2027 support cutoff nears, Pranay Raj Kanakala shows what compliance-ready SAP migration actually looks like

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In 18 months, the software many of the world’s largest companies rely on to run their finance and operations stops receiving security updates and official support. That is the reality behind SAP’s 31 December 2027 deadline, the point at which mainstream support for its older ECC system ends. The stated fix is simple: move to SAP’s newer platform, S/4HANA. Getting there is not. Recent benchmark research puts it starkly: only 34% of companies have fully completed the transition, even as 55% report deploying the new system at some level, which leaves a large share of SAP’s customer base running old and new systems side by side with the clock running down. Most coverage of the deadline fixes on the platform switch itself. For regulated industries, a quieter risk sits alongside it: getting revenue accounting right while everything underneath it is moving.

Pranay Raj Kanakala came to that problem from...

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