Upgrade your Cloud ERP

This page is a key resource to maximize benefits of your SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition by running on latest release and realize the full value from AI innovations, increased productivity, and enhanced security. Explore the benefits, best practices, resources, and tools.

Upgrade Benefits: Why Upgrade?

Each release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition comes with a new set of capabilities bringing simplification, innovation, and automation to you and your end users. There are numerous benefits of staying up to date, including increased innovation potential, enhanced security and compliance, improved user experience, streamlined business processes and more.

Note:

Are you running SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition versions 1709, 1809, 1909 and 2020? Upgrade now!
The mainstream and extended maintenance for those versions is ending in December 2025. See SAP Note 3246630 for details.

Read more here and see event section below for related events

Building your Upgrade Routine

  • Lower upgrade impact by following SAP's clean core principles that make upgrades a seamless part of your software lifecycle by running on the latest release for accelerated adoption of innovation
  • Utilize SAP Activate, a methodology for implementing SAP solutions, that guides you by prompting deliverables and tasks at the right time, including powerful tools and services to support your upgrade process.
    • SAP Readiness Check evaluates your existing system condition for an upgrade, including custom code, compatibility pack usage and add-ons. (for more specifics read this blog and see event section below for related events)
    • Test Automation increases efficiency and quality.
    • Enterprise Support Academy resources and dedicated SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Value Maps1 upskill your team.
    • SAP support for technical upgrades execution is included in your RISE with SAP subscription.
    • Services and support from SAP and its ecosystem are available for additional help

Read more here

1) Please note that a one-time registration  for SAP Learning Hub, edition for SAP Enterprise Support is necessary to access the value map.

Events

  • Planning SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Upgrades with SAP: Recording
  • SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS02  - Release Highlights: Recording
  • Rise into the future - Make your move to an AI-infused cloud ERP: Recording
  • Workshop: Readiness Check & Business Process Improvement: PDF | Recording
  • Workshop: Engagement with SAP on upgrades and value of automation in upgrades: PDF | Recording
  • Workshop: SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA upgrades and managing Fiori apps during the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition upgrade: PDF | Recording