Embrace agility and upgrade your cloud ERP for success
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.
The mainstream and extended maintenance for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition systems on versions 1709, 1809, 1909 and 2020 is ending in December 2025.
Upgrade now!
See SAP Note 3246630 for details
Read the whitepaper on “Embrace Agility and Upgrade for Success”
Start planning your path forward from compatibility packs and leverage new innovations with the latest release to fuel business growth.
- Check your compatibility scope usage via the Early Watch Alert
- Assess your impact with the compatibility scope analysis in SAP Readiness Check
- Leverage SAP Services and Support to plan your path forward
- Plan your upgrade to the latest release
Find more details in this blog. For questions, reach out to your SAP representative.
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.
- See our latest innovations (What's new viewer)
- Read about recent release highlights: 2023 release highlights, FPS02 Release highlights, 2022 release highlights
- Listen to our recent webinar on SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS02 Highlights
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
- Optimize your upgrade strategy and benefit from greater flexibility and easier-to-consume innovation with the new release and maintenance strategy
- Lower upgrade impact by following SAP's clean core principles that make upgrades a seamless part of your software lifecycle
- Upskill your team with the Enterprise Support Academy and dedicated SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Value Maps *
- Start assessing the potential upgrade impact by running the SAP Readiness Check (for more specifics read this blog and see event section below for related events)
Read more here
*Please note that a one-time registration for SAP Learning Hub, edition for SAP Enterprise Support is necessary to access the value map.Leverage Tools and Services for an enhanced Upgrade Journey
- Assess the upgrade impact on your business operations by running SAP Readiness Check
- Reduce efforts and improve quality using Tricentis Test Automation
- Benefit from SAP support guidance and resources included with RISE with SAP for technical upgrade execution
- Enhance upgrade planning and coordination with the release upgrade management application * and SAP Cloud ALM
Read more here
*General availability planned for Q4/2024. Check with your SAP representative if you already have access.
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