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SAP BW 7.5 mainstream maintenance ends
Mainstream maintenance for SAP BW 7.5 ends December 31, 2027, with extended maintenance available through 2030.
Who’s affected
Teams running SAP BW 7.5 (on-premises or self-managed) who rely on mainstream maintenance for patches and support. They must decide whether to buy extended maintenance or start migrating before 2027-12-31.
Not affected: Teams already on a newer SAP BW release or a non-BW platform (for example SAP Business Data Cloud, Snowflake or Databricks). Also not affected: teams that never rely on vendor patches and support.
What it costs
The record gives no prices. Cost depends on whether extended maintenance (available until 2030-12-31) carries an uplift under your contract, plus the effort and run-in-parallel cost of any migration.
When to act
Migrating off an aging warehouse platform takes many months of scoping, rebuilding and parallel runs, so start well before mainstream maintenance ends on 2027-12-31.
Blast radius: BW queries, InfoProviders, process chains and extractors feeding BI front ends and downstream reports. Any migration also touches authorizations, scheduling, and contracts tied to support.
What should you do? decision tree
- you are on SAP BW 7.5 and have not checked your maintenance contractAsk SAP or your reseller what extended maintenance costs and what it covers, and get it in writing.
- your BW workloads are stable and a migration is not funded yetPlan to buy extended maintenance and use the window to 2030-12-31 to budget and schedule a move.
- you already have a target platform in mind (SAP Business Data Cloud, Snowflake or Databricks)Inventory BW objects, queries and extractors, then pilot the highest-value data flows first.
- neither option fits your budget or timelineDo nothing yet but record the risk of unsupported software after 2027-12-31 and set a decision date well before it.
Options
- WaitStay on BW 7.5 through the mainstream window and decide on a path before 2027-12-31 using a documented risk review.
- NegotiateGet written terms for extended maintenance to 2030-12-31 and ask for it to be bundled with any renewal or cloud commitment.
- OptimizeRetire unused InfoProviders, queries and process chains now to shrink the migration scope.
- MigrateMove BW workloads to a supported SAP data platform or a cloud warehouse, in phases, starting with the most-used data flows.
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