{"id":11016,"date":"2026-05-15T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/blog\/importance-of-sap-application-management-services-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:42:42","slug":"7-things-to-consider-before-an-sap-s-4hana-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/us-en\/blog\/7-things-to-consider-before-an-sap-s-4hana-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Things to Consider Before an SAP S\/4HANA Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"insights-banner\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"insights-banner-wrapper\">\n            <div class=\"insights-banner-left\">\n                                                <h1 class=\"insights-banner-title h3\">7 Things to Consider Before an SAP S\/4HANA Migration<\/h1>\n                                <div class=\"badge-wrap d-flex d-flex-wrap\">\n                                                           <span class=\"badge badge-orange\">SAP Support<\/span>\n                                                      <\/div>\n                                 <p class=\"publish-date\">Published: May 15, 2026<\/p>\n                                \n                 \n\n\n\n            <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"insights-banner-right\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7-Things-to-Consider-Before-an-SAP-S4HANA-Migration.webp\"  alt=\"Banner\" class=\"insights-banner-img\" width=\"720\" height=\"471\">\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n    <div class=\"main-content-blog-section\">\n        <div class=\"main-content-blog\">\n                            <div class=\"pdp-sidebar-sec-wrap\">\n                    <div class=\"pdp-sidebar\">\n                        <ul class=\"ul-none pdp-sidebar-menu-wrap\">\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"introduction\" href=\"#introduction\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" class=\"active\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Introduction<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"what-is-sap-s4hana-migration\" href=\"#what-is-sap-s4hana-migration\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">What Is an SAP S\/4HANA Migration?<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"why-migrate-to-sap-s4hana\" href=\"#why-migrate-to-sap-s4hana\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Why Migrate to SAP S\/4HANA Now?<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"sap-s4hana-migration-considerations\" href=\"#sap-s4hana-migration-considerations\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">7 Key SAP S\/4HANA Migration Considerations<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"how-sap-s4hana-migration-works\" href=\"#how-sap-s4hana-migration-works\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">How an SAP S\/4HANA Migration Works<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"ai-in-sap-s4hana-migration\" href=\"#ai-in-sap-s4hana-migration\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">AI in SAP S\/4HANA Migration<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"migration-challenges\" href=\"#migration-challenges\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Common Migration Challenges<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"benefits-of-sap-s4hana-migration\" href=\"#benefits-of-sap-s4hana-migration\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Benefits of SAP S\/4HANA Migration<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"how-accely-helps\" href=\"#how-accely-helps\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">How Accely Helps<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                    <\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"content-blog-sections\">\n                                                            <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"introduction\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <p>Most of what makes or breaks an SAP S\/4HANA migration has little to do with the tech. It comes down to seven calls: do you have a real business case, which path fits (greenfield, brownfield, or selective), how clean is your data, what shape is your custom code in, where will it run, and can you fund the timeline you actually need? Sort those out and go-live is quiet. Skip them and every old problem tags along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody migrates to SAP S\/4HANA over a long weekend. This is a bet on how your business runs for the next decade, and it has a habit of punishing anyone who treats it as a pure IT job. The teams that come out bruised? They rarely hit a technical brick wall. They waved off the hard questions early and paid for it later, chasing scope, data problems, and cost overruns the whole way through.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s a deadline breathing down everyone\u2019s neck. SAP pulls the plug on mainstream maintenance for ECC on 31 December 2027, and the nearer that gets, the tighter and costlier the market becomes. Counterintuitive as it sounds, that\u2019s exactly why you want to take your time at the front of the project, not the back. The seven SAP S\/4HANA migration considerations that follow are the ones I\u2019d settle before signing off on a date, a partner, or a path. Would you rather not go it alone? That\u2019s the whole point of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/services\/sap-s4hana-migration\/\">AI-assisted SAP S\/4HANA migration<\/a>.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"what-is-sap-s4hana-migration\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>What is an SAP S\/4HANA migration?<\/h2>\n<p>So what does an SAP S\/4HANA migration actually involve? At its core, you\u2019re moving off an older SAP ERP (usually SAP ECC) onto SAP\u2019s current platform, S\/4HANA, and dragging your data along with you. What sets it apart from a bog-standard upgrade is the plumbing underneath. S\/4HANA runs on a leaner data model and the in-memory HANA database, which means tables you\u2019ve leaned on for years, chunks of custom code, reports people depend on every morning, a fair bit of it has to be reworked.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/blog\/essential-conversion-guide-for-sap-ecc-to-sap-s-4hana\/\">SAP ECC to S\/4HANA migration<\/a> is a business project first and a technical one second. You\u2019re not nudging a version number forward. You\u2019re making calls: which processes survive, which get torn down and rebuilt, and how much of your history is worth hauling across.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"why-migrate-to-sap-s4hana\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>Why migrate to SAP S\/4HANA now?<\/h2>\n<p>Waiting doesn\u2019t save you a penny here. If anything, it adds to the bill. Three forces are tightening the screws on your timeline.<\/p>\n<h2>SAP ECC support ends in 2027<\/h2>\n<p>On 31 December 2027, SAP turns off mainstream maintenance for ECC (Business Suite 7). Sure, you can buy an extension to 2030 for a fee, and a small club of really big or really complex shops can push further still through RISE with SAP. But the day mainstream support stops, so do your security patches, your legal updates, your technical fixes. Try walking into a board meeting and proposing you run finance and supply chain on an unsupported system. See how far that gets.<\/p>\n<h3>The cost of waiting<\/h3>\n<p>Imagine every ECC customer on earth shuffling toward one exit at the same moment. That\u2019s more or less the situation. The closer 2027 gets, the harder it is to find seasoned SAP people, and the ones you do find charge more. On top of that, the Compatibility Packs (the things that let certain old ECC functions keep running inside S\/4HANA) start expiring around now, so your room to move shrinks. Get in while there\u2019s slack and you call the shots on approach. Drag your feet and you may get boxed into a rushed conversion, because it\u2019s the only thing that squeezes into the calendar.<\/p>\n<h3>What you gain<\/h3>\n<p>Staying supported is just the price of entry. The upside runs deeper. Instead of waiting on overnight batch jobs, you get data in real time. You get the Fiori interface. You get a Clean Core setup that keeps your next upgrade from turning into a project of its own. And AI ships in the box now, Joule and SAP Business AI both, tucked right into the work your teams do all day. In practice, most of the payback only shows up once you\u2019re running on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/solutions\/sap-s4-hana\/\">AI-enabled SAP S\/4HANA<\/a> core.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"sap-s4hana-migration-considerations\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>7 key SAP S\/4HANA migration considerations<\/h2>\n<p>Seven things to settle before anyone kicks off. Treat them as decisions you owe yourself up front, not documentation to file away. Each one tugs on your cost, your timeline, and how much you squeeze out of S\/4HANA down the line.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Define your target state and business case<\/h3>\n<p>First question, and it\u2019s a blunt one: why are you doing this at all? Running a quick proof of concept, or heading straight into production? Trying to stay supported with minimal fuss, or using the disruption to finally fix processes while the hood\u2019s already up? Whatever the answer, write it in plain words. The migrations I\u2019ve watched go off the rails almost always started with something woolly like \u201clet\u2019s implement S\/4HANA\u201d and never agreed what a win looked like. Nail the business case and, funnily enough, it more or less chooses the path for you.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Choose your migration path<\/h3>\n<p>There are three ways in. Which one suits you depends on a single question: how much of what you\u2019ve already got is worth keeping?<\/p>\n<h4>Greenfield<\/h4>\n<p>Blank slate. You stand up S\/4HANA from scratch, build your processes around SAP\u2019s standards, and wave goodbye to the old customisation. Makes sense when your current system is long in the tooth, patched to within an inch of its life, or just doesn\u2019t match how you work anymore. Heavier lift, but the reward\u2019s bigger too.<\/p>\n<h4>Brownfield<\/h4>\n<p>A straight conversion. You lift your existing ECC system, its config, its history, and set it down on S\/4HANA more or less intact. Faster, less upheaval. The trade-off? You\u2019ll haul the old complexity along with you unless you tidy up en route.<\/p>\n<h4>Selective (Hybrid)<\/h4>\n<p>The middle lane, sometimes called bluefield. Keep the processes and data that pull their weight; rebuild the rest. You decide what changes and what doesn\u2019t, though it takes sharp scoping and, usually, a third-party tool to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"624\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"113\"><strong>Path<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\"><strong>Effort \/ timeline<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"204\"><strong>Best for<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"147\"><strong>Watch out for<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"113\"><strong>Greenfield<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">Highest, ~18 to 36 months<\/td>\n<td width=\"204\">Outdated systems, process redesign, non-SAP sources<\/td>\n<td width=\"147\">Cost and change management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"113\"><strong>Brownfield<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">Lower, ~9 to 18 months<\/td>\n<td width=\"204\">Well-run ECC, minimal disruption<\/td>\n<td width=\"147\">Carrying legacy debt forward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"113\"><strong>Selective \/ hybrid<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">Variable, phased<\/td>\n<td width=\"204\">Large, complex landscapes<\/td>\n<td width=\"147\">Scoping precision, tooling needs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3. Check your system and data readiness<\/h3>\n<p>Measure first. Always. The SAP Readiness Check tells you how much is going to break. The ABAP Test Cockpit puts a number on your custom code. And somebody, ideally someone without a stake in the answer, needs to give your data an honest grade. This is the step where gut feelings turn into evidence you can plan around. A proper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/services\/sap-discovery-evaluation\/\">SAP discovery and evaluation<\/a> does precisely that, and pound for pound it\u2019s the cheapest insurance on the whole job.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Plan data migration and cleansing<\/h3>\n<p>Not every record has earned a seat on the bus. Work out early what travels, what gets archived, and what you leave at the curb. And clean it before you move it, not after, because dirty data tipped into S\/4HANA just recreates yesterday\u2019s mess on a faster kit. Want the order of play spelled out? Our rundown of the core <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/blog\/5-easy-steps-to-successfully-migrate-sap-s-4-hana\/\">SAP S\/4HANA migration steps<\/a> walks you through it.<\/p>\n<h3>5. Sort out custom code and integrations<\/h3>\n<p>Clean Core rewards standard config and side-by-side extensions, and it frowns on hacking the core itself. So haul every customisation into the dock and make it justify its existence. Does it still pull its weight, or was it a workaround for something SAP now does natively? While you\u2019re in there, map your integrations. Migrations have a nasty habit of surfacing brittle point-to-point links that need rebuilding, not just a fresh round of testing.<\/p>\n<h3>6. Pick your operating model and deployment<\/h3>\n<p>So where does S\/4HANA actually live? On-premise, private cloud, public cloud, and, increasingly, inside RISE with SAP as the wrapper around all of it. Mostly standard processes? Public cloud and its rolling updates will suit you fine. Carrying heavier customisation? You\u2019ll likely be happier on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/solutions\/sap-s4hana-private-cloud\/\">SAP S\/4HANA Private Cloud<\/a>, with a steadier base to build on. Already parked on a hyperscaler? The same logic behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/blog\/a-step-by-step-guide-on-migrating-sap-systems-to-microsoft-azure\/\">migrating SAP to Azure<\/a> applies: pick the model that matches how much control and customisation you truly need, not whichever one has the shiniest label.<\/p>\n<h3>7. Plan budget, timeline, resources, and change management<\/h3>\n<p>Budget for the stuff that hides. Data prep alone can swallow a quarter of the effort, and it belongs to your senior people, not whoever\u2019s got a free afternoon. Set the timeline after the readiness check hands you real numbers, never before. And whatever you do, don\u2019t bolt training on at the end. A migration that\u2019s spotless on paper but shunned by the people meant to use it hasn\u2019t succeeded, it\u2019s failed. Tell folks what\u2019s coming early, train them by role, and give them a reason to want the switch.<\/p>\n                                                            <div class=\"cta-section d-flex d-align-start d-space-between bg-dark pb-sm-0\">\n                                    \n                                    <div class=\"title-content-block\">\n                                                                                    <h3>Not sure which of these applies to your landscape?<\/h3>\n                                                                                \n                                                                                    <p class=\"body-font-xl\">Accely\u2019s SAP specialists can pressure-test your readiness before you commit to a path or a date.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"cta-button-wrap\">\n                                                                                    <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\" \n                                            aria-label=\"link\" \n                                            target=\"_self\" \n                                            class=\"postbtn btn btn-primary\">\n                                                Request a Demo                                                <span class=\"btn-icon icon-arrow-right\"><\/span>\n                                            <\/a>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"how-sap-s4hana-migration-works\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>How does an SAP S\/4HANA migration work?<\/h2>\n<p>SAP hands you a playbook for the whole thing, called SAP Activate. It runs in six phases:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nail the business case, run the readiness check, sketch out the target architecture.<\/li>\n<li>Stand up the environment, plan the work, get the team in a room.<\/li>\n<li>Fit-to-standard workshops that decide what stays standard and what has to bend.<\/li>\n<li>Build it, configure it, move the data, test in cycles.<\/li>\n<li>Cutover, go-live, hypercare.<\/li>\n<li>Steady the ship, then start making it better.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Discovery\u2019s the one everyone speeds through and later kicks themselves over. It sets the tone for everything that follows.<\/p>\n<h3>Technical vs process-oriented implementation<\/h3>\n<p>Every migration breaks into two halves. The technical half, moving the database to HANA, reshaping the data model, swapping out program code, standing up Fiori, is well tooled and reasonably predictable. The other half is the messy, human one: redrawing how work flows, wiring up new processes, sorting roles, and coaxing people onto them. The upside? You can usually run the process side on its own track, apart from the technical cutover, so one never ends up holding the other hostage.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"ai-in-sap-s4hana-migration\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>How AI is changing SAP S\/4HANA migration in 2026<\/h2>\n<p>Rewind two years and \u201cAI in your migration\u201d meant a slide in the pitch deck and not much else. Not anymore. AI-assisted tooling now chews through your custom code and flags what an upgrade will snap, grades your data quality before a single record budges, and drafts test cases so QA isn\u2019t starting from nothing. Does any of that put consultants out of a job? No. It clears the drudgery off their desks, so the experienced ones spend their hours on the judgement calls instead of grinding through analysis by hand.<\/p>\n<p>And once you\u2019ve gone live, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/solutions\/sap-business-ai\/\">SAP Business AI<\/a> carries the same smarts into daily operations, flagging odd numbers in finance, tightening up forecasts, that sort of thing. It\u2019s how we run delivery at Accely: AI-assisted wherever it saves time, with our people keeping a firm hand on every decision that counts.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"migration-challenges\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>Common SAP S\/4HANA migration challenges<\/h2>\n<p>Most migrations stumble over the same short list. Spot them early and you\u2019ve won half the fight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dirty data. <\/strong>Duplicates, dead records, entries that contradict each other. It slows the move and poisons the new system. Scrub it first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Custom code nobody claims. <\/strong>Years of ABAP written by people are long gone. Get the ATC on it early, not when you\u2019re neck-deep in testing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The skills crunch. <\/strong>As 2027 looms, decent SAP hands get scarce. Book your team well ahead.<\/li>\n<li><strong>People digging in. <\/strong>New screens, new roles, new habits are a lot to ask of anyone. Bring users along early, or watch adoption stall.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scope creep. <\/strong>\u201cWhile we\u2019re in here&#8230;\u201d is exactly how a timeline doubles when nobody\u2019s watching. Agree the scope, then defend it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"benefits-of-sap-s4hana-migration\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>Benefits of migrating to SAP S\/4HANA<\/h2>\n<p>Handle it well and here\u2019s what lands on your side of the ledger:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reporting in real time, not whenever last night\u2019s batch decides to finish.<\/li>\n<li>A tidier, role-based experience courtesy of SAP Fiori.<\/li>\n<li>A Clean Core, so the next upgrade stays cheap and quick instead of turning into another epic.<\/li>\n<li>AI baked right in, Joule and SAP Business AI both, sitting inside the day-to-day.<\/li>\n<li>A lighter data footprint and fewer systems to babysit, which quietly drags your total cost of ownership down.<\/li>\n<li>Cloud headroom to scale without ripping out and rebuilding your infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                                                            <div class=\"cta-section d-flex d-align-start d-space-between bg-dark pb-sm-0\">\n                                    \n                                    <div class=\"title-content-block\">\n                                                                                    <h3>Planning your move to S\/4HANA?<\/h3>\n                                                                                \n                                                                                    <p class=\"body-font-xl\">Talk to Accely\u2019s SAP specialists and get a straight, evidence-based read on where you stand.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"cta-button-wrap\">\n                                                                                    <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\" \n                                            aria-label=\"link\" \n                                            target=\"_self\" \n                                            class=\"postbtn btn btn-primary\">\n                                                Book a demo                                                <span class=\"btn-icon icon-arrow-right\"><\/span>\n                                            <\/a>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"how-accely-helps\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>How Accely approaches your SAP S\/4HANA migration<\/h2>\n<p>Accely\u2019s an SAP Gold Partner with 23+ years buried in enterprise SAP and 950+ organisations served across the map. We run migrations the way this piece says to plan them: readiness first, the path picked on evidence rather than a hunch, and the data work put in senior hands. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/services\/sap-s4hana-migration\/\">SAP S\/4HANA data migration<\/a> approach uses AI to speed up the assessment, the code remediation, and the testing, while our consultants stay on the hook for the decisions and the outcome.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                        <\/div>\n            \n            \n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<section class=\"insights-middle insights-middle-conclusion\" id=\"conclusion\">\n    <div class=\"insights-container\">\n        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n            <div>\n                           <div class=\"insights-conclusion\">\n                                        <h4 class=\"insights-conclusion-title\">Conclusion<\/h4>\n                                        <div class=\"insights-conclusion-text\">\n                        <p>An SAP S\/4HANA migration rewards the teams that do their thinking before they jump. Sort out the business case, choose the path of evidence, scrub the data, plan for the people who\u2019ll live with it, and the technical cutover barely registers. The 2027 deadline is real enough. But panic isn\u2019t the response to it. Preparation is.<\/p>\n<p>Start with a readiness conversation. It\u2019s the cheapest, most useful thing you can do on this entire list.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n                        <\/div> \n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"insights-middle insights-middle-faq faq-sec\" id=\"faq\">\n     <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                     <div class=\"title-content-block\">\n               <h4>Frequently asked questions<\/h4>\n          <\/div>\n                              <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">How long does an SAP S\/4HANA migration take? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>Depends how tangled your setup is and which path you take. Brownfield conversions tend to land in the 9-to-18-month range. Greenfield rebuilds usually stretch to somewhere between 18 and 36. What moves the needle most isn\u2019t the method, it\u2019s your data volume, the state of your custom code, and how many systems you\u2019re trying to fold into one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n               <\/div>\n                         <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">How much does an SAP S\/4HANA migration cost? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>No price tag on the shelf, I\u2019m afraid. It rides on scope, how healthy your data is, your custom code, and the approach. Greenfield usually costs more than brownfield, since you\u2019re redesigning rather than converting. The only figure worth trusting comes out of a readiness assessment, not a number scribbled on a napkin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n               <\/div>\n                         <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">Greenfield or brownfield, which should we choose? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>Brownfield if your ECC system\u2019s in decent nick and you want the quicker, lower-risk hop. Greenfield if your processes are dated and you want a clean core and a proper redesign. And if you can\u2019t cleanly pick one, cost out a selective or hybrid route before you commit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n               <\/div>\n                         <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">What happens if we miss the 2027 ECC deadline? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>Mainstream maintenance stops on 31 December 2027. Miss it and you can still buy an extension to 2030 for a fee, though you\u2019ll pay more and scrap over a shrinking pool of partners. 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