Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030

Exclusive Airbus is undertaking a major overhaul to migrate its sprawling SAP environment to S/4HANA – and potentially to the cloud – as the aerospace giant grapples with the same deadline pressures facing thousands of enterprise customers worldwide.

The company currently runs a patchwork of SAP versions, including legacy SAP R/3 4.6 and ECC 6.0 systems. While some divisions – finance, materials management, and parts of Airbus Helicopters – have already moved to S/4HANA, the bulk of the migration lies ahead.

Standard support for ECC6 ends in 2027, with extended support available until 2030 for a premium. But Catherine Jestin, executive vice president of digital at Airbus, hopes SAP will agree to further extensions.

"If you talk to some of the CIOs in Europe who implemented ECC6, most of us will not be finished with the migration by 2030," Jestin told The Register. "SAP has agreed to extend support ...