SAP ECC 6.0 lives to fight another decade under Rimini Street

Enterprise software support specialist Rimini Street has announced that it will continue to support SAP's ECC 6.0 until 2040, more than ten years after the German vendor plans to retire support for the legacy ERP platform.

The extension also applies to S/4HANA, SAP's current ERP platform, which the software vendor says it will also support until that date.

In 2020, SAP pushed back the mainstream support deadline for customers using its Business Suite 7 (BS7) applications – including the ERP software SAP ECC 6.0 – from 2025 until 2027, with extended support available until 2030 at a 2 percent premium, following pressure from users.

ECC remains the cornerstone of ERP estates across some of the world's largest companies, which might have invested hundreds of millions of dollars and years of work in adopting the system. Gartner estimates that over 60 percent of SAP customers remain on ...