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Work backward from December 2027, account for how long these projects actually take, and the amount of runway left starts to look a lot shorter than it feels.
The 2027 deadline is a reason to act, but it isn't the best reason. The efficiency and AI-readiness case for moving now is getting stronger every quarter you wait.
RISE bundles licensing, infrastructure and migration services into one contract. Adoption is climbing fast — but it isn't automatically the right answer for every organization.
The deadline is global, but the resourcing pressure has a distinctly local shape for Canadian companies competing with the US and Europe for the same scarce migration talent.
A flawless technical cutover doesn't matter much if the people who have to use the new system every day were never brought along. The survey data says this is where migrations quietly fail.
Years of ABAP customizations built up on ECC don't disappear during a migration — they surface, all at once, usually costing more to fix than anyone assessed up front.
The American SAP Users Group talks to the people actually running these programs. Its most recent member research is a useful reality check against vendor talking points.
It rarely makes the executive summary, but data quality work is where a surprising share of migration budgets and timelines actually go off the rails.
SAP's extended maintenance offer is a genuine safety net for organizations mid-migration — and a trap for organizations that mistake it for a long-term alternative to moving at all.