Value-maximizing support for Sybase
SAP ASE (Sybase) is well-known for its stability; however, licensees are continuously faced with maintenance fee increases and vendor demands to undergo risky, disruptive upgrades. While prices go up, licensees report the ROI is going down, primarily due to a lack of quality support.
Rimini Street, the global leader of third-party support for SAP, trusted by leaders in highly regulated industries such as financial services, energy and telecom, brings relief and peace of mind to organizations that want to extend the life of their Sybase investment for years into the future with better performance and outcomes.
On the Rimini Smart Path™, you can reduce total cost of support by up to 90%, starting with immediate savings of up to 50% on annual Sybase support. With expert engineers who work around the clock to run, manage, support, customize, configure, protect, monitor and optimize your database, ensuring you can run it for the next 15+ years without upgrades or forced migrations, you can rest easy knowing your database is in good hands.
It’s time you free up your people, time and money to focus on innovation, not just keeping the lights on. Start with better support at up to half the price with Rimini Street and yield a higher ROI for your IT spend.
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Free up funds for innovation
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Unlock greater Sybase database value
As the global leader of end-to-end third-party enterprise software support for SAP, Rimini Street serves as a strategic IT partner for organizations like yours. Let us guide you on a path toward not only protecting and future-proofing your IT investment but helping you achieve your growth and profitability goals — faster — by leveraging your existing, highly valuable systems.
Go beyond break/fix support for SAP ASE database to help increase uptime, improve performance and ensure compliance. From configuration support to performance tuning, our team does it all.
With Rimini Support for SAP ASE, you gain:
- Dedicated Primary Support Engineer (PSE) from team averaging 20+ years of experience
- Fast, accurate issue resolution with Rimini Street’s patented and proprietary AI processes
- Immediate savings of up to 50% on annual support to reinvest in innovation
Free your team from daily ASE maintenance to work on higher-value strategic initiatives. We’ll take on database management, including incidents and routine tasks, for greater productivity and cost-efficiency.
With Rimini Manage for SAP ASE, you gain:
- Optimization of database environment by engineers with deep knowledge of Sybase
- Unlimited ticket model from an extensive catalogue of services at a fixed price
- Root cause analysis to prevent issue recurrence for increased stability
Resolve complex challenges — from security strategy to open-source migration — from a partner who knows SAP ASE systems in depth. Count on our team for expert consulting and tailored project solutions to put you on the best path forward.
With Rimini Consult for SAP ASE, you gain:
- Vendor-agnostic IT strategy and roadmapping based on your goals
- Guidance to optimize, evolve and transform your database for a better ROI
- Flexible staff and skills augmentation to meet business demand
Get proactive Sybase security without dependency on vendor updates or patches. Trusted by top CISOs, Rimini Street helps protect your data, mitigate risk and improve your overall security posture.
With Rimini Protect for SAP ASE, you gain:
- Zero-day defense through database memory activity monitoring
- Ability to create custom rules for governance, risk management and compliance
- Cost-effective protection that allows you to redirect funding to innovation
Ensure Sybase availability and top performance with proactive monitoring and health check solutions. Take advantage of Rimini Street’s unique tools, diagnostics and human expertise to resolve issues before they turn critical.
With Rimini Watch for SAP ASE, you gain:
- Guidance on best practices for maintaining your database long term
- Proactive, automated solutions to reduce backlogs and resolution times
- Improved capacity trending and planning capabilities through historical data
Hear what our clients have to say
With Rimini Street, our SAP and VMware environments simply work. That reliability gives us time to improve business processes and collaborate more closely with our innovation teams. We’ve found a partner we trust to keep our core systems running while we focus on where the business needs to go next.”
With Rimini Street, we have confidence that our SAP systems are in expert hands. That trust allows our team to focus on enabling the business rather than worrying about ERP support.”
The funds we saved, and the system stability achieved by moving to Rimini Street have empowered us to reinvest our people, time and money towards initiatives that put us at the forefront of innovation.”
Rimini Street is quick and accurate, especially when working with customized code and complex systems. Issues that would have taken days to resolve with a traditional vendor are often resolved within hours with Rimini Street.”
Rimini Street’s support helps create capacity for us to explore modernization, automation and AI initiatives across our broader application landscape, while maintaining SAP ECC as the stable core.”
During our most critical VMware infrastructure challenge, Rimini Street delivered exceptional support characterized by technical expertise, genuine urgency and unwavering commitment.”
At Ypê, we have several AI projects in works, but the Rimini Agentic UX™ project has outperformed them all in both speed and expectations. It only took one month from start to delivery, and helped us reduce our approval cycle by 60% and accelerate time-to-value. It’s a great win for our IT team.”
Instead of spending cycles on accessibility issues, our team is now focusing their efforts on value-add projects that deliver real ROI for our business.”
Rimini Street has proven to be more than a trusted partner for our operations, and we continue to grow our footprint with them because we know it will translate to fast and lasting results for the business.”
“My team applauds the speed of Rimini Street support. It’s tremendously different than what we experienced with SAP support.”
Don’t miss these critical SAP deadlines
No matter which SAP products or versions you run — or when SAP support expires — Rimini Street can support you now and extend the life of your systems through 2040 and beyond.
Product |
Version/Release |
End of Mainstream
|
|---|---|---|
SAP ECC and Business Suite |
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SAP ERP (ECC 6.0) |
EHP 0-5 (Enh. Pk 0-5) |
12/31/2025 |
SAP ERP (ECC 6.0) |
EHP 6-8 (Enh. Pk 6-8) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP CRM (Customer Rel' Mgmt) |
7.0 (Business Suite 7) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP SCM (Customer Rel' Mgmt) |
7.0 (Business Suite 7) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP SRM (Customer Rel' Mgmt) |
7.0 (Business Suite 7) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP NetWeaver Platform |
7.5 |
12/31/2027 |
SAP S/4HANA |
||
SAP S/4HANA |
Finance Add-on 1503/1605 |
12/31/2025 |
SAP S/4HANA |
2020 |
12/31/2025 |
SAP S/4HANA |
2021 |
12/31/2026 |
SAP S/4HANA |
2022 |
12/31/2027 |
SAP S/4HANA |
2023 |
12/31/2030 |
SAP S/4HANA |
2025 |
12/31/2032 |
Other |
||
SAP BusinessObjects BI |
4.3 (BI Platform) |
12/31/2026 |
SAP BusinessObjects BI |
2025 (new release) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP Business Warehouse |
7.5 (NetWeaver BW) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP BW/4HANA |
1.0/2.0 (initial releases) |
12/31/2025 |
SAP BW/4HANA |
2021 (latest release) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP BPC (Plan & Consolidation) |
10.1 (Microsoft Platform) |
6/30/2026 |
SAP BPC |
10.1 (NetWeaver Platform) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP BPC |
11.1 (for SAP BW/4HANA 2.0) |
12/31/2025 |
SAP BPC |
2021 (for SAP BW/4HANA 2021) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP Global Trade Services |
11 |
12/31/2025 |
SAP Solution Manager |
7.2 (current version) |
12/31/2027 |
SAP Commerce |
(Hybris) On-premise 2205 |
7/31/2026 |
SAP HANA (Database) |
2.0 SPS05 (Long-term Support) |
12/31/2025 |
SAP HANA (Database) |
2.0 SPS07 (latest LTS) |
4/30/2028 |
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Put your database investment to work for you
Contact Rimini Street today and learn how you can harness the full potential of your SAP ASE (Sybase) database and gain the freedom, flexibility and funds to innovate on your timeline.