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Calculate Your Potential SAP S/4HANA Costs

Many SAP customers feel the pressure to adopt, or at least license S/4HANA now due to the planned end of mainstream maintenance support for SAP Business Suite 7 until 2027⁽¹⁾. Two-thirds of SAP customers responding - according to a recent survey⁽²⁾ - plan to run their stable and proven SAP ERP releases while waiting for S/4HANA to mature, for the cost and risk to decrease and an ROI to emerge.

Rimini Street's cost model, which accounts for licensing and support, hardware, implementations and upgrades estimates that it can cost customers, paying $1M in annual SAP support and maintenance, an average of $35M to migrate to S/4HANA and operate the system over a 7 year period.

Do the math and find out what it will cost YOUR organization to make the move.

Calculate your estimated cost to move to S/4HANA below.

Calculate your cost to move to S/4HANA

Your Company Name

Current Annual Business Suite Maintenance Fee:

Select number of years to migrate to S/4HANA:

References:
(1) SAP Support Strategy

(2) 2019 Research: SAP Customers respond to 2025 deadline

Your Projected SAP S/4HANA Suite Costs Over Years is

S/4HANA is an early stage product - with perceived high costs, low maturity and hard-to-find ROI today.

Perhaps, that's why only 3% of SAP customers are live on S/4HANA now.

Don't get locked into a strategy now that may or may not be the right move for you. Consider these facts before you "rip and replace" your stable, mature ECC application.

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SAP Licensee S/4HANA Report Prepared for

These are near-term costs which cover an initial, baseline deployment of S/4HANA. Other costs may be incurred later as the solution continues to evolve.

These are long-term costs for S/4HANA deployment with upgrades, feature pack deployments and necessary customizations as the S/4HANA solution continues to evolve.

Cumulative Cost Comparison: "Move to S/4HANA Now" vs. Rimini Street

Category	Licenses	Support	Implement	Upgrades and Feature Packs	Total
S/4HANA Suite
Payroll
HANA Database
Hardware
MaxAttention
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Business Suite

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Category	Licenses	Support	Implement	Upgrades and Feature Packs	Total
S/4HANA Suite
Payroll
HANA Database
Hardware
MaxAttention
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Business Suite

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Fine tune your calculations:

This calculation is based on a set of default fees and rates. To fine-tune the calculations, expand each box below and adjust the rates for a customized report.

SAP Business Suite Licensing

Current Business Suite Annual Maintenance Fee ? This is the amount of your current annual support fees.

Current Annual Maintenance Rate(%) ? Current Annual Maintenance Rate(%).

Estimated Business Suite Annual Maintenance Fee Discount(%) ? This is the potential discount for current Business Suite Annual Maintenance Fees in exchange for migrating to S/4HANA.

Enter a value between 0% to 100%.

NOTE: This discount applicable to the cost of the annual maintenance fee only and does not include associated costs with forced upgrades, self-support or customization support.

S/4HANA Suite Licensing

Select Number of Solutions to be Implemented ? These are the S/4HANA Suite solutions you plan to implement. Options include:

Core Finance

Plan to Product

Order to Cash

Procure to Pay

Request to Service

Select the number of capabilities you plan on implementing over time. Default value is set to 3.

Estimated S/4HANA Suite License Discount(%) ? This is the potential discount for S/4HANA suite licenses. SAP may provide up to 100% discounts provided customer is currently paying for SAP Business Suite support.^[1]

Default value set to 100% - update as necessary.

S/4HANA Suite Annual Maintenance Rate(%) ? S/4HANA Suite Annual Maintenance Rate(%).

Payroll

Payroll Required? ? Will you run payroll? Select "Yes" or "No" to include SAP SuccessFactors costs in the model.

HANA Database

HANA Database Runtime License Rate(%) ? Rule of thumb 15% to 20% of all applications that run on the HANA Database also known as the HANA Software Application Value (HSAV).^[6]

HANA Database Annual Maintenance Rate(%) ? This is the amount you will pay for annual maintenance and support.

HANA Database Hardware Fees ? This is the cost of the hardware necessary to operate HANA D/B including application and database servers, storage and related hardware.

HANA Database Hardware Annual Maintenance Fee(%) ? This is the amount you will pay for annual maintenance and support.

Implementation

S/4HANA Suite and HANA ? This is the factor used to calculate implementation, migration, upgrade, testing and training from Business Suite to S/4HANA Suite. Note: Costs include Fiori user interface.

Industry Analyst Estimate: Project cost range between 1x to 10x of S/4HANA Suite license fee dependent upon deployment size and self-deploy versus system integrator-led projects. Default value set to 5.5x.

Payroll ? This is the factor used to calculate implementation, migration, upgrade, testing and training of the Cloud and 3rd party applications.

Estimates from Vinnie Mirchandani, President, Deal Architect. Rule of thumb between 1x to 5x the annual cloud subscription cost.

Upgrades

S/4HANA Suite Cost per Upgrade(%) ? For S/4HANA Suite, the rule of thumb is 40-150% of initial license cost. This value defaults to 50% of value of your Initial License Fee.

S/4HANA Suite Initial Upgrade Year ? Designates when first upgrade takes place. 1=first year of model, 2=second year,... Enter 99 if no initial upgrade required.

Default initial upgrade in year 5 assuming multi-year reimplementation and roll-out of the S/4HANA Suite.

S/4HANA Suite Upgrade Frequency ? Designates the frequency of subsequent S/4HANA Suite upgrades. 1=subsequent upgrade every year after initial upgrade, 2=subsequent upgrade every 2 years, etc.

Enter 99 if no upgrades after the initial upgrade. Must be entered as whole number.

HANA Database Cost per Upgrade(%) ? For HANA, the rule of thumb is 15-30% of initial license cost. This value defaults to 15% of value of your Initial License Fee.

HANA Database Initial Upgrade Year ? Designates when first upgrade takes place. 1=first year of model, 2=second year,... Enter 99 if no initial upgrade required.

HANA Database Upgrade Frequency ? Designates the frequency of subsequent HANA Database upgrades. 1=subsequent upgrade every year after initial upgrade, 2=subsequent upgrade every 2 years, etc.

Rule of thumb is 1 upgrade every 5 years. Enter 99 if no upgrades after the initial upgrade. Must be entered as whole number.

S/4HANA Feature Packages

Cost per Feature Package(%) ? For SAP, typically 15-40% of the cost of Initial License Fee. Default value is 20% of Initial License Fee.

Initial Feature Pack Year ? Designates when first Feature Package deployment takes place. 1=first year after initial deployment, 2=second year,... Enter 99 if no Feature Packages will be deployed.

Feature Pack Frequency ? Designates the frequency of subsequent Feature Packages. 1=subsequent update every year after initial Feature Package 2=subsequent update every 2 years, etc.

Enter 99 if no udpate after the initial Feature Package. Must be entered as whole number.

Other

MaxAttention Support ? Recommended for 1st time S/4HANA Suite and HANA Database customers by Gartner.

Select "Yes" if this service should be used in this savings calculation.

MaxAttention Support Rate(%) ? Typically a custom-scoped project. Default value set to 10% of total S/4HANA Suite and HANA Database license fees.

References:
(1) CIO.com, "4 cost considerations you can't afford to overlook when moving to SAP HANA"

(2) Salesforce Sales Cloud pricing

(3) ComputerWorld, "Oracle finally releases pricing for cloud software offerings"

(4) Business Insider, "Salesforce's latest discount scheme shows it may be turning into the companies it once hated"

(5) Prialto, "How to choose the most valuable CRM for your business"

(6) CIO.com, "4 cost considerations you can't afford to overlook when moving to SAP HANA"

(7) Software Evaluation blog, Software vendor evaluation & Selection: Workday

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SAP Licensee S/4HANA Report Prepared for

The above report is generated using following input values:

SAP Business Suite Licensing
Current Business Suite Annual Maintenance Fee
Current Annual Maintenance Rate(%)
Estimated Business Suite Annual Maintenance Fee Discount(%)
S/4HANA Suite Licensing
Select Number of Solutions to be Implemented
Estimated S/4HANA Suite License Discount(%)
S/4HANA Suite Annual Maintenance Rate(%)
Payroll
Payroll Required
HANA Database
HANA Database Runtime License Rate(%)
HANA Database Annual Maintenance Rate(%)
HANA Database Hardware Fees
HANA Database Hardware Annual Maintenance Fee(%)
Implementation
S/4HANA Suite and HANA
Payroll
Upgrades
S/4HANA Suite Cost per Upgrade(%)
S/4HANA Suite Initial Upgrade Year
S/4HANA Suite Upgrade Frequency
HANA Database Cost per Upgrade(%)
HANA Database Initial Upgrade Year
HANA Database Upgrade Frequency
S/4HANA Feature Packages
Cost per Feature Package(%)
Initial Feature Pack Year
Feature Pack Frequency
Other
MaxAttention Support
MaxAttention Support Rate(%)

Your projected S/4HANA suite costs over years
Your costs to support and maintain SAP Business Suite ERP during your S/4HANA suite reimplementation over years	+

Total all-in costs for both S/4HANA and SAP Business Suites