"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 until 2032 if you have a joint roadmap and commitment. But if you don't have a roadmap by 2030, they'll stop support."
Chairman Allan Leighton told the media that delays and disruption caused by the technology separation from previous owner Walmart, which ran back-office SAP systems, set back his financial turnaround by six months. Despite technically completing the program dubbed Project Future in August, the retailer said the effects would continue until the second calendar quarter next year. "The downturn in sales and to a degree the market share issue is totally driven by Future, it's not driven by any competitive activity," Leighton told The Times.
We've been asking vendors for value. We're happy to have a conversation about your upgrade pathway... about new things you're doing. But show us value. Don't just give me a price list. Don't just present me with a new licensing module that somehow spikes my cost by 20x. We're not anti-big vendors - especially of ERP systems - but we do need to see the value.
SAP issued a patch for the 9.9-rated flaw in August. It is tracked as CVE-2025-42957, and it affects both private cloud and on-premises versions. According to SecurityBridge Threat Research Labs, which originally spotted and disclosed the vulnerability to SAP, the team "verified actual abuse of this vulnerability." It doesn't appear to be widespread (yet), but the consequences of this flaw are especially severe.