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Planned Solution Updates in 2021

The solution catalog for the SAP® Cloud Appliance Library is updated continuously. Check it now and then to see what is available.

 

Quarter Two, 2021

This is what we are planning by the end of June.*

  • SAP S/4HANA® 2020 FPS01 (fully-activated appliance)
  • SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS01 (standard)
  • SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS02 (standard)
  • SAP Focused Run solution 3.0 FP01 (unconfigured)
  • SAP Focused Run 3.0 with FP01 (preconfigured)
  • ABAP® platform on SAP HANA®
  • SAP Enterprise Threat Detection 2.0 SP03
  • SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP12 and focused solutions SP07 (demo system) with SAP S/4HANA
  • Enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA 2020 with FPS01
  • SAP BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform 4.3 SP01

 

Quarter Three, 2021

This is what we are planning by the end of September.*

  • SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS02 (fully-activated appliance)
  • SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.3 SP02
  • S/4HANA Yard Logistics 2009
  • SAP HANA, platform edition 2.0
  • SAP Product Lifecycle Costing 4.0 SP3 Hotfix 1
  • SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS01 Utilities
  • SAP Transactional Banking for SAP S/4HANA 1.0 FPS03
  • SAP Data Intelligence solution 3.1 update
  • SAP SQL Data Warehousing SAP HANA Rev055 (Developer Edition)

Quarter Four, 2021

This is what we are planning by the end of December.*

  • SAP S/4HANA 2021 (fully-activated appliance)
  • SAP S/4HANA 2021 (standard)
  • SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP13 and focused solutions SP08 (demo system) with SAP S/4HANA
  • System conversion to SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP BW/4HANA® solution 2.0 SP09, including content from SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 SP07
  • SAP Focused Run 3.0 FP02
  • SAP Data Intelligence solution 3.2

* This is the current state of planning and may change at any time without notice.

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      Author's profile photo Tatiana Eschenko
      Tatiana Eschenko

      Hello Bettina,

      Is there any news when SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS01 (standard) version will be available?

      Best regards,

      Tatiana.

      Author's profile photo Bettina Knauss
      Bettina Knauss
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Tatiana,

      we are planning to offer it in April.

      best regards,

      Bettina

       

      Author's profile photo Tatiana Eschenko
      Tatiana Eschenko

      Hi Bettina,

      Thank you for your replay. Is there any way to find out the exact release date. We would like to have time to prepare an instance for the demo.

      Thank you in advance,

      Tatiana.

      Author's profile photo Bettina Knauss
      Bettina Knauss
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Tatiana,

      I'll know better in 2 weeks from now.

      best regards,

      Bettina

       

      Author's profile photo Bettina Knauss
      Bettina Knauss
      Blog Post Author

      Solution SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS01 has just been released.

      Author's profile photo Leon Kennedy
      Leon Kennedy

      Hi Bettina,Is there any way to find out the exact release date of S4HANA 2020 FPS02?

      We would like to have time to prepare an instance for the demo.

      Thanks.

      Author's profile photo Bettina Knauss
      Bettina Knauss
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Lin,

      FPS02 will be available in cw 21, see here. In SAP CAL we will offer it a week later.

      best regards,

      Bettina

      Author's profile photo Leon Kennedy
      Leon Kennedy

      Hi Bettina,Thank you for your relay.

      And I have another question:

      Is there any way to find out the exact release date of S4HANA 2020 FPS02 Fully-Activated Appliance?

      Thank you so much!

      best regards!

      Author's profile photo Joerg Wolf
      Joerg Wolf

      Hi Lin,

      it's planned for ~ mid July but we can not commit on an exact date.

      Best, Joerg

      Author's profile photo Leon Kennedy
      Leon Kennedy

      Hi Joerg,Thank you for your relay.

      I get it .

      Best, Lin

      Author's profile photo onegroupsap sapbase
      onegroupsap sapbase

      Hi Bettina/Joerg,

      have you got any updated date for the release of S4HANA 2021 and its support packages ?

      SAP KBA 3015497 for SAP S/4HANA FOUNDATION 2021 is still being created.

      Awaiting your reply, thank you in advance and best regards, Jose Zabala.

       

      Author's profile photo Bettina Knauss
      Bettina Knauss
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Jose,

      This is rather a question for the S/4HANA community, sorry I can't comment here.

      We plan to have an S/4HANA 2021 version in SAP CAL right after the release date.

      best, Bettina

      Author's profile photo Chourasia Premkishan
      Chourasia Premkishan

      Hi Bettina, Can you help with the  S/4 HANA 2021 release dates ?

      Author's profile photo Bettina Knauss
      Bettina Knauss
      Blog Post Author

      Hi,

      We are working on it, please check again a week from now.

      best, Bettina

      Author's profile photo Grant Bailey
      Grant Bailey

      Hi Bettina

       

      I'm looking for a 2021 Fully Activated Appliance release date?

      I have a Project kicking off in December, so wanting to know if we'll be able to use 2021, or if we must commit to using a 2020 appliance?

       

      Regards

      Grant

      Author's profile photo Joerg Wolf
      Joerg Wolf

      HI Grant,

      it's planned for December (but rather towards the 15th-20th), hope this fits to your project.timeline.

      Or as workaround if this is possible: start with a 2020 FPS02 instance for some fitting areas (ie. where there's no new scope in 2021) and switch to 2021 later ?

      Best, Joerg

      Author's profile photo Grant Bailey
      Grant Bailey

      Hi Joerg

      Thanks for the update.

      Can you walk me through the Switching process? How would we do that practically?

      Do we Initiate a CAL in December on S/4HANA 2020, and then let that run out (30 days), and then initiate another in January when S/4 2021 is available?
      We will also apply the Customer's S/4HANA License to extend the 30day period. So i'd like to know how we would manage all of this?

       

      Regards

      Grant

      Author's profile photo Joerg Wolf
      Joerg Wolf

      Hi Grant,

      yes, as you describe it above could be an option.

      You can also run the two instances (2020 and 2021) in parallel eg. to compare features or copy over customer-specific settings.

      For the first 30 days of each instance, no SAP license is required (just the hyperscaler hosting fees). The 30 days start when you accept the T&C in CAL.

      If one of the instances should run longer than 30 days (it sounds a bit like this for the 2020 instance in your case), the "owner" of the instance in CAL will need

      a) The S/4HANA product license

      b) The CAL subscription (at least the lowest tier for one active instance at a time).

      In your case, it might be easiest if your customer owns the instance under his S/4 license but I can't judge the details.

      This blog explains the details how to extend a 30-day trial in CAL.

      Best, Joerg