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SEM-BCS maintenance

pierre_rensonnet
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Hello,

Maintenance strategy of SAP for SEM-BCS is still not clear. This has already been discussed but various related threads do not agree and are maybe not up to date.

Latest information I get is that SEM-BCS enters in maintenance mode through 2011, with premium extended maintenance through 2013.

Besides this EC-CS is part of SEP-ERP and is then maintained till end 2017 (note 1223308). This is quite confusing as BCS has many advantages on EC-CS...

Am I wrong somewhere?

Pierre

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Former Member
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Can anyone from SAP simply answer this question about what date BCS maintenance will be dropped?

Former Member
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Hi John,

please visit https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/pam and search for "SEM". You then may click on "SEM-BCS 6.0".

There you find the following information as this thread allready contains:

"In Unrestricted Shipment

Availability 06.06.2006

Mainstr. Maint. End 31.12.2015

Ext. Maint. End 31.12.2017"

And there are several statements that have the information "SEM-BCS doesn't vanish from any strategy slide".

Think of the law of supply and demand - that will deside when SEM-BCS will bog down.

BR

dan_sullivan
Active Contributor
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Good info BR. SAP also had an "end-date" for ECCS that did not occur. Now SAP states that ECCS will stay around as a part of ECC but will only be enhanced for accounting changes such as IFRS requirements. I think too many customers relay on it and did not want to change to BCS. It may be the same scenario with BCS. Only time will tell.

Former Member
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Hi Dan,

BR is a shorty for Best Reguards 😛

BR

Benjamin Maier

dan_sullivan
Active Contributor
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too funny

BR

Former Member
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i don't think we will ever get a clear answer as we don't know what the future holds, but we should keep asking just make sure SAP knows there is a need out there.

former_member1379680
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I noticed that the OSS note 1171344 has been updated on 8th March 2010

The maintenance dates don't appear to have changed, although the last sentence looks new - as Benjamin "BR" Maier said above, it will depend on customer demand:

From 1171344

Mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 has been extended to end of 2015. Extended maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 will be offered from beginning of 2016 until end of 2017. Support beyond these dates will be determined in conjunction with any proposed changes to support for the SAP Business Suite (SAP ERP).

PS the EHP5 detail looks interesting...

Former Member
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Hello,

according to SAP Note 1171344 the maintenance for BCS6 is linked with maintenance of ERP 6.0. This means standard maintenance till 2015, and enhanced maintenance till 2017. This is concordant with informations I got from an SAP-guy some days ago. Furthermore in this note it is stated, that BCS may me integral part of future ERP 7.0 and then its maintenance horizon would be linked to ERP 7.0.

Regards,

Clemens

Former Member
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Hello,

SEM-BCS 6 as a part of ERP 6 will be in maintenance until 12/2015 and in extended maintenance until 12/2017. thats the facts. (see link below)

https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000611410&_SCENARIO=011000358700000002...;

anything else are uncinfirmed rumours.

Source: RIG and Development of SAP EPM - one week ago

Best regards

Thomas

former_member1379680
Contributor
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Agreed

former_member209721
Active Contributor
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According to SEM-BCS experts in Waldorf, the solution has no maintenance date limit anymore

former_member1379680
Contributor
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Hi Thibaud,

Can you give us a source and date for this statement?

SAP have stated that mainstream maintenance to 2015 and extended maintenance to 2017 based on

Note 1171344 - SEM-BCS in the context of SAP ERP 6.0 EHP ( https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1171344 ) - dated 5th June 2009.

"The SAP consolidation solution SEM-BCS is an integral part of SAP ERP (Enterprise Ressource Planning). It is further developed on release SAP ERP 6.0, ..."

There may be some ambiguity in this statement "Beyond EHP5, the SEM-BCS product will continue to be enhanced to address Legal Change issues and to be maintained."

but then they state

"Mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 has been extended to end of 2015"

"Extended maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 will be offered from beginning of 2016 until end of 2017."

Is there an update (or different interpretation) to this?

Former Member
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having seen what BO is trying to [accomplish|https://goexplore.ondemand.com/datasets/my_datasets], i would say that BCS has a long way to go. the underlying functionality of closing tasks dependent on each other across matrix hierarchies with currency translation, deferred tax, and investment (capital) consolidation cannot be easily replaced by any other tool. the closest i have seen would be hyperion which is now part of oracle if oracle is serious about funding further development. BO may eventually take over some of the market share of Bex, but that's not fait accomplit, either...the only independent specialist tool seems to be tagetik, but they may go the way of cartesis (being bought by BO and then by SAP)...just my 2 cents.

dan_sullivan
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At the SAP Financials 2009 conference in March SAP stated the BCS maintenance has been extended to 2016.