SAP customers may consider other ERP vendors as the clock speeds up for the 2025 support end for ECC, but some observers believe a move to another vendor may be just as difficult.

As the end of support for ECC nears, many customers continue to avoid moving to S/4HANA because of the cost and complexity of migration.

Edwards added, "Leeyo is continuing its leadership in the revenue cycle automation market by being the first and only software provider to make full ECC integration available to our SAP RevPro users.

In 2020, SAP extended support for its ERP system until 2030, in an attempt to encourage more existing ECC customers to migrate to the newer S/4 Hana platform.

As the clock winds down on SAP’s support for its ECC system, adoption of the RISE with SAP offering is on the upswing among Nordic firms, ISG says.

SAP ramped up efforts to drive its business to cloud last year, investing more than $2 billion in an overhaul of its business that prioritized migrating customers from ECC on-premises ERP to S/4HANA.