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When the 2027 Deadline Becomes Your IT Team's Full-Time Job

One US electric motor manufacturer cut infrastructure management hours by 30%, reduced TCO by 25-30%, and went live in 9 months. Here's how.

Schedule Assessment

The Challenge

  • Your IT team is spending a third of their time just keeping SAP running.
  • Patches. Upgrades. Vendor coordination. Infrastructure management.
  • Meanwhile, the board wants to know your 2027 plan.
  • Your answer has been the same for three years: “We’re working on it.”
  • The December 31, 2027 deadline looms: SAP will end support for ECC, the legacy ERP system that has been the backbone of manufacturing operations for decades.
  • For companies still running ECC, the deadline is consuming IT bandwidth while strategic initiatives stall.
  • If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

The 75/25 Trap in Action

  • Manufacturing CIOs typically spend 75% of their IT budget on “keeping the lights on” while only 25% goes to innovation.
  • For companies on legacy ECC, that ratio often skews worse.
  • The problem isn’t just cost. It’s attention.
  • When your team is coordinating upgrade cycles with multiple vendors, managing on-premise hosting, and reconciling license agreements, they’re not focused on the capabilities that drive competitive advantage.
  • Competitors on modern cloud platforms are accessing quarterly AI updates, predictive analytics, and automation capabilities that ECC simply can’t deliver.

The Pattern in Action

Our intelligent SAP solutions help high-tech companies modernize operations, improve visibility, and drive innovation at scale.

Their SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 7 system had served them for years, but it was showing its age.

Starting Point

Challenge

SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 7

Limited integration capabilities

On-premise hosting

Slower performance and scalability

Multiple vendor relationships

Complex license and infrastructure management

KloudData Solution

  • The 2027 deadline added urgency.
  • But rather than treat migration as a forced march to new infrastructure, the company saw an opportunity to fundamentally change how IT operated.
  • The approach:
    A brownfield conversion to RISE with SAP S/4HANA 2022 SP02 Private Cloud Edition on AWS.
  • This preserved their critical business processes while consolidating software licenses, annual maintenance, cloud infrastructure, and technical services into a single RISE package.

Timeline

9 months from kickoff to go-live.

The Results

30% reduction in infrastructure management hours

IT shifted from maintaining systems to driving business value.

25–30% TCO reduction expected over 5 years

Eliminated infrastructure costs and consolidated vendor management.

9-month implementation

Not the 24+ months typical of brownfield conversions.

Additional Benefits

  • Improved performance and speed
  • Simplified IT landscape with single-vendor accountability
  • Enhanced compliance and security posture
  • Better integration capabilities for future needs

Testimonial

“KloudData has been associated with us for many years and has proven to be an invaluable SAP partner. They have guided our critical upgrades, expansions, and transformation initiatives that continue to support our growth.”

Head of IT/IS,
Nidec US Electric Motor Manufacturer

The Real Win: From Deadline Pressure to Strategic Freedom

For IT leadership, the transformation delivered more than technical improvements.

It removed the 2027 deadline pressure entirely.

The conversation shifted from:

  • “How do we keep this running?” to “How do we use technology to grow the business?”

No more coordinating upgrade cycles across multiple vendors.

No more infrastructure management consuming IT attention.

One platform. One vendor. One path forward.

Recognize the Pattern?

If your IT team spends more time on maintenance than innovation. If the 2027 deadline is a standing agenda item. If you’re managing multiple vendor relationships just to keep your SAP environment running.

The solution exists. KloudData makes it accessible.

KloudData helps mid-market manufacturers turn the 2027 deadline into an advantage Our manufacturing-first methodology delivers results in 6-12 months, not multi-year timelines.

Ready to discuss your situation?

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