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SAP Versions Release and History of Evolution

Updated Apr 15, 2021

SAP sets an unbreakable record by evolved with SAP’s product innovation. SAP proved itself as an owner of Solutions that combined processes to improve and provide an advanced in human lives and revolutionize ways of managing the business.

So, find below the revolutionized story of SAP ERP Solution and get to know how it got started and achieving the unpredictable records with the period.

SAP R/3 Version Releases

SAP Version Year Architecture
SAP R/1 System RF 1972 Financial Accounting system. Runs on IBM Servers and the DOS operating system.
SAP R/2 Mainframe System 1979 Mainframe based real-time data processing across accounting, manufacturing processes, supply chain logistics, and human resources.
SAP R/3 Enterprise Edition 1.0A Jul-1992 Three tire architecture ERP Solutions, enabling SAP to be used by enterprises.
SAP R/3 EnterpriseEdition 2.0 1993  
SAP R/3 EnterpriseEdition 3.0 1995  
SAP R/3 EnterpriseEdition 4.0B Jun-1998  
SAP R/3 EnterpriseEdition 4.3    
SAP R/3 Enterprise Edition 4.5B Mar-1999 Client Server / mySAP
SAP R/3 Enterprise Edition 4.6C April2001  
SAP R/3 Enterprise Edition 4.6F    
SAP R/3 Enterprise Edition 4.7 2003  

SAP ECC Versions

SAP Version Year Architecture
SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 5.0 2004 SAP ERP constitutes the foundation of SAP's industry solutions and a springboard to enterprise SOA. It includes SAP ECC (successor of SAP R/3) and EhP
SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 6.0 Oct-2005  
SAP Enhancement Package 1 for SAP ERP 6.0
Business All-in-One
Dec-2006 SAP started focusing on Mid-Sized enterprises and developed this product on the same code base of SAP R/3 on the SAP Netweaver platform.
SAP Enhancement Package 2 for SAP ERP 6.0 Jul-2007 It is designed to help businesses optimize their performance and reduce IT costs. It compresses SRM, CRM, SCM, PLM, and ERP on one platform.
SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
Business Suite 7
Jun-2010  
SAP Enhancement Package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 Jun-2012  
SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 2013  
SAP S/4 Simple Suite for HANA Feb-2015 An imagined platform that combines data processing, database, and in-memory processing, provides libraries for planning, text processing, predictive, spatial and business analytics

SAP S/4HANA On-Premise releases

SAP Version Year
SAP S/4HANA Finance 1503 March 2015
SAP S/4HANA 1511 November 2015
SAP S/4HANA Finance 1605 May 2016
SAP S/4HANA 1610 October 2016
SAP S/4HANA 1709 September 2017
SAP S/4HANA 1809 September 2018
SAP S/4HANA 1909 September 2019 [19]
SAP S/4HANA 2002 February 2020
SAP S/4HANA 2005 May 2020

SAP S/4HANA Cloud releases[20]

SAP Version Year
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1603 March 2016
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1605 May 2016
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1608 August 2016
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1611 November 2016
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1702 February 2017
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1705 May 2017
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1708 August 2017
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1711 November 2017
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1802 February 2018
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1805 May 2018
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1808 August 2018
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1811 November 2018
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1902 February 2019
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1908 August 2019

SAP Netweaver Versions

SAP Version Year
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 2005 (24 October)
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EHP 1 2008
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EHP 2 2010
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EHP 3 2011
SAP NetWeaver 7.1 2007
SAP NetWeaver 7.1 EHP 1 2009
SAP NetWeaver 7.2 2009 
SAP NetWeaver 7.3 2010
SAP NetWeaver 7.3 EHP 1 2011
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 2013
SAP NetWeaver 7.5 2015
AS ABAP 7.51 2016
AS ABAP 7.52 2017
ABAP Platform 1809 2018
ABAP Platform 1909 2019
  • EHP stands for Enhancement Package
  • AS stands for Application Server

SAP Fiori Versions

SAP Version Year
SAP Fiori 1.0 2013
SAP Fiori 2.0 2016
SAP Fiori 3.0 2019

SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) was the new version of the software, which came with unique architecture and was released in 2003-2004, therefore renamed as SAP ERP. The version name for SAP ERP is ECC. Besides this, other SAP Implementations can be customized products and can function on the central component.

SAP Versions Release and its History of Evolution

SAP turned out quite dominating for the large business applications market over the next ten years. SAP ECC 5.0 ERP was the successor of SAP R/3 4.70. The newest version of the suite was SAP ERP 6.0, Enhancement Pack 7.

  • SAP Enhancement Package 1for SAP ERP 6.0: This one released on 21st December 2006 and known as ERP 6.0 EPH1.
  • SAP enhancement package 2 for SAP ERP 6.0: SAP enhancement package 2 for SAP ERP 6.0 is an SAP technique to deliver more innovation, more quickly, in a more accessible way to organizations that have implemented or upgraded to SAP ERP 6.0. The SAP enhancement package 2 for SAP ERP 6.0 enables the rapid deployment of select new functionality in a way that minimizes disruption on core production systems.
  • SAP Enhancement Package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0: this one complemented the SAP ERP 6.0 release in several focus areas. Far easier to be installed and immediately added incremental value to your business processes without disruption.
  • SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0: this added more value to SAP ERP 6.0 in some focus areas. In case you plan to install enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP, this would give you an overview of the most important documents and notes. This one provided for better readability.
  • SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0: this one was easy to install and immediately added incremental value to your business processes without any disruption.
  • SAP EHP 6 for SAP ERP 6.0: version for SAP HANA- this was the first version of SAP Business Suite on HANA.
  • SAP EHP 7 for SAP ERP 6.0: Release Information- This enables the maximum areas of the existing SAP ERP functions for SAP HANA to be able to utilize the in-memory technology and also enable better performing business applications.


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