generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: >-
  help.sap.com product page service (product=SAP_BW4HANA),
  https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance.html,
  and SAP's published BW/4HANA maintenance-extension announcement
description: >-
  Release, maintenance and deprecation posture for SAP BW. SAP BW/4HANA is
  shipped software on a release + support-package-stack train, not a
  continuously deployed service, so its lifecycle signals are product
  maintenance dates and simplification lists rather than API deprecation
  headers.
versioning:
  scheme: product-release + support-package-stack
  current: '2023.09'
  current_label: SAP BW/4HANA 2023 SPS09
  current_source: >-
    https://help.sap.com/http.svc/productpage?locale=en-US&product=SAP_BW4HANA
    returned {"redirect":"/docs/SAP_BW4HANA?...&version=2023.09"} on 2026-08-29
  known_releases: ['1.0', '2.0', '2021', '2023']
  docs: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_BW4HANA
  api_version_header: null
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  note: >-
    RFC 8594 Sunset / Deprecation headers are not used - there is no
    vendor-operated endpoint to emit them from.
deprecation:
  policy_url: https://help.sap.com/doc/16e3352bd6c342ec9fb1cd90adb9fbf4/2.0/en-US/SAP_BW4HANA_20_Simplification_List.pdf
  policy_name: SAP BW/4HANA Simplification List
  http_status: 200
  content_type: application/pdf
  documented: true
  description: >-
    SAP publishes a per-release Simplification List enumerating the objects,
    features and interfaces that are removed, replaced or no longer supported
    in SAP BW/4HANA relative to SAP BW 7.x - the closest thing SAP publishes
    to a deprecation policy for this product. Available for 1.0 and 2.0.
  other:
    - name: SAP BW/4HANA 1.0 Simplification List
      url: https://help.sap.com/doc/590752e646cc4b15a9092f32353b209a/1.0/en-US/SAP_BW4HANA_10_Simplification_List.pdf
  format: pdf-only
  format_note: >-
    Both simplification lists are PDF. There is no machine-readable
    deprecation feed.
maintenance:
  mainstream_maintenance_until: '2040'
  statement: >-
    SAP has announced that SAP BW/4HANA maintenance is aligned with the
    SAP S/4HANA maintenance commitment and runs until at least 2040.
  source: >-
    https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/sap-bw-4hana-to-extend-maintenance-in-alignment-with-sap-business-suite-and/ba-p/13457952
  source_http_status: 403
  source_note: >-
    The SAP Community blog post that carries the announcement answers 403 to
    an automated fetch (Cloudflare "Just a moment..." interstitial). The page
    demonstrably exists and is SAP-authored; recorded as challenged, not dead.
  authoritative_source: https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/pam
  authoritative_source_http_status: 302
  authoritative_source_note: >-
    The SAP Product Availability Matrix is the authoritative per-release
    maintenance-date source. It 302s to accounts.sap.com SAML SSO - it is
    gated behind an SAP customer S-user login, so the exact per-release end
    dates could not be read and are not asserted here.
  policy_url: https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance.html
  policy_http_status: 200
sla:
  url: null
  uptime_target: null
  note: >-
    No SLA published. SAP BW/4HANA is customer-operated software; availability
    is the customer's own. SAP BW in SAP Business Data Cloud is the hosted
    variant and falls under SAP cloud service terms, which are not published
    as a BW-specific SLA document.
status_page:
  url: https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/cloud-service-status.html
  http_status: 200
  scope: sap-cloud-services
  note: >-
    SAP's cloud service status page. It covers SAP cloud services, which is
    the relevant surface for SAP BW in SAP Business Data Cloud; it does NOT
    cover a customer's own on-premises BW/4HANA system, which has no status
    page because SAP does not operate it. Scope stated rather than implied.
changelog: changelog/sap-bw-changelog.yml
deprecated_operations: []
deprecated_operations_note: >-
  Cannot be derived - no OpenAPI in this repo, because SAP publishes none
  for SAP BW.