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SAP Access Control 12.0 end of maintenance is December 2027. What you choose next lasts a decade.

SAP GRC for HANA delivers more of the same by extending continuity, but is this the right strategy for your needs? This whitepaper provides leadership teams with a set of questions to evaluate current gaps, helping avoid decisions that create larger gaps in your GRC strategy down the line.
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Beyond the Upgrade: an assessment of SAP GRC for HANA and the governance architecture decision behind the 2027 deadline.

Inside the whitepaper

What you get

What SAP GRC for HANA 1.0 includes, and what it does not. The modules, the technical improvements, and the capabilities that are not on the roadmap.

The functional gaps that matter. Cross-application SoD, SaaS elevated access, non-human identity governance, identity lifecycle, and ITSM-native workflows, assessed one by one.

A side-by-side capability comparison. SAP GRC for HANA and Pathlock Cloud, measured against the governance challenges enterprises face now, not theoretical feature lists.

The six-question decision framework. The questions leadership teams should answer explicitly before committing to a 10-year governance architecture.

The gap analysis

What the upgrade modernizes, and what it doesn't

SAP GRC for HANA delivers some improvements: HANA performance, a refreshed Fiori experience, streamlined firefighter processes, and Joule AI applied to existing workflows. For SAP-centric organizations, continuity has value.
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What it doesn't

What it does not change is the fundamental focus on SAP ERP only. The whitepaper documents where and how that focus is impacting organizations today and will continue to do so in the future, across five coverage areas:

Where does the analysis stop, and what does that boundary cost you in audit exposure?

The 2027 deadline will force a decision either way.

The organizations that come out ahead are the ones that make an informed, forward-looking decision, with the gaps mapped before the commitment, not after. This whitepaper gives you that map.

Where Pathlock fits

Full SAP depth. Coverage beyond it.

Pathlock preserves full SAP governance depth while extending coverage across every application and identity that ERP-centric GRC was not designed to reach.

Cross-application SoD

Just-in-time elevated access for super-users: time-bound permissions, continuous session monitoring, one-click revocation.

Elevated access

Time-bound privileged access with automatic revocation and auditor-ready logs, across SAP and SaaS from a single platform.

NHI governance

A formal lifecycle for AI agents, bots, and service accounts: request, provisioning, monitoring, certification, decommissioning.

Audit-ready evidence

Continuous controls and certification trails designed to survive external audit scrutiny. Reports accepted by Big 4 audit firms.

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Make it an educated decision.

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