Most SAP upgrade delays don’t come from the upgrade itself — they come from everything that happens around it.
The real slowdown is “drift”:
Every time a production fix goes live, your upgrade environment becomes outdated.
Teams still managing retrofits in spreadsheets don’t see the gap widen until it’s too late — and suddenly the upgrade cutover becomes a firefight.
The risk isn’t the 2026 deadline.
The risk is running a modern upgrade with a legacy operating model.
Automated retrofitting solves this.
If every production fix auto-queues into the upgrade path, your project never falls behind — and your landscape stays clean.
Full breakdown is here: Continuous Delivery for SAP: Your 2026 Upgrade, and Beyond