SAP Hybris End-of-Life · July 2026

Your commerce platform expires July 2026. Your revenue execution doesn't have to.

SAP Hybris reaches End of Life on July 31, 2026. Fortune 500 enterprises already run revenue execution on viax today — Deterministic AI, governed, auditable, in weeks.

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July 31, 2026

SAP Hybris
End-of-Life

Thousands

Of enterprises
still on Hybris

61%

Of SAP ECC customers
not on S/4HANA

5+ years

Since new
on-prem licenses

The Execution Bridge

Hybris — End of an amazing era.

It was in a German Gasthaus when I first met Carsten Thoma and Moritz Zimmermann, founders of hybris. I was leading strategy for NCR Retail, looking for an ecommerce complement to NCR's in-store presence. Carsten's description of the hybris journey resonated — the limited customers they had in the early years enabled them to pivot quickly as their technology made a major advance, and a robust partner program unlocked the market. NCR didn't buy them. SAP did — after I joined hybris and introduced our CEO Ariel Luedi to Dr. Thomas Vetter of SAP Retail at the National Retail Federation annual New York event.

— Rick Chavie, CEO, viax

Companies can pivot now to viax as hybris reaches End of Life. Like Rick, I've worked with hybris technology for years and saw its promise delivered — but also the challenges in adding capabilities beyond storefront. Seeing the platform and enterprises struggle with customizing revenue logic inspired us to build viax, and the revenue execution layer that no one else owned.

— Larry Ramponi, Founder and CTO/CPO, viax

The Real Question

The deadline says migrate the platform. The real question is what to do with the revenue logic inside.

Thousands of enterprises still run on Hybris — including upstream, custom-coded revenue logic for complex pricing, product configuration, quoting, and order management built up over decades. That logic sits in Hybris for some customers, in SAP ECC for others — often in both. Both on-premise suites carry End of Life deadlines: Hybris in 2026, SAP ECC in 2027.

Racing the Date

Started the migration

Feeling the cost and timeline pressure. Need to reduce burden.

Starting Late

Haven't moved yet

Need acceleration, not a 12–18 month program.

Staying Past EOL

Choosing to operate on Hybris beyond July 2026

Need continuity and governed AI without forced migration.

Hybris doesn't have a commerce problem. It has a revenue execution problem.

The Choices in Front of You

Three paths. Only one closes the gap.

Path 1 — Lift and shift to Commerce Cloud.

Solves the 2026 compliance problem. Even with a headless storefront, doesn't make the business faster or deliver new features. Same monolith on Azure — with new SAP SKUs that strip features, cap database tiers, and add fair-use fees that penalize growth.

Path 2 — Replatform to composable.

Modern frontend, decoupled architecture. Without governed execution, you get flexibility without control — composable regret.

Path 3 — Externalize execution first.

Take the load off Hybris by extracting pricing, CPQ, and revenue logic into a dedicated layer. Keep S/4HANA's core clean. Decouple revenue from both migrations. Execute new motions now — not after the transformation completes.

Before / After viax

12–24 months migration program

→

~10 weeks to production

$5M+ SAP/SI investment

→

96% cost reduction

ERP absorbs every change

→

ERP stays clean

This is not a compliance exercise. It's the opportunity to execute revenue motions Hybris could never model.

The Collision

Hybris EOL and S/4HANA migration hit the same IT roadmap. Most organizations lack the resources and budget for two large concurrent programs. Running both migrations simultaneously without an abstraction layer creates gridlock.

The Layer

Deterministic AI for Revenue Execution. Creative where it matters. Deterministic where it counts.

We've already built the layer that solves it. viax delivers Deterministic AI for Revenue Execution — the intelligence of modern AI with the precision of engineered systems. Pricing, eligibility, CPQ, order management, billing, subscriptions, and the workflows that tie them together — model once, deploy across every channel and participant.

Pricing & Discount Waterfalls

Contract-based, tiered, volume, blended, and customer-specific pricing calculated in real time.

CPQ & Configure Logic

Dimensional elements, allowable combinations, BOM-level pricing, guided selling. Modeled as business logic, not code.

Order Management & Workflow

Multi-party, multi-step orchestration across channels.

Billing & Subscriptions

Recurring revenue, usage models, contract governance.

Omnichannel Execution

Same governed logic across storefronts, reps, self-service portals, EDI, punchout, procurement.

ERP Insulation Layer

viax absorbs commercial complexity so S/4HANA stays clean. ERP endpoints can change without changing execution behavior.

Governed AI

AI agents as governed participants.

AI agents act inside viax the way your best employees do: they price within guardrails, approve within policy, and leave an auditable trail. The constraints are architectural, not advisory. viax exposes three engines via MCP — Determination, Configuration, Interaction — so any AI agent calls governed, deterministic services.

Determination Engine

Millions of pricing records, multi-tiered discount waterfalls, institutional contracts, eligibility rules. Deterministic, every time.

Configuration Engine

Complex CPQ, product bundling, variant configuration, guided selling. Modeled as business logic.

Interaction Engine

Execution contextualized by channel. Same model, every surface.

AI reasons. viax executes. ERP records.

Execution Proof

Already live. Already delivering.

Fortune 500 · Global Medtech

96%

Cost reduction vs. SAP/SI

6 weeks

To production

Additional SAP licenses

Multi-million dollar SI quote for SAP Variant Configuration replaced by viax — 6 weeks to production. The model compounds across business units.

Enterprise · Publishing

50%+

Of $1.6B revenue on viax

1 month

New storefront

2 systems

Legacy retired

Won head-to-head vs. SAP Commerce and Salesforce. Retired SAP Commerce and IBM AS/400. New storefronts now launch in a month.

The Question SAP Doesn't Want You to Ask

Why not SAP? Why not now?

SAP says "Why not SAP?" — migrate to their cloud ERP, attach their capabilities, then deploy their AI.

Migrate cloud ERP

↓

Attach capabilities

↓

Deploy AI

Years.

viax says "Why not now?" We operate alongside SAP ECC and S/4HANA today, and deliver Deterministic AI revenue execution in weeks — while full SAP migrations stretch into years.

Live today

Weeks.

Wherever You Are

Wherever you are in the migration, viax meets you there.

If You're Racing the Deadline

Reduce the cost and complexity of meeting July 2026. Extract the custom logic Commerce Cloud can't host. Replace the storefront if you want to — or keep your own. ERP migration gets smaller in parallel.

If You're Starting Late

Accelerate past the traditional 12–18 month program. Fortune 500 customers are live in weeks, not years. The deadline is fixed — the path to clear it doesn't have to be slow.

If You're Staying on Hybris Past EOL

Operate past the deadline with continuity. Extract the revenue logic into a governed, auditable layer. Add governed AI agents without a forced migration.

Migration-Proof

viax deploys before, during, and after ERP migration. As S/4HANA endpoints change, execution behavior doesn't. Post-migration, viax decouples commercial execution from ERP release cadence — pricing changes, new motions, and channel activations publish without IT tickets. Operate and grow revenue continuously, through the transition, not after it.

SAP set the date. The AI execution layer to clear it runs at Fortune 500 customers today.

That's viax.

Execute revenue change with confidence.

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