The SAP Development Tech Rader 2026.06 🔗 is released.
Newly added technologies:
- AIF
- ABAP Doc
- Knowledge Transfer Document (KTD)
SDTR 2026-06 comes with changes that go beyond adding a technology to the radar or moving its ring position. The aim is to make it even easier to use the information provided by the radar. Over time, the HOLD and STOP ring will grow and accumulate a high number of technologies. This is caused by the life cycle of every technology: sooner or later it will be replaced by a successor. This results in the problem that the STOP ring might contain too many entries, yet removing those completely from the SDTR is not the best option. Another problem to solve was how to know in advance if a technology will move to another ring.
To solve this, the features trend indicattion and deprecated are introduced. I hope that these changes help to adopt the SDTR better at customers and in SAP related projects.
Trend indication
Knowing that a technology is assigned to a given ring helps tremendously when deciding on a technology in an SAP project. The SDTR is released at least twice per year. This means that a technology might change its ring position after 6 months. This time frame can be shorter than some projects take to go live. The problem projects might face: a technology in ring USE is moved to HOLD in 6 months, and the project decided to go only for USE technologies.
To raise transparency about the possible direction a technology might move over the next 6 to 12 months, a trend indication is added. While not binding, the intent of the indication is to show where the technology is moving to. The meaning of the trend indication can be positive, stable, or negative:
- POSITIVE: Moving from ADOPT to USE
- STABLE: No change
- NEGATIVE: From USE to HOLD to STOP to DEPRECATED
| positive | stable | negative |
|---|---|---|
 |  |  |
The only “positive” trend indication to move “up” in the ring positioning is POSITIVE. The normal indication should be STABLE. Up is only possible for ADOPT to USE. While negative means that the technology reached its peak and starts to follow the normal life cycle of a technology. Exception can be a failed technology that goes from ADOPT directly to HOLD or STOP.
The trend targets a time frame of 6 - 12 months. That is: when the trend is set to positive, it is likely that the technology will move to USE in the next 12 months. A technology today rated with STABLE will first get the new indication NEGATIVE and only then after at least 6 months move to another ring. As an example: A technology rated in 2026-06 as STABLE can get the outlook NEGATIVE in the next release of the SDTR: 2026-12. Then it is at least 6 months - 2027-06, rather 12 months, until the technology moves: 2027-12. For any project starting in 2027, the indication shows now clearly what to expect.
Deprecated list
This release adds a deprecation list. With the old format, a problem was the handling of outdated technology. The life cycle of a technology ends in STOP. The problem gets intensified as SAP technology might live for a very long time. This means that over time, the ring STOP will serve as a collection of all technology. Be it just moved into STOP, or being there for years. As one aim of the SDTR is to raise transparency of the SAP technologies available, removing an entry is not the best option. Outdated technologies like the SAP Portal might then be removed from the SDTR, but still in use at customers. To ensure that even such technology is still listed, a new ring is introduced: DEPRECATED. Instead of adding the ring to the radar, it is made as a separate page: Deprecated Technologies 🔗
Over time, this page will serve as an attic where all outdated, deprecated and EOL’d technologies will be listed. This will keep the core SDTR rings clean. At the same time, the SDTR still lists the deprecated technologies.
To be placed as a deprecated technology, it should first go into rint STOP. Then, the trend indication must be set to NEGATIVE. This ensure that a technology is visible for a prolonged time in the ring ADOPT, and when moved to deprecated, is still visible there. Once in the deprecated list, the trend indication of the technology should be stable. Once in there, it cannot be moved back to the ring, nor be deleted. Although this might change over time.