In 18 months, the software many of the world’s largest companies rely on to run their finance and operations stops receiving security updates and official support. That is the reality behind SAP’s 31 December 2027 deadline, the point at which mainstream support for its older ECC system ends. The stated fix is simple: move to SAP’s newer platform, S/4HANA. Getting there is not. Recent benchmark research puts it starkly: only 34% of companies have fully completed the transition, even as 55% report deploying the new system at some level, which leaves a large share of SAP’s customer base running old and new systems side by side with the clock running down. Most coverage of the deadline fixes on the platform switch itself. For regulated industries, a quieter risk sits alongside it: getting revenue accounting right while everything underneath it is moving.
Pranay Raj Kanakala came to that problem from an unusual direction. He spent the first stretch of his career in telecom radio engineering, tuning 4G networks for national rollouts, including Telenor’s greenfield LTE build across Myanmar, a country of more than 54 million people, and work at Nokia on the design of over 100 macro cell sites for Vodafone’s 4G expansion in Gujarat, serving 72 million people. Today, he works as a SAP Revenue Accounting and Recognition (RAR) consultant at MytekX Inc., an SAP consultancy focused on cloud transformations and S/4HANA migrations for healthcare clients. Pranay Raj Kanakala’s high level of expertise earned him a Gold Award at the NextWave Awards 2026, an international competition for innovation in business, science, and technology.
