The last full service pack for Exact Globe Next shipped in March 2026; one extra pack follows in the summer for the Dutch salary update. After that, it is done: no updates, no bugfixes, no security patches. The software keeps running, but stands still - while everything around it (Windows, SQL Server, integrations, legislation) keeps moving.
That means one thing: you are migrating either way. The only question is where to.
What exactly was announced
- March 2026: the last full service pack for Globe Next; one extra pack in summer 2026 for the Dutch salary update.
- After that: no new functionality, bugfixes or security updates. New legal requirements - such as extended Peppol e-invoicing - land only in the successor.
- The successor: Exact Globe+, on a modern 64-bit platform. Note: moving from Globe Next to Globe+ is a real migration, not an update button.
What running without support actually means
A package without maintenance does not stop working - it stops moving along. Every new Windows or SQL update is untested territory from now on. Every discovered vulnerability stays open. Every integration that changes on the other side (bank, webshop, scanning) can break with nobody left to fix the Globe end. For an administration that also carries your inventory valuation and invoicing, that is not a comfortable place to sit for years.
Your three routes
- Stay within Exact: migrate to Globe+ (or Exact Online for lighter administrations). Familiar, same vendor - but a full migration project, and you keep the same package thinking: accounting at the centre, the rest connected around it.
- A comparable package elsewhere: AccountView or Visma Net. A sideways step; sensible if you mainly want the EOL risk gone. Do check the destination’s foundation: AccountView itself runs on a Visual FoxPro core Microsoft stopped supporting in 2015.
- Choose once, properly: use the migration you have to do anyway to move to one platform. That is where Odoo comes in.
Why Globe users in particular look at a platform
Globe Next has always been strong with trade and manufacturing businesses - companies where the administration is not standalone but tied to orders, inventory, purchasing and production. That is exactly where the package-plus-connectors model pinches hardest: the webshop reads a different stock figure than the sales desk, Excel decides purchasing, and the books only reconcile with the warehouse after manual work.
In Odoo those processes run on one data model: order, inventory, production, shipping, invoicing and accounting share the same truth, with webshop and CRM native when you need them. How that compares to Exact is in our honest Odoo vs Exact comparison.
The migration, practically
We start every Globe migration with a fit-gap: what Globe (and the tools around it) does for you today, and what belongs where tomorrow. Then the data migration - master data, open items, history - with a dry run before go-live, phased so the operation keeps running. A focused trade implementation typically goes live in weeks to a few months.
For cost, count on roughly €1,000 to €3,000 per user as a one-off; the full breakdown is in what does an Odoo implementation cost.
Start while it is still calm
The closer to the end of support, the fuller the migration calendars - at Exact partners and beyond. Start now and you choose in peace; wait and you migrate under pressure. Begin with a free Odoo scan: we map what Globe does for you today and what one platform looks like for your operation. Or book a Quickscan directly.