Introduction to RISE with SAP
The RISE with SAP is the standard transformation Journey for existing SAP ERP customers moving from on-premise SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA to SAP Business Suite. The RISE with SAP journey helps ensure a customer’s transformation success and a key feature of this is the RISE with SAP Methodology.
The RISE with SAP Methodology provides a structured approach to adopting SAP Business Suite applications. It leverages a standardized framework, an integrated toolchain, and comprehensive expert guidance for seamless adoption and optimization. For our existing on-premise ERP customers, these elements are designed to meet their unique requirements as they transform their business processes and modernize with clean core principles.
The key components include:
- Standardized framework: Accelerates adoption of SAP Business Suite applications through a tailored transformation roadmap.
- Integrated toolchain: Streamline collaboration and efficient project execution and ensure a cohesive, efficient workflow throughout.
- Expert guidance: Includes enterprise architects, transformation preparation service, onboarding advisors, and qualified partners.
Standardized framework
The standardized framework includes project roadmaps with key tasks and activities an organization needs to accomplish to progress in their journey. There is a focused clean core success plan with specific tasks outlined to ensure alignment with clean core principles. With an emphasis on best practice adherence, there are quality gates at the end of each key-phase. These checkpoints for - Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize Deploy and Run - make sure customers are proceeding in alignment with best practices.
The Discover phase marks the common starting point for every customer's journey and includes defining the project scope, business vision and goals, as well as preparing a value proposition and business case.
The digital discovery assessment tool assists in evaluating and selecting SAP Business Suite applications that best address unique customer needs. Additionally, the RISE with SAP Methodology offers templates to establish a customized transformation roadmap, complemented by an array of tools and services, to expedite and streamline the digital transformation journey.
Integrated Toolchain
The methodology leverages the integrated toolchain to streamline implementation as organizations navigate their journey to SAP Business Suite.
| Purpose | Integrated Tools |
|---|---|
| Project Scope | The digital discovery assessment covers key processes for companies by industry scope based on best practices and across various areas, including sales, finance, and procurement. |
| Business Process Management | Business processes can be analyzed, managed, and optimized with SAP Signavio to achieve agility for successful change. |
| Enterprise Architecture | SAP LeanIX ensures that the architecture design aligns with transformation goals. |
| Digital Adoption | Personalized guidance and automation are enabled through user adoption assistant by WalkMe |
| Extensibility | Expansion and customization to meet specific business needs are supported through agile application development and seamless integration enabled by SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and SAP Build. |
| Application Lifecycle Management | Project Management, solution deployment and operation are supported through SAP Cloud ALM, leveraging SAP Activate project roadmaps with quality gates and checkpoints at each phase of the journey for the transformation. |
| SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis | As the implementation project moves into business process configuration, integration setup, and data migration, it’s important to test the processes, integrations, and data to verify everything is working as expected. SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis is a tool embedded in SAP Cloud ALM that can be used to create and run manual and automated business process tests. |
Expert guidance from SAP and qualified partners
SAP experts and advisors are available to support the transformation journey.
Guided enablement through a rich and tailored onboarding experience
The onboarding experience starts with personalized 1:1 calls from a dedicated onboarding advisor who helps project teams with the setup of project tools and workspaces. This includes an introduction to the clean core strategy, the clean core success plan, and the quality checkpoints throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that organizations are adhering to best practices throughout their project implementation. This onboarding experience also includes an introduction to the entitlements of the SAP Cloud ERP Private package, including the use of Business Transformation Management solutions, SAP Build, and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
Skilled partner ecosystem
Through the partner competency framework, our partners are also ready and enabled on the best practice guidance in the methodology to ensure organizations achieve their business outcomes through a successful transformation journey. Customers can find the right partner to support their journey here.
Customers planning to embark on a large-scale complex transformation project might want to engage with specialized RISE with SAP Validated Partners.
Additional Services
Consulting services are provided by competent and qualified SAP and partner resources.
- SAP Preferred Success for enhanced support through a proactive partnership
- SAP MaxAttention for premium-level engagement and personalized service.
Transformation Preparation Service for SAP Business Suite
The transformation preparation service for SAP Business Suite is included in the SAP Cloud ERP Private package. Through this service, SAP experts collaborate closely with customers and partners to create a tailored transformation roadmap. They assist in setting up the essential tools, establishing a strong governance model, and providing use case examples to unlock the full potential of SAP Business Suite.
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