In today's digital economy, rapid innovation drives new value creation opportunities. The pressing question is not whether to transform, but how to do so effectively, aligning organizational change vision with swift execution, minimal complexity, and reduced risk.
SAP uses its extensive expertise across over 25 industries to guide companies through successful transformations using a strategic, outcome-focused approach. Our methodology enables clients to rethink experiences, redesign value chains, streamline operations, implement novel models, and simplify their IT infrastructure.
The SAP Business Suite embodies SAP’s vision, offering a comprehensive, integrated solution designed to enhance connectivity and optimize functions across enterprises, through fostering agility, efficiency, and large-scale innovation.
These days, businesses must adapt to changing needs and trends, however, they face some IT challenges which include:
- The need for a proven implementation framework
- Best practices
- Expert navigational support to mitigate complexity
- Right tools for streamline transformation
As clients transition to the cloud, SAP has evolved its model to provide focused, continuous support, investing in the entire customer journey as they adopt new innovations and update solutions.
In line with this vision, many SAP customers interested in modernizing their ERP landscape and transitioning to the cloud face the challenge of moving from highly customized on-premise systems to best-practice cloud ERP solutions. SAP addresses these challenges with the RISE with SAP transformation journey.
Traditionally, RISE with SAP was a specific sales package, including SAP Cloud ERP Private (SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition). In the context of the SAP Business Suite, RISE with SAP focuses broadly on the customer’s transformation journey, becoming the standard path for existing on-premise SAP ERP customers to adopt the SAP Business Suite. This suite encompasses SAP’s entire cloud portfolio, including public and private cloud ERP, and line of business (LoB) solutions.
Despite this shift, SAP Cloud ERP Private remains crucial for many customers. To support this, the SAP Cloud ERP Private Package is one of the suite's offerings, ensuring it remains a strategic choice for modernization efforts towards a cloud-based software environment.
Customers have various pathways to the SAP Business Suite, depending on their current ERP setup and business needs. They can either begin anew with SAP Cloud ERP via suite packages and solutions or opt for a hybrid approach incorporating SAP Cloud ERP Private, potentially deploying SAP Cloud ERP in subsidiaries while using extra suite solutions. For instance, a company might implement SAP Cloud ERP Private at headquarters and SAP Cloud ERP (SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition) at satellite offices or new divisions. These systems are integrated and supported by SAP's portfolio, including the SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud, and SAP Business AI.
For comprehensive modernization, customers should assess their overall landscape. The RISE with SAP journey offers a comprehensive approach to optimize their landscape through identifying suitable solutions within the SAP Business Suite, aligning with business goals.
SAP facilitates the transition of existing customers to the cloud through the RISE with SAP transformation journey. This approach considers each customer's current on-premise ERP setup and unique business requirements, offering multiple pathways to SAP Business Suite. Options include a fully public cloud landscape or a hybrid model that combines public cloud solutions with SAP Cloud ERP Private. This flexibility ensures that customers can modernize their systems while retaining crucial existing functionalities. Furthermore, the two-tier implementation strategy enables organizations to run private and public cloud ERP solutions concurrently, supported, and integrated with SAP's comprehensive portfolio of SAP Business Suite packages.