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Atos is modernizing Alsea's core ERP systems by migrating to SAP RISE on AWS, enhancing operational agility and digital innovation across 4,000+ restaurant locations in 11 countries.
This shift to cloud-based infrastructure supports faster service rollouts and process standardization, reducing technical debt and enabling companies to respond quickly to business changes.
CIOs and SAP leaders must prioritize operational resilience and multi-region disaster recovery in their cloud strategies to safeguard revenue and reputation, while also leveraging modernized platforms for advanced AI and analytics capabilities.
Atos is leading a large-scale SAP modernization for Alsea that shifts the restaurant operator’s core ERP backbone to SAP RISE on AWS to boost agility, resilience and digital innovation capacity.
Atos, Alsea Advance SAP RISE on AWS Modernization
Atos announced it has been selected by Alsea, one of the largest restaurant operators in Latin America and Europe, to execute a strategic migration of its SAP landscape from an on-premises data center in Tres Cantos, Madrid, to SAP RISE on Amazon Web Services with deployments in Virginia and Texas. The program combined migration, upgrade and technical adaptation of Alsea’s SAP environments to support growth, operational resilience and new digital capabilities across more than 4,000 establishments in 11 countries.
Beyond infrastructure, Atos carried out extensive technical and functional optimization of Alsea’s SAP systems, reviewing and refining more than 1,200 business processes, adapting 5,000 ABAP programs and migrating 72 critical interfaces into the new environment. Alsea now operates on a more agile and scalable platform that Atos says is designed to support continued expansion and staged adoption of advanced cloud services and digital capabilities.
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The modernized architecture was validated through extensive testing to ensure business continuity in potential disruption scenarios such as natural disasters, cyberattacks or hardware failures, aiming to minimize financial and reputational risk. Atos positions the initiative as a reinforcement of its strategic partnership with Alsea and highlights the project as an example of secure, business-driven digital transformation on SAP RISE.
What Changes for SAP Technology Leaders
For CIOs and SAP program leaders, the Alsea project illustrates how RISE with SAP on hyperscalers like AWS is moving from infrastructure shift to business-process optimization at scale. By rationalizing more than 1,200 processes and 5,000 custom objects, Alsea is setting up a cleaner core that can support faster rollout of new services, more standardized operations and reduced technical debt in future transformation waves.
Atos points to similar cloud SAP programs, such as its SAP HANA migration for Siemens on AWS that delivered a 30% performance improvement and more than 25% cloud operational efficiency, as indicators of potential upside when large SAP estates move to cloud platforms with disciplined architecture and operations. For SAP teams, these examples suggest evaluation criteria that go beyond infrastructure price to include proven large-scale SAP migration experience, multi-region resilience patterns, structured process and code remediation, and a roadmap for layering AI and analytics once the core is stable.
Consumer-focused enterprises considering RISE with SAP on AWS can also look to reference programs where unified ERP on cloud supports faster expansion cycles, with some manufacturers reporting service expansion acceleration of up to 90% after consolidating SAP HANA on AWS in joint Atos and AWS initiatives. Common challenges such as fragmented instances, heavy customization and complex interface landscapes remain, but the Alsea migration indicates they can be addressed with structured discovery, targeted ABAP remediation and phased interface migration, while maintaining continuity for frontline operations across geographies.
What This Means for SAPinsiders
Platform modernization now drives restaurant ERP strategy. SAP and AWS teams should prioritize projects that pair RISE migrations with process and code simplification, enabling faster rollouts and scalable innovation across multi-brand foodservice portfolios.
Operational resilience becomes a board-level cloud metric. Enterprise architects need multi-region patterns, disaster-recovery testing and interface hardening embedded into SAP RISE designs to mitigate revenue risk from outages in high-volume consumer businesses.
Cloud foundations set the stage for AI in ERP. Vendors and SIs must treat SAP RISE programs as prerequisites for applied AI, analytics and automation in finance and operations, using cleaner cores and standardized data to accelerate value.
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