Benefits of Migrating to RISE with SAP on Google Cloud

⇨ 43% of companies surveyed by SAPinsider said that the top factor behind organizations moving SAP workloads to the cloud is the pressure to modernize infrastructure to lower costs and simplify IT.

⇨ A major step in the process of implementation is to choose the right cloud service provider.

⇨ Google Cloud provides a secure way of migrating to the cloud by reducing the risks involved and delivering quick time to value.

In a recent SAPinsider research, sponsored by Google Cloud, 43% of the companies surveyed said that the top factor behind organizations moving SAP workloads to the cloud is the pressure to modernize infrastructure to lower costs and simplify IT. What organizations may not realize is that the cloud can also be a catalyst for organizational change. Moving enterprise workloads to the cloud helps ensure improved operational resilience, allows for faster innovation, and supports sustainability commitments.

RISE with SAP helps organizations innovate, bringing together all the pieces that are required to transform their business on their terms. RISE with SAP brings together solutions and expertise from SAP and a partner ecosystem into a single contract. According to SAPinsider research, towards the end of 2023, 29% of companies surveyed were evaluating RISE with SAP while another 11% had already made the move or were in the process of deploying.

Identifying the right partners is pivotal in making the implementation project a success. Furthermore, a major step in the process of implementation is to choose the right cloud service provider. As one of the hyperscalers, Google Cloud provides the partnership and hosting capabilities that organizations need while ensuring high operational resilience, scalability, security, and access to AI and generative AI cloud technologies companies are looking for to help them innovate faster and stay competitive.

Google Cloud provides a secure way of migrating to the cloud by reducing the risks involved and delivering quick time to value. Their team of SAP on Google Cloud experts can facilitate an easy and safe passage to digitally transform. In addition, companies making the move to RISE with SAP can leverage incentives to defray infrastructure costs using the Google Cloud Acceleration Program.

Service continuity and stable performance are significant aspects of cloud deployment. With Live Migration, planned outages for maintenance and infrastructure updates are minimized. In addition, Google Cloud has the capability to live-migrate SAP HANA workloads while maintaining a 99.9% Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Advanced capabilities in analytics and machine learning are also offered by Google Cloud. BigQuery, AI, and machine learning, have the potential to predict business trends, automate processes, and customize customer experiences. Google Cloud can also help with prescriptive analytics, where companies choose the best course of action for operations based on predicted trends.

In addition, Google’s data sources such as Ads, Maps, Shopping, or the Google Marketing Platform can be accessed to supplement SAP data allowing organizations to gain more insight from their existing systems. At SAP Sapphire 2024 it was announced that RISE with SAP now runs on   Google Cloud’s SAP-certified X4 family of VMs; 16, 24, and 32TB. By reducing the risks of migrating to the cloud, Google Cloud builds on the SAP commitment to business transformation success .