How SAP Users Can Optimize Cloud Migration by Leveraging Partnerships

⇨ During cloud migration, utilizing SAP services alone may not be sufficient for many due to the specific business operations aspects that need to be addressed before cloud deployment.

⇨ With this in mind, Onapsis recently announced its strategic collaboration with Deloitte, aimed to help their shared clients transform and secure their SAP digital transformation projects.

⇨ The deployment of joint expertise can guarantee a much more smooth, seamless and easier digital transformation during SAP users’ migration to SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA.

The countdown toward the deadline for SAP ECC maintenance in 2027 is getting closer and closer for SAP users. Cloud migration is now one of the most discussed and sought-after ERP enhancements. Knowing how complex the transformation is going to be for many companies, SAP has been consistently developing and enhancing its RISE with SAP offering to assist companies in their migration to SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA.

Nevertheless, utilizing SAP services alone may not be sufficient for many due to the specific business operations aspects that need to be addressed before cloud deployment. This is why third-party consulting and ERP solutions providers are coming together to build strategic collaborations and help SAP users make their migration journey smooth and seamless.

Thus, Onapsis, a leading provider of ERP cybersecurity and compliance solutions, announced its alliance with Deloitte, a global leader in security consulting services. The collaboration aims to help their shared clients transform and secure their SAP digital transformation projects.

Specifically, by combining Onapsis and Deloitte’s expertise, the users will now be able to use such features as vulnerability management (VM), secure software development and threat detection and monitoring.

Deloitte’s VM offering for SAP encompasses cyber assessment, strategy, design, configuration, and integration services that align with leading standards and SAP-recommended guidelines. The offering will now expand for shared clients to also leverage the Onapsis Assess® platform to establish a secure-by-design framework for SAP implementations.

Deloitte’s secure software development and DevSecOps offering will now add the Onapsis Assess® and Onapsis Control® platforms into every stage of clients’ development processes in SAP to build in security, compliance, and quality checks.

Finally, Deloitte’s threat detection and monitoring offering will leverage the Onapsis Defend® platform, combining Deloitte’s SAP-specific library of security use cases and research from Onapsis Research Labs®. This will provide clients’ security teams with the visibility and context needed to speed up response to threats targeting ERP applications.

By establishing a safeguarded SAP environment at the outset from the utilization of strategic alliances like the one between Onapsis and Deloitte, clients can significantly reduce the cost of rework post-go-live and bridge the gap between cybersecurity and IT ERP teams. The deployment of joint expertise can guarantee a much more smooth, seamless and easier digital transformation during SAP users’ migration to SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA.