SAPinsider Vegas Pre-Conference: RISE with SAP Session

SAPinsider Vegas 2023 pre-conference session kicked off today. Having a pre-conference day offers the benefit of having in-depth sessions and workshops. An instance of this is the RISE with SAP overview session presented by Anurag Barua from SAP. RISE with SAP is now the flagship offering from SAP. However, not all SAP customers clearly understand the components of this consolidated offering. SAPinsider has a dedicated content section for its community on this topic. We have also published multiple research reports on the topic, including the most recent one, “RISE with SAP- Engagement”. The comprehensive nature of the offering is one of the primary reasons for the lack of understanding of this topic among SAP users. The offering integrates different SAP and third-party products and services. In the overview session, Barua presented a comprehensive coverage of RISE with the SAP offering and started by listing the pain points RISE can help address, including aspects like cloud transformation challenges, navigating the complex portfolio of products and services, partnership management, etc. He emphasized how RISE with SAP solves the challenges associated with the current portfolio. The key highlights of how RISE with SAP can help alleviate these pain points were:

• Lowering the TCO as a result of moving to the cloud
• Eliminating partner complexity due to one contract, one partner
• Accelerated Return on Investments (ROI)
• Cloud economics aligned with the current functional scope
• Innovating in parallel to system upgrades

The subsequent section of Barua’s session comprised a walkthrough of the core components of RISE with SAP offering. The five elements covered were:

• Cloud ERP
• Business Process Intelligence
• Business Technology Platform (BTP)
• Business Networks
• Outcome-driven services and tools

The value added for attendees was understanding how SAP BTP fits in the offering and the powerful capabilities it helps introduce. The coverage was comprehensive, highlighting the key components of BTP, namely:

• Application dev
• Integration
• Data & Analytics
• Automation
• Artificial Intelligence

RISE with SAP business networks pillar offering was also discussed in detail. The content focused on SAP Ariba, SAP logistics network capabilities, and asset management transformation. When discussing the importance of networks overall and within the context of the offering, Barua gave the example of the need to collaborate with multiple tiers of suppliers in a supply chain network.

SAP evolves its products and services to align with the current realities of the market by introducing new products or services or consolidating existing services into new ones. Barua’s session focused on clearing the current status of these evolutions and included a comprehensive coverage of the differences and similarities between RISE with SAP and SAP HEC offerings. Many attendees asked clarifying questions about other SAP cloud-based offerings, like SAP cloud private edition and SAP Analytics Cloud.

Overall, session attendees walked away with the following key takeaways:

• The pain points RISE with SAP addresses and the powerful capabilities it delivers
• The critical components of RISE with SAP and the role these components play in making it an end-to-end digital transformation offering
• Differenced between RISE with SAP and SAP HEC
• Evaluating the criteria for deployment options for RISE with SAP and finalizing implementation pathways