SAPinsider Buyers Guide 2025: RISE with SAP

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Key Takeaways

⇨ The move to cloud ERP, and RISE with SAP, is an opportunity for organizations to modernize systems and build a platform for future innovation. To complete these goals it is necessary to have knowledge and insight to help navigate that change.

⇨ The SAPinsider RISE with SAP Buyers Guide serves as a critical resource and offers valuable insights, recommendations, and Vendor Capability Assessments to equip community members with the essential knowledge to jumpstart their intelligent and informed decision-making regarding RISE with SAP.

⇨ The guide presents a detailed overview of the capabilities, services, and solutions offered by Technology Vendors, Infrastructure Providers, and Consultants and Integrators in the RISE with SAP space, enabling SAPinsiders to gain a clear understanding of the diverse options available and assess vendors that are best suited to meet their specific requirements.

Over the past year, RISE with SAP has seen increased familiarity and adoption among organizations, driven by its AI-enabled cloud ERP suite and emphasis on innovation, with a focus on helping users navigate the offering through resources like SAPinsider’s Buyers Guide.

Over the last year, a lot has changed around RISE with SAP. According to SAPinsider research, nearly two-thirds of respondent organizations are either familiar or very familiar with the offering. In addition, RISE with SAP partners have also reported a growing adoption of the offering among their clients, which started to increase mid-way through 2023 and accelerated in 2024. In addition, SAP messaging emphasizes RISE with SAP as a platform for future innovation, which clearly resonates with a significant proportion of the community.

RISE with SAP is a comprehensive offering that enables organizations to transform their ERP systems and modernize business processes. Most importantly, for customers, RISE with SAP offers an AI-enabled cloud ERP suite of solutions that integrates generative AI into their business processes.

With minimal changes to RISE with SAP during the last 12 months, SAP’s focus has been on ensuring that customers understand the structure and value of the offering. SAP S/4HANA Cloud continues to be the cloud ERP core of RISE with SAP with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) providing the framework for extension and innovation around it. Combining these two offerings allows organizations to establish a digital foundation for driving process transformation using SAP Signavio, develop new capabilities using SAP Build, and unify data from across the organization using SAP Datasphere. Additionally, SAP’s generative AI assistant Joule, now available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, provides a new interface for users and the ability to use AI to accelerate and improve decision-making.

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To help SAP users make decisions about RISE with SAP, SAPinsider put together this Buyers Guide, which explores the challenges, opportunities, and trends while highlighting key vendors and partners in the space. The vendor capability assessments are intended to aid organizations in selecting vendors who provide technology and consulting services for RISE with SAP, including preparation, implementation, infrastructure, and post-deployment support.