4 Steps to the Cloud: How T-Systems Simplifies the SAP S/4HANA Journey
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Organizations are transitioning to the cloud for benefits such as cost efficiency, flexibility, and improved client satisfaction, with SAP S/4HANA playing a key role in this transformation.
⇨ T-Systems offers a comprehensive four-stage approach for businesses adopting RISE with SAP, assisting in design, transformation, operation, and scaling of cloud solutions.
⇨ RISE with SAP allows businesses to integrate various SAP and non-SAP solutions, providing tailored managed services and enhancing innovation through the use of intelligent technologies.
In the new age of digital technology, organizations worldwide are moving to the cloud to keep up with changing times and give their businesses the best chances of success. This move can prove beneficial for many reasons, including cost efficiency, flexibility, agility, innovation, improved client satisfaction, reduced technology risk, easy IT management, and more.
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SAP S/4HANA leverages intelligent technologies, enabling businesses to analyze data, automate tasks and unify processes. While SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is a cornerstone of GROW with SAP, its private and hybrid cloud solutions are facilitated through RISE with SAP. Businesses making the journey to the cloud may choose to utilize SAP S/4HANA for its cost-effectiveness, flexibility, pre-configured solutions and real-time analytics.
European IT service provider and SAP partner T-Systems can support companies on their journey to the cloud. It offers tools, experience, and expertise to modernize IT infrastructure and SAP ERP landscapes. T-Systems’ cloud-first strategy provides tailored solutions to suit the needs of the markets, from in-house private cloud solutions to its ecosystem, which incorporates digitalization partners such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
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In hybrid scenarios, T-Systems can link numerous SAP installations by incorporating data from SAP-external data sources or integrating third-party applications, such as Office 365, Teradata, Hadoop and Oracle Exadata with SAP. Organizations can also use this to link production lines with SAP systems. Through RISE with SAP, T-Systems offers:
- Integrated SAP/non-SAP solutions
- Managed SAP services on every cloud
- A one-stop services shop for heterogeneous system environments
- Security services for cloud environments
- Integration of microservices
Driving continuous business innovation
T-Systems is a RISE with SAP premium supplier and offers a four-stage approach to implementing RISE with SAP for organizations looking to complete their digital transformation journey:
Design: This stage includes T-Systems’ cloud advisory services, innovation assessment and roadmap SAP S/4HANA roadmap consulting. It also helps businesses formulate their RISE with SAP adoption and SAP HCM strategies.
Transform: At this stage, T-Systems helps businesses with technical preparation, database upgrades, cloud deployment, and SAP S/4HANA conversion. Organizations migrating from non-RISE environments to RISE with SAP can also benefit from T-Systems’ assistance in setting up low-code/no-code extensibility, clean core, SAP S/4HANA greenfield transformation and SAP HCM transformation. Those seeking Business Process Intelligence (BPI) can also set it up during this stage to drive their business and innovation.
Operate: This is an essential stage for businesses migrating from a non-SAP ERP environment. It includes setting up SAP services on private and public clouds, integrating the non-SAP systems with SAP, SAP multi-hybrid cloud operations, Business process improvement based on Signavio, Cloud ALM and DevOps, and integrated application operations, application management, and modernization.
Scale and innovate: Integrated application operations and application management and modernization are carried through to this stage and completed. Organizations can integrate embedded AI services and application extensions using the SAP Business Transformation Platform (BTP). As the last stage in an organization’s digital transformation journey, this step seamlessly integrates the ERP system to provide continuous innovation and a digital sustainable enterprise with integrated AI to the organization.
