RISE with SAP: How businesses are leveraging Fivetran for seamless cloud migration and data integration

⇨ SAP RISE offers businesses a managed cloud service with two deployment models, providing flexibility for organizations transitioning to the cloud while allowing more control over their environments.

⇨ Successful integration with SAP can be complex, prompting the use of platforms such as Fivetran to facilitate data movement and aggregation from various sources, enhancing operational insights.

⇨ The case study of Gill Capital demonstrates how adopting Fivetran and Google Cloud transformed their data management, resulted in significant productivity gains, and drove a substantial increase in sales through real-time data visibility.

SAP RISE, or RISE with SAP, is a managed cloud service that enables organizations to migrate to the cloud and leverage cloud-based management software. 

The comprehensive offering from SAP includes software, services and support to help businesses and offers a choice of two deployment models: SAP RISE Public: fully-managed service hosted on SAP’s public cloud. SAP RISE Private: a self-managed service hosted on the customer’s own private cloud and gives customers more control over the environment. 

RISE with SAP gives customers more control over the environment and is increasingly growing in popularity in the new age of digital transformation. 

Integrating SAP can be difficult for businesses to accomplish alone, which is why companies like Fivetran, a data movement platform, can assist companies during the integration process. 

When transitioning to SAP RISE, organizations must take caution and consider:

• Integration complexity: organizations leveraging SAP along with a cloud native system such as Snowflake, Databricks or Google BigQuery may find integration of these platforms difficult.
• Financial model: RISE offers a subscription-based model vs the traditional licensing model.
• Migration: how long will it take to complete the migration, and what impact will this have on the business.
• Data integration: Fivetran offers tools that enable organizations to extract data from SAP into the cloud data platform. This allows organizations to centralize data from all sources to provide a holistic view of the business. 

One company that utilized Fivetran for its integration journey was Gill Capital, a retail company in Southeast Asia. Gill Capital sought to consolidate data across its business operations to streamline sales and supply chain tracking. 

The company struggled to extract data from their SAP ERP system due to its rigid structure which required manual data manipulation in Excel which proved time-consuming and error-prone.

In 2023, the company adopted Fivetran and Google Cloud to modernize its data platform, with Fivetran connecting systems like Magento and SAP to Google BigQuery. Using change data capture (CDC), the company transferred SAP data into Google Cloud Cortex, which enabled the creation of real-time data models and reporting.

This new data lakehouse architecture provided Gill Capital with real-time visibility into sales and inventory, a critical advantage during events. The real-time dashboards facilitated dynamic customer engagement, crowd management, and stock replenishment, resulting in a 32% year-over-year increase in total sales and a doubling of online sales.

The new system saved 90 hours per week in workforce productivity, freeing the data team to focus on business modeling and skill development.

Future plans include integrating customer data to power AI-driven applications for personalized recommendations, stock alerts, and predictive modeling. The adoption of Fivetran’s SAP ERP on HANA connector positions Gill Capital for its upcoming upgrade to SAP RISE, ensuring scalable and cost-effective analytics.

The transformation highlights the significant impact of automated data movement in enhancing productivity, accelerating insights, and driving business growth.