The Big Flex – Redefining Cloud Transformation with SAP BTP

⇨ Businesses must continuously adapt and embrace digital transformation, utilizing technologies like the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to enhance operational efficiency and customer experiences.

⇨ SAP BTP provides a unified environment that integrates application development, data management, analytics, and AI, enabling organizations to streamline operations and accelerate their digital transformation journeys with flexibility and scalability.

⇨ Transitioning to cloud-based solutions, such as SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, is essential for organizations to leverage advanced data capabilities, improve collaboration, and achieve significant cost efficiencies.

Changing and adapting continuously is the only way businesses can succeed in the world today – but this also means that businesses not only need to prepare for such an evolution, they also need to transform the way in which they operate. Technology is a big enabler of this and transitioning to the cloud is another powerful approach that businesses are increasingly adopting to achieve this, using SAP systems to drive and accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

However, as businesses continue to gravitate towards digitization and adopting digital-first models, they are also navigating the challenges related to the demand of accelerated innovation including providing frictionless experiences to their customers and employees alike. This is where SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) comes in—a unified platform that combines data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, application development, and integration capabilities — to enable businesses to boost digital transformations and generate business value.

SAP BTP combines application development, data analytics, integration, automation, and artificial intelligence in a single, unified environment. This enables companies to create personalized experiences across diverse business processes, speed up applications and integrations development, and deploy comprehensive enterprise planning. SAP BTP not only drives innovation on a modern, cloud-based technology foundation, it uses the cloud’s scalability and flexibility to enable companies to digitize their operational workflows, ensuring that processes are both efficient and adaptable to evolving market demands. The platform facilitates the integration, extension, and enrichment of business processes, enabling companies to streamline operations and boost overall productivity.

SAP provides tailored cloud migration paths that aligns business goals and current on-premise solutions, offering approaches that best fit your organization’s needs.

Modernize your SAP BW to SAP Datasphere

SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) has been the on-premises data warehousing foundation for SAP applications. With companies looking to move towards a more flexible cloud data architecture, they want to transition from traditional IT-centric landscapes to more adaptable, business-focused data platforms. SAP Datasphere is SAP’s strategic target solution for data warehouse and data management use cases in the public cloud. SAP Datasphere enables every data professional to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It is a unified service for data warehousing, data integration, cataloging, semantic modeling and virtualizing workloads across SAP and non-SAP data. It is designed to establish a comprehensive foundation for a business data fabric, more outlined here SAP’s Overall Data Warehousing Strategy.

Sign up for a free BW modernization assessment here.

Transition from SAP Process Integration/SAP Process Orchestration (SAP PI/ PO) to the SAP Integration Suite run on SAP BTP

With SAP PI/PO mainstream maintenance support ending in 2027, SAP Integration Suite is the strategic integration solution that enables central governance and operational insights for any-to-any real-time business process integration. It connects applications across complex landscapes and distributed ecosystem of customers, partners, and employees faster, to support end-to-end processes and increase data transparency.

Sign up for a free landscape modernization assessment with SAP Integration Suite here.

Database Move – From on-premises SAP HANA database to SAP HANA Cloud

SAP HANA Cloud is a strategic cloud-native database and is the recommended database for solutions built on SAP BTP. SAP HANA Cloud is a multi-model database-as-a-service that allows businesses to build intelligent data applications at scale and innovate without disrupting their operations. From the added benefits of a clean core to side-by-side extensibility and multi-model processing, SAP HANA Cloud allows businesses to customize AI-based applications separately from SAP S/4HANA and other core business applications. Businesses can also extend their applications or re-locate a subset or selected data from on-premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud.

Sign up for a free database migration assessment here.

From SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (SAP BPC) to SAP Analytics Cloud Planning (SAP SAC)

Organizations are increasingly focusing on cost efficiencies, AI-driven planning, and enterprise-wide collaboration. These are in turn necessitating a shift to cloud-based planning solutions like SAP Analytics Cloud, a single solution that integrates financial and operational planning and ensures real-time, trusted data. For SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) users, transitioning to SAP SAC offers more benefits automated insights that deliver advanced analytics at scale and enhance data models with customized calculations. SAP Analytics Cloud Planning is SAP’s strategic cloud-based planning solution and also incorporates an array of planning scenarios in combination with BI, predictive analytics and planning in one product.

Streamlining Transformation

To support customers in understanding and transitioning to Cloud ERP, SAP Customer Evolution provides specialized tools and services to help accelerate the move. It lays down a clear path for customers by defining the value of the transition, understanding the capabilities of various SAP cloud solutions, the transition process, and the product roadmap. The SAP Customer Evolution Program brings together best practices from SAP, latest innovations, services and tools, and guides existing SAP customers on their move from on-premise solutions to the cloud. The program enables businesses to transform their processes and offers a personalized approach to meeting unique needs—whether entirely in the cloud or in a hybrid setup.