RISE with SAP 2024
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Key Takeaways
⇨ 2024 saw a significant growth in familiarity with RISE with SAP.
⇨ The most significant benefits of RISE with SAP are the single contract and platform for innovation, but many are concerned about cost.
⇨ Twice as many organizations are now actively using clean core methodologies in an existing project.
SAP has continued to refine the messaging around RISE with SAP in 2024, positioning it as a platform for innovation, one that continues to play a key role in SAP’s cloud ERP transformation strategy for its customers. Additionally, SAP is now providing embedded AI scenarios that will allow organizations to accelerate processes and optimize their decision-making in RISE with SAP as SAP’s generative AI assistant Joule will be available in both SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. SAP also seems to be looking towards a future where most customers are using public cloud for the cloud ERP deployments though this is still some way off.
To understand and gather insights on RISE with SAP, how customers’ perspectives have evolved, and its role in the transformation strategies of the SAPinsider community, SAPinsider surveyed 125 members of its community between August and November 2024. Survey data reveals an unambiguous point: familiarity with RISE with SAP is growing. While the proportion of respondents “very familiar” with RISE with SAP was almost same in 2024 and 2023, a significant growth is seen in those reporting familiarity with the offering. This is supported by a corresponding decline in the number of respondents reporting they are “somewhat familiar” with RISE with SAP. There is also a difference in familiarity based on the size of a respondent’s organization. For example, 86% of respondents from organizations with revenues over $2 billion report that they are at least familiar with RISE with SAP compared with just 54% of respondents from organizations with annual revenues below $2 billion.
Last year, the single contract offered for RISE with SAP became the biggest benefit to respondent organizations which significantly increased this year. This growth in perceived value demonstrates that many organizations see the single contract with SAP as a major benefit when compared to negotiating for multiple contracts with multiple providers in more traditional ERP deployments. Notably, nearly twice as many respondents now view RISE with SAP as a platform for innovation—a significant potential benefit, and this aligns with SAP’s marketing efforts over the past year.
Additionally, while most potential benefits saw at least some growth no matter how small, it not true for cost which saw a slight decrease. In fact, when asking respondents about their biggest area of concern when it came to RISE with SAP, cost was at the top of that list. And the proportion of respondents indicating that was the case grew from 63% last year to 73% this year. Despite the significant benefits of RISE with SAP, concerns about the long-term costs associated with transitioning to RISE with SAP persist. Given the changes in packaging and contracts since the offering was announced, this concern is justified.
This year’s research also explored how familiar respondents were with the different components in RISE with SAP and the factors that they plan on using when choosing a cloud service provider for their RISE with SAP deployment. Deeper analysis of these topics is available in the executive summary for the report, and data from all the survey questions is available in the detailed findings.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 125 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
