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RISE with SAP
What Is RISE with SAP?
RISE with SAP provides the components needed to implement its intelligent enterprise concept in a single contract. It combines business process intelligence with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Business Network, technical services, cloud infrastructure, and consumption credit for the SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP has expanded the RISE with SAP package to include industry and line-of-business extensions.
According to SAPinsider’s RISE with SAP Benchmark Report, close to half (49%) of respondents said they see RISE with SAP playing the role of process transformation in their SAP S/4HANA projects. Forty-two percent said they see RISE with SAP playing a data transformation role in their SAP S/4HANA projects; 37%, a change management role; 32%, a program management role; 30%, an infrastructure environment role; and 29%, a quality assurance role. Only 18% did not plan to use RISE with SAP.
What Is RISE with SAP?
RISE with SAP provides the components needed to implement its intelligent enterprise concept in a single contract. It combines business process intelligence with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Business Network, technical services, cloud infrastructure, and consumption credit for the SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP has expanded the RISE with SAP package to include industry and line-of-business extensions.
According to SAPinsider’s RISE with SAP Benchmark Report, close to half (49%) of respondents said they see RISE with SAP playing the role of process transformation in their SAP S/4HANA projects. Forty-two percent said they see RISE with SAP playing a data transformation role in their SAP S/4HANA projects; 37%, a change management role; 32%, a program management role; 30%, an infrastructure environment role; and 29%, a quality assurance role. Only 18% did not plan to use RISE with SAP.
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
RISE with SAP: 5 Things to Know in 2022. SAP introduced RISE with SAP in early 2021 as a one-stop shop to implement its intelligent enterprise. This article answers several questions SAP customers have about RISE with SAP, including cost, partners, security, contracts, and impact on SAP S/4HANA deployment.
Demystifying Contracts and Licensing with RISE with SAP. One of SAP’s goals in rolling out RISE with SAP is to simplify the implementation process for SAP S/4HANA and the cloud by reducing the number of contracts that SAP customers have to sign. In this article, Akash Kumar, Solutions Architect at HCL, explains RISE with SAP’s contract and licensing process and the best strategy to get the most out of the program at the lowest cost.
RISE with SAP Benchmark Report. The most important driver for businesses opting for RISE with SAP is the need for digital transformation requiring technologies that support process improvement, according to a survey of SAPinsider members in the RISE with SAP Benchmark Report.
Industry Focus on RISE with SAP. In this webinar, Dinesh Vandayar, Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market Lead for RISE with SAP, and Michael Harding, Google Cloud Partner Manager for SAP, explain industry-specific use cases for RISE with SAP. For example, Vandayar relates that French retailer Carrefour used RISE with SAP to move to SAP S/4HANA on Google Cloud.
Vendors that can help SAP customers with RISE with SAP include: Accenture, AWS, Capgemini, CBS Consulting, Deloitte, Google Cloud, Managecore, Microsoft, Navisite, NTT DATA Business Solutions, PwC, and RedHat.
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RISE with SAP: 5 Things to KnowJan 13, 2022 — SAP describes RISE with SAP as a holistic Business-Transformation-as-a-Service (BTaaS) offering that goes beyond Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Software-as-a-Service to provide all the components needed to implement its intelligent enterprise in one bundle. According to SAPinsider research, more than half of customers surveyed do in fact expect RISE with SAP with enable transformation.
Despite elevated awareness and high hopes, a significant portion of SAPinsiders we’ve surveyed about RISE with SAP still have limited knowledge about some RISE with SAP components. Organizations say they find cost associated with the offering most interesting at this time. Robert Holland, VP of Research, points out that this is no surprise considering that lowering costs is a primary focus for organizations as they move SAP workloads to the cloud, and it is extremely important to those deploying SAP S/4HANA.
This blog post reviews five things you should know about RISE with SAP.
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RISE with SAP and the Impact on SAP S/4HANAJan 6, 2022 — RISE with SAP, what does it mean for your SAP S 4/HANA project? Unlike like most SAP products that create a set of new functionalities, RISE with SAP is a bundling of existing SAP assets that focus on providing customers with business-transformation-as-a-service. While RISE with SAP aims to help overcome many of the hurdles existing for on-premise and SAP ERP customers, what does it mean for your SAP S 4/HANA project?
After attending this session, you will:
• Understand the five core elements to help your company achieve digital transformation.
• Determine if RISE with SAP is right for your digital journey.
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RISE with SAP Benchmark ReportNov 30, 2021 — In This Report: SAP announced their RISE with SAP solution in January 2021, transforming their cloud-based approach and offerings. Since January, SAP has extended the offering to include HXM and procurement features, as well as announcing industry specific versions. But while many customers expressed an initial interest in learning more about the solution, it is […]
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Demystifying Contracts and Licensing with RISE with SAPOct 25, 2021 — The 21st century economy demands organizations to be flexible, agile, and responsive. They are also under pressure to cut costs.
Digital transformations can enable organizations to respond to the current market conditions while keeping costs under control. It can also help them meet customer expectations and help customers achieve high-value outcomes.
SAP understands these requirements and has released RISE with SAP, which combines the best of on-premise and cloud to transform your business. RISE with SAP includes such tools as SAP Readiness Check, custom code analyzer, and business process intelligence to expedite the transformation journey.
- Read this article and learn more about RISE with SAP
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Considering RISE with SAP? Evaluate the Right Cloud Strategy for SuccessOct 12, 2021 — The introduction of SAP S/4HANA and customers’ desire to become an intelligent enterprise necessitate companies of all sizes to move their ERP to the cloud, accelerating deployments, supporting continuous innovation, and lowering total cost of ownership. The question, of course, is how do you put your company on a transformation path on the cloud in […]
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SAP Digital Transformation: Key Considerations for Building Your RISE with SAP SolutionOct 7, 2021 — SAP knows each customer’s journey to the Cloud will be different, but recognizes the need for partners and customers to collaborate to achieve immediate value and sustain long-term success. This put the SAP partner ecosystem in the center of the 2021 released RISE with SAP solution. But many customers still have questions around roles and responsibilities and how to build a RISE solution tailor fit to them. In this webinar you will learn everything you need to know including key considerations when building a RISE with SAP strategy directly from a SAP technical partner with experience working with current customers successfully leveraging RISE.
This expert led session will include topics such as the a deep dive into the makeup of the RISE solution components, exploring options for different Public Cloud providers, who will perform the migration, where to achieve ROI and costs savings, and best practices for managing non-SAP applications when leveraging a RISE with SAP solution. Attend this webinar to get all your questions regarding RISE with SAP answered live by certified SAP experts.
After viewing this webinar, you will be able to know how to build the very best RISE with SAP solution by:
Gaining a better understanding of what is included with RISE with SAP
Developing the confidence to build out your own Cloud solution for RISE
Acquiring a solid understanding of the key considerations included in the migration to RISE
Lessons learned from RISE customer success stories
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RISE with SAP and Its Impact on Security and ComplianceJul 30, 2021 — RISE with SAP focuses on bringing core business systems (SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition) into a customer environment that is cloud based, process driven, easy to scale, and easy to use. When embarking on a RISE with SAP journey, the authors of this article — Uemit Oezdurmus, SAP Global Head of Managed Security Services, and Gunnar Kosche, SAP Service Offering Manager for Cybersecurity and Compliance Services — recommend that you tackle the following three topics in parallel: Business transformation, technical system transformation, and post-go-live activities.
RISE with SAP is a holistic enterprise transformation and change process. SAP pulls its knowledge from the SAP Customer Success program and packages that help customers with their technical migration. The different cybersecurity and compliance topics for business transformation are covered with templates, reference architectures, and guidance from services and support as part of the RISE with SAP offering.
When it comes to security, there must be a clear strategy to co-operate over the entire landscape in a secure and compliant manner. RISE with SAP provides a secure path to the intelligent enterprise for every customer, independent of starting point or complexity.
Read this article and learn:
- How to use RISE with SAP to move to SAP S/4HANA while ensure security and compliance.
- How RISE with SAP can help with business transformation, technical system transformation, and post-go-live activities.
- The importance of including robust security and compliance measures in your SAP S/4HANA migration using RISE with SAP.
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Transformation, Imagination, and InnovationJul 30, 2021 — It’s not often that you hear a technology enthusiast advocating to slow down. However, this mandate comes straight from the source and one of the biggest technology fanatics in the world — SAP’s President of Cloud Brian Duffy. Slow down to speed back up again is what Duffy advertises. Duffy’s non-traditional path to his current position driving SAP’s latest offering, RISE with SAP, has awarded him with a rich skill set, resulting in a unique leadership approach founded on hearing (vs. just listening) and problem solving.
SAPinsider’s Director of Editorial Brianna Shipley sat down with the President of Cloud to learn about his role today, how RISE with SAP is evolving, and Duffy’s opinion on buzzwords like imagination, transformation, and diversity.
Read this Q&A and learn:
- How customer feedback has impacted the evolution of RISE with SAP and how the offering is helping businesses holistically transform;
- About Duffy's personal connection to diversity and inclusion and how he sees RISE with SAP complementing D&I initiatives; and
- The advice that Duffy offers to future leaders operating in a digital workforce.
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Video: MSC Industrial Supply Co. Retools to Meet Complex Market ExpectationsJul 23, 2021 — The app store mentality — which boasts online libraries and the ability to quickly install and uninstall apps with one click — is shaping customer and stakeholder expectations. SAPinsider’s Vice President and Research Director Robert Holland sat down with Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of MSC Industrial Supply Co. (MSC), Charlie Bonomo, to learn how the successful dot com business is positioning itself to spin up applications that are fast, easy to use, and dynamic.
Bonomo shares his experience as one of the first RISE with SAP customers and explains that the collaboration between SAP and MSC’s hyperscaler partner Google Cloud has been a significant benefit. “We aren’t sitting still. We need the ability to adapt and support all of our stakeholders, who are moving very quickly, by providing them with nimble, scalable, and easy-to-use applications. If we’re sitting back at all it’s to ask, where is the world going? And clearly, that is toward the cloud and offerings like RISE with SAP.”
Watch the video and hear what Bonomo has to say about the importance of partnerships with strategic partners like SAP and Google Cloud, early benefits of MSC’s digital transformation, and important lessons learned so far.
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MSC Industrial Supply Co. Retools to Meet Complex Market ExpectationsJul 23, 2021 — Today MSC Industrial Supply Co. (MSC) is a successful dot com business built inside of an 80-year-old company that started as a wholesale catalog distributor. Digital moves continue to support MSC’s changing customer landscape and help the business align with new ways of thinking about software. MSC’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Charlie Bonomo says that RISE with SAP is the catalyst “enabling us to dive into the future.”
To deliver on its commitment to its customers and stakeholders, MSC is establishing the synergy and integration it needs on the back-end to provide nimble, scalable, and easy-to-use applications on the front-end.
Ultimately, MSC is setting out to streamline and consolidate the company’s software and bring different applications under one umbrella, leveraging SAP’s expertise and holistic approach to transformation through its RISE with SAP offering.
MSC is running SAP S/4HANA Cloud on Google Cloud Platform and expects to bring its digital transformation full circle at the end of 2022, enabling the business to close faster, gain more intelligence through reporting, and integrate third-party products that support continued innovation.
Read MSC’s case study and learn:
- How the company completed a lift and shift from its current landscape to SAP S/4HANA Cloud in just five months and while maintaining completely transparency for users;
- About Bonomo’s foundational approach to ensure the project was completed on budget and on time;
- What has been required to achieve streamlined interfaces in the cloud and how MSC is measuring success; and
- About MSC’s experience as a RISE with SAP customer, including how SAP has worked with Google Cloud to ensure a holistic and collaborative transformation.
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