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In this webinar we explore how SAP BTP works with RISE with SAP, what having Cloud Credits based on the Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA) means, and how those credits can be leveraged.
In this webinar on-demand we outline the business process transformation solutions that are included in RISE with SAP, explain how they can be used, and discuss their value for transforming your own business processes.
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Lessons from Microsoft’s Migration of SAP to Azure, and How They Optimized SAP for AzureMicrosoft successfully migrated its entire SAP operations to Azure, enhancing performance and flexibility while providing valuable insights and a practical roadmap for other SAP customers considering cloud migration.
SAPinsider Benchmark Research – RISE with SAP 2025As 2025 ends, the narrative around SAP migration has shifted from “why move?” to “how fast?”
This SAPinsider report, based on a survey of 122 community members conducted in late 2025, highlights a marked acceleration in cloud ERP adoption as the 2027 end-of-maintenance deadline approaches.
Now commercially referred to as SAP Cloud ERP Private, the RISE with SAP package is seeing varied adoption rates; smaller organizations (under $2 billion in revenue) are currently twice as likely to be live on the solution compared to larger enterprises, which are predominantly in the planning or exploration phases.
While SAP’s dedicated transition support and license conversion credits are the primary drivers for migration, cost and unclear business value remain significant barriers for holdouts. The report also identifies a growing influence of Generative AI on ERP strategy. However, it warns of critical gaps in security compliance and an impending shortage of skilled implementation resources.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand why there is a concerning lack of security awareness
- Why we forecast that implementation partners will struggle to staff the volume of concurrent projects required to meet the 2027 and 2030 deadlines.
- How SAP’s direct support and financial incentives are driving adoption rates
SAP and Microsoft: Innovating to Drive ImpactThe partnership between SAP and Microsoft, showcased at Ignite 2024, demonstrates their commitment to advancing enterprise technology through enhanced security, AI-driven solutions, and improved data integration, ultimately redefining operational efficiency and collaboration in business environments.
Enhancing security, interoperability, and innovation with RISE with SAP on Microsoft AzureAccenture, a global leader in professional services, has significantly enhanced its infrastructure by integrating RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure, aiming to boost security, interoperability, and innovation. This integration streamlines business processes, enabling automation, intelligence, and seamless incorporation of customers and partners into the value chain. By adopting this robust digital core, Accenture has reduced product development and response times, fostering rapid innovation and revenue growth. This transition has improved infrastructure management, real-time insights, and cost optimization. Leveraging Azure services like Power BI, Fabric, and Synapse, Accenture achieved a 70% improvement in data processing times and introduced AI-driven applications like the financial advisor, enhancing financial planning and decision-making. This strategic move underscores the transformative potential of SAP on Azure, enabling Accenture to deliver advanced advisory capabilities and real-time financial insights.
SAPinsider Buyers Guide: Data Management & AnalyticsTo help SAP users tackle these data management challenges, SAPinsider put together this Buyers Guide, which explores the challenges, opportunities and trends in the SAP data management and analytics space and highlights key vendors and partners. The vendor capability assessments are intended to aid data management professionals in selecting the most suitable solutions for their needs. The participating organizations offer technology and consulting services that enhance the data management and analytics capabilities of SAP organizations, enabling them to integrate, migrate, govern, store, secure, report, and analyze data and improve overall enterprise intelligence and performance.
SAPinsider Benchmark Research Webinar – RISE with SAP 2025A Market Divided and a Looming Resource Crunch
Organizations are facing a pivotal moment as the shift to SAP Cloud ERP accelerates and the end of maintenance for core SAP ERP systems nears. SAPinsider’s latest RISE with SAP Benchmark Research reveals how companies are responding to rising pressure to modernize, the reasons behind their adoption decisions, and the challenges they must overcome. With two thirds of respondents already running, deploying, or exploring SAP Cloud ERP, the findings offer an in-depth look at what is driving ERP transformation in 2025 and where organizations are investing to prepare for the future.
In this session, SAPinsider analysts walk through the key data shaping cloud ERP strategy, including the role played by SAP Cloud ERP Private (RISE with SAP), the impact of AI capabilities such as Joule, and the realities of skills shortages, security requirements, and cost considerations. Attendees will gain a research-driven view of how peers are planning, executing, and governing their transitions, along with practical insights they can use to guide their own ERP roadmaps.
Watch this session to:
- Understand what is driving organizations to accelerate their move to SAP Cloud ERP Private and how adoption differs by company size.
- Learn why support from SAP, access to new functionality, and the rise of generative AI are shaping decision making.
- Hear which challenges organizations say are most difficult, including data cleansing, custom code remediation, and securing business support.
- See how companies are forming strategy teams, involving executives, and preparing for resource shortages in the coming years.
- Gain guidance on the steps organizations should take now to prepare for ERP transformation and long term innovation.
Reconsidering RISE with SAPSince RISE with SAP was originally released in 2021 much has changed. What was then seen as an essentially unknown business-transformation-as-a-service offering that was based around SAP S/4HANA Cloud is now the center of SAP’s plans for cloud ERP. RISE with SAP is also at the center of SAP’s newly announced Joule embedded AI and sustainability features.
Given that so much has changed, and with many potentially reconsidering plans for RISE with SAP, this is the perfect opportunity to reconsider and reevaluate RISE with SAP. What are the benefits of moving to the offering? What value does it bring? How can organizations ensure that they are making the right choice when it comes to RISE with SAP?
Innovation and SAP BTP in RISE with SAPWhile most organizations are familiar with RISE with SAP and the SAP S/4HANA Cloud component in it, many are less familiar with the business process transformation solutions that are offered as part of the solution. SAP S/4HANA Cloud comprises the cloud ERP core of RISE with SAP, the business process transformation tools and SAP Business Technology Platform solutions provide the means to enable innovation within an organization.
In this webinar we will outline the business process transformation solutions that are included in RISE with SAP, explain how they can be used, and discuss their value for transforming your own business processes.
Attend this webinar to:
Learn more about the business transformation solutions included with RISE with SAP
Understand the benefits that they bring
Explore how they can help drive innovation in your RISE with SAP deployment
RISE with SAP from the Microsoft TrenchesJoin us for this upcoming webinar to learn from Microsoft's RISE with SAP implementation. The best information available on any topic is that coming directly from someone who is using it. In this webinar we will sit down with Microsoft and talk about their experience using, and reasons for selecting, RISE with SAP. Microsoft is the first public cloud provider to adopt the solution internally to transform some of its large SAP ERP deployments. You'll hear from will be Frederic Huet who is leading the internal RISE with SAP implementation team at Microsoft.
We will start the conversation by discussing Microsoft’s existing SAP landscape and how it aligned with their plans for the solution. Then we will move to discuss how they are preparing for their implementation, and their experience so far.
Attend the webinar to:
Hear directly from Microsoft about their RISE with SAP implementation
Explore their experience from decision to implementation
Discover how to make your own RISE with SAP projects successful
Best Practices for RISE with SAPSAP, the experiences of those who have performed RISE with SAP implementations are invaluable. In this webinar we will be speaking with Frédéric Aubrière, Group SVP and Chief Digital & Information Officer at Atos. Aubrière is responsible for driving Atos’ internal IT roadmap to support the group employees and partners in their digital transformation journey, and previously led the global deployment of an ERP and PLM solution across multiple global product centers at Schlumberger.
The conversation will cover Aubrière’s experience with ERP deployments, how Atos has prepared for digital transformation, and where and how RISE with SAP has helped them make that transformation successful. No matter where you are in the process, there will be information that is valuable to you.
Attend the webinar to:
Hear from an expert with experience in planning for and moving from SAP ECC to RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition on Azure
Learn best practices and key questions to be answered for your own RISE with SAP
Understand how you can benefit from SAP on RISE
Attend this webinar to:
Learn about the current RISE with SAP messaging and what challenges SAP is looking to help you address
Explore the different components of RISE with SAP and see what has changed since release
Understand the steps in a typical RISE with SAP project
How Microsoft Helps Meet Growing Data RequirementsData is the lifeblood of modern business. Organizations are collecting vast amounts of information in order to intelligently run operations and gain an advantage within their field. In this digital economy, companies have a growing need to scale up their data capacity so that they do not fall behind.
SAP users in particular often require high levels of memory and CPU to run their most critical business operations—and as technological capabilities expand, the need for more computing power is only growing.
In this article, you can learn how to accommodate these needs without having to commit to major hardware upgrade projects and not worry whether you are sacrificing long-term goals to meet short-term needs.
TM International Logistics Gains Real-Time Visibility from the Warehouse to the Doorstep with IBM, SAP and MicrosoftTM International Logistics Limited (TMILL) worked with IBM Services to deploy SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure to boost efficiency and offer global delivery tracking to consumers and businesses worldwide. They chose Azure as the optimal platform for their real-time analytics environment.
Transforming Businesses with RISE with SAP on Microsoft AzureThis article introduces RISE with SAP as comprehensive “business transformation as a service” offering from SAP and its strategic partners. It explains the benefits of RISE with SAP as well as its main components and the main phases of a RISE with SAP engagements. Finally, it outlines benefits of a RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure.
It breaks down how RISE with SAP engagement can be structured into four larger phases: Analyzing and improving business processes, technical migration, building the intelligent enterprise, and acceleration of adoption and continuously improving the business. These four facets provide a roadmap through a business transformation and how users can best utilize the related services and solutions going forward.
SAPinsider Buyers Guide: SAP S/4HANAThe transition to SAP S/4HANA remains a focal point for SAP ERP users. Since its debut, around 24,000 organizations have licensed SAP S/4HANA, with a slightly smaller number having deployed the solution. While SAP S/4HANA remains important, SAP’s strategic thrust over the past two years has been towards cloud ERP, underscoring the pivotal role of SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Supporting this strategy, SAP’s primary push has been for its subscription-based RISE with SAP offering, which includes both SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, and SAP S/4AHNA Cloud, private edition. Yet, converting long-standing SAP users to this new cloud model, especially those with highly customized SAP ECC or SAP Business Suite deployments, remains a hurdle for SAP.
Despite the new innovations and faster performance offered by SAP S/4HANA and the cloud’s growing relevance, its uptake has been steady rather than rapid. Many in the SAP community are still on the fence regarding this shift. While some organizations have started their SAP S/4HANA journeys, a significant number of organizations have delayed deciding how they will move forward. However, the percentage without any plans to switch does continue to diminish.
To help SAP users make some of these critical decisions, SAPinsider put together this Buyers Guide, which aims to explore the challenges, opportunities, and trends in the SAP S/4HANA adoption space and to highlight key vendors and partners. The vendor capability assessments are intended to aid and assist organizations in selecting the vendors offering technology and consulting services for S/4HANA preparation, implementation, infrastructure, and post-deployment support.
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