From supply chain disruptions to sustainability and digital transformation, the pace of change in business is accelerating, and enterprises must do all in their power to keep up.
According to research from Accenture, 88% of business leaders expect the rate of change to only accelerate this year, with technology, talent, and climate named the main causes of disruption.1
To be able to adapt continually as circumstances demand, enterprises increasingly need to be digital first and armed with timely, actionable data powered by AI.
They must also be able to develop new business models to avoid being disrupted, drive operational efficiency, fund innovation, and transform mission-critical systems without risk to the business.
Organisations that use SAP systems running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud are at an advantage when it comes to meeting these challenges as they are better able to adapt business processes rapidly and pivot towards new opportunities.
RISE with SAP on AWS: a key agility enabler
The SAP and AWS cloud partnership was established in 2008. RISE with SAP is a managed service offered by SAP that comprises a range of cloud solutions and tools that simplify business processes and drive digital transformation.
AWS has supported RISE with SAP since its launch in 2021, and today, thousands of customers, including industry leaders like Aflac, HP Inc., Hyundai and Kia, Moderna, and Zurich insurance are using the platform.
The service can help embed agility and drive innovation in several ways. First, it supports the specific industry-specific needs of businesses.
It enables them to grow revenue by creating differentiated business models and take the lead in industry innovation for top-line, bottom-line, and green-line growth.
Second, as a managed service, RISE with SAP enables users to focus on innovation, not managing infrastructure. This enables them to spin up new business models faster and get ahead of trends. RISE with SAP also ensures businesses can improve continuously through access to better insights and automation to optimise business processes.
Becoming an Intelligent Enterprise
By leveraging RISE with SAP on AWS, businesses can adopt intelligent and sustainable operations, integrating business processes and use advanced technologies – such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and the Internet of Things – to drive leading-edge industry best practices.
The partnership with SAP and AWS helps end-user organisations accelerate their innovation journeys. For example, SAP customers can use the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) capabilities on AWS to modernise and create new SAP apps, while integrating and extending existing SAP and third-party applications and data assets.
SAP customers can also benefit from the experience, tooling, methods, and best practices of a large cloud community of SAP partners to help them innovate and streamline their business transformation. Currently, over 60 AWS competency partners are available through the AWS cloud platform to help SAP users adapt to change and chart a course to success.
Similarly, SAP users can also take advantage of key AWS services, which today include the broadest set of generative AI, data and analytics, IoT, automation, and application development capabilities, as well as over 80 SAP BTP services running on AWS. Running SAP on AWS does not simply give access to a cloud platform, it plugs businesses into an innovation ecosystem that will help them thrive in the face of change.
There is no escaping the fact that the business world is becoming ever more complex and challenging. In this world, organisations running SAP on AWS are at an advantage, able to innovate faster and adapt to change with ease. It will make all the difference in the years ahead.
Running RISE with SAP on AWS allows customers to take advantage of the world’s most secure, reliable, and extensive cloud infrastructure as well asl leverage the broadest set of cloud services in order to innovate.
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1Accenture, Businesses Anticipate Unprecedented Rate of Change in 2024, New Accenture ‘Pulse of Change Index’ Shows, January 2024 https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2024/businesses-anticipate-unprecedented-rate-of-change-in-2024-new-accenture-pulse-of-change-index-shows