SAP RISE is no ordinary ERP upgrade. Ensuring frictionless ERP migration to the cloud to drive wide-ranging transformation capable of revitalising an organisation’s DNA is key success factor on your S/4HANA journey.
Effective SAP RISE adoption breaks down internal corporate silos, transforming business models and helping to generate new revenue streams while connecting people, business networks, and devices in new and exciting ways.
The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) – a complementary service designed to trigger innovation – also integrates data and analytics, AI, app development, and automation.
The challenges associated with migration
The rewards of adoption are considerable, but so are the challenges. Difficult decisions include choosing the right hyperscaler, deciding between hosting models (on-premises, cloud, or hybrid), and selecting either public or private environments.
“Every company needs a cloud-first business strategy,” says Eric van Rossum, Chief Marketing Officer for Cloud ERP at SAP. “It’s more important than ever for customers to start their migration and modernisation journey, so they can harness the potential of the latest cloud innovations, including AI and sustainability solutions.”1
Considering these risks and rewards, CIOs and their teams can benefit from expert guidance.
SAP RISE: Transformational outcomes
As well as breaking down silos and connecting internal functions, SAP RISE enables organisations to operationalise data needed to drive a company’s AI future, generating real-time actionable business insights.
Organisations leveraging SAP RISE have the agility to launch new business models, products, and services faster than their competitors. They can act like a start-up – succeed or fail fast, learn from their experience, and adapt accordingly. The solution also helps organisations rethink, optimise, and modernise existing business models.
Unlocking AI-driven competitive advantage
SAP RISE achieves this digital transformation by centralising data and delivering a standardised, organisation-wide operating model, with a single business stream and unified real-time view of the truth.
For example, an FSI company could use SAP RISE to analyse customers’ real-time behaviour, identifying emerging demand in new geographies. It could also use S/4HANA’s analytics tool to predict, simulate, and conduct “what if?” exercises around emerging trends.
Having predicted the size and nature of consumer demand, product development, sales, and marketing departments can work together to exploit new commercial opportunities faster and more effectively than non-transformed competitors.
5 steps to successful SAP RISE adoption
PCG advocates a five-step approach to successful SAP RISE adoption:
- Assess: Review the existing SAP landscape focusing on architecture, organisation, processes, and data. Calculate expected costs.
- Mobilise: System familiarisation through training from PCG experts and the SAP Learning Hub.
- Migrate: Plan and accelerate migration using PCG’s ALPACA automation platform.
- Operate: PCG’s experienced AWS and SAP experts support future the operation of SAP environments.
- Innovate: PCG helps build the “intelligent company.” This includes AI solutions, industry process automation, and state-of-the-art analytics.
The adoption of SAP RISE can be truly transformational. However, ROI is more likely to be optimised working in close partnership with a trusted advisor who has expertise from numerous successful projects and is capable of unlocking funding opportunities from supply partnerships.
Get in touch to discover how PCG can support your cloud journey.
1Technology Magazine, How RISE with SAP is Unlocking Cloud Innovation, April 2024, https://technologymagazine.com/articles/how-rise-with-sap-is-unlocking-cloud-innovation