In early 2021, SAP unveiled a new initiative known as RISE with SAP. In contrast to SAP HANA, RISE with SAP is a suite of existing SAP tools designed to provide business transformation services to its users.
Understanding RISE with SAP
The goal of introducing RISE with SAP is to support and promote the transition of large companies to SAP's cloud solutions. This contrasts with SAP’s GROW offering, which targets smaller and mid-sized businesses. RISE with SAP facilitates cloud adoption by minimizing the complexity and fragmentation often associated with enterprise software planning. It also streamline the process with the help of various features and tools.
The solution focuses on six core business areas identified through SAP’s analysis of customer needs and product capabilities given below.
- Cloud ERP
- Business Process Optimization
- Extension, Integration, and Automation
- Advanced Financial Management
- Supplier Network
- Sustainability Management
Historically, SAP has been tweaking and enhancing its products to improve efficiency. For instance, it improved SAP S/4HANA with simplified listing and offering a unified financial reporting feature. Similarly, RISE with SAP provides one offer that allows customers to avail a bundle of products for a single price and one contract helps them manage service levels, operations, and issue resolution in a consolidated manner without needing separate contracts.
This approach is especially advantageous for companies with limited IT resources, technical expertise, or budget constraints, providing a more adaptable and cost-effective way to integrate SAP solutions while maintaining existing systems.
Components of RISE with SAP
If an enterprise has a RISE with SAP license, it can access a range of solutions, tools, and services across various areas as give below.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
SAP S/4HANA stands as SAP's flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. The Cloud Private Edition provides a hosted alternative for organizations that choose not to handle the software on their premises. This suite encompasses a wide range of business solutions, including finance, supply chain management, sales, and research and development, among others. Additionally, it delivers real-time business insights and analytics powered by SAP HANA.
System Hosting Choices
Customers must choose a hosting provider for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. While SAP itself provides hosting options, other major cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud, also offer SAP S/4HANA Cloud hosting services.
SAP Business Network
The SAP Business Network is a comprehensive platform that links customers with their trading partners throughout the source-to-pay cycle, encompassing suppliers, carriers, and various other participants. It facilitates easy supplier discovery and qualification, inventory management, asset tracking, enhanced transparency with customers, and performance analytics, among other capabilities.
SAP BTP Consumption Credits
SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) serves as a platform-as-a-service for the intelligent enterprise, encompassing the functions previously associated with the SAP Cloud Platform brand. It is structured around four key areas: analytics, application development and integration, database and data management, and intelligent technologies.
RISE with SAP license holders receive cloud credits for SAP BTP, allowing them to utilize various aspects of the platform according to their specific business needs, rather than being limited to a fixed set of tools.
Business Process Automation
The seven core features of RISE with SAP (given below) help improve business process intelligence.
- Analyze: This feature enables data scientists to deeply examine system data to identify effective practices and areas needing improvement, and to understand user interactions within the system.
- Design and Simulate: Users can leverage existing business data to create and test simulations, helping them determine which approaches yield the best outcomes.
- Improve: This component offers tools to boost efficiency through artificial intelligence, no-code automation, and advanced process automation solutions such as SAP Intelligent RPA.
- Roll Out and Govern: Focused on process management and governance, this feature supports the distribution and management of key documentation to end users from a centralized source, facilitating collaboration and rollout.
- Monitor: This element ensures the continuous performance tracking of solutions, maintaining smooth operation and addressing any issues that arise.
- Model and Manage ‘Home Base’: Complementing the roll out and govern component, this feature provides departments with a central hub to manage and view core processes collaboratively.
- Benchmark: This tool compares a business’ performance against aggregated industry data from SAP, offering detailed comparative analysis and actionable recommendations for improvement.
Embedded Tools and Services
RISE with SAP offers a wide range of services essential for managing the entire lifecycle of transitioning to a cloud ERP solution like SAP S/4HANA Cloud. This encompasses support for deployment, the elimination of obsolete code, optimization of supply chain functions, business scenario planning, and intelligent business design. Gemini Consulting & Services can help enterprises to make their digital transformation journey easier by leveraging the capabilities of RISE with SAP. Contact us to plan your ERP migration efficiently.
Sustainability Solutions
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management and SAP Sustainability Control Tower are some of the tools that enterprise customers of RISE with SAP can use. These solutions assist in monitoring carbon emissions and achieving sustainability objectives.
Paths to RISE with SAP
There are various approaches for companies to implement RISE with SAP. While the core solutions provided are from SAP, businesses can collaborate with selected hyperscalers and systems integrators to receive customized implementation and management support.
