The cloud imperative is here. For CIOs and IT strategists at SAP user organizations, this is a clear but often daunting reality to plan for—one rife with challenges related to cost, the risk of disruption, change management, and more. SAP released RISE with SAP in 2021 to mitigate these barriers to adoption, and RISE with SAP companion services like Protera’s make it easier than ever to implement.
In 2024, more than 6000 SAP clients have successfully migrated to the cloud on RISE with SAP, and adoption is expected to accelerate in the months and years ahead. By centralizing the many moving parts of complex cloud migration into a unified platform and offering a flexible pay-as-you-go subscription model, RISE with SAP makes migration more approachable and attainable.
Still, the process requires deep SAP and cloud knowledge in order to avoid pitfalls and unlock the full value RISE offers to SAP clients. This is where RISE with SAP services deliver, helping enterprises navigate the migration process with confidence and fully leverage the tools and capabilities of RISE with SAP to meet and exceed their goals.
This guide will explore the strategic benefits of RISE with SAP for modern enterprises and how Protera’s RISE with SAP companion services can help your organization optimize your migration and new cloud environment at every stage.
Quick Takeaways:
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RISE with SAP simplifies the cloud migration process by offering a unified platform and a flexible pay-as-you-go subscription model.
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RISE with SAP services provide essential support and expertise, helping businesses navigate the complexities of cloud migration and optimize their new cloud environments.
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The RISE with SAP model delivers dual value by enabling access to new features and innovation tools while also reducing IT costs and risks.
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RISE with SAP comes with powerful benefits, but also some tradeoffs around customization. SAP service providers help clients ensure RISE is right for them.
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Protera’s comprehensive companion services, including accelerated migration and comprehensive SAP Basis support, ensure that organizations can fully leverage the value of RISE with SAP.
The RISE with SAP Value Proposition
With RISE, SAP addresses the vast diversity of business needs, challenges, and complexities its clients face throughout the cloud migration process in a streamlined way. Its unified platform and framework are designed to deliver the most possible value to the largest possible subset of its customer base.
It does this by providing a comprehensive and standardized suite of core services and tools focused on essential business processes and aspects of cloud migration. It comes with robust, built-in best practices, industry-specific configurations, and a simplified user experience that allows for faster implementation and management across the cloud migration and management journey.
RISE with SAP delivers two distinct value differentiators to customers: Business value through new features and innovation tools, and mitigated IT cost and risk via its high-engagement, as-a-service business model. This makes RISE with SAP an attractive option for businesses seeking efficiency and scalability, with the tradeoff being that it lacks some of the extensive customization capabilities of a native S/4HANA migration.
It’s critical for IT decision makers considering RISE for their organization to understand this reality and consider it when deciding their path to RISE with SAP. SAP, for its own part, does a good job disclosing what RISE supports —but it’s still up to the organizations themselves to do their due diligence and understand the best approach to meet their needs.
SAP is transparent about its offerings, but there is so much information available—information that changes quickly as offerings evolve—that it can be difficult to keep up with for organizations that don’t have large internal SAP experience and expertise.
RISE with SAP services fill this critical gap, ensuring businesses not only make the right decision when choosing RISE, but are also able to extract maximum value from it throughout the migration process.
Protera’s RISE with SAP Services: Expert Support for the Intelligent Enterprise
Protera has long been a trusted SAP partner. As the first to run SAP on the public cloud, Protera has spent more than a decade evolving its cloud services to align with SAP’s current offerings and help clients maximize business value from them. RISE with SAP is no exception.
Protera’s RISE with SAP services are rooted in proven SAP best practices while designed to be customized to meet each client’s unique needs. Through a shared responsibility service model, Protera offers a deep bench of SAP experts who act as an extension of clients’ own internal teams.
Watch: Best Practices and New Considerations for Managing RISE with SAP
Specific RISE with SAP Protera services include:
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Accelerated Pricing: Quotes provided in 24 hours using just a few key data points about your current SAP landscape
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Migration Support: Accelerated, low-risk, and automated migration solution that includes planning and architecture guidance
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Intelligent SAP Basis Services: Preparation of environment, migration to RISE tenant, and full SAP lifecycle basis support
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Network Architecture: Design consultation to ensure proper network connectivity
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Technical Account Management: Translation of business and technical requirements to RISE
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Standard Services Consulting: Integration of standard IT services such as DNS forwarding
Protera also helps organizations extend beyond SAP ERP functionality to realize holistic business value, leveraging RISE along with tools like SAP Business Technology Platform to modernize and customize their entire IT landscapes—both SAP and non-SAP components—for optimal alignment and performance.
By offering a comprehensive, all-in-one support package, Protera enables companies to focus on their core operations while benefiting from all the latest SAP tools and innovations.
The Protera Advantage
Protera’s industry-leading RISE with SAP services and companion solution can accelerate your digital transformation journey and position your organization strategically for the future. We serve as a liaison between you and your SAP support team, empowering your internal team to focus on mission-critical innovation activities while we keep your environment optimized and running smoothly.
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At every stage, Portera’s proprietary cloud management and monitoring solutions, Protera Cloudvantage and Protera Watchdog, drive transparency, visibility, automation, and real-time insights across your entire IT infrastructure including in RISE with SAP
Talk to a Protera expert today to learn more about our RISE with SAP companion suite and get started today.