DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — 1 February 2021 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced RISE with SAP, a milestone offering to propel customers’ holistic transformation into Intelligent Enterprises.
RISE with SAP offers customers at all stages of digital transformation a completely new way to redesign processes with intelligent technologies for better business outcomes. Along with its robust partner ecosystem, SAP will deliver fast time-to-value, and flexibility to thrive amid change – all without high upfront investments. The announcement to deliver Business Transformation-as-a-Service was made during RISE with SAP: The Introduction. Join Christian Klein and guests including Microsoft, Siemens and LiveKindly at the RISE with SAP: The Introduction event. Catch the replay here.
“Geopolitical tensions, environmental challenges, and the ongoing pandemic are forcing businesses to deal with change faster than ever before,” said Christian Klein, chief executive officer, SAP. “Companies that can adapt their business processes quickly will thrive – and SAP can help them achieve this. This is what RISE with SAP is all about: It helps customers continuously unlock new ways of running businesses in the cloud to stay ahead of their industry.”
RISE with SAP is a single offer that provides a path to the Intelligent Enterprise for every customer, independent of starting point or complexity. Offered on a subscription basis, it features one responsible party for SLA, operations and support. The holistic approach will help companies truly transform their business, going beyond a technical migration to the cloud to enable continual transformation. Together with its strong partner ecosystem, SAP will guide companies through their business transformation by :
Redesigning business processes:
- Business Process Intelligence is built on SAP’s business model and process expertise gained from working with over 400,000 customers across 25 industries. Customers can continuously analyze how their businesses processes perform, benchmark them against industry standards, and easily adapt them to new requirements and business demands. Intelligence can be embedded in business processes thanks to a direct connection to SAP’s workflow, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) services.
Enabling technical migration:
- SAP tools and services to support the entire technical journey with fast time-to-value, augmented by offerings from SAP’s strong ecosystem. This includes automated services to aid the move to modular and standard solution landscapes for faster consumption of innovation in the cloud as well as support from technical architects to help enable smooth migration and high adoption.
- Cloud infrastructure of choice run in an SAP data center or with a hyperscaler of choice to benefit from Infrastructure-as-a-Service capabilities without data and system lock-in.
Building an Intelligent Enterprise:
- The Business Technology Platform delivers one semantic layer across an enterprise providing the foundation for a holistic business transformation. This approach helps keep the core clean and allows for easier consumption:
- Easily complement, extend, and integrate with SAP, partners, and third-party solutions, using the same data model and business services as SAP applications
- More than 2,200 APIs to help ensure integration to on premise, cloud and non-SAP systems
- Steer and plan across the enterprise in real-time and provide high quality data for RPA and AI scenarios thanks to one semantical data layer
- Superior low code or no code capabilities to extend SAP solutions and a world-class workflow service to change processes on the fly.
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud with embedded AI, RPA, advanced analytics and flexible deployment options, depending on customer complexity.
- Unified access to one of the world’s largest business networks including SAP’s supplier, logistics, and asset intelligence networks, allowing companies to manage their complete supply chain to react faster to changing market conditions
About SAP
SAP’s strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP® system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want – without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com.