A Two Minute Guide to RISE With SAP
A Two Minute Guide to RISE With SAP
RISE With SAP is the program on everyone’s lips in the SAP world. So, what exactly is it? Sit back for two minutes and read through this dummy’s guide to this flagship SAP program.
The SAP definition of RISE is:
RISE with SAP is a flexible solution that allows you to combine:
– Cloud ERP for every business need
– Industry best practices and extensibility
– Analytics and business process transformation
– Outcome-driven services from SAP and our partners
But what exactly does all that mean?
License model
Firstly, the central approach to RISE is that the licensing model moves away from the perpetual license, with annual maintenance fee, into a subscription model, based upon the entire SAP footprint in your landscape. This allows simplicity in a single contract with a consistent cost year on year.
“Business Transformation as a Service”
Business Transformation as a Service is the offering SAP use to bundle together the overall SAP solution as part of RISE With SAP. This encompasses the application itself (public or private cloud offering), a “business process transformation” starter pack, pre-configured content, and consumption credits for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
RISE offers the flexibility of solution, either public cloud or private cloud.
Hosting
Rise With SAP offerings, both public and private cloud, dictate that infrastructure hosting must be in the cloud, but the choice of hyperscaler is a decision resting with the customer. Therefore AWS, Azure, Google Cloud are all options available for hosting the application. The cost of the hosting is built into the single contract subscription fee.
Managed Services
SAP will offer “managed services” as part of their cloud offerings, both public and private. This service encompasses basis and administration activities, thus freeing up the customer to focus on added value application activities only.
Upgrades are managed slightly differently depending upon the solution offering:
SAP S/4HANA public cloud offers half-yearly upgrades automatically, usually in February and August. Customers are notified six weeks prior to the quality system upgrade, with a list of enhancements and innovations. The production system is then upgraded two weeks after the quality system, allowing for automated regression testing to be run. The numbering convention of the releases follows the year plus the month of release (e.g. release 2308 is August 2023). Additional new features are released monthly as updates.
SAP S/4HANA private cloud is closer to a traditional on-premise solution. The upgrade schedule is the responsibility of the customer. SAP will assist with the basis activities involved with any scheduled upgrade. The only set in stone requirement is that the application is always kept within vendor support (7 years from release).
More information on RISE With SAP can be found here:
More information on the Private Cloud edition of SAP S/4HANA can be found in the Eursap blog here:
Author: Jon Simmonds, IT Director, Architecture
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