The Partner Opportunity of RISE with SAP

By Karl Fahrbach 

RISE with SAP is a business transformation-as-a-service package that enables customers to move to the Cloud and to become intelligent enterprises at a pace that works best for them. As part of the offer, the customer has the choice of Cloud Infrastructure Service provider and S/4 HANA Public or Private Cloud under one agreement and therefore can tailor the transformation to their unique business requirements. In addition, “Rise with SAP” includes access to SAP tools and services, Business Process Intelligence, SAP Business Technology platform and the SAP business network, each designed to amplify the journey to the Intelligent Enterprise, while reducing the total cost of ownership. “Rise with SAP” is designed to transform customers of every type and size and will be delivered in close corporation by SAP and partners. 

As a partner-centric go-to-market strategy, RISE with SAP reaffirms the central role partners play for SAP in delivering customer success. Partners are involved during the entire customer lifecycle, from initial sales discussions to helping customers make their business transformation a reality and lastly to innovate on top of the deployment. By going to market together, SAP and its partners are better positioned to deliver concrete business outcomes to the customer and to maximize the customer experience.  

SAP & Partners Deliver Customer Success Together

To deliver this transformative offer and to drive customer success, SAP relies on its partners to leverage their strong relationships and knowledge of customers to define and articulate customer-specific outcomes and thereby gain the customer’s commitment and market reach. Likewise, service partners will be positioned as the first choice for customers to quickly realize value from the offer. Our partner’s deep Line of Business and Industry expertise and strong technical capabilities will accelerate the time to value for our customers. Today, SAP has more than 400,000 customers across the globe. SAP cannot do this alone – we need a strong ecosystem to support customer during and after the sale.  

In addition, our innovation partners will be able to leverage the SAP Business Technology Platform to create and deliver innovative applications and extensions. This will extend the value of S/4 HANA and enable customers to manage end-to-end processes. Innovation and the SAP Business Technology Platform are the foundation of RISE with SAP, allowing partners to build and deliver industry- and customer-specific solutions.   

We are encouraged to see the success partners are already having with RISE with SAP – from enterprise to midmarket – and eager to continue our collaboration with partners to help all our customers on their intelligent enterprise journeys. 

Learn more about the opportunity for partners with RISE with SAP. The site will be updated on an ongoing basis with new resources.  

Hear what our partners have to say about their involvement with RISE with SAP.  

I think you’ll see that RISE with SAP delivers unparalleled opportunity for partners as they help customers transform their businesses.