RISE and shine with SAP

In recent year, as the computing world has been relentlessly moving towards the cloud, paradigms and their acronyms such as SaaS, PaaS, and Iaas have become part of our daily lexicon. They have also become part of any organization’s technical & operational DNA. Along the way, we have added other complementary service models to this expanding portfolio such as DBaaS (Database as a Service), BPaaS (Business Process as a Service), Desktop as a Service (DaaS), Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) etc. While each of these addresses one or more of an enterprise’s IT needs, none of these individually provides a path for enterprises to comprehensively transform themselves into digital, intelligent, and nimble enterprises. So, what is missing? The answer is ‘Digital Transformation as a Service’ or DTaaS. It combines most of these aspects and offers them as a service to enable enterprises to move to the next level of strategic and operational excellence.

SAP’s leadership in, and commitment to DTaaS was formalized on January 27 at the SAP Customer Summit NA, by our CEO, Christian Klein, when he unveiled ‘RISE with SAP’. Under the single umbrella of RISE, customers will be able to transform their businesses in a rapid, coherent, and complete manner regardless of which stage of this journey they are in. RISE will help organizations become and/or stay nimble, competitive, creative, and intelligent – a vision that requires rapid execution as the ravages of this global pandemic have compelled organizations globally to adapt in ways that were inconceivable even a year ago. RISE is also the latest manifestation of our inexorable focus on customer success and in generating favorable business outcomes for them.

So, what does RISE consist of? The components that come bundled in this subscription service are the SAP Business Technology platform, SAP Business Process Network Starter Pack, SAP Business Process Intelligence, SAP S/4HANA cloud deployment of choice (S/4HANA Public Cloud/Essentials Edition/Multi-tenant edition or S/4HANA Private Cloud/Extended Edition/Single-tenant Edition), and key tools and services to help accelerate this transformation.

RISE presents an exciting opportunity not only for our customers but also for those of us at the vanguard of helping generate positive and lasting change in their organizations. Interested? Curious? Fascinated? Learn more about RISE at https://www.sap.com/products/rise.html