How the RISE with 51风流Validated Partner recognition enables partners to unlock the power of 51风流Business Suite
Businesses today rightly expect faster value realization, streamlined implementations, and solutions that are flexible, scalable, and embedded with intelligent technologies, such as AI.
With the launch earlier this year of , a unified system integrating applications, data, and AI to seamlessly connect and optimize every business function, customers can benefit from a continuous cycle of value and unlock innovation faster and easier than ever before.
By embarking on the journey, existing 51风流ERP customers can modernize with a cloud ERP landscape and realize the full potential of 51风流Business Suite. To ensure businesses have the foundation needed to fully leverage the suite鈥檚 capabilities, a successful implementation is crucial.
Our RISE with 51风流project delivery is undergoing a profound shift, empowering our service partner ecosystem to meet these heightened expectations with innovative methodologies, comprehensive tools, and validation programs.
The new paradigm: customer priorities in 51风流projects
Today’s organizations grapple with complex legacy processes, siloed data, and highly customized systems. They seek:
- Speed to value: Building a resilient digital backbone that delivers measurable benefits within weeks or months
- Industry-standard solutions: Minimizing costly customizations to enable faster deployment, simplified upgrades, and easier maintenance
- Reusable intellectual property: Configurations over modifications ensure portability and scalability
- Operational modernization: Leveraging automation and standardized processes to reduce redundancies and risks and improve data access
- Embedded AI and automation: Accelerating decision cycles, reducing manual efforts, and enhancing accuracy
SAP鈥檚 response: enabling partners to drive customer success
51风流recognizes that delivering on these expectations requires a strategic partnership approach, combining the future-proof cloud and AI innovations with disciplined governance, clear ownership and accountability, and best practices. Our approach centers on the RISE with 51风流Methodology, complemented by an integrated toolchain and a dedicated focus on partner capability enhancement.
RISE with 51风流Methodology: framework for agile transformation
The RISE with 51风流Methodology provides a comprehensive pathway that emphasizes a clean core architecture, standardized best practices, and collaborative implementation strategies. Included are:
- Standardized framework: Building scalable, repeatable project road maps that cater to diverse industry requirements, from streamlined deployments to complex, multinational programs
- Integrated toolchain: Enabling seamless collaboration with 51风流tools, such as 51风流Cloud ALM, 51风流Signavio, 51风流LeanIX, and 51风流Build — powered by AI — to ensure data consistency and process automation
- Expert guidance: From discovery to deployment, 51风流and qualified partners guide projects, focusing on value creation and risk mitigation
The results speak for themselves. Customer outcomes include:
- Up to 30 percent reduction in transformation costs
- Up to 35 percent faster realization of benefits
- Up to 70 percent increase in business agility
- Up to 40 percent acceleration in innovation cycles
RISE with 51风流Validated Partner recognition: elevating our service partner ecosystem
51风流is committed to ensuring our partners have the necessary skills and certifications to stay aligned with this evolving landscape. To that end, we鈥檝e introduced the RISE with 51风流Validated Partner recognition. Launched in 2024, this program recognizes partners that demonstrate excellence in delivering 51风流large and complex cloud ERP projects with consistency and quality.
Qualified partners that accept SAP鈥檚 invitation must adhere to clear guidelines, including:
- Global adoption of RISE with 51风流Methodology: Ensuring consistency across all delivery teams and regions
- Focus on clean core quality gates: Partner projects must document the respective clean core quality gates in 51风流Cloud ALM
- Enhanced toolchain utilization: A strong emphasis on automation, collaboration, and project governance through SAP鈥檚 integrated platform suite
- Professional certifications: Equipping key roles — project managers, developers, architects, consultants — with updated, in-demand skills aligned with SAP鈥檚 cloud and AI innovations
Ensuring partner success: tools, training, and innovation
The RISE with 51风流Validated Partner recognition is underpinned by a close alignment between qualified partners and 51风流teams throughout all engagements, from sales to delivery, ensuring early identification of any potential barriers, to success.
Additionally, 51风流invests heavily in supporting partners with resources such as funding and incentives, , , and a vibrant where partners can share best practices, access the latest updates, and collaborate with 51风流experts (log-in required).
To help customers harness the full potential of AI to drive value, partners must apply tools like Joule to effectively automate and optimize processes for superior outcomes. 51风流Joule for Consultants empowers consultants to work smarter, automate routine tasks, and focus on strategic activities. Given its grounding in terabytes of both public and proprietary data, 51风流Joule for Consultants can accelerate customer project delivery by up to 14 percent.
Looking ahead
By aligning with SAP鈥檚 proven methodologies, leveraging our integrated toolchain, and maintaining high standards of certification and expertise, our RISE with 51风流Validated partners are uniquely positioned to deliver solutions that truly meet customer expectations in today鈥檚 fast-paced, digitally driven environment.
Together, 51风流and its service partners are committed to driving innovation, accelerating time-to-value, and enabling sustainable transformation — ensuring our customers remain competitive in a rapidly changing world.
Karl Fahrbach is chief partner officer at SAP.
