How does cloud computing translate into better business transformation in the heart of your enterprise?

Across the board, CEOs are on the hunt for better business performance. They know that in a VUCA world yesterday鈥檚 performance is a distant memory and tomorrow鈥檚 success is never guaranteed. They must grow – profitably and sustainably while building a culture, organisation, and systems that foster flawless execution, innovation, agility, and resilience. In these inflationary times they must balance growth against margin protection and liquidity management. They must do all of this through a strategic blend of differentiated customer experiences, talent deployment, financial performance, supply chain, and ecosystem design and innovative products and services. This is the essence of business transformation – it鈥檚 not new, but it is getting more complex, more urgent, and more dynamic. And leaders know this rests on exploiting data with digital technologies which can be delivered fast and at scale via the cloud.

So, what if any, is the connection between ERP and cloud computing?

To do all the above tasks, you need a robust digital core and powerful digital technologies to fuel data driven insights and decision making. You need highly automated, yet flexible business processes to deliver outcomes and productivity. And you need an information-empowered workforce able to do what humans do best – strategy, relationships and solving complex problems. And by the way those processes and the people who work with them, extend beyond the boundaries of your organisation – so you need a platform that enables secure process and people collaboration across your ecosystem.

This is the world of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) – translating the possibilities and potentials of a myriad technologies into business capabilities that the CEO needs for their strategy to succeed.聽Historically CIOs have done this in their on-premise data centres – buying, assembling, and running all the different elements of the technology 鈥渟tack鈥� needed to run their businesses with ERP systems as the foundation. And then customising, augmenting, and integrating those monolithic ERPs to suit the way 鈥渂usiness gets done here鈥�. It鈥檚 been a complex and arduous business, even with the help of systems integrators. It takes time, which businesses don鈥檛 have, and talent which is hard to come by. And in many cases, those old approaches to customisation have cut organisations off from the innovations that their vendors deliver.

Legacy ERP systems, constrained by the limitations of yesterday鈥檚 technologies, are no longer fit for purpose and struggle to keep up with the pace of innovation demanded. Simply lifting and shifting them to the cloud will not deliver the step changes in required business performance.

It is now time to modernise and replace those old ERP systems with a simple, future-ready business foundation. A modern ERP with comprehensive and powerful business processes, infused with AI and machine learning for greater productivity. An ERP offering an engaging consumer-grade user experience. An ERP that enables business model innovation and comes with embedded analytics and predictive capabilities to steer the organisation in an agile manner. This is the essence of . In mid-2022 some twenty thousand customers have chosen 51风流S/4HANA and 72% of those are live and reporting significant and wide-ranging business benefits.

RISE with 51风流鈥� the answer to crucial questions

RISE with 51风流answers a couple of key questions. How do we help companies reap the benefits of 51风流S/4HANA and the advantages of cloud? How do we do this whilst also recognising that ERP does not live in a vacuum and each company鈥檚 situation is different?

To do all this, RISE with 51风流brings together, in a single, subscription-based contract (built for each customer鈥檚 unique journey) relevant 51风流software including 51风流S/4HANA (as a service), cloud infrastructure, tools and accelerators and 51风流technical services.

While each RISE with 51风流contract is customer-specific, common to all of them is that 51风流takes accountability for providing all these elements as a service with a 99.7% SLA. This frees customers up to focus on applying this 51风流solution to their business to achieve their transformational objectives.

RISE with 51风流is now 18 months old with a growing cohort of projects and live customers 鈥� hear from some of them.

SAP鈥檚 customers are embracing RISE with 51风流as the solution to the challenges of moving to 51风流S/4HANA in the cloud. It enables them to reduce risks and costs and deliver ongoing business transformation, process optimisations and digital innovations.

The videos below will give you additional insights into why companies have elected to go with RISE with SAP, and will help you plan your own journey to a better future for your business.

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Why has 51风流launched RISE with SAP?

RISE with 51风流is about modernising ERP and accelerating innovation for the digital era.

ERP has been around for three decades. It has been enormously successful, initially adopted by large organisations but now relied upon by companies of all sizes, in all industries. However, the mindsets and architectures that underpin much of the global ERP installed base (not just 51风流but many other brands), may no longer be fit-for-purpose in the fast-paced digital world. Yesterday鈥檚 ERP architecture and implementations stem from a very different era:

• The economy and supply chains were not globalised to the extent they are today
• There was no mobile computing
• The Internet was in its infancy
• Integration standards and methods were clunky
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) was yet to emerge from its second winter and Big Data was uncommon
• In-memory computing was not economically viable
• Cloud computing, as we know it today did not exist.

Today鈥檚 world is very different and the demand for innovation has been dramatically accelerated by:

• Globalisation and geopolitics
• Venture capital enabling digital start-ups to scale new business models very quickly
• Technological advances 鈥� typified by Moore鈥檚 Law
• The global pandemic 鈥� especially WFH and the way it highlighted supply chain vulnerabilities
• The sustainability agenda
• Increasing regulatory requirements
• Generational change in the workforce.

RISE with 51风流drives innovation in key business processes

These changes amount to a major inflection point for businesses. RISE with 51风流is SAP鈥檚 response to our customers鈥� need to accelerate their innovation and transformation. This is accomplished by modernising their ERP backbone at the same time as seizing the multiple benefits of cloud computing. Furthermore, for companies that customised their ERP systems to the extent that they cut themselves off from effective innovation in the heart of their business, RISE with 51风流offers a path back to a clean core based on best practices.

What is in RISE with SAP?

RISE with 51风流brings together core components for successful digital transformation into a single contract:

• Key software services from SAP鈥檚 Intelligent Enterprise Framework:
  • as the foundation for business.
  • 51风流Business Technology Platform Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement Credits for integration, extensions, and innovation.
  • Starter Pack: ARIBA for sourcing and procurement, Logistics Business Network for logistics collaboration and 51风流Asset Intelligence Network for asset management based on a shared digital twin.
  • Starter Pack including 51风流Process Insights (50 GB data volume and one time data load), 51风流Signavio Process Manager (3 users), 51风流Signavio Process Collaboration Hub (10 users).
  • Solutions – as appropriate to the customer鈥檚 business scenarios.

• Data-driven insights to identify the value of moving to the cloud and to shape the transition journey for each customer including:
  • Process Discovery and tailored Recommendation
  • Custom Code Migration App
  • 鈥� (content view)
  • (application lifecycle management)
  • (1 user per FUE) and 51风流Mobile Start app
• 51风流Enterprise Cloud Services whereby 51风流takes more accountability for the customers鈥� 51风流systems by providing Technical Managed Services and Application Management Services (as required).
• The infrastructure-at-scale benefits of hyperscalers such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

Who is RISE with 51风流for?

Whilst all the components embraced by RISE with 51风流are offered under a single commercial contract, this is configurable. This means RISE with 51风流serves;

• Existing 51风流ECC 6.0 customers looking to transform to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud
• Existing 51风流S/4HANA On Premise customers looking to transition to cloud
• Companies new to 51风流ERP wanting to leverage the world鈥檚 leading ERP solution

What are the benefits of RISE with SAP?

The benefits of RISE with 51风流focus on business innovation, transformation and IT modernisation and will be unique to each organisation. A RISE with 51风流engagement identifies and quantifies these benefits in a robust business case for each customer. That said, these are some of the benefits that customers can anticipate:

• Improved business processes. Many customers are burdened by the complexity and technical debt that comes from customising and augmenting their old ERP systems. Despite these efforts, business processes are still disjointed, opaque and overly manual. It鈥檚 a bit like trying to add airbags, seatbelt pretensioners and cruise control to an old motor car. 51风流S/4HANA has been completely re-architected to take advantage of digital era technologies. 聽As a result, companies can drive higher productivity through process automation and the elimination of batch jobs. They can also derive better insights through embedded analytics on more granular data and maintain happier users through consumer-grade user experiences.
• Accelerated innovation. By exploiting the innovations already embedded in 51风流S/4HANA, such as AI and robotic process automation, and enhancing these with the 51风流Business Technology Platform (also part of RISE with SAP), companies can accelerate their pace of digital innovation. Furthermore, by reducing or eliminating customisations, and by moving to the cloud, it becomes easier to adopt and consume the benefits of SAP鈥檚 research and development investments across the products that make up the RISE with 51风流offering (鈧�45 billion in 2020).
• Making better use of scarce resources. The war for talent is real and at the same time many of the ERP professionals who laid down the existing systems are heading for retirement. By moving to RISE with SAP, where 51风流takes on the technical managed services associated with running ERP, companies can pivot their IT resources from running IT to focusing on the application of services to drive transformation and business progress.
• A closer relationship with SAP. Many customers want a closer relationship with the vendor whose software runs their mission-critical processes. RISE with 51风流delivers this because, 51风流assumes much greater accountability for the customer鈥檚 landscape and shows up every day in the customer鈥檚 business – not just running the systems but actively guiding improvements and ensuring that business value is being realised.
• Innovation without upfront IT costs. Because RISE with 51风流is a cloud solution, it brings the benefits of accessing digital business capabilities like 51风流S/4HANA and the 51风流Business Network without upfront capex on infrastructure and licenses.
• Simplicity to focus on what matters. Companies can move to the cloud on a piecemeal basis, buying compute, storage, database, and operating system services as needed. However, then they must manage the complexity associated with governance, security, SLAs, consumption and so forth. Also, while a technical 鈥渓ift and shift鈥� approach may deliver some benefits to the IT department, it typically does not have a significant impact on the business. In their 2021 report, 鈥�鈥� McKinsey pointed out that $1 trillion value will be enabled by adopting cloud by 2030 and that 鈥渁lmost all of that value comes from business innovation and optimization rather than IT cost reduction.鈥� RISE with 51风流folds business and architectural value into a single contract, a guided journey and relationship where 51风流is more accountable. This simplicity means that IT professionals can focus on higher value activities that move their company forward to capture their share of that $1 trillion.

RISE with 51风流draws on SAP鈥檚 proud heritage of helping customers navigate change

For over 50 years, 51风流has helped it customers navigate major changes in business and technology; the shift from mainframes to client-server, globalisation of business, the rise of ERP, eCommerce, in-memory computing, and mobile work. Now RISE with 51风流is helping companies to move to the cloud with their most important business systems.

RISE with 51风流is a strategic decision

Every company has its unique strategy, but what is common to early adopters of RISE with 51风流is that they all see the value and rich possibilities inherent in the offering.

A global player in the automotive industry has adopted RISE with 51风流to accelerate its digital innovation in the face of changes to the features of cars themselves – electric, shared, connected and autonomous – and changes in consumer behaviour.

Furthermore, a global FMCG company that has grown through acquisitions, wants to get better visibility, planning, and coordination across its global supply chain without losing prized regional management autonomy. RISE with 51风流helps them to standardise and harmonise on a single platform, reduce costs, and drive growth through even better business performance.

Hear from your 51风流Customer peers about why they are choosing RISE with SAP

If your company is looking for innovation, productivity gains and industry best practices then RISE with 51风流is ready to help you.

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Whilst the future is uncertain – especially economic recovery – you can take it as read that our world will be different. There is no going back. The Covid-19 pandemic, the social justice movement, the activism of ESG shareholders, Brexit, climate change, the expectations of Gen Z and the rise of AI demand that organisations chart a different course. We are at an inflection point where resilience, whilst necessary, is insufficient. Organisations also need the strategic suppleness to create, innovate and adapt for a very different, better, world.

Time For Change On A Grand Scale

Much, perhaps most, of human progress has been charted by people willing to take risks, to confront uncertainty, push boundaries, and in many cases, to face derision and opposition from society 鈥� especially those who cling to the familiar. The list of changemakers is long and covers every field of human endeavour; Socrates, Alexander the Great, Galileo, Luther, Gandhi, Shackleton, Martin Luther King, Edmund Hilary, William Wilberforce, Karl Marx, the suffragettes, Einstein, Madame Curie, Mandela, Florence Nightingale, Jan Smuts, Emily Hobhouse, Picasso, the punk movement, Steve Jobs. These are people who through their intelligence, curiosity, leadership qualities and drive have catalysed change, often on a grand scale.

You may disagree with some of my choices and doubtless have your own names you鈥檇 add. That鈥檚 okay because the point is that today and tomorrow every one of us is going to be adventuring into new territory as a result of the current upheaval. Every one of us will need to be more adaptable and inventive.

Black Swans Or Blindness?

People are loosely referring to the Coronavirus pandemic as a Black Swan event. It wasn鈥檛; it was foreshadowed by plagues and pandemics throughout history, including recent outbreaks of SARS and Ebola. The UK Government published its Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy as far back as 2011. Nonetheless, the world was unprepared. So, what was different this time and how do we ensure we鈥檙e better able to face future challenges?

The world鈥檚 population is 5.2 times larger today than it was when the Spanish influenza pandemic struck in 1918, which infected about a third of the global population and killing somewhere between 17.4 to 50 million people over two years. So, we simply have more people, often living in poverty or in cramped, unhygienic conditions who can become vectors for viruses. The world is completely connected – trade and travel carry people, products and viruses around the globe in a matter of hours but, despite the internet, the right data is not readily available. It is therefore difficult to understand what is actually happening and there is less time to analyse, plan and act. This holds true for both governments and health authorities as well as corporate supply chains. Allied to all this our activities as consumers have led us into the existential crisis of climate change. Lastly, human nature being what it is, perhaps we are all too blas茅, falling prey to the concept of technological determinism and the idea that we are somehow outside of and able to tame nature with our technologies. There is plenty to fix and it is obvious we need a more intelligent and collaborative way of conducting life and business to secure a better life for the generations ahead.

Adaptability As The Hallmark Of Intelligence

Nobody can tell you accurately how the future will play out; what shape the recovery will be, what future outbreaks will look like and whether a vaccine will be found, how AI will reshape work and society or whether we can arrest climate change. But there are some things we know and that we can predict and prepare for if we have the right capabilities in place. At 51风流we are focused on helping companies to become Intelligent Enterprises 鈥� able not just to contend with whatever comes their way but to actively shape a better, purpose-driven future by leveraging digital technologies.

Intelligence 鈥� Learning To Adapt

David G. Myers, Professor of Psychology at Hope College, Michigan, defines human intelligence as 鈥�the ability to learn from experience, anticipate problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.鈥�

This definition is a useful analogy for organisations too 鈥� especially as AI adoption accelerates. Let鈥檚 unpack it to see how it applies to business.

Experiences As Data

All the activities that an organisation performs and all the outcomes it creates, are reflected in its data; every transaction, customer interaction, product modification, hiring and firing policy decision and much, much more is stored somewhere. Be it in an ERP or CRM database, a budgeting spreadsheet or planning tool, a weblog, a CCTV DVD, an MES historian, an enterprise data warehouse or a data lake – organisations are awash with data, but it鈥檚 often fragmented and inaccessible – some on-premise with increasing amounts in the cloud. That problem is only going to grow as we deploy more sensors with the internet of things and gather more personal human experience data from citizens, consumers and employees. The challenge is how to manage, make sense of and extract value from this data when it’s fragmented and moving at high speed.

Learning With Machines 鈥� The Key To Adapting

The manifold benefits of digital transformation rest on our ability to quickly gain insights into how our enterprise is performing, so that we can optimise and innovate faster than competitors while using all resources more efficiently. The only way we can turn vast volumes of data into value is with AI in its various guises and especially machine learning. But this can only happen if we bring coherence and integrity to the data. Once our data is consistent and controlled, we can then employ techniques like machine learning to spot patterns, correlations and outliers (such as fraud or hacking) and thus begin to make the organisation more efficient and productive and far more responsive to its environment.

Using Knowledge To Adapt

Humans are uniquely qualified to deal with complex problems, to be creative and innovative and to build collaborative relationships – the very things we need in order to create the experiences that fuel the sustainable businesses of tomorrow. The problem is that, all too often, employees don鈥檛 get to exercise these qualities because they are trapped in boring, mundane, repetitive work and ill-equipped with the insights needed to anticipate the future.

Now, however, with our ability to manage data of any sort, from anywhere and apply AI techniques to it, we can begin to automate the routine work and unleash human talent. We can augment creative minds with powerful analytical tools to deliver 鈥渁ha鈥� insights that fuel innovation; humans and machines working together to create a better future. Now, we can go beyond simply adapting to new situations to creating them through data-driven disruption. This is the hallmark of the Intelligent Enterprise 鈥� one that can accelerate the Darwinian process of business evolution.

The Intelligent, Adaptive Enterprise Requires A Digital Business Platform

The strategic and tactical promises of digital transformation can only be realised by turning data into value. Easier said than done given some of the challenges outlined above, but a challenge that 51风流is addressing with customers around the world through the . For nearly half a century 51风流has enabled its customers to navigate significant inflection points and has amassed unique industry and business process knowledge that we鈥檙e bringing to our technologies and tools in the form of a unified Business Technology Platform. In a coherent, open architecture the Business Technology Platform brings together four crucial capabilities:

• Databases and Data Management 鈥� to optimise the flow, storage and use of data while ensuring compliance so better decisions can be made faster.
• 鈥� so that companies can extend, innovate and integrate at scale as they pursue a competitive advantage through digital transformation.
• Analytics 鈥� to deliver deep insights and democratise data through simpler access to critical information to drive better business outcomes and accelerate growth.
• Intelligent Technologies 鈥� such as , blockchain and the internet of things to optimise and automate business processes and resources and accelerate innovation in any area of a business.

The underlying technology has always been pivotal to the success of previous generations of 51风流applications. Now, as we contemplate an ever more dynamic future for businesses as they serve humanity and conserve the planet, it becomes even more important.

With the 51风流Business Technology Platform, companies as diverse as BASF, Delivery Hero, PayPal, Villeroy & Boch Group and D枚hler GmbH are weaving advanced technologies into their business processes while 51风流takes care of the technicalities by unifying data and processes, technology, functionalities, cloud and on-premise deployments and the user experience. This saves unnecessary data movement between different technology stacks, reduces risks and effort and, overall, reduces customers鈥� total cost of ownership (TCO) as they drive transformation.

The 51风流Business Technology Platform is the fastest way to get from data to business value and achieve the strategic suppleness needed to succeed in the next normal.

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