What is RISE with SAP?

The RISE with SAP journey helps on-premises SAP ERP customers tailor their transformation to modernize their business with Business Suite.

Proven methodology

Access best-practices guidance with a tailored transformation journey based on a proven, consistent approach to quickly realize the value of Business Suite.

Cloud operating model

Continuously innovate, focus on strategic initiatives, adopt technologies faster, and gain platform assurance by moving to a cloud ERP landscape.

Investment protection

Protect your existing SAP investments, offset transformation costs, and realize value faster with incentives and flexible licensing.

Modernize with a cloud ERP

Start your journey by transforming your on-premises ERP landscape to Business Suite.

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The optimal path to a cloud ERP landscape

Select a path that best meets your needs:

  • Start fresh with SAP Cloud ERP using Business Suite packages and solutions

  • Modernize using a hybrid approach with the SAP Cloud ERP Private package and other Business Suite packages and solutions

Learn how our customers have transformed their businesses with RISE with SAP

Accelerating ERP migration to the cloud

Learn about BMW Group's ambitious IT transformation with RISE with SAP to future-proof its ERP systems by moving them to the cloud.

Unlocking business AI innovation in the cloud

Discover how Accenture’s digital transformation has helped drive efficiency gains and opportunities for AI capabilities at scale.

Becoming future-ready through cloud ERP migration

Read how Bertrandt migrated to SAP Cloud ERP Private through the RISE with SAP journey to enhance performance and optimize processes.

Driving quality with 99.97% availability

Look at how Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, improved the availability, agility, and speed of its business processes and systems.

Transformation journey incentives available for RISE with SAP customers

Realize value faster with transformation incentives and flexible cloud addendums that protect your SAP investments.*

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Transformation incentives

Leverage cloud credits
  • Offset dual-licensing costs during migration
  • Use credits for future software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions
  • Earn more credits when signing up with certified partners

 

*Additional terms and conditions may apply. Contact your SAP account executive for more details.

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Flexible cloud addendum

Easily switch to SaaS solutions

  • Predefined fixed discounts on future SaaS subscriptions
  • Exchange private cloud subscriptions with SaaS solutions

 

Rise into the Future: SAP AI Agents Demo

Watch our 20-minute demo to see how AI agents in cloud ERP streamline asset maintenance with speed, clarity, and control.

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Discover the latest research

Seven Questions for a Smarter Applications Strategy

Boston Consulting Group examines how organizations are choosing between suite and best-of-breed strategies for modernizing their technology infrastructure and applications.

Start your RISE with SAP journey

Confidently transform your business and enable continuous innovation.

SAP Business Suite packages

Modernize your ERP landscape with Business Suite packages to access a dynamic platform that unifies AI, data, and business applications to gain agility, efficiency, and innovation at scale.

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Frequently asked questions

RISE with SAP is a guided transformation journey designed for SAP ERP customers to quickly realize the full potential of Business Suite, supported by proven methodologies, advanced tools, and expert guidance. RISE with SAP is tailored for existing SAP ERP customers, enabling them to transition seamlessly from on-premises ERP to Business Suite while modernizing their processes and infrastructure at their own pace.

SAP Cloud ERP provides a number of innovations, including SAP Business AI, to drive new business efficiencies and help you realize business value. Your organization can achieve greater agility, faster pace of innovation, and market differentiation by moving to a cloud operating model.

Transforming from on-premises ERP to Business Suite enables organizations to:

  • Improve agility, enhance scalability, and future-proof operations by integrating and maximizing the value of their business applications​

  • Break down silos, enhance consistency, and generate actionable, real-time insights for AI-driven decisions​ by connecting and contextualizing their data

  • Enable enterprise-wide AI, mitigate risks, optimize costs, and drive scalable growth by modernizing their IT infrastructure​

The RISE with SAP journey brings your entire ERP application stack to the cloud rather than just your infrastructure. By using the RISE with SAP journey to move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, your organization gains:

  • Business AI capabilities​

  • Sustainability features​

  • Full-stack managed cloud services​

  • Hyperscaler flexibility​

  • Ongoing access to innovations

Tailored to a customer’s existing landscape and business requirements, the RISE with SAP journey includes a standardized framework, integrated tools, and expert guidance at every step—following a proven methodology that helps accelerate transformation and time to value.

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