RISE with SAP

Transform your on-premises ERP to the cloud—so it can power AI assistants to drive real business outcomes.
RISE with SAP

Modernize your on-premises ERP and unlock real AI value

Make AI real and relevant by modernizing your SAP ERP in the cloud with RISE with SAP—now including AI assistants for a faster, more predictable transformation.

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Agent-led transformation and fast path to agentic AI

  • Transform with a fast, predictable path to the Autonomous Enterprise.
  • Remove complexity and accelerate time-intensive activities with migration and modernization assistants.
  • Minimize risk with a proven methodology, expert guidance, and value-driven transformation.
  • Unlock agentic AI value fast with accurate, relevant, and reliable AI at scale.

Agent-led transformation

Accelerate ERP modernization with an agent-led toolchain, including AI assistants, for a faster and more predictable journey.

Fast path to agentic AI

Accelerate the impact of agentic AI on your day-to-day operations with faster AI activation and adoption—guided by SAP experts.

Acceleration to Autonomous Enterprise

Transform how your people work and processes run by grounding decisions in real-time intelligence, automating workflows, and proactively optimizing every function.

AI Agent-Led Transformation: Fast Track to SAP Cloud ERP Private

Join this webcast to learn how specialized AI agents can help you plan and execute your migration to SAP Cloud ERP with greater speed, confidence, and consistency.

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Agent-led transformation

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Faster, predictable ERP modernization and transformation

RISE with SAP uses a proven methodology, expert guidance, and an agent‑led toolchain to deliver value-driven business transformation. Newly announced migration and modernization AI assistants are embedded in the ERP migration process to help reduce cost, complexity, and risk.

End-to-end transformation

Business transformation orchestration drives value-based outcomes by helping you to:

  • Drive user adoption and accelerate e-learning with in-product guidance.
  • Understand, improve, and transform your processes.
  • Plan, manage, and govern your IT landscape strategically.
  • Implement and operate with assured quality and automated testing.
  • Enable governed extensibility with clean core compliant development.
  • Deliver data quality management and transition.

New migration and modernization accelerators

Get support for your most complex, time-intensive transformation activities with AI assistants, including:

  • System Analysis: Builds a trusted, customer‑specific system baseline for a clear starting point.
  • Custom Code: Modernizes custom code to reduce technical debt and enable a clean core.
  • Data Management: Prepares and migrates data into a governed cockpit to improve speed.
  • Configuration: Optimizes system configurations based on best practices and customer needs.
  • Test Management: Automates test scope, data, and execution for testing.
  • Rollout: Manages global rollouts with template comparison and automated localization.
  • Project Management: Delivers end‑to‑end guidance, decision support, and training.

Fast path to agentic AI: Integrating AI into your business

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SAP Cloud ERP Private

SAP Cloud ERP Private provides the foundation for you to move toward the Autonomous Enterprise. Built for organizations that require depth, control, and reliability, it combines SAP’s proven ERP capabilities with a trusted, SAP-managed cloud environment. Cloud ERP Private helps you achieve better outcomes with accurate, relevant, and reliable AI at scale. 

Agentic AI activation on Cloud ERP Private

Start realizing AI value quickly with activation services for up to three Joule Assistants at no additional cost. With the Max Success Plan, you can scale that impact by activating all Joule Assistants your business needs.

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Connected domain intelligence

Access accurate and relevant AI by grounding it in your operational blueprint—including domain expertise, business rules, and end‑to‑end process insights—and embedding AI agents directly into your core business processes.

Adaptive, extensible platform

Tailor ERP and AI to how you operate, incorporating customizations that reflect your core competencies—without introducing technical debt—on a platform where AI and business capabilities work as one.

Trusted, managed foundation

Rely on a trusted, SAP‑managed cloud foundation with security and compliance built into every layer. Embedded authorization, governance, and responsible frameworks help ensure AI remains reliable, ethical, and under your control.

Learn how our customers have transformed with RISE with SAP

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Webcast
Stay upgrade-ready and innovate faster

Watch the Rise into the Future session to  learn how a clean core strategy with SAP Cloud ERP Private simplifies upgrades and reduces complexity.

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Discover the latest research

IDC Analyst Brief – the AI Era: Why modernized cloud ERP and continuous innovation matter

Learn why a modern, AI-enabled cloud ERP with a clean core is now essential for speed, scale, and resilience in this IDC Analyst Brief.

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October 2025
The Total Economic Impact™ Of SAP Cloud ERP Private

Read the commissioned Forrester TEI Study to understand the cost savings and business benefits enabled by the RISE with SAP journey.

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Featured resources

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RISE with SAP Discovery for Business AI

Learn more about Business AI from the RISE with SAP Discovery Event highlights.

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Achieving IT agility with a modern cloud ERP landscape

Learn how IT teams can use SAP ERP modernization to move from on‑premises systems to cloud‑based SAP Business Suite.

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Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Learn about moving to SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition in a practical guide for executives and decision-makers.

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5 guiding principles of clean core

Find out why business processes, extensibility, data, integration, and operations are key to ERP modernization.

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Artificial intelligence in finance

CFOs can now support finance functions better. This brochure explains the potential and challenges of capitalizing on AI.

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Accelerate finance transformation with SAP Cloud ERP Private

Standardize processes, Integrate data,  and gain accurate insights to better support business performance.

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The Total Economic Impact™ Of SAP Cloud ERP Private

Understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with modernizing your business with SAP Cloud ERP Private.

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Navigating the future of ERP: Insights for modern enterprise transformation

Modernize ERP with AI and simpler operations. See how legacy systems hold you back—and how SAP Cloud ERP and RISE with SAP help.

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Next steps

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Contact us

Get in touch to learn more about modernization with SAP Cloud ERP.

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Enterprise resource planning software

Run your core operations with confidence using ready-to-run enterprise resource planning capabilities in the cloud.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP ECC was designed as a system of record—and it excels at that role. But AI requires ERP to expand into three additional roles: a system of context (providing semantic data relationships AI can reason across), a system of execution (allowing AI to act within governed business workflows), and a system of engagement (enabling people and AI to collaborate through a shared interface). ECC’s architecture can create structural ceilings that prevent this expansion. ERP modernization via the RISE with SAP journey lifts those ceilings while preserving your existing business logic and data.

S/4HANA on premises partially closes the data architecture gap through the universal journal and HANA-native data model, giving you a stronger foundation than ECC. However, the operational model gaps remain:  S/4HANA on premises does not provide the cloud-native services that deliver AI context at scale (SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Knowledge Graph, and SAP Company Memory preview), embedded AI agent execution via governed cloud APIs, or Joule as a unified engagement layer. Moving to Cloud ERP with RISE with SAP activates these capabilities on top of the S/4HANA foundation you have already invested in with SAP Cloud ERP Private.

RISE with SAP is a guided, agent-led path from on-premises SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA) to SAP Cloud ERP Private. It delivers AI value during the migration itself—not only after go-live—through seven AI-enabled migration assistants (System Analysis Assistant , Custom Code Assistant, Data Management Assistant, Configuration Assistant, Test Management Assistant, Rollout Assistant, and Project Management Assistant) that reduce migration effort. These assistants continue operating post-go-live as continuous optimization agents, turning the transformation into an ongoing improvement cycle rather than a one-time project.

Embedded AI in ERP acts within live business processes—creating objects, triggering workflows, and committing transactions using the same governance controls that apply to human users. AI tools built on top of on-premises ERP reads replicated or exported data (not live transactional state), cannot execute back into the system of record with proper controls and compensating transactions, and requires governance to be replicated separately—which is never complete. The difference is architectural, not configurational.

Your business rules—pricing logic, tax compliance, credit policies, approval strategies, and posting controls—represent years of organizational learning and are preserved through modernization. RISE with SAP includes Business Transformation Management tools that help you analyze and standardize your processes. The new  AI-enabled Custom Code Assistant that analyzes your custom ABAP developments (Z-code in ECC and custom enhancements in S/4HANA on premises), and identifies what can be replaced by standard cloud functionality, what needs remediation, and what should be retained. As you achieve a clean-core ERP through the RISE with SAP journey, SAP Business AI Platform enables you to build cloud-compliant, clean-core extensions that support your unique processes, preserving differentiation without compromising architectural integrity.

Joule is SAP’s AI engagement layer—a single interface spanning assistants, specialized agents, and human decision points across all business functions. It is the interface through which AI acts within ERP processes, not a chatbot layered on top. Joule supports three structural oversight postures: human-in-the-loop, human-on-the-loop, and human-in-command, ensuring your teams retain decision authority while AI handles continuous monitoring, exception identification, and routine execution.

SAP Cloud ERP Private provides three capabilities that transform business data into AI-ready context: SAP Business Data Cloud delivers a unified, governed, semantically rich data foundation spanning ERP and adjacent domains. SAP Knowledge Graph maps relationships between business objects across functions. Company Memory preview captures institutional knowledge—policies, decision patterns, and ways of working—so AI acts based on how your specific organization operates, not a generic model. These cloud services work best when the ERP is in the cloud versus on premises.

Governance in SAP Cloud ERP Private is a structural property of the architecture, not a bolt-on configuration. When AI agents execute within ERP, they automatically inherit role-based access controls, posting period restrictions, approval strategies, segregation of duties, compensating transactions, and full audit trails. Every AI-initiated action is logged in the ERP change log with identical structure to a human action. Three oversight postures—human-in-the-loop, human-on-the-loop, and human-in-command—are structural design choices that determine the degree of autonomy granted to AI in each process.

The risk is not that your on-premises ERP stops working, it is that your organization hits a structural ceiling on AI capability while competitors do not. Every quarter on premises is a quarter where AI cannot access your business context at scale, cannot execute within your governed processes, and cannot collaborate with your teams through a unified interface. Meanwhile, AI capabilities in SAP Cloud ERP Private are delivered continuously—new agents, expanded autonomous domains, and deeper Knowledge Graph coverage arrive without upgrade projects. The gap compounds over time.

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